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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026

Good news/bad news for Trump. Good news: you can get elected by promising to do something about the cost of living crisis, and the president actually has a lot of ways to improve people's daily costs. Bad news: everything you do to fix working people's cost of living maked an oligarch worse off. 1/

wo men in suits seated next to each other. The younger man is pointing at a brochure. The younger man's head has been replaced with a whole roast chicken. The older man's head has been replaced with a large beef roast. The brochure has been replaced with vintage meat ads. The background is a cropped section of of a high-magnification scan of a US $100 bill, colors faded and shifted.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026

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The Mewling Skull @themewl.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Don't forget about the PotatoTrack scam that appears to have some movement by the DoJ www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/do...

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DOJ Serves Up a Statement of Interest with a Side of Fries | JD Supra

Last Friday, the DOJ filed a Statement of Interest in In Re Frozen Potato Products Antitrust Litigation, a multidistrict price fixing litigation filed...

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Susan @susanstemper.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Haven't read the whole series yet, but can't resist saying that "bad news" for oligarchs is "exceptionally good news" in my mind. And yes I'll read all the way thru

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Jacky @jacky3344.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I can't help thinking that RefUK is going to run into very similar problems here in the UK as soon as they get any actual responsibility for anything...

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