In Q1 of this year, Procter & Gamble raised prices by 10%.
They weren't alone.
Nestlé and Kimberly-Clark also raised prices by 10%. Coca-Cola hiked prices by 11%. Pepsi jacked them up by 13%.
This is what corporate price gouging looks like.
Ingalls Wilder wasn't just a mythmaker. She was a close literary and political collaborator with her daughter, the far-right ideologue Rose Wilder Lane, who used the *Little House* royalties to fight the New Deal, and, later, to create a school for oligarchs, the "Freedom School," whose graduates include Charles and David Koch:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/little-house-on-the-prairie-conservatism-214237/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at 102.
"Florida Senate Committee Advances Elections Bill Restricting Voting and Criminalizing Elections"
"The bill requires all first-time voters without a Florida ID or social security number to vote in-person. Previously, these voters could vote by mail — a method over two millions Floridians utilized in 2022 …"
Voter suppression! 😠
Many thanks to @marcelias / @democracydocket for reporting on this ❤️
Robert Reich
Cory Doctorow
Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto
Chris Espinosa
Ahimsa