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California Democrats are hiring new San Diego Enforcement Officers to visit every home in San Diego every year These new enforcement officers called “Lid lifters” come to your home and will lift your trash cans lids to ensure you are recycling properly They are paid $70k per year plus benefits. This is real and they’re …
A Waikato district mayor has hit back at Auckland mayor Wayne Brown after he said it should send its homeless to the countryside. “It must be nice having a city so flash you can evict people for not matching the decor,” Waikato District’s Aksel Bech said. This comes after Government ministers last week said they …
The Senate took the first step to end the government shutdown on Sunday after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies, angering many in their caucus who say Americans want them to continue the fight. Read more here: https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-trump-641e7e2324f261da72395b604d9540e8
So the government stayed closed this long just to schedule one subsidy vote. BREAKING: Senators have agreed on a plan to end the government shutdown, according to Politico. The Senate will advance the House’s stopgap measure and proceed with a funding bill that provides full-year funding for the VA, Agriculture, and military construction. Funding for… …
The Federal Aviation Administration is forcing airlines to cut 10% of their flights at 40 of the busiest airports across the nation to reduce pressure on air traffic controllers during the ongoing government shutdown and ensure that flying remains safe. https://apnews.com/article/faa-government-shutdown-flight-cuts-airports-list-a11237fe6d6e14bed0935930dffed72e
Kennedy on U.S. Senate floor: Stop paying Members of Congress during government shutdowns 2 bills presented: both with no pay during shut down, one without back pay when government reopens. He states that Obama used the same in 2013 shutdown.
The market always breaks in sentiment before it breaks in price. This looked like the moment the confidence slipped. about timeburn it all down the way Palantir helps its clients do pic.twitter.com/eXXiK2OoXI — Alkindus (@a1kindus) November 5, 2025 https://twitter.com/TommyThornton/status/1986433742211055702 A bailout. They want a bailout. https://t.co/yjmrbU8Mse — Lee Hepner (@LeeHepner) November 6, 2025 Open AI …
Via International Man International Man: Gold has seen a dramatic rise recently. What do you think is driving this surge—inflation, geopolitical instability, loss of faith in fiat currency like the US dollar? Doug Casey: The answer is all of the above. First, inflation is not retail price rises, as most people think. The rise in prices is …
And now they want a bailout already… pic.twitter.com/tB6DtpKj74 — Curtis Lemay (@CurtisLemay) November 5, 2025 Securing government backed bailout before they actually need them, you can't make this up. — blake (@blakestonks) November 6, 2025 A top market analyst’s warning in late October about a looming “prisoner’s dilemma” and an “AI wobble” in the stock …
If this is true, the shutdown wasn’t gridlock, it was strategy BREAKING: Sen. Markwayne Mullin just outrageously revealed Chuck Schumer held a BACK-ROOM MEETING and demanded Democrat senators wait until after tonight’s elections to reopen the government “Because they were afraid their base wouldn’t show up today in Virginia, NJ, NYC.” TRULY DISGUSTING. “Last week, …
China just shut the door on foreign AI chips.No more U.S.-built silicon in state-backed servers. This isn’t just policy-it’s protection.Of sovereignty.Of data.Of destiny. What it means:• Nvidia, Intel, AMD lose ground in China• Domestic chipmakers like Huawei benefit•… — The Master Builder (@KingsProtocol) November 5, 2025 (Reuters) – The Chinese government has issued guidance requiring …
The prolonged U.S. government shutdown is putting millions of Americans at risk of missing their November food stamp benefits, a vital lifeline for low-income households. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, stated in a memo on Sunday that no benefits will be issued on Nov. 1, leaving the program’s …
Schumer’s silence on Mamdani isn’t strategy—it’s cowardice. He knows endorsing a socialist who wants to defund NYPD, freeze rents into collapse, and turn NYC into a DSA playground would torch his last shreds of credibility. But let’s be clear: This shutdown pain is 100% Schumer’s… — CityDeskNYC (@CityDeskNYC) November 1, 2025 In a recent appearance …
At least 787 flights have been delayed, and 242 canceled as of 9am ET, according to FlightAware. On Thursday, 7,250 flights were delayed and 1,249 were canceled across the country. Thousands of passengers were left stranded in Orlando last night after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced there would be ‘no certified controllers for a …
