“So are you for school choice or not?” - @CondoleezzaRice at the Reagan Library, 2024 🔥

Spent some time at the salon and the barbershop in Grand Rapids 💈🤝

BREAKING 🚨: CNN’s Dana Bash: “You’re a lifelong Democrat. If you were a Michigan voter, how would you vote in the Senate race?” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ): *Laughs* “There’s no way I’m ever coming out for El-Sayed, right now… This is a guy who has made it VERY CLEAR his views towards… Jewish Americans.”

Maryland is 5th WORST. Money is LEAVING Maryland. This data is from 2023 (IRS). But since then, Annapolis has raised taxes/fees by BILLIONS of dollars. A new state payroll tax will take effect in January (FAMLI). What is Annapolis doing to stop people/$$$ from moving out?

She knows that the actual issue is the 6 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank who can’t vote. She just thinks you’re too dumb to know.

🚨Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on President Obama mocking the Cheesecake Factory: “This is the man who built the museum and it looks like Darth Vader’s tomb.” Bessent also told @FoxBusiness' @FBNNicoleMac he frequents the Cheesecake Factory and always orders the French dip cheeseburger — and suggested the “Martha’s Vineyard set” should “give it a try.”

BREAKING: Empowering Black Americans, a group made up of thousands of Black Michigan Democrat voters, has announced that they oppose Abdul El-Sayed.

The Montgomery County Education Equity Action Group issued a “No Confidence” statement regarding Montgomery County Public Schools Friday afternoon. bit.ly/4zNKDiq

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME LIKE I'M FIVE YEARS OLD. If Social Security's trust fund runs dry by 2032, which is now the official projection in this year's Trustees Report, what the actual hell happens to every dollar that's been pulled out of my paycheck for the last 10+ years?? Because here's what nobody explains clearly: Social Security isn't a savings account with your name on it. There's no personal vault sitting somewhere with "your" contributions in it. Every dollar taken out of your check right now is being paid out immediately to current retirees. It's a pass-through system, not a piggy bank. So when they say the trust fund "runs out," they don't mean all the money vanishes and checks stop entirely. They mean the surplus reserve that's been topping off the gap disappears, and the program drops to paying out only what it's currently collecting in payroll taxes that year. Based on current projections, that means an automatic cut of somewhere around 20-22% to everyone's benefit, with zero congressional action required to trigger it. It just happens by default under current law. So I've been paying into this system for over a decade, and the "promise" I'm working with is: maybe I get roughly 78 cents on every dollar I was supposed to receive, starting the exact year it's projected to hit, unless Congress does something before then, which it has had decades to do and hasn't. Genuinely, where did the rest of it go. And why is "trust us, we'll probably fix it eventually" the actual retirement plan being sold to an entire generation.

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Leaving Maryland: In the past year, a number of people I know left Maryland for Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Georgia. But I have not met ONE person in the past year who has moved TO Maryland. Net migration is a problem for Maryland. The new census numbers will be interesting.