WOW. This is one of the original Alien Enemies Act cases going back to March. The conservative 5th Circuit has ruled Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to disappear people to El Salvador was UNLAWFUL.
WOW. This is one of the original Alien Enemies Act cases going back to March. The conservative 5th Circuit has ruled Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to disappear people to El Salvador was UNLAWFUL.
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
#Ukraine war briefing: No action from Trump as another Putin deadline passes. US president ‘very disappointed’ in Russian ruler; Trump had promised to get Putin to negotiating table with Volodymr Zelenskyy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
#BREAKING: Fifth Circuit (Southwick & Ramirez, JJ.) holds that President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua is unlawful, and blocks AEA removals in the Northern District of Texas (over a lengthy dissent from Judge Oldham): www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Wow.
President Trump alleges China, Russia, and North Korea are conspiring against the US, as leaders of each nation were pictured together at the military parade in Beijing. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/3Vu8fGJ
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
NOW: Another grand jury refusal — this time a woman accused of threatening President Donald Trump. Judge Boasberg said last week the threats appeared to be the "rantings" of a woman with no ability to carry them out. A D.C. grand jury apparently agrees. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here: youtu.be/ZZJD21zyHdc
Phang: The judge notes that the MacArthur Park show of force was just sheer political theater. Major General Sherman, objected, expressing concern that there would be a large number of people because it was Father’s Day. To which Bovino criticized him, questioning his loyalty to the country.
JUST IN: Federal appeals court says Trump unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act for deportations. https://cnn.it/4pmjCyr
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
If you know anyone who works for a Pbm and has documentation supporting this , pls let me know
As far as regulation , how do you convince providers that have spent hundreds of billions of dollars that they need to sell at one set price. And no, other countries didn’t have this issue. They went UHC before even MRIs were available and care was a hospital and doctors and a stethoscope
As far as the economics , we are a PBC. And I don’t need more money. I just need to break even after investments
Not true. We have a growing number of brand meds. The only reason we don’t have all brand meds is because the big PBMs threaten to reduce sales of the brand’s meds if they work with us. They know we will do to brand pricing what we did to generics.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
Just a reminder that Miller has been planning all along for the possibility of sending NG troops from red states into blue states. radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-dep...
Over 85 top climate scientists say that the Energy Department’s recent climate assessment used to justify an unwinding of federal greenhouse gas rules does not meet standards for scientific integrity.
Meanwhile in New York someone has dressed up as Trump in a hospital gown with an IV infusion of bleach. *Chef's kiss 😘👌
Democrats "have to give up on the idea that they're a governing party. They have to give up on the idea that the Republican party is a traditional political party of which you can have some sort of meeting of the minds." @stuartpstevens.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:
"Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up." www.ft.com/content/b86b...
Have a fantasy football draft tonight? We grouped players into tiers to help you make those tough draft calls:
A plane carrying the Europe's top official lost its GPS navigation while midair over the weekend and was forced to land using paper maps — the most high-profile case yet, officials and experts say, of a Russian strategy that is not only disrupting travel but imperiling lives.
NEWS: An NFL play is now sponsored. Of course, it’s the Tush Push (presented by DUDE Wipes) 🧻 Full story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
Mobile billboard rolling thru downtown Washington DC
Via "One First," my quick stab at the legal authority President Trump will likely claim allows him to deploy un-federalized Texas National Guard troops to Illinois; why such a deployment without Illinois's consent *ought* to be unlawful; and the options Illinois will have for litigating that issue:
Hey D.C. friends! If you see billboards or posters in the District from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social demanding federal agents take off their mask, be sure to take a picture and share it!
Supreme Court begins the verdict and sentencing phase of Jair Bolsonaro's coup trial Tuesday, with the former president facing a possible 40-year sentence.
Breaking: the stenography site Politico reports the Trump 2 PM 'announcement' "will be focused on defense." It's 'Playbook' then dismisses its own failure to cover Trump's inability/refusal to speak publicly in a week, moronically taking Trump's word for it and snidely attacking those who don't
POLITICO Playbook reporting Trump’s “announcement” today will be “focused on defense”
"I made my peace with (the possibility of) getting deported a while back when I started speaking out," Abdullah Shahid Sial, co-president of Harvard University's undergraduate student body, told CNN. https://cnn.it/4g3DfXq
LOSS: The 5th Circuit upholds parts of a Texas voter suppression law that restrict how people can assist voters in casting ballots, reversing a lower court decision that found the provisions violated Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act.
According to Parnas, "The reality is, something is wrong. Very wrong. And while America is kept in the dark, while his inner circle hides it, dictators overseas are already calculating their next moves in a world without him."
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
Good morning with good news: Japan, world's 4th largest economy, cut its fossil fuel generated electricity from 73.1% in June 2018 to 54.8% in June 2025. That's 18.3 points drop or 2.6 points/year! It could be near zero FF by 2045. Gas fell from 38.1% to 27.4% Coal fell from 30% to 20% #energysky
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Were you to ask Leavitt etc, they would identify themselves as patriots whose beliefs rest on the country’s foundation. But with their talk of demons and evil, they are framing reality in a way that would justify Donald Trump’s campaign for fascist power. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/tragedy-br...
some white racists mad as hell today
Man Given 6 Months To Live Beats Odds By Dying In 2 https://theonion.com/man-given-6-months-to-live-beats-odds-by-dying-in-2/
President Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook and other cases could serve as major tests of how far the high court is willing to go to bless his assertion of executive authority.
We are already suing Ohio.
