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JUST IN: 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Canadian dollar falls to lowest level since 2003 following President Trump's new tariffs. pic.twitter.com/oYdSzfYjmp — Rome (@Rome_Colt45) February 2, 2025
Receipts: pic.twitter.com/Wrc0P6haTr — Natalie F Danelishen (@Chesschick01) January 29, 2025 https://twitter.com/realchaosgenius/status/1884663575186207114 In case you’re wondering where her loyalties lie, Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren is now asking Robert Kennedy Junior to not sue drug companies. pic.twitter.com/a8jsY1M8U4 — David Wolfe (@DavidWolfe) January 29, 2025 https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=H04 https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?code=H04&cycle=All&ind=H04&recipdetail=M
Biden is paying 100% in California because it’s a major Blue Woke State whereas North Carolina is a Red State with us uneducated southern folks….🙄 — VeloSnob (@ComfortablyRED) January 11, 2025
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I thought that pretty much everyone including myself, hates paying property taxes and I was surprised to hear that North Dakota had it on their ballot this year to completely abolish property taxes in the state. However, one of my viewers who lives there, wrote me an email explaining why he decided it was a …
The campaign also gave a $350,000 payment to Nu Vision Media on September 9, according to FEC filings first reported by the Times. Nu Vision Media is a media company run by journalist Roland Martin. Martin spent roughly 30 minutes interviewing Harris on his streaming program in October. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign reportedly gave …
by adhesivepants I don’t dislike social security. It’s an important structure to support people and as I say further below some people will absolutely need it. I just have zero faith in our current government to maintain it and fully anticipate millenials and Gen Z are paying in money they will never see because of …
$7 trillion is now sitting in U.S. money market funds, a record high. This happens because the fed overnight rate is close to 5% at this time, so it makes no sense for banks to park money there ONLY for them to have to pay customers the same rate. There’s no room for any profit …
Elon Musk renewed calls on Tuesday to defund NPR after a controversial video of its CEO questioning the importance of truth resurfaced online. Footage of NPR CEO Katherine Maher from an August 2021 Ted Talk reappeared on X Tuesday, sparking new debate over the taxpayer funded broadcaster’s alleged bias, which has come under scrutiny in …
The NYC subway is losing so much money it may cease to operate properly if something isn’t done. The only problem is city leaders want to raise the fares and decrease service, something that may make the subway’s fare evasion problem even worse…
WOW 🚨 Linemen Strike in North Carolina “Nobody's working — So sorry, Asheville — We are not getting paid. It has been 8 weeks. We have not gotten a single penny” Kamala Harris left Hurricane Helene victims AND workers with nothing. Reminder she just sent over $425m to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/sxxjMa9YGH — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) …
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Popular online influencer Charleston White says that Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is “paying” black celebrities to endorse her in the 2024 election, lamenting, “We didn’t pick her, they gave her to us.” “So now that’s why you see from Kamala, Obama, all of them ran to our black celebrities,” White said in a recent …
A mysterious “cooling EV sentiment” has affected nearly every automaker, and even Ford’s once white-hot electric pickup truck may be starting to feel the burn. As dealers struggle to sell remaining 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning models, Ford is inventing new ways to move metal. One way is by introducing Retail Replenishment Centers (RRCs), locations dedicated …
Some big-name celebrities are quietly paying off victims to avoid being publicly named in lawsuits related to the Diddy sex assault case, according to a lawyer. Attorney Tony Buzbee — who is representing more than 120 of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged victims — told TMZ that huge stars are about to be sued by his …
If you think this all ends with a balanced budget, decreasing federal debt, and low inflation, you are not paying attention. pic.twitter.com/SYjXkw1i9G — James Lavish (@jameslavish) October 3, 2024 US banks made a $1 trillion from Federal Reserve’s 2.5 year era of high interest rates, an analysis of official data by the Financial Times has …
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 …
48% of New Yorkers have stopped paying pay to ride the bus. The city has realized that this cant go on forever, because the MTA who runs the subway/bus is broke, but now that a critical mass of people have stopped paying, the battle against fare evasion may already be lost…
Where are all the libs yammering about “being respected on the world stage again”? Crown Prince of Saudi wouldn’t meet @ airport, Xi bashed Biden, Hungarians & Poland said take a hike, even Guatemalans met Kamala at airport & told her to leave. pic.twitter.com/WYRZuOPv0O — Constitutional Insurgent (@valhalla__news) September 13, 2024
Loaning enough money to you to buy a house is far riskier than renting an apartment to you. If you don’t pay your rent, I just have to evict you. If you don’t pay your mortgage, I have to repossess your house, evict you, then sell it at a loss. So the standards are different …
Trudeau was just annihilated. 😂😂😂 “I don’t believe you for a second…” pic.twitter.com/y3EroHZX1V — Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) September 1, 2024 A Canadian steelworker has gone viral after he confronted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and told him exactly what he thinks of him. Video footage obtained by CTV News captured the awkward moment Trudeau unsuccessfully attempted …
Remember Kamala Harris demanded Twitter suspend Trump (they did once she took power). pic.twitter.com/pyqCYwtSgM — @amuse (@amuse) August 30, 2024 https://twitter.com/MarieIsabellaB/status/1829482400671314162
Why is there this strange obsession with maximizing the influx of illegal immigrants to your country? Like they’re trying to solve this as if the problem is “how do we accept more”, instead of “get them to stop coming” — Han 🇻🇮🏴☠️ (@EthanMillenium) August 27, 2024
Harris campaign caught bribing posters with money for positive support of Kamala They’re doing so well, they’re sending emails out that offer paid post opportunities. And yes, non-disclosure is illegal. I really do believe it is time for a lawsuit. pic.twitter.com/7SqTO9xSE5 — Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) July 30, 2024 "The party told you to reject the …
Almost half of all Americans are still paying off debt that they accumulated last year for a summer vacation, which is alarming news considering about half expect to go into more debt this year for more vacation. It’s things like this that are making the economy look so much better than it really is because …
After an unprecedented three-year timeout on federal student loan payments because of the pandemic, millions of borrowers began repaying their debt when billing resumed late last year. But nearly as many have not. That reality, along with court decisions that regularly upend the rules, has complicated the government’s efforts to restart its system for collecting …
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San Francisco opened its first $5.5 million free food “market”, where approved residents can show a benefits eligibility card, put what they want in their carts, check out to keep track of outgoing inventory, and leave without paying. The Bayview-Hunters Point facility aims to be a food pantry alternative that replicates the supermarket experience in …
Evanston, a Chicago suburb, has been credited with launching the country’s first government-funded reparations program for Black Americans. It has paid out nearly $5 million to 193 of the town’s Black residents over the past two years. But now a conservative advocacy group has filed a class-action lawsuit to kill the program, arguing that it …
Can’t collect social security that he paid into!! Gotta read this heart wrenching story. This poor man. A 66-year-old Florida man gearing up for retirement was stunned to discover he’s not a US citizen when applying for Social Security payments, despite having lived in America since he was a toddler and voting in numerous federal …