The Pretty-Good Commoner

Extremely vetted RTs and links. Premature pro-populist “Raise less corn and more hell.” Pro-federalism, anti-surveillance state. Omni-American

[The Pretty-Good Commoner @ExtremeVetting]

Our new national motto: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but only words can really hurt me

[The Pretty-Good Commoner @ExtremeVetting]

@PirateWires Here is a tracker showing the $20 Billion in healthcare funding for other countries committed by the Trump Administration through April 2026. https://t.co/cp3ul8D3bG

[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

Saturday, Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna sat down with left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch — who previously cheered on those celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk — to discuss the future of “progressive” governance. In a now viral clip, Khanna claimed Elon Musk “possibly sentenced to death” 4.5 million children by dismantling USAID, and demanded he be subpoenaed once Democrats retake power.

The number traces back to a Lancet study published last summer projecting 14 million deaths by 2030 from USAID cuts.

But the study assumes a fake world: one where DOGE’s cuts stay frozen through 2030, where the State Department’s lifesaving waiver doesn’t exist (it does), where Congress never refunds AIDS relief (it did), where two decades of clinics and supply chains vanish the second a grant lapses. It also conveniently ignores some former USAID functions (like funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology).

Meanwhile, NYU statistician Aaron Brown notes the study credits USAID with preventing 11 million more deaths than the entire global mortality decline over two decades.

@planetmaxwell interrogates the claim that Elon and DOGE single-handedly killed millions of children, and explains why Silicon Valley’s congressman is now laundering this as settled fact (when it’s really just propaganda).

Full story 👇

[U.S. Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept]

Leader of ANTIFA Cell Members in North Texas SENTENCED TO 100 YEARS IN PRISON for Terrorist Attack on ICE Facility: Seven additional defendants also sentenced before one-year anniversary of attack to a combined 450 years in prison

This is the first sentencing of defendants affiliated with Antifa following @POTUS’s executive order designating the group as a Domestic Terrorist Organization in September 2025.

"The sentences handed down today make clear that Antifa terrorists who attack law enforcement and federal facilities will face swift and uncompromising justice,” said Acting Attorney General @DAGToddBlanche. “Their violent extremism has no place in our country, and the Department of Justice will continue to aggressively investigate, disrupt, and prosecute those who threaten law enforcement officers or undermine the rule of law."

Read more: https://t.co/WnmbLJ3StO

[The Pretty-Good Commoner @ExtremeVetting]

We in the U.S. have not cut off funding for other countries’ health programs, we have instead restructured the funding to bilateral agreements that help ensure the money is well spent. As of April, we have committed $20 Billion to these programs in 32 countries. https://t.co/evfATV2yPy

[Eric W. @EWess92]

"Thirty years ago, Congress created a new process for deporting illegal aliens. It is called 'expedited removal.'" Judge Walker. President Trump decided to use that authority to the "maximum" on Day 1. HUGE win! Today, the DC Circuit agrees, and puts that policy into effect 2-1

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

Congratulations President-Elect @ABDELAESPRIELLA "El Tigre" on your historic victory in Colombia.

We invite your incoming administration to work with the Department of War and the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C) to reinvigorate the military alliance between our two countries to end the production of deadly narcotics and eradicate the narco-terrorists that plague our hemisphere.

[History Dame @history_dame]

On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and decisive state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, making it the law of the land.

After the Constitutional Convention wrapped up in Philadelphia the previous September, the document needed the approval of 9 of the 13 states. New Hampshire’s vote sealed the deal (with Virginia and New York following shortly after).

It wasn’t without drama; debates raged over a stronger federal government, the lack of a Bill of Rights, and state powers. But with the promise of future amendments, the first 1o ten, enough states said yes.

The new government under the Constitution officially began on March 4, 1789, and still guides us today as the oldest written national constitution in operation.

[U.S. Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept]

“Today we regrettably had to sue the birthplace of this great Nation,” said @ASGWoodward. “But we will not sit by while Philadelphia flagrantly violates our Constitution, seeking to criminally punish our Nation’s law enforcement heroes merely for doing their job.”

[Bob Woodson @BobWoodson]

"The answer to the problem can be found among those suffering the problem." - Bob Woodson (1937-2026)

45 years. One principle. It never changed. #SpiritofRenewal

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

Yes we did

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

As a general rule, anytime Barack Obama lectures the country or its people on their purported sins—with Khalil Gibran pop platitudes—he is seeking absolution for his own obsessions by projecting his own guilty desires onto others.

