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Chad Barrum retweeted
🚨 RUBIO JUST SAID THE NUMBER THEY NEVER WANTED ON TV 🚨
Americans work 40 years.
They retire.
Social Security: $800. $900. A thousand a month.
Somebody who got here from Cuba three months ago: $1,500 a month.
Marco Rubio said it out loud.
“So imagine if you’ve been working here for 40 years and your Social Security check is smaller than the benefits going to a 28-year-old, able-bodied person who just got here. That’s real. That happens. That’s happening every day. That makes no sense.”
You paid in.
They landed.
They beat your check.
That’s not compassion.
That’s a slap in the face with your own tax dollars.
Chad Barrum retweeted
JB PRITZKER JUST DROPPED $200,000 ON GINA HINOJOSA, AND NOW ILLINOIS IS TRYING TO BUY THE TEXAS GOVERNOR'S MANSION.
The Ozempic salesman can't keep Chicago safe for a single weekend, but he sure found the money to meddle in our state.
On top of that, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee threw her another $100,000.
When the people who wrecked Illinois and the people trying to rig the maps are both writing you checks, you aren't running for Texas.
Hypocrite Hinojosa is bought and paid for by out-of-state Democrats who want to turn Texas into California.
Texans aren't for sale, and we're going to prove it at the ballot box 😂🇺🇸
Chad Barrum retweeted
Texas has a rainy-day fund projected to reach $27 billion. A budget surplus. The largest energy reserves of any state. No income tax.
And the Legislature just committed $1.5 billion over ten years in cash grants to Hollywood productions filming in Texas.
$300 million every two years. Up to 31% cash back on qualifying productions. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson lobbied for it personally at the Capitol. Dan Patrick called it a priority.
Meanwhile, the average Texas homeowner is still waiting for meaningful property tax relief.
Hollywood got $1.5 billion.
You get a campaign promise. 💀
Chad Barrum retweeted
PROPERTY TAXES ARE SKYROCKETING!!
I warned everyone…
Chad Barrum retweeted
More proof I was right when I warned everyone that last session’s “property tax relief” bills… were SCAMS!
CUT SPENDING!
ELIMINATE PROPERTY TAXES!!!
In: "From 2022 to 2025, the 10 largest counties & cities in Texas increased their property tax levies by an average of 7.9% compounded annually, wiping out a large portion of the tax relief the #txlege had provided," writes @BillKingHouston
billkingblog.com/blog/the-st…
Chad Barrum retweeted
Texas has a $24 billion "surplus" of YOUR MONEY.
I want to give it back.
All of it!
Watch the Comptroller confirm to me today that nothing is stopping us.
Lets take a "jump" together and put Texas on a path to ELIMINATE PROPERTY TAXES!
Chad Barrum retweeted
Well would you look at that shit
Chad Barrum retweeted
PROPERTY TAXES ARE SKYROCKETING all over Texas right now (exactly as I predicted last session).
Local elected officials are blaming the state government... and the state government is blaming the locals.
Spoiler alert: they're BOTH correct!!
Here's why:
1) Local elected officials are are absolutely responsible when they vote to raise property taxes by adopting a tax rate higher than last year's effective tax rate (also called the "no-new-revenue" rate), and...
2) The Texas government is absolutely (and ultimately) responsible because it authorized the local governments to enact these outrageous property tax hikes.
I hope this helps.
Chad Barrum retweeted
$21B in Medicaid/Medicare “equity” incentives that pay providers more when care shifts by race.
Not a metaphor. Payment formulas. 35 states. Built in the 2020 window, still growing.
AI didn’t create the transfer. It published the spreadsheet.
Cc: @brianchau57
NEW 🚨 Brian Chau Built an AI That Uncovers Fraud — It Exposed AI Doomers & Just Found a $21 Billion Racial Wealth Transfer
@brianchau57 is an investigative journalist using AI to uncover widespread corruption and billions in fraud.
He exposed how Effective Altruism NGOs bought and planted AI doomer articles. Now, he's breaking his next big story with @JTLonsdale.
Episode 162 out now 👇
(00:00) Episode intro
(01:40) Youngest American to win IOI gold
(04:30) How is AI journalism uncovering what legacy media can't?
(09:30) Is Effort News nonpartisan? Answering the critiques
(11:25) Breaking news: $21 Billion Racial Wealth Transfer
(17:30) Exposing the UK's counterterror incompetence
(22:00) How Effective Altruism & AI doomers bought the media
(24:00) Anthropic "whistleblower" connection to left-wing NGOs
(28:50) How do you account for bias in your reporting?
(34:30) How to build a sustainable media business
(42:30) AI for liberty and accountability; optimistic vision for the future
Chad Barrum retweeted
This is me shooting my shot so @CGillaspia @TheKellenMond @trevor_knight9 @hubenak_j @J_Rey_11 @ArmaniWatts23 @AntHinesIII @MannBraden @isaiah_spiller if you see this and want to be a guest on my Texas A&M podcast I would love to have you (feel free to tag more potential guests below)
Chad Barrum retweeted
Happening all over texas right now… exactly as I predicted when I wanted everyone that last session’s “property tax relief” bills were SCAMS!
