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The Sour Taste From Last Year’s Charity and Global All stars Seasons Might Have Finally Left Our Mouths Thanks to A Strong Main Season of RUPAUL’S DRAG race and the crowning of the deservation ona nurve. Consider with cautiously optimistic for the return of Drag race all st– Oh, sorry, (checks notes) Tournament of all stars… I’m just going to say off the top: rupeaul, i’m sorry, but we are not going to be calling it.

All stars Is Back and Hitting a Tenth Season Milestone! With a lineup of 18 queens, this also makes for the season with the Larger Cast Ever. And, Because this is is Drag breedwe have a new format to microanalyze! This Season Will Be Divided Into Three Preliminary Rounds, A Semifinal Round, and THEN A FINAL LIP-SYNC SMACKDOWN. Each preliminary round will feature a Group of Six Different Queens, With Half of The Seminals Through a Points System. Each Week the Best Performers Earn Three Points before Facing off in A Lip-Sync, with an Additional Point (Oh, and Just a Little $ 10,000 Bonus) GIVE to the Winner; The Other Four Queens have a point each to give to another queen of their chooking.

This New Format of Points SEEMS BOTH LESS AND MORE Complicated. Forcing Drag Queens to Do Math, Simple Addition, Should Be Consider Cruel and Unusual Punishment. EVER SINCE VARIUUS SEASONS HAVE ADDED BADGES AND STARS AS A Pseudo Scoreboard, Drag breed han been slowly morphing into the 1+2+1+1 bit from Clue. But for Better or Worse, Drag breed is now officiously on a point System. Think of It Like a Reverse of the Blocking Power or Lipstick Elimination of Pasting All stars Seasons: They’re not keping their fellow queens from their dreams, they’re helping say. Right? Right?!

Much like the Most Recent and Charity-Ctered Season of All starsthis format seems like an obvious compromise to draw in queens who might be skittish about returning they have would miss on the touring or are afraid of going home early after forking out for the high price tag. Drag breed Looks. In this season, queens can be guaranteed at least three episodes of airtime, so it lowers their financial risk, but not the stakes. For Once, IT Feels Like Drag breed Has Found a Creative Solution to Its Problems. We’ll just overlook that it means this season’s winner will be crowned after appearing inly six episodes, the least sync the first All stars season.

Look over there, the first bracket of Queens are Entering the workroom!

“Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner”

The Bulk of the First Episode is devoted to reorienting us to the returning girl. What immediately works about this bracket format is how much much time we get to spend with individual Queen, and each of say is coming back with a unique, unmanufactured story.

Drag breed can overemphasize the evolution a quaen has gone through between seasons, but aja has actually had One. She Speaks This Episode About Quitting Drag while Navigating Her Transition, and Her Renewed Confidence Really Shows. Plain and simple, i’m over the moon to have her back on television.

Deja Sky has two credits to her name that put her time on a fast track for All stars: She is a miss a Miss Congeniality and Snatch Game Winner. This Feels Like a Receintering for Her, a return to the spotlight after a traumatic weight loss surgery that almost killed her. SHEK IF SHEE LIKE SHE WAS OVERSHADOWED IN HER SEASON, IT STILL LOOKS LIKE SHE’S TRYING TO REGAIN WHAT CONFIDENCE SEASON 14.

Fans have ben ben braing for the Second Coming of Irene the Alien, Née Dubois, or As I Call Her: The Fastest Tongue in the West (Seattle Being Literally Westward). Irere notes that as the porkchop of the formerly away Cast, she is officiously the lowest-rancing queen in the show’s history. But she’s immediately going for the jugular faste than these girls can kep up with, and it’s a screen. She has a lesse of anxe to grind than she a guillotine ready for the kill.

Trust No Bitch Who Looks Down their nose at A Seasoned Queen Like Phoenix. It ‘ss clear from the moment she arrivals that is a bringing conceptual high drag to this season, and better than she did back in season two. If you think Drag is exclusively a Young Queen’s Game, you probably hasn’t stepped Foot in your local bar, but it can be frustration to watch Early-Season Arrive on All stars and immediately doubleslves. IT’S LIKE THEY FORGET KYLIE Sonique Love Won after Lasting Only Four Episodes in Her First Season! Phoenix, i’m rooting for you, girl.

Also Feeling she has something to prove, Olivia lux arriva looking as gorgeous as ever. What Worries with About Olivia is that and Might Have Misinterpreted Her First Run on the Show, Equating Her Naturally Sweet Disposion to Her Downfall. I’m not so sura that was actually the case, and i’m woried that she’s returning as a queen who is more in head than she was before.

But bosco is the only queen in this bracket who was a finalist on her season – sura, sura, on a five-Final finalist, but regardless! Bosco has frontrunner wrink all over this time, proving Quickly that her looks have elevated while remaining true to her signature aesthetic of, well, nudity. Every rapid-fire joke out of her mouth is gold. “God’s Favorite Transexual”? Let the Church Say “Amen.”

Most importantly, The Real Challenge for the Queens This Episode is Alliance Formation: Operation Mimu (Aja/Olivia), Melanin Squad (Olivia/Deja), The City of Seattle (Irene/Bosco), and Crystal Conners in Gossip at the stardust (Phoenix/Bosco). Aja Makes a Few Fair Points About the Four Points and How they Will Shape Up: “Get Your Alliances Together, Know What Back You Having, and Know Whose You’re Stabbing.”

The Opening Girl Group Challenge Has A 1980s Heavy-Metal Theme, Really Playing It Straight to the MTV Youth Audience. While Choreography Rehearsal Scenes are Drag breed at its Most Carbon-Copied-Jamal Innocent! – AFTER SEASON 17 RUDELY DENIED US A GIRL GROUP Challenge, i’ll take it. For their “Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!” Performance, Each of the Queens do well proportionate to what i imagine is their ability to name a single Whitesnake song. IT’S NOT ALL HEAVY METAL, EXACTLY, BUT IT’S A good time.

