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We kicked off 2024 by taking on Kroger and Albertsons’ dangerous merger. Workers stood together to oppose a corporate deal that threatened jobs, customers, and communities. This was the first step in a year of fierce solidarity. Stay tuned tomorrow for #4 in our countdown! #1u

Merry Christmas! Allow me to uplift you..

If you love your country, and say you would die for your country… then first do math and reading for your country.

Sorry but it must be said. Certainly the best post-president humanitarian ever, but his presidency officially killed the New Deal era for the Dems and ushered in neoliberalism

Tesla lays off 2,688 Texas employees immediately following having 2,639 H1B visas approved in 2022-23 Abbott begged Elon to come to Texas, offering him tax breaks to do so, while keeping our property taxes high -resulting in taxing seniors out of their homes. Follow the money.

Trump is threatening Panama and wants to take control of the canal. So it's time for a little history lesson on US imperialism and Panama: The US wanted to build a canal through the Isthmus of Panama in the 19th century. But they had a problem: the land required for the canal

What are the ways forward for climate action under Trump? National policy is foreclosed. But a lot can happen at the state and local level. Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social and I argue that we must embrace green economic populism, tackling the cost-of-living crisis and the climate crisis together 🧵

Ending with another favorite bit from this piece: “Pepsico does not innovate. They do line extensions, variations on themes. Cool Ranch everything. Hotter Cheetos. Taco Bell mashups. Brute force taste and sensory microtargeting and habit formation. Phillip Morris on MSG. They

In any other country, a billionaire donor like Musk installing loyalists to seize federal agencies, access private citizen data and information about his competitors, and gut working class policies to fund his own tax cut would be called a coup.

“I don’t buy the sad violin music, I still think Albertsons is a dominant operator with significant cost advantages over competitors with a lot of really strong stores and a strong supplier base,” said Errol Schweizer, fmr VP of grocery for Whole Foods. Great from Claire Kelloway

THEY'RE KILLING THE ANTI-SCAM POLICE SO THEY CAN SCAM YOU AND LET THEIR ROBBER BARON BUDDIES GET AWAY WITH SCAMMING YOU

Musk’s attacks on federal workers pose an existential threat to the whole labor movement, all workers, and the broad Left It’s alarming that most people don’t yet understand the stakes 🧵

1/ Dear everyone who just went to the grocery store and saw this, There’s a person in the government who could flick his pen and start an investigation into what the hell is going on with eggs. His name is Andrew Ferguson. He’s the new head of the FTC. Has he done it? No

Farm Action Andrew Ferguson 10/ Most charts are from the Farm Action petition: farmaction.us/wp-content/upl… The consolidation chart is here: issuelab.org/resources/4054… The case I quoted is here: casetext.com/case/in-re-pro… And you should follow Basel Musharbash who led this research for Farm Action

With polls showing voters increasingly worried about the economy and lack of action to bring down prices, I wanted to re-up this great analysis of what's driving up egg prices. Avian flu is only a minor player. Profiteering by highly concentrated companies is the real answer.

Speaking of free markets encroaching on personal liberties… Instacart is now offering a price-setting service for grocery stores, and they’re advertising the ability to set food prices for individual consumers based on their willingness to pay. From The Capitol Forum:

Best history I’ve seen yet on how the egg industry changed from a very diversified and resilient system responsive to markets to the consolidated exploitative system, driving up historic high prices, that we have today

Raising hens in cages on massive farms is cruel to animals and pollutes local waterways, but the justification has always been that it produces cheap eggs. That is, until recently. Why did conventional egg prices rise so much higher than cage-free eggs? washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/04/uns…

For the full Albertsons tariff letter and useful analysis of the current tariff debacle (including a good proposal for how to do tariffs right), read Errol Schweizer's piece here: substack.com/home/post/p-16…

Errol Schweizer's must-read newsletter shows a letter from Albertson's demanding that they will not accept price increases due to the tariffs. If done, this conduct almost certainly violates Section 2(f) of the Robinson-Patman Act. substack.com/home/post/p-16…