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NO MSG ABT CYPTO/TRADING/BITCOIN. THOSE WILL BE BLOCKED. 🚫NO DM. DON'T ASK ME FOR MONEY! I DON'T HAVE ANY! SSDI BARELY ALLOWS ME TO SURVIVE! ASK & BE BLOCKED!

[TLD @TLD1966]

The Federal Poverty Level Is Not Just Wrong.

It Is 60 Years Outdated.

And Millions Of Americans Are Paying The Price.

The Federal Poverty Level, FPL, is the number the government uses to decide who qualifies for survival level assistance.

SSI.
SSDI income limits.
SNAP.
Medicaid.
Housing assistance.
VA survivor pensions.

All of it flows from this number.

Here is how that number was created.

In the early 1960s, the government calculated the cost of a basic food plan.

At that time, food made up about one third of a household budget.

So they multiplied food costs by three.

That became the poverty line.

That formula has never been structurally modernized.

It has only been adjusted for inflation.

The foundation of federal poverty policy is based on a 1960s food budget assumption.

Food is no longer one third of household expenses.

Housing dominates.
Utilities have increased.
Healthcare costs have exploded.
Transportation is mandatory in most of the country.
Internet and phone access are basic economic necessities in 2026.

The economy changed.

The formula did not.

For 2025, the official poverty threshold for a single adult is about $15,650 per year.

That is about $1,305 per month.

There is nowhere in the United States where a single adult can realistically survive on $1,305 per month.

Not in a city.
Not in a rural county.
Not anywhere.

If you calculate a neutral national baseline by averaging the 10 most expensive metro areas and the 10 least expensive metro areas, you remove political bias and capture real regional variation.

Using that method alone, the poverty threshold should already be about $19,400 per year.

That equals about $1,617 per month.

And that still does not reflect full modern survival costs.

When you include real world essentials, housing, utilities, healthcare, transportation, communication, and inflation adjusted basics, the actual minimum survival income is closer to $40,000 to $50,000 per year.

That equals roughly $3,333 to $4,167 per month.

That is not luxury.

That is survival.

Now look at federal benefit levels.

SSI pays about $967 per month.
VA survivor pensions pay about $948 per month.
Many SSDI payments fall between $1,200 and $1,600 per month.

Those numbers are not random.

They are tied to a poverty metric built on a 1960s food multiplier.

If you anchor survival programs to an artificially low poverty line, you lock people into permanent financial strain.

The consequences are predictable.

Housing instability.
Utility shutoffs.
Food insecurity.
Delayed medical care.
Long term economic fragility.

This is not ideology.

It is math.

Inflation adjustments do not fix a broken baseline.

Scaling an outdated formula does not modernize it.

The Federal Poverty Level does not measure poverty in 2026.

It measures a mid twentieth century assumption about food costs.

We have modern cost of living data.
We have transparent economic tools.
We have the ability to measure poverty honestly.

If federal policy uses a number to determine who qualifies for survival level assistance, that number should reflect actual survival costs.

Right now, it does not.

And the gap between policy and reality is measurable.

https://t.co/2KqYnCAaWK

https://t.co/QKw2irUXo8

#Poverty
#EconomicReality
#CostOfLiving
#SSI
#SSDI
#Medicaid
#HousingCrisis
#DataNotPolitics

[ATX Irish Gal 🙏🏼🇺🇸❤️ @Notmyfault99]

It’s this simple
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Nov. 3rd isn’t just a date
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It’s whether this country stays America 🇺🇸

[Knights Templar International @KnightsTempOrg]

With everything going on in the world right now, why not join the templars band of brothers. Dues Vult!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

I'll just leave this right here

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Let me break down what I'm seeing and hearing here from DR.

I don't know DR's source for these materials , but they appear completely legit and are profoundly disturbing.

These are leading members of the Democrat Party hatching up the following strategy:

1. After the midterms, use the DSA to incite and carry out violent civil unrest.

2. Make the violent civil unrest so bad that Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act.

3. Use the invocation of the Insurrection Act to create a national sense of illegitimacy whereby Democrat governors appear justified in taking the extreme action of refusing to acknowledge federal authority and push to form a new form of federal government via various means, including an Article V transformation of the Constitution.

Maybe there is more to this and it's not as bad as it seems, but right now this appears to be a conspiracy to create the next Fort Sumter.

This is a CIA-style color revolution in real time, on our own soil.

(Of course the legacy media is nowhere near this--it takes us Internet randos to get the word out.)

[TLD @TLD1966]

The site has been doing this since at least yesterday, coming up in simplified Chinese, and having to be translated into English! @FictionPress

[TLD @TLD1966]

@PeriklesGREAT A

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

When you just came to enjoy a the fight But the illegal doesn’t like you! FAFO.

[TLD @TLD1966]

SIGN: Help Pass the LEASH Act to Create a National Animal Abuser Database https://t.co/sjgLQ6HtTE

[TLD @TLD1966]

Only those born to US Citizen parents should be allowed to serve in any Government office! (Both parents have to be US Citizens at the time of the child's birth)

[TLD @TLD1966]

@libsoftiktok Only those born to US Citizen parents should be allowed to serve in any Government office! (Both parents have to be US Citizens at the time of the child's birth)

[🇺🇸Roger Bernards🍊 @RogerBernards]

We must strip her of all the money she and her Somali terrorists stole from us and ship the whole lot of them the hell out of here!!!
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[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Can we all agree that THIS POS👇🏻 caused most if not all of the hate and division we're seeing in our country right now?

[GrrrGraphics 🇺🇸- Ben & Tina Garrison Cartoons @GrrrGraphics]

𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝. 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝.🇫🇷
New Ben Garrison Cartoon

France is burning. Macron still says très bien. Foreign flags, burning buses, and a demand for Sharia.

When they carry the other flag, it is not a protest. It is an invasion.

This one needs to be shared with someone who still thinks diversity is strength.

Read the rest of the story: https://t.co/o70OA8a2Xv
Original Art available!

Always @grrrgraphics for more hard-hitting cartoons. 👍🤠

[🏛 🌹PeriklestheGREAT 🌹 🏛 "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" @PeriklesGREAT]

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[ƤƖҲƖЄ @Pixie1z]

I support Voter ID 100%.

[TLD @TLD1966]

Knights Templar Gregorian Chant | Medieval Sacred Choir & Crusader Hymns https://t.co/wpJB3pfwll via @YouTube

[TLD @TLD1966]

@RichardSte14807 👍

[TLD @TLD1966]

https://t.co/v0wI6hTubM

[Jeff pontz @827js]

This is an Army of Veterans
who are prepared to do whatever is necessary
to uphold the Constitution.
Their numbers are growing by the thousands.

Re-post if you support this!

[TLD @TLD1966]

@Neccccy Bye