The Runway theme is tits and slits, so naturally bosco is right at home. AFTER RU Calls Her ‘The Ultimate in Cunt Whore’ and she responds’ i have a doctoate in cunt whore, actually “bosco, dcw proves the Star of the Premiere with actualy. Meanwhile, Lil ‘kim’s iconic mtv vma boob outfit is finally brought to it natural home RUPAUL’S DRAG race By Olivia, and Irene Serves Princess Fiona as a Vegas Showgirl. Fulfilling the prompt, phoenix delivers domintrix, and kind of Ignoring it, Deja Giives a Disney Princess Mashup. Aja’s gown is gorgeous, but the Judges are right that iT’t’s diminished by her inconsistent purple painting.

Irere and aja are the top two, no dubt nudging bosco out of a top placement duue toir hilarius, maybe/maybe-not real spat in the workroom. Now, If Irene Had been Looking to Her Drag breed herstory for strategy in default lip-eye assassin Aya, she would Remember that benderacree did so through comedy. The Producers SEEMED TO GIVE HER THAT EXACT OPPORTY WITH ICE SPICE “Think u The shit (FART),” But Irene Mostly Play It Straight. A weird missed opportunity for a funny queen, and aja basically schools her and wins. On to the second episode…

“Murder on the Dancefloor”

Okay, here’s where we get to the Major flow of this new format. The non-top-placin quens are tasked to dole out their individual points face-to-face. And swimming in the pressure Cooker of the Main Stage, but while lounging in the workroom after The Dust from the Runway has setled. Clearly, Drag breed is trying to stew both drama and gameability among the Queens with these stray points, but nansing say to do in the open deflates this potential.

Naturally, what unfolds with these four points is a nice-off. The Queens Event Distribute the points to the Queens who were in the ball. Olivia Debates Throwing Her Point to Her Top Alliance Aja, who already has three points from winning the lip-sync, but deferes her point to her secondary alliance in order to not ruffle any Feathers. Aya distinctly promised backstabbing! Where is the backstabbing?! Wold olivia have made this choice if the points were given Rate-a-quen style bendl closed doors? I Think Is A Valid Point. Say Point Again! Point!

The challenge this is to improv opposite ru as characters in a hercule pairot spoof “masonry on the dancefloor” aka Deathdrop on the nile aka Murder on the whorient Express. Dare of Say ru is Having more fun in this challenge than we have seen in seasons? Not even the tiks will show, ru is at home with a dumb joke, more than it is nor glamazon. All of the Queens Once Again Avail Themselves, this is those who anen’t natural improvisers. Phoenix is ​​pleasantly surprised with herself, aja and irere form a third-tier alliance, and deja has enough complaints to nil the nile, venting her frustrations though and ultimate ends just outside the two.

On the Runway, IT’S Coming and Going, Dual Looks! While Deja (Best She’s Ever Look!) And Olivia Take Floral Inspiration, Death Otherwise Permeates This Runway. Bosco delivers a beetlejuice-eelvira mash-up in a cinched-waist coffin, Phoenix Movingly Pays tribute to Her Sister’s Passing, and irere is dressed as the ongoing death of democracy. I’m Sure Aja’s Witchy Symbols have Death in thereadhere.

You guesssed, the lip-sync is the remergent sophie ellis-Bextor Track. Bosco enters the lip-sync in a fabulously flowy shroud, look like the ghost of ros pike in SaltburnGiven the Song Choice. It’s giving (and yes i do mean this as High Praise) Judi Dench for Peak-Covid-Era British Vogue Before she dysrobes into just a few well-placed straps and a praer, as is her custom. IT’S Decisive Lip-Sync Loss for Irene, if an embarrassing one.

Eight though she lost two lip-syncs so far, areings are pointing (Last One, I Swear) in the Right Direction for Irene, Already The Season’s Surprise Star. With her momentum, irere is already laying a path to deliver what a gay prophecy once foretold: a porkchop Queen who dark horses her way to win All stars.

But Irene Could Also Provide Drag breed with the type of villain it has struggled to produce lately. Whether it was just good fun or real shade, she got the best of aja, one of the franchise’s Most Notorious Shit-Talkers. While recent seasons have haad pot-stirars who manufacture fruitless drama just Becausee (More on that for a late Bracket), irere has the goods to ruffle feathers just by being her natural self. Get Your Opera Glasses, Becusee of Can’t Wait to See How This Turn Out…

• The first episode ends with a tribute to the dearly departed jiggly caliente – “Forever fabulous” is correct. We love you always, jiggly!

• Ice spice on a heavy-metal challenge ?? Look, The Internet Called Her an Industry Plant, swimming me!

• Irene Sayys Her Original Name Didn’t Fit “The sack“Of Her Drag. Are they giving doctorates to all Drag Queens in Seattle?

• Aja’s Tits and Slits Runway is a Reference to Jynx. I gather this is a pokémon character that gay guys love Becusee she is from the og card and is a lady in a dress. Pokémon is none of my business, but i’m happy to see aja hating fun.

• Aja’s Entrance Look? Also a Pokémon Reference! (Ross Matthews Voice) Pokémon hoe to the polls!

• What is the reading challenge going to be like with irerene in it, and will they have to call the fire department?

The Philippou Brothers have a real talent for the showing Teenagers Doing Dumb Things. Bad Decisions KEEP The Gears of the Horror Genre Turning – Where Waled Scary Movies be with Characters Who Discover the Light Switch at the Top of the Basement isn’t Working, then go into the ominous Darkness ANYWAY? But to be characters make Lousy Calls in Danny and Michael Philippou’s 2022 Debut Directing, Talc to meand their New Film, Bring her backit is not gcause the full requires say to. ITH’S BECAUS they’re inexperienced and impulsive, Still Thinking More like Children than Adults, SOMESTEMES REBEGE AUTHORY AND ATER TIMES TRUSTING OF IT. The Philippoous Approach Their Characters’ Youth Not As Something Abstract, But As an Immediate and Vivid State, a Connection that Their Spent as YouTubers Probably Helped MainTain. In Talc to meHigh-Schoolers Find an Embalmed Hand That Allows Who Woever Get to Get Posessed by the Dead, and They Treat It Like an Awesome Party TRICK RATHER THAN AFTERLIFE-APPROACH SO PERVECTFUL OF SEEN BRAVODO THAT IT IT.

