BREAKING: Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the AP.
BREAKING: Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the AP.
The Trump admin is now moving to effectively double the number of immigration judges by citing flimsy legal authority to deputize hundreds of totally inexperienced military lawyers to take these jobs. Notably, immigration law is infamously complex, often described as second only to tax law.
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
Political theater.
"President starts low-level conflict by trying to get Nobel Peace Prize" is the funniest story going, can't get enough
D.C. grand jury declines to indict another defendant amid Trump's crime crackdown www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
> @davebrown.bsky.social @politico.com
If only they would actually follow them instead of displaying them on government property.
Trump and Dr. Oz want AI to decide which Medicare patients get care—and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong. Tell Congress to intervene NOW:
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
Councilwoman @jerrigreen4tn , a Democratic candidate for governor, reacts to @marshablackburn backing Trump putting the National Guard in Memphis:
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Anybody that takes political advice from Politico is an idiot.
PSA: Zohran is putting on a messaging clinic every time he opens his mouth. The Dems that can’t see it are the ones you should really be afraid of.
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And people listen to Maria for financial advice. LoL
US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancel—in official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%
> @barchart.com
2. ".. suppliers adding surcharges ranging between 2.6 percent to 50 percent" ".. sugar — and everything made with it — is about to get significantly more expensive." "Plans to bring production back into U.S. are impacted by higher material costs, making it more difficult to justify the return."
BREAKING: D.C. Circuit panel rules 2-1 to permit Trump administration to axe $16 billion climate funds authorized by Biden administration. Ruling lifts Judge Chuktkan's injunction. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.”
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
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"Of the 384 cases filed through August 28 against the Trump administration, 130 have led to orders blocking at least part of the president’s efforts, and 148 cases await a ruling, according to a review by Just Security." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Military veterans in Ohio could suffer from the cuts to Medicaid in the federal budget bill signed by President Trump in July, and a fading level of safety-net supports for veterans could have consequences when it comes to recruiting new service members. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/02/o...
Pretty damn good campaign launch video from Paige Cognetti.
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s use of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law that prohibits using the military as a domestic police force. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
That’s because former Fox host Jeanine Pirro was unable to get the grand jury to indict her, which is conveniently left out here.
(AP) - A judge in Washington ruled Monday that President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard during Los Angeles immigration protests is illegal. @apnews.com apnews.com/live/donald-...
* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SET TO ANNOUNCE SPACE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS MOVE TO ALABAMA FROM COLORADO, SOURCES SAY @reuters.com
NEWS: Judge Breyer bars the military in LA from performing police functions like arrests and crowd control. He says this was not a "one-off" violation of law by individual troops but a systmatic and knowing violation by Pentagon leaders w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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60% of Iowa's electricity in 2024 was generated by wind.
Maria Bartiromo to Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "You've got all these projects which are not necessarily projects that you can rely on. I mean, is the wind blowing? Is the sun shining? And yet hundreds of millions of dollars were going at these projects."
#ISM 🇺🇸
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The last Iowa special election in SD1 the prior GOP State Senate holder won in 2022 by 10.4 points. trump won by 11 only 9 months ago. The Dem won in 2025 by 10.4 points. "But that doesn't mean it's going to stay that way." When higher prices hit for more things it can only get worse for the GOP.
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Husted is not well liked in OH even by GOP.
Ronh999 (@ronh999.bsky.social) reply parent
Brown only lost Ohio by 3.6 points when trump won by 11.2. I agree with having a younger candidate but Brown has huge name recognition in OH.
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Brown only lost Ohio by 3.6 points when trump won by 11.2. All of the recent special elections showed the Dem candidate gaining greatly on the prior election.
78 YEAR-OLD REP. NADLER TO RETIRE: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
Breaking News: Representative Jerry Nadler will not seek re-election, ending a 34-year career as one of Congress’s leading liberal voices.
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A flotilla of dozens of boats loaded with aid for Gaza departs Barcelona after stormy weather had earlier forced them to return to port. #flotilla #gaza #gretathunberg #aid #barcelona
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
In Chicago, thousands protest against threat of ICE, National Guard deployment reut.rs/4newN2y
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
REPUBLICAN @repthomasmassie & DEMOCRAT @rokhanna.bsky.social are holding a bipartisan news conference on Wednesday with 10 victims of Epstein demanding the House vote on the files Speaker Johnson has been avoiding. www.foxnews.com/politics/kha...
