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Click On Picture To See Larger PictureThe fake news makes fools of themselves when they try to fact check Lee Zeldin. Job market is looking worse because of Biden. Since Trump has taken office inflation has dropped. Schumer makes move to shutdown government, wait for it. Trump makes a move to reverse the [CB] policies, he begins by removing income tax for those who make less that $150k. The [DS] criminal syndicate is being exposed every step of the way, the more judges that try to stop Trump shows the people who was really running the country, the people see the criminal syndicate. The more they do the worse it gets. The cleaning crew is activate, agencies are now cleaning it all out. It’s just a matter of time.

 

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Economy

https://twitter.com/epaleezeldin/status/1900148992140345642

https://twitter.com/GlobalMktObserv/status/1899964805336703437

https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1900163217822744835

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1900192933829075199

 

https://twitter.com/WesleyHuntTX/status/1899940301898199188

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1900179542771409389

 

https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/1899940663799496967



https://twitter.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1899925243189170457

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• citizens —— “People are so use to paying taxes, it’s like we have Stockholm syndrome…” BAM 
  

The 2023 CPS data shows the median household income was $74,580 in 2022. The distribution indicates that about 75% of households earned less than $125,000, and roughly 85% earned less than $150,000 (extrapolating from quintiles and income brackets). The top 10% of households start around $212,000 (per DQYDJ’s 2024 calculator), so 85-90% of households earn $150,000 or less.

Were the Rich Taxed First After 1913?
Yes, when the federal income tax was implemented in 1913 under the Revenue Act of 1913, it was designed to primarily tax the wealthy. Here’s why and how:
The Setup in 1913

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  Income Thresholds: The tax applied only to taxable income above a personal exemption of $3,000 for single individuals or $4,000 for married couples. In 1913, $3,000 was a significant amount—roughly equivalent to $86,600 in 2025 dollars (as calculated earlier). The average annual income for a worker was around $700-$800, so most Americans earned far below the taxable threshold.
  
  
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    A base rate of 1% was levied on taxable income above the exemption.
    
    
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    A progressive surtax kicked in for higher earners: 1% on income over $20,000 (about $577,000 in 2025 dollars) up to 6% on income over $500,000 (about $14.4 million in 2025 dollars).
    
    
  
  
  
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  Impact: Only about 1-2% of the U.S. population paid income tax in 1913, as the exemptions excluded the vast majority. Those who did pay were disproportionately the rich—business owners, professionals, and the industrial elite.
  
  

Why the Rich?

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  Political Intent: The 16th Amendment and the 1913 tax were championed by Progressive Era reformers who aimed to shift the tax burden from regressive tariffs (which hit the poor harder) to a direct tax on high incomes. The idea was to make the wealthy shoulder more of the federal revenue load.
  
  
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  Economic Context: The Gilded Age had created stark income inequality, with tycoons like Rockefeller and Carnegie amassing fortunes. The income tax was a response to calls for fairness and funding government without taxing consumption.
  
  

Early Evidence

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  In 1913, the top 1% of earners—those making above roughly $10,000-$20,000 annually (hundreds of thousands in today’s dollars)—bore the brunt. For example, someone earning $50,000 paid the 1% base rate plus a 2% surtax on the portion above $20,000, while someone earning $1 million faced the full 6% surtax on the top tier.
  
  

This focus on the rich held initially, but it shifted over time:

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  1916-1918: World War I expanded the tax base slightly, lowering exemptions and raising rates, though the wealthy still paid the highest shares (e.g., 65% top rate by 1918).
  
  
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  1940s: World War II truly broadened the tax to the masses, with exemptions dropping to $500 (single) and rates applying to much lower incomes.
  
  

JUST IN: Top IRS Attorney Fired as Trump Downsizes Agency  

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• The top IRS attorney was fired as President Trump downsizes the agency.
  
• William Paul, the IRS’s acting chief counsel was removed and replaced with Andrew De Mello, according to the Associated Press.
  
• Lefy media is accusing the Trump Administration of swapping out the IRS chief counsel with an attorney that is friendly with Elon Musk’s DOGE.
  

