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This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
You can see it at the GOP town halls. People are furious. bsky.app/profile/desi...
Doing Putin’s bidding.
Vacuous nonsense
Barring seditionist criminals from office doesn’t solve every problem, but it beats the alternative.
Wait RFK Jr is responsible for these children??
This is what Donald Trump’s policies achieved.
In the middle of night. They got these kids out of bed and tried to fly them out of the country under cover of night.
Example of how Chicago is a kickass city: The Chicago cultural center is open & free to the public, & it doesn’t have any monuments to traitors who fought to keep slavery, but it does have a quote by Frederick Douglass, & The Grand Army Of The Republic Hall. Chicago reminds everyone of who won.
Sure, but she did both. And so that might explain why expectations have changed. At any rate, I don’t think leaders in both houses should be from NY.
Should blue states stop subsidizing red states?
Pelosi was good at messaging.
We’re now making payments to the terrorists who attacked our Capital. Thanks for nothing IC and Merrick Garland.
Seems like the real lesson is appeasing MAGA gets you nothing. Better to focus on intelligent customers.
America was the singular superpower one year ago. And then Trump became president.
He didn’t expect the judge to follow up.
Not a word about his lifelong friend (and co-conspirator) Giuliani being hospitalized?
She should order him to produce the names and location of the two remaining children immediately.
What is the delay? Who is Drew protecting?
Is there some reason Drew is delaying return of this last child?
It’s not the US. It’s Trump. These oligarchs are Trump’s associates as I’m sure you know.
lol
“By shutting down the Foreign Malign Influence Center, Gabbard stripped away America’s shield against foreign meddling. Moscow and Beijing couldn’t ask for a bigger gift.” Robert Morton #NationalSecurity #ForeignInterference #counterespionage
A Supreme Court justice or two
Early Bankrupt Casino
This is correct. Trump lied again.
A plane?
You idiots.
Many many people could die because the GOP is standing with RFK.
Cowered when he should have told the truth.
Trump is too weak and sick to ride in a golf cart, let alone play.
So the photos we get of the “golf outing” today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
Josh can you think of a good reason why the federal government would move children in the middle of the night?
Yeah “surprising,” as a 2008 law requires unaccompanied kids from countries other than Canada/Mexico to be "placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child." A 3AM plane to Guatemala—ignoring potential harm upon arrival—is not that. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Why were Trump and Noehm moving kids out of the country in the middle of the night? Do your job and get the story?
We tried parroting Russian propaganda and telling Ukraine to bow down. We tried denigrating European allies and refusing to discuss real security guarantees. We tried rolling out the red carpet for Putin and saying we deserved a Nobel Prize for that. Now we’re “seriously considering stepping back.”
Why were these children loaded on to planes in the middle of the night? If this is all above board, why wasn’t it planned during regular working hours?
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
The judge doesn’t trust them to get the children back in to ORR custody.
Family reunification in the middle of the night?
This whole thing is rotten. Who moves groups of children in the middle of the night? Human traffickers.
DHS got caught trying to fly hundreds of children out of the United States in the middle of the night.
Trump last spoke on camera on Tuesday.
Where’s Kim?
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
People say this site doesn’t have the juice but we got the president of the United States doing “I’m alive” posts
He can walk a few feet from door to limo, with someone standing next to him.
This is alarming.
This child deportees case started ugly, and it's getting uglier fast. DOJ blows off deadline for status report confirming that they took all the Guatemalan children off the planes in Texas. Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Judge Sooknanan: For unaccompanied minors in particular, there are special procedural protections under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act...that's because this population is incredibly vulnerable. I don't see anything in what you're citing that would override those protections.
Glad Congressman Bell did not let that stand.
Martha Raddatz and Ed O’Keefe using identical language intended to normalize military policing of American streets.
They did refuse. That’s why this is happening under Trump.
I’m not sure what to make of this line: “This is the only statement authorized by Mayor Giuliani”
WTF is going on here? Why did the government attempt to fly children out of the country in the middle of the night?
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).
Yikes
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
It is quite literally slop.
Trump plan to redevelop Gaza into a series of luxury resorts is slated to contain up to six “AI powered smart cities”, according to the “prospectus” reviewed by the Post. The plan assumes the “voluntary” departure of all now living in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
WaPo has a link to the 38 page pdf The GREAT Trust - From a Demolished Iranian Proxy to a Prosperous Abrahamic Ally Proposed projects include: - The MBS Ring and MBZ Central Highway - The Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone - Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands www.washingtonpost.com/documents/f8...
This is what happens when there’s no accountability to the community.
You would think Andrew Giuliani would be at his father’s side. I guess not.
Ensign was likely facing a contempt charge over his role in the secret CECOT flight. So perhaps he should be saying “hi honey my career as an attorney is over”
Totally normal story here.
Six crashes???
Trying to sneak children out of the country in the middle of the night should be a crime.
part of the growing chasm between the supreme court and the lower and intermediate courts is that the supreme court has not punished the government for its overwhelming disrespect of the bench
Someone using this name has been trolling Democrats for at least 5 years.
Zenkus has been trolling Democrats for years. At one point there was some kind of controversy over his country of residence.
This person is a notorious troll.
DHS put a bunch of unaccompanied minors on a plane, overnight, on a holiday weekend. Why? What is going on here?
Personally, I think one big problem is both parties rely too much on donors that turn out to be white collar criminals to ever treat it with the performative concern they show over petty street crime.
Trump feels strongly that cheaters must win.
union station today, looks like they are ratcheting up efforts to intimidate protesters. big vehicles are back and a handful now sporting “military police” vests
Notice how O’Keefe feeds Noehm the answer like he’s Sean Hannity.
You'd think, logically, the White House would know these extreme telephoto Bigfoot sighting photos aren't exactly helping their "not dying" cause and would let him trot out and do his usual blather to the pool. But, I'm not sure that you can really draw a firm conclusion from this team being dumb.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
Billionaires are enriched.
Blitz, like the Nazi attack on England.
“Either way”
Reading this and contemplating just how much influence the Trump administration has pissed away in less than eight months. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/w...
Same, and I agree.
He also think the Village People are “hot.” So
We knew he singled out India for the tariff, but this was the reason? To extort Modi in to helping him get the Nobel? I just can’t believe it.
Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Voters’ overwhelmingly support the principle of “polluter pays” and it is an outage that Trump’s EPA is corruptly siding the polluters at the expense of taxpayers. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
Trump at his golf club today. He hid from the public for days and won’t let the press pool near him.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The press are lying to us.
He may be alive, but he’s definitely not well.
Loser shit
Maybe a hot take but this really does feel like the worst, most egregious ex of news media legitimacy collapse as an institution, even worse than their pre-Iraq War boosting, bc *literally the thing they said was the most impt thing* is actually happening w this president now & they cant be arsed
I’ve never seen landscapers hide their faces like this, but what do I know.
Uganda giving the US lessons on rule-of-law.
Some of this is wild when you consider one of Witkoff’s biggest current real estate business partners is Russian oligarch Len Blavatnik, reported as close friend Netanyahu and sanctioned Russian oligarchs qz.com/1521847/majo...