Amazon Accused of Throttling Pro-Gun Author's Sales
Posted By: Mercedes44, 1/14/2026 2:19:08 PM
There's a lot to dislike about Amazon as a company, but one thing it did was allow people to have access to legions of potential customers. This is true for authors who might not have the name to get into a lot of bookstores, but also for people selling any number of other products. And, as a private company, Amazon has some discretion in what they sell and what it won't. I don't always agree with that position, but as someone who has been a business owner more than once, I'm fine with it because I don't want people telling me what I have to do with my business, either.
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"If you’re allowing Blackstone to come in and outbid a family of four from buying their home, now they get trapped in a one-bedroom apartment on the wrong side of town. Their entire life trajectory has been upended because a private equity institution came in and outbid them.”
– James Fishback, GOP candidate for governor of Florida, speaking to Pirate WiresWhat Fishback is describing is indeed, as he puts it, “the number one problem in America: affordability.” He goes on to explain what is an inevitable premise of nationalism: “If you can’t buy a home, you can’t get married. If you can’t get married, you can’t have kids. If you can’t have kids, what’s the point?” Criticizing a childless life and extolling the virtues and fulfillment of a life that includes having children is the point Fishback is referring to, but he would probably agree it is also the point, the reason, and the required element for preserving a nation.
– James Fishback, GOP candidate for governor of Florida, speaking to Pirate WiresWhat Fishback is describing is indeed, as he puts it, “the number one problem in America: affordability.” He goes on to explain what is an inevitable premise of nationalism: “If you can’t buy a home, you can’t get married. If you can’t get married, you can’t have kids. If you can’t have kids, what’s the point?” Criticizing a childless life and extolling the virtues and fulfillment of a life that includes having children is the point Fishback is referring to, but he would probably agree it is also the point, the reason, and the required element for preserving a nation.
Democrats Are Being Warned Not to Say
‘Abolish ICE’ Because it’s a Losing
Political Message 4 replies
‘Abolish ICE’ Because it’s a Losing
Political Message 4 replies
Democrats are being told not to say ‘abolish ICE’ because it will hurt their chances in the midterms. Of course, they want to say it and they believe it, they even want to do it, but it’s a losing political message and they know it.
It is basically ‘defund the police’ all over again, and even though they meant that one too, they know that it damaged them politically.
Saying ‘abolish ICE’ simply reinforces the idea that Democrats care more about illegal aliens than they do about American citizens, a concept that they have done nothing to dispel in recent months.
On Wednesday, after a closed-door meeting with American officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen held a press conference. His remarks sounded cautiously optimistic.
The narrative presented by the American president, as we've been reporting, is that Greenland should become an American possession. Needless to say, Denmark and Greenland aren't keen on the idea. While it seems unlikely that the United States would attempt to take Greenland by force, the big island does in fact occupy a vital strategic position in the North Atlantic; it's something worth trying to make a deal over.
There's a lot to dislike about Amazon as a company, but one thing it did was allow people to have access to legions of potential customers. This is true for authors who might not have the name to get into a lot of bookstores, but also for people selling any number of other products.
And, as a private company, Amazon has some discretion in what they sell and what it won't. I don't always agree with that position, but as someone who has been a business owner more than once, I'm fine with it because I don't want people telling me what I have to do with my business, either.
Judges typically don't weigh in on legislation before it becomes law (and is subject to litigation), but a trio of federal judges are speaking out in favor of a bill in Congress that would grant them the right to carry a concealed firearm in all 50 states.
Writing at the Wall St. Journal, judges Elizabeth Branch and Robert L. Wilkins (and supported by Judge Trevor N. McFadden) have come out in favor of Sen. Tom Cotton's Protect Our Prosecutors and Judges Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act and allow prosecutors and federal judges with a concealed carry permit to carry across state lines,
UN to Censor All Criticism of the Climate
Agenda as Whistleblower Exposes it as
a Total Scam 11 replies
Agenda as Whistleblower Exposes it as
a Total Scam 11 replies
In the era of disinformation, obscurantists reject not only scientific evidence but also the progress of multilateralism.... They attack institutions, science, and universities. It is time to once again defeat the denialists." — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, November 10, 2025.
Get it? Those who disagree with the UN and WEF agendas on climate change, regardless of their scientific credentials, are "denialists" who must be "defeated."The United Nations is trying to control what people can hear, read and think about climate change just when social media companies like Meta are reversing their years-long policy of 'fact-checking,' climate change policy debate—which Meta admits resulted in censorship...
