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23 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
It's water day at @TheProspect!
First, @gurleygg looks at water privatization in Chester, PA, as a city with troubled finances is goaded into selling off its public assets to for-profit interests.
prospect.org/environment/cl…
The PA legislature recently allowed municipalities in distress to sell assets like water systems at market value rather than depreciated value, a powerful spur for communities like Chester. But what will happen to rates, quality, and maintenance?
prospect.org/environment/cl…
We also have a success story: a new book about an unlikely victory in El Salavador by grassroots activists over mining interests that threatened the country's water supply. The book is The Water Defenders, it's out today, and Sasha Chavkin has a review:
prospect.org/culture/books/…
In non-water-related news we have @rkuttnerwrites on the need to limit the presidential pardon power.
prospect.org/justice/time-t…

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22 Mar
Really excited to show you my latest for the print edition of @TheProspect. It's about musicians, beset on all sides by giant corporations that have robbed all but the biggest stars of the ability to make a living.
prospect.org/power/islands-…
Radio is mostly in the hands of Liberty Media. Live Nation & AEG control venues & artist management services, with Live Nation dominating ticketing. The major labels have been whittled down to 3. Bedrocks that nurtured local music scenes are largely gone.
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And none of that matters as much as streaming, responsible for 83% of music industry revenues, going mostly to Spotify & YouTube, for whom music is really a loss leader, incidental to data collection for ads & the promise of audience growth for investors prospect.org/power/islands-…
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21 Mar
Now that the political media's decided to rediscover the border, I want to highlight @Marcia_Brown9's story from last week, because the dominant narrative is missing some critical context.
prospect.org/justice/year-o…
First of all, the border really is closed unless you're an unaccompanied minor or you had an asylum claim prior to last March. The Biden administration has maintained Title 42, a CDC public health order used to deport anyone crossing on sight.
This includes sending asylum seekers back to home countries whee they could be persecuted or killed, an illegal action.
More commonly, Mexican and Central American migrants are sent back to Mexico, where they promptly try to cross again.
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24 Feb
1/ I want to invite you to apply for our Prospect writing fellowship, which in my completely biased opinion is the best early-career job in journalism. You can apply here:
theamericanprospect.submittable.com/submit/171496/…
2/ Our two-year fellowship gives a staff job (full benefits, union shop) to journalists just out of college or at an early point in their careers, working with our team on every type of reporting possible, from on-the-ground coverage to analysis, from short-form to long features.
3/ Our terrific writing fellows that I have had the pleasure of working with, @Marcia_Brown9 and @brittanyagibson, are wrapping up their fellowships, so we need two more to carry on the tradition. The first job would start at the end of May and the second in September.
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24 Feb
Um, Katie Porter v. Louis DeJoy alert. oversight.house.gov
Porter: You made changes to USPS but the IG said you did no analysis on whether they would save money. Now you're doing a strategic plan, have you done any analysis?
DeJoy: I disagree we did no analysis. We've done extensive research.
Porter: Will you provide those analyses to this committee?
DeJoy: We will produce "a certain amount of information." We're not embarrassed by the work we did.
Porter: Did you hire consultants?
DeJoy: The organization has embedded consultants for a long time.
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23 Feb
NEW at @theprospect: @alex_sammon on the array of corporate lawyers and Big Tech defenders populating Merrick Garland's Justice Department.
prospect.org/cabinet-watch/…
Garland said yesterday: "Fortunately or unfortunately, the best antitrust lawyers in the country have some involvement" in Big Tech. Lawyers in or likely to be in his DoJ certainly do:
-Emily Loeb (Apple)
-Susan Davies (Facebook)
-Susan Dunn (Amazon)
prospect.org/cabinet-watch/…
"Garland’s most concerning connection is Jamie Gorelick, who, despite being unlikely to get a formal role within the department, is positioning herself as a fixer with Washington’s most direct line to Garland’s office"
prospect.org/cabinet-watch/…
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18 Feb
GameStop hearing has begun here, I'll be intermittently live tweeting if anything interesting happens.
financialservices.house.gov/calendar/event…
One thing so far, Waters announces this is the first of a series of hearings, and future ones will include regulators and policy discussions.
Remarkable pronunciation of "Dough-GEE-coin" from ranking member Patrick McHenry (R-NC)
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