How Many Times Must I Tell You Cretins NOT To Buy From Amazon?

That's US$20 billion (W/ a "B"!) stolen from small businesses & your sorry asses!

Annie Palmer / CNBC:

The FTC and 22 state AGs sue Amazon, alleging it “secretly and systematically overcharged” advertisers more than $20B since 2019 by using “hidden surcharges”

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:   The FTC and 20+ state AGs sue Amazon for allegedly making tens of billions over seven years by manipulating ad prices on its retail platform

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:   FTC, states plan lawsuit against Amazon over ad price fixing

Angela Palumbo / Barron's Online:   Amazon Stock Falls After FTC Lawsuit Over Advertising Prices

Reuters:   Amazon sued by U.S. FTC, over 20 states alleging company deceived advertisers

About Amazon:   Amazon's response to the FTC's lawsuit regarding Sponsored Ads

Financial Times:   US regulator sues Amazon for manipulating advertising prices

Forbes:   FTC Files Lawsuit Against Amazon Alleging Manipulative Ad Prices

Aimee Picchi / CBS News:   FTC and 22 states sue Amazon over alleged secret ad surcharge scheme

Bloomberg Law:   Amazon Sued by FTC Over Claims It Misled Advertisers on Pricing

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters:   FTC to file lawsuit alleging Amazon deceived advertisers, WSJ reports

Andrew Ferguson / @afergusonftc:   Digital markets play a critical role in the American economy—but they only work when participants can trust that powerful tech platforms play by the same rules as everyone else. That trust is foundational. Today, the Trump FTC—joined by 22 states—filed suit alleging that Amazon

IJR News:   FTC plans lawsuit against Amazon over ad pricing

@ftc:   FTC, states sue Amazon over secret ad surcharge scheme. FTC and 22 state attorneys general allege Amazon concealed unfair charges in its digital advertising auction pricing: https://www.ftc.gov/...

Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News:   Amazon Shares Tumble Amid News Of FTC ‘Advertiser Deception’ Lawsuit

Federal Trade Commission:   FTC, States Sue Amazon Over Secret Ad Surcharge Scheme

Karen Weise / New York Times:   F.T.C. and 22 States Claim in Lawsuit That Amazon Secretly Inflated Ad Prices

While working the wage-slaves in their warehouses to early graves. Give Bezos all your money, sucker-ass chumps! Somehow, he deserves it, not you!

Getting Worse Every Day

Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds

Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July

How it will first affect you before everything else turns to shit. Have the common sense & simple human decency not to buy from Amazon or the Walton family. They are predatory scum who will be hanged from a lamppost.

[The Guardian]

Hot Rails To Hell ...

... Are Actually Hot!

Spent almost an hr. post-shooting fiddling w/ sectional & flex-track before suspending operations. But one line is almost going & I've proved w/ geometric logic it won't need added feeds.

Other modeling stuff:

Also, at some point you need to decide if you are content being a casual recreationalist or if you want to move to the next level. It’s your call. No judgement. That said, if you want to move forward, you need to get out of your comfort zone, buy that sixty-buck airbrush, and get comfortable with it.

Easy, Lance. Sounds a bit judgemental to me who, picky as I am, fully intend to remain in my "casual recreationalist comfort zone". No desire to obtain an air-brush, but I did click the "sixty-buck airbrush" link out of curiosity, to find it's a) Amazon; b) $199.99, not any "sixty bucks". Ha!

Don't have the space, don't need the noise.

I'll stick w/ washes & powders; my primary interest in weathering is eliminating gloss & shine on rolling stock, not creating1:87 works of art. Avoided a soldering iron so far too, but if the track continues its recalcitrance ...

You Are Expendable

After replacing the humanoid wage-slaves, there won't be anyone w/ a job left to buy all the plastic crap Amazon wants you to consume.

First Amendment Bloodbath '26!

The opening salvo of many attacks on the press, &, once no one's left to report it, on all the loser chumps who, if they like eating, have to get up & go to work every day, five days a wk. (How'd you get trapped like that, suckers?)
Good idea in an election yr., rich Nazi idjits.

