Hostile work environment. I’m calling my steward.

Connecticut's only immigration court had a backlog of 41,567 cases at the end of August, data shows. "What’s this going to do to the backlog? Obviously, it’s going to increase it," Hartford immigration judge Ted Doolittle, fired by DOJ this month along with others across the country, told me.

A federal judge today struck down a DHS policy of withholding funding from states unwilling to cooperate with ICE, calling it "coercive" and "unconstitutional."

Everything old is new again. The fight over insurance coverage of abortion that nearly derailed passage of Obamacare more than a decade ago has reared its head once again with enhanced subsidies set to expire. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

NEW: Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says, by @savmargaret.bsky.social

Great digging by Christina Jewett: Dr. Oz previously acted as a pitchman for iHerb, which sells the vitamin supplement that he promoted as an autism treatment sitting during Trump’s press conference, and which the FDA is moving to approve for that use www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...

🚨 "Sick to my stomach." That's how the researcher who found a link between Tylenol and autism felt when she realized MAHA would link her analysis to vaccines. My latest exclusive @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The FDA statement ends with a paragraph undermining its own warning. They signal parents to avoid acetaminophen. Except sometimes. And then: No “causal relationship… established” with ADHD or autism AND Alternatives to acetaminophen have “well-documented adverse impacts.”

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

By the way, there are 9 #autism schools in Cuba, four of which are in Havana. In fact, Cuba's easternmost province opened a school just this month. www.cubanews.acn.cu/cuba/27422-c...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?"

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

There has been a pronounced increase in GOP pessimism about the direction of the country over the last month. This is like Democrats under Biden in 2023 levels of dissatisfaction under a co-partisan president. Independents are more sour on direction than any pt in 2024 apnorc.org/projects/pes...

A federal judge has thrown out President Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times. The suit, he says, "stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements" of federal court rules. It is "decidedly improper and impermissible." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"[S]exually abused, threatened and punished one of the complainants." "[O]ff-the-books late-night work scheme that coerced transgender detainees into physically and psychologically painful labor." "ICE definitely knew." #Louisiana #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

NEW: A federal judge said today that she’s “inclined” to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA grants, the bulk of the remaining grant suspensions at the Westwood campus: www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Smoke from climate-driven wildfires will kill nearly 2 million Americans by 2055, a new study concludes.

[email protected]: "A full year before anyone casts their vote in Nov 2026 — meaning now, in the fall of 2025 — the American health care system will begin transitioning from an era of unprecedented expansion of coverage to an era of unprecedented cutbacks." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

My writeup of a very spicy hearing --> www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I'm in the room as the CDC Director fired by RFK (she says over her refusal to go along with his unscientific, ideological vaccine policies) testifies. Catch up on the situation here --> www.politico.com/live-updates...

While new ACIP is set to make its recommendations later this week, AHIP says “Health plans will continue to cover all ACIP-recommended immunizations that were recommended as of September 1, 2025, including updated formulations of the COVID-19... with no cost-sharing... through the end of 2026."

"Is dental insurance a scam?" asks NYT. “It’s hard not to say yes,” a dentist responds. “I don’t think it’s looking out for the patient’s best interest.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

"One detainee had been given psychotropic medication but there was no record of that person ever consenting to it. Another had been placed on suicide watch but there was no record of anyone watching them."

This is a problem in many states! www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

NEW: CDC has been ‘censored’ and ‘politicized’ under RFK Jr., former officials plan to tell senators www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

New research underscores how hurdles to abortion access have soared since the #Dobbs decision. Between 2022-2024: 💰 Travel costs for abortion ⬆️ from $179 to $372 🕰️ Avg. travel time ⬆️ from 2.8 to 11.3 hours 🌙 Overnight stays ⬆️ from 5% to 58% 📈 Second-trimester abortions ⬆️ from 8% to 17%

NEWS: By vaccinating babies at birth, the U.S. nearly eradicated hepatitis-B in children. Kennedy's vaccine advisory panel is expected this week to recommend delaying the shot, opening a window for kids to be infected. Exclusive by @jackie-fortier.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

I spoke with Amanda Heffernan, a nurse-midwife based in Seattle, about what's like to currently work with pregnant migrants in ICE custody. What she has witnessed in Washington state mirrors other recent cases of mistreatment in detention centers across the country: www.thecut.com/article/preg...

BREAKING: The DC Circuit has *rejected* Trump's bid to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed board, allowing her to participate in tomorrow's interest-rate setting meeting. Trump's last hope is a quick stay from SCOTUS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

[email protected] blasts the new program as a "slush fund": "It’s clear to anyone watching this unfold that this fund is going to be focused toward states whose governors support the ideological agenda of the Trump administration and used to dole out political favors to Trump’s cronies."

Los Angeles teachers are patrolling the streets, linking w immigration/ tenants’ advocates, and repurposing lockdown policies designed to protect students from active shooters or wildfires — all to protect them from ICE @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I report www.huffpost.com/entry/los-an...

“I wept and screamed.” Man whose wife and newborn died after they tried to go to a clinic shuttered due to USAID cuts.

States have just weeks to apply for a slice of a new $50b fund for rural health care. How much states get will depend in part on whether they bar low-income people from using food stamps to purchase "non-nutritious foods" and reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

NEW: The Trump admin just kicked off a scramble among all 50 states for a slice of a $50 billion fund for rural health care, but experts on the ground fear its rushed timeline, lack of guardrails and potential for politicization will leave some hospitals struggling. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania are struggling to find workers. They're pushing lawmakers to move faster on a farm labor solution, even as Trump cracks down on immigration. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do," said one farmer and three-time Trump voter.

Long Beach cancels annual Día de los Muertos parade over fears of immigration raids

Amid deadly shootings, CDC has fired experts and closed prevention offices. Expert calls it a 'cruel irony' – gun violence grows as prevention efforts fade www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/g...

NEW: A judge warned Friday that the Trump admin is "with a wink and a nod" deporting people to Ghana, only for Ghana to quickly re-deport them to countries where they face torture and persecution. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown 19thnews.org/2025/09/chil... via @19thnews.org

(Reuters) - Poland flatly rejected on Friday a suggestion by U.S. President Donald Trump that drone incursions into its airspace could have been a mistake, describing them as "a deliberate Russian attack". @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/aer...

In the case of Sydney Lori Reid, which THREE DC grand juries declined to indict for allegedly assaulting a FBI agent, prosecutors are trying to exclude from next month's trial (i) post-arrest audio from her phone and (ii) texts by 1 agent, including to his wife www.courtlistener.com/docket/71196...

If the federal show of force in Washington has had a deterrent effect on crime, it appears to have deterred entirely normal aspects of city life, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.

NEW: Despite a flurry of state actions to maintain vaccine access no matter what RFK Jr.'s handpicked committee does next week, tens of millions could face high out-of-pocket costs -- if they can get shots at all. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

A U.S. citizen and army veteran detained by ICE and held for days: "When you have agents on your neck and back, and you’re telling them you can’t breathe and they don’t care, it’s scary." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...