tanya tussing

I want better 🇺🇸 policy debate; stronger political center. Interests: economy - esp anti-monopoly, healthcare, pro-democracy - 🦉 curious. Really appreciate meditation 🧘🏻‍♀️, health, beauty, good 🍽 & 🍷.

I HAVE A DREAM: of healthier iSpaces. Mastodon is part of manifesting that dream. May the citizens of the 🇺🇸 rise up and disrupt enshittification.

More about healthy iSpaces - BBC's Rethink: Is the internet getting worse? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022z9r

Posting from: Austin, Texas
❤️ Letters from an American: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
❤️ 🍷 & beautiful views at: https://www.balanzavineyard.com
❤️ Truth sandwiches 🥪: https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/media-can-dish-up-a-truth-sandwich-to-deal-with-political-lies/

Last Notes

2026-02-17 14:20:40 UTC

- reply

From my understanding, this applies to US trucking. ... especially during COVID supply chain shock.
Sometimes people complain about "trucker shortage", but what does that mean?
Appearantly, there are 3x the # of people trained & certified to drive a truck than # of truckers needed in US. So why the "trucker shortages"?
During COVID, a big % of trucker work hours was spent on things like waiting in lines at ports to pick up products -- for no pay.

2025-11-11 15:40:04 UTC

- reply

"The FTC puts the number of workers bound by noncompete clauses at 30 million, almost 1 in 5 Americans."
"Davidson signed a noncompete contract when he started working at his job, a condition of employment that wasn’t optional." "the company laid him off ... 'and all of a sudden my career came to a complete halt.' The company ...[forbid] him from accepting another job in the same line of work anywhere in the U.S. or Canada for 18 months."

2025-11-11 15:11:14 UTC

Will employer non-compete abuse ban be enforced by Trump's FTC? One Texan pushes enforcement.
From the @prospect.org :
Texan Takes On Corporate Abuse as Trump’s FTC Abandons Workers
https://prospect.org/2025/11/06/texan-takes-on-corporate-abuse-trumps-ftc-abandons-workers-noncompetes/
#Jobs #NoncompeteAgreements #Economics

2025-07-12 23:11:23 UTC

We need to know more about our #conspiracy peddlers. What are they selling? How are they funded?
"The emotional appeal of a conspiracy theory is in its simplicity. It explains away complex phenomena, accounts for chance & accidents, offers the believer the satisfying sense of having special, privileged access to the truth. For those who become the one-party state's gatekeepers, the repetition of these conspiracy theories also brings another reward: power."
-- @npub13d2…hgm2
#democracy

2025-06-02 15:27:20 UTC

Very interesting. "GOP have ratfucked themselves.... In overruling the parliamentarian in a bid to arrogate to themselves the power to kill California emission standards, Republican Senators have opened the door for Democrats to seize 10 hours of debate time for every single change Trump makes to federal regulations. These debates take precedence over all Senate business." -- @npub1fdr…lvhs
Thoughts, @npub1awl…hm6v ?
https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/30/gone-fission/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/614/461/583/313/343/original/1925b34942282eec.jpeg

2025-03-27 15:23:13 UTC

I still find this stunning...
"Tax revenue could fall by as much as **10%** this year". Another example, DOGE is not about making US gov "more efficient.
https://mastodon.social/@tanyatussing/114207502892102635
#DOGE #USdeficit #April15
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/235/076/465/534/466/original/a5a2664f66e9b109.png

2025-01-30 19:46:09 UTC

- reply

The US post- #competition " #freemarket ":
"As #cartels and #monopolies took over our economy, most government regulators were neutered and captured."
"This is what changed: the collapse of market, government, and labor constraints, and IP law's criminalization of disenshittifying, interoperable add-ons."
-- @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis
#Economics #PoliEcon #antitrust

2025-01-30 18:15:12 UTC

#Competition
"When companies face real competitors, then some enshittificatory gambits are unprofitable, because they'll drive your users to competing platforms. That's why Zuckerberg bought Instagram: he had been turning the screws on Facebook users, and when Instagram came along, millions of those users decided that they hated Zuck more than they loved their friends and so they... defected to Instagram."
-- @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis
#Economics #SocialMedia #PoliEcon
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/918/651/412/871/839/original/48123314692c24f7.jpeg

2024-12-09 20:01:59 UTC

- reply

what a great term: accountability sink. There are everywhere.
"The insurance company merely serves as an accountability sink, a layer of indirection that lets a murder happen without any person being the technical murderer:"

2024-12-09 19:58:15 UTC

- reply

... or rob someone with an html file.
A very thoughtful blog post about a very tough, complex event/issue.

2024-10-11 18:55:24 UTC

We're not going back.
"“the cost of 40 years of pro-monopoly can't be ignored. Monopolies make the whole world more brittle, even as the cost of that brittleness mounts. It's hard to pretend monopolies are fine when a single hurricane can wipe out the entire country's supply of IV fluid – again:”"
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/11/democracys-antitrust-paradox/
Another good post about recent monopoly busting and its future, @npub1fdr…lvhs
#AntiMonopoly #antitrust #Economics
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/290/298/319/179/398/original/5bd3909c4e585435.jpg

2024-09-30 14:44:53 UTC

“We should ban surveillance advertising. Period. Companies should not be allowed to collect our data without our meaningful opt-in consent, and if that was the standard, there would be no data-collection:”
— @npub1fdr…lvhs
Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk :
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors
More about healthy #iSpaces - BBC's Rethink: Is the internet getting worse?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022z9r
#iHealth #HealthyInternet #Health
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/227/026/638/894/641/original/ea114824f844c2fa.jpeg

2024-09-26 14:18:23 UTC

When “the middle class is strong, America is strong.”
Let’s build an #OpportunityEconomy for all Americans — in rural communities, small towns, & big cities.
MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle convo w #KamalaHarris about her plan
to build an OPPORTUNITY ECONOMY & lower costs for families. https://youtu.be/36ovmQj7gbQ?si=vLJ2q0qSnkuMNq3Q
#HarrisWalz2024 : https://kamalaharris.com/issues/
#Election2024 #Economics #Freedom
@npub1z4k…g27u
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/204/278/915/174/786/original/2e9902a38fcaacc9.jpeg

2022-11-23 16:41:01 UTC

#Introduction : I want to exchange ideas &info w others about improving the quality of #USpublicpolicy debate. My focus: #economics, #healthcare & #healthydemocracy. But interested in many things.
Since 2016, I’ve discovered US has a strong #antidemocratic #authoritarian movement that seems intent on degrading quality of public policy convos, propagating #misinformation, & rigging election rules. So I'm trying to learn more.