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[Kathryn Brandt @KBtheFirst]

In case you were wonder about the property tax backlash:

Back about 20 years ago, municipalities decided that property taxes should be at market value. Used to be at about 60%-70%.

When the housing market crashes, there'd be small corrections to taxes collected, but it's based on new sales even if you e been in your house 25 years.

It's gone up so high, with no good results! Schools failing, roads in bad shape.

We are all paying more, getting less, and then to find out they've been FLEECING taxpayers like mad? Makes sense that many are fed up. Stop voting for tax and spend, fraudulent system candidates, and maybe we can do better.

[Jacob Mauren @jacob_mauren]

The Twin Cities DSA will demand to be taken seriously and then make the dissolution of approximately 40% of Minnesota a part of their official platform. Add in a 32 hour work week, $20 min wage, and abolishment of prisons and you have the perfect LARP platform.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

🚀 The only career advice you need:

The actor Glen Powell auditioned to play Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick.

When the role was given to Miles Teller, Powell was devastated. He was offered a smaller role, but declined.

Tom Cruise summoned Powell to his house and asked him:

“What kind of career do you want?”

Powell responded:

“I want to be like you—an iconic movie star. You always choose great roles.”

Cruise shook his head.

“You’re wrong. I choose great movies, then I make the role great.”

Powell got the message. He accepted the role of Hangman—and nailed it.

Now Powell says:

“It changed the trajectory of my career.”

When young people ask me for career advice, I tell them something similar:

🚀 Attach yourself to a rocketship.

Join companies that are growing quickly. Work with people who are going places. Be part of something great.

Play your role—no matter how minor—exceptionally well.

The rest will take care of itself.

P.S. I don't write engagement bait, so I need your help to spread the word. If you enjoyed this post, would you like, comment, and repost?

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

LA is wild because the election will be between a Cuban trained Marxist guerrilla fighter and a woman running to her left.

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

Today, a Sunday news host asked a member of Congress to name a single FISA abuse. Even he didn't have a good answer.
It's hard to believe people are still so uninformed of the basic facts on this.
Here's my article fro 2017 refusing FBI Director Christopher Wray's false testimony on this point.
(Screaming red flags included in the article...)
https://t.co/j0tUXl0dT5

[NizNellie3 @NizNellie3]

🚨 The dork leading the protest against Erika Kirk is from an organization called ‘The People’s Verdict.’

They’ve been planning their mob attack for weeks.

Multiple organizations are involved, including ‘ICE Out of San Antonio’ and ‘Young People’s Coalition for Peace.’

The YPCP is a high school organization that is targeting Erika Kirk.

Minors are being used for a Maoist-like revolution. It is growing.

[🇺🇸 Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter]

SCOTUS JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF RIGHTS PARENTS NOW HAVE IF A SCHOOL TRIES TO BLOCK THEM OUT

Not vague victories. Not "parents win somehow." NAMED PROTECTIONS. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS. School by school.

🇺🇸 Advance notice — schools must tell parents BEFORE exposing children to the challenged books
🇺🇸 Opt-out right — parents can excuse their children from that specific instruction
🇺🇸 Free Exercise protection — forcing children into lessons that "pose a very real threat of undermining" religious beliefs is unconstitutional
🇺🇸 Preliminary injunction — this is ACTIVE NOW, not pending a future ruling
🇺🇸 Montgomery County, MD — the specific district that started this must comply immediately
🇺🇸 4th Circuit overruled — the lower court that sided with the school board was reversed
🇺🇸 Elementary grades targeted — the ruling applies to the LGBTQ+-inclusive storybooks in elementary English classes
🇺🇸 Nationwide signal — any district with a no-opt-out policy on religious-conflict content now faces the same legal exposure
🇺🇸 Administrative burden — schools must build notification and opt-out systems before the 2025-2026 year begins
🇺🇸 Case continues — the injunction holds while the full lawsuit plays out in lower courts

💀 6-3 vote
💀 Majority: Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett
💀 ZERO deference to the school board's "no opt-out" policy
💀 100% parental religious exercise — that is what the court protected

Every protection on this list belongs to parents. Not administrators. PARENTS.

Justice Sotomayor warned this "will be chaos for this Nation's public schools." These are the rights that caused that chaos.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2]

I have talked to the programmer who wrote the code and was given specific instructions.

