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What the #Monopoly #Utility Model Really Costs Us –– a thread on my new report from @ILSR 🧵
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John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋
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John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋
@johnffarrell
Distributed energy nerd | Anti-monopoly policy guy @ ILSR | Making clean power local + fair | 📍Minnesota dad energy 🔌💡
Minneapolis Katılım Ekim 2008
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Afraid of competition and wildly unpopular due to excessive profits and rising rates, for-profit utilities resort to funding pretend grassroots groups in Maine, Florida, Michigan (+ more) to fend off public takeovers: vist.ly/53hyp
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As we watch Spirit Airlines fail due to anti-competitive tactics from the big four airlines, this is a well-timed suggestion.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
It's time to nationalize the airlines. Air travel is a public good, and taking the profit out of the system would mean cheaper flights and cheaper shipping. Nationalization would also mean the public air service would be bound to serve the whole country, like the post office. Right now taxpayers are already subsidizing the airlines via billions of dollars of bailouts and subsidies. We deserve a say in how they are run. Let's make airlines work for us instead of padding the pockets of billionaires.
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🥳🎉 #Tucson in secures $2 million per year commitment from utility *shareholders* for local investment in clean, affordable energy due to franchise negotiations. The public power campaign made this happen (and would still be superior): vist.ly/42yme
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Ho hum, a utility CEO gets a 45% pay increase that you will have no choice but to pay for. Just the standard utility business model in America.
Emma Greenman@emmagreenman
#mnleg Republican’s blocked my Ratepayer Protection Act to stop utility CEOs from forcing Minnesotans to pay for their millions in salary increases. While the GOP fights for the CEOs, I’m fighting to stop them from hiking your gas & electric bills to pay for million $$$ raises.
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John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweetledi
I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.
Tough one.
Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.
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The more I hear about Amazon, the more I understand how Jeff Bezos engineered a business to cheat rather than compete.
Stacy Mitchell@stacyfmitchell
1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.
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John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweetledi
Watch me do a job interview with the worst person ever and learn how noncompete agreements are trapping 30 million Americans in jobs they can't leave.
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Folk music tells the truth better than any other media.
Dustin Gouker@DustinGouker
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call this the greatest piece of prediction market content created to date.
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You know what's even more wild? The U.S. government *banned itself* from negotiating drug prices. Because the government can change the law...
Dan Osborn@osbornforne
The U.S. Government is legally banned from negotiating prices on most prescription drugs. Every other wealthy country does it. I will fight to change it.
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Hey @Jamiemlong, here's a bill idea
Karen Vaites@karenvaites
One year into cell phone bans, Dallas schools see 24% increase in library book checkouts. 👏👏👏 "Public school districts in Texas are almost one school year into the first statewide cellphone ban, and a North Texas school district is seeing positive impacts. Dallas ISD officials said that, district-wide, they have seen a significant increase in library book checkouts, which they largely attribute to students no longer having cellphones with them during the school day. "I started hearing, 'Oh, I'm so bored. I can't get on my phone after I do my work or during lunchtime,'" Hillcrest High School librarian Nina Canales said. "Once they lock into these stories, they don't seem to care about their phones at all." From the first day of school to March 31, 2026, the district reported an increase of more than 200,000 additional books checked out compared to the previous year. A look at the library checkouts for the previous year: 2025-2026 Total Circulation (1st day of school to March 31, 2026) – 1,084,837 2024-2025 Total circulation (1st day of school to March 31, 2025) – 872,430 Total library book checkout increase: 24.35% At Dallas ISD's Hillcrest High, students are following this trend. Canales said there were roughly 500 books checked out in the first nine weeks of the 2024-2025 school year. This school year, that number spiked to about 1,800 books. "That floored me," Canales said. "I had to re-do the report again because I was like, 'What, are you kidding me?'" Students felt the impact too. "Now that I'm busy with a bunch of work and college, I don't find myself missing my phone that much, even at home," said Yamilet Jimenez, 9th grader." By @laceybeasnews. @JonHaidt @safe_screens
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I’ve been waiting for someone to write up California’s “mystery” gas tax.
It’s not a mystery. It’s consolidation and vertical integration.
State lawmakers have several options, including forcing refineries to divest their retail gas stations. That should be a bill next session.
The American Prospect@TheProspect
In this week’s Aftermath newsletter, we take a closer look at high gas prices in California—which are not only caused by the war in Iran. buff.ly/GNiknPP
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Understand –– there are times when oil does not transit the Strait of Hormuz.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
BURGUM: Understand -- there are times in North Dakota when the wind does not blow and the sun doesn't shine KING: Of course. That's where batteries come in
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For my California voting friends...
David Pomerantz@DavidPomerantz
With utility bills playing a central role in the California Governor's race, we looked at lifetime utility campaign $ to the candidates: - Becerra has taken >150K lifetime from PG&E/SDG&E, SCE. - Bianco/Hilton/Mahan/Porter/Steyer have not taken any. energyandpolicy.org/becerra-150k-f…
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Small business pay more and you pay more, just to make Mastercard and Visa richer.
Dan Osborn@osbornforne
The major credit card companies are holding Nebraska small businesses hostage. The average household spends nearly $1,200 a year MORE because of credit card swipe fees. Send me to the Senate and I'll break up the duopoly and stand with our small business community.
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It sucks that it takes a rich man to go after the real robber barons in our society.
Tom Steyer@TomSteyer
I’m going to break up the utility monopolies and lower your prices. But you don’t have to take my word for it: PG&E is spending millions to stop me.
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Wow. Absolute wrong response to the weirdos. Don't give them the fight they want.
Dustin Grage@GrageDustin
🚨 BREAKING: Minnesota Democrats have proposed a bill that would cut aid to cities that refuse to fly the new state flag pushed by Tim Walz. Polling shows widespread opposition to the new flag, and several cities have already moved to revert back to the original design.
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WashPo is on 🔥 for the billionaires. A great follow up to "won't anyone think of the shareholders of the utility companies?" piece on April 5.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Jeff Bezos' Washington Post: Won't anyone think of the cancer-causing pesticide companies?
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@UtilityDive I have several interviews with Puerto Ricans working on making the island's grid more safe and reliable, linked here: ilsr.org/article/energy…
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Puerto Rico's residents know that they can't rely on the grid, which is why rooftop #solar now provides 20 percent of the island's electricity. No imports, no fuel costs. vist.ly/4zybz @utilitydive
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