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What is Trump’s announcement? Wrong answers only.
Judge Sparkle 💖 literally saving the kids.
I think we’re going to see a surge. Half the people I know were recently sick. Lots of people traveling.
#NewMexico Department of #publicheath issues an order directing pharmacies to still give #Covid #vaccine despite new federal restrictions “order that removes those limitations so that pharmacies can vaccinate people of all ages, including children under 6 months old” www.koat.com/article/stat...
HAPPENING NOW: Hello from the media room in DC district court, where Judge Jia Cobb is set to hear argument on Lisa Cook's motion for a temporary restraining order to block her removal from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️🧵
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers again ask the TN judge overseeing his criminal case to order the govt to stop making prejudicial public statements that "severely threaten—and perhaps have already irrevocably impaired—the ability to try this case at all—in any venue."
![That same morning, at a press conference at the White House, Attorney General Bondi and President Trump made the following remarks about Mr. Abrego: ONALD TRUMP: [Democrats] think he's gonna be good for votes and I think he's very bad for votes. These people are deranged. He's not good for votes. He beat the hell out of his wife. His wife is afraid to even talk about him. She's been mauled by this animal and uh you know through a system of liberal courts you know he's doing things but no we have that under control.... PAM BONDI: No, no we've got him under control he will no longer terrorize our country. He's currently charged with human smuggling including children. The guy needs to be in prison he doesn't need to be on the streets like all these liberals want him to be....We are oing to keep America safe from all of these foreign terrorist rganizations, including Abrego Garcia. 12 Meanwhile, the government continued its barrage against Mr. Abrego on social media. Since Friday, DHS has posted a litany of inflammatory statements on its official X account. In a series of posts, DHS once again publicly described purported](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreihhczyejf2fyrei32bcjo76kwnyjeg74qoxfeytqddvk5mfx4etxa@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Sen. Jon Ossoff on the CDC: "[P]utting a quack like Bobby Kennedy in charge of public health was a grave error. The Trump Administration has been engaged for months in a campaign to destroy the CDC." "The Administration's extremism and incompetence are putting lives at risk."
No more gun violence in schools! Call every elected official you have. Script and switchboard number below.
“Completed in 1992, Interstate 70 has yet to turn a profit.”
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."
Read this letter.
When we think back, even just a year or two, to the idea that the United States had some of the world’s finest clinical minds working towards the noble cause of public good, it’s guys like this we are referring to. Good for him in standing up to the smooth brained eugenicist griftocracy.
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
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Here’s a PDF version for people who don’t want to visit the hell site. drive.google.com/file/d/12Z-v...
throw em out of office, all of them, there are no good republicans every last one created this mess Alaska is in run progressives everywhere and do not rank a single Republican! throw them OFF the ballot #akleg #akgov bsky.app/profile/fint...
#akleg #akgov
Need to make sure there is nothing left for those damn kids.
Some #akleg oppo research: New AKGOP guidelines leave elected officials vulnerable to censure if then join a majority caucus that is “more than 1/3 non-Republican.” This is a sign of AKGOP weakness, not strength: if legislators weren’t wanting to do this, there would be no need to threaten them.
Alaska needs more health care providers. Physician Assistants help fill the gap. Our local Medex program grows Alaska-based PAs. It was an honor to speak at Friday's 2025 Medex graduation, and send another well-qualified crew of medical providers out to care for Alaskans. #akleg
Only one fourth of news stories cited research when covering US measles outbreak, analysis finds Less than half (43%) of all articles were published by mainstream news services. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
I guess to "qualify" for the CDC director job these days you have to be antivaxx, anti-science and willing to spread whatever health misinformation or lies the current head of the DHHS wants to push. My guess is she pushed back with science and got axed. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Young children are at high risk of serious complications from COVID-19. Now parents will face more challenges getting their kids COVID vaccines, having to jump through hoops for approval. And they could find vaccines no longer covered by their health insurance plans. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...
COVID cases are on the rise -- and RFK just took away the ability for millions of Americans get COVID vaccines. COVID shots are now only FDA approved for 1) people 65+ and 2) people w/ underlying conditions that put them at severe risk. That's it. www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...
Update: it got funny again
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
ICE raided a farm in upstate New York where workers just happen to be unionizing. documentedny.com/2025/08/27/l...
At presser, BOWSER says increase in federal officers has significantly reduced crimes like carjacking, but it has broken police-community relationship. "Masked ICE agents in the community has not worked. National Guard from other states has not been an efficient use of those resources."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
Republicans cut funding for response to both.
