👓 Even in the Senate, 2018 looks like other wave years for Democrats | CNN
Some Republicans will argue that 2018 wasn't a wave for Democrats because they expanded their Senate majority.
🎧 Episode 45: Transformation (Seeing White, Part 14) | Scene on Radio
The concluding episode in our series, Seeing White. An exploration of solutions and responses to America’s deep history of white supremacy by host John Biewen, with Chenjerai Kumanyika, Robin DiAngelo, and William “Sandy” Darity, Jr.
We really need a lot more ways for people to become engaged and help to fix these issues.
👓 For the love of the blog | Ben Holliday
Ben Holliday (hollidazed.co.uk)Ending my experiment with blogging more on Medium.
👓 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | WIRED
Internet companies used to grow big and die—fast. But now a few of them are huge and entrenched, because regulators didn't foresee their dominance.
📑 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | Wired
If there is a sector more ripe for the reinvigoration of antitrust regulation, I do not know it. ❧
📑 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | Wired
But now it was all for the best: a law of nature, a chance for the monopolists to do good for the universe. The cheerer-in-chief for the monopoly form is Peter Thiel, author of Competition Is for Losers. Labeling the competitive economy a “relic of history” and a “trap,” he proclaimed that “only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits.” ❧
Sounds like a guy who is winning all of the spoils.
📑 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | Wired
In total, Facebook managed to string together 67 unchallenged acquisitions, which seems impressive, unless you consider that Amazon undertook 91 and Google got away with 214 (a few of which were conditioned). In this way, the tech industry became essentially composed of just a few giant trusts: Google for search and related industries, Facebook for social media, Amazon for online commerce. While competitors remained in the wings, their positions became marginalized with every passing day. ❧
📑 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | Wired
When a dominant firm buys its a nascent challenger, alarm bells are supposed to ring. Yet both American and European regulators found themselves unable to find anything wrong with the takeover. ❧
👓 CNN sues Trump to get Jim Acosta’s press pass restored | POLITICO
The lawsuit marks a stark escalation in the president's feud with the media.
👓 Florida and Georgia: the super-tight midterm elections, explained | Vox
Where things stand as votes continue to be counted — and recounted — in three major statewide races now that Arizona has been called.
👓 Voting Laws Roundup 2018 | Brennan Center for Justice
Voting legislation continues to be a subject of state legislators’ attention. So far in 2018, lawmakers have introduced bills to restrict voting in eight states. But all of them, as well as 14 other states, are considering laws that would expand access to the polls.