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When Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez gave a speech condemning the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro, she was accompanied by two men who can make or break the regime’s future. Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello and Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino command Venezuela’s police and military, the forces that kept Maduro in power for more than a …
https://twitter.com/nogulagsagain/status/1949359580791894303 Starting 10 December 2025, it will be illegal for anyone under 16 to hold accounts on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and Facebook even if they signed up before the law passed or have parental consent. The burden falls entirely on tech platforms. If they fail to block underage users, they face fines up …
Cambodia is being hit with the biggest single nation tariff rate of all, at 49%. This has major implications for its factories, now in a fight to survive the next few months if the tariffs are implemented, as retail partners freeze orders. Its one million workers, many of whom are women at the low-end of …
This guy talking about how the Biden-Harris regime's inflation has ruined his life is pure GOLD pic.twitter.com/AsrGDE6lgC — George (@BehizyTweets) August 15, 2024 OH MY GOSH! No way Trump just did this on stage 😂😂😂😂 Trump: "This is inflation" pic.twitter.com/dXJSXJ59cC — George (@BehizyTweets) August 14, 2024
FIRE secures yet another First Amendment legal victory, this time for the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Clovis Community College when the school’s administration removed their anti-communist flyers and rejected their request to post pro-life flyers, claiming both were “inappropriate or offensive.” h/t Greg Lukianoff
Whether working full time for themselves or part time as contractors, picking up occasional gig work or having a side hustle, an estimated 64 million Americans performed some sort of independent work in 2023. These aren’t just accountants or Uber drivers. They’re IT consultants, makeup artists, musicians, interpreters, fitness instructors, copy editors and truck drivers. …
The big question is, who will buy our US Treasury debt in the coming years? When does the US economy break due to hire rates? 🔊… sound on Japan, China and Saudi Arabia are all selling. The Social Security and Medicare trust funds are all selling their US Treasury debt… https://t.co/d1ne3M2uWR — Wall Street Mav …
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1688886062523801603 https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1688807682658951168
via lawandcrime: Justice Samuel Alito stood alone Friday in opposing the rest of the Supreme Court’s ruling that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge the Biden administration Department of Homeland Security’s 2021 “Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law.” The conservative justice raised complaints about “sweeping Executive Power” being “endorsed” by the Justice Brett Kavanaugh-led …