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[Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt]

What does millions and million and millions of illegal immigrants flooding into our country look like?

Every blip in this animation represents 100 people.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

Over 90% of central banks worldwide are now actively researching, developing, or piloting CBDCs. This is not experimentation. This is a coordinated global direction, and it aligns perfectly with what I have been warning for years: as the sovereign debt crisis begins, governments will turn to capital control, NEVER fiscal reform.

[Milk Road @MilkRoad]

.@JamesLavish: When you're drowning in debt, you only have 4 doors.

Door 1: Cut spending. DOGE tried. They couldn't touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or defense. Overwhelming.

Door 2: Raise taxes. Laffer curve kills productivity. Doesn't work.

Door 3: Default. Destroys your currency. Never happening.

Door 4: Print more money. The easiest door.

... which one do you think the U.S. is going to choose?

[Simply Bitcoin @SimplyBitcoin]

Jeff Booth explains why he disagrees with Michael Saylor on the idea of Bitcoin as just “Digital Credit.”

“He can consolidate a lot of Bitcoin by telling the world that it’s just an asset, but that’s fundamentally different than it’s money and it’s used as money.”

“I believe it’s a protocol and the protocol is emerging as money and privacy.”

[Benson @Miggysbat]

One of the best looking jerseys in baseball. 🔥

[The Megyn Kelly Show @MegynKellyShow]

UChicago's @ProfessorPape: "If you're going to take the Strait of Hormuz back, you're going to have to control an over 100 mile stretch by 20 miles deep into Iran... That would be 100,000+ troops just for this footprint... We don't have the troops to occupy Iran."

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

Republicans Would Rather Cede Power To Democrats Than Their Own Voters https://t.co/p1kdM3QUvr

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Tucker just posted "Bret Weinstein’s Dark Warning to Trump," postulating that Trump is either "not in control" of the military of which he's Commander-in-Chief, or something dark is going on with a "hidden Epstein power structure." That's all that could explain the Iran War

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

Watching your favorite sports team play has become more complicated in recent years — as more and more games go behind paywalls on various streaming services.

Fans are frustrated and leagues could be undermining their unique antitrust exemptions.

[Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell]

There is a serious constitutional crisis when the legislative branch of the federal government is unable to legislate because of self-imposed ‘extra-constitutional’ rules and procedures. The Byrd Rule… named for a long-dead Democrat leader who appears to control the Senate from the grave. The filibuster rule that can’t work because of some long ago interpretation of the filibuster process.

The question is whether the Senate leaders will continue to allow their foolish adherence to arcane rules and procedures to create this constitutional crisis.

They say they won’t “nuke” the filibuster. But they also won’t overturn the long ago ruling by a parliamentarian who “interpreted” the 2-speech rule to mean the filibuster can never ever end.

As we have had to learn more about the Senate rules, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Senate is refusing to protect the filibuster by overturning the interpretation that makes the filibuster impossible to end without a supermajority.

That’s a constitutional crisis and rather than seriously address the issue and the procedures and the rules, the Senators left town.

So disgraceful.

We will know soon enough where these Senators went if they traveled during the recess. How many went on junkets. Who had fundraising trips. What they did rather than face their responsibilities.

Like funding DHS.
Like securing our elections.

Like addressing this constitutional crisis they have allowed to take over the Senate and that they refuse to remedy.

This is not what the voters bargained for. This irresponsible bunch of Senators who refuse to protect the Senate and ensure its ability to function to serve the people.

They’re mad at @BasedMikeLee for calling this all into public view.
On full display so we now see it - understand it. And hate it. But he’s not the problem. They just didn’t want the public to ever find out. But now we know. And we are disgusted.

@EIwatchdogs @BasedMikeLee @chiproytx

[Viva Frei @thevivafrei]

Disenfranchising voters at the state level is a federal issue.

Individual states do not get to cheat and disenfranchise an entire nation.

The measures proposed in this act are entirely reasonable to prevent disenfranchisement at the federal level.

[Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell]

UPDATE ON THE SAVE AMERICA ACT - Amazing news!

Week of March 16: @LeaderJohnThune has announced he IS putting the #SAVE America Act on the floor AND he is not immediately moving for cloture - which would instantly kill the bill.

That WAS the original plan until @LeaderJohnThune ran into the buzzsaw of the American people going berserk about that idea.
And the determination of @realDonaldTrump to change that plan

This is what is NOW going to happen this week:  

@LeaderJohnThune will move on Tuesday (tentatively) to consider the House message on #SaveAmericaAct and the Senate WILL start the consideration of the bill.

There will be a series of procedural motions (which are not describable in plain English), but which will get the bill to the floor for consideration.   None are cloture, and none will require 60 votes.  

@LeaderJohnThune will fill the amendment tree.   There will be consideration of amendments. This will be similar to what is sometimes called vote-a-rama in the Senate

There is going to be debate - organized so @LeaderJohnThune maintains control of the floor.  

All of this is a sea change from a week ago.  Or even since last Tuesday.  

It is not a “talking filibuster” but it is ongoing debate and consideration.  The Senate may leave the bill and go to other matters and then return.   And that could happen more than once. 

That’s about all I can say - senate procedures are arcane and hard to follow.

What is most important to know is this particular next phase is a win.   It is a BIG step.  It is a result of the people rising up and slamming the Senate last week.  

We the people were so angry at @LeaderJohnThune after his remarks on Tuesday throwing in the towel without a fight, and there was such an avalanche of calls and social media posts MAINLY ON X, attacking @LeaderJohnThune Thune and the @SenateGOP that it really shook up the Senate leadership, penetrated their hard heads,  and they finally started listening.  