JD Vance Rushed To Walter Reed After Inner Hillbilly Returns
The business of tennis and the business of fashion and beauty have never been as indivisible as they are now. Specialized outfits make the U.S. Open a fashion spectacle — a lucrative one for the players who wear them. http://dlvr.it/TMpf93
Breaking news: The Trump administration grounded planes carrying migrant children that the White House intended to deport to Guatemala after a federal judge issued an emergency order temporarily blocking any removal of about 600 unaccompanied minors.
Also HHS document indicates some facilities housing Guatemalan minors in US balked at handing them to ICE, prompting a Trump administration official to threaten criminal prosecution. She worked for DHS just a few months ago before taking the HHS job. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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
NY Times vs Democracy Docket. Why does the Times use the word "explicit" when Trump has ZERO authority?👀 Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
RFK Jr must be fired. He’s too deranged and full of himself to leave voluntarily. So it’s vital to convince Trump that keeping Kennedy around drains his own political power and thus his personal wealth by so visibly endangering the health of everyone in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Longtime couples lament about missing the early days of great sex. But Sex Life 2.0 can be just as good as, even better than, Version 1.0, a marriage therapist says.
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 }
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Garcia: This is a great ruling by the court. Of course, Donald Trump is already overreacting, saying this is going to somehow be the destruction of the United States. I'm not sure if he's aware he's trying to do that all on his own.
This notion that Republicans are coasting right now and the wind is beneath the sails of Donald Trump is just not true. Joni Ernst is not going to run for reelection in Iowa. There was a special election in Iowa earlier this week and the Democrats have now broken the Republican super majority.
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) moved toward helping the Republican Party gain another seat in the U.S. House on Friday, announcing a special session to redraw the state’s congressional maps.
🚨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/...
Jim O’Neill, the No. 2 HHS official who has since become the CDC’s new acting chief, was present at meetings where Susan Monarez faced pressure on vaccines.
Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of a UnitedHealthcare CEO, hoped to "normalize" violence, including July's deadly attack on the NFL headquarters in Manhattan, federal prosecutors said in a court filing.
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
CAP ECON: “We obviously have no particular insight into whether the Supreme Court will uphold .. If it did, “Treasury would .. need to return most of the now-close to $100bn in additional customs duties .. and there is a danger .. other countries would back-track on any preliminary agreements.”
Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results. Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.
Here's what happens next:
NEWS: Trump says the court decision deeming his tariffs to be ILLEGAL will "literally destroy the United States" if allowed to stand
🚨BREAKING: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed Republicans’ gerrymander into law Friday, officially moving the redistricting battleground from the state capitol to the federal courthouse. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Congressional Democrats Predict Shutdown After Trump WH & OMB Try to Illegally Snatch Congress’ Most Important Power, Over The Budget talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democra...
Colorado, you in danger, girl.
The bad faith actors will dishonestly draw a through line connecting trans people to mass shootings but will skip right to over the fact that many of these mass shooters are racists, antisemites and misogynists because they harbor some of the same sentiments as the shooters.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, falsely suggested psychiatric drugs may have played a role in the Minnesota Catholic school shooting — a statement widely criticized as unsupported by science.
Republicans have decided that their political careers are so important that the gruesome deaths of children are a small price to pay.
she said that “black” with a hard r
He’s trying to get her killed…
BERMAN: When might you call for the National Guard in Shreveport? The FBI stats show there's more violent crime there than DC JOHNSON: There's a lot of good work that's been done. We have a Democrat DA there who has not been prosecuting crime as some other more aggressive DAs have. Soros funded him
Where’s DOGE now??? 🤔😒
TODAY: A Texas court will hear former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s request to temporarily block Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to shutter his nonprofit. Paxton previously sued the organization for fundraising for quorum-breaking House Democrats. Background: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.
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.”
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
I’m totally stealing this argument for my wrongful termination case against the first Trump administration. This is so well said.
BERMAN: End EV credit- underwater. Boost Medicaid work requirements- underwater. Increase border wall spending- underwater. Increase detention center spending- underwater. End solar, wind incentives- underwater. Reduce SNAP benefits- underwater JOHNSON: I'm not buying it. Polls can be manipulated
NEW: How Trump’s Anti-Environment Crusade Enriches Drug Traffickers The Trump administration promised to fight crime and the opioid epidemic. Why is he slashing programs that address environmental crimes, one of drug organizations’ top money makers? insideclimatenews.org/news/2708202...
Taylor Swift Tells Brittany Mahomes She Not Having Bridesmaids https://theonion.com/taylor-swift-tells-brittany-mahomes-she-not-having-bridesmaids/
Florida could be on the hook for $218 million the state spent to convert a remote training airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” https://cnn.it/4p4dr1Q
New from me: Do we need a new regulatory paradigm to stop data centers from completely mucking up our power system? I spoke with two legal scholars about one possible path: insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...
The electricity system may need new rules to deal with the rise of data centers. Legal scholars have an idea inspired by how the West deals with water scarcity.
Chemical firms are lobbying MPs not to follow proposed EU ban on “forever chemicals” - their arguments are disputed by scientists and described as “big tobacco playbook” tactics By @tesscolley.bsky.social and @pippaneill.bsky.social @endsreport.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The number of people needed to produce a barrel of oil has been declining since 2012 -- and no, it isn't Ottawa's fault (it's happening in Texas too). If we want to create jobs in the future, they have to be jobs *of* the future. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/28/o...
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
The NextGen Acela trains, as Amtrak calls them, are faster and lighter than the current fleet. They're scheduled to start revenue service along the Northeast Corridor on Thursday.
"Marc Elias’s Democracy Docket has quietly become a pro-democracy media force, expanding its newsroom to 20 staffers as it surpasses 50,000 paid subscribers." Story here: www.status.news/p/democracy-...
Not it chief
lol
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
Did I mention ICE arresting firefighters who were LITERALLY fighting a massive fire at the time of their arrest? 🔥 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files