The Green Frog

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

This is an Epstein shutdown

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Militarized federal agents patrolling the streets doesn't make anyone safer.

People should never have to fear being brutalized by their government for protesting.

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.

It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

The fight to save our democracy - and the fight to refuse to vote for a budget that funds corruption, hands our government over to the billionaires, and kicks millions off their health care - is a righteous fight.

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.

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The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis ) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

Narrator: This is fascism.

This almost happened to our daughter, the hospital did not take it seriously when she complained of abdominal pain and said she merely had a virus. Wrong. She almost died of sepsis.

Advocate for yourself in the hospital! Demand imaging if no one is sure what’s wrong with you!

Republicans like to claim they aren't actually cutting Medicaid.

Which is an easily disproven lie.

FACT FOCUS: Republicans shut down the government to give him more time to hide the #EPSTEIN_Files.

New KFF poll: Americans want Congress to extend the expiring, enhanced Obamacare credits by a whopping margin of 78% to 22% — a remarkable political entrenchment for subsidies that were a heavy political lift for Democrats just a few years ago, per Politico.

Agents went to almost every single door in the building, zip-tying people regardless of citizenship and ignoring requests to see a warrant.

This attack on our communities is a fundamental threat to the freedom of each and every one of us.

Things are not lost yet in the Kilmar Abrego García case! Keep the pressure, and the faith.

Stripping 600k TPS workers from our economy is mass layoffs on a historic scale. It destabilizes industries, erodes workplace safety and rips apart families. We stand united with our immigrant brothers and sisters.

Next year, a lot of folks are going to see their premiums go up $1,000 or more per month because of a Republican policy.

If you start having to pay $1,000 extra every month, what will you stop being able to afford?

This is what Democrats are fighting to stop.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

$20 billion could save a lot of rural hospitals.

BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.

“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

Republicans, get to work.

Wow. They really did coordinate with officials in D.C. to conduct an arrest of the Mayor Baraka of Newark when nothing actually was happening at the time to warrant it.

Kentucky has kicked people off food benefits using data that doesn’t tell the full story The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services has brought hundreds of fraud cases in the last five years that are heavily reliant on transactional data with the goal of revoking people’s federal food benefits.

Kentucky has kicked people off food benefits using data that doesn’t tell the full story

Jeffries: "It appears, at least to me, that a decision has been made by House Republican leaders, perhaps blessed by the administration, to shut the govt down. Why did they they cancel votes? Why are they on vacation spread out across the country & world when we're on the brink of a govt shutdown?"

Why are people saying "this is not normal" over and over again, instead of "this is illegal" or "this is unconstitutional" or "this is treason?" Not normal sounds subjective, wishy-washy and neurotic. It communicates nothing of substance.

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...

Sen. Warnock called Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program “the real waste, fraud, and abuse.”

“This report shows that Pathways is incredibly effective at barring working people from health coverage and making corporate consultants richer.”

A MAGA nutjob owns CNN and CBS and is getting control of TikTok. Twitter and Facebook are controlled by wingnuts, as are the WaPo and LAT and a majority of local tv and radio stations. And yet this reality rarely comes up in discussions of the Dems’ messaging problems or lack of popularity.

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