Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products (David McCabe/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/technology/amazon-antitrust-suit-california.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260420/p19#a260420p19

Reid Wiseman’s cellphone camera capturing earthset

Christine Koch’s camera taking shots next to him.

Amazing. ❤️

"To pile on to this pathetic excuse for a company: anyone considering buying a Tesla should know that they are the #1 brand for fatal accidents in the United States, with over twice the accident rate of a typical automaker: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highes...
This terrible statistic can’t just be explained by aggressive driving owners or some other factor like that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833156

WSJ declares the "era of the megalayoff."
That this "new template for ‘right sizing’ the workforce is spreading."

In other words, the ruling class intends to impose mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale, with massive pay & benefit cuts, speed-ups, and longer hours for everyone else.

150,000 laid off in 2025, just in the U.S.
90,000 so far in 2026:

*30,000 fired from Oracle
*18,500 fired from Amazon
*14,000 canned from Nokia
*5,100 axed from Block (40% of their workforce)

Corporate debt is now over $14 billion just in the U.S., with Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft & Oracle expected to take on another $175 billion in new debt this year just to finance their AI orgy, which will likely lead to increased productivity & profits, and the elimination of even more jobs.

Meanwhile, we've got the big unions cutting sellout deals with the bosses, telling members there's no other choice but to pay ever increasing amounts of our paychecks for healthcare premiums, that we're lucky to get 1-2% raises, far below the rate of inflation, when others are getting canned or taking pay cuts.

https://www.wsj.com/business/has-the-era-of-the-mega-layoff-arrived-928f061d

https://skillsyncer.com/layoffs-tracker

#workingclass #LaborHistory #classwar #unemployment #oligarchy

"Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, is leading U.S. diplomatic efforts with Iran while engaged in a lucrative, ongoing, multi-billion-dollar business relationship with the Saudi government. This brazenly corrupt arrangement is being completely ignored by most major media outlets."

~ Judd Legum

#JaredKushner #Trump #corruption #SaudiArabia #Iran #AffiinityPartners #media #ConflictofInterest
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https://popular.info/p/the-media-blackout-of-jared-kushners

FBI Director and former blogger Kash Patel needed a brand new, better private jet 9 months ago because he ‘always had to be available’
although according to new reporting he is often so blotto that morning meetings have to be rescheduled.
So there’s always when you want a new jet and a different always when you want to go on a bender.

#USPol