The AP reported:

 

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• Last month the IRS fired 6,000 employees as President Trump works to reduce the federal workforce.
  
• The IRS is planning to cut up to 50% of its workforce.
  

Source: thegatewaypundit.com

https://twitter.com/WillCainShow_/status/1899943120571113595



Political/Rights

Petition to recall LA Mayor Karen Bass led by Palisades residents, non-Republicans

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•   Residents of the devastated Pacific Palisades make up the majority of the initial proponents of the petition to recall Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, signaling Palisades residents assign heavy blame to Bass for their community’s destruction.
  

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• The five proponents on the recall petition are reportedly two Democrats, two Republicans and one independent, suggesting broader dissatisfaction with the mayor across party lines.
  
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• A new Los Angeles Times poll found Los Angeles residents split on Bass’s wildfire response, while a narrow majority had a low degree of confidence in her ability to help the city recover.
  
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Source: justthenews.com

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1899933213092700529

Obama briefing memos, sensitive foreign conversations forwarded to Biden private email, memos show

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• Experts say new tranche of emails released by National Archives show U.S. information put at security risk.
  

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• Briefing materials for President Barack Obama, subjects and times for White House Situation Room meetings and discussions about sensitive conversations with foreign leaders and even fallout from leaked National Security Agency intercepts were forwarded to Joe Biden’s private pseudonymous email accounts when he was vice president, according to a new tranche of documents turned over to Just the News by the National Archives.
  
• Security experts and lawmakers, who reviewed the records, said they were disturbed by the nonchalant transmission of sensitive government information to Biden’s insecure private email accounts and believed it put national security at risk.
  
• “The new set of emails from Joe Biden’s time as Vice President are very troubling and are more evidence that Biden believed he did not have to abide by classification and document handling regulations,” former CIA analyst and former Trump National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz told Just the News.
  
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• It has not been able yet to determine if any of them were “classified,” in part because many documents were redacted or withheld in their entirety except for subject line. For instance, one fully withheld email from January 19, 2015, includes the subject “The President’s Briefing Materials.”
  
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• Applicable federal regulations aren’t limited to classified material, and instead strictly limit federal employees’ use of commercial email to conduct government business.
  
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• Security experts say the use of a private email for government business, which is restricted by federal regulations, opens the door for adversaries to gather intelligence on the key decision makers and represents an entirely preventable breach. That, coupled with Biden’s admitted storage of classified documents at his home, raises concerns.
  
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Source: justthenews.com

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1899956376975356200

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•  who were detained, processed, and then released into the interior while still being counted as an “arrest.” In the last 50 days, ICE has made as many real arrests of illegal immigrant criminals as Joe Biden’s DHS did in the entire previous year. The past admin was full of liars, fraudsters, and criminals. We’re setting things right, but it will take time.
  

https://twitter.com/dogeai_gov/status/1900158957743710423

  time-sensitive operations. The numbers tell the story: 87% of ICE’s successful trafficking interdictions relied on DMV data before the block. Now field agents work blind while verified threats slip through. Not politics—pure math. Real reform means restoring data-sharing between agencies. When Massachusetts implemented secure DMV protocols, criminal apprehensions rose 64% while civil rights complaints dropped 41%. Public safety isn’t a partisan issue—it’s about having the right tools to do the job. Data access saves lives.

Soros and liberal megadonors behind nonprofit group that added US to human rights watchlist

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• Media outlets began circulating news this week that the United States had been added to a “global human rights watchlist” due to President Donald Trump’s policies. What the outlets failed to report, however, is that the group responsible for publishing the watchlist takes millions of dollars from many of Trump’s political adversaries, including George Soros’s philanthropic network.
  
• CIVICUS, a South Africa-based nonprofit organization that exists to “strengthen civil society,” added the U.S. to its human rights “monitor watchlist” on Monday. The group defended its decision by arguing that the Trump administration was engaged in an “assault on democratic norms and global cooperation” after it “slashed federal funding for organizations supporting people most in need, dismantled [the U.S. Agency for International Development], and reversed progress on justice, inclusion, and diversity.” Media outlets, including Time, the Hill, the Guardian, Newsweek, and the Independent, all jumped on CIVICUS’s report to pump out stories implying that human rights in the U.S. were comparable to Pakistan or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, both of which are also on the list.
  
