Excerpt: The administration is working on a rule change that would deduct the value of a disabled adult’s bedroom from their SSI allotment, even if the family members they live with are poor enough to qualify for food stamps. This would mean slashing the benefits of some of the most low-income SSI recipients by up to a third — about $330 a month in Burton’s case — or ending their support altogether.

The effort to cut SSI for families who also rely on food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, was initiated by top White House and Department of Government Efficiency officials last year, multiple Social Security officials said. It marks a second attempt by the Trump administration to quietly but dramatically downsize disability benefit programs overseen by the Social Security Administration, despite those programs’ strict eligibility standards and minimal instances of fraud.

Excerpt: Suppose the U.S. repeatedly paid a member of ISIS to disclose information about upcoming ISIS terrorist plans concerning American people and places. The U.S. obtains such information and uses it to thwart these attacks. Would it be correct to say the U.S. is trying to promote ISIS and its attacks? Of course not.

But that is the precise theory of the DOJ indictment against the Center: That it did not tell its donors that it was promoting hate groups when it paid money to informants to get data about the groups…

What happened to the SPLC—and me

In all the jobs I held from my teens to retirement, I never saw a woman or minority unfairly promoted over a “deserving” white man.

Without the Trump regime’s incompetence, why, they’d have no competence at all.

The intent is to stick it to Germany, part of Trump’s ten-thousand point retribution program against everyone everywhere who’s ever slighted him. But just this once, maybe it’s a good thing. Bring all the troops home please.

The media won’t say out loud that Republicans embody all the early elements of fascism and always plan to take it further, but they’ll report endlessly that Democrats have a guy who once had a vaguely fascist-tattoo, had it removed, apologized for it, etc.

Obviously, both parties have a Nazi problem.

Yeah, I posted this in my last news roundup, but maybe you missed it.

If I believed in prayer, I’d pray for Giuliani to have died decades ago.

This will kill people, of course, but heck, you could say that about anything/everything Republicans do.

Of course not. See Betteridge’s law of headlines.

I usually hate NY Times articles that layer special effects over the text, but just this once, it actually helps.

Any AI software ‘vetted’ by the Trump administration would be more creepy, wasteful, plagiairazing, and deadly dangerous than before the vetting.