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@p8stie Don't look into it, it's a rabbit hole you can never unsee 😳

I don’t really understand why bananas are so cheap as far as crops are concerned. They’re not that fruitful of a plant and they require SO MUCH WATER

Massachusetts do your thing

Most of you have probably never heard of Chelsea Handler, so here’s an introduction!

🚨#BREAKING: A permit to demolish a residential home and build a 3,000 square foot mosque just outside of Charlotte NC, has been DENIED by the County Council. "Arafath Mohammad" did not inform any neighbors of his plan to build a mosque when he purchased the home. Residents stormed the council hearing saying: “Islam is not a religion, it’s a takeover,” said a Lancaster County resident opposed to the project. “We do not want Sharia law in this area,” said another Lancaster County resident. After 2 HOURS of residents voicing their opposition, the council unanimously denied the permit.

JD Vance Exposes $15 Million in Medicaid Theft by Single Migrant in Maine ift.tt/F15uMUW

@diane_revere @heine43716 Notice he doesn't mention this 🫤

When we turn off the sanctuary status of this state and require citizenship for services, most of these problems will see themselves out.

@MAGAVoice Thank you very much. My birthday wish is to DEFEAT Senator Bill Cassidy tomorrow in Louisiana. 🗓️ Sat., May 16th

Pallbearers and attendees are being sought for the funeral of 98-year-old WW2 veteran John Bernard Arnold III, who died on May 6th with no living relatives. Visitation will be this Monday, May 18th at St. Joseph the Worker Church in Hanson, Massachusetts at 10am. A funeral mass will follow at 11am, and burial will take place at Cedar Knoll Cemetery in Taunton, Massachusetts. patriotledger.com/story/news/202…

WOW! Louisiana Republicans are getting ready to STORM the polls tomorrow to OUST Senator Bill Cassidy: 🚩 Cassidy voted to convict President Trump 🚩 Cassidy voted for red flag laws 🗓️ Saturday, May 16th ⏰ 7 a.m. - 8 p.m.

No Trump judges, no voter ID SAVE Act, 50 bills already passed by the house in limbo. Pardon my language, but this guy is a worthless piece of shit. He’s worse than a grifter Democrat. Fetterman has done more for the Republican platform than this weasel. Treacherous rat.

which actor should play you in a movie about you?

@BostonSatire Lucky Joe

Opinion | Even Little Joe the gorilla couldn’t afford to live in Boston

@MM26316513 I am sure they get a kickback from somewhere. Follow the money, it's an NGO most likely. 🫤

Why are taxpayers paying for this kind of thing? We now not only house them,feed them,provide medical care and education but we pay for their entertainment 🤬

@TheWhizzAI @ihtesham2005 *The hardest part will be having the best connections that will let you get in.

@ihtesham2005 the hardest part of attending uchicago in 2027 is no longer paying for it. it is getting in

