„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

NEW: Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas. A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months. Tonight, at Law Dork:

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I'm with her www.huffpost.com/entry/elizab...

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Flood the phones: (202) 224-3121 Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line… There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

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Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

According to the diocese, the priest was legally working here. Now, he’s in ICE detention: www.ncronline.org/news/texas-e...

"The Sanders/Mamdani style of democratic socialism is, whatever its merits, at least compatible with America’s tradition of liberal democracy. The Trump style of national socialism is not."

Theyre just stripping peiple of their legal status and claiming theyre criminals afterwards. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

FACT-CHECK: @mehdirhasan debunks 👇🏽 a few of the lies Trump told that @60Minutes @NorahODonnell allowed to go completely unchallenged. (Trump seemed to know there would be no pushback under Bari Weiss — Norah seemed like a hostage. #RIPCBS) zeteo.com/p/factchecki...

This is on the KFF website this afternoon:

Affirmed again as of just yesterday in a quick look article. www.kff.org/quick-take/a...

No retraction. www.kff.org/affordable-c...

"22 of Earth's 34 'vital signs' are flashing red, new climate report reveals — but there's still time to act" | Nice article on our new #Bioscience article by @saschapare.bsky.social for @livescience.com: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Authoritarians pervert language and wield it as a weapon. They practice propaganda, disinformation, and the intentional corrosion of truth and meaning. They use it to stoke ethnic hatred. JD Vance—hamfistedly awkward though he is—has clearly studied his authoritarian idols’ corruption of language.

Bravo Washington! www.aclu-wa.org/press-releas...

If you haven’t joined your local community watches yet, now is the time. Your help is needed.

A lot of people who’ll tell you no one is immune to propaganda all decided woke is cringe at the same time, and are now caught flat-footed as support for the poor is being obliterated. Whoops.

Puberty blockers are ‘safe, effective and reversible’, finds independent research which was commissioned by the New South Wales government in Australia. www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/10/p...

Or food for kids and families

The DOJ just disqualified frontline gun violence prevention nonprofits from lifesaving #CVI grants. Let’s be clear, you don’t reduce violence by silencing the people ending it. You don’t save lives by defunding prevention. This is about Trump’s need for control, and it will cost lives.

He was elected president, and as president, his highest duty is to ensure that the laws of the land be executed faithfully. His job is to uphold the constitutional order, not tear it down and remake it in his image.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

It’s even worse than this because the methods he uses is are most cruel of the possible options

Republicans weaponize starvation to be allowed to cut healthcare to millions. If Dems cave …and people have high groceries, high unemployment AND no medical care, then the poor will be suffering worse than in 2008 “Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says”

The Trump regime could tap into a $5 billion contingency fund to ensure people continue to be fed through SNAP. They are refusing. Republicans know the pain they’re causing to Americans—they do not care. The cruelty is the point.

It's not the same point, but the argument that the Biden admin had "porous policies" is completely false. They had a number of very harsh policies aiming to limit migration, the problem was state capacity to carry them out and the sheer force of the push/pull factors during the post-COVID years.

It almost defies the imagination. Republicans refused to co-endorse expanded immigration enforcement, enforcement that pro-immigrant Democrats *did not approve of*, a proposal which now hangs like an albatross over the party. Democrats voted for expanding ICE! This is a thing they did.

Rep. Bresnahan dumped Medicaid stocks before voting to gut Medicaid. Ethics are optional in the Party of Grift. #GOPCorruption #WhoVoted4This

The complete demolition of the East Wing has occurred in days.   Hundreds of thousands are without work and pay, millions are threatened to have food assistance cut off—and the President is bulldozing the White House to build a $300 million ballroom for himself. Americans will not forget.

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

the most corrupt administration in my lifetime

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

Somewhere in the vicinity of 12-13% of the country will run out of food in the next week and we don’t have a plan.

At first I was disappointed with her. Now I’m just appalled.

I cannot parse the WH as synecdoche for architectural regulations for rank-and-file suburban homes. Surely the WH is something different or distinct than a Tudor in a St Louis historic district? Not to mention the private “donations” which can be fairly described as bribes.

I know this has been pointed out and mentioning it isn't going to stop the abuses because "oh no, the hypocrisy!" but the military is banned from using tear gas in war, but cops can at home. And now a heavily armed paramilitary is regularly using it at home.

In 2002, Trent Lott had to resign as Minority Leader because he appeared to endorse Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential candidacy. It is simply impossible to imagine a Republican resigning from political leadership for that comment today. The idea does not even make sense.

this is why is think is so important that dem politicians make it known at every opportunity that any military personnel participating in these operations WILL BE court martialed at the first opportunity. remind the only one in the chain of command who was punished for abu ghaib was the private.

“Over 170 U.S. Citizens are being arrested. Why? Because they look like me,” Rep. Robert Garcia of California said, referencing our reporting. “Or because they are suspected to not be a U.S. citizen, or because they are suspected of crimes they have not committed.”

it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it

America is shut down, and the President is skipping town.

So….folks are believing the $130 million donation for the military? Do we have any independent confirmation that this happened? I thought that we were all on the same page that this is just a Trump tall tale which he told in the moment to derail uncomfortable questions. No? It’s all checked out?

American elites have acted with a degree of pathetic servility that I didn't expect even from them. I'm not talking about the fash-adjacent ones, but the ones terrified of losing a bit of social standing, or some small fraction of their comfortable wealth. Just abject cowardice.

Reminder to self to listen later