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CVS says that in 13 states a prescription is needed for a COVID shot: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. abcnews.go.com/Health/covid...
@marcelias.bsky.social Well done on uncovering this!
Border Patrol arrests 2 firefighters for being in the country illegally as they battled Washington’s biggest wildfire www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/u...
How is Newark Airport’s tech upgrade coming along? www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...
A brushback pitch "'is a pitch thrown close enough to the batter to intimidate him.' That’s a fair description of the lawsuit the Trump administration aimed at all 15 of the federal district court judges in Maryland in their personal, not just official, capacities." New from me at Cato.
The DOJ no longer requires temporary immigration judges to have experience in immigration law. The new rule, which went into effect on Thursday, permits any attorney to serve as a temporary immigration judge for a renewable six-month term.
President Donald Trump has fired one of two Democratic members of the normally sleepy regulatory board overseeing freight rail, a move that has the potential to break what could be a 2-2 tie as it weighs the largest railroad merger in U.S. history. www.notus.org/trump-white-...
REUTERS: “Trump's special representative, Steve Witkoff, violated diplomatic protocol in Moscow when he went to the Kremlin on August 6 for a meeting with Putin without a stenographer and a representative from the U.S. State Department.” ⬇️
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
NEW: The perpetrator fired 116 rounds from a rifle into the Annunciation Catholic church in Minneapolis, police chief says. Mass shooters using AR-15s to cause carnage is a rising trend that accelerated in 2022 and 2023, as I've previously reported 👉 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Icymi, read @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
🚨 We need to pay attention to what’s happening at the CDC. This isn’t bureaucratic drama — it’s a political takeover of our public health agency. The fallout will hit vaccines, outbreaks, and crisis response. Our health is on the line. We can’t look away.
A federal judge has dealt a blow to Kari Lake’s shakeup of Voice of America.
NEW: Judge Boasberg has GRANTED our preservation order for Musk's phone records in our FOIA case against DOGE. The request was made by the other plaintiff in the case - First Amendment Coalition - as they propounded the FOIA. You can read the ruling here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The whistleblower report is just the latest complaint against President Donald Trump's DOGE and the unprecedented access it was given.
Grand jury nullification is a very rare phenomenon. The old saw goes that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor recommends it. But the Trump DOJs have sure racked up a lot of no true bills
This is brave by these people.
Piles of human cremated remains discovered outside Las Vegas
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
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Another preventable tragedy. Yet the administration and its lackeys continue to cull the experts keeping workers safe, especially in industries that they pay meaningless lip service to (extraction, manufacturing, agriculture, and more).
Yes! No more Vegemite for you! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and that’s not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
Biden authorized the funding for this bridge. In any case, the finer point here is that the president of the United States is THREATENING TO DEGRADE THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF MAJOR CITIES IF THEIR LEADERS OFFEND HIM. This is front page news!
Link: apnews.com/article/wash... dc.eater.com/restaurant-n...
They don’t like it when you fight back. When Trump tried to steal 5 congressional seats Texas Dems did what it took to stop him. So Paxton promised to “hunt them down.” Now he’s coming after anyone who has the courage to join the fight. We won’t back down! www.texastribune.org/2025/08/06/k...
‼️ @betoorourke.bsky.social is now active on Bluesky! Paxton is going after Beto and his org, #PoweredXPeople, with a bogus lawsuit, but Beto’s continuing to fight 🔥 with 🔥🔥🔥, suing him right back. Don’t mess with Texas voters or @texasdemocrats.bsky.social! Be sure to give Beto a follow! 🖤
Record-setting rainfall caused intense flooding in and around the Milwaukee area starting on Saturday night and more heavy rain was still to come on Sunday, forecasters said. Flood warnings remained in effect across Wisconsin. nyti.ms/3JsngpF
“Law firms that once proudly contributed thousands of hours of pro bono work to a host of causes ... have withdrawn from such work because it is disfavored by the Administration,” the American Bar Association wrote in its lawsuit.
The IRS clashed with the White House over using tax data to locate suspected undocumented immigrants just hours before Trump officials fired IRS Commissioner Billy Long. Long's dismissal makes his tenure now the briefest in the agency's 163-year history. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Everywhere. It feels like the assault on the environment has never been as urgent or universal.
US travelers about to find out what "reciprocal" actually means.
