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[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie Sanders makes $174,000 a year.
He owns three houses and keeps telling YOU to give up more. So I wrote a rule for every socialist candidate: live like the median voter you claim to speak for. Everything over the line goes to the national debt. Bernie will hate rule three.

I call it the Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Standard. It applies to anyone running as a socialist, a democratic socialist, or with a DSA endorsement on the yard sign. No committee. No 1,400-page bill. Three rules.

o Rule one: your taxable income cannot exceed the median American household. The Census Bureau put that at $87,460 for 2025. A record high, by the way. Under capitalism. Write that down, it will be on the quiz.

o Rule two: your house cannot be bigger than the typical American home, roughly 1,800 square feet. I'm told that is about the size of a walk-in closet in certain zip codes.

o Rule three: you cannot own more homes or cars than the average household. One house. About two vehicles. And no, the lake house does not count as a vehicle. I asked. It has a dock, not wheels.

Everything over the line goes to the national debt. Not to a charity or your foundation, and not to a nonprofit run by your campaign manager's cousin. To the debt. By your own logic, the federal government is the most deserving outfit in the country, and it is certainly the most broke. So send the money where it's needed most.

Somebody in the replies is already typing "that's not how it works." Sit down. It already is. Since 1961, the Treasury has accepted Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt through https://t.co/LaVZ83zdBb. Credit card, debit card, bank account, PayPal. They even take Venmo now. Nobody has to pass a bill first. Every "please tax me more" millionaire in America could do it before lunch.

Want to guess how much came in from 1996 to mid-2025? About $67 million. Total. From the entire country. Against a debt measured in trillions.

Strange how that line is always empty. All that talk about a fair share turns out to be about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.

Let me show you how this works in a classroom, since that's where I live. Picture my new Equitable Lunch Initiative. Every kid with two cookies hands one to a kid with none. Fair is fair. Meanwhile, the teacher who announced the policy keeps a full tray of cookies in her desk drawer, because somebody has to oversee the cookies. That is the entire DSA platform on a lunch tray. It's just common sense.

So let's grade the two most famous volunteers.

@SenSanders, a Senate salary is $174,000. That's roughly double the median household. Under my standard, about half of every paycheck goes to the debt, starting with the next one.

Then the houses. A home in Burlington. A rowhouse in D.C. A lakefront camp in North Hero on Lake Champlain, the one he and Jane paid cash for in 2016. The government sells two, and you get to pick which one you keep. I'm not a monster.

The book royalties count too. Back in 2019, when someone asked how a socialist became a millionaire, Bernie said he wrote a bestselling book, and anyone who does that can be a millionaire too. Agreed! That's called capitalism. You made a product, people bought it of their own free will, and you kept the profit. Congratulations, Senator. You found the system that works. You've just spent your whole career trying to make sure nobody else gets to use it.

"But Mike, he's fighting the SYSTEM. One man can't fix it alone." That dog won't hunt. A man who says the system is rigged can still decline to cash the winnings. Nobody is stopping him. The https://t.co/LaVZ83zdBb page is open right now. If the system is the problem, why is he always the exception?

Ms. Pelosi, you've never called yourself a socialist. You just voted for their spending for 39 years, so you've earned honorary enrollment. I know, I know, the trades are Paul's. Rule one is household income. Same kitchen table, same household. Every gain over the line this year goes to the debt. Nobody is accusing anybody of anything. The national debt would simply like its share of the luck.

I'll stop joking for a minute.

I know exactly what $87,000 looks like from the inside. It looks like a teacher's paycheck and an Army retirement check stretched across a family. Wait. I take that back. I don't actually know what an Army retirement check looks like, because the government is stealing mine. That's the wounded veteran tax, and it's why we need to pass the Major Richard Star Act, H.R. 2102 and S. 1032. Where was I? Right. It looks like a grocery list that gets edited at the register. It looks like driving the car with 200,000 miles on it because a new payment would eat a month of groceries. It looks like telling your kid "maybe next year" and meaning it.

Millions of families live right there, every single month, and never once ask the government to rescue them.

THAT is the life you want everyone else to pay for. Come live in it. Just for one term.

Jesus spoke to this in Matthew 23. Talking to the crowds and His disciples about the scribes and Pharisees, He told them to do what those leaders taught but not what they did, because they preached and didn't practice. Then verse 4: they tie up heavy burdens, lay them on other people's shoulders, and won't lift a finger to move them. Swap the robes for a Senate pin and you have the same problem.

If you can't live by the standard you're selling, why on earth would anyone believe you'd govern by it? A politician who won't take his own medicine but keeps writing you prescriptions is all hat and no cattle.

For the ones already sitting in Congress, I didn't stop at a rule. I wrote the bill that puts their own skin in the game. It's in the first reply.

