“False sense of security”: a polite descriptive for ICE monitoring voting sites in NJ & California. [FN1] “Scare away non-white voters”: less polite/more accurate descriptive for masked, heavily-armed ICE thugs in combat gear at voting sites. Consider: 1/9

1) Armed, masked ICE thugs do not make voting more secure.

Guns are not magic wands. ICE will stop ppl who look suspicious in a “Kavanaugh stop”; [FN2] “apparent ethnicity” is “relevant.” [FN3] The lead “apparent” [FN4]…

UPDATE: After a U.S. District Court in Rhode Island (case no. 25-00569-JJM-AEM), today ordered the administration to pay November’s SNAP benefits from a $6 billion fund Congress approved for that purpose, trump said he’ll distribute the $ w/the court’s guidance.

This afternoon, a U.S. District Court in Rhode Island ordered the administration to pay the November SNAP benefits from a contingency fund that Congress had approved for that purpose. The order requires the $6 billion fund be devoted to that purpose: feeding people. Rhode Island State Council of Churches, et al v Brooke Rollins, etal, case no 25-00569-JJM-AEM

Before we beat ourselves up over how to resolve the problems our country faces nine months into a 2nd trump/maga [FN1] term in the Oval Office, we need to realize:

trump/maga doesn’t want to resolve the problems we face. That’s why they do nothing. 1/10

They hold: Oval Office, House & Senate, & a 6 lick-spittle super-majority on SCOTUS to rubber-stamp what they do. Legislation? The big bullshit bill has been a failure. Anything else? Dictatorial decrees (a/k/a Executive…