Alan the Baltimoron
@bmorons.bsky.social
Mostly the opinions of Alan, 1/2 of dumb podcast about the Baltimore Orioles, co-owner of @Footballclubgroup, lefty politics, impotent rage against capitalism - the standard bluesky experience.
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How FIFA Quietly Took World Cup 2026 Away From Real Football Fans
"Access doesn’t disappear. It shifts. FIFA has confirmed what everyone expected...and supporters’ groups and consumer advocates have raised concerns about pricing and access."
Read more:
footballclubgroup.com/how-fifa-qui...
"Access doesn’t disappear. It shifts. FIFA has confirmed what everyone expected...and supporters’ groups and consumer advocates have raised concerns about pricing and access."
Read more:
footballclubgroup.com/how-fifa-qui...
How FIFA Quietly Took World Cup 2026 Away From Real Football Fans – Football Club Group
footballclubgroup.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
How FIFA Quietly Took World Cup 2026 Away From Real Football Fans
"Access doesn’t disappear. It shifts. FIFA has confirmed what everyone expected...and supporters’ groups and consumer advocates have raised concerns about pricing and access."
Read more:
footballclubgroup.com/how-fifa-qui...
"Access doesn’t disappear. It shifts. FIFA has confirmed what everyone expected...and supporters’ groups and consumer advocates have raised concerns about pricing and access."
Read more:
footballclubgroup.com/how-fifa-qui...
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Sign our petition to the FTC to investigate Instacart’s pricing algorithm: action.consumerreports.org/social-20251...
You'll also get updates to join similar projects like this in the future.
You'll also get updates to join similar projects like this in the future.
December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Sign our petition to the FTC to investigate Instacart’s pricing algorithm: action.consumerreports.org/social-20251...
You'll also get updates to join similar projects like this in the future.
You'll also get updates to join similar projects like this in the future.
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In collaboration w/ @groundwork.bsky.social & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, we convened hundreds of volunteers from across the country to investigate Instacart’s AI-assisted pricing experiments at popular grocery stores like Target & Kroger. Read our full investigation below:
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
www.consumerreports.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In collaboration w/ @groundwork.bsky.social & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, we convened hundreds of volunteers from across the country to investigate Instacart’s AI-assisted pricing experiments at popular grocery stores like Target & Kroger. Read our full investigation below:
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A new study from @groundwork.bsky.social, @moreperfectunion.bsky.social and @consumerreports.org found:
- 74% of items had multiple prices
- Up to 5 different prices for the exact same product
- Basket totals for the same 20 items varied by 7%
A 7% swing could cost families $1,200 more a year
- 74% of items had multiple prices
- Up to 5 different prices for the exact same product
- Basket totals for the same 20 items varied by 7%
A 7% swing could cost families $1,200 more a year
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A new study from @groundwork.bsky.social, @moreperfectunion.bsky.social and @consumerreports.org found:
- 74% of items had multiple prices
- Up to 5 different prices for the exact same product
- Basket totals for the same 20 items varied by 7%
A 7% swing could cost families $1,200 more a year
- 74% of items had multiple prices
- Up to 5 different prices for the exact same product
- Basket totals for the same 20 items varied by 7%
A 7% swing could cost families $1,200 more a year
so @consumerreports.org, @moreperfectunion.bsky.social and @groundwork.bsky.social actually found that Instacart was doing this: www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
If anyone want to be a part of our next wave of community reports studies: www.consumerreports.org/community-re...
If anyone want to be a part of our next wave of community reports studies: www.consumerreports.org/community-re...
December 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
so @consumerreports.org, @moreperfectunion.bsky.social and @groundwork.bsky.social actually found that Instacart was doing this: www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
If anyone want to be a part of our next wave of community reports studies: www.consumerreports.org/community-re...
If anyone want to be a part of our next wave of community reports studies: www.consumerreports.org/community-re...
Thanks for highlighting our story, @rweingarten.bsky.social !
