Common Sense Good Government

Dude doesn’t even contemplate what any of those words mean

Raise your hand if your brain is sufficiently capable of complex thought to understand why advocating an explicitly Christian volunteer military is not ideal.

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more

that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

Adams has railed against vaccines, and science in general, for many years. Kennedy cut funding for promising work including mRNA vaccines for prostate cancer. Just, the audacity here.

If there were a competent opposition party in this country, the only message we’d get is that a starving, desperate country where your only hope of safety is blind allegiance to a violent, capricious autocrat and prosperity exists for only his inner circle is what GOP governance looks like

modern fascism has international ambitions & they see a real opening in the UK

Tolkein, who was neither liberal nor very subtle: "And then the aristocratic wizard who over-identifies with whiteness led a technocratic, anti-environmentalist genocide"

Musk: "ah yes, this is about how when I went to England I had to look at a brown person"

An amazing glimpse into the Nazi brain, in which the bad guys in The Lord of the Rings must have been based on 21st-century immigrants and minorities and not, you know, THE NAZIS

Strictly speaking, because snap isn't paying anybody anything right now. So nobody is a snap paying customer, the discounts are not subject to the equal treatment clause.

These are just people with snap cards, not paying what snap cards

As I've said before, Trump looks like the 1997 version of Jabba the Hutt

WIRED headline reads: Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

After gleefully and illegally plowing over every statute and regulation they don't like—such as by destroying USAID, refusing to enforce CFPB regs, and withholding SNAP funding—the Trump admin has decided 88 FR 8255 is ironclad law that must be ruthlessly enforced to ensure more people go hungry.

Among the many amazing things about Adams pleading his case here is that he openly supports and now is asking for help from… people who cancelled funding for cancer research.

ICE/CBP is rampaging through the burbs again this morning. Sightings and kidnappings reported across Bolingbrook, Summit, Addison, Bensenville, Melrose Park, Brookfield.

LBJ: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

This is why the GOP is absolutely spamming racist ai slop about SNAP.

ICE Barbie Says Immigrants Are Too Dumb to Drive Semitrucks Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the inane claim while bragging about arresting immigrant truck drivers.

Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/uQSDaqR

Photo of a a scantily dressed young woman in a martini glass chair who was a featured performer at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago “Great Gatsby party.

This performer at Trump’s Great Gatsby party should clear up any suspicions about whether or not he’s in the Epstein Files.

You should watch this with the sound on to hear how matter-of-fact dystopian the Illinois State Police "warning" is.

Again, not ICE. Pritzker's state police. Who we're told are not assisting ICE.

Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.

What the actual f*ck?!!!

“Members of Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.“

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician ...

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections.
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local authorities deny catholic prisoners the Eucharist, bishop arrives, Papal sanction may follow”

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

These are violations of international law as well as of our constitutional separation of powers. More importantly, it is morally repugnant to murder people without trial based solely on speculation. Particularly when the speculation comes from an administration of known fabulists and liars.

The richest administration in American history and they’re keeping snap hostage

I am not seeing people talk about this but it sure looks like there were exotic dancers? at a state function? and people are about to starve?

Another warning.

Reverend Black: "We are not breaking any law."

The deeply unprofessional masked goons are now going to subcontract their bounties to completely unprofessional armed goons. Awesome.

You can’t even use SNAP to buy a hot rotisserie chicken unless you live in a state with a special waiver.