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Only 13 days left until the primary everyone. This is going to be a tight race, even though Massie still has the 3:1 edge in the betting markets. Please everyone do what you can to support this man until May 19 so we don’t lose our most steadfast representative for liberty in Congress. Even just subscribing to …
Wow this was the most brutal cooking of Epstein class. Iranians taking the LEGO movies next level everday 😭😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/T9GV3rGnSL — Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) April 9, 2026
There seems to be an international conspiracy to protects child abusers. There are way too many instances of these criminals getting awfully light sentences for committing the most horrible of crimes. This actually happened https://t.co/tomPykNZXW — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2026 h/t Effective_Reach_9289
Jeffrey Epstein's estate agrees to $35M settlement in victim class action https://t.co/CBkI42b5De pic.twitter.com/IrNROlAaGo — New York Post (@nypost) February 20, 2026 Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has agreed to pay as much as $35 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused two of the disgraced financier’s advisers of aiding and abetting his sex trafficking of …
ICE WATCH: Students are being trained by union teachers to say ‘Fuck ICE.’ pic.twitter.com/uwv3T51h7H — @amuse (@amuse) February 18, 2026
Thousands of middle class Americans are trading their blood plasma for money at plasma centers around the U.S. NBC News’ Shannon Pettypiece details the demand for the product and speaks to some donors about why they do it. Factcheck: Multiple reputable sources — including The Atlantic, The Guardian, Bloomberg, and academic studies — have documented …
by Penny1974 A co-worker of mine is literally homeless. Sleeping in her car. Shows up to work every day, does her job, keeps it together. She’s not lazy. She’s not unskilled. She just makes too much money to qualify for help. No housing programs. No food assistance. No emergency grants. Why? Because she makes around …
via halturnerradioshow America’s household debt hit $18.59 trillion with a $197 billion Q3 spike this year. Many people are calling this “the elite’s silent war on the middle class.” That’s $136,000 per household and an increase of $1,500. Mortgages, car loans, and credit cards are chaining families while the politicians in DC print trillions for …
Affordability of necessities in the US continues to deteriorate byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts For context… SmartAsset studied how much families need to live a "normal" life in every US state. (covering needs, wants, AND saving 20%) The results are terrifying: — Brennan Schlagbaum, CPA (@Budgetdog_) December 3, 2025 40. Texas ($204,922)39. North Dakota ($207,334)38. Michigan ($207,584)37. South …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Borrowing more to maintain spending is hanging on by one’s fingernails, not middle-class security. The middle class is cracking, but if you want a statistic that “proves” this, there isn’t one. The cracking isn’t a statistic,it’s the culmination of observations logged over the past 15 years about these critical measures …
by Michael The middle class in the United States is being systematically destroyed. I know that this may sound like an obvious statement to many of you, but when I first started writing about this more than a decade ago it wasn’t an obvious statement. For years, the middle class was slowly eroding, but now …
Hard to pretend this is normal when a top university is saying freshmen can’t do middle-school math. This is actually quite shocking. When I was in high school, I was taking pre-calculus classes in high school and placed directly into calculus as a freshman in college. No my school wasn’t special, just a normal high …
New reporting reveals the Class of 2026 will graduate into the worst job market seen since the first year of the COVID pandemic. pic.twitter.com/YU0GJdZ80S — FactPost (@factpostnews) November 14, 2025 Companies Predict 2026 Will Be the Worst College Grad Job Market in Five Years Hires from the Class of 2026 will stay largely flat, employers …
The middle class dream didn’t disappear, it just learned to smile through the struggle. Middle Class wealth is a mirage. Your friend with the nice car? It’s financed. Your cousin’s vacation? On a credit card. Your coworker living “alone”? Three roommates you never see. This is the real America. Struggling quietly, flexing publicly. — middleclassparty …
Golden Age story is unraveling under the weight of real household suffering. You notice how nobody admitted inflation was real until it became impossible to hide? Wait, so Trump's "Golden Age" claim on the economy is now being directly contradicted by his own Treasury Secretary? What changed in the last 48 hours? Bessent is sound …
