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…

A new paper from Daniel Hanley & Brian Callaci explores how states can authorize sectoral bargaining and improve democratic conditions for labor by enacting laws that leverage Parker Immunity. openmarketsinstitute.org/publications/p…

The last FTC put its unfair methods of competition authority to good use, targeting Amazon's coercion of market sellers and banning non-compete clauses. So of course, Jim Jordan's House Judiciary Committee wants to strip FTC of antitrust powers.

This will gut the FTC. FTC is trying to finish a study that already showed how pharmacy middlemen mark up cancer drugs by up to 4000%. It's also suing them for allegedly competing to raise insulin prices. If this passes I have no idea what'll happen to that study and lawsuit.

Strengthening right-to-repair. Challenging PBM price-gouging. Suing Grubhub for cheating restaurants and delivery drivers. FTC uses both antitrust and consumer protection tools to make markets more fair. This bill would be a win for monopolists and a huge loss for the public.

This just in: The Army secretary is calling for that branch of the service to rework contracts to add Right to Repair provisions, and ensure the Army has the right to access tools, software and technical data needed for repair. Just let people fix their stuff!

A massive supermarket strike is brewing, with 150,000 workers moving toward a walkout. 56,000 workers in Washington, Idaho and Oregon have voted to authorize strikes at Albertsons and Kroger. Grocery workers across Colorado have also authorized a strike, and more could follow.

"Restrictive covenants can decrease food access and hurt local economies. Experts argue that 'scorched earth' deed restrictions contribute to food deserts, particularly in urban areas where there are few land parcels suitable for a grocery store." - Claire Kelloway

Big thanks to Attorney General Keith Ellison for a terrific conference on using antitrust to fix our broken food system, rebuild local grocery stores & lower prices. I was thrilled to join a great lineup of speakers & trustbusters, including Claire Kelloway Zephyr Teachout Minnesota Farmers Union Lina Khan

When Ezra Klein told Jon Stewart that liberal regulations ruined Biden's broadband program, the clip went viral, with Elon Musk’s help. But the story wasn’t true—and the telecom monopolies who were the real saboteurs are still laughing. New Washington Monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/09/the…

In addition to correcting the record on Biden's rural broadband program, this excellent essay (and thread!) shows Bush and Obama tried the Abundance approach to universal broadband--deregulate and subsidize Comcast/Verizon--and explains why it failed

With lots of buzz about Mamdani's public grocery pilot, Zephyr Teachout urges mayors to *also* use competition policy to bring down food prices and help local grocers and farmers: ending big box favoritism, commercial bribery, and price gouging nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opi…

Huge thanks to our terrific co-counsel and our courageous clients. Also, factoid, the inimitable Alvaro Bedoya wrote, I believe, his college thesis on these uniquely vulnerable and marginalized workers. If you want to read more about this case, check out this from Leah Douglas