A four-year degree at the University of Chicago costs $386,000. They just made it free for almost every family in America. Starting Fall 2027, any household earning under $250,000 a year pays zero tuition. Under $125,000, the school also covers the dorm, the meal plan, and every fee. The most expensive university in the Midwest just became one of the cheapest options in the country for almost anyone who can get in. To understand how absurd this is, look at what you used to have to pay. UChicago undergraduate tuition for 2025 to 2026 is $73,266. Full cost of attendance with room, board, fees, books, and living expenses is roughly $93,000 a year. Across four years, the full price tag runs close to $386,000. That is the cost of a house in most American states. For a single college degree. The school had a previous free tuition threshold sitting at $125,000 of household income. They just doubled it overnight. The first thing nobody is saying out loud is what the $250,000 number actually means. The median household income in the United States is roughly $80,000. Households earning $250,000 sit in the top 5% of the entire country. UChicago is now telling 95% of American families that the sticker price does not apply to them. The most selective private university in the Midwest, the school that produced more Nobel laureates per capita than almost any institution on Earth, just stopped charging tuition to almost everyone who could realistically get in. The second thing nobody is saying is what happens to the families just under $125,000. They are not getting a discount. They are getting a fully paid four-year residential education at one of the top ten universities in the world. Tuition, dorm, meal plan, fees, all of it. Zero. A family making $120,000 a year is sending their kid to a school whose advertised cost is $93,000 a year and writing checks for nothing. The third thing is the part that should be making every other elite university nervous. UChicago is not the first to do this. MIT moved to $200,000 last year. Harvard moved to $200,000. Stanford moved to $150,000 with free room and board under $100,000. Princeton has had a version of this for years. Penn just announced a similar policy. The number is climbing every cycle and the trigger for each new announcement is the previous announcement. Every school watching this is now under pressure to match or get embarrassed in the next admissions cycle. UChicago just set the new ceiling at $250,000. Somebody is going to push it to $300,000 within twelve months. The reason the ceiling keeps moving is not generosity. It is competition for the same 3,000 students. The top 20 universities in America are fighting for the same applicant pool every year. When MIT made tuition free under $200,000, every kid in that bracket who got into both MIT and a school still charging full price stopped weighing the decision. The free school wins. The sticker price has stopped being a price for the people the universities want most. It has become a posted number that only the rich actually pay, and the rich do not need a discount to attend. The endowments are what make this possible. UChicago is sitting on $10.4 billion. Harvard is at $53 billion. MIT is at $25 billion. Stanford is at $36 billion. These are not schools running on tuition revenue. They are hedge funds with classrooms attached, and the tuition line on their balance sheet is a rounding error compared to investment returns and donor giving. Free tuition under $250,000 costs them almost nothing relative to what they earn each year on the endowment alone. The cruel reality is that the schools that can afford to make this announcement are exactly the schools that did not need to. The state university charging $30,000 a year cannot copy this. The small private liberal arts college running on a $400 million endowment cannot copy this. The cost of college in America is not going down. It is bifurcating. The top of the pyramid is now functionally free for almost everyone who gets admitted. Everything below it is getting more expensive every year. The student loan debt in America just crossed $1.8 trillion. The average graduate owes around $37,000. Forty-three million Americans are carrying education debt right now. And the schools that produce the smallest percentage of that debt are the ones that just made themselves free. There is a generation of kids growing up right now whose parents earn $200,000 a year and quietly assumed UChicago, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford were out of reach. They were wrong. The schools they thought they could not afford are the only ones they actually can. The hardest part of attending the University of Chicago in 2027 is no longer paying for it. It is getting in.

@jenteach13 How about the three different classes in the auditorium just being "watched" by one sub?

Nobody talks about the Spanish teacher who is the PE teacher today. The math teacher is covering the art room. The counselor is teaching English. All of it is happening because there is nobody else. This happens every single day in schools across this country.

@grok @jvfairway @robinvestingX @unusual_whales @grok are the people leaving mostly native floridians

Many are heading to other Southern states like North Carolina (Charlotte/Raleigh), Georgia (Atlanta), Texas (Austin/San Antonio), and Tennessee (Nashville). These spots offer job growth, lower relative costs in some metros, and fewer insurance/affordability headaches than parts of Florida right now, per recent U-Haul, Census, and moving data. Some retirees also eye quieter areas in the Carolinas or Georgia foothills. Growth is shifting within the Sun Belt, not vanishing.

"Florida’s migration patterns are changing. Residents in their prime working years are heading to other states, while fewer people are arriving," per WSJ

@unusual_whales Unfortunately, the popularity of Florida is sending Floridians in their prime working ages to other states, but there is a large influx of prime high wage working age people coming to live here from the NE replacing them. It is tough on the locals to afford the new higher prices.

@ChiefEngineerCE Foreigners (many non english speakers) become school bus drivers in MA. They work 20 hours a week, allowing them to remain on benefits. They are paid 30.00 per hour (union rates) and they are able to collect unemployment benefits for the 25 weeks per year they are not working.

One Simple Law That Protects Our Investment in America Temporary visa holders and non-citizens are ineligible for unemployment insurance, disability benefits, or any other income-replacement programs funded by American payroll taxes. That is it. One rule. Boomers and Gen X paid into these programs for decades expecting support if they lost a job or got injured. Now the funds are being drawn down by temporary workers who were never part of the long-term investment. This law protects the insurance our generations actually paid for. Reply with what happened to unemployment or disability benefits where you or your family worked.

@orlandosentinel Zero Social Security to foreigners

Social Security could face enormous benefit reductions in seven years. There are plans to save it that require a little sacrifice from everyone. But is there the political will? orlandosentinel.com/2026/05/15/as-…