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Susan Holmberg

@susanrholmberg.bsky.social
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Proudly from Minnesota. Writer, Comms, looking for patterns in the economy. Associate Director for Research @ILSR. Former @rooseveltinstitute.org‬ @PERIatUMass. PhD, UMass Econ.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Interested in algorithmic pricing? Don't miss this conversation on March 3. How powerful corporations — including Amazon, Instacart, and major landlords — are using pricing algorithms to inflate prices and undermine competition. Great panel! Register here: ilsr.org/article/inde...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If it’s a tax on them, elites make it sound like a tax on you. If it’s a tax on you, they make you wonder if it’s a tax at all. When you understand that, you can see how the news media actually created conditions in which some middle-class Americans unknowingly voted for their own immiseration.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Let's discuss it over Manhattans.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I live in Minneapolis, and witnessing the ways local businesses are boldly and creatively stepping up to meet community needs as large corporations offer mild statements or facilitate ICE reminds me why antimonopoly policy is central to a healthy democracy. foodandpower.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
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Wall Street Doesn’t Reward Resilience, Main Street Does
Minnesota shows how small businesses can support their communities through crisis while large corporations make measured statements, or worse, cooperate with authoritarian overreach.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 04/02/2026
🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Please interview Joseph Stiglitz - also a Nobel economist and much more engaged in real world policy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"uffda" is one of my favorites
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Thank you, Bryce.
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"four things"
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Tim Walz Calls for Mass Resistance Against ICE in Minnesota
YouTube video by electron media group, inc.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Reports from outside Minneapolis are that ICE is pulling people over on the freeway, leaving cars abandoned. They have been seen in towns throughout the Twin City exurbs. If you are feeling moved to help families in MN, this is verified. www.gofundme.com/f/support-so...
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Donate to Support Twin Cities families in Crisis: Metro Surge, organized by Southwest Alliance
Our neighbors all over the Twin Cities Metro have now been end… Southwest Alliance needs your support for Support Twin Cities families in Crisis: Metro Surge
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"It takes a special level of privilege to care about democracy." Absolutely. Democracy needs a big middle class to reinforce itself.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
@ronmknox.bsky.social has a must read end-of-year piece. Working Americans are raging against corporate power, which is coalescing into an antimonopoly movement. This should be the Democratic party's lodestar. (Also, no one does antimonopoly storytelling better.) www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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Anger at Corporate Power Is Everywhere
It should guide the Democrats.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I defy any economist who still thinks that outsized market power doesn't push prices upward. Read the complaint. ilsr.org/article/inde...
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New Details Emerge in Accusation of Pepsi's Predatory Business Practices Favoring Walmart
Newly unsealed FTC filing accuses PepsiCo of favoring Walmart while artificially inflating prices for local grocers and consumers.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Months ago, we filed to get the FTC complaint against Pepsi unsealed. Last week, the judge ruled in our favor. It's damning, implicating Walmart. @ilsr.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Pepsi Gave Walmart Special Discounts, Biden-Era FTC Alleged
PepsiCo Inc. offers Walmart Inc. special product promotions and discounts that it doesn’t offer to any other retailers, according to a Biden-era antitrust complaint that was unsealed by a court.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/12/2025
good LORD. like some turducken of neoliberal nightmares
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Check out our latest investigation. Public buying on Amazon has ballooned and governments are facing higher costs and less transparency. This is pushing out independent suppliers that feed local tax bases — at a time when local budgets are bleeding dry. There's a better way. ⬇️
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Okay, so maybe I wasn't too mean to him ...
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Ron Knox @ronmknox.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
More power for workers. Protections for small businesses. Freedom from slumlords. With Lina Khan by his side, Zohran Mamdani is the vanguard of the modern antimonopoly movement.
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Mamdani and the Antimonopoly Movement
In policies and promise, Zohran Mamdani has become antimonopoly's flag bearer
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What is this feeling? It's so unfamiliar.
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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The imperial presidency wasn’t built in a term - my latest Comment, denounce, retweet! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
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Opinion | Resistance to Trump Isn’t Enough
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I don't see the link to the Marshall piece.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Ron is an exceptional storyteller of resistance and analyst of corporate abuses. This substack is going to be good.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Has anyone tried assigning papers that have to be written in google docs and shared with the professor? One thing I love about it is how it shows the version history. It would be hard (I think?) to plagiarize that.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
is it closing any non-union locations?
