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George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

BlinkRX, an online prescription drug delivery company, stands to benefit from proposed changes by Trump that would allow pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs directly to patients.

His son, Eric Trump, is on the company’s board.

Always follow the money.

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

It's so important to nip the framing of this reporting in the bud right now.

Don't accept the narrative that Trump and his team only just started discussing invoking the Insurrection Act. January 6 happened because his White House was in conversation with radicals about what it'd take to invoke it.

Jimmy Kimmel returns with unfinished business over Trump’s birthday letter to Epstein

Speaker Johnson taking calls on c-span about the shitdown today at 8:30am ET

Call in numbers: (302)748-8000 (302)748-8001 (302)748-8002 (302)748-8003 Call speaker Johnson and ask about the Epstein files.

Armcahir Activist Activate! Call in to Speaker Johnson on live tv taking questions about the Shitdown.

Spam in the Gears! Call in to Speaker Johnson and ask him about the Epstein files.

Good morning ppl! It’s day 9 of the GOP shitdown & I have a special Spam in the Gears to start your morning with. Speaker Johnson will be live on C-Span @ 8:30 ET to take questions over the shitdown. It would be a shame if ppl called in and only asked about the #Epstein files. Numbers below to call.

I hope they are shivering.

That FBI press conference just now in Dallas about the shooting at an ICE facility stunk to high heaven

153. Living by the Ipse Dixit A constitutional principle like the "unitary executive theory" isn't worth all that much if the Supreme Court can conjure new, unprincipled exceptions to it by simply asserting that they exist.

Re-upping my post from earlier this year about how ridiculously thin the Court's embrace of the "unitary executive theory" in these cases has been:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/153-living...

If you’re able to attend the Yosemite Climbing Association’s Facelift event this week, we’ll donate $10 per person who comments that they’re attending. Facelift is the largest annual volunteer clean-up in any national park!

The anti-vaxx ACIP is using the same strategy as the anti-abortion groups. Small changes that seem insignificant or "common sense" that are actually meant to erode trust, chip away at access, and abolish vaccines. These folks aren't using science to make decisions. They are deliberately ignoring it.

The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state constitutions block public funds from supporting religious entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe, Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) . The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional provisions. The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower). Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not all religions will receive public funds, the government forces minority faiths to support other faiths, or else. The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of- government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty structure. As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church- state separation and federalism principles. The Court's nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution "has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
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Bove then made a remark concerning the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated. Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts "fuck you" and ignore any such court order. Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room. Mr. Reuveni and others were quickly ushered out of the room. Notwithstanding Bove's directive, Mr. Reuveni left the meeting understanding that DOJ would

How could I forget that Emil Bove also led the charge to deport Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison *in defiance of a judge’s order?*

If Democrats care at all about the integrity of the judiciary, an impeachment inquiry should be an immediate priority.
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Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House.

He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo.

He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up.

And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

This is hilarious. Even the Dutch are way ahead of us in seeing how bad things are in the United States with Donald Trump running amok and corporations capitulating to fascism.

But, then again, the Netherlands has experience with being taken over by fascists.

I Was able to get COVID and Flu in the checkout line at Costco this week. Easy peasy.

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

South Koreans are exceptionally good at holding onto anger and grudges.

🤣bots not mints

I’m so glad you are here. I say let’s release the mints that push love, equality, compassion, health.

But I don’t think now is the time to point fingers either way. I just want to make the neutral point that the Second Amendment continues to swallow up the First Amendment—that the omnipresent threat of gun violence in the United States continues to act as de facto censorship on the free exchange of ideas. People are understandably afraid to speak their minds in public. They are afraid to appear in the public arena and say something that might be controversial, or really to say anything at all, because it is outrageously easy for people to obtain firearms in this country. And so it is outrageously easy for someone who doesn’t like you—for political reasons, or moral reasons, or insane reasons—to go out, get a gun, and shoot you. A while ago, I wrote that “the only reason you have not been shot is because nobody has yet decided to shoot you.” That remains tragically true today.

Charlie Kirk's murder is just the latest example of how our nation's love affair with guns is allowing the Second Amendment to swallow up the First. With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Taxed.

