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Prima facie, Elon Musk appears to be manipulating X platform for specific political voices he supports (as well as using his own account to amplify the far right & furthest right). In particular the platform dynamic has shifted & is helping Tommy Robinson to be amplified more than Nigel Farage.
Thank you Dr. Gupta! Folks, please do your family & yourself a favor, and listen to Dr. Gupta provide clear, actionable vaccine advice. Bookmark immunize.org
With that, I'm signing off for a bit to try and enjoy what's left of Labor Day. If you're just catching up, here's my live coverage of yesterday's hearing: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
JB Pritzker to CBS on Trump deploying troops: "He'd like to stop the elections in 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections. He'll just claim that there's some problem with an election, and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control if, in fact, he's allowed to do this."
šThat might work with Trump... but not with those of us who pay attention!
BREAKING: At least 250 people are dead and 500 injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hits Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.
Just heard from over 200 veterans and military family members at our town hall in Raleigh with NC Attorney General @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social. Theyāre fired up because Trump is cutting the services they depend on here and across the country, and weāre going to keep fighting to stop him.
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
UPDATE: DOJ says that all but 4 of the unaccompanied migrant children have been returned to ORR custody. Transfer of the remaining four children is expected at approximately 11:00 p.m.
I was driving home tonight and there was a 9 minute traffic delay on I-5 south. I finally hit an overpass with people holding signs/banners that were hard to read! BIG letters on it, but dark colors: "This isn't a red or blue issue"... SMALL letters on it "MELT ICE!" š
See what tribe owned the land where you live! native-land.ca
Oh, a new signature date 08/31/2025 he starts using: PRESIDENT DJT @governor.ca.govā¬
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.
I realize news outlets are sensitive about defamation lawsuits but this is a pretty clear case. Heās flatly lying about recent history if he says heās not an anti-vaccine activist. Thereās video!
MORE: Judge Sooknanan orders further status report from DOJ, setting 8:30 p.m. deadline to address whether all of the unaccompanied children have been returned to the custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement.
After the hearing concluded, w/ DOJ's Drew Ensign allegedly clear of what Judge Sooknanan had ordered, DOJ failed to file its req'd 4p status report. Sooknanan orders DOJ to show cause why they failed to do soāand to file. She also orders plaintiffs to file a status report by 6:30p. (corrected)
Rudy Giuliani suffering from fractured vertebrae after traffic accident: report
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
"CNN Affiliate KOMO"? Isn't that ABC?
Just days after two crew workers helping battle Washingtonās largest wildfire were arrested by Border Patrol, Washington Rep. Emily Randall was denied entry to the facility, calling the situation ādisgustingā in an interview with CNN affiliate KOMO.
www.wusf.org/politics-iss... They are covering up rainbows honoring #LGBTQ+ people who were murdered. Now they are covering murals honoring #BlackLivesMatter. Florida is one very HATEFUL state!
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
Judge Sooknanan continues her monologue: And so, absent action and intervention by the court, all of those children would have been returned to Guatemala, potentially to extremely dangerous situations.
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.
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.
Judge Sooknanan to Ensign: "This is why we have process. This is why we have courts." Then she says that she also took the opportunity to look at the provision that Ensign cited. "I'm pretty skeptical that it gives the government the authority to do what you are claiming it does," she says.
When she's done reading select quotes from the plaintiff's declarations, Judge Sooknanan sums it up as follows: "And so this doesn't quite line up with what I'm hearing from the government.
Sooknanan: Every one of these 10 children who are named plaintiffs speak about being afraid of going back to Guatemala. She reads a series of quotes in which the children express being afraid of return because they experienced neglect or abuse from one or both of their parents.
Rural America is suffering an economic crisis as crop prices plunge ā China hasnāt purchased any U.S. soybeans for the months ahead, after Trump's tariffs on its exports. fortune.com/2025/08/30/r...
Sooknanan talks about crafting her TRO to ensure that the children aren't removed until briefing is complete and she can rule. I do not want there to be any ambiguity about what I am ordering or what the government is to do down the road, she says.
Sooknanan: I was thinking earlier than Friday, but if you need to get your ducks in a row and make sure you can figure out what's going on with all of these children, I'll allow it. But my order will stay in place. They're not going to be able to remove these children until you file a brief...
Judge Sooknanan isn't buying it... The plaintiffs are telling me, she says, that the children do not want to go back to Guatemala, that no request has been made, and that they fear returning to Guatemala, and may be subject to harm
Sooknanan explains the circumstances of how/when she got the case. First got a call around 2 am last night, entered TRO and set hearing. Moved up hearing after receiving call from plaintiffs to notify her that children were in process of being removed. Then entered new TRO for putative class.