Advocates for immigrants and low-wage workers said the companies owe it to their drivers to speak out.
Right-wing Daily Caller just released a transcript of an interview they did with Trump last week. This was part of it.
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Venezuela's Maduro says US seeking regime change with naval build-up reut.rs/4mHn1G2
ICYMI — NPR: “The effort to deal with the emerging humanitarian crisis was complicated by a president (Biden) who felt a deep responsibility to 🇮🇱 and its security, and whether to openly confront 🇮🇱 or use punitive measures, like withholding military aid.” www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
During this summer’s deadly Texas floods, Kerr County officials failed to use a federal emergency alert system to get people out of harm’s way. A similar story has played out over and over in other parts of the country over the past decade. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
Today’s press pool photo shows Trump leaving the White House this morning. I enhanced the image. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his forehead? Right above his nose and right brow.
CNN: “250+ news outlets from over 70 countries will simultaneously black out their front pages and website homepages, and interrupt their broadcasting to condemn the murder of journalists by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/m...
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
AXIOS: “(Trump’s) tariff policy will cost midsize businesses $82.3 billion, according to a new report from the JPMorganChase Institute…” www.axios.com/sponsored/mi...
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.
> @mikezaccardi.bsky.social 👀
If we will never be a Socialist [sic] or Communist [sic] Country [sic], then why are you giving billions of dollars to farmers to make up for losses from your stupid tariffs (SOCIALISM) and having the US government own part of Intel (COMMUNISM)?
Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
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.
In one, the child says that her parents [in Guatemala] recently received a strange call from someone with the US government, telling them that he or she would be deported with a larger group of people. "Since my parents told me this news, I feel terrible," the declarant says.
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: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.
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 Blocks Flights Sending Hundreds of Children Back To Guatemala “It is a dark & dangerous moment for this country when (Trump) chooses to target orphaned 10-year-olds and deny them their basic legal right to present their case before a judge” www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Staff cuts have damaged Social Security, former commissioner says ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/25/s...
Still no word from the Washington Post about Trump's latest attack on democracy. But, it is now offering advice to Trump about how to effectuate his tariff plan. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
The party of “family values” is attacking our kids.
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
CNN: “The reaction when u explain what’s happening is disbelief. They’re very scared. They all say they’re afraid to return to Guatemala for different reasons,” attorney said. “They were literally taken out of their beds in the middle of the night, on a holiday weekend.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/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: Judge Sooknanan says the children are being removed right now so has advanced today’s hearing to 12:30pm. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso. SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
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/...
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
We agree, @robhuebel — seems Dems should be talking about this: “State Dept denied Trump intervened on Alexandrovich’s behalf, but that appears implausible. Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption… a gift unicorn grazing in Dems’ backyard — And yet?” zeteo.com/p/why-arent-...
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
KEILAR: Of 172 mass attacks between 2016 & 2020, 96% were non-trans men. Are you missing bigger picture? GORKA: No. When you look at shootings at Christian schools the data is different K: Of 32 school shootings since 2020, only 3 were trans shooters G: Forgive me if I don't go with CNN's stats
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
Raddatz asks how anyone could object to the National Guard in DC because carjackings are down 87%. Brilliant. If they hermetically sealed all DC residents inside their homes, they could get that stat down to nothing at all. Should we do that, Martha?
WELKER: Should Trump dispatch the National Guard to Oklahoma where the crime rate is higher than New York and California? LANKFORD: The people of Oklahoma would welcome any help we can get to deal with crime issues
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
Our news media are so broken. There's a way to challenge someone in an interview without looking like you're the press secretary for the other side. ABC's Martha Raddatz badly misses the mark. "Why fight with the president?" she asks.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
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...
Kristi Noem: "I do know that LA wouldn't be standing today if President Trump hadn't taken action."
Parroting Trump, Raddatz repeatedly attacked Moore for claiming he had a Bronze Star when he didn't. She apparently didn't know that Moore now HAS the Bronze Star that his superior officer told Moore he had earned years ago in battle.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
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 Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.