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🚨 BREAKING: US Senate REJECTS Democrats' bill to fund and reopen the government, 47-53. Chuck Schumer continues to lose. pic.twitter.com/liAilY5tJd — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 1, 2025 Here we go again.
US Government Takes 10% Stake In Lithium Americas https://t.co/D3DyeTE1pR — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 1, 2025 Trump’s Industrial Economy policies just took down their latest scalp, so to speak. One week after Bloomberg reported that the White House was considering a 10% stake in one of the largest North American lithium mining companies, Lithium Americas, on …
BREAKING: US Government officially shuts down after running out of money. pic.twitter.com/g08p5TWAvM — Globe Eye News (@GlobeEyeNews) October 1, 2025 The government shutdown has begun, and it’s plunging the U.S. into a fresh cycle of uncertainty. The United States government has partially shut down after last-ditch efforts by lawmakers to pass a spending bill failed. …
👀 👀 I agree. pic.twitter.com/8TTNmf6XHZ — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 1, 2025 Speaking at the recent “All In Summit,” Musk described his stint in Washington as “a hell of a side quest” and didn’t hold back when asked what he’d learned [1]. “The government is basically unfixable,” he declared, drawing laughter — and then applause …
https://www.hud.gov/ Ironic how $1.5 trillion is “too far” but the $4.5 trillion the Big B*tch Bill set in motion was okay. There’s no left vs right. It’s simply us vs the elites. h/t ScoobyD00BIEdoo
Live from the Senate floor and outside the Senate chamber as a government shutdown is fast approaching. Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left a White House meeting with President Donald Trump showing little willingness to compromise from their entrenched positions in order to avoid a lapse in funding. If government funding legislation isn’t passed by …
Why is the Gov shutting down? If there’s no funding bill and no CR, the government shuts down because no funding has been approved. Every agency has its own plan for shutdowns. Many agencies will have to stop or reduce the essential services they provide and furlough employees until the end of the shutdown.The Labor …
A government shutdown now appears “very likely” as analysts highlight a deadlock over the federal budget, with both major parties refusing to compromise before the October 1 deadline. If lawmakers can’t agree on a new stopgap spending bill, federal operations will halt,potentially for more than a week.
🚨 BREAKING: Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries plan to meet with President Trump at the WHITE HOUSE this Monday, right before the October 1st government shutdown, per Punchbowl. Are they about to CAVE? Conditioning the government on transgender surgeries for kids and illegal… pic.twitter.com/0JO1OB93P4 — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 27, 2025 Donald Trump has called …
We are witnessing domestic terrorist sedition against the federal government. The JTTF has been dispatched by the Attorney General, pursuant to NSPM-7. All necessary resources will be utilized. — Stephen Miller (@StephenM) September 27, 2025 The post references the deployment of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) under NSPM-7, a National Security Presidential Memorandum issued on …
In Los Angeles, a 79-year-old U.S. citizen has filed a claim for $50 million in damages after he was tackled by federal agents during a raid at his business in September. (Production by: Ty ONeil). A 79-year-old Van Nuys car wash owner has filed a $50 million civil rights claim alleging that federal immigration agents …
The White House has instructed federal agencies to prepare plans for non-essential staff in the event that Congress does not fund the government. At first glance it might look disruptive, but there is another way to see it. This is a stress test for the system, a way to observe how government operates when conditions …
End of the fed dollar ponzy sceme print fakeMoney to buy fake money @SecScottBessent pic.twitter.com/O3FphazRV1 — S🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺 (@sebastianaor) September 19, 2025 The Trump admin, through the National Endowment for the Humanities, is giving the largest grant in the agency's history—$10.4 million—to the Jewish-American neoconservative Tikvah Fund to counter "the pathology of anti-Semitism" and teach the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YKzh0X8WT0 Don’t ever round up your purchase to ‘donate’. The extra change goes right into the pocket of the owner of the company, not to the charity.
