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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

California, 11 other states sue to block Paramount’s Warner Bros. deal - POLITICO

“The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately, audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the U.S.,” Bonta said in a statement, adding that media consolidation in California, the epicenter of the entertainment industry, “not only leads to higher prices — it also leads to fewer opportunities for important stories to come to life, and fewer ways for audiences to encounter stories, ideas, and perspectives beyond their own experiences.”…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/13/states-sue-block-paramount-warner-bros-00994835

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Apple slams DOJ lawsuit: ’threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart’ - 9to5Mac

This lawsuit seeks to attack a random collection of Apple's design choices, degrade the privacy and security benefits of iPhone that customers value, and eliminate the competitive differentiation and consumer choice that currently exist in the marketplace. The Department of Justice and the States (collectively, "DOJ") argue that five of Apple's design choices are examples of a purported "monopoly playbook" to eliminate competitive threats and inhibit switching. DOJ is wrong.

Apple has made careful and deliberate decisions in each of those five areas, all of which are focused on optimizing customer experience and not destroying competitors or making it more difficult for customers to buy another smartphone if they so choose. DOJ posits Apple should have made other choices, but that is not an antitrust violation and, in fact, would restrict Apple's ability to compete and give users the differentiated products they value...

https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/29/apple-doj-lawsuit-answer-iphone/

Saturday, December 21, 2024

A Scandalous Reason Meat Prices Have Skyrocketed – Mother Jones

Reining in Big Meat will require bolder federal action. On the campaign trail, Kamala Harris proposed a federal ban on price gouging that could provide a legal framework to challenge market manipulators. But the most important move, Frerick says, is simply to en-force existing laws: "In the meat industry, we already did this all a century ago. This isn't rocket science—it's really just a question of political courage."…

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2024/12/agri-stats-antitrust-meatpacking-inflation-doj/

Sunday, August 27, 2023

Opinion | Americans Pay a Price for Corporate Consolidation - The New York Times

"In my view, it's the most important economic policy thing that the Biden administration will do this year," said Tim Wu, a Columbia Law School professor who served until earlier this year as President Biden's adviser on technology and competition policy. Mr. Wu, who was not involved in creating the proposed guidelines, said the document reflected a determination to end a "green light" era in which American antitrust enforcers largely declined to enforce antitrust laws...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/opinion/biden-lina-khan-ftc.html

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Koch Network Spending Big to Torpedo Big Tech Anti-Trust Reforms

Those bipartisan efforts were stymied thanks to intense lobbying from libertarian-leaning tech companies, think tanks, and advocates, with Big Money funding from the donor network of libertarian oil billionaire Charles Koch, whose influence over antitrust legislation goes back decades. As the new GOP-helmed Congress contemplates reforms, it's already clear that party leaders like Jim Jordan (R-OH) and libertarian Thomas Massie (R-KY) — who are recipients of Koch cash themselves — are planning to do Big Tech's bidding and delay or kill regulation and let the companies continue accumulating market power...

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/koch-network-spending-big-to-torpedo-big-tech-anti-trust-reforms

Sunday, February 6, 2022

How Madison Cawthorn Could Be Kept off the Ballot (Opening Arguments podcast OA565)

Check out this one WEIRD trick to…. *record scratch* wait a minute… it’s not a weird trick? Wow! Well, check out this one legitimate way in which Madison Cawthorn could be kept off the ballot! It turns out, the Constitution actually isn’t a super big fan of insurrections. Also, some additional info on anti-trust law, and a Wild Card (wooooooooo!) on a new bill written by a Democrat AND a Republican that actually has a chance of passing!

Interview:

https://openargs.com/oa565-how-madison-cawthorn-could-be-kept-off-the-ballot/