The latest? At the dedication of his narcissistic Obama Presidential Center in Chicago—a $850 million flak-tower, monolithic boondoggle mired in debt—Obama lectured us on the need to resist the allure off "money, attention, [and] fame."

Thus spoke the owner of four homes, three of them multimillion-dollar mansions, whose last inert year in office was spent closing book and Netflix deals that ensured he would become a multimillionaire the moment he left office, and on spec, jets private to sermonize to various audiences–often at $400,000 a shot—on their own false-consciousness shortcomings.

Plain-speaking, frugal Harry Truman in obscure retirement in Independence, Missouri Obama certainly is not.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Major Capers just went maximum selfless patriot mode after President Trump gave him the Medal of Honor

"I can't say I'm happy to be here because this award belongs to a lot of young men who followed me and died in battlefields around this world for a country that we honor this flag."

"There's no real satisfaction in getting a medal when I've lost so much."

"We're one unit. When one falls, somebody else has to replace that one, that person who fell."

"I feel honored to have the support that I find today. I'm honored. And I give gratitude to the ones who made this happen."

"When your men are in peril and you have an opportunity to save your men, I chose to get off the helicopter to lighten the load."

Living legend.

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

Unanimous decision by a state Supreme Court in which 5 of 7 justices are Democrats.

Gives you a strong sense about which way the wind is blowing on these issues.

Anti-White discrimination is no longer a legal or political winner.

[The Pretty-Good Commoner @ExtremeVetting]

RT @CENTCOM: Today, U.S. forces lifted the blockade on all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas, in accord…

[Boris Spider @BorisSpider14]

The FTC attorneys are very aware of the statutory jurisdiction provided by the FTC Act and the complaint addresses this meticulously in pages 70-85, including footnote 58. If WPATH's activities go beyond educational speech to seek to enhance the profits of its members through deceptive speech, then the activity can satisfy the elements of an FTC Act claim.
The FTC lays out clearly how WPATH sought to expand insurance coverage for its member doctors - thus greatly increasing their revenue.
The specific requirements of the FTC Act are also spelled out starting on page 111. Footnote 58 on page 71 cites two other cases in which the FTC successfully sued a state dental association and a trade association. Clearly the formality of calling oneself a "medical association" does not grant automatic immunity.
Just because they rarely do something, does not mean they cannot do something.
It's almost like the blooski poster thinks he's the first person to think of the conflict between the first amendment and fraud laws. I assure you, he is not.
As to the complaints about the district in which this case was brought, that is entirely on WPATH for remaining a Texas corporation. It is also rich, given that attorneys for ACLU and GLAAD were sanctioned for judge shopping in the Boe v. Marshall case - which as you know has provided much of the evidence for the FTC's complaint..

[House Freedom Caucus @freedomcaucus]

.@HouseGOP must vote to make Trump’s border policies permanent law.

No more radical Democrats erasing our secure border with a pen stroke.

It’s time to codify Trump’s America First agenda for good.

[Andrew Ferguson @AFergusonFTC]

Since President Trump was sworn in, the @FTC has been aggressively protecting children and the rights of parents across every part of the economy. Today, the FTC took another huge step in defense of children and parents. We have filed an enforcement action against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) for making false and unsubstantiated claims about the safety and efficacy of medical transition procedures, and for providing to doctors the means to sell those procedures to children and parents.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Harvesting just one kidney from 20% of America’s politicians would give a new kidney to EVERY SINGLE PERSON currently on the transplant waiting list.

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

When you shoot an azimuth, even a few degrees off at the start will put you in completely different terrain by the time you stop moving.

That is what happened with the national memorial for the Global War on Terrorism.

A handful of early decisions about who would help shape the project and what the main priorities would be sent the effort off course. The result is a design that treats everyone who served as if they came home damaged and in need of healing.

That is not just wrong. It is a dangerous provocation.

We are not victims. We chose to fight. We fought honorably with intention and purpose.

I laid out exactly how this happened and why it matters.

Read it and tell me what you think a memorial for America’s longest war should actually be about.

@derrickvanorden
@CynicalPublius

[FTC @FTC]

FTC, states sue World Professional Association for Transgender Health over deceptive claims regarding the treatment of children. Agency and state partners argue WPATH’s illegal claims profited its members: https://t.co/mWxiBBfKC9