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Tariff refunds are going to take thousands of lawsuits to sort out. And potentially add hundreds of billions to the deficit. Bang up job, Supremes 🤪 https://t.co/IF7w7orfOr — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) February 21, 2026 Bessent: I got a feeling the American people won't see the $175 billion in tariff revenue we collected pic.twitter.com/rj0Bmm0Exg …
Fast food lost its "cheap and convenient" appeal. $14 for a quarter pounder meal? Lower class is priced out. Middle+ class will pay an extra $4 to get a sit-down meal at a more upscale place. McDonalds isn't the best example because they are doing well, but you get the point.… — combatoverride switch (@combatoverride) …
CONSUMER CREDIT CRISIS HIDING BEHIND MODIFICATIONS? THIS WILL LEAD INTO HOUSINGDelinquencies highest since '17. Student debt vertical. SLM masks with $1B "rescue" that failed. Structural rot or elite denial? You decide. $SLM $TLT Full expose: https://t.co/Jk0TkOddWi pic.twitter.com/IGBrQiR1i3 — 7 (@quantLR) February 12, 2026 How is this possible? The Dow is over 50,000 right now https://t.co/UxDtEUQJwk …
Catastrophic flooding in Portugal from Storm Leonardo shown in drone footage Dramatic footage captured widespread flooding across southwestern Portugal on Wednesday, February 4, after the region was slammed by Storm Leonardo. “Severe flooding” in Alcacer do Sal, with numerous roads, homes, and businesses left underwater. According to Portuguese news reports citing officials, 89 people were …
President Donald Trump, his two eldest sons and his family business sued the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department over alleged leaks of their confidential tax information. The plaintiffs seek at least $10 billion in damages, according to the lawsuit in Miami federal court. “The IRS wrongly allowed a rogue, politically-motivated employee to …
TRUMP’S SBA CHIEF FINDS 7,000 FAKE LOANS WORTH $430M IN MINNESOTA ALONE Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler says her team found 6,900 fraudulent small business loans in Minnesota that stole $430 million from taxpayers. It took them 2 days to find $3 million worth of fraud once they started looking. “It didn’t take long when …
Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its broader goal of trimming about 30,000 corporate workers, according to two people familiar with the matter. The company in October cut about 14,000 white-collar jobs, about half of the 30,000 target first reported by Reuters. The total this time is …
by Michael The stage is being set for one of the most dramatic years of civil unrest that any of us have ever seen. In major cities all over the United States, vast numbers of far left activists are being recruited for “rapid response teams” that seek to disrupt ICE operations as much as possible. …
A weak president with bad policies can literally kill tens of thousands of people with no accountability for the massive loss of life. https://t.co/lZoXGpWSA9 — Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 16, 2026 Interesting read. Good news on the overdose deaths. They’ve plummeted due to severe shortages of the Fentanyl supply: pic.twitter.com/qO8a9H9TKA — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) January …
BANK of America has confirmed that it will close all of its branches for a 24-hour period, forcing customers to change their plans as the the day quickly approaches. Customers looking to make changes or seek assistance with their bank accounts at physical branch locations before the Martin Luther King holiday might be out of …
So the government ignored months of warnings and now people are freezing because leftist extremists struck again. BERLIN OUTAGE: The Consequence of Ignoring Leftist Extremism. The German authorities knew for months that the capital’s power network was at risk of an attack by left-wing activists, because plans were laid out in a pamphlet published in August. …
On a frigid day after Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in rural Nebraska, worshipers shuffled into the basement and sat on folding chairs, their faces barely masking the fear gripping their town. A pall hung over the room just as it hung over the holiday season in Lexington, Neb. “Suddenly they tell us that …
Thousands of Cubans remain without power, water or proper shelter almost a month after Hurricane Melissa pummeled the island’s eastern region as one of the strongest Atlantic storms in history. By day, families walk toward the nearest river to fill plastic containers with water and by night, they squeeze together to sleep under temporary shelters …
Thousands of arrests by Trump's crime-fighting task force in Memphis strain crowded jail and courts https://t.co/f4U7RjyZOs pic.twitter.com/ljprTGoru0 — The Independent (@Independent) November 24, 2025 A task force ordered by President Donald Trump to combat crime in Memphis, Tennessee, has made thousands of arrests, compounding strains on the busy local court system and an already overcrowded …
President Trump reiterated that hiring “thousands” of foreign workers from abroad to build computer chips, for example, is “MAGA.” “I’m gonna welcome those people. I love my conservative friends. I love MAGA, but this is MAGA.” Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/wgVYIxtXJN — AF Post (@AFpost) November 19, 2025 Trump says legal immigration is needed to replace the …
