Amazon 'strong-armed' Levi's, Hanes to hike prices on rival sites, California AG says Amazon allegedly coerced major vendors into convincing rival retailers like Walmart, Target and Home Depot to raise prices

#California #Amazon #pricefixing
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/20/c...

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns amid misconduct probe Chavez-DeRemer is the third Cabinet member to depart during President Donald Trump's second term.

Taking government employees to strip clubs on US taxpayers expense and having sexual relationships with her security detail. Where the hell is #Trump finding these people? #labor #ChavezDeremer 🤪🤪🤪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Fact check: The World Economic Forum does not have a stated goal to have people own nothing by 2030 A video repeating misinformation about the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been shared widely on Facebook.

Our society is becoming "own nothing, rent everything and be happy" exactly the thing #Gramsci talked/warned about. www.reuters.com/article/worl...

Costco Is Randomly Selling Big Switch 2 Games For Just $30 Pokémon Legends Z-A and more are apparently being sold for just $30

#Switch2 #Costco #Nintendo #Gaming
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Frankly the #Luna model basically failed. #Amazon doesn't have established major gaming studios pumping out exclusives for them like Microsoft does (Bethesda, Activision, etc.) with their gamepass. There's no reason to go with #Luna when so many other big players out there (ie. Geforce Now, etc.)

Lord Skidelsky obituary: leading historian of Keynes Historian and foremost authority on the British economist John Maynard Keynes who was founding chairman of the Social Market Foundation, dies aged 86

Very sorry to hear about this. Shortly after I finished reading his brilliant three-volume biography of Keynes, perhaps 15 years ago, I met him at a conference in Brazil. We became friends after that and met several times, mostly in London but also in Beijing.
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

Amazon Luna Removing Paid Games And Offering No Refunds You have until June 10 to enjoy the games you purchased on the cloud streaming service

And this is why I don't trust cloud #gaming. Companies will inevitably pull the rug underneath the gamers. If you bought digital games from #Amazon to play on #Luna cloud gaming services you are royally fucked.
kotaku.com/amazons-luna...

8 children killed in Louisiana mass shooting The alleged gunman, who is related to some of the children, was killed after a vehicle chase, according to police.

Terrible tragedy. 8 children becomes collateral damage from a domestic dispute involving carjacking. #Louisiana #Shreveport
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Crunchyroll’s New Chinese Anime Is Already a Contender for Best Isekai of the Year A new donghua on Crunchyroll in spring 2026 could become the best of the year.

"Release that Witch" is actually pretty good. The protagonist was a mechanical engineer from Earth that got isekai'd (Truck-kun not involved) and becomes king in a world with magic/witches resembling 15th century Western Europe. Has all the tropes of isekai anime.
screenrant.com/release-that...

Kremlin commits reserves to capture Donbas by September — HUR Russia’s missile strikes on Ukraine are intensifying as part of a broader Kremlin plan to destroy critical infrastructure ahead of a renewed spring–summer offensive, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HU...

Russia’s missile strikes on Ukraine are intensifying as part of a broader Kremlin plan to destroy critical infrastructure ahead of a renewed spring–summer offensive, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) said

Trump insists he’s not warring with Leo but then spreads lie about Catholic leader The Pope has never said Iran has a right to possess nuclear weapons

#Trump keeps claiming the #Pope said he wants #Iran to have nuclear weapons... that's just plain bullshit. What the Pope actually said was nuclear weapons was an affront to humanity and Trump threatening to destroy entire population of Iran was unacceptable.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Judge faults Trump for 'brazen' bid to continue ballroom construction A federal judge on Thursday again ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to build a White House ballroom without congressional approval ​was unlawful, faulting the Republican president for asserting that national security ‌requirements demanded the project move forward.

A federal judge on Thursday again ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to build a White House ballroom without congressional approval was unlawful, faulting the Republican president for asserting that national security requirements demanded the project move forward.

