What does a farmer in Iowa have in common with a writer in Hollywood? Across industries, people are being crushed by corporate consolidation. @BedoyaUSA on this on The Maybe: "There was a farmer in Iowa... who posted on Facebook 'I see those people in Hollywood, that happened to me. All my suppliers consolidated, all my buyers consolidated, and we're just getting squeezed."

#StopKillingGames# news: - Players Alliance + SKG, virtual event - SKG FAQ release dates - Official SKG mascots announcement - Halloween merch to financially support SKG Happy Halloween everyone! We have quite a few sweet updates for you. SKG is collaborating with @PAllianceHQ for an online event that you can participate in! - 18 Nov. @ 5:00 PM (UTC) - Speakers: @accursedfarms , @BlackMastadonte , @econliberties , @rossmannsupply (founder of @FuluFoundation), and more! - Will be streamed on SKG Twitch: Since our new website was launched (in a bit of a rushed beta) many of you have noticed that the FAQ is missing. Our sincere apologies for that. We are now making a hard commitment to publish an updated FAQ on our website! So here are the dates you can look forward to!: - General FAQ: 07 Nov. - Legal & Regional FAQ : 14 Nov. - Dev & Technical FAQ : 28 Nov. Thank you all for your patience! We would also like to announce the official SKG mascots! "Pad", "Discie" and "Chip"! They are being officially debuted today in their Halloween costumes. We hope you love our mascots as much as we do! They are available for use on our Community discord and also added to our merch store as stickers for you to put on the stuff you own! If you wish to financially support SKG and get something directly in return, the SKG merch store is the way! Our sincere thanks to our talented artists! (their artist links are available on each merch store product) Have a great rest of the day and Happy Halloween!!

NEW: Amazon is spending $1 billion to make people okay with data centers in their backyards. In one Pennsylvania town every resident was offered $10,000, in another landowners were offered millions. Big Tech can't sneak data centers in any more, so they try to buy people out.

The high cost of healthcare has become a central issue in this year's election, underscoring the need for Congress to take serious action to bring down these costs. Our Break Up Big Medicine agenda lays out bold, structural reforms that could save Americans up to $795 billion annually. Read it here:

AI executives have spent big on Trump. Now their AI is hacking websites, including a government health database. If Trump’s DOJ looks the other way, that’s corruption, plain and simple. I’m leading 17 members of Congress and demanding an investigation.

How have the high costs of youth sports impacted your family? We're collecting firsthand experiences from parents, athletes, coaches, and club owners about fees, travel, ownership changes, and access. Tell us your story here:

House Democrats, led by @RepCasar and @RepMaxineWaters, have introduced a resolution opposing AI bailouts! @mh4oh on this: "Americans are already paying for the A.I. build-out through higher power bills and a stock market propped up by a handful of companies. They should not pay a second time with a bailout."

DCWP issued this statement on DoorDash's potential purchase of Instacart. ⬇️ No matter the outcome, New York City will continue to enforce delivery workers' rights without fear or favor.

Express Scripts wants to claim the TRICARE program is run differently than its commercial business but, as @Greg_Reybold lays out, that's all smoke and mirrors: "First of all, in federal pleadings, Express Scripts doesn't call themselves a PBA for TRICARE. They call themselves a PBM. In court filings, Express Scripts has said that they manage the TRICARE retail pharmacy network in a manner that's indivisible and indistinguishable from their other networks, including the Federal Employee Health Plan. That's Express Scripts' words. In court filings, there's no difference with how they manage that program. That's stunning, and it's damning."

.@SenWarren: "After I pressed Assistant Sec. Keith Bass on the Department's weak oversight of this contract [...] he committed to conduct an annual review of the contract and to disclose the differences in reimbursement rates and fees between the retail pharmacies and the Express Scripts subsidiaries. Nearly two months later, I am still waiting for those numbers. If DOD and Express Scripps refuse to share this data, we can draw only one conclusion: The contract that DOD and Express Scripts want us to believe is true. So different is not really different at all."