INTERNET SUFFERS ANOTHER MASS OUTAGE CLOUDFARE DOWN HACK? Cloudflare had a huge outage today, and it took a big chunk of the internet down with it. Sites that normally never go dark all started breaking at once. X had thousands of outage reports, AIPAC’s site and Track AIPAC went down, and even stuff like Spotify, …
People are starting to owe more than their homes are worth again, sound familiar? This is when people start mailing their keys to the bank and leave After all: Why would you go through the hardship to keep paying on a $400k mortgage when the house is only worth 300k? In 2008 many decided to …
by Michael What will the loss of hundreds of thousands of law-abiding citizens mean for New York City? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to answer that question. When large numbers of law-abiding citizens leave any area, conditions get worse. And when conditions get worse, that motivates even more law-abiding citizens to leave. Meanwhile, the …
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009 pic.twitter.com/nuOLxApYGW — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 7, 2025 NY State saw peaks of over 3,000 millionaires leaving annually around 2020, with cumulative net outflows shrinking its U.S. millionaire share from 12.7% in 2010 to 8.7% in 2022. High earners contribute about 40% of income …
The United States has entered its longest government shutdown ever, surpassing the 35-day record set during Donald Trump’s first term, with mounting economic losses and warnings of nationwide travel chaos as the political impasse over health care funding drags on. Since Congress failed to approve funding past September 30, nearly 1.4 million federal employees from …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, The stated goal is to reduce drudgery. Do you believe that? Bloomberg reports OpenAI Looks to Replace the Drudgery of Junior Bankers’ Workload. My title is a more accurate representation of the true goal. OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers helping train its artificial intelligence on how to build …
Hurricane Melissa strengthens to Category 4 as it heads for Cuba after Jamaica disaster. 735,000 evacuated; heavy floods feared. Read more on https://t.co/ktRjVA3jqq#HurricaneMelissa #Cuba #Jamaica #Storm #Weather #Disaster pic.twitter.com/3OkOspyulq — shorts91 (@shorts_91) October 29, 2025 Hurricane Melissa pummeled Cuba early Wednesday after leaving a path of destruction across Jamaica, where 25,000 tourists remain stranded and …
⚠️This is INSANE: Retail investors' options volume spiked to a RECORD HIGH in October, according to Citadel Securities data. Mom-and-pop investors are now trading options TWICE as FREQUENTLY as they did last year. Also, their activity in 0DTE options hit a record ~60%. pic.twitter.com/cf4T9EIv3P — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) October 27, 2025 BREAKING: 🇺🇲 Starting …
President Trump launches a massive federal purge amid the Schumer Shutdown, firing thousands from agencies like the IRS, HUD, and EPA in a sweeping government shake-up.
Yes. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. pic.twitter.com/3NpQnTo7mk — KK Berd 🇺🇸 (@keny_berd) October 14, 2025 https://twitter.com/buildingstan3/status/1978183532204990698 Agree. We need to put leftists in propaganda detox camps. pic.twitter.com/9CSEq5vG6t — Jack’d 🇺🇸✊🏻 (@MINFORMACI0N) October 15, 2025 We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such …
Government shutdown hits day 13 with flight delays and more lay-off warnings: live updates https://t.co/a1jeyjPVOX — USA TODAY Politics (@usatodayDC) October 13, 2025 WASHINGTON − Lawmakers are bracing for another Senate vote attempting to end the government shutdown as the impact of funding drying up continues to ripple across the country nearly two weeks into the standoff. But both …
Hundreds of thousands of Americans 'may lose disability benefits as Trump plans to overhaul Social Security' https://t.co/FmHVTH3qIi — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) October 5, 2025 A new report has emerged, alleging that the Trump administration is considering removing a key factor from the assessment of an individual’s eligibility for Social Security disability payments. The Washington Post …
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A woman is speaking out and warning others after she was scammed by someone claiming to be a building contractor. Lily Delgado was hoping to build an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on her property, but says instead, she’s out thousands of dollars. “They sounded like, you know, very nice people, you …
MORE – Google admits censorship under Biden.https://t.co/cXvaTgHvOu pic.twitter.com/WdFvJFMgUj — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) September 23, 2025 “Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/google-admits-biden-administration-pressured-it-to-censor-covid-19-content-youtube-to-restore-banned-accounts/ar-AA1NaEa0 “YouTube will provide an opportunity for …
BREAKING 🚨 Super Typhoon Ragasa: Video shows floodwaters surging into the lobby of the Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel in Hong Kong pic.twitter.com/DVTz8Ml1ev — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 24, 2025 Live view of Hong Kong. Southern Chinese cities scaled back many aspects of daily life on Tuesday as they braced for Super Typhoon Ragasa, one of …