Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
BREAKING: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says the Trump administration has begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment to Illinois, and federal agencies will soon begin large-scale immigration raids in Chicago. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Way to rise up San Diego Labor Day ✊
This is so ridiculous. If it wasn’t real it would surely be a SNL skit. Because it is real, it’s absolutely terrifying. We are leaving ourselves wide open to foreign and domestic terrorism while we round up gardeners to meet immigration quotas so we can be safe.
Breaking news: It's a beautiful weekend in Chicago. So for this weekend, the city has safely hosted: 🚴♀️ Bike the Drive where hundreds pedal down a temporarily closed Lake Shore Drive 🏠The ARC music festival (Chicago is the home of house music) ⚾A White Sox game 🍒Farmers markets & food fests 1/
Unreal
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
Cares deeply about helping everyday people? They are trying to find as many ways as they can to make us go away!
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
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NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Children did not understand what was happening. The government moved late at night, over a holiday weekend, deliberately making it harder for these children to reach their attorneys or the courts. This is all on purpose. Full statement ▶️ firrp.org/florence-pro...
@sulliview.bsky.social IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN AMERICA...well, you CAN. Just following what happens and posting isn't enough, so Margaret Sullivan has some simple, concrete ideas (below). Time to get past just reading bad news and start to make good news!
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Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Patrick Braxton has been elected as the mayor of Newbern Alabama The first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town has taken a landslide victory in a mayoral election – four years after white residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
I don’t think Nate Silver is with 538 anymore.
Thank you on this labor day!!
ICE detains green card holder—days after she passed citizenship exam. She was awaiting the official ceremony—when agents tricked her into coming in for appointment—only to arrest her. She and her husband have owned their Los Angeles balloon shop together for almost 20 years.
If you wonder what the source of all our problems is — stop looking overseas, stop blaming “the other.” The rot isn’t out there. It’s coming from inside the house. Inside the Oval. Inside the halls of power. And it’s burning our democracy from within.
Trump's FBI Pick Has History Of Prosecuting Dems For Being Dems
It is a head scratcher....
Morons Association Governing America
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
Trump’s only focus right now is midterm voter suppression via illegal national voter ID mandate, redistricting in favor of more red house seats & removing ballot boxes and mail-in ballots. He’s terrified of being shellacked come 2026, and imprisoned come 2029.
End of 3 weeks in magical EU & UK countries where the there are NO GUNS and the people are NOT targeted & punished daily by the cruel emotional & psychological terrorism of an ignorant petulant vengeful child. Life without Trump is pure paradise. So let’s remove him from power!!!
The world is moving on without Trump.
"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. … www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...
Afterparty by invitation only at FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING 7339 State Road Philadelphia, PA 19136
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I hope we wake up before these men destroy us....
Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reed Hastings has given $2 million to help California redraw its House maps in the latest indication of the campaign’s outsize stakes.
Don't look away 😔 this isn't the American 🇺🇸 way 👉🏼it's sadistic psychopathic Hatemeister Steven Millers wet dream of Amerikkka👿👇🏼
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."
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
Hi. I’m the executive director of the organization that had the honor of hosting the FEMA Katrina Declaration and I can confirm this is a lie. NICE TRY, KRISTI! @standupforscience.bsky.social @atrupar.com
They wanted to do this in North Carolina too. It’s stuck in committee. You never know when they will pull it out to vote on it…..
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
A must for reposting.
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES #LaborDay DAY 31 AUGUST 2025 THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES Labor Day Weekend Throwback to President Joseph Biden, September 2023. The ONLY President while in office to stand in a picket line Truly cared for the AMERICAN WORKER Trump hates labor #UnionStrong THANK YOU JOE
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Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, announced a bid for the seat of incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. His goal? To “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
Is he fighting the Trump EPA’s Lee Zeldin’s policies. Here’s one you will like. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Me after my #FantasyFootball draft is finally over. That’s so much harder than following teams and players from the comfort of my couch! 😂
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
"Portrait of a person who's not there": Documenting the bedrooms of school shooting victims www.cbsnews.com/video/portra...