Super Typhoon Sinlaku bears down on Northern Mariana Islands, Guam Slow-moving Sinlaku is weakening as it heads towards Guam, but it will still bring dangerous conditions to the region.

Guam/other central Pacific US territories becomes more and more untenable as point of power projection for the #UnitedStates especially if #superstorms keep pummeling the islands. This is why global climate change is such a huge threat to the US military. #Sinlaku
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Elite capture of the #KMT elites by the #CCP is complete. #Taiwan #China

Because the #Democrats still adheres to some form of #accountability while the Republicans will encircle the wagon to protect their criminals, pedophiles and rapists if it threatened their power structures.

Shiseido, Lululemon weather China economic slump with luxury strategy Foreign companies focus on high end to grow sales despite slowing consumption

Shiseido, Lululemon weather China economic slump with luxury strategy
asia.nikkei.com/business/consumer/shisei...

Eric Swalwell will resign from Congress as he faces backlash over assault allegations Swalwell's resignation follows allegations of sexual assault and misconduct made by multiple women against the California Democrat.

Breaking News:

Swalwell's resignation follows allegations of sexual assault and misconduct made by multiple women against the California Democrat.

Worker who allegedly set fire to California warehouse compares self to Luigi Mangione Chamel Abdulkarim was charged with felony and state arson counts after allegedly destroying property worth nearly $600m

Americans are getting pissed prosperity in the #US no longer goes to everyone who works hard only the #billionaire political class. This is what social unrest/broken social contract looks like. Income inequality instability warning signs are blaring for decades.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

And this is why the #KMT remains unpopular for the young Taiwanese. #Taiwan

Congratulations #Türkiye !!!

Hungary election live: Polls in Hungary close in tightly fought election after 16 years under Viktor Orbán Prime minister has been trailing in the polls to Péter Magyar in race that could have repercussions for Europe, the US and Russia

BREAKING: Victor Orban has CONCEDED to Magyar www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

China says it will resume some ties with Taiwan after visit by opposition leader China has announced it will resume some ties with Taiwan, including direct flights and imports of Taiwanese aquaculture products.

This is the geopolitical version of "throw them a bone" as not to totally embarrass the #KMT sycophants. 🤪🤪🤪 #Taiwan #China
apnews.com/article/chin...

Every geopolitical analyst concluded the #US lost to #Iran strategically. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. The regime didn't change/collapsed. They are still banning US/Israel allied flagged ships from the strait. Iran still posses nuclear materials/program. So how is that a win? #war

Yep. Foreign policy with #CCP characteristics: Pretend to be global peacemakers, supply arms to whoever is buying (at least the #US has strict standards who they supply arms to). Rule their own 1 billion population (800M realistically) thru violence, fear and guns. 🤪🤪🤪 #China

Especially in California, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma and Washington state — places with dozens of tribally owned stations, including some in busy travel corridors — tribes exempt from state fuel taxes can sell for much less than competing stations nearby.
https://to.pbs.org/4mkJU2I

AP Exclusive: Trump administration admits a glaring error in its New York health fraud accusations President Donald Trump's administration has admitted to a major error in data used to justify a federal fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program.

🚨 Trump’s administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program, a glaring mistake that undercuts a federal campaign to tackle waste, mostly in Democratic-led states.

Even #US allies like the #Philippines, #Japan, #Australia and #Korea thinks the US is now unstable and the current administration is insane.

Let's just say Asian countries are definitely not happy and are putting the blame on this fuel induced global #inflation squarely on Trump's head. Recent survey conducted shows 52% of #Asia will side with #China compared to 48% to the #US if forced to pick sides especially against #Trump.

The only 大禮包 #Taiwan needs from #China is for the #CCP / #PLA to stop their warmongering and threatening of Taiwan. Anything else is useless/worthless.

Zelenskyy said Washington is ignoring evidence of cooperation between Russia and Iran because it trusts Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and underestimates the threat from Moscow