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ICE procurement activity since August 22, totaling ~$19M. Companies highlighted in yellow are new to the "Who's Profiting from ICE?" map, available here: bit.ly/3TgUZEq Source: USAspending.gov
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
NEW: In a loss for voters, the 5th Circuit upholds parts of a Texas voter suppression law that restrict how people can assist voters in casting ballots. The court ruled that the pro-voting groups challenging the provisions lacked standing. From: @jenrice.bsky.social
NEW: Mississippi asked the Supreme Court to determine whether voters and advocacy groups can continue filing lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The state argued that such lawsuits can only be brought by the Justice Department.
ICYMI: all three of these letters deserve our close reading and attention: www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
I think about this cursed exchange a lot. I don't see this clip posted enough. Thanks
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.”
"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law." abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=...
In NC, I've encountered a significant number of MAGA providers, especially among Registered Nurses and Physicians Assistants. You wouldn't believe some of the things I've heard them say or seen them do in exam rooms.
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
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
When I was around 8, I asked my father "what's a lesbian?" He said, "you know how your mom and I love each other? It's like that, but two women." It's really not that hard to explain things to kids.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
14/ For Halimi and his family, those actions would have far-reaching consequences. Read the full story by @chrisbing.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro:
Ed Martin, the Trump crony who heads the DOJ vague weaponization task force, posted a picture of himself outside the home of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), who he is investigating over flimsy mortgage fraud allegations.
😍 wow Minnesota
At 1pm today, the 8th Ohio District Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in State v. Tolbert, a case that we filed an amicus brief in to raise concerns about use of facial recognition technology in issuance of a search warrant. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/04...
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote with Justice Barrett as the deciding vote, allows the Trump administration to cancel NIH grants as part of the administration’s attack on “DEI” while litigation proceeds. Five justices write. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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ARIZONA: “(Voucher) parents bought diamond rings, luxury clothing, dog food, grills, mopeds with public education dollars….” A handout for the wealthy. This has been @GovBillLee’s #1 priority. #LeesVoucherScam www.12news.com/article/news...
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
President Donald Trump announced he will issue a new executive order as part of a “movement to get rid of” mail-in voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Video of President Zelenskyy's meeting with European leaders in Washington.
It's crazy to me to see the US Forest Service deny the ever obvious health risks with breathing wildfire smoke. We lack good PPE because there is a limited market, it's a limited market because the Forest Service denies there is a problem. Need a demand pull for PPE. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
This one! Yes!
Boy(17) and girl(14) over here...still flushing toilets and turning off lights like it's my side-hustle.
The CDC shooting didn’t even really register in the news and the details are absolutely insane
It’s not lost on me that the people celebrating masked agents enforcing curfews and checkpoints were the same people losing their shit when they were asked to stay home and wear a mask for their own safety
my boss always speaks first at meetings too
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
Same. I cried happy tears and felt such exhilaration...then came the fear for him and his family.
Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE. Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️
Breaking WaPo: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is living for free in a military home typically reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard's top admiral. The highly unusual arrangement has raised concern from officials, who describe it as a waste of military resources. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The real "waste, fraud, and abuse"
1. As a consultant analyst that generally presents to the C-suite of organisations, I am often asked to produce short, concise explanations of both biological and geopolitical risks. Regarding Covid-19, I use the same summary with both C-level clients and friends:
I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.
Tapping the sign. bsky.app/profile/seth...
North Carolina to cut Medicaid rates by 3% across all providers in October ncnewsline.com/2025/08/13/n...
Masked and armed federal agents made arrests outside of a Los Angeles museum in which Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) Thursday was announcing plans to redraw the state’s congressional map to offset the GOP’s redistricting efforts in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Why does this entire administration struggle with the concept of linear time?
129 to go until we are at 9,000! Help us get there! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court will hear oral argument in critical rehearing in Louisiana redistricting case on October 15. This timing raises the threat that the Court could be looking to limit or strike down VRA Section 2 in advance of 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisi...
That’s interesting. Last time I heard the phrase “Quick Reaction Force” was during the January 6 investigations when the Oath Keepers stashed an arsenal at a Virginia hotel. Gift link: wapo.st/46UGmic
A new must read from Yunior Rivas.👇 In a healthy democracy, the right to vote isn’t something you earn or defend and the burden is on the government to make voting easier, not on citizens to prove they deserve to vote. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…
What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.
Notably: Texas's in-state representation is from the law firm where White House counsel David Warrington worked prior to joining the second Trump administration. (It is also the firm founded by the current DOJ Civil Rights Division head, Harmeet Dhillon.)
The suspect, Katia Trevon Bougere, 31, was charged with shooting Abdul Rahman Waziri, also 31, in a dispute over parking in Houston. But Bougere hasn’t been arrested. Instead, he received a summons to appear in court next week, as if it were a traffic violation. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
🚨BREAKING: A Texas judge temporarily blocked former Rep. Beto O’Rourke and his nonprofit Powered by People from using political donations to support quorum-breaking Democratic lawmakers — handing Attorney General Ken Paxton an early win in his legal campaign against the Democrats.
GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants Rep. Eric Burlison: “I do believe [giants] were real” meidasnews.com/news/gop-ove...
The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.
Saturday Night Live?
The Golden Age of America First.
Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made An important statement by Professor David Patterson of UC Berkeley. Truth. Pass it on. 👇 thehill.com/opinion/tech...
We "recognize our history" includes the toppling of that monument to the Confederacy's lost cause and you want to "erase it" by standing it back up🤷🏽♀️
The U.S. Census Bureau is mandated by the Constitution to count every person living in the USA every ten years, regardless of their citizenship or immigration status. No President has the power to change who is counted, or when, nor to substitute an alternative count for apportionment.
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
Fed’l prosecutors dismissed charges against a Florida woman whose lawyer is Brad Bondi, the AG’s brother. The client is a former GOP lawmaker accused of Covid relief fraud. abcnews.go.com/US/woman-acc...
The Social Security Administration has conceded an issue with phone service, after denying it to NPR, and has announced a fix.
NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs just terminated union contracts including AFL-CIO (AFGE), NAGE, NFFE, SEIU, and nursing unions NNOC and NNU. nurse.org/news/va-term...
🤔 we should seriously start calling PFAS "water-chemtrails"
The Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday terminated collective bargaining agreements for most of its more than 350,000 unionized employees, including nurses, food service workers, technicians and janitorial staff.
I’ve been teaching as an adjunct at Syracuse University since 2019, sometimes several classes a semester. Yesterday I was told they don’t have a class for me to teach this fall, first time in 6 years. If you’re in a position to hire an illustrator/writer/weird little guy, please keep me in mind.
The Republican-appointed justices have decided it is time to fully destroy the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
When it comes to redrawing America’s political lines in ways that secure and expand Republican power — especially at the expense of voters— Adam Kincaid is one of the most central yet overlooked figures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
RFKJr’s gradual elimination of vaccines in USA is continuing and gathering pace as 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines being terminated including late stage research for bird flu vaccine #ImmunoSky 🧪🧵
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
"I obviously can't say everything to you. That's very apparent" -- Tammy Bruce is serving world historic word salads during today's press briefing. My heart goes out to reporters who have to pretend to take this gibberish seriously.
I just learned that Newsmax — the Skinemax of News — named Alex Acosta, the guy who cut Epstein’s sweetheart plea deal, to its board of directors last month
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
"They were asking me very sharp questions," he said. "The only thing that would have motivated those questions was [that] somebody told them to come up with a termination plan."
She said "Obwama"
My friend Alec is missing. Please share this widely incase it reachers any hikers who have seen him over the past 5 days during his solo hike in a Norwegian national park.
How about high-speed rail on earth?
We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans. Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
A new investigation by @kaburbank.bsky.social shows how the affluent suburb of Scarsdale, New York quietly became part of a growing national surveillance network, and most residents had no idea.
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Of course they did.👇
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
The DOJ Inspector General “lost” an explosive whistleblower complaint about Emil Bove for over 2 months: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
Democrats offered an amendment to simply ensure that if taxpayers spend $1 billion retrofitting a Qatari jet, it doesn't transfer to Trump after his presidency for his personal use. Republicans voted NO and blocked the amendment. This is the most corrupt administration in history. Easily.
Texas officials could subpoena Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon to answer questions about her letter urging the state to redraw its congressional map after state Democrats called for her to explain her demand.
A former investment banker with zero conservation experience is now running our national parks. Kevin Lily worked for Morgan Stanley & Goldman Sachs before founding the largest privately owned wealth management firm in Texas. Our national parks will now be his new personal wealth management.
how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...
How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Sharon Lerner reports the inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.
The EPA’s latest climate-denying move may be illegal and it may be anti-science, but at least it will cost us many trillions of dollars in economic damages 🎁 link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Senator Durbin and I had some questions about the very unusual Blanche/Maxwell meeting. Here are some of the multiple weirdnesses: 🧵
Elders remind their elected official: “You’re here to listen.”
The Honorable Mr. Garcia of Abilene, Texas, bringing the heat! ✊🏼🔥🔥🔥 👏🏼More👏🏼Of👏🏼This👏🏼
Republicans just voted to confirm Emil Bove, a guy who said "f**k" the courts, to a lifetime on the federal bench. I voted NO. I happen to believe Senate-confirmed judges should have some semblance of respect for the rule of law. I guess Republicans vote however Trump says.
BREAKING In a 50–49 vote, the U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Emil Bove to serve as a U.S. Circuit Judge. Bove, President Trump’s former attorney and a current DOJ official, has been accused of misleading lawmakers by multiple whistleblowers.
An ICE agent caught on video saying "We're going to have to shoot some of them" as he brutalizes an american citizen for being latino.
GOP lawmakers overturned a voter-approved expansion of paid sick leave benefits for Missouri workers. It’s not the first time the GOP-dominated legislature overturned voter-approved laws. But this time, the backlash could have long-lasting consequences. missouriindependent.com/2025/07/28/k...
In Arkansas, these people can get paid roughly $7,000 of public tax dollars per year to "homeschool" EACH of their children.