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House Republican publicly shits on 40 million food stamp recipients, tells them to "stop smoking crack"
Louisiana mouthbreather and human hemorrhoid Clay Higgins took to nüTwitter yesterday to share his incredibly nuanced thoughts on the government shutdown and the prospect of 40 million Americans losing access to critical food aid starting tomorrow. Higgins tweeted: "There are 22 million American households receiving SNAP benefits for groceries, at $4200 per year on average. Try to get your head wrapped around how many pantries you can stock with $4200 dollars in properly shopped groceries. Any American who has been receiving $4200 dollars per year of free groceries and does NOT have at least 1 month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack." Now sure, Higgins is a raging prick and wildly out of touch when it comes to food insecurity — an issue that impacts more than 800,000 Louisianans in any given month — but did you also know the incredibly racist ex-cop and serial divorcee a) was credibly accused of physically abusing his first wife, b) was sued by his third ex-wife in 2016 — the day after he won his congressional seat — for $140,000 in unpaid child support, c) voted against a bipartisan House resolution condemning the illegal abduction and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia, d) threatened to personally shoot Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020, and e) warned tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants "thugs" to "get their ass out of our country before January 20th" (Trump's inauguration date) or else? Oh, he also publicly backed KKK Grand Wizard David Duke's gubernatorial run in 1992. Who's smoking crack again?

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Mike Johnson publicly flails as walls close in over government shutdown lies
House Speaker and incredibly pious man Mike Johnson just cannot keep his lies straight, and it's really starting to show. During an interview with CNN's Dana Bash, Johnson falsely claimed the government's hands are tied when it comes to releasing contingency funds to pay for SNAP benefits for 40 million Americans while the GOP's government shutdown drags on. One pesky little problem — Donald Trump HIMSELF made those very funds available for SNAP benefits during the last government shutdown in 2019. Man, readily verifiable facts sure don't make gaslighting any easier. What else ya got, Mike?

Former school board president launches campaign to put a stop to Greg Abbott’s carnival of corruption
Gina Hinojosa for Governor: Gina Hinojosa was just an ordinary Texas mom — until Greg Abbott tried to close her son’s public school as part of his plot to turn our schools into for-profit schemes. Gina got involved in politics to fight back, her journey taking her to the school board presidency and the state legislature. Now she’s running to kick Greg Abbott out for good and put an end to his kleptocracy of MAGA extremism and flagrant corruption. Will you chip in to help kick-start her campaign?

The DEA said it arrested 171 "high-ranking" Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s not true
You really cannot trust ANYTHING the Trump administration tells you. Trump's DEA proudly announced that they had arrested hundreds of top-ranking cartel members...but a Boston Globe investigation discovered they had actually rounded up victims of the drug war, not its perpetrators. "I can guarantee that he’s not part of the Sinaloa Cartel," Scott Alati said of his son, Tyler, who was charged with a felony-level drug sale and immediately released without having to post bail. "He isn’t a high-ranking member of anything. He’s high-ranking dumb." Other dangerous criminals arrested include "a man accused of shoplifting chocolate Swiss rolls and Jolly Ranchers from a Hannaford supermarket and a woman who allegedly crashed a car into a column at a local bank and left the scene." DEA agents spoke to the Globe anonymously and exposed the entire thing: "They are doing anything they can to tie it to a cartel," said one federal law enforcement official, adding that the arrests were "definitely not cartel." But who needs facts when you have a fearmongering narrative to push?

Trump regime to drastically restrict number of refugees allowed to enter the US next year, giving priority to white South Africans
America's wannabe dictator and his crackpot team of anti-immigrant ghouls announced plans to restrict the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500 — and those spots will mostly be filled by...white South Africans. For years, the US has allowed hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world to legally enter the country each year and formally seek asylum, a process that can take years. No reason was given for the aggressive reduction, but then, with white nationalist and sentient anal polyp Stephen Miller directing immigration policy at the White House, do we really need one at this point?

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Heritage Foundation endorses Tucker Carlson platforming notorious white supremacist and Holocaust denier
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts — a principal architect of Trump's Project 2025 — made it crystal clear Thursday that his right-wing think tank is not distancing itself from Tucker Carlson over his hourslong interview with white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. Roberts flatly denounced right-wing criticism of Carlson's embrace of Fuentes as nothing more than the work of a "venomous coalition" trying to "cancel" him, declaring: "The American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right," Roberts said. Friends on the right, eh? Folks, when they tell us exactly who they are and what they stand for, we should definitely listen.

Current and former prosecutors alarmed after DOJ scrubs mentions of Trump and January 6 from court records
"The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."

Pentagon admits it has no idea who’s on "drug boats" being bombed
To be fair, when you have blatant disregard for international norms and the rule of law and harbor monolithic ill will toward people with brown skin who may or may not be trafficking drugs by choice, why would you bother to verify the identities of the targets of your extrajudicial killings? Sure, they *might* be willing participants in unlawful activity. Or pawns in a brutal transcontinental drug trade. Or innocent fishermen caught in the worst place at the worst time. But the Pete Hegseth's Department of Kablooey doesn't have time for due process, people. The Trump regime has killed at least 61 people in more than a dozen airstrikes on boats in the western hemisphere so far, and, having already moved 14 percent of the US Naval fleet to the Caribbean Sea, it sure seems like an incredibly illegal war has already been declared in all but name.

JD Vance sure seems to think his Hindu wife is going to hell
The vice president was flexing his Christian bona fides this week, standing in for the late, right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk at an ask-me-anything-style Turning Point town hall in Mississippi when the subject of his Hindu wife, Usha, came up. The cosplay hillbilly was questioned about the glaring contradictions between his public statements on race, immigration, and religion, and his personal relationship with the mother of his multi-racial children. "You are married to a woman who is not Christian.… She still calls herself Hindu. You are raising three kids in (an) interracial, cultural, racial religious household. How are you maintaining, how are you teaching your kids not to keep your religion ahead of their mother’s religion?" a young South Asian woman asked. What followed was textbook, subjugation-riddled, gospel-supercharged misogyny. Vance downplayed Usha's Hindu faith and upbringing, said the two were "agnostic" or "atheist" when they met, claimed they came to an "arrangement" whereby their kids would be raised Christian, and — "in front of 10,000 of (his) closest friends" — publicly expressed hope that she would one day abandon her faith in favor of his. JD's erasure plans did not go unnoticed. "Watch as Vance denies his wife’s religious identity as Hindu. Instead, he labels her as currently without a religion and a future Christian," South Asian history professor Dr. Audrey Trushcke wrote on Twitter. "Folks, believe the far-right when they say Christian is the only legitimate religious identity. They mean it."

Stephen Miller directing State Department bureaus like "fiefdom" as he turns agency into anti-immigration machine
The historic shifts in US immigration under Donald Trump have been dictated by a relentless voice over a telephone line: Stephen Miller, the president's white nationalist immigration czar, who in recent months has turned the State Department’s visa and refugee operations into what some current and former diplomats have described as a personal fiefdom. Each morning, usually at 10am, a small circle of far-right, conservative diplomats allied with Miller, including those who have assumed control of the State Department’s consular and refugee operations, dial in for what some have termed the "Stephen Miller call," an interagency discussion of hardline anti-immigrant measures led by Trump's alarmingly racist homeland security adviser. In the calls, Miller is said to drill the diplomats on visa and immigration issues — pressing officials to hasten negotiations with third countries to accept deportees who cannot or should not be sent back to their countries of origin, and lobbying for individual visa revocations for critics of Israel’s war in Gaza or of Charlie Kirk, MAGA's patron saint of white supremacy. What a timeline.

Companies involved in White House ballroom construction are taking their websites offline
Gee, what's the problem? Having second thoughts about being associated with the brazen desecration of The People's House to make way for a vainglorious moron's gaudy pet project, but still want to sup from the golden spigot? Surely just a coincidence that several companies that went all-in on Donald's great Pennsylvania Ave. grift are suddenly pulling back their online presence or undergoing website construction projects of their own after polling shows just 28% of Americans support the shocking demolition of the entire East Wing.