Outrageous.
ELIMINATE PROPERTY TAXES!!
Chad Barrum retweeted
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I’ve seen the raw number discrepancies between noon and night games for LSU, but it took diving a little deeper for it to actually jar me.
In the CFP era they’ve played a total of 80 home games (A&M on the 26th will be #81). 65 (66) of those have been night games. 4 out of every 5 games they’ve played over the last 12 plus seasons have started under the lights.
In the SEC on ABC era they’ve played 14 of 16 at night, one at 3:30, and one at noon. They played six 3:30 SEC on CBS games through the last decade of the deal while other teams passed that in two seasons.
All but one buy game since 2014 has been a night game (Utah State in 2019 after they’d already played Georgia Southern and Northwestern State).
20 of 25 games since 2014 against Alabama, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and Florida have been night kickoffs.
The A&M game is their 4th scheduled night game through the first 5 weeks. Mississippi State is slated for a noon kickoff, but with Alabama and Texas on the schedule for November, there’s a very good chance they play 6+ home night games for the 8th time in the last 13 seasons.
It’s outrageous that they get these protections and privileges that no one else in the country, let alone the conference gets.
Chad Barrum retweeted
The 89th session (mercifully) ends today.
Government is bigger than when it started, and we are less free.
I’m sorry, Texans.
I tried.
You deserve better.
We must MAKE TEXAS, TEXAS AGAIN.
Chad Barrum retweeted
I file legislation every session to MAKE PROPERTY TAXES UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!...
But…
Our “Republican” Speakers block it, and instead pass fake “property tax relief” bills… that… result in HIGHER property taxes.
Betrayal.
Chad Barrum retweeted
I literally live where some of these “Republican Leaders” are supposedly from and haven’t heard of any of them. These aren’t leaders and like Kinzinger aren’t republicans.
Chad Barrum retweeted
I live in the greatest country on Earth where I get to watch the greatest sport on Earth supporting the greatest team on Earth
United in remembrance.
Proudly wearing the Red, White & Blue. 🇺🇸
#GigEm | #BTHOarizonastate
Chad Barrum retweeted
The SEC accusing LSU of “lack of institutional control” hits differently when you look at the timeline:
2011-12 — NCAA major-infractions case. Recruiting violations. LSU put on probation.
2012-17 — Booster John Paul Funes provides $180K in impermissible benefits to a football player’s family using money embezzled from a hospital foundation.
2013 — Les Miles investigation intentionally stored offsite. AD Joe Alleva recommends firing him. LSU keeps him.
2017-19 — Will Wade caught on FBI wiretap discussing a “strong-ass offer.”
2019 — LSU suspends Wade after he refuses to meet with LSU/NCAA officials. Reinstates him 5 weeks later.
2020 — LSU’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations exposed.
2020 — Odell Beckham Jr. hands LSU players cash after the national title.
2020 — LSU self-imposes scholarship cuts, recruiting restrictions and a bowl ban amid the NCAA investigation.
LSU’s statement:
“This decision reflects LSU’s commitment to compliance with NCAA regulations and maintenance of institutional control.”
2021 — Independent review finds systemic Title IX failures. Verge Ausberry suspended 30 days without pay.
2022 — LSU fires Wade after an NCAA Notice of Allegations containing multiple Level I allegations.
2022 — Separate NCAA case: Football commits COVID dead-period recruiting violations. One year probation.
2023 — IARP resolves the football/basketball case: multiple violations, failure to monitor, 37 football wins vacated and 3 more years probation, beginning when the prior probation ended Sept. 21, 2023.
The NCAA also alleged lack of institutional control. The IARP did not sustain that allegation.
2024 — LSU pays $1.9M to settle Title IX claims. No admission of liability.
2026 — LSU rehires Will Wade.
The AD announcing the hire? Verge Ausberry.
2026 — Wade pursues international pros, an NBA draft pick and players with professional basketball experience.
2026 — LSU pursues outside capital tied to future SEC media revenue.
2026 — LSU pushes to add players who signed NFL contracts and went through NFL camps.
Sept. 2026 — The SEC sues LSU. Ausberry is a named defendant.
LSU ultimately leaves the former NFL players off its final roster.
The SEC presses forward anyway.
Its amended complaint says LSU’s actions “confirm the lack of institutional control over the athletics program at LSU that is required by Article 6 of the SEC Constitution.”
At the informal direction of the other 15 SEC presidents and chancellors, Sankey calls a Special Meeting for Sept. 10 to consider terminating LSU’s membership — whether LSU backs off the professional players or not.
And LSU is still on NCAA probation.
It expires Sept. 21.
Twelve days from now.
Different coaches. Different scandals.
Same institution. And in some cases, the same people.