STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

I asked Trump's former OMB director Mick Mulvaney to acknowledge it's a lie that undocumented immigrants get ACA subsidies (they don't), and he ended the interview. "Would you agree that not a single dime of ACA subsidies goes toward undocumented immigrants?" "I'm not gonna do this anymore."

Imagine under a Bernie Sanders admin, Congressional Rs and Ds agreed to give a 5% increase to DOD in exchange for big boosts to housing and nutrition. And then Bernie decided to just illegally ignore it and actually cut defense 10%. That’s what Trump is doing. How can you make a deal under that?

For so many Virginians, there's no issue more important than being able to afford everyday expenses. It's why my top priority is lowering costs across the Commonwealth. More on that in my latest interview with @thehill.com: thehill.com/homenews/cam...

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

The more they get away with murder, the more murder they will commit.

Forgive me for beating this drum repeatedly, y'all. TypePad, which has hosted my Velveteen Rabbi blog since 2002, is closing down in 48 hours. That blog, which used to be at velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/, is now at velveteenrabbi.com!

BREAKING NYT:   Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.   Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

Advocates say the elimination of DC Health Care Alliance, which insures 26,000 low-income residents, could have disastrous consequences. The first round of cuts to the program go into effect next week.

Imagine one of those campus interruptions that the right denounced as an assault on free speech, only the president of the university personally set aside some seats so activists could heckle a conservative speaker. Also Yasmin Williams is a phenomenal talent and you should go see her live.

Yet another decision holding this. With the exception of a single bad 2nd Circuit decision surrounding Byrne JAG grants in Trump 1.0, the Trump admin has a near-perfect losing streak on imposing immigration enforcement conditions on federal grants.

Exciting updates! Juliet K. Choi of APIAHF has been named our new Executive Committee Chair; we've welcomed Yesenia Cuello of @ncfield.org and David Gonzalez Rice of @nlihc.org as steering committee members; and Adriana Cadena is our Executive Director! More: pifcoalition.org/news/health-...

Overall rates of food insecurity held steady in 2020 & 2021 despite the pandemic. Food insecurity among households with kids actually reached a two-decade low in 2021. In contrast, food insecurity increased during the Great Recession amid a less robust policy response. Policy matters.

A new paper led by Harvard Health Policy PhD student Ye Shen finds that, in the current policy environment, more than six in ten kids will have been enrolled in Medicaid for some period of time by their 18th birthday; the program is absolutley critical for children. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The Administration acknowledged that it will stop the survey that measures food insecurity, just as tariffs push up food prices and the deep cuts to food assistance enacted in July start to take effect. Congress must intervene to save these vital data. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Elect Jay Jones Attorney General to protect a woman's right to choose. “Jason Miyares has shown us where he stands: with the extremists. Now it’s up to us to show him where Virginians stand — firmly on the side of freedom.” Author, Tara Gibson of Roe Your Vote www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvwW...

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

HR 1 greatly expanded work requirements for both SNAP and Medicaid. Join me and other experts at a webinar next week on policy implications, operational strategies, and ways to reduce burden and protect access. September 25 at 1 pm ET / 10 am PT us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

It’s not a chilling effect. It would only be chilling if you had something horrid to say, and you don’t, do you? Certainly nothing critical of the regime, and absolutely no paraphrasing, not of anyone, not at this time!

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

Welcoming the architect of the DOGE firings — who put thousands of Virginians out of work — is a slap in Virginians’ faces.

This Thursday, 9/18, @jayapal.house.gov is hosting a shadow hearing to shine a light on the lawlessness and harm of Trump’s mass deportation regime. With @tnimmigrant.bsky.social, we're supporting two brave witnesses — Chelsea White & Mimi Lettunich — in advocating for their loved ones in D.C.

Brian Kilmeade stated homeless individuals who are resisting mental health treatment should be given "involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ’em." This weekend, there was a mass shooting of a homeless encampment. It barely made a blip on the news. www.startribune.com/shooting-sou...

We're well past the point where if it were a foreign country, US media correspondents would be reporting on it in a way that would get them detained and/or expelled by the regime. This makes it sounds like it's infrastructure week.

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

Violent right wingers stormed the Capitol on live television and beat the shit out of cops to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power after Trump lost. The fuck is he on about

Some on the right are using the Kirk murder as a pretext to stoke open violent warfare against the liberal-left, and as @whstancil.bsky.social noted, we need news orgs to say this clearly and directly. I tried to do that here:

any outlet that reported the “pro-trans ideology on bullet casings” thing owes the public an apology and an explanation if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played

The Pitt has plans to tackle stories next season related to federal health care cuts. I've got some ideas in a new column out in @jama.com. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In the blurring of memory that comes with time, it will fall on historians to point out that the deployment of the military to cities, the disappearances of student activists and immigrants, and the federal takeovers of policing all *preceeded*, not followed, the death of a demagogue.

They are going to claim we (left/liberals/Democrats/non-white non-supremacists) said whatever is most convenient for them to say we said, no matter what we say. So all the appeasement is pretty much in vain.

What's crazy is that we don't know who the shooter is, or what the motivation for shooting Kirk was. But already, rhetorical charges of political terrorism, and blaming the left.

have spent the last 12 hours in some sort of pre-grief for what's clearly coming, an imperial boomerang with x-ray vision now unconstrained by whatever law we had left

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

Murder is bad. AND I wish I had heard a fraction of Republicans speaking out against Hortman's murder that I'm hearing of Democrats speaking out against Kirk's.

WSJ, Page One: “.. the fastest rate of increase since at least 2011 ..”

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

“Three students were critically wounded on Wednesday in a shooting at Evergreen High School in the Colorado foothills. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says one of those students is the shooting suspect.” www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.

I am seeing a LOT of people misleadingly say "The senate will not pass this, they'll filibuster." IF Democrats filibuster, that means the government shuts down. This was a major reason the NDAA restrictions on tricare for trans youth passed last time, Dems did not filibuster.

mutual aid request in chicago! there is a need for shelf-stable food staples — requests are coming in from moms, community members, crisis workers it's imperfect as an amazon wish list, but it's something we can manage amongst our safe networks, we will distro food quickly please share!

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

My latest for MSNBC: CMS is adding new prior authorization requirements for traditional Medicare, implemented with AI. Prior auth is a key vehicle for coverage denials that then drive administrative burdens of appealing, which seniors are less well equipped to navigate. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

But just now I read this post about the "Memorandum of Understanding" which Democratic legislative candidates in Virginia are required to agree to in order for the Dem Caucus committee to even *consider* supporting them. It's...revealing. 2/ joshstanfield.substack.com/p/means-of-c...