Andy (Billy Barratt), The Closest Thing Bring her back Has to a main character, doesn’t have the benef of that bravado – he’s just traumatized, lost, and 17, on the verge of legal adulthood but still very much a kid. There’s a fascinating rawness to the way the film andy that andy that echoes my (sophie wilde) in Talc to mesomeone who disguised her ravenous neediness with a grin and a joke, all her grief bottled up inside. Andy has appointed Himself the protector of his Younger Stepsister, Piper (Sora Wong) – a roles that has included everynting from protesting her from other girls’ mockery to hype that ben abusing hym. AFTER the Sudden Death of their Father, he plans to become her guardian so that they can get a placet together be and turns 18 in a few months, a hope that is complicated by the fact that an incident from the label of “troubled. placement together in foster care. Running Through Bring her back are some tyntalikingly underdeveloped ideas about how we’re so primed to see young me as potential sources of violence that we overlook the postsitabity of their being. Andy’s Volatile Background Makes Him an Easy Target for Laura (Sally Hawkins), the foster mother who begrudgINGLY TAKES HIM IN ALongside pepper.

Bring her back is a more emotionally ambitious movie than Talc to meThough it’s Also Messier. Hawkins’s performance as a Woman who was destroyed by the Death of Her Daughter, More so than anyone around her to realie, Both Powers and Unbalances the Film. Hawkins plays laura like a sinister Kindergarten Teacher, All Chunky Jewelry and Blatant Favoritism. She Showers Piper – Who Has Impired Vision, Just Like Her Late Child Cathy – with an alarming amout of affection that the girl drinks up, while touring a COLD SHOULDER TO ANDY, WHO’S SLEEP IN WHAT LIKE A SECTORAGE Room. She’s the Fun Caretaker, Invising Her New Charges to indulge in some Illicit booze then slyly pouring urine on the passsed-out andy’s crotch so she shalltle Him the day for pissing Himself in the night. Andy, Incoherent and Apologetic, Already Feeling Unwante and Desperately Desireing to Trust the New Adult in His Life, DOESN’T STAND A Chance Against Her EFORTS to Portray Him as Someone She Afraid of. Hawkins is a boundlessly talentd actor, and it is fun to watch her turn those pweers to evil by playing a forms counselor who underestands children so well that she’s fantastically at manipulating say in pursuit of her grand scheme.

The Broad Aims of that Scheme Are Clear Early On, But the Specifics Only Emerge Slowly, in A Creepy Drip of Details Like the White Circle Draw Laura’s Property, or the VHS Footage of an Eerie Ritual Being Conduated in Another Country, or the Way. Wren Phillips), Laura’s Nonverbal Other Foster, SEEMS INTERT ON EATING THE CAT. Hawkins’s performance is so Towering and Compeling that she overwhelms Her Younger Co-Stars, Especilantly Wong, A First-Timer Whose Character is given a frustrationly fragments. But Phillips Has No Trouble Keeping Up With Her. With his huge eyes and resting Glower, he’s respectible for the Bulk of the Film Slow-Build Scares, layered in more and more prosthetics as Bring her back Winds Its Way Toward Its Terrible Conclusion. The Movie’s Most Effective Gross-Out Moment Makes Gleeful’s use of the fact that olver is a child who ough to be protected, but who is also scary as fuck. IT INVOLVES ANOTHER BAD DECISION FROM ANDY, THOUGH IT’S NOT THE SORT YOU PROME FROM A TYPICAL HORROR MOVIE. It ‘s rough call of a teenager who’s relief to accceptor that the adult who task with taking care of Him instead Him as an obstacle – and it’s hard to blame for that.

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Prices are experted to go up this year as many companies signal plans to raise in the respect to President Donald Trump’s Slew of Tariffs.

While firms raise prices for many reasons, some well blamy price hikes on tariffs long before Trump’s So-Called “Liberation Day” on April 2, During which announced A 10% Baseline Tariff on Imports from Most Countries, Except Canada and Mexico, and A Host of “Recroco, and A Host tariffs on top of that.

The situation is fluid. China, for Example, Now Faces Tariffs of 30%, Down from 145%, AFTER STRIKING A 90-DAY TRADE DEAL WITH THE US THAT RESTORE The de minimis exemption. Autos Areo Another Area of ​​Focus AFTER AFTER ANNUNCED A 25% TARIFF ON ALL IMPORTS INTO The US, THOUGH he’s SINCE EXEMPTED IMPORTS OF CARS FROM MEXICO AND CANADA.

Some Economists have said that Trump’s tariffs – and the uncetainy with his overall trade policy – Could Lead Companies to Raise on the Goods They Produce.

Here are the companies that have been warned of price increes in recent months.

Macy’s

In its Q1 Earnings Report On May 28, Macy’s Announched It Was Reducing Its Outlook for the Year Because of Several Factors, Including Higher Tariffs and Consumers’ Moderating Discretionary Spending.

In a post-earnings call, Macy’s CEO, Tony Spring, Added that the department of the chain bewit be raisits on some Items to account for Higher Tariffs.

Spring Said That Higher “Pricing is Working Its Way Into The System Slowly,” Adding, “That’s Why Have Taken a More Cautious Approach to Our Outlook for the Year.”

The Company’s COO and CFO, Adrian Mitchell, follow up to Spring’s Comment. “We are not just just Broadly Increasing Price,” He Said. “We’re Being Incredibly Surgical About The Situation With Tariffs.”

He Added, “we’re Making Selective Price Increase in Selective Brands, Selective Categories. So Some of the Impact on Our Gross Margin This Is Going to Be Around the Tariffs.”