California officials have instructed DMV data programmers to remove the internal coding flags for the drivers’ licenses of illegal aliens in California.

California passed a law known as AB60 authorizing illegal aliens to receive drivers’ licenses throughout the state.  Within the administrative functions of the state DMV database a designation code known as “AB60 code” was created to flag those specific licenses as containing “Federal Limits Apply”.

State officials instructed programmers to immediately remove AB60 administrative coding.  The removed code in question is an administrative function for identifying the registered DL holder as an “undocumented person” or illegal alien holder within the DMV database.

The established computer flag allows an administrator or DMV or State official to filter the massive database of California Driver’s License holders and identify just those who are ‘undocumented’.

The removal of the “flag” via deletion of the program code, means the database cannot be easily filtered to show only illegals who received those Drivers licenses, and/or generate a list of those license recipients.

[TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2]

Let me give this a shot.

First, @USAttyEssayli I do not believe you. Or anyone else in California politics, law or justice. Because you all know exactly how California voter fraud is done.

This is a silly game of pretending. You are pretending not to know. I'll explain it again.

All of you know:

Former Attorney General Eric Holder was hired by California govt to advise on the election changes created by linking DMV database to Secretary of State database.

The tech team that wrote the code to link the DMV and SOS were given specific instructions. The affirmative flag, the checkbox in the DMV system that says the applicant is legally eligible to vote, was neutralized.

Meaning, if the checkbox is left blank, the computer system accepts the application from the DMV as affirmative. The DL applicant data is transferred to the SoS office, and the applicant is registered to vote.

Illegal Aliens, unlawful migrants, were allowed to get California Driver's Licenses and State IDs. The Motor-Voter process now registers those drivers and ID recipients as legal voters and ballots are created.

Those illegal ballots form the core of the voter fraud in California and were first used in the November 2018 midterm election as the beta test for national rollout.

Not a single person in Sacramento politics doesn't know this. All of you are aware. All you have to do is go check and you will see.

The fraud is impossible to prosecute. The fraud is built into the system. Go look. Everyone knows.

Again. I don't believe you.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is the real reason crime is down in Los Angeles

Samantha lives in LA and has had to call 911 for the police four times

Call 1: A homeless person was trying to break into her apartment building. She was outside of her building while it was happening. She called 911, “I was placed on hold for about 10 minutes, and then they told me that since the person was homeless, they would not be sending the cops out, that they would try to get like homeless intervention people out, and it would take no less than an hour”

This was no help

Call 2: This one's really messed up. She watched a 80 year old man “get the sh*t beat out of him” by like a 20 year old. “Like bad, repeatedly, and this kid had his phone out the whole time, was recording it, like beat the shit out of this old, old, old man in the middle of the street, in the middle of Sunset Boulevard. This old man is like lying there bleeding everywhere, and I called the police and nobody came.”

Call 3: Her car was being broken into and someone was attention to steal it. “I waited on hold for 40 minutes before someone picked up and said, "Oh, you have to do that online." She was told how to categorize the incident. They told her wrong and it her police report was rejected. She called back and they said “There’s nothing they can do” and “nothing will be done”

Call 4: “A tweaker was loitering and tweaking outside my apartment for hours and eventually trying to break into it” After he was in the process of trying to break in she called 911 and after 3 hours nobody showed but but they called back to check on her. The man was gone, the cops didn’t help

Crime rates aren’t down in Los Angeles. Residents are just no longer reporting them because this is the response

We see this over and over again

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

How is she still there?

Didn't John Dingell die about 20 years ago?

Little known fact -- I've posted it here before.

Michigan gained 4 seats in Congress from the 1930 census. John Dingell Sr. successfully ran for one of those new seats in 1932. He was born in 1894.

He was re-elected 11 times and held the seat for 22 years when he died in office in 1955.

John Dingell Jr. was 29 years old and 3 years out of law school. His father died on Sept. 19, and a Special Election was held on Dec. 13 -- 85 days later.

John Dingell Jr. won the election, and then served 30 terms spanning 59 years, from 1955 to 2014. He announced he would not seek re-election in 2014 - he died in 2015 at age 92.

His wife Debbie ran to replace him in the 2014 election and won. She has since been reelected 5 times.

So three people -- and only 3 people -- all named "Dingell," have represented one of Michigan's "new" Congressional Districts for 94 years.

