"Not a single Democrat has talked about wanting to fund care for people in the United States unlawfully. Instead, what Democrats have said is they want to undo Medicaid cuts projected to leave nearly 10 million Americans uninsured." A smidge different.

We do not deploy American forces against Americans in our own cities. Our military is not trained for domestic law enforcement. It’s illegal and un-American.

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

The specific provision is section 2 of the Calling Forth Act of 1792: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... For more background on the judicial review provision, and on how President Washington expressly relied upon it in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion, see: www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/427_pa9s...

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

While Republicans play political games to prolong their Trump Shutdown, Democrats will be in DC to do their jobs and try to get the government back to work. Urge your Democratic senators to keep fighting to stop health insurance costs from doubling this winter: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie. Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

The White House is blatantly violating the Constitution, ignoring Congressionally-allocated spending. Approving any budget would put a stamp of approval on the end of checks and balances. It'll hurt, yes, but it's time for opposition. The political costs will mostly fall on the people in charge.

part of a 🧵 full of recent essays & videos to check out!

Society: loves traumatizing people. Also society: gets pissy when traumatized people have trauma responses. The way society spreads trauma is BECAUSE it is designed to create a justification for locking up the people they hate.

🚨NEW FROM TEXAS REDISTRICTING HEARING🚨 “They achieved those partisan objectives by focusing on race,” Matt Barreto, a political science professor with the UCLA Voting Rights Project, told the court Saturday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Breaking News: The Trump administration is said to have plans to slash refugee admissions to a record low, with many slots reserved for white South Africans.

This federal judge appointed by President Trump found his claims of “chaos“ in Portland, Oregon “untethered to the facts.“

The modernization of the Army's battlefield communications network is rife with "fundamental security" problems, according to an internal Army memo.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

ProPublica and @theassemblync.bsky.social found that in some North Carolina counties, homeowners with the highest incomes received two to three times as much FEMA housing assistance as those with lower incomes after Hurricane Helene. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and Ren Larson

This is the brain drain. Tr*mp is actively making this country so much less than it was just months ago. He is weaning us on the global stage more and more every day.

you know what probably isn't great for military readiness? turning a blind eye to violent hazing, sexual assault and bigotry, while purging leaders on the basis of race and gender.

The nonpartisan Pennsylvania Bar Association endorses our PA Supreme Court justices for retention because they know our courts are fair and independent. #ProtectPACourts

The gaslighting is wild. THEY control the White House, the House, and the Senate—yet always find a way to blame Democrats for their mess. The so-called “$1.5 trillion wish list” is about protecting health care, food assistance, and housing. (1/2)

Monopolies are terrifying and result in inferior products and services. This will be extra horrible for media companies, as the competition was the only thing keeping them on their toes. Yikes.

i'm sort of fascinated that the cultural imaginary regarding Rowling among a certain subset of users stops at 2015-2020 with her being pro-LGB and neutral on trans rights and not like, what she's been cooking her brain on X since

New piece. The data presented by @thejcpa.bsky.social and @counterhate.com about antisemitism on X is stark: it is being spread to hundreds of millions of people. Not just antisemitism, but OVERT antisemitism. And that shift means far more than people realize. It won't be long before it leaves X.

I’m officially changing residence to my hometown in PA! While I appreciated Columbus, we couldn’t afford to keep up with the rapidly increasing rent and limited units available at what prices were achievable for is in the larger metro. If I’m gonna live rural, I want to do it near family, ya know?

I was told asking people to wear masks was the most intolerable tyranny. But militarizing cities to use the U.S. military against American civilians "with full force," and saying our cities should be "training grounds" for the U.S. Military. All good, huh? www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...

A small Texas charter network has paid its superintendent up to $870,000 annually over the last three years. Board members have voted to increase his pay or other financial benefits in 14 of their 24 meetings since 2021. (Published March)

NEW: Responding to a @nytimes.com report that the Trump Justice Department is planning to investigate the Open Society Foundations, @alexsoros.bsky.social said the massive left-leaning philanthropy did nothing wrong & would only stop its work "over my dead body."

An email to Director Bhattacharya to start the day 1/6

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning. This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

Six hrs after advising Border Patrol chief to comply with a court order requiring "reasonable suspicion" for stops, acting US Atty in Sacramento is fired & escorted from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Check out the Bluesky "Mundus sine caesaribus" T-shirt at the rally outside ABC Disney Studios in NYC!

If you are in charge of a flag pole, say you're a librarian, etc, here is your opportunity for peaceful civil disobedience. Stand with your immigrant, trans, endangered patrons, customers & community members & say no. Don't put the flag up at all or raise it to full mast.

And I want to be clear about this: because of Elon's revenue sharing model on Twitter, these people are making literally tens of thousands of dollars a year off inciting political violence. He is actively paying them enormous sums in exchange for their incitement.

"The entire quagmire is all the more curious when you consider that RJK, Jr. admitted during his confirmation hearing that all six of children are vaccinated".

It has long been obvious that we are heading in this direction: “RFK Jr hints access to key abortion drug could be cut back” 9/4/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

nope my bad it was actually WaPo www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

There are *plenty* of things wrong with the UK system, but I always remember my USian ex, delirious after suddenly collapsing (thankfully just low blood sugar) trying to pull the phone out of my hand when I was calling 999, panicking because "we can't afford an ambulance!"

Oh HELL yes

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Another example. Republican efforts to curb Veterans benefits by creating a disability rating system that costs more to operate than simply giving all veterans direct government healthcare. Same goes for healthcare for all Americans. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.

The biggest thing I have changed my mind about in the past five years or so, is that I now strongly believe relentless propaganda works, and that the far right has exploited liberal concerns about "censorship" astonishingly well to get their stuff across

so no one <65y without a high risk feature can get a COVID shot? I’m immunosuppressed but LilAware and MrsAware can’t get COVID shots? what about young kids who were born recently enough to not have gotten a primary COVID vaccine yet? this does not “protect the vulnerable”

Empathy is a superpower. It's a dreadful, cursed, endlessly painful superpower. But it's what saves us, over and over and over again.

Now, only people >=65 + people with an underlying med condition are eligible. “Without FDA approval ... insurance companies might not cover the cost [of the COVID-19 vaccine], potentially leaving people to pay out of pocket or unable to get vaccinated at all,” Dr. Oni Blackstock...told HuffPost.

Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification: