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>Imposes a 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes (HB378)
>Allows every locality to raise the state sales tax by 1% (HB334 & SB66)
>Raises the sales tax for Stafford County (HB1000)
>Rounds up all state and local taxes by the nearest 5-cent increment (HB954)
>Allows localities to outlaw gas-powered leaf blowers (HB881)
>Imposes a new personal property tax on electric-powered lawn equipment (HB557)
>Limits the ability to use self-driving or autonomous vehicles (HB1124)
>Allows state and local government to implement traffic and speed cameras (HB1330 & HB994)
>Puts speed cameras on state highways (HB1220)
>Requiring a license to buy a firearm (HB1359)
>"Assault weapons" ban (HB217)
>Strips gun rights from anyone convicted of a misdemeanor "hate crime" (HB1015)
>Making it illegal to shoot a firearm on lot sizes less than 5 acres (HB926)
>Expands "gun-free zones" (HB626)
>Shrinks concealed-carry reciprocity with other states (HB24)
>Holds firearm manufacturers liable for gun deaths (HB21 & SB27)
>Imposes an 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition (HB1094)
>Imposes a $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors (HB207)
>Drastically raises the physical requirements to operate a firearms store (HB907)
>Makes it harder to obtain a concealed carry permit (HB916)
>Creates a new taxpayer-funded state propaganda "center" for the sole purpose of promoting gun control (HB969)
>Ends qualified immunity for police (HB 1314)
>Targets ICE by banning the use of facial coverings by law enforcement officers (HB7)
>Makes ICE agents liable for civil lawsuits filed by illegal aliens (HB1314)
>Prohibits ICE from arresting illegal migrants outside of courthouses (HB1265)
>Establishes a state propaganda commission to publicize the supposed negative impacts of ICE raids in Virginia (HB1264)
>Creates a state-mandated playbook for how schools must respond to ICE showing up on their campus and bans school employees from assisting ICE (HB1260)
>Unionizes government employees and gives them collective bargaining rights (HB1263)
>Unlimited taxpayer-funded home purchases for government employees (HB164)
>Preferential hiring in State government for Federal employees laid off by DOGE (HB494)
>Defers property taxes for Federal employees during shutdowns (HB915)
>Hikes Minimum Wage to $15/Hour (HB1)
>Eliminates the minimum wage exemption for farm workers (HB20)
>Mandates the hiring of a new bureaucratic position ("Career Coach" ) in every single public school (HB138)
>Mandates "mental health screenings" for all public school students between 6th and 12th grade (HB355)
>Drastically curtails home school and private school independence from the Virginia Department of Education (HB359)
>Raises the salaries of school board chairs and vice-chairs (HB382)
>Free public school education for illegal aliens (HB912)
>Allows out-of-state Indian tribe members to receive in-state tuition (HB287)
>Lets students graduate high school despite failing grades (SB147)
>Eliminates nearly all academic benchmarks for college students to continue receiving financial aid (SB167)
>Somali daycare fraud pilot program (HB259)
>Expands the eminent domain powers of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (HB446)
>Reclassifies Solar farms as an "agricultural operation", thus granting it protections under the Right to Farm law (HB1091)
>More than triples financial penalties from the Department of Environmental Quality to comply with environmental regulations (HB1350)
>Mandates all localities adopt an "environmental justice plan" (HB256)
>Allocates $100 million in taxpayer funding for the production of "sustainable aviation fuel" (HB1230)
>Eliminates the ability of a health insurance provider to charge a premium for smokers (HB220)
>Adds a new insurance mandate to cover over-the-counter condoms (HB1182)
>Mandates "unconscious racial bias" trainings for nurses to retain their license (SB22)
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Ukrainian forces have begun training and testing exoskeletons for battlefield use. Soldiers from the 147th Separate Artillery Brigade are using them in the Pokrovsk sector for both logistics and frontline operations. The goal is to reduce physical strain, especially when loading heavy artillery shells into howitzers without automatic loaders. Artillery crews can handle up to 1200 kg of ammunition per day, and early tests show that exoskeletons help them work faster and with less fatigue Above all, by improving the conditions for those soldiers on the front lines who handle such heavy loads, plus the stress of work. Seeking to reduce overall fatigue in the troops
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 - 14 wounded in Iranian missile strike in central Israel, according to Israeli media.
🇬🇧🇮🇶 - A drone struck British Castrol oil warehouses in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, causing extensive damage.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran launched 9 missiles towards Israel this morning alone, with at least 3 of them being cluster missiles.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Over the past 12 hours, Hezbollah launched counterattacks in Khiam and Qantara, in the Nabatieh direction, southeast Lebanon. Hezbollah recaptured northern Khiam, with fighting ongoing for the south of the town. Hezbollah units also re-entered Qantara; frontline sources reported clashes in the center of the town last night.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - 48 IDF soldiers have been wounded in clashes with Hezbollah over the last 24 hours in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli Army.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - "The Israeli army is barely catching its breath in southern Lebanon, and its resources are less than in the previous round of fighting," - Haaretz....
🇺🇸 Blue Owl Capital just disclosed that investors tried to pull 40.7% of one fund and 21.9% of another in a single quarter, and both funds gave the same answer, you can only have 5% back, and everyone else waits in line.
This is a bank run, not a normal withdrawal.
Wall Street spent the last decade selling millions of investors on something called semi-liquid private credit, higher yields, steady income and the promise you could get your money back every quarter if you needed it. What they buried in the fine print was what happens when too many people try to leave at the same time.
Analysts who have covered private credit for decades say nothing on this scale has ever been reported before at any major private credit manager.
These funds do not hold stocks you can sell on a Tuesday afternoon, they hold private loans to mid sized companies that cannot be liquidated quickly without destroying the price for every investor still trapped inside.
This product was originally designed for ...
🇺🇸 President Trump wants to switch to war economy in 2027 with massive increase in military spending and massive cuts to healthcare and other domestic agencies
Once a deficit hawk — he said in 2016 that he thought he could balance the budget in five years — Trump ended his first term with $7.8 trillion in added debt. His 2027 proposal is expected to give an update on 10-year deficit projections currently estimated at around $16 trillion.
The GOP's message for the Midterms will be focused on the "need" for a massive defense build up while the Democrats' message will be focused on affordability.
The fiscal 2027 budget will be the first time Trump puts his second-term governing agenda into one comprehensive document — with the numbers to back it up. The budget he released last year lacked detailed line-by-line spending targets and the economic assumptions necessary to project the long-term cost of his proposals.
Investors in US Treasuries will be looking to see if the debt and ...