And no one else.

She is running for re-election in 2026 and has no primary opponent.

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

Extremely chaotic scene outside of TPUSA’s Women’s Leader Summit.

Multiple masked radicals, wearing clear ANTIFA imagery, have swarmed one of the entrances and have been hitting and throwing things at police.

Multiple ANTIFA members have jumped in to stop police from making arrests.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! It looks like the fraudsters charged by the Trump DOJ for Minnesota fraud are 3RD WORLDERS and MUSLIMS, their names include:

- Shamso Ahmed Hassan, $46.6M
- Fahima Mahamud, $5.4M
- Ahmed Othman Kadar, $1.4M

Imagine that.

Send them back! How much of the fraud was sent to foreign nations?!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. A MASSIVE India H-1B visa fraud ring has just been busted...nearly 90% PERCENT of India's visa applications contain FRAUDULENT INFORMATION

100,000 THOUSAND counterfeit certificates have been seized 🤯

"Law enforcement in India claim it has uncovered a network of universities that produce fake degrees which were possibly used to obtain these high skilled H1B visas, including one school which allegedly stole over 36,000 fake degrees. It cost as little as $1,400 for one of those."

"And while these are supposed to be high skilled employees during almost all of Biden's time in office, 83% got junior or entry level positions."

This is INSANE! SHUT DOWN THE H-1B SCAM!

@KenPaxtonTX is now going after this in Texas 🔥

@kayleighmcenany @SatAmericaFNC

[Coach Satunas @CoachSatunas]

To anyone celebrating the Bears moving to Indiana because you think it saves us tax dollars: please wake up.

I hope you’ve been paying attention since 2022. This isn’t a victory; it’s a disaster. First it was Caterpillar, Boeing, Citadel, Tyson, and TTX. Now a $6 billion franchise is advancing a move across the state line because Illinois politicians refuse to create a competitive business climate.

When multi-billion-dollar corporations and their highest-paid executives flee the state, they take their massive tax revenues with them. Who do you think is going to pick up the tab for the state's massive liabilities when they're all gone? Hint: Look in the mirror.

And if you think the bleeding stops with corporate HQs, look at how our tax dollars are actually being prioritized. While state leadership claims we don't have the funds to incentivize major revenue-generating businesses to stay, state audits reveal that Illinois has spent an estimated **$2.5 billion to $2.8 billion** on state-funded healthcare, housing, and support services for non-citizens and undocumented immigrants over the last few years alone. Our politicians are actively funding massive cost overruns for non-citizens while letting our tax base walk out the door.

For those wondering how we can possibly have a massive housing shortage when our state's overall population has been declining since 2020 (White, 2023)—it's simple math. Population decline doesn't automatically mean empty houses when the state completely stops building.

Thanks to Illinois’ suffocating zoning laws, red tape, and the highest property taxes in the nation, new housing construction permits fell by 13% over the last five years. Available housing inventory in the Chicago area has plummeted by a staggering 54 since 2019. We have an existing deficit of over 142,000 housing units because the state has made it too expensive and heavily regulated for builders to build and for regular families to afford (Aurand, 2023; Corinth & Dante, 2022).

We are living in a state that chokes out supply, drives up home prices by 49%, taxes the middle class into oblivion, and spends billions on non-citizens while watching our biggest economic engines wave goodbye on their way to Indiana.
Stop cheering. Start paying attention.

### References & Sources
* **Illinois Demographics & Net Migration Trends:** Research from the University of Illinois Extension's Farmdoc Daily tracks how post-pandemic population dynamics, domestic out-migration, and low birth rates have driven continuous population decline in Illinois compared to neighboring states (White, 2023).

* **National & Local Housing Shortages:** Data from the National Low Income Housing Coalition documents the massive multi-million unit deficit in affordable housing options across municipal areas, driven by surging costs and a precipitous decline in overall rental and real estate vacancy rates (Aurand, 2023).

* **Regulatory Obstacles to Housing Growth:** A study published in the SSRN Electronic Journal details how strict zoning parameters and local municipal regulations function as a "regulatory tax" that severely suppresses housing stock expansion, compounding shortages even in areas facing negative net domestic migration (Corinth & Dante, 2022).