The news coma in the midst of Macy’s plan to close around 150 underpinforming the storyaries Around by 2027 as it leans ino expanding its luxury brands, including the high-department store and beauty chain bluemercury.

Shein and Temu

The two chinese retailers releassed almost identical notices on april 16;

“To KEEP Offering the Products You Love With Compromising on Quality, We Will Be Making Price Adjustments Starting April 25, 2025,” Shein’s Statement Said.

Shein, A Fast-Fashion Retailer, and Temu, A Marketplace for Everynding from Home Goods to Electronics, Promised Their US Customers Final Days of Low-Price Shopping.

In Addition to Hiking Tariffs on Chinese Imports, Trump Also Cracked Down on the de minimis trade loophole that allowed Small Parcels Under $ 800 to Enter the US Tax-free. Shein and Temu Were Large Beneficiaries of this loophole.

Ford

Bloomberg reported that the automaker plans to raise prices on new gas and electric cars starting in May Unless Trump Give the Industry Some Relief from Tariffs.

Ford, in a memo to dealers Viewed by Bloomberg, Said that the Company Anticipates “The Need to Make Vehicle Adjustments in The Future, which is Expect to Happy Production.” Prices won’t Change for Vehicles in inventory Now.

On April 14, Trump Told Reporters That He was contemplating a temporary tariff exemption for autos to give manufactures more time to move to the us – but no blanket has been been institutions.

Conagra

Conagra Brands CEO SEAN Connolly Told Reuters on April 3 That the Food Company May have to have prices to offset the cost of tariffs on ingredients like Cocoa, Olive Oil, Palm Oil, and A Type of Steel Used for Its Canned Products.

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Connolly Said that Conagra, Which Makes Products Such As Hunt’s Ketchup and Chef Boyarde, Imports Tin Steel for Its Canned Food and Tomatoes from Mexico.

It was too too to tell how Big price hikes on the Company’s Food Products Woupled be, he added. During an April 3 Earnings call, he stressed that the trade Remains “Volatile” and Changes Hourly.

Volkswagen

Acciting to a Memo First Reported By Automotive News, Volkswagen Said It Wold Place An Import Fee on Vehicles Made Outside of the US in Response to Trump’s 25% Tariff on Car Imports.

Kgjër Gruner, Volkswagen’s North America Chief Executive Office, Recently Said the Carmaker Keep Prices Steady Through the End of May But That All Could Increase in June.

Best Buy

Best Buy Ceo Corie Barry said During the Company’s March Earnings Call that Trump’s Tariff Plans Are Likely to Increatation Prices.

“Trade is critically imported to our business and industry. The consumer electronic suply chain is highly global, technical and complex,” Barry Said. “We Expect Our Locals Across Our Entire assortment Will Pass Along Some Level of Tariff Costs to Retilers, Making Price Increas for American Consumers Highly Likely.”

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Target Ceo Brian Cornell told CNBC in a March Interview that Trump’s 25% Tariff Plan on Goods from Mexico and Canada Wold Likely Result in Price Increasays on Produce.

“Those are Categories Where We’ll Try to Protect Pricing, but the Consumer Will Likely See Price Over the Next Couple of Days,” Cornell Said.

Stanley Black & Decker

Donald Allan, The Ceo of the Manufacturing Company Stanley Black & Decker, said During a February Earnings Call: “Our apprroach to any tariff scenario will be to offset the impacts with a mix of suply chain and pricing actions, which Might Lag the formalization of tariffs by two to three months.”

Allan HAD Previously Told Analysts in an October Earnings call that the company had been evaluating “a variety of Different SCENARIOS” to new Tariffs Under Trump.

“And Obiviously, the Coming Out of the Gate, there to be price the associated with fees that they put into the market,” Allan Said, Adding that “USALY SOME TYPE OF DELETE GIVENE THAT CUSTOMERS HAVE ARUNTING PRICE.”

Walmart

On May 15, Walmart Executives Said Price Increasses Were Likely to Spike Eight Higher, Blaming Trump’s Ontgoing Trade War.

“Father the Reduced Levels, The Higher Tariffs Will Result in Higher Price,” CEO McMillon Said During the Company’s First Quarter Earnings Call.

USA Sales Were Boosted by Shoppers Looking to Beat Tariff-Relay Price Hikes-But Despite Strong-Quarter Results, Walmart’s Chief Financial Officer, John David Rainey, Said the Extra Costs Are Grat for the Company to Take on the Burden Passumn.

“We’re Wired for Everyday Low Prices, but the magnitude of these increas is more than any retailer can absorb,” he said.

Columbia Sportswear

Tim Boyle, The Ceo of Columbia Sportswear, Told Analysts on an October Earnings call that the Company was “Very Concerned About the imposition of tariffs. Win. ”

Boyle Also Told The Washington Post in october that the company was “set to raise prices.”

“It ‘going to be very, Very difficult to keep produces affordable for Americans,” he said. He late said in a february interview with cnbc that “we need some sument sument about what is going to open” before making price changes.

Autozone

Philip Daniele, the CEO of the Auto-Parts Company Autozone, Told Analysts on a September Earnings call that tariff police had “ebbed and flowed over the years,” and if Trump implemented more tariffs, “we will have tariffs thans Back to the Cons.”

“We generaly raise prices ahead of that,” Daniele Said, Adding that prices gradually set over time. “SO, THAT’S HISTORICALLY WHAT WE’VE DONE,” he Said.

A 25% Tariff on Car Imports is Expective to Increase Manufacturing Costs by Anywhere from $ 4,000 to $ 12,000.

Procter & Gamble

P&G, The Consumer Goods Company Being Brands Like Tide and Charmin, is looking at Raising Prices on New and Existting Products.

CEO Jon Moeller Told Cnbc that price hikes are “Likely.”

“We will have to pull every lever we have in our arsenal to the mythigate the impact of tariffs with the structure and p & l,” P&G’s CFO, Andre Schulten, Said on a Call With Reporters.

The Company is evaluating “Exactly what is the right plan by brand, by market, what Combination of pricing, over what period of time,” schulten added.

