Monopoly — The Hardest Right

SpaceX Got Slapped Back, Meatpackers Won, Farm Bill Got Cleaned Up

Three wins for working folks landed in the same week — and the boardroom didn't like any of them. Texas communities pushed back hard against SpaceX's grip on local land and airspace. Courts held the line on press freedom, protecting reporters from corporate silencing tactics. And Congress moved to strip out the rot in the Farm Bill that's been padding Big Ag's pockets for years.

The meatpacking win is the one to watch. Workers in that industry have been getting squeezed by monopoly processors for decades — wages suppressed, safety corners cut, competition crushed. Any dent in that arrangement is real money back in working people's pockets.

None of this happened because the boardroom had a change of heart. It happened because people showed up and applied pressure. That's how Main Street wins — not by waiting for Wall Street to get generous.

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Nike Collected $1 Billion in Tariff Costs From You. Now It Wants to Keep the Refund.

A proposed class action filed Friday in Portland federal court says Nike charged customers $5–$10 extra per pair of shoes and $2–$10 more per apparel item to cover tariff costs — then made no commitment to pass refunds back after the Supreme Court struck down those tariffs in February.

The complaint is plain: "Nike stands to recover the same tariff payments twice — once from consumers through higher prices and again from the federal government through tariff refunds." Nike confirmed it paid roughly $1 billion in tariffs on imported goods. That's your money, working its way from your wallet to Beaverton boardrooms.

Nike joins Costco and EssilorLuxottica (Ray-Ban's parent) facing similar suits. Some say this is a tariff policy debate — the deeper issue is a $1 billion corporation that passed every cost down to working folks and is now angling to pocket the rebate.

Source: New York Post Corporate Affordability Monopoly