Murkowski, Sullivan, and Begich all voted for this.
Next time you vote, for anything, remember that the GOP stands behind this.
“You should provide some context” Welp, you should pay for a Court Watch subscription. www.CourtWatch.news/upgrade
JUST IN: A federal judge rules that a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his America PAC — alleging they broke a promise to pay voters for signing a political petition — may proceed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Reup: John Roberts gave Ed "Big Balls" Cositine live and unaudited access to every Americans' social security data. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
just a reminder that people in the National Guard mostly have full-time jobs elsewhere that they have had to stop doing to do ... this
Compromise suggestion: The President can redesign the Cracker Barrel logo, and the Fed can set interest rates.
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
More than 180 FEMA employees have sent a letter to members of Congress and other officials, arguing that the agency's direction and current leaders' inexperience harm FEMA's mission and could result in a disaster on the level of Hurricane Katrina. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Dermot is doing the most important journalism in Alaska today. www.dermotcole.com/reportingfro...
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🤣 Drew Ensign (DOJ) is having a very bad week! “Whatever the merits of its grievance with the judges of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, the Executive must find a proper way to raise those concerns.” That has got to sting. 🤕
Oh, several more things lazy ass pundits could focus on if they got their heads out of their ass: 1) Why Kash Patel failed to prevent a terrorist attack on CDC (and has said nothing about it since). 2) Why Trump's response to Russia's attack on an American factory was to pose w/his Putin picture.
BREAKING: Judge Thomas Cullen, a Trump appointee, has DISMISSED the Trump administration's lawsuit against every federal judge in Maryland over a standing order granting temporary stays in immigration cases.
Reuters: US JUDGE DISMISSES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LAWSUIT AGAINST MARYLAND FEDERAL JUDGES OVER IMMIGRATION ORDER
NEW: Trump is testing the limits of his power once again, seeking to fire a member of the Federal Reserve board. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Will this affect their employment with ICE?
JUST IN: The Trump administration seeks to dismiss the lawsuit by Enrique Tarrio and other Proud Boys leaders over their Jan. 6 prosecutions. There's simply no evidence the evidence against them was fabricated or knowingly false, DOJ says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal grand juries refusing to indict even once is uncommon. A former AUSA w/ the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office tells me three consecutive refusals is "extremely rare." It's now "virtually impossible," he said, to believe she would be convicted at trial. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
NOW: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office said today a *third* grand jury has refused charges against a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent during an ICE arrest. Instead, they'll now try to push ahead with a misdemeanor version of the charge. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
DOJ tried and failed three times to indict a woman for allegedly assaulting an ICE officer during an arrest of two purported gang members. So they were forced to reduce her charge to a misdemeanor. www.courtlistener.com/recap/og-loo...
We still await a ruling from Judge Breyer in California on whether the Trump admin violated the Posse Comitatus Act with its deployment of troops in LA this summer. Since Trump continues to ramp up his militarism in our cities: ICYMI what went down at that trial: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
An oral order was not sufficient for Drew Ensign on March 15.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I feel seen.
Don’t forget this boneheaded idea either…https://alaskapublic.org/news/2021-11-23/document-paints-bleak-picture-of-plan-to-bring-sitka-black-tailed-deer-to-mat-su
#akleg Amen.
The ACLU of Alaska has critical info for us about how to watch out for our neighbors and what to do if ICE enters our places of work. RSVP for the training now! #AkLeg #Alaska #AlaskaSky
On Friday the Alaska State Medical Board unanimously approved 2 resolutions. 1. Asking the legislature to limit abortions later in pregnancy 2. Describing providers who prescribe gender affirming care for adolescents “unprofessional.” The Board is not tasked with political statements. #akleg #akgov
"The grant for the tribes alone could have served about 4,500 households in dozens of communities and delivered about $2.7 million in savings annually" #akleg
Infuriating.
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
…by Trump’s team seemed to disregard the law and Newsom’s team and Justice Breyer called them out on it. They were adjusting their tactics after the ones they were using seemed to be in legal jeopardy. That’s good I guess, but it is still retroactive, after damage has been done. 2/2
Thank you for this thread. I am concerned that all of the barriers that you describe in the thread are matters of law. When his previous administration was doing child separation, there was no regard for law until after the fact. With the Newsom v Trump case in front of Breyer, the arguments…1/x
FYI: Here's a handy "know your rights" overview from the ACLU, regardless of your immigration status, in English and Spanish. "You do not have to answer questions about where you were born, whether you are a U.S. citizen, or how you entered the country." www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Holy shit!