Ending federally funded Ryan White HIV/AIDS program would increase new HIV infections 49% nationwide by 2030, computer model predicts In a new Johns Hopkins Medicine-led study, researchers predict that ending federal funding for the Ryan White Program could increase HIV infections across 31 U.S. cities by 49% in the next five years....

Ending federally funded Ryan White HIV/AIDS program would increase new HIV infections 49% nationwide by 2030, computer model predicts Annals paper

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Grand jury proceedings are secret, so it is impossible to know exactly why jurors declined to indict in these five cases. But it’s not hard to guess. Each failed prosecution was transparently motivated by partisan anger toward opponents of Donald Trump and his agenda. Each weaponized the criminal code against a dissident who opposed the regime’s agenda, inflating a minor act of disobedience into a felony offense. And in every instance, a group of D.C. residents saw through the charade, refusing to legitimize political retribution dressed up as law enforcement. For nearly a month, the president has staged a hostile “takeover” of the District, flooding the streets with federal police, masked immigration agents, and National Guard members. Because they lack the protections of statehood, Washingtonians have few concrete means of fighting back. Grand juries are one of them. And they have begun to wield that power to frustrate Trump’s attempt to criminalize dissent.

Something rare—maybe unprecedented—is unfolding in D.C.: Grand juries are refusing to indict Trump opponents whose minor acts of defiance have been inflated into felony charges.

Washingtonians have few tools to resist the occupation of their city. This is one of them.
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Patients are watching their health care bills skyrocket, even when nothing about their care has changed. Same doctor, same treatment, same location. So why the higher price tag? [Committee to Protect Health Care logo]

Here's what's happening: Large hospital systems are buying up independent physician practices and rebranding them as "hospital outpatient facilities." When that happens, they can bill 2 to 4 times more for the exact same care just because of the new label. Studies have shown that nothing about the care improves, in fact, in some cases, care worsens after hospital consolidation.

It doesn't have to be this way. Site-neutral payment reform means patients pay the same price for the same care--no matter who owns the building. It's a common sense step toward: Lowering patient costs, slowing harmful consolidation, preserving competition and access. Congress can act now to make it happen. Same Service, Same Price: Site-Neutral Payment Reform

Real patient examples of price hikes after consolidation: allergy skin test $176 at independent physician practice (IPP)and $719 at hospital-owned outpatient facility (HOOP). Radiation therapy $156 at IPP; $377 at HOOP. Steroid injection $30 at IPP; $1,394 at HOOP (yes, this is real!). Child's psych visit at IPP $20; $523 at HOOP.

Why are patients paying more just because the logo on the door changed? Hospital systems are buying up doctor's offices & raising prices. It's called hospital consolidation, & it's costing patients. Site-neutral payment reform can help fix it. #SameServiceSamePrice

"Attacking me does not change the real cuts his budget threatens to make against patients, healthcare workers and hospitals," said MHA CEO Brian Peters. To read his full statement, visit: bit.ly/46gFymR

#MiLeg #MIHospitals

Hawaii insurers hold firm on COVID vaccine policies While public health advocates applaud the decision by Hawaii’s insurers, doctors and pharmacies are predicting a big drop in vaccinations.

Hawaii’s health insurers say they will cover COVID vaccinations for anyone older than six months, despite new FDA guidance that says children and healthy adults don’t need the shots.

I’ve never applauded jury nullification.

Until now.

Free DC.

In new episode of #SistersInLaw, we discussed the firing of Fed Governor Cook, the grand jury’s refusal to indict the sandwich thrower, and Trump’s flag burning order. You can listen here.
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The firefighter, whose name has not been made public, has lived in the US for 19 years after arriving with his family at the age of four. He received a U-visa certification from the US attorney's office in Oregon in 2017 and submitted his U-visa application with US Citizenship and Immigration Services the following year. The U-visa program was established by Congress to protect victims of serious crimes who assist federal investigators, and the man has been waiting since 2018 for the immigration agency to decide on his application, according to Stephen Manning, a lawyer with Innovation Law Lab, a Portland-based nonprofit representing the firefighter. Another homeland security policy says agents cannot detain people who are receiving or have applied for victim-based immigration benefits, his lawyer said. Charging the man with an immigration violation was "an illegal after-the-fact justification" given his U-visa status.

I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...