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$21 BILLION IN OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES CAN’T BE TRACED TO ACTUAL PEOPLE Government Accountability Office decided to see if anyone’s actually watching the store. So they made 20 completely fictitious applicants – no real people, no documentation, just testing if the system would notice. 18 of them are still actively covered. September 2025. Monthly payout: over …
The long-running saga of Saab Gripen fighters for Ukraine took a dramatic new turn today, with the Swedish and Ukrainian leaders unveiling a plan to export as many as 150 Gripens to Kyiv. While no timeline has been set, and the financing is yet to be determined, the deal, if it goes ahead, would provide …
SHAKE SHACK IS GIVING OUT FREE BURGERS — IT’S NATIONAL BURGER MONTH, NOT A DRILL Shake Shack is celebrating National Burger Month by doing what other burger joints should be doing: giving you free meat. From May 1 to June 1, you can score a different free burger each week – if you spend $10 …
$AMZN wants suppliers to eat the tariffs pic.twitter.com/R19xrdGogA — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) April 29, 2025 AMAZON TO SHOW COST OF TRUMP TARIFFS ON EACH PRODUCT: PUNCHBOWL — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) April 29, 2025 🇨🇳TEMU SLAPS 145% IMPORT CHARGES AFTER TRUMP TARIFFS Temu just dropped a bomb on U.S. shoppers—adding “import charges” around 145% because …
It's a bear market, ya know. $SPY pic.twitter.com/Pl6avZCdza — Steven Strazza (@sstrazza) March 28, 2025 BofA Fund Manager Survey reports largest drop in US equity allocation on record Time for a sentiment check… 1) Back in early March, the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) survey showed over 60% of investors were bearish. That’s only …
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The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated a contract with a nonprofit that was paid millions each month to operate a Texas overflow facility that sat empty, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In a social media post, DOGE said a former US Customs and Immigration Enforcement employee and Biden transition …
An Indiana pizza delivery man has been left stunned after a police officer raised $42,000 for him when a wealthy local only tipped $2 to deliver a pie in a snowstorm. Connor Stephanoff, 20, of Brownsburg, parked his grandma’s car at the top of the hill and made the nearly mile-long trek to deliver a …
i am saying Fartcoin is worth nothing and will go to zero. fuck you and your memes. PVP draining each other when we should be upliftin' and shit https://t.co/ukYlPn6tqH — Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) January 2, 2025 https://twitter.com/leadlagreport/status/1874888207080554993 Bitcoin Update Head and shoulders depicted. Soon Knees and toes. pic.twitter.com/ZBY4t4yG1a — The Great Martis (@great_martis) January 2, …
NYC has a controversial new plan to help families move out of its shelter system, and it involves paying $4000 of their moving related expenses. Although this program isn’t yet open to single adult asylum seekers, it is also limited to only families who have federal work permission… the very thing many economists said people …
The Top 20 Most Embarrassing Moments from the Entire DNC I can’t believe these actually happened. 🧵 THREAD pic.twitter.com/3UXDvmH6kE — The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 23, 2024 #20 – Joe Biden battles the teleprompter and loses. “Women are now without electrical… not allowed, excuse me, not without electoral (long pause) or political power.” (Biden …
BREAKING: Trader Joe's has increased the price of bananas for the first time in more than two decades — the price is now 23 cents apiece up from the 19-cent price set in place in the early 2000s, per Axios. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) March 28, 2024 Trader Joe’s customers may experience sticker shock the next …