Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 30/09/20261. Last week, Antimonopoly Counsel filed this 68-page objection on behalf of a group of public interest organizations in response to a proposed class-action settlement in one of the Nation’s most important antitrust litigations. www.demandprogresseducationfund.org/consumer-adv... 156
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 30/05/20261. Next week, I'll be joining a panel at the U.S. Conference of Mayors' 94th Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA, to discuss the monopolization of fire apparatus manufacturing and other critical industries for public safety, its impact on cities and emergency responders, and how mayors can fight back. 151
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Yesterday, our team got a rare treat in legal practice: The court complimented our briefs *and* ruled in our clients’ favor 🥳 360
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Why do corporatist neoliberals like Stephen insist on lying / talking confidently about industries they clearly don’t understand? 220
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 02/01/2026You made up the “no relief in sight“ thing. You’re also making up the notion that prices are back to their pre-surge levels — when they’re actually double where they were before 2022. Quick talking about shit you don’t understand, dipshit. 220
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Oh hey! Look who’s testifying at their first congressional hearing next week! 😄 4130
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The New York Times is quoting country lawyers out of Paris, Texas, now? Boy, they’ve really gone downhill, haven’t they? 😉 66210
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 12/03/2025In the second installment to my series on the egg crisis for BIG, two European firms rolled up nearly every supplier of egg-laying hens to American egg producers—and they’re using their power to regiment our egg industry into a shortage-creating and -exploiting machine. Have fun rage-reading! 22010
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I made a graph of what the hen deficit would’ve looked like on a leisurely 6-month replacement schedule that doesn’t take into account the continuous pipeline of pullets. 220
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025"We want no economic or political dictatorship imposed upon us either by the government or by big business. We want no system of detailed regulation of prices by the government nor price-fixing by private interests. We do not want bureaucracy or regimentation of any kind . . .” 132
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 25/01/2025This was one of the most appalling stories I’ve ever looked into: A private equity termite rolled up the fire-truck manufacturing industry between 2016 and 2020, and has spent the last 5 years cashing in—contributing to a crisis of preparedness at fire departments around the country. 47940
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025"In light of all this heads-I-win, tails-you-lose legal nonsense, it is hard to blame the millions upon millions of Americans who have given up on the system, and on legal institutions that increasingly pretend they are predicated on principle." –– CFPB General Counsel Seth Frotman 15826
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 15/01/20252. "The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.” —G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday 189-90 (1908). 1114
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 15/01/20251. "You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists. They have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government." 193
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Tyler turned me onto Rancho Gordo early last year -- life changing stuff lol 010
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Government of the bankers, by the bankers, and for the bankers 182
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 26/11/20241. I should start by saying what I should've said above: Great article! This history is important, and I'm eternally grateful that you're digging it up :) With respect to PSA enforcement: Everything. The USDA could've stopped the exclusive contracting for cattle and chicken. It could've . . . 110
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024And when you put all of this in the context of real wheat bushel prices –– holy shit 020
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Dear Anti-Juristocracy Left: Y’all should check out this banger quote from Justice Harlan’s dissent in Standard Oil v. United States (and the whole dissent, which is a glorious jeremiad against judicial overreach on behalf of reactionaries and malefactors of great wealth) 173
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 22/11/20248. If you're wondering what I mean by Sonny Perdue was evil, I mean he was a corrupt shill for Big Ag who used the USDA's power to actively undermine family farmers and independent food processors –– and give dominant meatpackers and grain conglomerates every advantage. 120
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 22/11/20242. Kelly Loeffler was a U.S. Senator from 2019 to 2021. Y'all wanna know what her claim to fame from that short stint in the greatest deliberative body in the world was? Insider trading, of course! 100
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 22/11/20241. Trump just announced he's nominating a banker and commodity trader who is married to the CEO of the global conglomerate that runs the world's biggest commodity and financial exchanges (including the New York Stock Exchange) to lead the USDA. Populism! 132
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Jonathan Kanter is the first chief of the DOJ Antitrust Division in six decades to believe—truly—in protecting the heritage and livelihood of America’s family farmers. If Trump is serious about overthrowing the establishment that has bled rural America dry, he’ll keep Jonathan right where he is. 1113
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Yes, this is just what we need: More loopholes in the federal securities laws, as if they’re not essentially unenforceable such as it is. A rule of major-question lenity! 120
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 12/12/2023Today, in a truly profound example of American democracy in action, a jury of 9 ordinary people found that Google—one of the largest, most powerful corporations in the world—had monopolized our commerce in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and must face the consequences. 162
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 24/10/2023“Cal-Maine's chairman testified Monday that he and executives of the company's competitors sat on trade association committees that urged the egg industry as a whole to adopt measures to reduce the supply of eggs in the United States[.]” Lolololol 430
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 07/09/2023Justice Harlan’s concurrence in Standard Oil (1911) is such a powerful defense of republican self-government and repudiation of elite arrogance. I love it so much. 000
Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 06/09/2023Lol i wish, more like hipster singer-songwriter Americana 😂 which is not wrong 😂 100