Scott

Reality is what happens after you make plans

[Grok @grok]

US Ukraine-related spending totaled ~$188B (much for US military replenishment, not all direct to Kyiv). With ~134M households, that's roughly $1,400 per household. Warren supported the key aid bills.

Biden-era cumulative CPI inflation reached ~21.5% (2021-early 2025), substantially raising costs for food, energy, and housing. An exact per-household "inflation cost" varies widely by spending but eroded real incomes initially.

Nonpartisan estimates (CBO, Wharton) found the Inflation Reduction Act had negligible short-term impact on inflation.

[John E Deaton @JohnEDeaton1]

Here's a reason @EdMarkey is scared to debate.

He’s been in office for 53 years. He’s never had a private sector job except driving an Ice Cream truck during the summer while in college.

He’s voted to raise his own salary at least SIX times.

In 1989, he voted for a nearly 40% pay increase in a single vote - boosting his salary from $89,500 to $125,000.

Today, members of Congress earn $174,000 per year. That's more than three times the median household income in Massachusetts.

Markey has never missed a paycheck. Never gone without. Members of Congress are the only people on the planet who get paid to not do their job.

In the early 1990s Markey bounced 92 checks totaling over $47,000. He didn’t have to pay a single dollar in insufficient funds fees. He was a Member of Congress so the bank paid off his bounced checks.

In 2008, he returned the favor voting to bail the banks out for all the bounced checks they wrote.

He bailed out Wall Street Bankers. Yet, he's been campaigning for decades as a champion of working people.

As an attorney, for 30 years I've represented working families - people with mesothelioma, asbestos poisoning, workplace injuries - fighting against the very corporations that treat them as expendable. I know what it looks like when powerful institutions take care of themselves at everyone else's expense.

Below is what a career politician looks like. Someone who votes himself multiple pay raises, while Massachusetts families face the highest energy costs in America, most expensive housing market in the country, highest childcare costs in the nation, and grocery bills they can barely afford.

He got pay raises. You got the tab.

It's time to send a citizen - one of us - not a career politician - to the U.S. Senate.

#mapoli #MASen #Deaton

[John Deaton @DeatonforSenate]

The beaches in Maryland must be incredible.

Because nobody who has ever spent three hours crawling toward Cape Cod on a functionally obsolete bridge would think this system is acceptable.

Massachusetts sends more tax dollars to Washington per person than any state in America.

So why are we still depending on bridge infrastructure that traces its roots back over 110 years?

Decades of representation. Billions sent to D.C.

And we're still sitting in traffic.

That's not a funding problem. That's a leadership problem.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 California Passed "The Stop Nick Shirley Act":
This week the California Assembly passed AB 2624. This bill will criminalize investigative journalism involving the immigrant population. It would have made it illegal to expose the Somali "Learing" center if it were in California or the Armenian hospice fraud in LA if they claimed "reasonable fear."

The bill protects "immigration support services providers," which means services provided to immigrants, including health care. It has been proven that millions, potentially billions, of dollars in fraud has taken place in "immigrant support services” which includes nonprofits and NGOs the state funds.

California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating it as they could be forced and sued to remove the video, forced to pay attorney fees, and ordered to pay a minimum of $4,000 in damages.

This bill was created by Mia Bonta (the attorney general's wife). She has made 4 separate versions of this bill because each version violates the 1st Amendment and is extremely unconstitutional.

Plain and simple, California politicians need the fraud to continue because they depend on the fraud to push their agendas. END ALL THE FRAUD.

[Scott @spdcrypto]

ChatGPT just dropped a shocking answer #shorts #Chatgpt #Truth #Debate #... https://t.co/9YfHwzrDCG via @YouTube

[John E Deaton @JohnEDeaton1]

Both @sethmoulton and @SenMarkey are the same - one is just younger than the other. One has been in office for 53 years - the other for 12. Neither have done anything to help working families. Both are partisan hacks who define themselves as being a Democrat. I define myself as an American - loyal not to a person, party or agenda - but to the U.S. Constitution and to the people of MA. It’s time we elect a truly INDEPENDENT voice to the U.S. Senate.