So here's my offer to every DSA candidate on a ballot this November. Sign the standard. Post a screenshot of your first https://t.co/LaVZ83zdBb receipt. I'll share it myself. No rush, though.

But what do I know, I'm only a physics teacher, and in my lab you don't get credit for the experiment until you actually run it.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

INBOX: 3rd graders in the Central Bucks School District (@CBSDSchools) in PA were reportedly given "PRIDE CROSSWORD" worksheets indoctrinating them with LGBTQ propaganda.

This is the same district where Karen Smith, a school board member, was sworn in on a collection of p*rnographic books

Now it all makes sense...

Parents, BEWARE!

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Meet Corie Watkin, a woman who was told she was dying but is now sharing a story of hope. ❤️🙏🏾 At just 44 years old, Corie was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic colon cancer. Her medical records described her condition as terminal, and her doctors gave her a frightening outlook. Shortly afterward, she developed life-threatening sepsis, spent weeks in the hospital, including time in the ICU, and underwent major surgery. But Corie wasn’t ready to give up. Alongside her medical treatments, including immunotherapy, she focused on caring for herself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Eighteen months after her diagnosis, her scans showed no evidence of disease. Today, she says she has been cancer-free for almost THREE YEARS! ❤️

Corie’s journey inspired her to write a book titled I Was Supposed to Die: My Rebirth Through Stage IV, hoping her experience could encourage others facing frightening diagnoses. One thing she shared really stayed with me: “We cannot control every outcome, but that does not mean we are powerless.” Her story reminds us that even during life’s darkest moments, there can still be hope. 🎀

Although my 50-state tour focuses on breast cancer awareness, Corie reached out because she believes her message can encourage people battling all types of cancer. I may not be able to meet everyone, but their stories still deserve to be heard. If you’re battling breast cancer, are a survivor, or would like to share the story of someone you’ve lost, text your story to [phone]. Your story could give someone else the hope they need today. ❤️

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Hillary Clinton on executing a terrorist.

Vs

Hillary Clinton on executing a journalist.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Challenge Accepted! Mikey of Omaha,Nebraska has stepped up to make a difference and accepting our 50 yard challenge , committing to mow 50 free yards for those in need in his community. This is what it’s all about. Welcome to the family, Mikey !

[Nicole Nathern-Hedrick @Nicole_N_H]

25% of American adults have very low financial literacy, and partisan creators are using that gap to spread fear and misinformation about the new Trump Accounts. Let’s look at the actual facts, how these tax-advantaged accounts work under the hood, and how you can use them to set your kids up for long-term success. Don't let internet noise cost your family real wealth.

#FinancialLiteracy #TrumpAccounts #InvestingForKids

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Almost every candidate this cycle is trying to address the issue of rising costs that have battered families in the post-Covid era, yet how many are addressing the reason why things have become more expensive in the first place?

The institutionalization of massive borrowing and spending is a formula for persistent inflation and declining purchasing power.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Left: German Nazis executing a Jewish woman with her child in Ivanhorod, 1942.

Right: Palestinian Nazis executing a Jewish woman in Kibbutz Alumim, October 7, 2023.

“Never Again” is now.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

To those who claimed that no woman in Iran has ever been flogged for refusing to wear the hijab: LOOK AT HER BACK.

This woman is one of the brave members of my #WhiteWednesdays campaign against compulsory hijab.

She sent me this photo of her scarred back after being punished with 74 lashes for the “crime” of showing her hair.

Holding a Woman, Life, Freedom slogan, she refused to be silenced. Here is her testimony:

“The morality police arrested me for resisting their van. My ‘crime’ was unveiling. After months of court hearings, I was sentenced to 74 lashes. The cleric overseeing the punishment stood there to ensure it was carried out.

I won’t give up my fight against this brutal regime, but we are fed up with living as prisoners in our own homeland.”

Seventy-four lashes. For showing her hair. In the 21st century.

This is barbarism. And you tell me, how is this different from ISIS?

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

A Washington high school girl and her mother have filed an emergency application at the U.S. Supreme Court. They are asking the justices to stop Washington from making girls wrestle males.

In December 2025, at a girls’ tournament sanctioned by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), Kallie Keeler was sent out for a third-place match. Her opponent was a male competing in the girls’ division. She noticed right away that this opponent was “stronger and more powerful” than the girls she usually faced.

The filing says that early in the second period, the male reached between her legs and pushed his fingers into her vagina through her singlet, causing great pain. She tried to push him off and couldn’t. About a minute later, the filing says, he groped her again. She let herself be pinned to end the match. He took third place and the medal. She learned afterward, from a coach on another team, that her opponent was male.

The school district’s own Title IX investigator reviewed two videos of the match. The investigator concluded that the opponent “likely touched” Keeler’s vagina “with force,” according to the court record.