Seems worth pointing out— “Crypto Now Accounts For Most Of Donald Trump’s Net Worth” @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com
A federal appeals court ruled Friday to uphold a lower court's temporary order blocking the Trump administration from conducting indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California.
Miracle in Ukraine: Veronika was sleeping in Kyiv on July 31st when a Russian missile blast ejected her from the 9th floor apartment to the ground. She survived because she landed on her own bed. She suffered a broken leg and lost a tooth.
Paul Ingrassia—a 30-year-old former right-wing blogger and newly minted lawyer who was admitted to the bar in 2024—is Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia has called Jack Smith a “disgusting man,” accused him of “election interference,” and said he should be jailed.
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The world’s Arab countries for the first time have joined unanimously in the call for Hamas to lay down its weapons, release all hostages and end its rule of the Gaza Strip. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...
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I just want to flag something so it doesn't get lost. It looks plausible that the Hegseth brothers are trying to push military leaders further on involving military in domestic law enforcement. Two experts I spoke with read the memo that way. There may be a bigger story here to get.
A government #climate report filled with debunked misinformation is being used to roll back protections. Experts say it’s propaganda disguised as science, a dangerous step away from reality and #publichealth.
Nearly a decade ago, Elon Musk said Boring Co. would transform public transportation. Since then, it’s mostly built tunnels for Teslas and his own employees www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Truth Social grift magnet posts $833k net sales and *operating loss* of $43.5 million in Q2, halved by crypto scam. Market cap is $4.7b of bribery and bullshit. variety.com/2025/digital...
The Freedom of the Press Foundation is turning the tables on Brendan Carr, filing a complaint to investigate and potentially disbar the FCC chairman over his moves to punish Donald Trump's media critics. More in Status: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
A federal judge exonerated Trump officials after sharply criticizing them for likely violating his order to restore news programming at Voice of America. He demanded detailed proof of compliance, signaling that the court is watching closely.
I am genuinely worried that there will be a major successful terrorist attack on the U.S. because they've staffed these positions with completely unqualified people.
They’re not just redrawing districts. They’re rigging democracy. Texas proposed a map that could wipe out 5 Democratic seats— and they’re not stopping there. Gerrymandering is the biggest threat to our democracy. And, if we don’t fight back now, we forfeit fair elections. @katiephang.bsky.social
Fuck DOGE.
By a vote of 27-17, Senate Democrats voted to stop sending arms shipments to a Netanyahu government which has waged a horrific, immoral and illegal war against the Palestinian people. The tide is turning. Americans don't want to spend billions to starve children in Gaza.
I highly encourage you to watch this interview with the ex- Green Beret hired to do security at the US/Israeli-funded food distribution centers who says he witnessed fellow contractors and IDF soldiers injure and fire into Gazans trying to get food. He's also the guy who ordered them pizzas.
For decades, U.S. citizens abroad could vote in federal elections, a right historically supported by Republicans. But as overseas voter participation grows, the GOP is shifting its stance and targeting these votes.
NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster” NO PAYWALL! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.
one consequence of trump’s personal weakness and deference to authoritarians is to raise the likelihood of aggressive wars of conquest. but yeah yeah “trump will end the wars” sure.
A huge story for a specific sector of the stock market (and that I've posted about a fair bit) that hasn't gotten a lot of mainstream traction is the collapse in health insurance markets. UNH earnings this morning were *a disaster*. Not shedding a tear for them but this will have big ramifications.
Just as @muellershewrote.com predicted. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
I’ve now read the complaint. And it is absolutely ridiculous and frivolous. It’s a brushback pitch directed at district court judges by an Administration emboldened by the SCOTUS majority’s demonstration of scorn for the work of district court judges. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social
NEW: Federal appeals judges demand answer on whether Trump administration is demanding immigration officials conduct 3,000 deportation arrests a day. That could contribute to illegal stops and detentions, a 9th Circuit panel suggested. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
See this? 🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁
This👇🏻. I was a federal prosecutor for 15 years and never interviewed a witness without an agent present. It wasn’t allowed. Among other things, the agents are responsible for memorializing the interview and are themselves the witnesses to how the interview was conducted and what was said.