The chickenshit weenie press reacts. Little close to home there? Now will they start telling enough of the truth about the billionaires to get Americans building guillotines?

New York Times:

Washington Post Lays Off More Than 300 Journalists … The Washington Post carried out a widespread round of layoffs on Wednesday that decimated the organization's sports, local news and international coverage.  —  The company laid off about 30 percent of all its employees, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.

Discussion:

Perry Bacon / New Republic:   The Washington Post Is in Free Fall—and There's One Person to Blame

The Wrap:   The Washington Post Slashes Newsroom in ‘Strategic Reset,’ Shrinks Foreign Coverage, Sports and Shutters Books

Fox News:   Washington Post's top editor backs Jeff Bezos as critics lash out over struggling paper's layoffs

Todd Spangler / Variety:   Jeff Bezos' Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter

NBC News:   Washington Post begins sweeping layoffs amid cost-cutting

Jeff Charles / Townhall:   The Washington Post Might Be Dying In Darkness After This Announcement

David Folkenflik / NPR:   Bezos orders deep job cuts at ‘Washington Post’

Mary Cunningham / CBS News:   Washington Post begins sweeping layoffs as it sharply scales back news coverage

Scott McKay / The American Spectator:   You Can't Go on Destroying Wealth Forever, You Know. Ultimately, There Are Consequences.

Ron Fournier / Convulsions:   We Killed Journalism  —  This is a reader-supported Substack for and about you — witnesses to an age of acrimony and anxiety.

Glenn Kessler / MS NOW:   I worked at The Washington Post for 28 years. Bezos' cuts just ended the paper as we knew it.

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:   Washington Post Lays Off One-Third of Staff in Bid to Reshape the Company

Caroline Mimbs Nyce / New Yorker:   Inside the Destruction of the Washington Post

Doug P. / twitchy.com:   NY Times' Journo and Senate Dem Try to Wealth Shame Jeff Bezos After Massive WaPo Layoffs

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:   One-Third of Washington Post's Entire Staff Is Being Laid Off

The National Pulse:   Washington Post Closes Multiple Bureaus, Lays Off 300 Staff.

Beth Kowitt / Bloomberg:   The End Is (Probably) Not Near

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:   Washington Post Lays Off Its Amazon Beat Reporter as Bezos Brings the Hammer Down

Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   WASHINGTON POST DECIMATED BY BEZOS' DRACONIAN LAYOFFS: IT'S FUTURE MAY BE BLEAK

Catherine Perloff / The Information:   Washington Post Lays Off One-Third of Newsroom

Angela Fu / Poynter:   The Washington Post lays off a third of its staff

John Sexton / HotAir:   Meanwhile, Business is Booming at the NY Times

Tom Durante / Mediaite:   ‘Cowardice’: Bloodbath at Washington Post as Paper Makes Massive Staff Cuts

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:   Washington Post laying off hundreds of journalists amid major restructuring

Lowkell / Blue Virginia:   With “Sweeping Layoffs,” “Bezos is not trying to save The Washington Post. He's trying to survive Donald Trump”

Martina Di Licosa / Forbes:   Bezos Remains Silent About The Washington Post For Nearly A Year —As It Slashes Staff

Kate Tsurkan / The Kyiv Independent:   Kyiv bureau among those axed by Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, hundreds of journalists laid off

Julia Marshall / Straight Arrow News:   The Washington Post announces significant layoffs, department closures

Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:   BILLIONAIRE WINGNUTS EXPECTED MEDIA OWNERSHIP TO BE EASIER

Hannah Nightingale / The Post Millennial:   Washington Post lays off 30% of its staff, including 300 reporters

more at Mediagazer »

Ruth Marcus / New Yorker:

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post  —  The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it.  Instead, with a mass layoff, he's forced it into severe decline.  —  On September 4, 2013, the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos held his first meeting with the staff of the Washington Post …

Discussion:

John Nolte / Breitbart:   Serial-Lying Washington Post Staff Demand New Sugar Daddy After Jeff Bezos Hands Out Pink Slips

Sharon Zhang / Truthout:   Washington Post Layoffs Blamed on Losses That Amount to Rounding Error for Bezos

more at Mediagazer »

David Bauder / Associated Press:

Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments is being laid off  —  The Washington Post is laying off one-third of its staff in the newsroom and other departments, a brutal blow at one of journalism's most legendary brands.  —  The troubled Post began implementing large-scale cutbacks …

Discussion:

Max Tani / Semafor:   Washington Post to make ‘significant’ cuts

Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:   The Killing of The Post  —  I want to say a word about the savage cuts to the Washington Post announced today.