Ford workers cheered President Donald Trump during his visit to an F-150 plant in Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday. Workers erupted in applause as Trump made his way through the factory. The president heard from some workers and took selfies with several of them.
Trump inspected assembly operations during the tour, including a “stop at a station which is called the ‘body decker,’ where the truck gets put together” and another “where a team installs hose connections,” per the White House press pool, citing Ford spokespeople.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday elbowed its way into the debate over President Donald Trump’s effort to acquire Greenland, slamming the U.S. for “using other countries as an excuse for pursuing its own selfish interests.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning was responding to a reporter who quoted Trump saying that if America does not acquire Greenland, “Russia or China will.” The Arctic bears on the common interests of the international community. China’s activities in the Arctic are aimed at promoting the peace, stability, and sustainable development of the region. They are in line with international law,” Mao responded.
A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That
Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World
War III' 2 replies
Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World
War III' 2 replies
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told over the weekend that a new Nick Shirley video being released soon - maybe even as early as Monday — is "ten times worse" than the "Quality Learing Center" daycare scam.
In Shirley's previous video, he and his source, David Hoch, who has been investigating this billion-dollar-plus scam for years, discovered multiple daycare centers in one building without children in them for years. And this is where Hoch says is the heart of the ongoing continuing criminal enterprise.
Hoch says the new video will show that most of these companies are Somali-owned, and his and Shirley's visit to these companies found zero—
Since its founding, presidents, vice presidents, and other senior government officials have relied on the United States Secret Service (USSS) to provide security for them and, if needed, their families. The USSS has, for the most part, done their best, regardless of the personal opinions of agents. That's how an organization like this should - must - work. So when an agent betrays that trust, it's all the more hateful. But that is precisely what James O'Keefe seems to have uncovered, in the form of a USSS agent on the detail of Vice President JD Vance,
President Donald Trump channeled the late, great former First Lady Nancy Reagan in his not-so-subtle message that the gravy train is over for Democrats leading sanctuary states and cities, ending federal funding for illegal immigration. Speaking in Michigan on Tuesday, President Trump addressed members of the Detroit Economic Club about issues facing his administration, including the recent massive child care welfare fraud scandal uncovered in Minnesota under Democrat Governor Tim Walz’s leadership, and his next move to end federal payments to places like California, where Governor Gavin Newsom put illegal aliens' lives ahead of American citizens.
Zohran Mamdani’s tenant advocate, or housing czar, Cea Weaver apparently used to teach a course at New York University, but the school appears to be scrubbing their website of any mentions of her.
The school is claiming that it’s because Weaver has been facing harassment over her communist ideas like collectivizing housing.
Would the school have to do this if her ideas were popular or even just sane?
NYU Deletes Extremist Mamdani Housing Czar’s Information From Website As Cea Weaver Faces ‘Harassment’ Over Calls To ‘Impoverish the White Middle Class’
New York University has taken down the page for a class taught by New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) housing czar, Cea Weaver,
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A China-born US Navy sailor who sold sensitive ship information to the Chinese government under the encouragement of his mother was ordered to spend 16 years in prison on Monday.
Jinchao Wei, 25, was blasted as a “traitor” as he was ordered to spend 200 months behind bars by a federal judge in San Diego for selling national defense information to an intelligence officer working for the People’s Republic of China for $12,000, the Justice Department announced.
“This active-duty US Navy sailor betrayed his country and compromised the national security of the United States,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said. Investigators found that Wei was recruited by the Chinese foreign intelligence officer,
Justice Samuel Alito was on fire Tuesday during oral arguments in Little v. Hecox and utterly destroyed Kathleen R. Hartnett, the attorney representing a biological male student who wants to play sports on the girls’ team. His questioning cut right through activist jargon and forced the case onto solid legal ground, revealing just how contorted the arguments become when ideology collides with biological reality.
For instance, when transgender activists are asked a simple question — “What is a woman?” — the response is usually a circular word salad claiming that “a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman.” Using a word to define itself explains nothing,
Washington Dems demand mask ban for law
enforcement as attacks on ICE agents surge nationwide 17 replies
enforcement as attacks on ICE agents surge nationwide 17 replies
A proposal by Washington state Democrats to ban most law enforcement officers from wearing face-concealing masks during public operations is drawing sharp criticism from federal officials, who warn the measure could endanger officers at a time when violence and threats against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are rising dramatically nationwide.
If enacted, Senate Bill 5855 would prohibit local, state, and federal law enforcement officers, including ICE agents, from wearing masks that obscure their identities during public interactions, with limited exceptions for undercover assignments and certain tactical operations. The bill received its first hearing on Tuesday before the Washington Senate Law & Justice Committee.
