Over Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration attempted to remove Guatemalan children who had come to the U.S. alone and were living in shelters or with foster care families in the U.S. https://to.pbs.org/4gcaHeI
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Over Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration attempted to remove Guatemalan children who had come to the U.S. alone and were living in shelters or with foster care families in the U.S. https://to.pbs.org/4gcaHeI
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.
Tulsi Gabbard has effectively dissolved FMIC, the Foreign Malign Influence Center. I’m shocked by her flagrant chutzpah to cater favors directly to Russia and China (& other actors), and at the same time, I am not surprised because this is exactly who I thought she is.
A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps after suspected Russian GPS jamming disabled all navigation systems at Plovdiv Airport, Financial Times reports. The aircraft circled for an hour before landing manually.
Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition was not under oath. She was not video taped, which is very unusual for a deposition. And there are many cuts where they stopped the audio tapes so lawyers could confer with her off-the-record. None of that stuff is the way you do a deposition.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today đź’ś #LoveTheVets!
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
"Kennedy went on to say that he 'would never advise somebody to get sick' and that 'what we need is good science on all of these things so that people can make rational choices.'" (The rational choice is the vaccine). ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-wor...
They believe in eugenics and technofasicsm
The only reason Trump dropped out of sight is because situations that require a human response - like the murder of schoolchildren in a church - give him the ick. Given his status as a shooting “victim” himself he would sound even more cold & gross taking the “thoughts & prayers” route on this one.
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
Not sure anyone’s money will help?
“The CDC you knew is over,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis told me today. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Trump administration now openly pushing Putin strategic talking points.
lol, this appellate judge just smacking Alan Dershowitz around like a little cat toy. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Ukrainians stuck between Russians and a Trump-force? That’s not comforting.
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
Rather than folding to anti-science pressure, CDC employees are exposing the dangers of MAHA to the public health system. Already, some major drugstores are limiting COVID vaccines to follow new restrictive guidelines. Dr. Jen Layden, who resigned from her director position on Tuesday, joins @ 10aET
Just saying…
There’s a word for that: corruption.
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
“You have to let us break the law or we will be embarrassed” is not a good legal argument
It’s coming…
The illegal dismantling of USAID is a crime against humanity that will hurt millions
Throw in a number 8 and…. Shhh shhhhh shhhhh!
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Lisa Cook was confirmed twice by the Senate - who, last time I checked, were elected - after being nominated by the President. What Trump wants is to reverse a legitimate democratic process here.
"It's further eroding...the credibility of those who are in leadership positions in our military, that they would allow full military honors to someone who lost their life while committing the act of sedition." Michael Fanone discusses Ashli Babbitt with JVL:
Our director Larry Pfeiffer: “'A smart [director of national intelligence] would have consulted with CIA' before identifying the undercover officer . . .'It could potentially put CIA cover procedures at risk. It could put relations with foreign governments at risk.'” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
And cameras. Lots of cameras.
Preferably in public while a woman mocks him, so I guess that’s A or B.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
GOP Rep. Moore tucked tail and ran during a brutal town hall booing
she said that “black” with a hard r
I’m gonna lose it if one more person suggests that Lisa Cook admitted to mortgage fraud or that she tried to explain it away as a “clerical error.” Neither of those things happened!
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
My grandfather also wants to pass along the message that RFK Jr. is destroying one of the prime achievements of American medicine. This is something he knows well, given the decades of his life he dedicated to medicine, to the scientific pursuits, and to helping research new treatments for diseases.
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
Blackmail and Brownstones: Todd Blanche Locked Ghislaine Maxwell into Her Obvious Lies www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/28/b...
I couldn’t love Larry David more.
Mark my words, they are building a database of autistic people for eugenics purposes. It started with the deportations of so-called undesirables based on origin and skin color. The people with mental or cognitive impairments will come next, just like the Nazis
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
As we all know, the United States is the only country on the planet where these drugs exist. It definitely has to be the drugs that we alone use. Can’t be something else.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
That’s the kicker - it’s not the world. Doesn’t have to be this way. One party wants it to be.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
45/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Funeral honors for an insurrectionist who died trying to break into the House chambers to disrupt proceedings and overturn a free, fair and legal presidential election. Shocking. Disgraceful. A terrible reflection of the state of this nation…
President Trump is firing every appointed black person. I wonder if racial animus could be used to inform how a Court understands for cause firing within the administrative context?
The honors come despite the fact that Babbitt attempted to climb through a shattered glass door inside the Capitol as lawmakers fled for their lives during the insurrection and ignored commands to stand down before she was fatally shot. My report for HuffPost: www.huffpost.com/entry/ashli-...
This administration's immigration policy is fundamentally sick. Trump has wrongly detained lawful green card holders and even CITIZENS. No one should assume this was necessary. These firefighters put their lives on the line for us ALL and Trump is detaining them.
This man is a monster. He's going to be responsible for enormous numbers of deaths and terrible illnesses. He's a eugenicist.
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
Holy moly this @monicapotts.bsky.social story. "The Democratic Party has handcuffed itself with data rather than use it to their advantage." THAT. That, in one sentence, is precisely what I and @waytowinus.bsky.social have been trying to solve for since 2018. 🎯🎯🎯 newrepublic.com/article/1996...
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Saying - “I don’t think the President of the United States should turn the US military against US citizens” is not admitting crime is not a problem we need to work on. Trump has some of you so spooked you can’t just say a bad thing is a bad thing. And that’s dangerous and bad politics. Wake up.
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
This is evil, diabolical, depraved, and deeply, deeply sick. For just $10, people are buying and selling life-long trauma, terrorizing communities as if it were a game. These monsters must be hunted down, investigated, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
Commentary: Russia and China’s joint patrols near Japan highlight a growing security threat, forcing the need for Tokyo to adjust its defense strategy and strengthen alliances.
If you are at the CDC and have any updates that need to get out — including any other resignations, firings, or information about who is running what — let me know. My Signal is: crg.32 (use a nonwork phone)
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Now would be a real good time for anyone in Congress who cares about warfighting lethality and military readiness to call an emergency hearing. COVID played merry hell with readiness until there were vaccines.
At least three top CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of the Trump administration ousting the agency's director “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health" one wrote www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
The fundamental choice has not been as stark since World War II: democracy and freedom, or dictatorship and tyranny. Trump and his sycophants are siding with the latter. The rest of us must loudly, proudly, and boldly proclaim our allegiance to the former.
Like I said, I've been to the Tuol Sleng genocide museum & The Killing Fields in Cambodia. First think Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge did was empty the cities & target the educated population - teachers, artists, lawyers, scientists. For any journalist to be ignorant of that history is an embarrassment.
As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
He's not even trying to mask his intent.
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🚨BREAKING: A leading election conspiracy theorist has been named to a new “election integrity” post at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy