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Ticketmaster and Live Nation had monopoly on big concert venues, jury finds
The civil case, initially led by the U.S. federal government, accused Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster of using its reach to smother competition.
#Consumer #Entertainment #LiveNation #Ticketmaster
https://globalnews.ca/news/11802920/ticketmaster-live-nation-monopoly/

Global News Apr 15

Ticketmaster and Live Nation had monopoly on big concert venues, jury finds
The civil case, initially led by the U.S. federal government, accused Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster of using its reach to smother competition.
#Consumer #Entertainment #LiveNation #Ticketmaster
https://globalnews.ca/news/11802920/ticketmaster-live-nation-monopoly/

Matt Hodgkinson Feb 3

Trump is now floating the US Federal government taking over the administration of elections from many states and counties.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-republicans-should-nationalize-voting-least-15-places-2026-02-02/

Why would he push for that? Well, because "The dispersed responsibility for running elections also makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to rig U.S. elections at the national level." https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/election-administration-at-state-and-local-levels

#TrumpAdministration #USpol #USpolitics #AmericanElections #USelections #USmidTerms #USstatesAuthority #USFederalGovernment #ElectoralFraud #ElectionSafety #ElectionIntegrity

Yonhap Infomax News Feb 2

US House Speaker Mike Johnson expressed confidence that the ongoing partial federal government shutdown will be resolved by Tuesday, as Congress moves to pass stopgap funding bills for key agencies.
#YonhapInfomax #USFederalGovernment #PartialShutdown #MikeJohnson #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #BudgetBill #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=103227

US House Speaker Confident Partial Shutdown Will End by Tuesday

US House Speaker Mike Johnson expressed confidence that the ongoing partial federal government shutdown will be resolved by Tuesday, as Congress moves to pass stopgap funding bills for key agencies.

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Sheila DeBonis Dec 27

I want to remind the #USfederalgovernment, #corporations, #nonprofitorgs and any other sort of business in the #WorldEconomy that #shortstaffing or #leanstaffing is really bad for #EmployeeSatisfaction, #consumersatisfaction and of course #safetyandregulation. Stingy oligarchs like it, and they like to keep complaining to their subordinates about how the org is under-performing despite them overperforming a wide breadth of duties and telling their boss to #HireMore to help them.

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ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊Oct 5, 2025

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A prior post about how #Trump has strived to strip federal workers (civil servants) of their collective bargaining (unionization) rights since the beginning of his second term earlier this year.
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#USA #US #USpol #unionization #CollectiveBargaining #FederalGovernment #USFederalGovernment #FederalWorkforce #CivilServants
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Attached: 1 image /9 (extra) Trump has been quietly stripping away union protection from workers at federal agencies, one-by-one— Dept. of Veterans Affairs; Environmental Protection (EPA); Agriculture Food Safety Inspection Services; Coast Guard; Citizenship & Immigration Services; Fed Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)… Court battles have been in process for months #USA #USpol #law — Unions’ battle for survival hits new wave with #Trump termination of bargaining agreements~(from Aug) https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5453207-federal-unions-trump/

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Yonhap Infomax News Oct 1, 2025

The US federal government has entered its first shutdown in seven years after Congress failed to pass a budget bill, impacting 750,000 federal employees and resulting in $400 million in daily wage losses.
#YonhapInfomax #USFederalGovernment #Shutdown #BudgetBill #Congress #WageLosses #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=84374

US Federal Government Enters First Shutdown in Seven Years as Budget Bill Fails to Pass

The US federal government has entered its first shutdown in seven years after Congress failed to pass a budget bill, impacting 750,000 federal employees and resulting in $400 million in daily wage losses.

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Matt Hodgkinson Aug 17, 2025

US scientists - your federal government is lost. Set up your own independent structures to help maintain a free society.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9328

#USFederalGovernment #USgov #USscience #ScienceUnderAttack #IndependentScience #ScienceAdvice #SciPol #USSciencePolicy #OpenSociety #OpenInfrastructure

J. Trent Adams Feb 24, 2025

Holy insecurity, Batman! I strongly dissuade any US Federal employees from responding to the "what did you do last week" email. Seriously? That's a cRaZy security risk when potential responders don't necessarily understand what they should / shouldn't be sharing with an insecure receiver.

#insecurity #security #USfederalgovernment #doge