If you want to be a part of our next wave of community reports studies, looking at everything from surveillance pricing to energy bills, sign up here: www.consumerreports.org/community-re...
If you want to be a part of our next wave of community reports studies, looking at everything from surveillance pricing to energy bills, sign up here: www.consumerreports.org/community-re...
Instacart ripping people off www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
www.consumerreports.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Thanks for highlighting our story, @rweingarten.bsky.social !
If you want to be a part of our next wave of community reports studies, looking at everything from surveillance pricing to energy bills, sign up here: www.consumerreports.org/community-re...
If you want to be a part of our next wave of community reports studies, looking at everything from surveillance pricing to energy bills, sign up here: www.consumerreports.org/community-re...
Did you make these statistics/scenarios up out of whole cloth to scare people or did you take them straight from the lunatic ravings of the Heritage foundation?
the markets are not acts of nature, dude. They are all choices, made by humans. Rampant healthcare costs - same same.
the markets are not acts of nature, dude. They are all choices, made by humans. Rampant healthcare costs - same same.
R U ok with paying 8 to 12 pct more in taxes and possibly losing your standard deduction ?
R U ok with losing access to different curative medications and care because the government can't afford to pay for them, even after taxing all the billionaires 90 pct?
R U ok with losing access to different curative medications and care because the government can't afford to pay for them, even after taxing all the billionaires 90 pct?
December 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Did you make these statistics/scenarios up out of whole cloth to scare people or did you take them straight from the lunatic ravings of the Heritage foundation?
the markets are not acts of nature, dude. They are all choices, made by humans. Rampant healthcare costs - same same.
the markets are not acts of nature, dude. They are all choices, made by humans. Rampant healthcare costs - same same.
1. don’t the biggest chains currently accept Medicare?
2. the current US government has quite a few problems, not the least of which is that our public health infrastructure is being destroyed. Perhaps this service could help.
3. We already do that.
2. the current US government has quite a few problems, not the least of which is that our public health infrastructure is being destroyed. Perhaps this service could help.
3. We already do that.
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
1. don’t the biggest chains currently accept Medicare?
2. the current US government has quite a few problems, not the least of which is that our public health infrastructure is being destroyed. Perhaps this service could help.
3. We already do that.
2. the current US government has quite a few problems, not the least of which is that our public health infrastructure is being destroyed. Perhaps this service could help.
3. We already do that.
This is the person who we're crediting with "imagining the future"??
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is the person who we're crediting with "imagining the future"??
Proud of the work that went into this one, from @consumerreports.org and @moreperfectunion.bsky.social. action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251209-...
Investigate Instacart’s AI pricing of groceries
Investigate Instacart’s AI pricing of groceries
action.consumerreports.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Proud of the work that went into this one, from @consumerreports.org and @moreperfectunion.bsky.social. action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251209-...
This is insane. The case that “price fixing is good, actually” is really really bad … capitalism insists on its unfettered right to destroy everything, I guess.
BREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This is insane. The case that “price fixing is good, actually” is really really bad … capitalism insists on its unfettered right to destroy everything, I guess.
Awww man. Rest in Power, the great Jimmy Cliff. The Harder They Come was an ever present soundtrack of my youth.
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Awww man. Rest in Power, the great Jimmy Cliff. The Harder They Come was an ever present soundtrack of my youth.
If you are actually asking, @brendannyhan.bsky.social, there are plenty of answers. One is that for the entire lives of people in Gen Z (and, frankly, for most of us millennials, too) protest has been ineffective at it's political goals. Occupy, BLM, Palestine... told to shut up, or worse.
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
If you are actually asking, @brendannyhan.bsky.social, there are plenty of answers. One is that for the entire lives of people in Gen Z (and, frankly, for most of us millennials, too) protest has been ineffective at it's political goals. Occupy, BLM, Palestine... told to shut up, or worse.
