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Bob
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Under current law, the Social Security payroll tax is capped at $176,100. Get rid of this cap and make everyone pay the same tax on all income, and Social Security is safe and secure forever. Retired Boomer, very worried about the direction we are headed.
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In a real Democracy 2 men cannot stop the Government and cover for a Pedophile.
GOP Ripped for 'Holding US Economy Hostage' as Nearly Half of States Face Recession (Common Dreams)
US states accounting for roughly a third of the nation's gross domestic product are currently in recession or on the verge of one as the federal government s...
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Same thing Mitch McConnell dis with the Supreme Court replacement because of a lame duck President. The republican party want to win so bad they will do anything.
Cornered Mike Johnson Scrambles as ABC Host Grills Him Over Epstein Vote Saga (The Daily Beast)
Mike Johnson struggled to keep his composure when pressed about swearing in a congresswoman-elect who has vowed to force a vote on releasing the Epstein file...
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Virginia Giuffre beaten, raped by ‘well-known prime minister’ in attack that broke Epstein spell, her memoir reveals (New York Post)
Prominent Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre was brutally bloodied, beaten and raped by a “well-known prime minister” in a series of savage enco...
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And what can go wrong.
It's official—traffic lights with four colors and a new white light are coming, and they will change the way we drive forever
What are the colors of a traffic light? Red, yellow, and green, right? We all know that red means stop, with yellow we slow down, and when it’s green we can
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Gravity really exists.
Ken Klippenstein (NSPM-7 Compliant) on X: "83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE https://t.co/Cnw40A2kOn" / X
83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE https://t.co/Cnw40A2kOn
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“If this administration has $20 billion to spare for a MAGA-friendly foreign government, how can they say we don’t have the money to lower healthcare costs?” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on the Senate floor.
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Jack Smith Reveals He Had “Tons of Evidence” Against Trump (The New Republic)
Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith—who has been tormented by MAGA for years over his dual criminal investigations into President Trump for ...
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'Conservative Republican' in deep-red Idaho pleads with Trump as 3rd-gen farm flails (AlterNet)
A conservative Republican farmer from Idaho is making an unlikely appeal to President Donald Trump: “Do the right thing.” His call comes as his family farm s...
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Republicans in both houses Congress to take away health insurance from millions of people, leaving them without the financial means to get medical care when they need it. I don't know how any group of Americans can be this willing to destroy the health and lives of so many of their fellow Americans
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"But U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters which pop up daily across neighborhoods in the city of 2.7 million and its many suburbs.”
The worst of the worst.
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The White House is moving forward with its multibillion-dollar lifeline to Argentina, which will give $20 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars to a nation on the verge of economic collapse Good idea 💡?
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The new Republic party. Shoot them all.
Mike Johnson Says ICE Shooting a Priest Doesn’t Cross the Line (The New Republic)
House Speaker Mike Johnson thinks faith leaders and journalists are fair targets for federal law enforcement officers that have descended on Chicago. During ...
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Eye for an eye. Oh hell kill everyone .
Gaza ceasefire outlook darkens as Israel delays aid and Hamas tightens grip (Reuters)
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell
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Well so much for peace in the Mid East.
The ‘civil war’ breaking out in Gaza with executions in the street (The i Paper)
A “mini civil war” is threatening to erupt in Gaza after Hamas threatened to cleanse the Strip of “collaborators and outlaws”, analysts have said. A ceasefir...
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You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait till China tries to sell off all the US debt they own. Will bring the world to its knees.
Morning Crypto Report: Elon Musk Breaks Silence on Bitcoin With 'Fake Currency' Rant, XRP Eyes Brutal $6,000,000,000 Sell-Off, China Triggers Crypto Market Bloodbath (U.Today)
The cryptocurrency market opens on Tuesday, Oct. 14, under a triple shock: Elon Musk broke his silence on Bitcoin with a pointed rant about fiat being "fake,...
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Bob @rwaustin.bsky.social · 7d
ICE is doing such a great job we should thank them when they take their face masks off. Follow them at a respectable distance to their lair and SNAP shots of them going home after a hard day at their ice work. And share their photos so we can all thank them.
Be respectful please.
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Not a good idea to kick the dragon.
China’s counter-attacks are giving Trump a taste of his own medicine (South China Morning Post)
Beijing has stood firm, retaliated with the same measures used against China and masterfully delayed its countermeasures to maximise impact As the world...
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Bob @rwaustin.bsky.social · 7d
Saturday's are expected to see an even larger turnout. Attendees are protesting authoritarianism and corruption, the federal government shutdown, and massive cuts to Obamacare subsidies and social programs including Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP.

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'A temper trantrum': Republicans escalate attacks on anti-Trump movement (AlterNet)
As the "No Kings" Day rallies fast approach, Republicans are increasingly lashing out in an effort to paint the protests as un-American and the protesters as...
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If you had half a brain you could see this a mile away.
US Consumers Paying the Most for Tariffs: Wall Street Giant’s Report Exposes Trump Lies (Common Dreams)
New research from investment bank Goldman Sachs affirms, as progressive advocates and economists warned, that US consumers are bearing the brunt of President...
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So much for the worst of the worst.
ICE now targeting legal residents in Chicago and fining them $130 for not having papers on person (The Mirror US Online)
A legal citizen said he was targeted by ICE agents in Chicago and was fined for not having his papers. Rueben Antonio Cruz, 60, was sitting with a friend in ...
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It's a shame but stupid is as stupid does.
Man trying to ‘hot pot’ fell into Yellowstone hot spring and was completely dissolved within a day (VT)
A visit to Yellowstone National Park turned fatal for 23-year-old Colin Scott, who tragically died after falling into a volcanic hot spring. The young man ha...
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And how are you doing?
GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries (Fortune)
GoFundMe’s CEO just said the quiet part out loud: in this economy, more Americans are crowdfunding groceries to get by. The head of GoFundMe, Tim Cadogan, to...
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