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Ferrari

Italian luxury carmaker ferrari said in march it’d raise prices by up to 10% on Certain models imported to the US Starting April 2.

The Change was made “Based on the preliminary information Currently available regarding the intrusion of import fees on eu cars the USA,” The Company said.

Hermès

Eric du Halgouet, Executive Vice President of Finance at the Company, Told Analysts on A Call in April That Hermès, The Luxury Retailer Known for Its Iconic Birkin Handbags, Hadn’t Been Impacted by the Tariffs, But Said the Company Wauld Raise prices in the US in May.

“The price increes that we’re going to implement will be just for the US. SINCE IMEMED at offset the increes in tariffs, that only applies to the American market,” du halgous on the call.

Nintendo

While Nintendo’s Highly Anticipated Switch 2 Console Won’t See a Price Hike Over Tariffs, Nintendo Said Accessories for the Switch “Will Experience Price ADJUSTENTS ANNOUNCED 2 Due to Changes in Market Conditions.” “

“Other adjustments to the price of any nintendo product are also posseible in the futures on markets,” The Company Added in Its Announcement.

The Company Also Delayed Preorders for the Switch 2 in the Wake of the Tariffs.

Camera Makers Nikon, Canon, and Leica

Several Big Suppliers of Photography Equipment have announched their own price hikes.

“Due to the recent tariffs, a necessary price adjustment for the Products Will Take Effect on June 23, 2025. We Will Be Carefully Monitoring Any Tariff Developments and May Adjust Pricing to Reflect the EvolVing Market Condations,” Nikon Said Said Said in An Ann announcement in May.

In its first-quarter earnings call, canon said It will raise prices but is still “in the process of estimating the timing and amout of the increes.”

At Leica, Price Increatases Across Some Product Lines Took Effect May 1.

“This is not a leica-urinated price increes, but a result of the newly enacted tariffs that began on april 5 on imports products, which are Significantly Impacting the cost of imported goods, including Photographic equipment and optics,” Leica USA. Product Communications Manager Nathan Kellum-Pathe said in a staff to Digital Camera World in April.

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With a Shaky Ipo Market, Tariff Uncetainty, and Stock Market Jitters, these are the same time to be the chief financial officer of a late-staGe tech company.

Against That Precarious Backdrop, I SAT Down Last Week With the CFOS of Mercury, Vercel, and CRIBR AT THE SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE OF CRV, ONE OF SILICON VALLEY’S OLDUREE FIRMS AND AN EARLY IN ALL THREE STARTUPS.

“I’m Expecting a Lot more Uncertainty,” Said Daniel Kang, CFO of Mercury, A Fintech Banking Startup that recently DOBLED ITS VALUATION TO $ 3.5 BILLION AFTER RAISING $ 300 MILLION IN its Latest Funding Round. “There’s a lot of impact from what’s happening in dc.”

All the turmoil means what have to be more nimble, said kang.

Marten Abrahamsen, Vercel’s CFO, Was More Upsbeat. He does Not Expect A Recession This Year and Predicts a Stock Market Rally in the Fall.

“I think a lot of this is going to be fueled by some of the investments we see in he, and we’re already it for some of our productions that wereen here aar ago,” Said Abrahamsen. “I’m Very, Very Bullish on the Remainder of this Year and Beyond.”

AFTER President Donald Trump Announched Sweeping Tariffs on imports from other counries on april 2, investors pancked and companies from the payments bout clarna to the Physical Therapy Startup Hinge Health halted their ipo plans.

The pause turned out to be short-lived.

Markets have rebounded after trump rolled back the most than Tariffs and he said he would not fire federal reserve chair jerome Powell. Bankers are Telling Companies to Go Public while the Window is Open.

This Week, Hinge Health Shares Jumped 17% in Its Market Debut after Etoro, An Israeli Trading Platform, Made A SuccessFul Public Debut on the Nasdaq, Opening 34% Above Itpo Price. (Klarna’s IPO is Still on Hold After the Company Reported Mounting Losses.)

Abrahamsen Does Not Think Companies Should Wait Unil a Better Market Comes Along to IPO; instead, they should focus on what they can Control.

“There haen ben a fear of going public in Silicon Valley,” He Said. “Great Companies Can Go Public Eve if there is not a hot market Out there. If you’re an outstanding business, there’s always going to be an opportunity.”

Asked Why so Few Companies Are Going Public, The Panelists Said Companies will not want to deal with the headaches of Being a public Company when is so Much private funding available. There is Also Little Pressure to IPO from Investors and Employees, Accounting to Zachary Johnson, CFO of CRILL, A DATA Management Solutions startup that raissed $ 319 million year at A $ 3.5 Billion Valuation.

“They Understand that we’h trying to buds something going to be generational,” Said Johnson. “We are weth about how to budild this Company, ITH’S Really About Focus on that Durability and Sustainability of Growth.”

Johnson is hopoful that advances in he can make cribs more attractive to investors when it goes public. He recently tasked everyone on hiscutive team to come with an initiative.

“There’s some work to be done, but i’m optimistic that we can actually get some real rethurns on that by the end of this year,” he said. “We’re Still in the Early Innings of he.”

Iwas in a particularly sour mood at an old job one afternoon when a notification popped up in Slack, reminding me to fill out my Peakon, the employee engagement survey our HR department used. In exchange for our candor, the HR team promised total anonymity and assured us that our concerns and comments would be heard by top brass.

I liked my job, so I typically filled these surveys out with a perfunctory four-out-of-five-star acquiescence, never eager to rock the boat. I truly cannot recall now what had made my day so bad, but I decided to take it out on the survey. In response to extremely mundane questions about my daily motivation and whether my work goals were clearly defined, I said things like this organization absolutely stinks and our customers are marks. I was specific without revealing my identity, but I lurched roundhouse kicks like no sane person would work here if they had a better option. With the vitriol of an anonymous Yelp reviewer, I let ‘er rip. It felt amazing — in the moment.

