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Can we take a moment to admire Nepal’s revolutionary army of Gen Z stormtroopers who have just set fire to parliament and ousted their prime minister in spectacularly dramatic fashion pic.twitter.com/MdzCocfzUK — miss white (@cinecitta2030) September 12, 2025 LMFAO, that vlogger went to Nepal on vacation and ended in the middle of their revolution and …
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) on Friday urged people to turn away from social media, calling it a “cancer on our society” after announcing that the suspected gunman in the killing of Charlie Kirk is in custody. At the end of his press conference announcing 22-year-old Tyler Robinson as the suspected gunman in the shooting …
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) on Thursday said he will seek to have social media companies place lifetime bans on users who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist shot Wednesday while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University. “I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to …
Nobody in Nepal blinked when KP Sharma Oli finally resigned. What shocked people was how long it took. The country had already exploded. Streets were full of furious protesters, government buildings defaced, homes of top officials set on fire. A generation had stopped asking for reform and started demanding the collapse of a system that …
When police are told to hunt speech instead of crime, the rule of law collapses. Every hour spent policing tweets leaves violent offenders free to terrorize neighborhoods. Fear of speaking becomes greater than fear of breaking the law, and the balance of power shifts to criminals and censors alike. Instead of arresting the violent criminals, …
Social Security and Medicare cuts are coming because the bond market will eventually bring Congress to its knees, economist says. The insolvency of the trust funds next decade will be the key driver for reforms, just as it was in the early 1980s when lawmakers hiked taxes to shore them up, Yaros said. “For lawmakers …
This is real. President Trump posted this on his Truth Social. What do you think it means? What is he hinting at? pic.twitter.com/1FP9qIhcME — It's Just Us (@ItsJustUsOrg) August 31, 2025
A leaked email released by Tulsi Gabbard reveals that Hillary Clinton approved a plan in 2016 to link Donald Trump to Russian hackers in order to distract from her own email scandal. This plan laid the groundwork for the Department of Homeland Security to later redefine online misinformation as a cyber threat to “critical infrastructure.” …
Social Security will be “bankrupt” in 7 years. At which point the options are: – Cut grandma’s check– Hike everybody’s taxes– Raise retirement to 75 Or what they will do: Borrow another trillion per year. pic.twitter.com/b8t3SSfK8c — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) August 28, 2025
A whistleblower complaint alleges that DOGE staffers uploaded a copy of all federal Social Security numbers and information to an unsecured server in June.
by James Hickman I know it’s cliche, but one of the happiest days of my life was a bit more than four years ago when my daughter was born in Cancún, Mexico. My wife and I chose Mexico deliberately— given all the COVID craziness that was going on (especially in the US), we wanted to …
Turns out doxxing the cops has consequences. BREAKING – Tatiana Martinez, an illegal residing in LA who built a career on social media by doxxing ICE agents and directing her followers to harass them and disrupt their arrests, has now been arrested herself. pic.twitter.com/1o9Paq6A1H — Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) August 16, 2025
62% of Gen Z now use social media as a primary source for financial advice over traditional financial advisors. https://www.pymnts.com/consumer-finance/2024/79percent-of-millennials-and-gen-z-turn-to-social-media-for-financial-advice/ “Platforms like TikTok have become central to this shift, capturing the attention of 62% of Generation Z, who now view it as a valuable resource for financial knowledge.”
The average social security recipient gets around $1,950 per month. Illegal aliens were receiving around $536 MILLION taxpayer dollars every month. That's nearly $6.5 billion dollars stolen from RETIREES every single year. — Heartland Grump – Unfiltered (@heartland_grump) August 14, 2025
Meta, Google, and Apple are not really protecting kids. They are racing to control who scans them first. This is about power, not safety. New laws in Utah, Texas, and Louisiana force platforms to check user ages, get parental consent, and block harmful content. The tech giants are at odds. Meta wants app stores to …
The UK’s Online Safety Act isn’t about safety. It’s a censorship license. And the rest of the world is watching, copying, and scaling it. “The UK’s Online Safety Act took effect Friday to shield minors from ‘harmful’ content — not just pornography, but also material that is hateful, promotes substance abuse or depicts ‘serious violence.’” …
Proving once again that humanity will do anything for likes except read a book Watermelon challenge: https://t.co/8igLmFv7l6 — AlphaFox (@alphafox) August 5, 2025 No, she's not dead—just knocked out from the watermelon drop in that viral fail. The challenge risks serious injury like concussions, but no fatalities reported. Stay safe, folks! — Grok (@grok) August …
President Trump just locked in a historic trade agreement with the European Union—bringing in a staggering $750 billion to the U.S. energy sector and another $600 billion in American investments. As this economic windfall pours in… could it finally be enough to rescue Social Security before the trust fund runs dry? Trish Regan dives into …
Prices climbed faster than paychecks again this quarter. Beef just broke $6.12. Social Security faces a mandatory 24% slash starting January 2033. And 40% of U.S. workers now earn less than the inflation-adjusted cost of living. Indeed’s real-pay tracker posted a July spike. 43% of Americans are losing ground on purchasing power. March’s level was …
Boom turns bust as reckless call buying backfires. "Instead of using #options as part of a larger strategy to protect #portfolios from losses, individuals are mostly #speculating…with reckless buying organized on social media acted like a force-multiplier. Because options #market makers need to hedge call contracts, they buy… pic.twitter.com/7JKs4zB9sg — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) July 18, …
Seniors are finally getting some relief. NO MORE TAXES on seniors Social Security “Historic Tax Relief for Seniors: The bill ensures that nearly 90% of Social Security beneficiaries will no longer pay federal income taxes on their benefits” “This is a historic step forward for America’s seniors,” said Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano. “For nearly …
‼️🇺🇸 JUST IN: The U.S. Social Security Administration saw its BIGGEST DROP in benefits handed out in HISTORY. DOGE and BIG BALLS are destroying the FRAUD and waste happening on our dime! 💪🏻 pic.twitter.com/1LYfIUvyFG — Diligent Denizen 🇺🇸 (@DiligentDenizen) June 27, 2025
Some numbers never move. Not because they shouldn’t. Because Congress never bothered. The U.S. tax code is riddled with thresholds that were set decades ago and never indexed to inflation. They sit frozen in time while the cost of everything else climbs. The result is a quiet tax hike that hits middle-income Americans hardest. Start …
You wanna make money trading ? Learn to draw lines. 😂 pic.twitter.com/SkNc8VqS9l — tic toc (@TicTocTick) June 19, 2025
🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 – Social Security and Medicare are both just 8 Years from Insolvency, according to the latest Trustees report. This is getting URGENT. pic.twitter.com/AEroNn3cgD — Marc Goldwein (@MarcGoldwein) June 18, 2025
Social Security recipients do not need to worry about their benefits being garnished due to their defaulted student loans, at least for now. The development is an abrupt change in policy by the administration, which had announced in April that it would be resuming collection activity on defaulted student loan borrowers. The Education Dept. had …
Most Americans believe Social Security will provide a stable retirement, but few understand how difficult it is to qualify for the maximum payout. To receive the full $5,100 per month, a worker must earn at least $176,100 annually for 35 years and wait until age 70 to claim benefits. This is not a system built …
The U.S. government has halted new student visa interviews, signaling a potential shift in immigration policy. The decision comes as officials consider expanding social media vetting for foreign students applying to study in the country. This move could significantly slow down visa processing, affecting thousands of applicants and universities that rely on international students. Secretary …