Andrew Leyden / One America News Network:   The Washington Post outlet slashes one-third of its staff

Jennifer Graham / Deseret News:   Layoffs and a new direction rock The Washington Post

Fortune:   Jeff Bezos' mass layoffs at the Washington Post a ‘case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction,’ former editor says

John Nolte / Breitbart:   Far-Left Washington Post Kills Podcast, Sports and Book Sections; Guts Foreign, Metro Reporting

Chris Lehmann / The Nation:   Jeff Bezos's Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime

Jason Cohen / The Daily Caller:   Washington Post Reportedly Gutting One-Third Of Its Workforce

S. T. Karnick / Life, Liberty, Property:   Washington Post Lays Off One-Third of Its Staff

Teri Christoph / RedState:   Turns Out The Washington Post Didn't ‘Get It’ After All

Nick Catoggio / The Dispatch:   Slop or Bust  —  The fatal identity crisis of ‘The Washington Post.’

Chris Thompson / Defector:   The Washington Post Lays Off A Third Of Its Workforce, Is Dead

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:   Washington Post Amazon beat reporter among those impacted by sweeping layoffs

Valerie Richardson / Washington Times:   Washington Post lays off one-third of workforce, closes sports and books departments

Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:   Washington Post Cuts Amazon Reporter Amid Mass Layoffs

David Bauder / KUSA-TV:   Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments is being laid off

Brandon Champion / MLive.com:   Iconic US newspaper eliminates sports department, cuts one-third of its staff

Fox News:   Washington Post closes sports department as part of sweeping layoffs

Sandra Rhodes / IJR:   WaPo Includes Newsroom in Staff Cuts

more at Mediagazer »

Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:

The Washington Post Dies in Daylight  —  1. You Guys  —  We're going to get to the Washington Post in just a moment, but first: Boy, people did NOT like yesterday's church-y newsletter.  —  And that's okay.  —  Over the last two days I wrote about guns and God.  Big, complicated, divisive, important subjects.

Ashley Parker / The Atlantic:
The Murder of The Washington Post

Discussion:

Finya Swai / Politico:   The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, makes dramatic cuts

Dave Pell / NextDraft:   Prime Suspect  —  Hello, I'd like to report a murder.  While the plot has been in place for some time …

Al Jazeera:   Washington Post announces massive layoffs in blow to storied paper

Brett T. / twitchy.com:   The Atlantic: 'We're Witnessing a Murder' of The Washington Post by Jeff Bezos

Michael Calderone / The Wrap:   How Jeff Bezos Went from Washington Post Savior to Executioner

Tim Grieve / NOTUS:   Democracy Dies in Darkness

more at Mediagazer »

CNN:
Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff

Discussion:

Sara Fischer / Axios:   Washington Post makes sweeping layoffs amid financial distress

IJR:   Washington Post Announces A Series Of Layoffs

Sally Jenkins / The Atlantic:   You Can't Kill Swagger  —  My old corner of The Washington Post raised some of the best journalists in the business.

Max Tani / Semafor:   Post cuts ripple through US journalism industry

Ed Morrissey / HotAir:   The Penny Drops: WaPo on Life Support As Big Layoffs Start?

Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:   Washington Post Set to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees

Agence France-Presse:   Bezos-led Washington Post announces ‘painful’ job cuts

Ed Driscoll / Instapundit:   DOWNFALL: Washington Post Lays Off 300 Staffers, Shuttering Sports Section and Gutting Foreign Desk …

Dan Egitto / ARLnow:   The Washington Post guts coverage of D.C. area in mass layoffs

Mike Heuer / UPI:   The Washington Post fires nearly a third of its news staff

Anthony / WLT Report:   Washington Post Announces MASSIVE Lay-Offs

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:   Democrats knock Bezos, decry Washington Post layoffs

James Morley III / NewsMax.com:   Democrats Blast Bezos Over Washington Post Layoffs

The Wrap:   Ex-Washington Post Editor Marty Baron Decries Jeff Bezos' Betrayal as Staffers, Alumni Torch Paper's Bloodbath Layoffs

Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:   Washington Post Announces Massive Layoffs as Jeff Bezos Stays Silent

Fox News:   Ex-Washington Post chief blasts ‘gutless’ Bezos as paper rocked by major layoffs

more at Mediagazer »

Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
'It's an absolute bloodbath': Washington Post lays off hundreds of workers

Discussion:

Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   Jeff Bezos bought and then destroyed one of the country's three most important newspapers

Karl Bode / Techdirt:   Jeff Bezos Is Destroying What's Left Of The Washington Post To Please Our Dim, Unpopular Autocrats

Garrett Owen / Salon:   “Among the darkest days”: Washington Post lays off a third of its staff in “bloodbath”

Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:   Washington Post Editor Defends Shuttering Paper's Sports Desk

Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:   It's Time to Pay Our Last Respects to The Washington Post

Fox News:   Washington Post closes sports department, cuts other sections as part of sweeping layoffs

Justin Baragona / The Independent:   ‘Bloodbath’ at Washington Post as one-third of staff laid off by Jeff Bezos

more at Mediagazer »

Rachel Siegel / gofundme.com:
Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

Discussion:

Brad Slager / Townhall:   WaPo Commits Staff Amputations in Massive Layoffs, and CNN Encourages Kids to...Go Play With Nazis?

Caitlin McCormack / New York Post:   GoFundMe for 300 axed Washington Post journalists surpasses $250K on first day

John R. Puri / National Review:   People Aren't Actually That Upset over the Washington Post Layoffs

Raquel Calhoun / The Wrap:   Washington Post Layoffs GoFundMe Crosses $190,000 Raised for Impacted Staff: ‘We Are Devastated’

GV Wire:   Washington Post Begins Layoff, Gutting Sports and Foreign Coverage, Says Source

John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:   Washington Post Mortem

Ted Johnson / Deadline:   The Washington Post Begins Long Expected Layoffs

Cate Martel / The Hill:   White House pulls back Minnesota immigration crackdown

Media Matters for America:   Tim Pool on mass layoffs at The Washington Post: “Let's talk about the death of this industry.  And, is it good?  Is it bad?  Well, you know, I think it's kind of a good thing.”

Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:   ‘Sickening’: Ex-WaPo Leader Nukes Jeff Bezos From Orbit Over Sweeping Layoffs

WBUR:   Washington Post announces major layoffs

Ben Meiselas / Meidas+:
A Letter to Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post

Discussion:

Jacob Bryant / The Wrap:   Elizabeth Warren Says Bezos Slashed Washington Post Staff to ‘Suck Up’ to Trump | Video

Theodore Bunker / NewsMax.com:   Former WashPost Editor Blasts Bezos Amid Layoffs

Abigail Higgins / The 51st:   D.C. deserves better than Bezos

The entire Sports section? How will Bezos pimp all the sporting events Amazon has taken from free or already paid for telebision? Another reason J.B. must go. Between this s.o.b. & Gates Seattle has a lot of esplainin' to do.

People From The Previous Millennium Discuss Current Events

Haven't watched it, but if these two staunch anti-communists don't call for the immediate overthrow of the United States Government, by force if necessary, the rendition of all Yankee war criminals to the International Criminal Court & the charging of this murderous shithole nation in the International Court of Justice, they are part of the problem, not the solution & should be treated accordingly.

Definitely a part of the problem: The WaPo & fake news.

Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Washington Post editorial board backs Maduro capture, Venezuela strikes
Victor Nieves / The Gateway Pundit:   Victor Reacts: Democrats Side with Communist Dictator, Are We Surprised? (VIDEO)

Lowell Cauffiel / Breitbart:   President Trump: ‘Brilliant’ U.S. Military Operation Captured Maduro

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro / Washington Times:   Trump's arrest of Maduro is a victory over corruption, communism and isolationism

Ross Kaminsky / The American Spectator:   Maduro Captured, Hemisphere Jolted

If any of you chickenshit assholes ever have the intestinal fortitude to bring the war back home, start w/ Amazon.

Waterboard The Slumlord!!

To Death, Obviously!!

From Amazon: This is the kind of fascist shit that jerk Bezos will sell you.

Death by water seems especially appropriate since the cheap fucking bastard has such trouble w/ water in my apartment, & now can't keep the washing machines in the laudry room working.

P.S.: Don't any of you bastards think you & your big neck police friends & your Soviet-style "psychiatry" can tell me what the hell to type or threaten, here or elsewhere. The present-day blogger refuses to die, & will call for the death of all slumlords every damn day until he is satisfied. Go ahead, rats, call the police!!

Thanks For Nothing Again

This reporter, suffering.

Fuck Apple TV+ & all the Apple executives in their bitch asses if I can't watch the Dodger game. (On my birthday yet.) Have never had anythng to do w/ America's two Nazi pig corporations Apple or fucking Amazon, both of which are apparently dedicated to stealing free televised baseball from me.

Why do you fucking losers put up w/ their bullshit? Burn them both to the ground. And fuck Major League Baseball for being filthy hoors who profit from this bullshit too.

So damn tired of this shit. Th' fucking hell is wrong w/ your species, & how much longer do you fucking people think you can aggravate me like this before I blow?

2115 hrs.: Hah! Heard on the Dodger audio stream that the idiots at Apple TV+ were having audio dificulties. Karma, you pigs!!

Weekend Inhumanity & Atrocity Aggregation

Enough to ruin a three-day wknd. Also from the AP:

Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming rights group

The Mashco Piro are among the world’s largest uncontacted groups, living without regular interaction with outside society to protect their culture and health. Even a simple cold can be deadly to the group because it lacks immunity to common diseases.

Loggers who encroached on the tribe’s lands have previously been killed.

Friday Finger & Amazon Affirmation

I hereby affirm that people who buy from Amazon can go fuck themselves. Indeed, they already have by giving that baldhead bozo Bezos money & power. Go deeper into debt because you thought you were saving money during Prime Day, you sucker-ass chumps? Too late, you've already been bought & sold!

Fuck The Workers, Part The Infinite

Amazon expects to cut corporate jobs as it relies more on AI

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the retail and tech giant "will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today."

Comsume yourselves right out of your jobs, you fucking idiots. And don't expect a safety net once you're out of work.

Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
GOP wants people up to age 64 to work for food stamps and Medicaid. Some experts say it won't work.
Geoff Mulvihill / Mississippi Free Press:   Medicaid Enrollees Fear Losing Health Coverage Under Trump's Spending Bill

Sara Dorn / Forbes:   Here's Where Medicaid Cuts Stand In Trump's Mega-Bill—As GOP Senators Want To Cut Even More

I can't wait to see all the dead bodies piled up in mounds. You squealing bastards can try to set me up for police murder again, but you'll be corpses soon enough. Not soon enough for me, but soon. Try holding your breath until then.

[NBC]

Are You Still Buying From Amazon?

Need I say more?

Do You Like Murder? Amazon Seems To.

Jon Passantino / Status:

The Khashoggi Compromise  —  Jeff Bezos once mourned Jamal Khashoggi in public—now the Amazon billionaire is making billion-dollar deals with his executioner, which reveals more about his values than any vigil ever could. Earlier this week, Amazon announced a $5 billion “strategic partnership”

Steven L. Taylor / OutsideTheBeltway:   A 1,000 Words or So on Human Rights

Say, has billionaire Bezos offered to eat any Trump tariffs so the people to whom he sells shit every day won't be hurt? Ha ha, it is to laff. Keep filling his coffers, chumps. He & the Crown Prince need all your money.