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True Signal Media Amplifying voices that matter. Documenting stories that endure. 📡 Veteran rescue & advocacy ⚖️ Government accountability & FOIA work 🌱 Sustainable impact in Ghana Where truth finds its voice.

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True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 27d

When we said “responsive records,” we meant everything.

Buckle up — we read every page, every redaction, every lie buried in a footnote.

#FOIA #ControlledChaos #AccountabilityInMotion #BringKelvinHome

A man in a teal jacket flips through an enormous book representing a massive stack of government records. Bold white and gold text reads, “When we said ‘responsive records,’ we meant everything.” Below it says, “Buckle up — we read every page, every redaction, every lie buried in a footnote.” The bottom banner displays “CFW | #BringKelvinHome” with hashtags #FOIA, #ControlledChaos, and #AccountabilityInMotion. The image conveys the scale and determination behind Covenant for Forgotten Warriors’ FOIA efforts.

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 15h

Last year, Americans donated $15 billion to crowdfunding.

Less than 2% went to international humanitarian causes.

Meanwhile, pets got $800+ million.

We fund what feels good. Not what matters most.

zurl.co/y92lN

#ViralSympathy

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 17h

Week 6.
850,002 waiting.
Congress still cashing in.
The scoreboard doesn’t blink.
Neither do our FOIAs.

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 1d

When a family of four needs $30K a year before deductibles, that’s not a market — that’s a rigged system.

Real reform means breaking Big Pharma, hospital price gouging, and insurance rackets. Not reshuffling plans.

#HealthcareCrisis #PolicyFailure

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 1d

850,002 waiting.
Congress still cashing in.
The scoreboard doesn’t blink.
Neither do our FOIAs.
#TrueSignalMedia #GovernmentShutdown

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Funny how everyone suddenly discovers “integrity” when it’s the other side lying.
The difference isn’t honesty; it’s how well they hide the lie and how quickly their base forgets.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Worth remembering…

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone loves to point at the scoreboard when it’s convenient.
But votes don’t happen in a vacuum if 13 “no” votes came from rejecting bad riders or poison-pill amendments, that’s not obstruction that’s filtration

Shutdowns aren’t red or blue they’re proof that neither side’s doing the math right

Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 1d

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not about how much you make.
It’s about how much control you actually have over your own life when everything costs more but pays out less.

That’s the real imbalance — and it’s not a wealth gap, it’s a leverage gap.

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Social Security isn’t a free loan. The trust fund holds interest-earning Treasury bonds that must be repaid.
High earners already pay in — the cap only limits how much of their income is taxed.

Facts first if we’re talking fixes.

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Week 5: Complete.
Federal workers affected: 850,000
Congressional paychecks missed: 0

The scoreboard doesn't lie.

#GovernmentShutdown #Day34 #CongressionalAccountability

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Your brain prioritizes suffering you can see and relate to.

That's why we'll fund a cat's surgery before a child's clean water.

It's neuroscience. Not malice.

But now that you know the bias exists... what will you do?

zurl.co/h6m4O

#CompassionBias

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 3d

I love that Blueskye doesn’t let you edit posts.

Authenticity level: typo locked in forever.

#TrueSignalMedia #SocialMedia #UneditedTruth

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 3d

💬 Exactly this.

Policymakers who live on subsidies and inheritances shouldn’t get to decide when working people’s bodies give out.

Raising the retirement age isn’t “fiscal responsibility.” It’s political cruelty disguised as math.

#SocialSecurity #TrueSignalMedia

BETH BAE @yolowinr.bsky.social · 3d

Obviously Rand Paul doesn't know anybody who actually works for a living.

How much longer does a construction worker have to work back braking work their body gives out on them and they cannot draw their social security until they're 70. Oops I mean until they're dead. Jesus effing Christ Rand 😡

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True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 3d

850,000 federal workers: 5 weeks without paychecks.

Congress: Still collecting $174,000/year while debating whose fault it is.

If you're causing the problem, maybe you shouldn't be exempt from the consequences.

#Shutdown #Accountability

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 3d

Five weeks without paychecks. Five weeks of political theater. Five weeks of blame games.

Notice how only one number on the scoreboard keeps changing?

#GovernmentShutdown #Day33 #FederalWorkers

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 3d

Day 33: Government shut down. VA claims processing: delayed. GI Bill payments: uncertain. Veteran services: disrupted.

But hey, at least Congress is still debating whose fault it is.

Veterans served. They deserve better.

#Veterans #Shutdown

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 3d

When Democrats had to sue USDA just to get welfare data, the issue wasn't the lawsuit.

The issue is why the data required a lawsuit in the first place.

Transparency shouldn't need a court order.

#Transparency #Accountability

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 4d

One month in. 850,000 federal workers still without paychecks.

The scoreboard tells the story: both parties scoring zero while Americans lose.

Day 32. Still counting.

#GovernmentShutdown #Day32 #Accountability

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 4d

Speaker Johnson is mad Democrats sued USDA for welfare data?

Since when is requesting public information about taxpayer spending outrageous?

You can't champion transparency only when it's politically convenient.

#Transparency #Accountability

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 4d

The definition of 'responsible governance' apparently depends on who's holding the microphone.

When both sides claim the moral high ground while federal workers miss paychecks, maybe it's time to ask: who's actually governing?

#Accountability #Leadership #GovernmentShutdown

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 4d

@SenRandPaul wants to raise the Social Security retirement age to 70.

Here's what he's not saying: the higher the age, the more workers who die before collecting what they paid in their entire working lives.

It's not about solvency. It's about betting you won't make it.

#SocialSecurity

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True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 4d

Since when did the UN think it could tax Americans?

No foreign body has the right to tax U.S. citizens — but every treaty signed without transparency chips away at that line.

Sovereignty isn't partisan. It's the foundation.

#Sovereignty #Accountability #GovernmentTransparency

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 4d

Day 32. Filibuster threats: check. Shutdown blame game: check. Actual progress: still waiting.

It's the same script every time. Different actors, same performance, predictable ending.

#GovernmentShutdown #PoliticalTheater

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 5d

$50 feeds an orphanage for a week.
$500 brings a veteran home.
$1,000 builds a village well.

But we'll drop $5,000 on a cat's surgery.

Why? Because the cat has a name. Because it doesn't challenge us.

Looking away is easier.

zurl.co/brf4o

#TheCostOfLookingAway

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 5d

Day 31. The scoreboard tells the story.
GOP: 0. Dems: 0. Federal workers without pay: 850,000.
Tracking daily until someone remembers their job is governing, not posturing.
— True Signal Media

True Signal Media @truesignalmedia.bsky.social · 5d

13 votes. 13 failures. Same blame game.

When you can't pass a bill after 13 tries, everyone owns that failure—not just those who voted no, but those who wrote a bill they knew wouldn't pass.

Stop counting votes. Start counting the days without a functioning government.
— True Signal Media