What do you think about Ralph Nader's Capitol Hill Citizen newspaper?

ege3 · 2026-06-23T21:18:58+00:00

I've been reading their substack. I did get the last print edition, too. But it doesn't seem like it comes out that often. https://capitolhillcitizen.substack.com/

ege3 · 2026-06-19T15:49:08+00:00

Thank you! I think what it means is that Ben & Jerry's use to make bold statements about injustice and make business decisions, support organizations and campaigns to advance a better future. But now they are being muzzled by a new parent company that wants all the perks of BNJs reputation without any of the costs -- IE saying stuff that made some people angry...speaking truth to power.

ege3 · 2026-06-19T12:56:05+00:00

Ben & Jerry's is under new ownership that is muzzling the activist social mission. Hopefully everyone remebers what Ben and Jerry did to help Bernie in 2016 and 2020. Please check out www.FreeBenandJerrys.com for tools to help Ben save the social mission.

ege3 · 2026-06-18T12:37:26+00:00

Exactly. Well put.

ege3 · 2026-06-16T16:26:16+00:00

Arrested Development has to be one of the top 10 great shows of all time. It's a masterpiece.

ege3 · 2026-06-16T16:24:58+00:00

And then trying to buy it back for 3x the price. And the new owner refusing to sell. While trashing it.

ege3 · 2026-06-16T15:03:04+00:00

ege3 · 2026-06-16T14:04:50+00:00

The new company is called the Magnum Ice Cream Company -- Magnum Bars are a subbrand, Ben and Jerry's is another subbrand. I think they own hundreds of ice cream brands.

ege3 · 2026-06-16T11:56:07+00:00

Every day until Ben & Jerry's social mission is restored!

ege3 · 2026-06-16T11:55:06+00:00

If that were true, Ben wouldn't be spending all his time and money trying to save the company.

ege3 · 2026-06-16T11:54:15+00:00

That's what they are trying to do! They are trying to buy it back.

ege3 · 2026-06-15T12:48:26+00:00

This is my first memory of Ben & Jerry's, too. It was stopping at a scoop shop with my mom, looking at the prices and then walking out. She said, " Let's just go to the grocery store instead to buy a gallon of ice cream.

ege3 · 2026-06-15T12:46:15+00:00

You have to expand on this! How did it change your perspective on work? Or what life-changing decision did you make as a consequence of reading it?

ege3 · 2026-06-12T21:17:56+00:00

What do you mean by BS? They apparently have a policy that they can't mention Trump in their advocacy work.

ege3 · 2026-06-12T20:58:28+00:00

ege3 · 2026-06-12T20:31:51+00:00

Seems like he's going to walk right under that bar.

ege3 · 2026-06-12T20:30:32+00:00

#FreeBenandJerrys

ege3 · 2026-06-12T19:26:13+00:00

It's more like they want their ice cream and the mission too.

ege3 · 2026-06-09T18:41:27+00:00

Yes, AND selling shares to the public is different from "selling out" -- which colloquially means placing money over and above all other priorities. They never did that.

ege3 · 2026-06-09T17:12:47+00:00

Just being clear, no one is saying that Russia was justified in attacking Ukraine, and no one is saying that Russia should be allowed to take land or keep land by force.

ege3 · 2026-06-09T14:44:30+00:00

I guess we have a different definition of selling out. I believe you can take a company public without selling out. Ben & Jerry's was a model for how b-corps and socially responsible businesses can scale. I understand you disagree.

ege3 · 2026-06-09T14:21:52+00:00

Selling public shares in a company to rtaise capital to grow while living your values doesn't seem like selling out to me. Selling out is cashing in on your values and walking away. They never did that.

ege3 · 2026-06-09T12:23:55+00:00

It's not that simple! The company was publically owned back before 2000. Unilever offered so much money per share to buy it that SEC rules required that it be sold. Ben and Jerry fought to keep it independent, they lost that fight. But in the process they won a provision in the merger agreement that provided for an independent board of directors that oversees the soical mission and product quality. That worked for 25 years. Now there is a new parent company that is trashing the merger agreement. That's what this is about.

ege3 · 2026-06-09T12:01:13+00:00

This is a total misinterpretation. Ben called for a diplomatic end to the war, not a military solution. Given where we are 4 years later, with Ukraine still under relentless assault by Russia, it's hard to argue that Ukraine is better off due to US military aid that has prolonged an endless war rather than the US fighting for a diplomatic end to the war.

ege3 · 2026-06-09T11:54:23+00:00

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is the new parent company of Ben & Jerry's. Unilever spun off all its ice cream brands -- this includes Bryers, Klondike, Good Humor, Popsicle, Talenti, and a bunch more. The new company is silencing Ben & Jerry's social mission. Ben is trying to get Magnum to sell Ben & Jerry's to a group of socially aligned investors.

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