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@RonWyden Why didn't you have the courage to actually say so on the floor of Congress instead of leaving to a 20 something contractor to tell the world and have his life destroyed over it while you would have had immunity coward

The NSA and FBI have been spying on you without a warrant using section 702 of FISA for decades. Trump wants Congress to renew the law. Here are concrete examples of how this law has been abused – across administrations – and why Congress shouldn't rubber-stamp it.

@OrevaZSN They are generally not very smart people. Unimpressive humans

They are just like you. Nothing special.

No one talks about how the quickest cure for imposter syndrome is simply sitting in a meeting with very high-level corporate executives.

@Ric_RTP You had me until you said groceries were up 25% since 2020..... Did you write this in 2020? We passed 25% years ago, my groceries are double the price they were in 2020.

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

@ZaidJilani Sam Harris was always a clown

Sam Harris always was a little deluded about the Middle East, but him saying that Mamdani is controlled by theocrats suggests that the dude has lost his mind at boomer evangelical levels. Horseshoe between new atheism and right-wing fundamentalism.

@richimedhurst That's because they are all mediocre people of moderate intelligence that just hit the genetic lottery and were born into the right families and went to the right schools. This builds blinding arrogance into everything they do and do not see.

It's honestly hilarious how all these oil and market analysts literally spend their lives doing this stuff, but can't see the forest for the trees.

@YourAnonNews Yet another CIAnonymous psy-op

Mossad has been HACKED by 'Anonymous for Justice' Hackers allege full access to Israel’s intelligence databases, laboratories, and classified weapons blueprints. They’ve released video “proof” screen recordings of documents, internal files, and photos linked to Israeli officials and scientists.

@RT_com This man is a disgusting pig

‘The worst thing I learned when I went into government is the sucking sound of how many people try to suck off of the US government’ — Lutnick

@TaniaSaidWhat They won't

Unions must hold the line and refuse.

@LilithBlack25 The only reason slavery ended was because it was more profitable to switch to wage slavery where the well being of their slaves didn't matter anymore because there was an endless army of excess labor

The only reason slavery ended was because enslaved people made slavery expensive by revolting hard and killing their masters

@River @DavidBranscum How does bill pay work and will river banking integrate with zelle?

@DavidBranscum We've heard these requests and are exploring it.

Bitcoiners have waited years to ditch their bank. Now you finally can.

@Xking332 Just like all the scientist they erased that had worked on Star Wars under the Reagan administration

This could be way worse than the Epstein files. Scientists in America are disappearing. No bodies, no traces, phones erased. Melissa Casias. Monica Reza. William McCaslan. Carl Grillmair. Plus 20 people with direct access to America's most protected government secrets. All have disappeared over the last year. Los Alamos, JPL, Air Force Research Lab. All connected. The US government could be hiding something absolutely massive.

@RosyShepherdess The only answer has ever been that we all do this. The way back machine is just a blueprint for how easily this is done. Just save snapshots of websites you think are important. If we all do this that is better than a single point of failure

Y’ALL. This is not a drill. The Wayback Machine is often the only source of webpages that have been scrubbed from the Internet.

@berningman16 The true wealth and power belongs to those whose names you do not and will likely never know and whose wealth you do not and will likely never know.

There are 989 billionaires in the USA. And they all have an address.

@ItsSupreme__ @HouseDemocrats Who is the puppeteer above all the other puppeteers is the question? I don't believe for a second that any of this has to do with one lobby.

@HouseDemocrats FUCK YOU 🤷‍♂️

America is unaffordable.  It’s because of Donald Trump.

@HouseDemocrats Donald Trump only came on the political scene a decade ago but this trajectory has been going for multiple decades and has had as much to do with the actions of both major parties in the US. Kindly STFU

@DylanRatigan You gotta stop pushing state department propaganda

Yes, they are at war with the United States

@foundmyfitness I work in a hot greenhouse and can't afford a sauna. Does my hard work at high temperatures give me the same benefits?

Sauna bathing mobilizes circulating immune cells. A single 30-minute session at ~165°F (enough to elevate body temperature to 101°F) increased levels of several immune cells including lymphocytes and neutrophils for up to 30 minutes. This occurred in non-users and people who used sauna 2-3 times per week more. They also found that changes in more than a dozen cytokines were correlated with body temperature changes, suggesting that the heat stress matters for determining the magnitude of the immune response to sauna.

@_iamblakeley @NYCMayor @LindseyBoylan @Instacart What the hell is wrong with going to the store yourself? I don't want somebody else picking out my vegetables and meat

@NYCMayor @LindseyBoylan Can you please address the outrageous fee gouging @instacart keeps doing to us.

If corporations allow you to sign up with one click, you should be able to cancel with one click too. Subscription traps, whether from an app or gym membership, are just another way corporations take advantage of working people.  We've already put hundreds of companies on notice. This week, we proposed a rule that would make NYC a national leader in cracking down on abusive practices that nickel-and-dime New Yorkers.

@joshandrus @briebriejoy @dieworkwear Must be nice

@cleff413 @briebriejoy @dieworkwear Chi housing is so cheap I’ve considered buying 2 places just cuz

Housing prices are terrible everywhere, but if you live in NYC, San Francisco, or Los Angeles, it's truly SHOCKING what you see when you browse home real estate in Portland, Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

@briebriejoy @dieworkwear And if you think the prices in Chicago are good then you have a viewpoint so skewed that you couldn't understand true affordability or a properly priced housing market.

@dieworkwear The prices I see in Chicago make me think the winters must really be hell.