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Department heads permanently firing federal workers as soon as the Government shuts down. https://t.co/WVZbjr6xOs pic.twitter.com/Ev58sjcOIV — Paul (@WomanDefiner) October 1, 2025 Here is the trap Democrats are walking into with the shutdown. OMB can reduce discretionary agencies in force, i.e., instead of layoffs, they can fire and reduce the workforce. When the agencies are funded …
Tony Blair’s think tank wants digital IDs to turn neighbours into informants, including for noise complaints… With each complaint contributing to your ‘community impact’ score. The proposal is buried in a report released just two days before Keir Starmer announced plans for a mandatory digital ID. The Prime Minister is saying publicly that the government …
Calling the top byu/seeyalaterdingdong inREBubble A Once Unstoppable Luxury Housing Market Is Starting to Crack byu/McFatty7 inREBubble Pending Home Sales Slide, But There Are Bright Spots: Buyers Have Bargaining Power, Starter-Home Sales Improving Pending U.S. home sales fell 1% year over year as mortgage rates ticked up after nine straight weeks of declines. Some would-be …
Ahead of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sentencing, prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence the music mogul to more than eleven years in prison. Combs’ team has asked for 14 months. Combs was convicted on prostitution charges over the summer but acquitted of more serious charges. NBC News’ Chloe Melas reports. Sean “Diddy” Combs was denied …
pic.twitter.com/9zgR2TqY0f — Dee Jersey Girl (@DianaSt13652967) October 2, 2025 🇺🇸 Eric Trump:"Cryptocurrency is going to replace traditional finance."Nobody wants to be on the Euro, no one wants to be on any of the Asian currencies, no one wants to be on any of the South American currencies, guess what everybody in the world wants? They …
Tax U.S. companies. Pay proceeds to taxpayers. Taxpayers pay higher prices on goods that are taxed more. Makes a lot of sense when you don’t think about it! — Reef Insights (@ReefInsights) October 2, 2025 We are in full-blown communism!The tariff tax on U.S. citizens is being given back as a stimulus check. pic.twitter.com/qx0rkr17MN — …
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment index has moved down to 55, a reading below 99% of historical data points going back to 1952. But at the same time, US Retail Sales grew 4.8% over the last year, outpacing inflation by 1.8%. We’ve never seen a disconnect this wide between what the US consumer is …
PENTAGON TO POLYGRAPH 5,000+ EMPLOYEES IN LEAK CRACKDOWN WarSec Hegseth plans mandatory lie detector tests and NDAs for everyone in Pentagon headquarters, from four-star generals to administrative assistants. Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg’s draft memo requires all Office of Defense Secretary and Joint Staff personnel to sign agreements prohibiting release of ANY non-public info without approval. …
US farmers are saying we “just need temporary help, until things get better.” Here’s the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CAN’T get better. Other countries are now fillingl China’s demand. We’ve walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it. The thing is, this isn't even the first time US …
Tweet reads: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill – in the Lords now. They don’t care if the refuseniks rebel against Digital ID. They are coming for the children What it does: Creates a single unique identifier (SUI) er … ID for every child, used across safeguarding & welfare systems, shared beyond local government. (Probably …
Mind blowing that investors still can’t see it. The market keeps getting bid up to unrealistic levels on rumors and empty hype. Greenspan once called this irrational exuberance. It always ends the same way badly. "AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 80% of earnings growth and 90% of capital spending …
Markets ripping higher into a shutdown isn’t strength … it’s proof the S&P 500 no longer trades on fundamentals. Liquidity, passive flows, and option mechanics have replaced cash flow and earnings. This isn’t history being made, it’s price discovery being euthanized. Markets ripping higher into a shutdown isn’t strength … it’s proof the S&P 500 …
Ukraine is no longer talking about defense in abstract terms, it is openly talking about striking the heart of Moscow itself. A senior general has said the goal is nothing less than cutting the lights in the Russian capital. This isn’t coded language or a vague warning, it is a plain threat aimed at the …
by David Haggith Who says there isn’t plenty of pork in the military budget? According to Hegseth, US military leadership is stuffed full of pork bellies. Investors couldn’t be more euphoric about the government shutdown today, taking the S&P up to yet another record in a long string of records. Warren Buffet, however, is not …
This tweet is real. “I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-teases-federal-cuts-amid-131228821.html
