Search for office products, from boxes to broomsticks, and you'll likely get buried in ads for Uline. The listed prices are high, but the marketing is omnipresent on search engines, and the company reports $11 billion a year in revenues. I'm glad I was never tempted: it turns out every cent sent their way supports the founders' right-wing political agenda, as Refuse Uline details. Come for the activism, stay for the highly-legible web brutalist stylings.
OK, SO WHY SHOULD I "REFUSE ULINE?" The Uihleins have used their wealth to funnel millions of dollars into the most extreme right-wing politicians and movements in the United States.
The Uihleins are ranked by the donation-tracking site OpenSecrets.org as the third largest donors in the United States to outside political spending organiz

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