We're back and Sooknanan asks if any planes have taken off. Ensign says all of the planes are on the ground -- one of them might have taken off and turned around. He's not sure. His understanding is that if that's the case, plane has returned.
This whole scenario feels like it's straight outta the government's Alien Enemies Act/J.G.G. playbook. In J.G.G., Boasberg entered TRO barring removal of named plaintiffs and set weekend emergency hearing on certification of class. But DHS started removing people just before/during hearing...
Ensign said he was not aware of the broader order Sooknanan just issued, so she urged him to check it and ensure it was circulated to the Trump administration so there would be no confusion. Sooknanan takes a 5 minute recess to let him do that. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sooknanan's hearing is underway. Representing DOJ is Drew Ensign. Sooknanan is likelty to ask about status of deportation effort and whether any planes are in the air. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
BREAKING: Judge Sooknanan says the children are being removed right now so has advanced todayās hearing to 12:30pm. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
I am assuming he will only try to deploy the troops to blue states.
bsky.app/profile/poli... 12 days ago me:
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children ā perhaps within a matter of hours ā granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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.
āThe World Will Soon Understandā = QANON Heralds a time of āawakening,ā when hidden truths are revealed. āNothing Can Stop What Is Comingā = QANON A sign of an unstoppable future reckoning or āStorm.ā Viewed by followers as a wink or signal that he aligns with the Q plan or its fulfillment.
Since the election, both Stein and West have remained conspicuously silent on the escalating crisis in Gaza. Their absence from the discourse raises questions about the consistency of their advocacy... (ChatGPT)
āBrains, heart, actionāElizabeth Jacobs gets it done!ā
āThis order affirms that the Chicago Police Department will not collaborate with military personnel on police patrols or civil immigration enforcement. We will not have our police officers, who are working hard every single day to drive down crime, deputized to do traffic stops...
Could be THIS! Canada's Foreign Affairs officials reported that about 55 Canadians were being detained by ICE under the heightened immigration enforcement of the timeāraising alarm among Canadian authorities and citizens alike (June) www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Just the U.S. leveraging naval power to pressure regime change or at least destabilize Maduro politically under the guise of cracking down on Tren de Aragua.
I cannot find any evidence headline this is true.
What about: Make America Gavinās America.
I would try the nearby houses if it were my area. Not sure about etiquette there.
Nazi Germany in fact relaxed and eventually overturned vaccine requirements that had been in place prior to the rise of Hitler, so there's that
Blessing your timeline: Obama getting a huge ovation at Clippers game. This how you welcome a president:
Californiaās homelessness growth rate last year was lower than 40 other states, including Texas and Florida. The work doesnāt stop here. With our new SAFE Task Force, weāre going to bring it down even further to ensure that everyone has a safe place to call home.
...then theyāre going to be telling the narratives that people around the world are going to be hearing, and that canāt be good for America ā¦ Theyāre going to be hearing an anti-America narrative. We need to fight that with truth.ā
In March, Abramowitz warned that Trumpās attempts to dismantle the VOA would be a āself-inflicted blowā to American national security, saying: āIf America pulls off the playing field and cedes it to our adversaries...
SARS-CoV-2 šs are unavailable, with or without prescription, in Massachusetts, Nevada, & New Mexico. (None of those are red/Q/R states. ?!) www.axios.com/2025/08/29/c... 4/
In the other 16 states, CVS said it can administer a SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, depending on the patient's age, with an authorized prescriber's prescription. Moderna vaccine is the only š available for children 6 months to 4 years old with at least one ā¬ļø risk health condition. 2/
Based on current regulatory environment, CVS is offering SARS-CoV-2 šs in: AK, AL, AR, CA, CT, DE, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NE, ND, NH, NJ, OH, OK, OR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, WA, WI & WY. www.cbsnews.com/news/cvs-wal... 1/
New eyes are watching over Tahoe 24/7. UC San Diegoās ALERTCalifornia program added two AI-powered cameras with views of Lake Tahoe. These cameras scan for smoke in real time, sending alerts straight to command centersāwhere staff confirm and dispatch crews if needed. youtu.be/ccK4_YoHtks?...
Buffalo is the site of a human rights crisis ā a constant stream of deaths in the local jails. The sheriff who oversees it (a Republican in a Harris-voting county) is up for reelection this year, but he is running entirely unopposed. We report hereādon't look away from these spaces.
āNo administration has seen more chaos in its leadership ranks than the Trump administration other than Trump one. He begins by being right, and if anyone challenges his worldview, they need to go away,ā
What are we even doing?
Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a wide-ranging executive order Saturday that includes banning law enforcement from wearing masks in Chicago and requiring them at all times to display what agency they work for.
D.C. flag sales soar amid Trumpās federal crackdown on the city www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
You'll shoot your eye out.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
There's only one real reason to take such extreme steps and destroy the Department of Justice. It's as Shakespeare warned about "killing all the lawyers" because that's how authoritarians maintain power. We stand in their way.
Team Trump is purposefully raising your electricity prices, hoping youāll be mad at your electric utility and not blame them. The benefit to them is extra dollars for their greedy fossil fuel donors. Hereās how it works.š§µ
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
ā.. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers.ā @waiterich.bsky.social @fortune.com #CPI fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
Joe Biden had a cold and sounded frail in a debate and our political press couldnāt wait to unceremoniously shove him out of the presidential race. Fast forward to people legitimately questioning if Trump was dead and somehow Iām confident that exact same press will just move on.
Those of us who have been stuck in an AI phone tree can relate! I have resorted to saying saying things like, "LISTEN MF! OPERATOR OPERATOR OPERATOR NOW!" We understand you would like to speak with an operator, but first...
For any hold outs, coming after Wikipedia editors should be the last straw before realizing that the GOP is not really interested in "viewpoint diversity" and discrimination against conservative beliefs. Wikipedia is one of the last places on the internet with a visible editing process and sourcing.
ā.. I never have seen an instance of an advanced, affluent country with among the finest scientific resources .. under assault, not from small pockets of the public or people who have unusual beliefs, but from the government itself.ā @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The Trump Administration must accept the fact that Putin is not interested in peace, only conquest. And the best way to bring this conflict to a successful end is to provide Ukraine with the means to defend itself. And to go on offense.
I am more likely to join protests based on outrage. I leave the inspirational speeches for other people. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was the most outraged I have been in a long time. Now I am seeing my neighbors go missing as well. The Tesla taketown was outrage & inspirational to see the diff we made.
They donāt care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
...other cabinet members. Also, your conclusion seems inevitable. We have as evidence: Comey's memos, Nunes Memos, Carter Page, Collusion report, Impeachments.... both.
Things got a little dicey for Blanche when Maxwell mentioned people āin your cabinetā had been vilified for their supposed involvement with Epsteinās crimes. When she mentioned current Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Blanche shut her down. He posed no questions about...
bsky.app/profile/news... He has now been seen.
Trump is trying to push more government agencies to end collective bargaining agreements with federal worker unions. Why? Organized labor is standing up to Trump's authoritarian power grab. Tyrants will do anything to crush dissent. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
During his detention, my constituent was denied his constitutional right to an attorney and a phone call. Iām appalled that the Trump Admin is arresting firefighters to meet their arbitrary deportation quotas. These firefighters risk their lives to keep us safe, and this is how Trump treats them.
My constituent was brought to the United States when he was a young child and has lived here his entire life. The United States is the only home he knows. For the past three years, he has bravely served as a wildland firefighter, putting his life on the line to protect our communities.
When they called again, the CBP attendant confirmed that he was being transferred to ICE custody but would not grant his attorney access.
On Friday, my constituent was moved to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, WA, where he was finally granted access to a phone call and called his attorneys, which is how we were able to learn his story. As of now, he is still not in the ICE detainee locator.
I have also been in touch with my constituentās lawyers. Iām deeply concerned that CBP has been concealing his whereabouts and has denied him due process.
Immigrants deserve to be treated with dignity. Communities deserve safety from wildfires, and first responders deserve protections from federal immigration officials while they are putting their lives on the line to protect our Pacific Northwest communities.
During his detention, my constituent was denied his constitutional right to an attorney and a phone call. Iām appalled that the Trump Admin is arresting firefighters to meet their arbitrary deportation quotas. These firefighters risk their lives to keep us safe, and this is how Trump treats them.
Their application has been pending with USCIS for the past seven years and if granted would provide them legal status and a pathway to citizenship.
On August 27, my constituent was working to combat the Bear Gulch Wildfire when CBP stopped his crew and arrested him. Over the next nearly 48 hours, the whereabouts of my constituent were unknown. He was not entered into the ICE detainee locator.
I have since learned that my constituent was taken to the CBP facility in Bellingham Washington. His legal team called the CBP Bellingham station. The CBP attendant refused to confirm his detention location or grant them access.
On Friday, my constituent was moved to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, WA, where he was finally granted access to a phone call and called his attorneys, which is how we were able to learn his story.