Washington Post editorial says Mamdani ‘drops the mask’ after election win, offers ‘seething’ victory speech. The Washington Post editorial board asserted that a “new era of class warfare has begun” in New York City after Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won last week’s election — criticizing what it described as his “change in character” since the campaign. In a Saturday editorial titled …
https://twitter.com/HistoryBuff7986/status/1986262637093789752 You do realize that billionaires and millionaires can move very easily. And you do also realize that the middle class and the poor can't move so easily. If you drive all of the job providers and wealth creators out of your city, then what? — Dostoevsky's Heart aka A Well In Zion (@NotWellInZion) November …
New home sales in China collapsed by 42% in October when compared to last October, representing more than just another setback for the beleaguered Chinese real estate market, the world’s largest asset class. This is a major problem for Chinese banks, not that they were expecting different. So, we see interest rates are back to …
The market now reflects America right now. The 1% thrive while everyone else collapses because they’re tailored towards the middle class consumer. https://t.co/zayjxGcTJ9 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 31, 2025 iPhone growth in China is sliding, and margins are getting thinner.In the U.S., growth is modest — around 5%.The only silver lining? $AAPL isn’t burdened …
🚨 2026 RECESSION ODDS UP TO 49% pic.twitter.com/sb2XNapYJW — Micah (@micah_erfan) October 28, 2025 So if we layoff everyone to increase margins this year, who will have money left to buy your products next year? https://t.co/1h0rTviPXw pic.twitter.com/2kAtdSgs2B — Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_) October 28, 2025 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1983199726452494695 The labor market is clearly weakening. Recent layoffs: 1. UPS: 48,000 …
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The top 1% of earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class. byu/TonyLiberty inFluentInFinance Every rate cut will continue to drive the share up. This is incredible: The share of the top 10% of US consumers now account for 49.2% of all consumer spending, the highest level in data dating back to 1989. …
pic.twitter.com/pVKDFKqntq — no pullbacks in inflation (@no_pullbacks) September 17, 2025 and then there's this forthcoming problem pic.twitter.com/gL79bspbz7 — Scott Tindle (@scott_tindle) September 17, 2025
Without giving numbers this chart is my personal sales metrics over the last 12 months. Something happened in Feb. pic.twitter.com/awTFN5xeM6 — TrustDansCharts (@DizzleTheRizzle) August 27, 2025 This isn’t growth, it’s inflation’s disguise. Negative investment and exports show the economy’s underlying weakness. — MacroInsight360 (@MacroInsight360) August 28, 2025 Here’s an interesting trend from the retail sector: …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, Truck sales plunge amidst tariff concerns and uncertainty. Class 8 Truck Orders Hit 15-Year Low CJC reports Class 8 Truck Orders Hit 15-Year Low FTR Transportation Intelligence marked declines of 25% month-over-month and 36% year-over-year, with 8,900 units booked last month. While June typically sees a modest month-over-month uptick, FTR …
The U.S. economy is no longer driven by the middle class. It is carried by the top 20 percent. The top 10 percent alone now account for nearly half of all consumer spending. This is not a passing trend. It is a complete takeover. “The top 10 percent of U.S. households… account for 49.7 percent …
by Michael Everybody agrees that the rich have been getting even richer in recent years. But what about all the rest of us? Unfortunately, it turns out that flooding the system with money was really good for the wealthy, but it has made things much worse for almost everyone else. Poverty is rapidly growing all …
Across China, an entire generation is learning to live without expecting progress. Not just on buying homes. Not just on getting married. They’re disconnecting from the promise that tomorrow will be different. And they’re learning to find peace in that silence. The Chinese middle class has collapsed. It’s not collapsing. It’s not struggling. It has …
They never meant for you to understand the tax code. That’s not a flaw. That’s the feature. It’s a system designed to keep ordinary people tangled in forms, deadlines, and fear, while the powerful move quietly through loopholes, shelters, and carveouts you’ll never see. The Internal Revenue Service stands like a monument to this engineered …
by Michael Do you ever feel like you are “functionally unemployed”? If so, you are definitely not alone. There are lots of people out there that cannot pay the bills each month even though they have jobs. In fact, there are lots of people out there that literally cannot afford to put a roof over …