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Easily. I would have had a third if it was less expensive and just easier to parent and work.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
There's an antimonopoly movement afoot, happening at the local level. prospect.org/economy/2025...
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The Shifting Anti-Monopoly Landscape
Fights over data centers and music venues show that resisting corporate power will have to go local in the age of Trump.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Signed!
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Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Dr Lisa Cook is a fantastic economist and person, and the attacks lobbed against her are absolutely egregious. Sharing the letter in support of her below. #Econsky
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Standing up for workers. Treating everyone with dignity and respect. Working as hard as possible for the people of Ohio. I've tried to live my life by those principles. But these days that's not what's happening in Washington—so I'm running for Senate.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
An easy read on what's happening at the state level on antitrust. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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As Federal Chaos Ensues, Trustbusters Rise in the States
With Trump’s antitrust appointees more concerned with scoring points in MAGA culture wars than restraining corporate abuses, officials in the states are keeping up the fight.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
You've come a long way baby.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Been there.
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John Farrell @johnffarrell.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A great time to re-up this article -- How to Break Up with Amazon: ilsr.org/articles/its... @ilsr.bsky.social @kennedysmith.bsky.social
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It's Time to Break Up with Amazon. Here's How. - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Shop Local, Amazon Alternatives
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I wrote about this in detail in @financialtimes.com. www.ft.com/content/50e8...
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The techlash is the first step to restoring a fair US economy
Losses caused by monopoly power are both invisible and incalculable — it is impossible to know what we have missed
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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"It’s easy to think of food deserts as a natural consequence of poverty. But...the real reason food deserts emerged...is because of a major shift in one federal policy." The 99% Percent Invisible podcast has a great new episode on the hidden history of the Robinson-Patman Act.
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Food Deserts - 99% Invisible
Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small stores such as Fernandes Produce and Big D’s. The city also had supermarkets from classic New Englan...
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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Complaining about process is a way to sidestep having to take a stand and use your position to fight for a simple, obvious, and popular rule that would help Americans save money and avoid being taken advantage of.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 02/07/2025
Shoppers have fewer options for groceries after waves of supermarket mergers, and, writes Ron Knox, they get nickled and dimed at the stores that remain. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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As Federal Chaos Ensues, Trustbusters Rise in the States
With Trump’s antitrust appointees more concerned with scoring points in MAGA culture wars than restraining corporate abuses, officials in the states are keeping up the fight.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A beautiful tribute to the late founder of @ilsr.bsky.social. He profoundly shaped how to think about the intersection of place, power, and policy. ilsr.org/articles/rem...
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A Letter from ILSR’s Co-Directors: Remembering David Morris - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
State leadership on antitrust is not new. Our first trustbusting laws were incubated at the state-level. This tradition is being revived. New from @ronmknox.bsky.social
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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
With many people talking about how Mamdani has embraced small businesses as a crucial & obvious part of a progressive coalition of working people, I wanted to re-up this piece from a few years ago: ilsr.org/articles/in-...
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In The Nation, the Left Should Fight for Small Business - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Stacy Mitchell and Susan R. Holmberg argue that the left should embrace small business again; it is crucial to reversing inequality and rescuing democracy.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Plenty of NY voted for Trump. It's a great place to incubate and nourish political ideas.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
@ronmknox.bsky.social's new piece in Wash Monthly today, examining why the Trump FTC's decision to drop a landmark case against PepsiCo for price discrimination will be extremely bad for for community grocers and people who, you know, like to buy food. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/25/h...
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Has Trump’s FTC abandoned fair markets? | Washington Monthly
Trump's FTC just killed a landmark antitrust case that could have leveled the playing field for small grocers.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
What is this feeling?!
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randall "tex" boggs @cinatyte.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
It is going to be another very stressful news day, so particularly if you are in Minnesota and reading this, please go eat something RIGHT NOW and drink a full glass of water - keep your strength and your mind healthy.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
me too! Same with East and West.
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Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
How to spell broccoli.
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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Downtown Saint Paul is an excellent location for the city's first municipal owned grocery store. ilsr.org/articles/com...
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Community Wins: In the Face of Consolidation, Communities are Opening Their Own Grocery Stores - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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