Tracey K

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.

Israel did it in 1948, 56 Israel did it in 1967 Israel did it in 1982 Israel did it in 2002 Israel did it in 2008 Israel did it in 2014 Israel did it in 2021 Israel did it in 2024 Israel is doing it in 2026 78 years of genocide.

🚨THIS COULD BE THE BIGGEST SCAM OF THIS CENTURY Last year, President Trump announced reciprocal tariffs. The US government started collecting massive tariffs, amounting to over $160 billion. Meanwhile, businesses who were paying tariffs passed on high costs to consumers. This led to more households facing high inflation, even though the official number is around 3%. Trump said these collected tariffs will be used to give a $1,200 dividend to every US household to make their finances better. In Q1, the Supreme Court deemed that US tariffs are illegal and they should be returned. Now, the US government is opening a claim portal to refund $166 billion in tariffs. And guess who's getting all these refunds? The businesses who passed all their costs to consumers. So, the business passed all the tariff costs, and now they are the ones getting the refunds too. Meanwhile, US consumers faced high inflation, and now they'll get absolutely NOTHING.

Duh

Israel killed 3 Indonesian UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon. They were wearing blue helmets and UN uniforms. They were peacekeepers. Israel bombed them anyway. Not a peep in Western media. Not a word from the international community.

Crazy story out of Qatar: A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her. The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite. Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws. Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant. In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property.

Last week, the U.S. Senate gave a Chilean billionaire the green light to mine next to the most visited wilderness in America- the Boundary Waters. The ore mined would be sold directly to China. The public was completely cut out of the process. This sets a dangerous precedent for public lands everywhere - including right here in Montana. Our hunting, fishing, and recreating belong to us, not foreign billionaires and DC dealmakers. I will fight for our public lands as your Senator. Stand with us. Follow @SethBodnar for more. #declareyourindependence #mtsen #montana

@EricLDaugh And Howard Lutnick’s own most of it! Bought for a fraction of the tariff, will now get a full refund from us

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: President Trump is now having to launch a $166 BILLION TARIFF REFUND program The Supreme Court made an absolutely HORRIBLE ruling! Businesses who paid tariffs can now re-claim funds: "The Trump administration is scheduled to implement a refund system for businesses that paid tariffs, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled were illegal." "Refunds total roughly $166 billion. U.S. and Customs Border Protection says importers and their brokers were eligible to begin claiming refunds through an online portal."

@FmrRepMTG And Lutnick’s sons own the notes!! Talk about corruption!

The U.S. government has to refund $166 billion in tariffs, PLUS interests. Trump said he would be paying Americans checks from tariffs and eventually even replace the income tax. So now not only are you not getting DOGE checks after he cancelled DOGE, you’re not getting tariff checks and paying the interests back on tariffs collected. And you are also paying $2 billion a day for Trump and Netanyahu’s war in Iran. And you are paying on avg $4 per gallon gas and inflation is rising again. The lack of humility and understanding the struggle of regular Americans is astounding to me. Trump and his lackeys demand loyalty and name call and bully yet Americans struggle more and more.

The U.S. Capitol Police are arresting combat veterans that are peacefully protesting the Iran war.

Why are you allowing this @POTUS

Former Virginia Gov Glenn Youngkin basically says if Virginian’s don’t get out to vote tomorrow, they’re basically screwed, and the new CIA Governor will create the most gerrymandered Democrat map in the United States "This is going to be close. They poured $70 MILLION into this, more than the Governor’s race— To try to fool, trick and deceive Virginians." rumble.com/v78rg8g-glenn-…

🚨 THIS IS INSANE. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sons could be making 3 to 5x returns on every dollar they spent buying tariff refund rights. Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by Lutnick's sons Brandon and Kyle, was buying tariff refund claims from companies at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. The firm told clients it had "capacity to trade up to several hundred million" in these claims. They confirmed at least one $10 million trade was already executed as of July 2025. They said they expected that number to "balloon in the coming weeks." That was 9 months ago. Today those claims are worth 100 cents on the dollar. The refund portal is live, $166 billion in refunds are being processed. If Cantor bought $100 million in refund rights at 25 cents on the dollar, they spent $25 million. They now collect $100 million from the government. That is a $75 million profit. A 300% return. If they scaled to "several hundred million" as they told clients they could, the profits run into the hundreds of millions. Howard Lutnick was the architect of the tariff policy. He pushed Trump to impose them. He fought against officials who wanted to limit them. Then he left Cantor Fitzgerald to his sons and transferred his equity into a trust benefiting them. Tax free under government ethics rules. He received $360 million from the buyout. His sons positioned the firm to profit from the exact policy their father built. Their father publicly championed tariffs he knew could be struck down while his sons were buying refund claims betting they would be.

Bint Jbeil had an estimated population of 30,000 people. Most evacuated but who knows how many weren’t able to? And now all of those people are homeless. Their businesses gone. Schools gone. Community gone. This is barbaric.

@Dustin_Cone Joao may have struggled to let her down concisely but Mike is the devil! What he did, the way he did, then sat in the wings with his little wicked smile was 1000 times worse! And intentional. And pathological

Joao getting mad at Mike for telling Ellie the TRUTH?!?! Joao went in wanting to end his situationship w/ Ellie and failed at it Don’t be mad at Mike for telling Ellie the truth that you couldn’t do! #BelowDeckDownUnder

let me make sure i’m understanding this correctly the supreme court is refunding all tariff money back to corporations. the same corporations that didn’t pay a single cent of those tariffs to begin with. they passed every dollar directly to you through higher prices on everything you buy you went to the store and paid more for groceries. you paid more for clothes. for car parts. for literally everything. that money came out of YOUR pocket not theirs and now the refund goes to THEM? the corporations who used the tariffs as an excuse to raise prices even higher than the tariff itself and pocket the difference the american people funded the tariffs. the corporations profited off the tariffs. and now the corporations get a refund on money they never spent in the first place and nobody in washington thinks the people who actually paid should get the money back. not a single person has even suggested it guess we are never getting our DOGE checks either this country does not work for you. it works for them. it’s a joke and they’re not even pretending anymore

@LorieShewbridge I’m so glad someone else clocked that she 100% was manipulating Daisy!

Ellie turning on the tears to make Joao feel bad because she knows he's a nice guy is pissing me off. She knows her tears made Daisy feel sorry for her already, so she used them on Joao. She's a manipulator, don't fall for it people! #BelowDeckDownUnder

@LorieShewbridge He’s pathological

Come on people, just say it: Mike is an asshole! #BelowDeckDownUnder

Am I the only one who thinks Mike’s hair is really weird? #BelowDeckDownUnder

@LPGLDN And Mike threw him under the bus, then Daisy pushed him to apologize for what Mike did! Like what?! All Joao ever did was be nice to Ellie! He never led her on. She jumped to conclusions. Evil Mike blew it up

I do feel sorry for him tbh. Stuck between a rock and a hard place. He tried not to hurt Ellie’s feelings but she just wanted too much than what he was prepared to give. Period. #belowdeck #belowdeckdownunder