Bluesky, you realize you are all allowed to just not look, right?
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Bluesky, you realize you are all allowed to just not look, right?
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RFK's food/wellness views are popular. His vaccine stance & research cuts are not.
Dems crafting messaging for 2026 think the latter will matter more.
"Those policies are much more dangerous than how much red dye is in your food," @protectourcare.org's leader said. "You can’t eat if you’re dead”
Dems crafting messaging for 2026 think the latter will matter more.
"Those policies are much more dangerous than how much red dye is in your food," @protectourcare.org's leader said. "You can’t eat if you’re dead”
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
RFK's food/wellness views are popular. His vaccine stance & research cuts are not.
Dems crafting messaging for 2026 think the latter will matter more.
"Those policies are much more dangerous than how much red dye is in your food," @protectourcare.org's leader said. "You can’t eat if you’re dead”
Dems crafting messaging for 2026 think the latter will matter more.
"Those policies are much more dangerous than how much red dye is in your food," @protectourcare.org's leader said. "You can’t eat if you’re dead”
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how about all that weighing in about children's right to bodily autonomy
Seeing all these @nytimes email addresses on the Epstein main threads is really putting that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace” thought piece in an interesting light!
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
how about all that weighing in about children's right to bodily autonomy
Seeing all these @nytimes email addresses on the Epstein main threads is really putting that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace” thought piece in an interesting light!
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Seeing all these @nytimes email addresses on the Epstein main threads is really putting that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace” thought piece in an interesting light!
Lol. Six Dems in the House just spent the last few days reading the cosmic levels of rage and condemnation against their counterparts in the Senate who voted to reopen the government and were like: sure, yeah, gimme some of THAT.
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Lol. Six Dems in the House just spent the last few days reading the cosmic levels of rage and condemnation against their counterparts in the Senate who voted to reopen the government and were like: sure, yeah, gimme some of THAT.
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
All that pain and needless suffering for 40 days of shutdown, and it was all for naught?
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
All that pain and needless suffering for 40 days of shutdown, and it was all for naught?
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we are going to win
it sure seems like a lot of discipline and focus has permeated the left. really stunning to see huge swaths of people with very recent learned experience recognize destabilizing bait and to ignore it, while quietly acknowledging constructive criticism and building from that.
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
we are going to win
Bring me the head (or at least the film of a contrite admission that he’s played his threat of graphic suicidal politics a little heavy) of Alan Dershowitz!!!
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Bring me the head (or at least the film of a contrite admission that he’s played his threat of graphic suicidal politics a little heavy) of Alan Dershowitz!!!
How about “recruit a candidate“? Party, or lack there of, ain’t what will make the difference in most places, and we’re about to get told by everyone in the country how our new mayor is a problem in *their* local election.
Recruit a Democrat. Every seat. Every state. Waves need someone to ride them. Call your state party, sign up to run, or volunteer. Make the GOP fight for every inch. Let’s go! No seat left empty!
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
How about “recruit a candidate“? Party, or lack there of, ain’t what will make the difference in most places, and we’re about to get told by everyone in the country how our new mayor is a problem in *their* local election.
I hope the Mayor does something really radical and... doesn't dismantle his ground game. Lets use these volunteers for some governing power, not just elected power!
HUGE THING:
100,000 people volunteered for Mamdani. 1000s volunteering for the FIRST TIME. And they just won BIG.
So that's a massive army of progressives HUNGRY to keep on winning.
That's worth more than all the billionaires' money.
We're going to keep working.
And we're going to keep winning.
100,000 people volunteered for Mamdani. 1000s volunteering for the FIRST TIME. And they just won BIG.
So that's a massive army of progressives HUNGRY to keep on winning.
That's worth more than all the billionaires' money.
We're going to keep working.
And we're going to keep winning.
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I hope the Mayor does something really radical and... doesn't dismantle his ground game. Lets use these volunteers for some governing power, not just elected power!