The double standards nobody else points out. Your rules vs. their rules.
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You have to work about 10 years to qualify for Social Security. A member of Congress earns a pension for life after 5 years in office.
They wrote both rules.
445,000 Washington voters signed a petition to keep boys out of girls' sports. The legislature could have passed it and wouldn't even take a vote. Now it's on the ballot next Tuesday.
Voters get the last word.
The Justice Department charged 48 noncitizens in five states today with voting in U.S. elections. Some had been registered as citizens since 2002. Two registered on Election Day 2024 and voted the same day.
Eight days to go.
Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act in 1966 so you could request records from any federal agency. It left itself out.
Sixty years later, you still can't request a single email from Congress.
Funny how that works.
Three members of Congress resigned this year to avoid expulsion votes, two of them over alleged sexual misconduct. Now the House is reviewing its own harassment rules.
Recommendations come after the election.
There are questions where “not to my knowledge” is probably the worst possible answer.
“Is your ex-husband related to you?” is one of them.
Trump calls Rep. Ilhan Omar's "whole life" a "total scam" as a federal immigration investigation intensifies.
Investigators have searched the Minnesota Democrat's Washington home, and new reporting is raising questions about her identity records and her "real name."
Meanwhile, Omar is defending herself against allegations involving her former husband. When asked if she was related to him, she responded, “Not to my knowledge.”
Congress started taxing Social Security benefits above $25,000 in 1984.
That would be about $81,000 today.
The threshold is still $25,000.
Social Security numbers were created to track earnings, not identify you.
The cards even said NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION until 1972.
Now we use the number to prove who we are.
We turned the thing that wasn't supposed to be an ID into America's unofficial national ID.
A polling firm called Wedgewood just admitted it made up its numbers, and said it was "far too easy" to get major outlets to bite. The New York Times had 15 of its polls in its tracker.
Remember that for the next 13 days.
If you underreport on your tax return, the IRS adds a 20% penalty.
The Pentagon has failed every audit since 2018. Eight in a row, on $4.65 trillion in assets.
Nobody got a penalty.
IRS: 20% accuracy penalty: irs.gov/payments/accuracy-re…
Pentagon fails its 8th straight audit, $4.65 trillion in assets: gvwire.com/2025/12/19/pentag…
Chuck Schumer and Democratic leaders just sued the Trump administration to stop its review of voter rolls for noncitizens.
Two weeks before the election.
If the rolls are clean, the check costs them nothing.
To bring Brittney Griner home in 2022, we handed Russia an arms dealer known as the Merchant of Death.
Today Russia freed Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired teacher from Michigan.
We traded nobody.
Joe Manchin spent 14 years as a Democratic senator.
This week he's in Maine campaigning for Republican Susan Collins, and he called Chuck Schumer crazy for trying to beat her.
Joe didn't move. The party did.
The Democrat running for Senate in Michigan backs Bernie's plan to make the biggest AI companies hand over half their stock to the government.
He says it needs to go further.
We used to call that something else.
You can brew beer and make wine at home. Make whiskey and it's a federal crime that can get you five years in prison.
That law is from 1868. The Supreme Court finally agreed to look at it yesterday.
Figures.
James Carville, the Democrats' most famous strategist, says he'd rather Republicans keep the House by five seats than Democrats win it by five.
His reason: they'd be "hostage to the DSA."
Take his word for it.
Carville: "I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats win by five, because if that happens, they're hostage to the DSA." mediaite.com/online/james-ca…
