Hungary just showed the world what’s possible when independent journalists refuse to give up.

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Amazon Levi's and Walmart Agreed on Increased Retail pricing for Khaki Pants Amazon sent Levi’s links to Khaki pants that were priced lower on Walmart.com [$25.47 to $26.99], saying it “hop[ed] these can get resolved over the next few days.” The next day, Levi’s reported that “I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to … take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to…$29.99 immediately” and provided links to show the increased Walmart price. Amazon acknowledged that Walmart raised its price and confirmed it had matched that higher price: “the updated pricing of $29.99 is now showing up on [Amazon].”

Amazon, Hanes, and Target Worked to Raise the Price of Apparel: Amazon sent Hanes links to Target.com and Walmart.com showing lower prices than were on Amazon, and Hanes confirmed that it “reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased.”

Amazon, Agrothrive, and Home Depot Worked to Raise the Price of Plant Fertilizer: Amazon complained to vendor Agrothrive about lower prices for Agrothrive’s products at Home Depot, to which Agrothrive responded: “Yes, just got out of a meeting with the Home Depot manager and she has agreed to raise the prices this time.”

Amazon, GlobalOne, and Chewy Agreed on Increased Retail Prices for Pet Treats: The plan was written in an email between Amazon and its vendor, GlobalOne. For its part, Amazon would raise GlobalOne’s Canine Naturals pet treat prices to get Chewy to follow, then GlobalOne would “reach out to Chewy” to let them know that Amazon was increasing the pricing and “would ask that [Chewy] follow.” In other words, if Chewy agreed, Amazon would increase its retail pricing for the Canine Naturals pet treats and Chewy would match the price increase. The plan materialized. Amazon told GlobalOne that the pricematch override was in place, and to “let Chewy know to update [pricing] immediately.” That same day, GlobalOne confirmed the “ones that went up on Amazon immediately went up on Chewy [happy face emoji] … Overall this looks like it’s working!” The result of Amazon, Chewy and GlobalOne’s price fixing agreement was to increase the retail prices of over ten Canine Naturals pet treat products on Amazon and Chewy.

We’re sharing new evidence in our case against Amazon clearly showing the megacorporation is involved in price fixing.

It’s clear as day: Amazon is colluding with vendors and other retailers to make your life more unaffordable.

We’ll see them in court.

Actor-author George Takei turns 89 today...

Takei brought enjoyment to so many thru his performances in Perry Mason, Black Sheep Squadron, the iconic Star Trek TOS/movies...

An American patriot, he & his family endured racially motivated internment camps of the 1940s...

Live longer, Mr. Takei!

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

The manifesto is incoherent about public service until you realize that Karp is presenting you with two types of public servants: civil servants fired under Trump, and the tech elites who venture into government.
The former deserve your scorn.
The latter merit your understanding and praise.

If only Democrats were as comfortable legislating against Nazi curious tech billionaires as Republicans are trans kids.

28 Minutes of *SATISFYING* MAGA FAFO Stories: Layoffs, Tariff Struggles, High Cost of Living YouTube video by Meg V.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHlL...

Of COURSE he's insider trading. He's a crook, he's ALWAYS been a crook, he's using the presidency to make billions.

He ran to stay out of jail, to make money and to feel powerful, because that's what a narcissist like him gets off on. It was never about helping people.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pennsylvania's motor-voter system effectively screens non-citizens from voter registration • Pennsylvania Capital-Star The audit also revealed problems with PennDOT’s data security protocols and recommended tighter internal controls.

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.

They found one. One.

And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

And fight!…

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Trump Is dooming his party to a midterm blowout It's almost as though he wants Republicans to lose.

New in PN: Trump Is dooming his party to a midterm blowout

"The difference between '18 and '26 is that not only has Trump become even more repellent, his actions have made everything worse. In fact, it’s hard to imagine what more he could do to enrage voters & ensure his party’s defeat in November"

You can call it a hoax. You can call it a staged event. But mostly you can call it the workings of a sick, demented man.

Trump has no plan to cut the $39 trillion national debt, but he does want to cut childcare. His budget director is scrambling to clarify | Fortune OMB Director Russell Vought appeared before Congress to answer questions about the request for the largest military spending boost since World War II.

There is billions in confirmed fraud within the Department of Defense, yet Trump and Vought are going after health care, childcare, and nutrition assistance.

As Congress puts together the 2027 budget, we must fight back.

Easy solution: Ban these gluttonous resource hogs.

In total, Lancet researchers found USAID prevented more than 91 million deaths over those two decades—including 30 million children under five.

🚨Russian losses as of April 20th, Day 1517 of Russia’s War of Aggression Against the People of Ukraine

Another 1050 Russian personnel were permanently removed from the battlefield yesterday, 1.3+ million Russian men lost.

Russia will not survive this.

25 today.

Or…. #ImpeachRemoveRepeat and prosecute.

WTF with the Canada hate? It's insane.
Canada has been the best ally for the US practically forever.
Just because they don't like being disrespectfully called the 51st state?
Elbows up to our neighbors to the North.
We are tired of this shit too.

Oh nothing, just Stephen Miller constructing an excuse to nationalize the midterms and use the Gestapo as polling-place guards...

Trump keeps bragging about a “booming” economy... but people are selling plasma just to cover rent and grocery bills.

Really struggling to find the winning in giving away your blood to survive...

In a nutshell. 😊

And the scum who are fine with racism, fascism, greed, sadism, pedophilia, and treason.

#USA YES!
#GOP NO!

Most of the GOP are criminals, they just haven't got caught yet.
Progress begins when WE end the GOP.

Don't forget the Pedophile Protectors:
GOP = Guardians of Pedophiles:
GOP = Gathering of Pedophiles:
GOP = REP = AFP = American Fascist Party

Don't forget Midterms are coming.

Make this go viral!

I miss him in the White House! And also President Biden! I slept better at night then, than I now do.

For his birthday

Why Trump's authoritarian language about 'vermin' matters The former president called his political opponents "vermin" and said immigration is "poisoning the blood" of the U.S., echoing language used by Adolf Hitler, raising questions about authoritarianism.

See Adolf's playbook. www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1...