Keeler’s mother reported the assault in writing within two days and handed over video. But school officials didn’t report it to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office until the end of January — about 53 days later, past Washington’s mandatory 48-hour reporting law — and, the filings say, only after a journalist started asking questions. Her story went public in February, and the U.S. Department of Education opened a Title IX investigation into the district.

The application says that when the principal was asked whether he understood the complaint to mean penetration, he answered: “I did. But that’s wrestling.”

In June 2026, the Pierce County prosecutor declined to file criminal charges, writing that the contact was a foreseeable “by-product” of the match. The same male is still eligible to wrestle on the girls’ side this season, the filing says.

Washington voters get a say on November 3 with Fairness in Girls’ Athletics (I-638), which would keep K–12 girls’ sports for females. But Keeler’s wrestling season starts before any new law could take effect. That’s why her family is asking the Supreme Court to act now.

No girl should be pinned, groped, and then told “that’s wrestling.” Girls’ sports are for girls.

https://t.co/iOszEHBIP1

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ @sappholives83]

This is Gregory Green. In 1991, he stabbed his pregnant wife Tonya to death during an argument and then called 911 to report his crime. He was allowed to plead no contest to second degree murder and sentenced to 15-25 years in prison. While incarcerated, Gregory was a model prisoner, and with the support of pastor Fred Harris, he was paroled in 2008 after serving just 16 years.

After his release, Gregory married Fred Harris’ daughter, Faith, who had two children from a previous marriage. Faith and Gregory had two daughters together, but Gregory’s anger and aggression caused Faith to file for divorce in September of 2016. He sought revenge right away.

Before Faith could move out, Gregory tampered with his own car so that the exhaust was re-routed back into the car itself. Late one night, he took his two sleeping daughters, Koi (5) and Kaleigh (4) and put them in the car to suffocate before returning their bodies to their beds.

Gregory then attacked his wife, duct taping her to a chair in the basement before cutting her on both sides of her face from ears to chin and shooting her in the foot — but he wasn’t done. Marching his two teenage stepchildren downstairs at gunpoint, he shot them both in the head in front of their screaming mother before bringing the bodies of Koi and Kaleigh downstairs for her to see. Gregory then went calmly upstairs and — once again — called 911 to report what he’d done.

In spite of clear, indisputable evidence of premeditation, Gregory was allowed to plead guilty to four counts of second degree murder, torture, assault with intent to do great bodily harm and felony firearms violations. He was sentenced to 45-100 years in prison; although this was the second family he annihilated, he will be eligible for parole in just 47 years.

This is the second man I’ve profiled who murdered his family, got locked up, got out, had a second family, and then murdered them too. If even one woman had been allowed to do such a thing, you can bet your life that we’d never hear the end of it.

Ever hear of Gregory Green before today?

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Dear Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines and,
UNITED BOARD OF DIRECTORS;
• ⁠Edward “Ted” Philip — Chairman
• ⁠Brett Hart — President
• ⁠Michael Leskinen — CFO
• ⁠Rosalind Brewer
• ⁠Michelle Freyre
• ⁠Matthew Friend
• ⁠Barney Harford
• ⁠Michele Hooper
• ⁠Walter Isaacson
• ⁠Edward Shapiro
• ⁠Laysha Ward
• ⁠James Whitehurst

That Mr. Kirby is still CEO of United Airlines after he ‘pledged’ to make your airlines less safe by hiring ‘diverse new pilots’ instead of the most qualified pilots says that you and the United Board of Directors are dangerously putting passengers at risk!

Even more concerning is Mr. Kirby’s inaction, and United Airlines Board members inaction, NOT firing PRO- HAMAS TERRORIST PILOT IBRAHIM R MOSSALLAM is despicable, racist, and disgusting and another DANGER to United passengers.

I will no longer fly United Airlines and I ask that MY FOLLOWERS NO LONGER FLY UNITED AIRLINES and that they RETWEET THIS FAR AND WIDE!

Sincerely,
Rob Schneider
Former Customer of United Airlines

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Jacob of Rochester,Illinois just got his safety glasses, ear plugs, and white shirt in the mail—he’s officially ready to start the 50 Yard Challenge!

Let’s show him some love! What words of advice would you give Jacob as he begins his journey?

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

I posted this excerpt from
Fauci’s work diary a couple of days ago.

It’s still baking my noodle how unhinged Fauci was in private. I think this single passage from his work notes reveals more about his psyche than most any other I’ve seen.

This does not sound like a man who is okay— or confident about the advice he is giving the public.

He removes the mask that he insists everyone else wears, and then says he was “forced” to do so because people were taking photos of him and eating and drinking.

This makes no sense.