by Michael It appears that this government shutdown could go on for a while, and that is not good news for the U.S. economy at all. On day 28 of the shutdown, the U.S. Senate failed to advance a bill to end the shutdown for the 13th consecutive time. They can keep holding more votes, but the …
At least 80 people , including civilians, were killed in an hour of fighting . Rio de Janeiro is on lockdown – all roads and avenues are blocked by barricades and hijacked buses. Security forces have deployed 2,500 troops against the gangs. Chaos reigns in the north of the city: gunfire, burning cars, and residents …
The shutdown has started to feel like a slow disintegration. Not a fight in Congress, but a chain reaction. The kind that begins with paperwork and ends in hunger. Inside the Department of Agriculture, someone finally wrote what everyone else had been avoiding. “Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will …
Federal food aid will not go out starting Nov. 1 amid government shutdown, Trump administration says The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out on Nov. 1, raising the stakes for families nationwide as the government shutdown drags on. The new notice …
🚨 HOLY CRAP! The country’s LARGEST federal workers’ union just demanded Chuck Schumer and Democrats REOPEN the government by passing the Republican clean CR They represent nearly a MILLION workers! American Federation of Government Employees President: “It’s time to pass a… pic.twitter.com/06F4ftX6md — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 27, 2025 🚨 BREAKING: Democrats are internally panicking …
by Mike Maharrey Despite all the talk about DOGE and cost-cutting earlier this year, the federal government spent more in fiscal 2025 than it did the previous year and set a new spending record. However, thanks to an influx of tariff revenue, the fiscal 2025 budget deficit was slightly smaller – if you can call a $1.78 …
In Roman times, if soldiers weren’t paid, emperors died.
WATCH LIVE: The Senate will vote again on ending the government shutdown, now in its 20th day. https://t.co/biqU0wWRms — The Hill (@thehill) October 20, 2025 The latest attempt to reopen the government comes as some Senate Democrats skeptical about their leadership’s hard-line stance against reopening the federal government privately acknowledge they fear getting “hammered” by …
District judge deciding she gets to make this decision, NOT the Commander-In-Chief, happening in 3, 2, 1… — Citizen Caller (@CitizenCaller) October 20, 2025 Who’s going to tell Trump that California is a net contributor to the federal government. In 2023, California received about $0.78–$0.85 in federal spending for every $1.00 residents paid in federal …
The government could be shut down until Thanksgiving. Millions of federal workers aren’t getting paid. 2,000,000 directly affected. 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 more indirectly, including contractors and suppliers. Every day this continues, the economy loses $5 billion to $7 billion. That money just stops moving. Families can’t pay bills, small businesses can’t get contracts fulfilled, restaurants …
Trump has said a "very wealthy gentleman" offered to pay U.S. troops' salaries if funding ran out during the government shutdown. pic.twitter.com/hPUeXZRVNI — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 19, 2025
The Trump administration will set price floors across a range of industries to combat market manipulation by China, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC in an exclusive interview Wednesday. China has driven foreign competitors in the rare earth industry out of business over the past two decades by using its global dominance in refining and …
The Age of Disclosure is an explosive documentary that reveals an 80-year global cover-up of non-human intelligent life and a secret war among major nations to reverse engineer advanced technology of non-human origin. Trailer h/t AndrewM
General Michael Flynn exposes to James O’Keefe that there are rooms in the Pentagon full of people “working” on projects the Government no longer does. They aren’t doing anything They just show up, “work” an 8 hour day and get paid for doing absolutely nothing “There’s places inside of the Pentagon where we don’t do …
6 doesn’t sound like a lot. But an additional 6 percent demand for houses drives up costs more than 6%. 6% is a lot. Adding 5% more cars to a city can make traffic 25% worse. Same situation. 6% can take a buyer’s market and make it a sellers one. It’s a big deal. On …
