Will Ragland

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

Tell 'em cuz.

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Left-leaning pages appear to have handily won the online "shutdown" battle yesterday.

They outpaced right-leaning pages on posts mentioning the "shutdown" and "health care." Their totals on those issues also both surpassed the right's mentions of "immigration."

Trump's deployment of masked federal agents into LA, DC, and Chicago is straight from the authoritarian playbook—just ask the people of Hong Kong and Venezuela.

Pope releases World Communications Day theme: “Preserving Human Voices & Faces” writing: “Humanity today has possibilities that were unimaginable a few years ago…while these tools offer efficiency & reach, they cannot replace the uniquely human capacities for empathy, ethics & moral responsibility.”

It’s as clear as day why a shutdown may be happening this week. Here’s Russ Vought, architect of Trump’s 2025 project and the shutdown strategy, arguing that a shutdown government is a good way to pass the bills they want to pass. bsky.app/profile/citi...
#ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

"I don't think anyone should be afraid of a government shutdown... It's actually what's necessary to pass these bills individually."

-Russ Vought September 22, 2023

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Delighted that USA Today published my opinion piece today on @americanprogress.bsky.social's plan to undo Citizens United through state corporation laws.

Policy changes enacted since the start of the year (One Big Bill and tariffs) will hurt Americans' 2027 incomes on average at every income level by about -$1,500

Except the top 1%. They can expect a +$5,000 income bump

26% Kit Kat price increase ahead of Halloween?? Lord have mercy

ABBY PHILLIPS: "The deputy attorney general met with Ghislaine and she shortly there after moved to a mininum security prison, why?

PRO TRUMP ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTED MAXWELL:

stumbles uhh... "there's always a quid pro quo."

ht: @citizenwillis.bsky.social

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Increase the Number of Americans Without Health Coverage in Every State and Congressional District Explore how the law’s historic cuts will affect uninsurance where you live.

New data from @nzmurphy.bsky.social and me: the number of Americans who will lose health coverage under the Republicans' historic cuts to health care, by state and Congressional district.
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

This chart tells the story.

BLS now says June job change was negative after revisions.

RFK JR: It's going to have a it's going to it's going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history.

SANDERS: You know why? Because you're cutting $150 billion for rural hospitals. You're putting $50 billion back. That's not an infusion.

NEW analysis on the GOP megabill's core policy choice: each millionaire's tax cut is paid for by taking away health insurance from 4 people while reducing health care benefits from many others.

From PA's letter to Chair Thompson: USDA has gone dark on states about SNAP changes. Cancelling standing technical assistance calls ... still no guidance ... appalling stuff.

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Great look at an under the radar rural impact of OBBBA.

While it stopped short of including Sen. Lee's proposal to sell off public lands, it axed funding rural communities have relied on since 1908 fueling more public land sell offs.

www.americanprogress.org/article/cong...

"God damn well I declare.."

Stephen Miller was born in Santa Monica and in 2014, when he was 28, bought a $973,000 condo (with help from his parents) in one of downtown Washington's poshest towers www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliabl...

The MAGA regime is escalating attacks on families at home and abroad, from D.C. to Gaza.

Deploying troops in D.C. is yet another attempt to scapegoat & target struggling people to advance their draconian agenda in service of billionaires, war profiteers, and white supremacy.

Restaurant reservations in DC plunged after Trump announced his takeover. It’s no surprise that rolling out troops into the streets dampens consumer appetite.

Percent of people without health insurance, going back to 1963. Huge declines following the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, down to roughly 12%. Creeps back up to 15%. Then comes the ACA, down to 9%. Creeps back up a little. Then comes Biden improvements to the ACA, down to 8%. The "Big Beautiful Bill" pushes it back up to 12%.

In a single act, Trump is undoing significant portions of the health coverage gains of the last 60 years.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

Will Ragland on Twitter: Vance, Rubio, and Thune all voted for her! YEAs ---86 Baldwin (D-WI) Barrasso (R-WY) Bennet (D-CO) Blackburn (R-TN) Blumenthal (D-CT) Booker (D-NJ) Boozman (R-AR) Braun (R-IN) Britt (R-AL) Brown (D-OH) Budd (R-NC) Butler (D-CA) Capito (R-WV) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Cassidy (R-LA) Collins (R-ME) Coons (D-DE) Cornyn (R-TX) Cortez Masto (D-NV) Cotton (R-AR) Daines (R-MT) Duckworth (D-IL) Durbin (D-IL) Ernst (R-IA) Fetterman (D-PA) Fischer (R-NE) Gillibrand (D-NY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hagerty (R-TN) Hassan (D-NH) Heinrich (D-NM) Hickenlooper (D-CO) Hirono (D-HI) Hoeven (R-ND) Hyde-Smith (R-MS) Johnson (R-WI) Kaine (D-VA) Kelly (D-AZ) King (I-ME) Klobuchar (D-MN) Lankford (R-OK) Lujan (D-NM) Lummis (R-WY) Markey (D-MA) Marshall (R-KS) McConnell (R-KY) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Murkowski (R-AK) Murphy (D-CT) Murray (D-WA) Ossoff (D-GA) Padilla (D-CA) Paul (R-KY) Peters (D-MI) Reed (D-RI) Ricketts (R-NE) Romney (R-UT) Rosen (D-NV) Rounds (R-SD) Rubio (R-FL) Schatz (D-HI) Schumer (D-NY) Scott (R-SC) Shaheen (D-NH) Sinema (I-AZ) Smith (D-MN) Stabenow (D-MI) Sullivan (R-AK) Tester (D-MT) Thune (R-SD) Tillis (R-NC) Tuberville (R-AL) Van Hollen (D-MD) Vance (R-OH) Warner (D-VA) Warnock (D-GA) Warren (D-MA) Welch (D-VT) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wicker (R-MS) Wyden (D-OR) Young (R-IN)

JD Vance, Marco Rubio, John Thune, and 83 other Senators voted to confirm Erika McEntarfer to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics

Pure Soviet shit...

DUN-DUN-DUN -- Maria Bartiromo and company react with stunned silence to a "disappointing" jobs report showing only 73,000 jobs were created in July