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  None of these outlets, however, mentioned that CIVICUS is funded by an array of liberal donors.

  
  

  Open Society Foundations, for instance, gave $1.8 million to the group between 2020 and 2023, according to tax filings. The organization is part of a network of nonprofit groups funded and controlled by the Soros family, which has long played a key role in financing both the Democratic Party and the broader liberal movement.

  
  

  Democracy PAC, run by Soros’s son, Alex, spent $67.5 million during the 2024 election cycle to elect Democrats to Congress and the White House. George and Alex personally donated millions of dollars to fund former President Joe Biden’s and former Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bids.

  
  

  Source: washingtonexaminer.com

  
  

  https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1900236875207762100

  
  
  
  

Geopolitical/Police State

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1899914991953695155

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1899918778839777317

 

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1899923410265755724

 

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1899927564338290731

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1899971038168989912

 

 

War

BREAKING: Russian President Putin Accepts US-Ukraine Ceasefire Plan — But With Specific Conditions 

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• While everything pointed to the Russian side rejecting the US-Ukraine ceasefire plan – including comments made today (13) by top negotiator Yuri Ushakov – President Vladimir Putin has come out and said that he accepts the idea, provided some conditions are met.
  
• Speaking to the press after a meeting with Belarusian President Lukashenko, Putin has shocked geopolitical analysts with his acceptance of the ceasefire plan.
  
• The Telegraph reported:
  

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• “Vladimir Putin has agreed to a US plan for a short-term ceasefire, but with specific conditions.
  
• The Russian president said: ‘We agree with the proposals for the ceasefire, but our position is based on the assumption the ceasefire will lead to a long-term peace’.”
  
• Vladimir Putin is in favor of the US plan for a 30-day truce in Ukraine ‘but there are nuances’.
  
• “The Russian president said plenty of questions remain over how the ceasefire will be implemented and who will control it.”
  
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Source: thegatewaypundit.com

https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1900242215575937099

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•  is, both Putin and Zelensky are open to the idea of a ceasefire, and negotiations to end this war are underway. Putin just wants to make sure this is not an opportunity for Ukraine to regroup, given Russia have the significant advantage on the battlefield and are advancing across all fronts. Putin wants this to be a permanent solution. Trump would later go on to say that he is open to meeting directly with Putin, and I think that is exactly where this is all headed. Trump and Putin will have to meet face-to-face sooner than later. I wouldn’t be surprised if a Trump/Putin summit is around the corner.
  
  
  

Q

Crazy Lawfare – DC District Judge Beryl Howell Now Rules President Trump Cannot Make National Security Decisions on Private Enterprise or Law Firms

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• In more than a few ways this decision is even more crazy than District Judge Beryl Howell’s prior rulings.
  
• Judge Howell (pictured below) issued a temporary restraining order, blocking President Trump from barring the law firm of Perkins Coie from representing federal contractors.
  
• There are a few outlines of the hearing HERE and HERE that essentially tell the story.  Consider this quote:
  
• “When you say that if the president, in his view, takes the position that an individual or an organization or a company is operating a way that is not in the nation’s interests, he can issue an executive order like this and take steps to bar that individual, that entity, that company from doing any business with the government, terminate whatever contracts they’ve got, bar them from federal buildings,” Howell said. “I mean, that’s a pretty extraordinary power for the president to exercise.”
  
• Yes, and that’s called the power of the presidency.  Apparently Judge Howell has never heard of ‘executive power’ that allows the elected President of the United States to determine what is in our nation’s best interests.  Approving his ability to make these decisions, is what that whole voting thing is all about.
  
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• Yes, the president has the ability to make decisions about national security threats and private enterprises who the President might feel are detrimental to the national security of our nation, like Perkins Coie.  Howell then went into crazyville to extend her logic.
  