The American workforce is wobbling on the edge of a precipice yet Washington’s bickering shows no signs of slowing. In September the country lost 32,000 jobs a number that is only the visible tip of a larger unraveling. The figures are not just statistics they are people struggling to pay rent put food on the …
President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting “irreversible” cuts to programs important to Democrats. Rather than simply furlough employees, as is usually done during any lapse of funds, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt …
The math is brutal, and yet no one is screaming it from the rooftops. Ninety-seven percent of all stocks are held by the top 10 percent of Americans. Half of all equities are concentrated in the hands of the top 1 percent. That leaves the bottom 90 percent with three percent, and if you do …
If the shift accelerates, we could see a generation trapped in low-paying, unstable work while wealth concentrates in fewer hands, and social unrest flares where hope disappears. The next decade could make 2008 look like a warm-up, and nobody is ready for the consequences already stacking in plain sight. If you’re trying to compare today’s …
The government shutdown is not some background squabble in Washington. It is already bleeding into the country’s infrastructure in ways that feel small today but can rupture into something catastrophic tomorrow. Two Delta jets just clipped each other at LaGuardia, ripping a wing off one aircraft while both were still taxiing. That accident didn’t happen …
Multiple people stabbed at a synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester. North West Ambulance Service confirms a major incident, dispatching emergency resources to the scene. 'Multiple' people are stabbed at synagogue as suspect is shot by police and major incident is declared | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/NUQc1llVIQ — Michael Savage (@MichaelSav96275) October 2, 2025 🚨SUSPECTED TERROR ATTACK …
Right now six U.S. Navy E-6B “Mercury” aircraft — the planes that act as airborne nuclear command centers and strategic communications relays — are flying over U.S. airspace simultaneously. 🇺🇸 ☢️ Right now, six U.S. Navy E-6B Mercury aircraft are flying over U.S. airspace serving as airborne nuclear command centers and strategic comms relays. pic.twitter.com/btWLhC6NR4 …
#Ukraine has next ZERO chance to use US #Tomahawk missiles – Expert from Responsible Statecraft Tomahawks can be fired only from guided missile destroyers, Typhon system and specific submarines IOW, despite the rhetoric, Ukraine has no chance of getting them. pic.twitter.com/YS7mrmwTZP — Michael Ashura (@MichaelAshura) October 1, 2025 Tomahawks can be launched from guided missile …
by PlanetaryGovenor Since 1990, Australian house prices have increased more than almost anywhere else in the developed world. We’re not ‘more capitalist’ than the US. We’re not more ‘land-scarce’ than the UK. Yet somehow our housing market has been deliberately inflated into a bubble that locks generations out. Ask yourself: Who benefits from endlessly rising …
🚨HOLY COW: Karoline Leavitt has EXPOSED Nancy Pelosi for having a $413 MILLION DOLLAR net worth on a $174K salary in Congress. Last year, her portfolio grew 70 PERCENT! It sure would be a shame if this went viral. pic.twitter.com/x1BMSyCqs6 — Carter Hughes (@itscarterhughes) September 30, 2025 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has weighed …
BREAKING: Trump announces socialism for farmers. Because his ridiculous tariffs have hurt them so badly. pic.twitter.com/AGAbaWMCJc — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) October 1, 2025 🚨 Follow Along: Trump Losing Badly To China. Soybean Exports to China: 2024: $12.6 Billion.2025: $0 since May. No future orders This: Trump gives $20 billion bailout to Argentina. Then: China buys …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The lines of dominoes being toppled run through every nook and cranny of the economy. As we all know, the problem with euphoria is the inevitable collision with reality and the resulting disillusionment. But wait–it gets worse. The new love of your life, your savior who is going to make …
The government is not drifting toward shutdown. It is being driven into one. The White House has already moved from vague warnings to direct execution orders, and that single pivot changes everything. When top officials start saying “Two days. Imminent. Very soon,” they are no longer bargaining or posturing, they are laying out a timetable …
The Chief of Staff of the French Army stated forces must be ready as early as tonight for high intensity warfare. Wow. — WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) October 1, 2025 The French military have boarded the Russian shadow fleet tanker Boracay. The vessel is suspected to have been involved in hostile actions towards French Security. pic.twitter.com/Gl0ZQt33EL — …
Vietnam just shut down more than 86 million bank accounts. People did not get a warning. They did not get a choice. The State Bank of Vietnam said if you did not get a digital ID called VNeID, your money was gone. Millions of ordinary people, especially older folks and people in villages who cannot …