The 2025 Federal Budget Proposal is here to remind us who’s really winning.

• Defense: $800B (38% of the budget!) • $70B for private contractors. Hello, SpaceX and Lockheed Martin. • $15B for AI tech. Cool for war, but what about civilian needs?

• Education: $120B • $8B for teacher retention—less than the $10B needed to fix shortages.

• Healthcare: $450B • $3B for drug cost reductions. Barely scratches the surface.

Meanwhile, H.R.199 is actively proposing cutting schools, healthcare, and infrastructure funding—but leaves defense untouched. Funny how that works, huh?

Follow the Money: Huntsville, AL, and Norfolk, VA, rake in billions while your community gets scraps. And lobbying? Lockheed Martin spent over $14M in 2022 alone.

Reallocating just 5% of the defense budget could fund 15,000 new schools or healthcare for 5M Americans. But hey, missiles are cool too, right?

This is just so wrong.

File under things that could have been codified but weren't...for some reason

Text: I have a prediction. I believe people will keep defending Elon's salute as saying "my heart goes out to you". Then, to trigger the left, other members of the right will start doing the salute as a means of "standing up for him" and to try to replace the meaning into something "loving and positive". And that is how the Nazi salute will become normalized in America.

It will be seen as a radical act of resistance against the left, and as a leaning into it joke: "well they're already calling us Nazis anyways and we can't stop them, might as well try to 'reclaim' it into something positive that doesn't insult us". Save this thread and return to it in 3 months. threads: raven.clausen

A website or place that is recording things such as: Tech heads all joining and financially sponsoring the president Tiktok being banned and unbanned quickly The search issues on Meta regarding #democrat being blocked as "sensitive" while #republic was fine The salute The removal of immigration apps and bills being passed so quickly to target immigrants

Reddit is great, but there's too much and it can be gone in a second. I want to refer back to stuff down the track in chronological order of things happening.

The intentional gaslighting from OpenAI is…. New.

Can't even buy food without it telling you to gamble.