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Remember when they tried to fire *everyone* in the CFPB’s Office of Servicemember Affairs? Not surprising, still outrageous that they stand behind these lies.

Here’s a short guide if you’re talking to family and friends this weekend about the GOP budget bill. 1/

Monday!!! It is that first day of the week, and so we are back with the first name in summaries of the internet over the past week: Monday in Brief! brandeisianbrief.substack.com/p/monday-in-br…

WORKER WIN: Over 300 hotel housekeepers in DC will receive $215,000 after their companies failed to pay proper overtime pay. The companies will also pay penalties and correct their practices. Workers who put in long hours week after week will get the overtime wages they earned.

“Unlike other countries, the United States remains without a legal 'Passenger Bill of Rights' ... in the USA, you're largely beholden to the whims of the carriers themselves." William J. McGee for @frommers on how other countries protect their passengers — and how the US can too.

They killed the rule to make it easy to cancel subscriptions because the FTC didn't go through what the court considered enough process. The steps to end having to cancel your gym membership in person are equivalent to the FTC having to go to the gym in person

Apparently hearing from 16,000 actual people about their subscription traps was NOT sufficient, because the corporations who profit from subscription traps didn’t get enough chances to say how much they didn’t want to stop subscription trapping. Airtight American logic.

My extremely popular opinion is that the cost of vet care is increasing at more than double the rate of inflation. Instead of putting pets down, we should put a stop to the private equity biz buying up vet practices and raising prices past what most pets owners can afford.

While investigating Adobe for deceptive subscription practices, we discovered an executive admitting that hidden early termination fees are “a bit like heroin” for the company. Subscription tricks and traps have surged as more firms become dependent on subscription-based

By my count, this is the third full or subcommittee hearing from HFSC this year related to the CFPB. Yet we've yet to hear testimony from the Acting Director of the agency, Russell Vought, who's been running the joint for almost six months.

He promised to cut prices on day one. Instead he increased them - on purpose.

Delta Airlines reportedly wants to use AI to set individualized ticket prices for passengers. It's the latest company to embrace a shady tactic called "surveillance pricing" that weaponizes your personal data. Watch Lina Khan explain how it works.

Amazon is being sued for delaying and stringing out people’s attempts to cancel their Prime subscriptions. Then their lawyers were sanctioned (extremely lightly) for delaying their obligation to produce docs. Birds of a feather…

Excited to be heading into the office this am! Top of the to-do list: calling a vote on restoring the Click to Cancel Rule. It’s time the FTC gets back to protecting consumers from real abuses like subscription traps that cost Americans countless hours and millions of dollars.

We SUPPORT Rebecca Kelly Slaughter move to re-issue the #ClicktoCancel Rule, because “No #subscription business model should be structured to profit from a gauntlet-style #cancellation process.” Erin Witte FTC

Delta says it wants to be a first mover here, but the rest of the industry will follow. The AI pricing firm at the center of this, Fetcherr, estimates $4.4 trillion in additional revenue per year for the entire aviation industry. Investors call it the “holy grail” for a reason.

.Rohit Chopra on Squawk Box cnbc.com/video/2025/07/…

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DC, the Wage Transparency Act has been in effect for over a year. The law requires employers in DC to include salary ranges or hourly pay information in all job postings — among other protections. Spread the word! Pay transparency empowers workers, and we are enforcing the law.

ICE was in the Fairfax Co. Courthouse this week. Their visit appeared to be welcomed & facilitated by the Sheriff. ICE waited until clients were separated from their att’ys to detain them, shuttle them off in unmarked vehicles, then laugh at those who asked what was going on 1/3