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🔵 News - Montana voters banned corporate spending on elections, and the state Republican Party is suing to block it.
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While all the races in Minnesota got the headlines Tuesday, almost nobody noticed what Voters just passed with Amendment 1...
Back in 1858 Minnesota set up a Permanent School Trust Fund from 2.5M acres of mining and timber land...today it sits at $2.4 Billion
For 168 years the State Constitution kept the Principal "perpetual and inviolate"...meaning Politicians could ONLY spend the interest and dividends,(about 2.5% a year) and couldn't touch the nest egg
How did they sell Amendment 1 on the ballot? "More money for schools without raising taxes"...so of course 73% voted Yes
Here is what it ACTUALLY did:
- Stripped "perpetual and inviolate" right out of the Constitution
- Bumped the payout to 4.5% of the fund's value,(so in a down market it eats straight into the Principal)
- Put that 4.5% cap in regular Statute instead of the Constitution...and killed a 2/3 supermajority rule in committee 7-1
Oh and remember...Democrats just took total control of St. Paul right before a brutal 2027 budget deficit
So now a Simple Majority can crank that payout higher whenever they run short of cash...
168 years of guardrails gone overnight. The founders of this State are rolling in their graves...
Blake Biers retweeted
Thomas Massie is what a Republican should look like.
Which is why the Republican Party, the President, and millions of foreign interest money kicked him out.
“Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.”
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THE LABOR DEPARTMENT JUST DROPPED NEW WAGE DATA AND IT'S BRUTAL.
Corporate profits up 47% since 2020.
Worker wages up 12% in the same period.
Meanwhile groceries up 35%, rent up 40%, utilities up 28%.
Your paycheck grew 12%. Your bills grew 35%.
The math is simple: you're getting poorer every year even when you get a raise.
You can't budget your way out of this. The system is designed so your income can never catch up to your expenses.
That's not an accident. That's policy.
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This will forever be Trump’s legacy:
A slave to Israel.
A slave to the Epstein class.
A slave to the donor class.
DISGRACED.
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Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.
All Republicans had to do was:
1. put Americans First
2. not start another war
3. prosecute sex traffickers
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Trump is doing actual socialism, and not a single one of the anti-DSA pundits gives a damn.
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Look at that Dow
Look at that GDP
Look how rich oil companies are getting
Look how many illegals we can let in
Look how many visa scammers we allowed
Look how many banker cocks we can fit in your assholes
Keep voting republicrat
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This is so bad for democracy.
No, despite what the Supreme Court says, money isn't "speech". It's a way for the wealthy and privileged to exercise overwhelming and disproportionate power in our political system.
OFFICIAL NEW YORK TIMES LIST OF THE BIGGEST MIDTERMS DONORS:
1. Elon Musk, $446 million
2. Dick + Liz Uihlein, $150 million
3. One Nation, $138 million
4. Marc Andreessen + Ben Horowitz, $116 million
5. Jeff Yass, $110 million
6. Majority Forward, $104 million
7. George + Alex Soros, $103 million
8. House Majority Forward, $97 million
9. Mike Bloomberg, $85 million
10. Ripple Labs + Chris Larsen, $73 million
11. Miriam Adelson, $68 million
12. American Action Network, $64 million
13. Coinbase, $55 million
14. Paul Singer, $54 million
15. Cameron + Tyler Winklevoss, $53 million
16. Greg + Anna Brockman, $50 million
17. American Prosperity Alliance, $48 million
18. Koch Inc., $47 million
19. Reid Hoffman, $42 million
20. Economic Opportunity Fund, $42 million
Blake Biers retweeted
Scott, you flew to Minnesota to announce $41 million in alleged Medicaid fraud. Good. Investigate and prosecute it.
Then KARE 11 asked why DHS paid $495.6 million for a prison CoreCivic offered Minnesota for $75 million in 2025. That's a $420.6 million price gap, roughly ten times the alleged fraud you came to condemn.
CoreCivic says independent appraisers used replacement costs. Fine. Release their work, the negotiations, and every approval. Especially since CoreCivic donated $500,000 to Trump's inauguration.
Instead, you called the question “a waste of time.”
So $41 million gets a press conference. $420 million gets a shrug. That's quite a selective war on waste.
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NewsMax was almost entirely funded by Russian money as a startup.
Seems important.
🚨 Shelby Wilder says she got pulled off air by NewsMax for telling the truth about Russia, which is falsely portraying itself as the rescuer of Ukrainian civilians in a city it destroyed and now occupies.
Also, despite NewsMax being tasked by the White House to essentially represent US presence on the ground in Oleshky as an impartial observer, the White House has refused to guarantee the safety of NewsMax employees. The fact tha nobody trusts Russia is being covered up.
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I started off pretty pro-Israel. The first crack came when Netanyahu wouldn't let the United States send Ukraine two Iron Dome batteries the U.S. Army had bought and paid for, because Israel holds a veto over transfers of the system to third countries. His explanation included the fact that Israeli pilots fly "right next to Russian pilots" over Syria. That made me pause. Four months later, after October 7, those same batteries went to Israel.
Since then, my view of Israel has grown progressively darker. By the time the UN was warning that famine in northern Gaza was imminent, I opposed Israel's continued military campaign. When Netanyahu talked Trump into dragging us into a war with Iran, I started seeing the Israeli state, as currently constituted, as sinister. And the massive, continuing campaign by pro-Israel money against Abdul El-Sayed, more than $30 million to stop him in the primary and fresh spending now that he's the nominee, has radicalized me against any defense relationship with Israel going forward.
Plenty of my fellow Americans seem to have traveled the same road. Six in ten now view Israel unfavorably, up from 42 percent in 2022. And this year, for the first time since Gallup started asking in 2001, Americans don't sympathize more with the Israelis than with the Palestinians.
None of this has anything to do with Judaism or with how I feel about Jews. To suggest otherwise is to defame my character, and I resent and reject the suggestion. Everything I've listed is an action, and every one of them deserves my ire if I have any commitment to my stated principles at all.