[Scott @spdcrypto]

@ThrillaRilla369 Ask a veteran how it's working out for them

[Scott @spdcrypto]

Lawmakers should be paid the same federal minimum wage they passed for everyone else, back in 2009 - $7.25 per hour

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Mike Johnson said lawmakers’ $174,000 salaries have not kept pace with inflation and that they rely on stock trading for additional support, per MoneyWise.

[Scott @spdcrypto]

@mypoliticalx

[Scott @spdcrypto]

@GrantCardone nobody cares

[Scott @spdcrypto]

Just a few years ago the saying was,
if you see something, say something.
Now ⬇️

[Scott @spdcrypto]

Just another way for democrats to launder our tax dollars

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency.

This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. 

New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.

[Scott @spdcrypto]

Couldn't have said it better myself

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

This video is PEAK comedy gold. I felt this in my SOUL. 😂

“Can’t stand these fckn bicyclists” — my brother, you just narrated my morning commute.

He nails it: Grown-ass men in skin-tight neon spandex outfits looking like a pack of radioactive Power Rangers, riding three-wide like it’s the Peloton Championships on a residential road. No one’s handing out medals at the cul-de-sac, Kyle. You’re not transporting a heart for surgery. You’re just expensive, slow-moving road geese with $10k carbon fiber attitudes.

One? Fine. Eight? That’s a tactical formation. That’s how civilizations fall.

I’m honking, I’m crying, I’m in agreement. Save us from the Lycra Legion. He nails every reason I can’t stand the bicycle militia.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

At this point, Americans are no longer taxpayers.

We are fraud victims.

And we want our money back.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

California Democrats have increased regulatory costs to grow lettuce 1,400%

New data shows groceries are getting more expensive is because farming is getting more expensive

A Cal Poly study tracked the regulatory costs of a California lettuce farm

- In 2006, it was $109 an acre
- Today, it's more than $1,600 an acre
- That's a 1,400% increase in regulatory costs

I looked more into this and it’s absolutely correct

The study tracked a large scale commercial lettuce grower in the Salinas Valley across 2006, 2017, and 2024

2006: Regulatory compliance costs = $109.15 per acre (about 1.26% of total production costs)

2017: Rose to $977 per acre (795% increase from 2006; 8.9% of production costs)

2024: $1,600+ per acre (63.7% increase from 2017; 1,366% overall increase since 2006; now 12.6% of total production costs).

The state produces 70% of US lettuce

“That dramatic rise has come from layer upon layer of regulation, nearly two dozen of them related to food safety, air and water quality, worker health and safety, and wages.”

California needs to vote Red and stop with all these insane revaluations

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

I can assure you 2 dozen other countries are watching closely to see if Germany can get away with it. If no very visible retaliatory threat or diplomatic intervention is made here by USG, you will not believe the speed at which this cancer will spread.

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

Abolishing private property in 2 easy steps

Step 1 - Rent control: Rent is lower than costs and taxes so you can't do maintenance.

Step 2 - Seizure: You don't have the money to do maintenance and the state uses it as an excuse to take your property.

[John Deaton @DeatonforSenate]

Let’s scrub the grime from Washington.

I am proposing a “Clean Hands Act” to bring term limits to Congress, ban stock trading while in office, impose a lifetime lobbying ban after leaving public service, and end Leadership PAC slush funds once and for all.

Washington was never meant to be a career, and public service was never meant to be a path to getting rich.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

The head of France's censorship office targeting US platforms was working for years directly with the Biden admin on disinformation and social media regulation, through a State Dept & USAID-funded partnership

[John Deaton @DeatonforSenate]

June 16. No filters. No handlers. No scripted town hall.

Just the debate Massachusetts deserves.