Jonathan RNov 15, 2024

Chuck Schumer Should Resign!

Democrats never learned the lessons of Trump’s successes on tariffs and trade. Now the party’s leaders must take responsibility for their failure to embrace economic populism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/chuck-schumer-resign-democrats/

By #ZephyrTeachout in @thenation

#Corruption #Democracy #DemocraticParty

Chuck Schumer Should Resign

Democrats never learned the lessons of Trump's successes on tariffs and trade. Now the party's leaders must take responsibility for their failure to embrace economic populism.

The Nation
Steve Randy WaldmanOct 13, 2024
“When voters say they want more economic policy from Kamala Harris, I don’t think they mean they want to see white papers or hear about tax credits. They want a worldview. They want to know how she—and the Democratic Party—understand the rising cost of housing, health care, and groceries, the collapse of small businesses, and most importantly, the decline of good jobs and blue-collar careers over thirty years.” #ZephyrTeachout https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/10/13/harriss-chance-on-trade/
Harris’s Chance on Trade | Zephyr Teachout

In 2016, during the surreal presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in a swing district in

The New York Review of Books
Steve Randy WaldmanSep 23, 2024
the remarkable Lina Khan on 60 Minutes. via #ZephyrTeachout https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ftc-chair-lina-khan-60-minutes-transcript/
FTC trustbuster Lina Khan: feared in boardrooms, cheered on by progressives — and even some MAGA Republicans

At the Federal Trade Commission, Chair Lina Khan's mission is breaking illegal monopolies, blocking mergers that stifle competition, and protecting consumers.

Steve Randy WaldmanAug 22, 2024
from #ZephyrTeachout https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/economists-kamala-harris-price-gouging/679547/
Economists Are Wrong About Price Gouging

Kamala Harris’s proposed price-gouging ban might irritate academics, but it makes sense to everyone else.

The Atlantic
Show threadCory DoctorowAug 22, 2023

#5yrsago Verizon to fire department: you’re exceeding your bandwidth while you fight wildfires, so we’re throttling you https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/

#5yrsago Here’s the funniest, most scathing, most informative and most useful talk on #AIAndSecurity https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens

#5yrsago #ZephyrTeachout wins the New York Times’s endorsement for Attorney General of New York State https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/opinion/zephyr-teachout-new-york-attorney-general.html

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Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during Calif. wildfire

Fire dep't had to pay twice as much to lift throttling during wildfire response.

Ars Technica
Show threadCory DoctorowAug 4, 2023

#5yrsago When #ZephyrTeachout is elected New York Attorney General, she’s gonna emolumentize Trump right out of the White House https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/nyregion/zephyr-teachout-is-running-for-attorney-general-but-her-real-target-is-trump.html

#5yrsago When should the press pay attention to trolls, lies and disinformation? https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0-EXEC-SUMMARY_Oxygen_of_Amplification_DS.pdf

#5yrsago #WellsFargo: we stole houses and we’re being investigated for dirty low-income housing credits https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-03/wells-fargo-faces-u-s-probe-on-low-income-tax-credit-purchases

#1yrago A TRAP for workers: Oops, we re-invented #indenture https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/04/its-a-trap/#a-little-on-the-nose

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Zephyr Teachout Is Running for Attorney General. But Her Real Target Is Trump.

The law professor and activist challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary in 2014, and is a godmother to the current moment of upstart women candidates.

The New York Times
Show threadCory DoctorowFeb 26, 2023

At the end of *Break 'Em Up,* #ZephyrTeachout's outstanding 2020 book on #monopolies, Teachout has some choice words for "#consumerism" as a theory of change. She writes that if you're on your way to a protest against a new #Amazon warehouse but you never make it because you waste too much time looking for a mom-and-pop stationers to sell you a marker to write your protest sign, Amazon wins:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#break-em-up

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Pluralistic: 29 Jul 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Boing BoingAug 20, 2018
Zephyr Teachout wins the New York Times's endorsement for Attorney General of New York State https://boingboing.net/2018/08/20/go-zephyr-go.html #progressdemocrats #zephyrteachout #happymutants #newyorkstate #competition #mediatheory #newyorkcity #muckrakers #resistance #Democrats #elections #netroots #uspoli #Post
Zephyr Teachout wins the New York Times's endorsement for Attorney General of New York State

Zephyr Teachout wins the New York Times's endorsement for Attorney General of New York State

Boing Boing
Boing BoingAug 4, 2018
When Zephyr Teachout is elected New York Attorney General, she's gonna emolumentize Trump right out of the White House https://boingboing.net/2018/08/04/emoluments-r-us.html #ocasio-cortez2.0 #zephyrteachout #Democrats #time'sup #newyork #Post
When Zephyr Teachout is elected New York Attorney General, she's gonna emolumentize Trump right out of the White House

When Zephyr Teachout is elected New York Attorney General, she's gonna emolumentize Trump right out of the White House

Boing Boing