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Washington drivers are getting hit from two directions at the gas pump, and there is no relief in sight. The Iran war is sending prices surging nationwide, but Washington drivers are paying nearly $1.21 more per gallon than the average American, and experts say the state’s Climate Commitment Act is a big reason why. The …
1971. The year Nixon took the dollar off gold. House: $25,200. Now: $410,000. Car: $3,560. Now: $48,000. Harvard: $2,600/yr. Now: $57,000/yr. Gas: $0.36/gal. Now: $2.88/gal. Average income went from $10,000 to $60,000. Everything got 8–22x more expensive. Wages only went 6x. But sure, it’s the avocado toast. @grok so nixon did a big mistake??? That …
Old enough to remember. pic.twitter.com/nj4emql7a4 — BellaliberTea (@bellaliberteaa) December 8, 2025 How can Weingarten blame Trump after opposing his reopening plan in 2020?
🚨 WOW! President Trump just DROPPED THE MIC on "No Kings" "By the way, I'm not a KING. I work my A*S OFF to make our country great. That's all it is." "It's a joke. I looked at the people…all the brand new signs. It was paid for by Soros and radical left lunatics…we're… pic.twitter.com/AKkOCz0wRc …
Facepalm: Most people are familiar with the frustration of sitting through a lengthy conference call only to reach a disappointing outcome. A US Air Force F-35 pilot must have been particularly upset after his 50-minute airborne call with Lockheed Martin engineers did little to prevent the plane plunging to the ground soon afterward. Thankfully for …
The shooter fired dozens of rounds at CDC Building 21. Windows shattered. Employees scrambled for cover. He believed the COVID vaccine made him sick. “The shooter in the deadly gunfire near the CDC headquarters thought he was sick from the COVID vaccine, a law enforcement source told CNN.” https://www.newsweek.com/police-believe-cdc-shooter-thought-covid-vaccine-made-him-sick-report-2111117 He aimed directly at the CDC. …
Republicans just ended Federal car mileage mandates. The rules added $6,000 to the cost of a car. They siphoned billions from American car companies to foreigners. And they killed 100,000 Americans by forcing them to drive tin cans. pic.twitter.com/iaVt8bH4IM — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) August 6, 2025 Republicans just ended federal car mileage rules …
“Europe’s not preparing for war—it’s preparing for collapse.” 🎯 “These elites [in France, Germany and the UK] aren’t gearing up for war with Russia because they care about freedom—they’re doing it because their grip on power is slipping, and fast.” “Their economies are breaking, the middle class is crushed, people can’t afford rent, food or …
@JasmineForUS has contributed to Democrats polling 19%. Just keep her talking through the mid-terms. — Roscoe Smith IV (@LoneStarLegendX) July 12, 2025
Told ya they are freaking out… “Simply connecting all the dots now, everything points toward UBS as potentially the cause of the recent sharp increase in silver prices. This pressure on the bank joins the one the lender inherited from the reckless merger with Credit Suisse the… https://t.co/ZXbJddMmzN pic.twitter.com/jtc6SDuGQ4 — JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) June 19, …
The Tanning Tax Repeal Act of 2025 scraps a 15-year-old ObamaCare relic that crushed small businesses while failing miserably to meet revenue targets. The 10% excise tax on indoor tanning services was projected to rake in $2.7B over a decade but barely delivered $91M by 2012.… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) June 8, 2025
This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout. The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold. The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. …
About four months after a notorious hacking group claimed to have stolen an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal information from a major data broker, a member of the group has reportedly released most of it for free on an online marketplace for stolen personal data. The breach, which includes Social Security numbers and other sensitive …
For the better part of a year in 2017, I could barely will myself to leave my house. I was experiencing a prolonged depressive episode with daily, sometimes hourly, panic attacks, and I couldn’t see the point in continuing on. Many things helped me survive. Talking it through in therapy several times a week was …
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin blamed Monday’s solar eclipse, Friday’s earthquake and the expected cicada breeding season on “climate change.” “All those things together would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists or something is really going on,” she said Monday. A 4.8-magnitude earthquake was felt across New York and New Jersey …
Maui faces a homelessness crisis blamed on Biden’s FEMA, forcing residents into roadside tents. FEMA’s housing efforts fail, pushing landlords to evict tenants for FEMA occupants, skyrocketing rent prices. Displaced residents receive no aid amid job losses, while vacant short-term rentals compound the issue. 🚨 THE BIDEN ADMIN HAS CREATED A MASSIVE HOMELESS CRISIS ON …
Crime is rampant in California because the socialist Democrats hate law enforcement and promote the no-bail revolving door of violent crime. As long as Democrats have supermajority control, our cities will be a blight and our lives at the mercy of gangs. https://t.co/8UqP5eR9Hz — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 18, 2023 https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1736839296332808626
by Chris Black I am not surprised. At all. Are you? Israeli soldiers "undoubtedly" shot Israeli civilians, survivor of kibbutz raid says in explosive interview Israeli forces "eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” said Yasmin Porat, who had fled the nearby Nova rave By @davidsheen & @AliAbunimah https://t.co/ruQX4tMVyr pic.twitter.com/dm3hiWQct5 — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 16, 2023 …
ABC News: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/vivek-ramaswamy-changed-characterization-jan-6/story?id=102602093 View post on imgur.com POLITICO: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/12/republicans-victimhood-mythology-elections-00055908 View post on imgur.com https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/08/29/ramaswamy-pence-jan-6-capitol-attack/70697623007/ View post on imgur.com Did Vivek Ramaswamy put both of these in his book? Did he change it at some point? Or is the media just putting out misinformation again? h/t dr0id
Babies are being stillborn because expectant women cannot afford to attend appointments amid the cost of living crisis, a report warns. Researchers are calling for new funding to help ensure mums-to-be do not miss important consultations and are able to properly care for themselves. Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership and Bradford Teaching …
The fake news media has been in a frenzy lately, feverishly reporting on how “airplane turbulence” has greatly increased, and the reason why is… you guessed it… Climate Change (with two capital “C’s”). Take a look at some of these headlines: If you listen to the “experts” and the media, you’d think everything under the …
by Chris Black We can now put a name and a face to Climate Change. His name is Edward Wackerman, and his face is in that mugshot in the article. New York Post: A 71-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly starting a devastating massive forest fire in Yosemite National Park that was previously thought to have …