It also reveals once more how people behaved one way for cameras and then quite differently in private. Masks were always a facade.

Then he weirdly likens himself to Elvis Presley.

Then he obsessively worries he’s caught Covid even though he’s multi-vaccinated and everyone around him was required to be.

He admits that the vaccine is pointless in terms of infection and spread. And he is so fearful, he seems to acknowledge the vaccine will not ensure you have only a mild case, as he and other officials were claiming.

Maybe he was seeing all the recommended measures fail, and it was hitting home. No way out from the box he’d painted himself into.

So he writes how he laid awake and stared at the ceiling. So worried that he’d caught Covid.

So odd.

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Did you know the news used to regularly air stories about people's lives being ruined by vaccines?

That all changed after Clinton let Pharma buy out the media.

Here I compiled 56 mind-blowing news segments they'd never air today.

https://t.co/HI2GyO1jRp

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

🚨 American taxpayers are being robbed blind by Food Stamps fraudsters. Businesses in Seattle are cashing out EBT cards

Nick Shirley is able to walk into a Seattle Seafood Market and pay $120 for 1 can of spam with an EBT card

Here’s how the scam works

- Anyone with an EBT card comes in and buys an item
- The store adjusts the price of that item to the amount of money that’s on the person’s EBT card
- The store gives the person 50 cents on the dollar for the balance on the EBT card

Meaning is you have $120 on your EBT card, you’re able to exchange it for $60 cash and the store pockets the rest of the money for doing the transaction

This is a scam that is happening nationwide. There have even been so many mainstream media stories where this has been highlighted as a common scam

This is OUR tax money being stolen

[Handre @Handre]

Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010, guaranteeing you cheaper insurance, more competition, and the ability to keep your doctor. Premiums for individual plans more than doubled between 2013 and 2017. Deductibles climbed so high that millions of technically "insured" Americans still skipped medical care because the out-of-pocket costs were prohibitive.

The government mandated what your insurance must cover, forced healthy young people to subsidize older high-risk pools, and then expressed genuine surprise when prices spiked. Prices always tell the truth.

The 2009 stimulus, officially $831 billion, operated on the Keynesian assumption that government spending creates wealth. Government spending transfers wealth, first taxing or borrowing it from the productive sector, then routing it through political channels where efficiency is nobody's personal concern. The "shovel-ready jobs" Obama later joked about produced no measurable acceleration in recovery. The recession that followed 2008 should have cleared in 18 months, as previous sharp downturns historically did when left alone. The Obama recovery took a decade and delivered the weakest GDP growth of any post-war expansion on record.

Dodd-Frank, signed in 2010, weighs 2,300 pages. Community banks spent compliance budgets they never had, and roughly 1,900 small banks vanished between 2010 and 2016. The big institutions that actually caused the 2008 crisis absorbed the regulatory cost with ease and used the new complexity as a competitive moat. Regulations written by large players consistently protect large players. The middle-class small-business owners who needed credit found fewer lenders willing to offer it.

Obama also expanded drone warfare to seven countries, assassinated American citizens without trial, and extended the surveillance state through a reauthorized PATRIOT Act, which undermines any libertarian's case that the Democratic Party is less hostile to civil liberties than its competition.

Then there was Cash for Clunkers, which destroyed 690,000 working cars in 2009 by crushing them with sodium silicate. Mechanics lost parts inventory. Buyers on a budget lost affordable transportation. Prices for used cars spiked. You paid more so dealers could move new inventory.

A generation of voters watched the government spend $5 trillion across two terms, nationalize health insurance markets, regulate finance into oligopoly, and print money through three rounds of quantitative easing that inflated asset prices and rewarded those who already owned property. You paid higher premiums, earned lower real wages, and watched your savings earn nothing in a deliberately suppressed interest-rate environment. The bill always arrives later. You see the ribbon cutting and the document signing, but you feel the damage to your pocket only years later.

[Laura Becker🐦‍🔥 @LauraBeckerReal]

This was me right after top surgery. I was so happy to have a flat chest. If someone had told me that only 2 years later, I'd regret it, I wouldn't have believed them.

Now it's been 9 years. My dream is to be a mom, another thing I thought I'd never want.

Trans is a fad.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have dug through over 7,000+ arrest records in the state of North Carolina over the past 2 weeks.

What I found was so shocking, I had a hard time believing it myself...

It appears major fraud is taking place in arrest records where Black offenders are labelled White.

I didn't come across this once or twice.

It appears that a few HUNDRED Black offenders are being labelled as White.

The option to pick "BLACK" exists and is used frequently in arrest records...

...but it seems they are purposely choosing the label of "WHITE AFRICAN" or "WHITE CAUCASIAN" to identify someone who is clearly a "BLACK" person.

This is massive fraud.