Those disgusting Hart moms were totally evil.

Don’t think for a second that an enemy of Trump - Amazon - is your friend. Amazon has been leaching off public infrastructure since its inception. Review of USPS pricing? Bring it! Amazon doesn’t give enough back to warrant any more subsidy.

Just watch how the "war on Amazon" (according to corporate media) will in fact turn out to be more attempts at privatizing the Postal Service by Trump and the GOP.

@2: Vox accurately separates out the facts from such hyperbole.

“Seafood trafficking”, or, illegal hunting / harvesting, is as old as laws limiting a catch.

Less “Washington State” and more “civilized world”.

RIP, vaquita.

@6

I dunno, there's not a whole hell of a lot of illegal seafood coming out of, say, Nebraska, is there?

WA does have more than its fair share of it, even compared to other coastal regions; Puget Sound is home to some unusually profitable species, just sitting there in the mud waiting to be poached. Shell Games by Craig Welch is a nice introduction to the local particulars.

Thanks for pointing out the Covarrubias killing.

@5: Not really. Sociopaths and other psychological afflictions and diseases have brain and other organic differences that are a small subset of the norm.

Re: bulletproof backpacks - just another scam for a company to profit off the understandable fear parents experience trying to protect their children. These things have only very limited effectiveness: for one thing, they'll only protect your kid IF they happen to be wearing them at the time they're shot, and IF the shooter only targets their back upper torso. Plus, ask anyone who's ever been shot while wearing military-grade tactical body armor: it's not only extremely painful, but still causes significant injury to soft tissues around the impact point, and can in fact be fatal; it's just that the bullet won't go all the way through you. And I can pretty much guarantee just by looking at this "demonstration" that these things aren't going to come anywhere close to the standard of protection required by the military or LEA's.

The CEO of Backpage.com has plead guilty to money laundering and human trafficking charges from the running of the website.

Per the Attorney General of Texas, roughly 73% of the child trafficking cases reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children involved Backpage.com.

https://www.upi.com/Backpage-CEO-pleads-…

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/new…

Sorry, didn't mean for those to come up as links. I am unsure if that is a problem.

#2 Absolutely. If Amazon is paying its fair share of the load than it should welcome a review, and so should the Seattle. If it isn't, and is being subsidized by all of us, than we the American taxpayers and USPS customers are being screwed by Amazon. Trump's motives for ordering this review might be fucked up, but it it uncovers and puts an end to Amazon's scamming of America, that wouldn't be a bad thing.

@12, but what anout those sex workers? That's what The Stranger is worried about.

Bullet proof backpacks:
The gun used by that cheerful man in the video is an Uzi. Those guns are known to have limited velocity, their spewed bullets often stop penetrating once they hit something.
As some of you may recall from the Ford, Reagan eras secret service personnel used those guns because they are less likely to penetrate more than one body, thus reducing the risk of harming any innocent bystanders.
Guns like AK47 and the entire M-16 family are likely to be harmful to your kid’s back regardless of protection, and very sadly may also hurt some of their friends.

No Russian Titanium for Boeing:
I think the picture of a civilian carrier in this article is misleading, as this is a military-related move.
Titanium is heavily used for military aircraft, drones, and missile cases. It is likely to hurt Boeing and other “defense-industry-related” companies it controls.

@ 15
I’m with you. Shut all shady illegitimate sites, legalize sex work in designated safe facilities, screen providers, card clients, workers have access to medical coverage and social services by employees union, and so on.
That’s what many of us believe is a working solution for an ongoing phenomenon.
I suspect the “carded clients” clause is what stopping moralists like yourself from supporting such a program.

Yes, the postal service is heavily subsidized. However they lose less on Amazon than they do on other mailings. I'm not sure we want to push Amazon towards becoming their own private version of USPS and UPS. Drones anyone?

Can we just call it CHOAMazon?

He who controls the spice, controls the universe, and all that.