They moved within 72 hours of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. State and media forces locked into place. They mourned nobody. They investigated nothing. Their goal was punishment. The White House, the Pentagon, the FCC, and the largest broadcast networks aimed at critics instead of the killer. The warning landed like a hammer: mock, question, or dissent …
Fun fact. In order to revive the stalling real estate market, Chinese government halted projects under construction and demolished buildings which could accommodate over 75 million people (more than the entire population of the United Kingdom).pic.twitter.com/YbnCScKi1V — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 16, 2025 Japan’s Kajima Cut and Take Down method demolishes buildings from the bottom up …
https://www.404media.co/airlines-sell-5-billion-plane-ticket-records-to-the-government-for-warrantless-searching/ A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE, and many other agencies, according to a new contract and other records …
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is willing to risk a government shutdown at the end of the month if Republicans don’t accept Democratic demands on health care.
https://twitter.com/dadkc66/status/1965742232029528117 And how does Canadian PM Mark Carney plan to get from Ottawa to NYC for the General Assembly of the United Nations? By bike? Motor cycle? Car? It's 7 hr 28 min (440.3 mi) via I-81 S by car. — Belladonna Rogers (@BeladonnaRogers) September 10, 2025
Donald Trump didn’t just buy bonds in 2025. He soaked entire sectors: gas districts, school boards, hospital authorities, municipal utilities, in positions that turn federal policy into profit. Every rate shift, every regulatory adjustment now feeds directly into his wealth. Policy and portfolio are fused. CNBC reports nearly 700 transactions, including bonds from Meta, T-Mobile, …
BREAKING: President Trump pushes back on Florida removing all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren. He says some vaccines are a must. “I think we have to be careful. You have some vaccines that are so amazing. The Polio vaccine I think is amazing. A lot of people think that COVID [vax] is amazing. You know, …
The First Amendment protects speech, but only from U.S. government action, not from private companies, not from your boss, and not from foreign governments. It applies to everyone physically in the U.S., citizens, tourists, even undocumented immigrants, but its shield only works against federal, state, and local government attempts to censor, punish, or restrict speech, …
A vote to abolish property taxes could transform homeownership in America. People would finally own their homes free and clear, keeping wealth that was previously siphoned to government. Families could invest in their communities, businesses could reinvest savings into growth, and disposable income would surge, boosting local economies. Other states would feel pressure to follow, …
The UK has no choice but to start cutting its welfare bill, this could happen here in the US. The UK faces the doom loop of rising borrowing costs, growing deficits and a government facing a lot of bad choices to raise revenues. Yields on 30-year gilts have reached their highest levels since 1998. (1 …
Crime is legal. https://t.co/KygCe6u0VT — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) September 2, 2025 “The Trump family itself controls about 22.5 billion of the $WLFI tokens, suggesting that its holdings as of Monday afternoon were worth about $5 billion, making it one of the most valuable Trump assets” https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151872 That’s not a side hustle. That’s state-sponsored enrichment. The token …
The $5.7 billion investment will see the US government take a 10% stake in Intel, with the Commerce Department said to be ironing out the details. Intel’s chief financial officer has confirmed the company has received $5.7 billion from the Trump administration as part of a deal that sees the US government taking a 10% …
Mayor Brandon Johnson snapped and stormed out of his press conference when asked how effective his executive order will be against the federal government. He said, “I don’t take orders from the federal government.” They certainly don’t take orders from him. (mayorofchi on TT) Mayor Brandon Johnson snapped and stormed out of his press conference …
France is cracking under its own weight. Debt has surged past €3.35 trillion, more than 114 percent of GDP. The government’s answer is €5 billion in emergency cuts scraped from unspent funds and health insurance. “France faces €5bn in fresh cuts as debt balloons to record high” RFI The cuts are theater. The deficit is …
The collapse was total. Nevada woke on Sunday, August 25, to discover its entire digital infrastructure had failed. It was not a flicker, not a temporary glitch. DMV offices could not process licenses. Welfare benefits froze. Courts could not function. Government websites were offline. Phone lines were dead. The governor’s office could not communicate. Millions …
Is he trying to bribe government officials? $NVDAhttps://t.co/dG4A5844Sn https://t.co/m64n8mYVVT — Marko Kolanovic (@markoinny) August 28, 2025 $NVDA BREAKING: Nvidia is in talks with the U.S. to sell its Blackwell AI chip to China, and is reportedly willing to give the U.S. a cut of Blackwell China sales, according to Fox. Last night, Jensen said that …