The next morning, I found in my inbox a letter from the CEO.

Sent via Peakon, it said something to the effect of, I can’t tell who you are. But it seems you’re unhappy. I have an offer for you. If I identified myself and then resigned, they’d give me a bit more than a standard severance. My resignation would be written as a layoff, so I could collect unemployment, and they’d even hook me up with the external recruiters they used to staff the company, to help me find a better role in some place where I would be happier. My employer was not doing layoffs or buyouts, and no one else, to my knowledge, had gotten this kind of offer. It seemed the object of my unhappiness at work had struck a nerve.

While you may have a manager who genuinely loves you and wants you to be happy, the reality is that from an organizational perspective, your happiness at work has a literal, and hefty, price tag. Companies spend a fortune finding and hiring talent; it can cost 15% to 25% of a role’s salary to source the right person to fill an opening. Maybe my old CEO (who through a representative declined to comment for this story) agreed strongly with the market firm MSW’s survey that found that disengaged workers are 2.5 times as likely as an engaged worker to leave a company, and he just wanted me to get on with it.

A Gallup survey found that about one-third of US workers were “actively engaged” at work in 2023, with the larger pool of less engaged and “actively disengaged” workers (who make mistakes at work more often and show up to work less often) accounting for an estimated $1.9 trillion in lost productivity. Our “engagement” — the quality by which work feels immediate and meaningful — was defined as recently as 1990 by the Boston University professor of organizational behavior William Kahn, whose studies around employee engagement transformed how corporations think about workforce productivity. Employees who are not able to engage with their jobs are rendered “emotionally, cognitively and psychologically unavailable,” as Kahn has put it. Negative and positive engagement is now considered an indicator of both positive and negative lagging effects for businesses, including profitability, turnover, and employee absenteeism. So for the last 35 years, HR departments everywhere have created a culture of questionnaires determined to uncover, isolate, and nurture their company’s engagement.

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There’s a very good chance you’ve been pinged and asked sometime in the past few months to fill out your Deel engagement survey, or your ThriveSparrow, SurveyMonkey, Workleap, Paycom, Lattice, People Element, or Engagedly. Software companies generated almost a billion dollars in 2023 selling and administering third-party engagement surveys to corporations everywhere. Peakon sold to Workday in 2021 for $700 million. A 2021 fundraising round catapulted the Melbourne, Australia-founded engagement startup Culture Amp to unicorn status, with a $1.5 billion valuation. The action is picking up, as increasingly dispersed post-COVID workforces have exacerbated the need for more vibe checks. If you’re in the business of soliciting opinions from employees, business is booming.

Less satisfied with employee satisfaction surveys are many of the employees taking them. Some two-thirds of US employees believe their companies don’t respond to engagement surveys in a meaningful way, according to a Quantum Workplace survey of more than a thousand workers. “Employee surveys mostly seem like a way for the executive suite to pat themselves on the back,” Nick Gaudio, the creative director at the Austin-based chatbot startup Manychat, tells me. “They want to believe in the power of anonymity to induce honesty, but at the end of the day, the power dynamic is always there, hanging over the head of their employees.”

While I experienced a surprising assertion of this power dynamics firsthand — my bosses didn’t like my answers, and tried to do something about it — in general, the people I spoke to for this story placed surveys in the taxonomic rank of workplace annoyances somewhere around “filling out timesheets.” Surveys can be annoying because they’re persistent, doubly so when you perceive that your employers won’t do much with the results. This can lead to survey fatigue, where the response rate falls off a cliff after being asked to submit too many.

When you’re constantly filing your anonymous grievances into an anonymous digital suggestion box, you may begin to wonder not if the survey will help improve your workplace, but if you aren’t perhaps participating in a kind of “snitchware.” Are you voluntarily telling on yourself?

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If we survey the history of surveys, we find that they were once considered novel, exciting, and based in real utility, much as the kanban project management board was born out of a working system in a real factory. Before World War I, most bosses were primarily concerned with their employees’ external lives and work outcomes — the inner toils and happiness quotients mattered very little, as the historian Sanford Jacoby wrote in a 2008 paper called “Employee Attitude Surveys in Historical Perspective.” But strikes and wartime labor shortages gave the workforce some modicum of power. This gave the educational psychologist J. David Houser the perfect platform to take the “consumer attitude studies” he’d been doing on behalf of public utilities into an entirely new field of study: employee satisfaction and morale.

While anonymity can lend itself to candor and equity, it sometimes fails in the way of promoting actual conversation and trust.

By the early 1940s, satisfaction surveys found a champion in the armed forces. Because soldier morale began to be considered paramount to defense success, the military took the results of personnel surveys seriously. This led to some drastic changes, including introducing combat badges, requiring psychological evaluations for returned soldiers, and even helping along the eventual desegregation of the armed forces. (Today, the government’s Office of Personnel Management notably conducts agency- and government-wide surveys as a resource for the public trust.) Decades later, Kahn, “the godfather of employee engagement,” set up a brilliant framework for understanding employee satisfaction outside the binary of happy/sad.

That same anonymity that Gaudio railed against can also promote a kind of equity. Jenna Eichberg, the chief people officer at AlertMedia, tells me that because surveys aggregate an entire organization’s feedback, you don’t have to overindex your worry about the loudest outliers. “You can’t chase one person. You’re here to serve a majority of your workforce,” she says, and the beauty of the big dataset is that you can hear just as much from shy employees, or from “people who’re different than the ones who mostly talk to you in person.” Phil Wilburn, the VP of people analytics at Workday, agrees. A survey, he tells me over email, “gives people who might not feel comfortable speaking up in a meeting — whether they’re introverted, more junior, or part of an underrepresented group — a safe space to share their thoughts. And it helps managers respond to those concerns thoughtfully, without putting anyone on the spot.”