Lutnick on tariffs: "What do you think pays for no taxes on Social Security? ... it's gonna be faaaaantastic." (No taxes on Social Security did not make it into Trump's bill.)
you will be able to tell a lot about media publications by which choose to cover bove's confirmation as a scandal - until trump it would've been the biggest scandal in the history of the DOJ - and which choose to cover it as "another big win for trump"
Far too many news headlines & stories are treating these twisted Gabbard claims as business as usual instead of an unprecedented attack on a former president. These are dangerous times so it's crucial to get the story right like AP does here: apnews.com/article/gabb...
“The director of national intelligence and the White House are lying, again.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Texas gerrymandering is about racism. Fewer districts for Black and Brown communities. More power for white Texans. It’s voter suppression by design, and it fuels voter apathy by making people feel like their voices don’t matter. That’s the point.
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The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has cut dozens of DOJ employees linked to former special counsel Jack Smith.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"
“For one thing, why would the United States trade nine defendants who are alleged to be high-level members of MS-13 for $3 million? Is that a good deal for the United States?” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/n...
Treasury Department files reviewed by Senator Ron Wyden’s staff members show 4,725 wire transfers, adding up to nearly $1.1 billion, associated with just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts. Follow. The. Money.
Texas is out of control.
NEW POLL of economists finds nearly 90% agree that the reliability of the U.S. government’s official data on the economy is a big problem. https://trib.al/3aAsN3N
Darren Beattie is a white nationalist and bigoted lunatic. He's pushed for sterilization of "low IQ trash." He praised January 6 *on January 6.*
Irrelevant to the important and tragic point here but they’re literally doing the fema camps conspiracy lmao
The Trump administration has promised to distribute food aid before it spoils. But 500 tons of emergency food in a U.S. warehouse are about to expire and are slated for the incinerator, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/Vb8maoVI
NEW: Want to learn about the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections to companies and people? We've updated our database with 2024 filings that detail travel reimbursements, gifts, book income and more. By @cerealcommas.bsky.social
The Trump administration has taken its anti-diversity agenda to such extremes that it's killing good infrastructure projects - including roadway safety improvements that I worked on with congressional Republicans - just because they went to disadvantaged areas.
This is pure Nazism. They’re taking away crisis intervention. They’re not setting up new mental health hospitals…”other appropriate facilities” means something very different.
The world’s top court has delivered a damning verdict on society’s use of fossil fuels. What comes next could redefine the energy transition.
The chief justice told a nonprofit founded by Stephen Miller in a court filing that he would not cede control of the courts to Trump.
Executive orders are not laws!! Or even regulations that have gone through a rule-making process!! Please stop treating them like they are!
Incredible. Federal prosecutors are seeing many cases of people accused of assaulting Border Patrol agents being turned down by grand juries! Los Angeles federal prosecutors are privately saying it’s because CBP agents are just “arresting first and asking questions later.”
#BREAKING: Over a dissenting opinion by Justice Kagan (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson), #SCOTUS clears the way for President Trump to remove members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, granting yet another emergency application: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The EPA has drafted a proposal to reverse a landmark scientific finding that planet-warming pollution from fossil fuels endangers human health, and could release that proposal as soon as this week, according to three people familiar with the plan. cnn.it/3IBfV74
Can independent news outlets in Ukraine survive loss of USAID funding?
“Under one of the Labor Department’s proposals, an estimated 3.7 million workers employed by home care agencies could be paid below the federal minimum wage — currently $7.25 per hour — and made ineligible for overtime pay if they aren’t covered by corresponding state laws.”
🚨BREAKING: In a display of executive defiance, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the first assistant U.S. attorney for New Jersey — just hours after a panel of federal judges blocked Alina Habba from continuing as the state’s top federal prosecutor. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The Forest Service claims it’s fully staffed for fire season, saying it has reached 99% of its hiring goal. But internal data, which has not been previously reported, shows more than 4,500 Forest Service firefighting jobs — as many as 27% — remained vacant as of July 17. via @abestreep.bsky.social
Wielding influence and fear, Trump is most powerful president in decades
In the United States people are treated like animals. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
Obama actually tried to ban fox from the white house press room, but when the other networks refused to attend in protest they reversed their decision. There is only one truth. Wish we had this integrity now. Now they're afraid to ask important questions.
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Wow.
If you are not paying attention to this, you are doing exactly what Trump and the GOP want. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
America has the most corrupt political system in the Western world.