Eleven House Democrats jumped party lines to vote with their Republican counterparts in a bid to overturn regulations pushed during former President Joe Biden’s tenure.
According to Fox News, the House of Representatives voted 226-197 to overturn Biden-era regulations effectively aimed at restricting how strong shower heads could be.
Federal law already caps how much water a shower head is allowed to emit. During the Biden administration, regulators took a broader view of that rule. They concluded that showers equipped with multiple nozzles had to be treated as a single unit, meaning the total water flow across all heads could not exceed the legal maximum.
The federal agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week suffered internal bleeding to his torso when he was struck by her vehicle, a DHS official confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday.
The health update comes after Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey previously downplayed the agent’s injuries.
"The ICE agent walked away with a hip injury that he might as well have gotten from closing a refrigerator door with his hips," he told reporters Friday. "Give me a break. No, he was not ran over. He walked out of there with a hop in his step."
The Department of Housing and Urban Development likely paid out more than $84 million in ineligible assistance to Minnesota during President Joe Biden’s final year in office — including to more than 500 “deceased tenants,” according to officials and documents reviewed by The Post.
HUD has been looking into billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded housing aid doled out by the Biden administration — and its most recent review found $84.6 million in potentially erroneous payments in fiscal year 2024.
That included up to $496,000 in improper assistance to 509 dead tenants.
Approximately $246,000 more was shelled out to 20 people whose Social Security numbers couldn’t be verified, meaning they were likely non-citizens.
When the Trump administration sent some 2,000 immigration agents to the Twin Cities area, they were met by activists who trailed their movements and harassed them outside their hotels. The activists are members of radical groups that together have received millions of dollars from the Left's premier foundations and dark money networks, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration. For Sunrise Twin Cities, that means
On Wednesday morning, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions held a hearing on the dangers posed by chemical abortion drugs. During the proceedings, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) posed a simple, direct question to Dr. Nisha Verma, a board-certified OB-GYN, who was there as a Democrat witness.
“Dr. Verma, I wasn't sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago. Do you think that men can get pregnant?” Hawley asked.
That should have been the most straightforward question in the world to answer. It required no policy analysis, no nuanced debate, no medical jargon. It only needed honesty.
But, instead, we got evasion.
Verma immediately signaled distress, explaining, “I hesitated
The family of Renee Good, the woman shot by an ICE agent during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, has hired the same law firm that represented George Floyd’s relatives.
Chicago-based Romanucci & Blandin announced Wednesday it will represent the parents, siblings and widow of Renee Good, The Hill reported. The firm secured a $27 million settlement for the Floyd family in 2021 after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed Floyd during an arrest.
Good, 37, died on January 7 after ICE agent Jonathan Ross reportedly shot her in south Minneapolis.
President Donald Trump is weighing imminent military action against Iran that could come “in the next 24 hours,” according to a Reuters report citing European officials, as the Pentagon begins pulling personnel from key U.S. bases across the Middle East and Tehran warns it would retaliate if Washington strikes.
The Reuters report, published Wednesday, said two European officials assessed U.S. military intervention now appeared likely, with one saying it could come within the next 24 hours, while an Israeli official similarly said it appeared Trump had made a decision to intervene — though the scope and timing remained unclear.
The determination came as the United States began withdrawing some personnel from bases
When Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro blew off subpoenas issued by Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 committee, refusing to answer questions before a kangaroo court, they received four-month prison sentences, which they both served in their entirety. And, both men suffered serious financial ruin; Navarro revealed that by the end of his trial, he was expecting to spend three-quarters-of-a-million dollars for his defense.
Now, according to a report from Politico, Bill and Hillary Clinton have followed suit, officially refusing to testify before Congress about their respective relationships with Jeffrey Epstein:
Tennessee Democrat State Rep. Justin Jones
Joins Capitol Protest with ‘Abolish
ICE’ Banner 12 replies
Joins Capitol Protest with ‘Abolish
ICE’ Banner 12 replies
State Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) on Tuesday appeared at an anti-ICE protest at the Tennessee State Capitol, where the Democratic lawmaker was captured on video with a banner that read “Abolish ICE,” with activists protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
At least one camera captured Jones carrying the banner as he repeatedly stated “Abolish ICE” while the crowd cheered and photographers jostled to snap images. [Snip] The protest in Nashville came one day after an anti-ICE activist in Memphis claimed he was struck by a Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) vehicle, though law enforcement has debunked the claim.