The Jeffrey Epstein accomplice, seeking a pardon from Donald Trump, said she never saw the president do anything wrong. 🤔 www.huffpost.com/entry/ghisla...
Maxwell said she never saw Trump do anything “inappropriate.” She also said she never saw *anyone* do anything inappropriate. CASE CLOSED!
Here's how prosecutors described Ghislaine Maxwell in a pretrial motion during her criminal trial: "The defendant's willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct … strongly suggests her true motive has been and remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes."
Four out of five sex traffickers surveyed recommend Donald Trump for President.
“Medical” is quite the stretch. Not a single one of these board members has any business making healthcare decisions for anyone but themselves. 🤬
The vote on the anti-trans care regulation project passes the politically appointed Alaska Medical Board 6-0. Yes: Barnes, Heilala, McDonough, Paulson, Taylor, Wilson No:
The vote on the anti-abortion... message passes 6-0. Yes: Barnes, Heilala, McDonough, Paulson, Taylor, Wilson That's what you get when Dunleavy gets to appoint the whole board.
Matt Heilala now on his anti-abortion bullshit. He says that people don't understand that the state laws (Alaska Constitution) are "extremely permissive." He wants the Board to issue a statement that "late-term abortions" (not a real medical term) "does not embody the values of Alaskans."
Brian Griffith, an Alaskan who's in medical school right now: "I guess I'm not quite sure that everyone here even cares about the evidence. ...And how could a trainee like myself want to come and work under a medical board that opposes the standard of care?"
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Another caller: "I'm very thankful that the provider ... Dr Helia, Helia is stepping down, because I think that it has definitely been a platform for him to use to push some right-wing conservative agenda." (Looks like he's excited to be running for governor)
The Alaska State Medical Board's hearing, where Dunleavy-appointed chair Matt Heilala (a podiatrist who is also running for governor) is pushing anti-trans and anti-abortion measures today. They're taking public testimony right now, which has all been opposed. #akleg
Trump on the Epstein files: "You got a lot of people that could be mentioned that are in those files that don't deserve to be, because he knew everybody in Palm Beach. I don't know anything about that."
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free and heading to Maryland, via: fox17.com/news/local/k...
NBC News confirms: Pete Hegseth has authorized the approximately 2,000 National Guard troops in D.C. to be armed. @msnbc.com
BREAKING: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from a Tennessee jail so he can rejoin his family in Maryland while awaiting trial.
BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee says it just received the first tranche of Epstein files from the Justice Department.
JUST IN: *Some* portion of the Epstein Files has been turned over to House Oversight by the DOJ. We don’t know how much or when we will actually see what it is. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
As states prepare to implement changes to Medicaid required by President Trump’s recent tax-and-spending law, tribal leaders say they are concerned Native American enrollees could lose their coverage, despite exemptions made by Congress. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Ok jokes aside: Lawfare’s @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and our friends over at @thebulwark.com really were the first to report the FBI activity at John Bolton’s home. The New York Post published its story after their initial reports.
Junior lies that D.C. supports Trump’s invasion, threatens other Blue cities. (cc: anyone who thinks this is a good faith effort to address crime and not an entirely political authoritarian power grab)
Atrocities Keep Getting In Frame Of D.C. Tourist’s Shot https://theonion.com/atrocities-keep-getting-in-frame-of-d-c-tourists-shot/
Trump, wearing a “Trump was right about everything” hat (as one does when one isn’t cripplingly insecure): “The Q is how long do we stay?” He says the people his Gestapo are arresting are “career criminals” (almost all aren’t) who are “born that way” (a racist idea)
Favorite quote of the day so far… “I would like to point out that it is not the normal practice of the FBI to announce search warrant executions mid-stream by tweet” - @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org
Organizing my thoughts for a new book. Trump’s second term tactics are coming into focus. My focus is solutions.
On Aug. 21, the New Jersey District Court ruled that Alina Habba was unlawfully performing the duties of the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and that all legal action Habba had taken since July 1 “may be declared void.” Read the ruling, from Mary Ford.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
"DC is a tourist attraction for the whites in the corn belt"
Congratulations! 🍾🎉 💙
Now that is a Cracker Barrel!
BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.
Day 24: Wikipedia summarizes the nugget for today so adeptly that I can’t improve on it.
