Ethan Litwin

Instead of adhering to rigid and artificial constructs, antitrust enforcers should focus their energies on realizing the progressive purpose of the antitrust laws, namely to combat the exploitative abuse of market power that operates to the detriment of competition and consumers.

@Serenity85P @sesamestreet Mary was born and died a Jew, just like her son.

@sesamestreet Cut the 💩 culture month. Just celebrate being American. I will celebrate May for Mary. Christ is King 👑.

Happy #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth! Join us this May as we honor and celebrate our Jewish American friends and neighbors in our communities.💛💚

@TheBabylonBee So if you are flying Sunday, you’d be SOL?

Airport Wait Times Eliminated After TSA Checkpoints Taken Over By Chick-Fil-A buff.ly/Iw7aIth

@PeteHegseth @ICEgov Anyone who applauds shooting a protester isn’t fit to be an American citizen. This nation was founded on the principles of protest and dissent. Shame on you.

Thank God for the patriots of @ICEgov — we have your back 100%. You are SAVING the country. Shame on the leadership of Minnesota — and the lunatics in the street. ICE > MN

@JetBlue why did I get warnings to arrive at the airport early when security was light? Why did we board buses to the aircraft only to wait for 15 minutes and counting? #incompetence #customerservice #flydelta

Elon Musk is wrong. The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire “the best and the brightest,” but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.

@PGunigantiAT Don’t recall what they were. Saw them in an exhibit years ago and was struck by the anti-monopoly fervor and the idea of monopoly leveraging that was expressed.

@EELitwin The last section of the 3rd does raise concerns about Parliament removing a bar on the Co making imports beyond tea, but I don’t see where monopoly is mentioned there. loc.getarchive.net/media/the-alar…

Kudos to the FTC rep for accurately describing the use of the term “monopoly” at the time of the Founding as a reference to government favoritism (eg giving an exclusive right to the East India Co for the importation of tea).

@PGunigantiAT Yes. But not leveraging.

@EELitwin Did they use the term monopoly? Also, any links? I’m not familiar with the handbills.

@PGunigantiAT No. There were handbills that for lack of a better term were concerned about monopoly leveraging.

@EELitwin Do you mean the Feb. 28 1773 letter from the NY Committee of Correspondence (“And when they find their success in this Article [tea], they will obtain liberty to export their Spices, Silk etc.”)?

@LeonidasPlatan1 Liszt

Most influential composer of the romantic period?

If the Democratic Party is to become a democratic party, the first job of a new DNC Chair is to get super-PAC money out of Democratic primaries. AIPAC and other billionaire-funded super-PACS cannot be allowed to select Democratic candidates.

@MacLeodBill Assuming the absence of collusion.

This is how competition will rescue higher ed. Comfortable colleges can’t afford to ignore disruptive entrants or the venerable brands in education will join the ranks of Pan Am airlines, Studebaker cars, and Commodore computers

1. Since the new line on why antitrust is bad is the Spirit Airlines bankruptcy, let's talk about what is really happening. Here's a hint. The CEO of Spirit was paid a $3.8 million bonus the week before the bankruptcy. But you don't hear about that. wlrn.org/business/2024-…

The working class of this country is angry. They have a reason to be angry. The very wealthy are doing phenomenally well, while 60% of us are living paycheck to paycheck. It’s time to get big money out of politics and create an economy that works for the people.

Once again, Bernie is exactly right.

This is a very bad night. Some of us spent years warning Dems to take working-class politics more seriously & to not tout neocons. We did so in hopes of avoiding this & yet we were vilified as traitors by Dem elites & liberal pundits. There's a lesson here. Goodnight.

@MetOpera bombs with Ainadamar. The sound design was so awful, with amplification worse than a Middle School musical in Peoria, makes me question trusting anything this house does. Canned music at the Met? Travesty.

@mikeirons12 Romantic composition isn’t my bag (unless it is Liszt).

@EELitwin Ah, okay. Good choices all the same.

#ClassicalDiscussion Your 10 favourite symphonies that broadly speaking belong in the Romantic tradition. You decide what counts! 😉🎻🎻🥁🎺📯🎶

@mikeirons12 Since I firmly believe that everything pre-1830 belongs to the Classical Era, and everything post-1905 belongs to the Modern Era, that leaves me with: Mahler 1, 2, 3 Tchaikovsky 5, 6 Liszt, Faust Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique And that’s it. Can’t even get to 10.

My 10... Mozart 40 (pathfinder) Beethoven 5 Schubert 9 Mendelssohn 3 Dvorak 9 Bruckner 4,8,9 Mahler 3 Rachmaninov 2 Elgar 2 & Bax 5 if one per... Keep Bruckner 8 or 9...

It seems that the “adults in the room” keep blaming the @FTC for tilting at windmills even though they JUST KEEP WINNING. The hipsters are on the right side of history, economics and the law.