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• The executive order, which Trump issued last week, “runs head on into the wall of First Amendment protections,” the judge concluded.
  
• No. That’s not at all what the executive order does.  Perkins Coie is free to talk about how terrible Donald Trump is, free to rail against him, free to take to the public square and decry his approach, free to do and say anything they want; the law firm just cannot represent federal contractors or hold security clearances granting them access to materials that are national security matters.
  
• The core of Beryl Howell’s decision boils down to her wanting to protect the business interests of Perkins Coie. Howell/Coie want the firm to retain access to clients who are federal contractors.
  
• Even Perkins Coie didn’t try to keep their security clearances because they know the President has absolute plenary power to issue or remove them.
  
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Source: theconservativetreehouse.com

https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1899933437575766086

 

https://twitter.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1899995159602831842

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•  norms, legal precedent and sanity out the window. And to be honest, I see no good solutions. How are we supposed to combat these radical communist loons?
  

https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1899981583592947918

Judicial Insurrection: Radical Leftist Judges Wage All-Out War Against President Trump — 119 Legal Challenges in Just Two Months, MORE THAN DOUBLE Any U.S. President in History

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• Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald J. Trump has been met with an unprecedented legal onslaught from far-left activist judges and groups determined to sabotage his administration at every turn.
  
• Appearing on The War Room with Steve Bannon, Josh Hammer, Senior Counsel for the Article III Project, warned that what America is witnessing is not just judicial activism—it’s an outright judicial insurrection.
  
• This is similar to how the communist left attacked him using a cadre of radical activist judges his first time in office.
  
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• After nearly two months in office, these radical extremist judges continue to wreak havoc on the Trump administration and the country.
  
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The first Trump administration from 2017 to 2021, faced, by my count, I believe, it was 65 so-called nationwide injunctions, which, by the way, is more than the first 44 presidents of the United States combined, literally in all of American history, faced there.

 

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• The full list of 119 legal challenges is included on the Just Security website.
  

Source: thegatewaypundit.com

Trump Signs Executive Order Cracking Down on Radical Activist Judges and Farleft Groups Abusing Courts — Demands to Pay Court Costs to Stop ‘Frivolous’ Injunctions Costing Taxpayers Millions

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• President Donald Trump signed a groundbreaking executive order on Tuesday designed to clamp down on the growing abuse of America’s judicial system by radical activist judges and far-left organizations.
  
• The order specifically targets the reckless pursuit of frivolous injunctions, which have repeatedly cost taxpayers millions and disrupted republican governance.
  
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• The memorandum, addressed directly to the heads of executive departments and agencies, instructs them to firmly enforce Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), which says that anyone who asks a court for an injunction (a temporary order stopping a government action) must first deposit money or a bond with the court.
  
• This money is intended to cover potential harm or costs to the government if the court later decides that the injunction was improperly issued.
  
• Trump argues that activist organizations have been abusing the courts, frequently filing weak or meritless lawsuits against the government to slow down or block policies they disagree with, often choosing sympathetic judges to hear their cases.
  
• These groups do not typically face consequences when their lawsuits fail. Instead, taxpayers pay the cost when government policies are halted by these injunctions.
  
• The memo tells federal agencies to make sure that whenever someone sues the government for an injunction, the agency should request that the plaintiff (the person or organization suing) provides enough money upfront to cover possible costs and damages the government might suffer if the injunction turns out to be unjustified.
  
• Agencies must work with the Attorney General to decide how much money to ask for, and they must clearly justify that amount to the court.
  
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According to the executive order:

 

Source: thegatewaypundit.com

 



 

Stay tuned!

https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1900065478103752763

 

 

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1899878585042890974

The Process President Trump Can Use to Release ANY Information, Regardless of Classification Level

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• The President of the United States is recognized in the U.S. Constitution as a person; the ultimate control authority within the Executive Branch of Government. President Donald J Trump is that person.
  
•    There is absolutely no way for the Administrative State to block or impede this approach.
  
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• As a direct result the executive office of the president will be facing legal action, likely from unified democrats and republicans in the legislative branch.  
  
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Source: theconservativetreehouse.com

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