Uncommon Commoner

Here’s a thought for James Comer.

There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton.

It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein.

You know, just to see what she knows.

CNN will soon be controlled by David Ellison. If democracy is to survive, a vibrant independent media ecosystem is critical.

My ask: cancel your Paramount/Warner subscriptions and sign up for as many pro-democracy outlets as you are able.

You can start with Democracy Docket: bit.ly/4qmEiFz

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

New US renewables record!

25.72% of U.S. grid+behind-the-meter electricity demand met solely by WindWaterSolar in 2025.

Increase from 23.90% in 2024 despite 2.1% growth in grid demand.

2 states met 101-124% of grid+BTM demand with WWS.

14 states met 50-124%.

web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a big Carl Sagan fan but I'm super dismayed out how many people these days seem to think that Nuclear Weapons are fine. And not, you know, a completely insane way for us all to live.

Hinkley Point C nuclear plant delayed to 2030 as costs climb to £35bn French utility company EDF says operations in Somerset will start a year later as delay costs firm €2.5bn

New nuclear is crazy-and useless

$47.2 bil for 3.26 GW Hinkley Point C=$14.5/W vs $1/W for solar and wind

And HPC will take 22 years from planning to operation (2008-2030), vs 1-3 for PV/wind

Similar statistics for Vogtle

Vaporware SMRs are worse

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Support blue businesses in #BlueStates. Do not support red businesses or individuals in #BlueStates

‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions? Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025:

apnews.com/article/sola...

Still, they need to move out of the #BlueStates of America.

In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government.

But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

She’s a private citizen, how can they compel her to do anything?

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

A photo of Noah Feldman beside A quite with the ABC News logo “If we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office fir his personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy — we live in a monarchy, or we live under a dictator.@ Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School

Oligarchy (noun):

A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

It’s not just America. It’s anywhere the ultra wealthy are exerting their influence and power

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.”
#EpsteinFiles

We rejected great candidates like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris in favor of a deranged narcissist, who promotes Project 2025, which aims to remove civil service protections and bring independent agencies like the DOJ and FBI under direct presidential control.

It was my experience watching as George W Bush killed thousands as Democrats offered up weak poll tested pablum on body armor that the party needs to be constantly pilloried to change course and become effective. Following party leadership that “now is not the time” for criticism ultimately kills

Toyota Motor sold a record 11.3 million vehicles worldwide in 2025, securing its position as the top-selling automaker for a sixth straight year.
In China, Toyota’s sales inched up 0.2 percent, marking the first stable year in four, despite stiff competition in the world’s largest car market.

This make you uncomfortable? Good! Because this isn’t history, it’s reality and what ICE has normalized.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics must be applied immediately to AI, especially ChatGPT, Gemini, Nano Banana, Sora, et al.

JWST unveils most intricate map yet of cosmic dark matter Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible

I’ve always been of the viewpoint that if you’re on the left but didn’t vote for Kamala you’ve sacrificed the perch from which to complain about Trump. All of the horrible things he’s doing, we knew it before the election, and your non-vote helped bring it to bear. Yes you have a right to be a /1