Denise Forrest

Retired Educator | Community Leader | Proud Parent

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Here's how the corruption works:

Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump

Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it

Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://t.co/Udu1RhYtKI

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has authorized the use of cyanide bombs to kill off animals on public lands.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Trump called himself "the father of IVF." But his administration wants to remove IVF protections for workers—meaning women could be fired for missing work for fertility treatments.

You can't claim to support IVF and then punish women for pursuing it.

[Denise Forrest @VoteForrest44]

@atrupar Her logic is sick and twisted.

[ESPN @espn]

THE PISTONS COME BACK FROM A 3-1 DEFICIT TO ADVANCE 🔥

Detroit gets it done in Game 7 for their first playoff series win since 2008!

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Dr. Oz announced yesterday that his “top priority” is rooting out fraud.

He’s launching a 50-state Medicaid audit.

Here’s what his actual fraud record looks like.

The Biden administration suspended 850 insurance brokers from the ACA Marketplace for suspected fraud — unauthorized enrollments and plan-switching to collect illegal commissions.

The Trump administration reinstated all 850.

No investigation. No explanation. Confirmed by GAO.

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[Lake Michigan @LakeMichigan13]

On this Earth Day, start protecting nature every day as human life and health depend on it 🌊🌊
🌎🌍🌏

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

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.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

In Opinion

Rebecca Archer’s daughter died of measles that she contracted before she was old enough to be vaccinated. “Parents must realize that refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children at risk,” Archer writes. https://t.co/AerHBIb23U

[Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes]

Detroit will unveil a street sign Saturday honoring Viola Liuzzo, the white Detroit mother of five who was killed by Ku Klux Klan members in Alabama after responding to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to support the Selma voting rights movement in 1965. https://t.co/v2Xxs8OixO

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.

RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You have to be one dirty bastard to cut Meals on Wheels and an Angel to fix it.

[The Last Squatch @TheLastSquatch]

FUN FACT: Michelle Obama and Jill Biden never had to hold a press conference to deny being part of a sex trafficking ring.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New reporting reveals the CDC suppressed a report showing the COVID vaccine cut hospitalizations for healthy adults by more than half.

[Barstool Detroit @BSMotorCity]

Brandon Inge throwing out the ceremonial first pitch to Justin Verlander in the year 2026

I’m not crying (yes I am), you are

[WXYZ Detroit @wxyzdetroit]

Just in time for Opening Day, today will be the first 8 p.m. sunset of the year! We won't have a sunset before 8 p.m. for more than five months.

[Oluwatimileyin✨🦋 @Timmysofine]

Meet Christina Koch, the first woman to head toward the moon. Glad to see women be trailblazers