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Still, Eichberg says, if your employees don’t feel heard, it’s because you’re not making them feel heard. “The biggest mistake organizations make is they do all these surveys and they collect all this data, but they don’t actually do something with it,” she says. “Or they do something with it, and they don’t go back and tell their workforce what they did with it.” The head of people at a small LA-based startup tells me that his organization similarly seems to freeze whenever a surprising result or answer pops out of the survey black box. “I tell my CEO that by the time a comment winds up in the survey, it’s already tried to reach you some other way,” he says. Surveys, he continues, are “only as good as the relationships between the people in the company and only as effective as the executives who have to do something about it.”

So while anonymity can lend itself to candor and equity, it might still sometimes fail in the way of promoting actual conversation and trust. Consider a 2021 survey from The Workforce Institute that found that only 37% of entry-level employees believe their colleagues are completely honest in their answers and assessments. If 43% of workers fear retaliation for speaking up at work, per a survey from the Institute of Business Ethics, anonymity can only help so much. In the same way remote employees have learned to keep their Slack icon “green,” to avoid suspicion of blowing off work, some workers have self-taught to never be entirely honest with their HR surveys. Last year at Amazon, CEO Andy Jassy issued a memo requiring five-days-a-week RTO, touching on connection and communication as principal tenets for this decision. Enough workers were dissatisfied enough to launch their own internal survey about RTO, an ironic Uno reverse card usage of the employee questionnaire to critique how little they felt the self-declared “Earth’s Best Employer” was listening.

A former boss once lamented to me that surveys are, by design, akin to “interviewing for pain” — regardless of their intention, they tend to draw out complaints and gripes that aren’t as serious as they seem. This may be true, but when you consider the total anonymity of the survey, how is a boss supposed to tell the genuine complaint from the Reddit-like bloviating? In a work world with increasingly labyrinthine and opaque hiring processes, the crisis of “ghost jobs,” and built on the legacy of Michael Scott hating Toby, it’s not surprising that we’re mired in an ongoing HR credibility crisis, with so many workers rejecting the supposed efficacy and value of something as supposedly useful as surveys.

When I ask William Kahn about this hierarchical arrangement and fear of self-reporting, he tells me that “ideally, there would be no need for surveys that are in the service of helping managers understand the experiences, thoughts, and insights of their workers.” In an open, trusting workplace, he says, “communication would flow freely based on the idea that the work and healthy relationships matter more than the need of managers to be adored and obeyed.” Even so, he adds, “surveys would still be useful to get quick checks on the results of interventions designed to enable workers to fully engage their work.”

I ended up not taking my CEO’s stunning buyout offer. I was a diligent, productive, and engaged worker, and I believe the CEO was conflating and confusing this engagement with my happiness. Kahn tells me that “highly engaged members are satisfied with their roles and experiences,” but “whether they are ‘happy’ or not — which has as much to do with the totality of their lives — is a different matter.” More importantly, that CEO seemed to see the survey results as an end point, evidence of some unfixable condition, and not some part of a workforce to maintain, nurture, and encourage. They supposed that if only we could have more engaged workers, we’d be better off, without contending that the survey revealed opportunity, not a definitive answer. It was, ironically, the moment I thought of most often when I did make the decision to leave the following year.

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Matt Alston‘s writing has appeared in Wired, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Believer. He trained as a civil engineer, and now works as a copywriter in tech. He lives in Maine with his wife and daughter.

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This as-to-told-to essay is bassed on a conversation with Martina SmidoaA 29-YEAR-Old Digital Nomad Living in Koh Samui, Thailand. IT HAS BEEN EDIted for Length and Clarity.

At 25, i felt trapped in my corplate job.

I was working 9-to-5 as a project manager in the automotive Field in the Czech Republic. With an hourlong Commute each way, it felt like i was always eather at work or on my way there.

One day, it hit me: there has to be another way to live. So quit.

I DECIDE TO FINT A REMOTE JOB AND LIVE ABROAD. I didn’t have a plan B. i to told myself that i’d figure it out, and off I was to Asia. I’d Visited before, and it felt like the right place to start over.

I Spent Half a Year in Bali before Traveling Around the Region, Including to Countries Like Vietnam and Malaysia. But Thailand Stack With The Most.

It was the People, The Food, and the Lifestyle. I felt comfortable here – almost like home – so decideed to stay.

After spending Time in Chiang Mai, About 450 Miles North of Bangkok, and Meeting My Boyfriend in Phuket, We decided to move to time Samui Together.

I WANTED TO EXPERIENCE ISLAND LIFE But have access to modern amenities

Living in Samui, you have everything you need – plus Peace and Quiet.

There are part of samui that are well-developed and attract many tourists, but if you travel to the Other Side of the Island, You’ll Find Villages that Frozen in Time.

A year Ago, my boyfriend and i moved into a two-bedroom condo in BANGRAK, in the northeastern region of the island. We found it on Facebook Marketplace.

I knew i wanted to be in a good location. This is a small island, i didn’t want to travel an hour to get to the gym or someone needed to be.

WE PAY 55,000 Thai Baht, or About $ 1,700, Each Month in Rent. We have a common pool, but the view from the balcony sold me on the unit.

I have gotten to Know Some Neighbors Becausee of KEEP Bumping Into, But Because We are on Such a Holiday Island, Many of the Apartments Are Airbnbs.

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It was hard for with to make friends

There are different communities of People on the Island, but they are offten a bit Older than I am.

I met all of my friends eiter through the gym or through other friends. While the Digital Nomad Community of Young People is Slowly Growing, Mary Don’t Stay for A Long Time. That’s the sad part of this lifestyle – you meet amazing people and thatn they’re gone.

But the loocals are really opened to hellping you, so i reach out i need something.

Do Get by Just by Speaking English, But of Believe My Experience here Wauld Be Much Better if I Could Speak Thai – Thats Why i’m Planning to Learn the Language.

My life here is so different from back home

Now I Work In Operational Management. But Since My Clients Are in Europe, of Work European Hours, which Start at 2 PM in Thailand.

I have the whole morning to mySelf. I’ll go to the gym, have a nice breaakfast, head to a coffee shop, or meet up with my friends.

I Start Work in the AFTHNOON AND UTUALLY FINISH UP AROUND 6 OR 7 PM THEN IT’S TIME TO HAVE DINNER OR TO A WALK ON THE BEACH.

Back Home, Everybody was rushing. I saw stressing faces all the time, but it was their fault.

In order to meet with friends, you need to schedule it three months in advance becusee’s so busy. But here, People are so chill.

My mom came to samui to the visits with Last Year. It was her first time in Asia, and she experiences Culture shock.

I Remember Driving Her From the Airport, and She Suced with Incredulously, “You Like It Here?” It took her two weeks on the island to change her mind, and in the end, she didn’t want to leave.

Living ABROAD BROADENED MY Horizons

I’m going to be 30 soon, and i don’t plan on having kids yet. I’m not sura if i ever will, and i think that something is won’t resonate with my friends back home.

Before i start traveling, i didn’t think about it as a choice. You grow up, you get a career, then you get a family, and than’s how life works.

When I Started Meeting People Who Made the Decision to Pursue Different Careers or Not Have Families, “Oh, Its A Choice.”

I try to reflect on my life every now and then. I’ve been living in Thailand for four years, and even today, i still have moments when I can’t believe that is my life.

I don’t plan on the back in the foreseeable future. Of Course, I miss my family, but i don’t miss the lifestyle.

In the Era of he saturation, Openai’s Form VP of Marketing Expects Human Taste and Craft to Distinguish BetWeen Success and Failure As Businesses Implement the Technology.

“TASTE IS GOING TO BECOME A DISTRIBUTION FACTOR IN THE AGE OF AI BECAUS THERE GOING TO BE MOCH DRIVEL THAT IS Generated by it,” Said Krythika Shankarraman, A Former Openai and Stripe Employe which is currently an entreneur in resisency at the firm firm, on a rect. do Lenny’s podcast. “That Power is at anyone’s fingertips.”

AI tools, in theory, make it that much easier to deploy and market a product. To rise Above the oceans of Companies Vying for Consumer Attention, Shankarraman Believes Human Employees Should Be Involved Throughout of the Process.

“The Companies that are going to distinguish themelves are the ons that show their craft,” she said. “That Show Their TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRODUCT, the True Undersanding of their Customer, and Connect the two in Meaningful Ways.”

Companies Should Be USING he to “Augment” thyir existting effhorts, she added.

“To me, that is going to be a real differentiator for not only great marketers but great companies to stand out in the Field,” Shankarraman Said.

Shankarraman Said She Believes he is a breakthrough tool, and if you’re not already workshopping how to best it to your advantage, you’ll be in danger of Falling Beber.

“What It Means to Market A Product, What It Means to Show As a Fantastic Operator, is in and of Itself Changing,” She Said. Understanding the “underlying mechanics” of what you’re trying to achieves is Key, she added, and helps to avoid over-relliance on he.

“THIS IS WHY I WAUDED STILL BE A REPORT FIRM Believer in Stem Education, is that you are understand the fundamental concepts,” Shankarraman Said. “And then you can have a Choice and Optionality in How You Decide to Apply Those Concepts, but the concepts themes have to be there in the Foundations.”

Going Forward, Shankarraman Believes We Should Be Encourage Learning for Its Own Sake, Whill Will Make the Absorption of Critical Concepts Easier.

“Because Being of that Growth Mindseset, if you go to school just to the grads or finish the courssework, it’s a very different Mindsen than you go to scchool THose concepts and to underestand how to apply.

Shankarraman did not immediately respond to a Request for comment by Business Insider Prior to Publication.

And while shankarraman ultimately said it’s on the individual to be Accountable for their he usage, she is also hopes that companies keep respectible in mind as their models advance, Rather than leaning into “One-upmanship.”

“Long Story Short, what i’m trying to say that is all of these companies have to think in a much more long-term oriented fashion,” she said. “Becouse it not about a race of the best chatbot and the best outputs. It is About, How does he was a positive force for humanitity?”

President Donald Trump Said Tuesday and Waled Pardon Todd and Julie Chrisley, The Reality TV Stars Serving Time in Prison for Bank Fraud and Tax Evision.

Margo Martin, Trump’s Communications Aide, Posted a video on x on Tuesday Showing the President on a call with the chrisleys’ eldess doughter, savannah chrisley.

“Your parents are going to be free and clean, and i hope we can by tomorrow,” Trump Said from the Oval Office in the Video. “I don’t know but give say my regards and i wish say a good life.”

“I Hear they’re Terrific People, This Should not Have Happened,” Trump Added.

An attorney for the family, Jay Surgent, Told Business Insider in a Statement “The Chrcris Have Correctly Been Pardoned by President Trump.”

Savannah Chrisley Shared Her Excitement on Social Media, Saying She Expects Her Parents to Be Home by Wednesday or Thursday.

“I have sten so many tears,” Said savannah chrisley in a video on her Instagram Account. “The President Called with Personally As I was walking into Sam’s Club and Notified with That Was Signing Paperwork for Both my parents.”

“President Trump Didn’t JUST Commute their Sentions, he gave say a full unconidional pardon,” the 27 -ear-op Said, adding that she will be picking her her parents in a pink maga hat.

Savannah Chrisley has been an active suport of Trump and Campained for the Now President During His 2024 Presidential Campaign, Through Events Like The “Team Trump’s Women Tour.”

Savannah Chrisley Had appealed for Her PARENTS ‘PARDON FEWS SPEAKING AT THE 2024 Republican National Convention.

The chrisleys were convicted on the bank fraud and tax evasion couns in 2022 and sentiment to a combo 19 years in prison, 12 for todd and seven for Julie. Both have have had ther Expectted Release Dates Moved Up Sine Reporting to Federal Prison in 2023.

Their reality show “Chrisley Knows Best” was Canceled Following Their Sentenning, With The Final Episodes Airing in 2023.

The White House Did Not Respond to A Request for Comment from Business Insider.

Savannah chrisley didn’t Respond to a Request for Comment.