* **Chicago Housing Infrastructure Analysis:** The Metropolitan Planning Council outlines the regional constraints on the production and management of both private and subsidized housing units within northeastern Illinois (Lenz, 2023).

* **State-Level Non-Citizen Fiscal Outlays:** Official state budget presentations and audit reporting from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) detail the state-funded Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults (HBIA) and Health Benefits for Immigrant Seniors (HBIS) program expenditures, which drove the multi-billion-dollar non-citizen support infrastructure costs.

[Pincher Martin @PincherMartin8]

I always laugh when I see this.

So many of the old conservatives - like the brilliant Phyllis Schlafy - had it exactly right about what would be the culmination of the sexual and equal rights movements of the nineteen-seventies. Like same-sex marriage mandated by the courts, unisex bathroom and locker room facilities, women in combat roles, "gender anarchy", higher divorce rates and more single parents.

Schlafy was a genuinely brilliant organizer and speaker. She was feared by her political opponents. Rick Perlstein called her "probably the best political organizer we’ve seen in American history," and yet most young conservatives today have never heard of her because for all their desire to protect American traditions and culture, they can't be bothered to actually ever study any history. Not even the history of conservative successes.

[J.K. Lundblad @JK_Lundblad]

The original sin of education goes back to 1965 with the Higher Education Act.

That year, Congress mistook signal for the noise; they began providing student loans to every student regardless of their ability to pay.

They thought this would upskill the labor force and drive up wages. Initially maybe it did, but it kicked off a vicious cycle.

Universities gleefully took their money, using the govt loan limits and the baseline for tuition. The repayment burden was entirely on the students, after all.

And so began tuition inflation. When tuition went up, the govt offered more loan assistance, schools then hiked tuition again. Rince and repeat.

Then came grade inflation; schools became hesitant to fail highly indebted students.

Then came credential inflation; employers began using diplomas to screen resumes. A diploma became, not an indication of skills, but a checked box.

On net, it's quite possibly that providing student loans, now, is a net loss for the economy and society: https://t.co/Gdr3Ff2Ro4

[America @america]

The SPLC used $4.1 million in donor to fund the KKK and other extremist groups.

This is how they used the money:

-Attend and host extremist group rallies across the country.
-Grow existing chapters of extremist groups.
-Create new chapters of extremist groups;
Recruit new individuals into extremist groups.
-Make donations to extremist group leaders.
-Purchase materials for cross burnings.
-Purchase materials to make Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods.
-Create racist paraphernalia that extremist groups sold at rallies.
-Publish extremist literature used in the recruiting of more members.
-Pay everyday living expenses, which allowed the Fs to focus on their extremist groups rather than seeking other employment.

They funded the groups they told the public they were fighting.

[Liz Wheeler @Liz_Wheeler]

While Michael Caputo was working at the DOJ in 2025, U.S. Attorney Ed Martin approached him and said, "Michael, you've had an open federal criminal investigation since early 2021, and the office you're sitting in is the one that opened it. And the woman in the office next to you is likely the lawyer who's investigating you. And she's investigating you right now."

"I went over to that woman's office and I knocked on the door...and she said, 'Come in.' I opened it and I looked at her and I told my my guys on the phone, 'Brown hair, glasses?" He said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'Hi.' I shut the door...I was being investigated by the office that I had been assigned to by the President of the United States. Isn't that wild? And it continued for another 8 months." -@MichaelRCaputo

President Trump, the thousands of people like Michael Caputo deserve restitution for Joe Biden's political lawfare!

[♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ @fem_mb]

Tough day. First I spoke to a female inmate who's being pressured by officials to change her story and say she wasn't abused by a trans-identifying male inmate.

Then another inmate called and told me that the same abuse is happening in Maine's JUVENILE prison. She was in juvenile hall from age 11 and it turns out that they're housing teenage boys who identify as girls with the girls.

One 17 yr old boy was so sexually abusive to the girls that parents had to threaten to sue to finally get him transferred to the boys' unit after two years.

Due to confidentiality for minor inmates, it's a lot harder for us to find out who is in the juvenile prison or get contact with them. Frankly, it hadn't even occurred to me that this would be a problem there, too, but of course it is.

And none of the organizations that should be helping will even acknowledge the problem, because most of them testified in favor of the law to put male inmates in female prisons in 2021. That includes the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault and the Maine Women's Lobby.