Sara Flocks
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Sara Flocks
@saraflocks
Legislative & Strategic Campaigns Director at @CaliforniaLabor https://t.co/yCbqmrOb5k. Cats too.









Walmart is rolling out digital price tags at all of its stores. At the same time, the corporate giant just secured a patent for "dynamically and automatically updating item prices.” Plus another patent for using machine learning to predict demand and recommend prices.

Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.” washingtonian.com/2026/03/12/the…



SCOOP: Tech billionaires are weighing a $500M war chest to counter labor unions and reshape California politics. The proposed endowment, would use investment profits for politics, and work to cement tech’s influence in Sacramento for decades. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…



NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics. We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races. 1/7 nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/…

NBC shows AI with worse poll numbers than ICE nbcnews.com/politics/2026-…

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol makes $95,801,676 a year, while the average Starbucks worker makes under $15K.






PS: This standard of ballot initiative proponents being transparent and revealing themselves sounds great, like say if you're backing multiple measures to defeat the wealth tax iykyk