That’s all thanks to YOU, the people of the country.

And is a testament also to @BasedMikeLee @chiproytx @ScottforFlorida @SenRonJohnson, Rob Borden who works for @BasedMikeLee plus several more stalwart Senators and House members committed to getting this bill passed- and it was especially a result of the amazing outpouring of public pressure on the Senators.  

The battle we waged on X paid off and that is an historic achievement. Example:  @MarkMeadows started on Tuesday posting on X the names of the @SenateGOP senators committed to vote yes on the bill AND the talking filibuster.   And also the @SenateGOP members who have NOT.

 @MarkMeadows posts on X received 21.8 MILLION views.   Read that again.   21.8 million views.  

And people then stepped up and hammered the Senate, burning up Senators’ phone lines, emails, and X accounts, demanding passage of the SAVE America Act.

We now have to make sure the Senate stays on the bill long enough to refocus that same anger and angst  against the Dems.

They are, after all, our real opponents.

We have a lot of work to do in this next phase.  But we now know we can do it.  

Call the @SenateGOP and tell them “Thank you! Stay on the #SaveAmericaAct for as long as it takes to PASS THE BILL. Cancel every recess, Stay in session and get this done!”

Call the @SenateDems and hammer them for opposing this VITAL bill. Tell @SenateDems to PASS THE #SAVEAmericaAct. To vote YES on the bill.

[phone]. Start calling on Monday. Find your Senator’s website. Email / call the state offices.

Our voices were heard….we have the chance now to make more history

This next phase is something that has not been seen or done in the US Senate in decades:   It’s called legislating.  Amazing.

Thanks to @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk for their leadership to pass #SAVEAmericaAct Without them, this would not be happening

@gc22gc @seanmdav @DataRepublican @EricLDaugh @greg_price11 @BarronTNews_ @EIwatchdogs

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

Imagine the U.S. government decided it wanted to pay off the national debt.

All of it.

Today that debt is over $38 trillion. Paying it off wouldn’t just take time – it would require the government to run massive budget surpluses for years, maybe decades.

But here’s the problem.

A surplus means the government collects more in taxes than it spends.

And when that happens, money doesn’t just disappear from the budget. It disappears from the economy.

Government deficits push money into the system. Surpluses pull it out.

So paying down trillions of dollars of debt would mean draining trillions of dollars of liquidity from businesses, markets, and households.

Less spending. Less investment. Less growth.

Which is one reason large national debts are almost never truly paid off.

Instead, they’re rolled forward.

Old debt matures. New debt replaces it.

Year after year. Decade after decade.

Not because the debt will someday vanish.

But because the modern financial system quietly depends on it continuing to exist.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Understand what Thune is doing right now. It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues from being
exposed for opposing it.

How does Thune accomplish his? By avoiding a simple majority vote at all costs. Thune knows a public vote where Republicans get less than 50 votes—with people like Tillis and Curtis and McConnell and Murkowski voting against IT—is electoral poison. He doesn’t want it to pass, but he also can’t have it die at the hands of his own puke colleagues.

So how does Thune do this? By refusing to move to the already-passed House bill (this only requires a simple majority because the House message is privileged) and instead moving to a new, standalone Senate bill. A new Senate bill is not privileged, and therefore the motion to proceed to it is debatable, meaning it requires 60 votes.

Thune needs to kill the SAVE America Act, not expose any of his GOP colleagues as being against it, and be able to pretend that he tried. This is the actual Senate GOP trifecta—doing nothing while pretending they tried everything and protecting the worst of the worst the whole time.

So when you watch the GOP Senate bring up a brand new SAVE America Act bill and hold a single vote on a motion that needs 60 to pass, know that they’re doing it because they think you’re stupid.

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

They don’t have to explain anything to a people too lazy to vote them out.

If your politicians lack patriotism, you have to make them afraid for their jobs. If you can’t do that, you’ll never get anything you want.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Strategy has acquired 17,994 BTC for ~$1.28 billion at ~$70,946 per bitcoin. As of 3/8/2026, we hodl 738,731 $BTC acquired for ~$56.04 billion at ~$75,862 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRC https://t.co/wB1k3Nt1xa

[Lizzie Liz @LizzieLizbc]

@GrantCardone It goes to where it was always supposed to be. The suppression mechanism is being removed, not the demand.

Every fundamental that should have driven Bitcoin to $150k was already in place — record ETF inflows, Strategy accumulating 717,000 BTC, a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, Morgan Stanley entering the space, a weakening dollar. None of that changed. The 10am algorithmic dumps were the ceiling, not the fundamentals.Remove the ceiling. The fundamentals do the rest.

To the gold and silver comparison being made in the replies — Bitcoin is different in three ways that matter. The ledger is public and immutable. Supply is mathematically capped at 21 million — no mining expansion possible. And the legal and regulatory reckoning is happening in real time, not decades later. SEBI already banned Jane Street from India’s markets. Three simultaneous US lawsuits are now building the evidentiary record. The Clarity Act is being negotiated right now.

Gold took 30 years because there was no transparency and no political forcing function. Bitcoin has both.

$150k is the floor once organic price discovery resumes. 🟠

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

I love the Bible!

[Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT @Peoples_Pundit]

This is a fair point by @KenPaxtonTX. This is a HUGE problem with the GOP.

They spend tens of millions on incumbents who are in trouble because they betray their voters, and it costs them resources they desperately need to help keep seats they're losing badly in ME, NC and GA.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Most Americans still don’t fully understand what happened under Biden…

8% of Nicaragua entered the US in 4 years.
8% of the entire country.

7% of Cuba.
6% of Haiti.
5% of Honduras.