Extraordinary thread about an extraordinary hearing, prompted by the Trump DHS trying to sneak hundreds of unaccompanied children out of the country to Guatemala on a holiday weekend. The government’s lawyer is sure it’s all legal, but needs 5 days to explain how. By @annabower.bsky.social
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.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Gerrymandering. Early Voting. Registration Repair. Watch the first ever edition of This Week w/ @abreezeclayton.bsky.social here on BlueSky. youtu.be/ysLVnkpZnss
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
BREAKING: Judge Sooknanan has now expanded her restraining order as she attempts to block ongoing efforts to remove hundreds of Guatemalan children, which their lawyers say are currently underway. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
From genocide to a vacation paradise…..that is dystopian
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Why are we picking a fight with Venezuela? Hegseth wants so badly to be the Department of War.
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
No child labor, good working conditions, healthcare benefits, good wages, holidays off and support if something happens to you on the job....
Stopped at a Midas repair shop today and the guy there brought up the CDC. This is an example where raising the salience of what is going on really can break through the noise.
Brain cancer. Kids. Think about that.
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
He is impeachable every day.....Congress do it....
#HiKids #GoHawks
I wonder why Trump imposed secondary tariffs only on India for buying Russian oil while not caring about all the other countries who buy Russian oil?
📲 Now is a moment to call your Senators and Reps! 5calls.org/issue/rfk-hh...
A friend in need…
Thank you @acepnation.bsky.social for standing with us. My time in the emergency department has shaped my commitment to ensuring the health of our communities. www.emergencyphysicians.org/press-releas...
This seems ominous. Trump just appointed Josh Craddock—who recently signed a letter urging the DOJ to use the Comstock Act to curtail the distribution of abortion pills—to serve as Deputy Assistant AG in the OLC at the DOJ. 1/
Remember that young woman who was interviewed right around the 2024 election who said she voted FOR Trump because he would NOT ban abortion?
7/ Thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
California is stepping up to protect Kamala.
"Congratulations to President Donald Trump and his whip-smart administration on turning America’s brave National Guard troops into the most expensive gardening crew in human history." https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/28/trump-national-guard-picking-up-trash-dc/85853498007/
He was laughing the whole time. He does not care one bit about those people.
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
Away from their families for this? In hot uniforms to boot….
Gavin Newsom is not imitating Trump. He is mocking him. He is holding up a mirror to what Trump does and how blind his supporters are to reality. From the 3 hour North Korean style cabinet meetings to all caps nonsense tweets. It’s all worthy of mockery.
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Why the Texas AG is trying to lock me up and what we're doing to fight back and win. open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
This week's edition of #TheProfessorIsIn is a back-to-school special, we explore what economists have learned about the effects of education in boosting your wealth, health, and happiness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKF...
On the way the Right has responded to the shooting in Minnesota (and all of them really)
Uh….yeah JD
WATCH: “That’s a you problem.” @jwilliamj8.bsky.social & the #Jaam crew react to Snoop saying he’s scared to go to the movies because there was a lesbian couple in a Disney’s “Lightyear” and he didn’t know what to tell his grandson. Full @thejaampod.bsky.social ep: youtu.be/C4IhbpU0ugA?si
Because Trump wears makeup and has the most elaborate comb over ever. Trump is pale with a puffy face (mitochondrial dysfunction? 😂) look at Trumps wobbly gait, slouched posture and monotone, expressionless way of speaking. All signs of aging.
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
🚨BREAKING: A Fulton County judge has temporarily paused his own contempt order that would have fined the county commission $10,000 per day for refusing to seat two election-denying Republican nominees to the county’s Board of Elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
MO Republicans also want to pass an amendment to the state constitution to make it harder to pass *future* amendments. The highlighted proposal below would essentially gerrymander the ballot initiative process, requiring progressive proposals to win majorities in deep-red districts.
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
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So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
Of course they did
Gag me