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That's because it's illegal. The Executive branch is not supposed to have the power of the purse. That explicitly belongs to Congress.

Imagine if KJP or Psaki had said this about the Republican base: not just that half of them were “deplorables” but that the GOP’s “main constituency is made up of domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and violent criminals”? The media, not just Fox, would be in meltdown. GOP would be screaming!

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Remember when this was just “one narco-terrorist boat”? Now it’s multiple strikes, foreign nationals dead, and no oversight. At what point will Congress demand answers from this Administration?

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Federal law prohibits ERs from treating people differently based on their ability to pay or citizenship status.

“The show then cut to a break and later resumed the interview with Miller. Sanchez told the audience, ‘wires got crossed’. Neither Sanchez nor Miller mentioned Trump wielding ‘plenary authority’ again.”

WHY AREN’T JOURNALISTS ASKING BASIC FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS??

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

Oh look, vaccines work.

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show Songs in Spanish? In America?

"While ICE is invading immigrant neighborhoods and kidnapping people by the thousands, the fact that a hugely popular artist would sing in Spanish at the Super Bowl is a sign that America is still a polyglot nation. And that is unacceptable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peace-making and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch, with bombs & bullets - & rhetorical support! - that he supplied to Israel.
That's all erased now.

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Where the Law is Silent: Plenary Power & the “National Security” Constitution - Harvard Political Review The unspoken truth is that the Constitution can be ignored in the name of “protecting” it, and thus the nation, from minorities.

Plenary power: a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations.

Get used to seeing this term in the media for a while, after Stephen Miller accidentally used it in public with reference to the military.

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."

The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

So say it, Hegseth.

President Truman desegregated the military in 1948. That would be when the “wokeness” began, huh?

Say it.

Google joins presidential bribe club It's a "settlement." WINK WINK.

"If they can arrest James Comey, they can definitely arrest Google CEO Sundar Pichai. But the rest of us now have to live in a country that is much closer to oligarchy, thanks in large part to the quiescence of the tech bros who fashion themselves as defenders of free speech." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Who, Exactly, Is The Joke On? I didn't want to write about the fucking Riyadh Comedy Festival but I did.

"So when the First Amendment is under attack here, what do these free speech warriors do? Stay here and speak up or jet off to Jeddah to collect that bag?" michaelianblack.substack.com/p/who-exactl...

Trump's call to split up the MMR childhood vaccine revives long-settled debate President Trump's suggestion​ that the combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine should be separated marks a sharp break from decades of immunization practice.

“Combination vaccines were developed to reduce missed opportunities, increase coverage and minimize the trauma of multiple injections … Undoing that progress would put children at risk."

*ps, my editorial note: they are also SAFE

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

REPORTER: Should ERs check immigration status before treating a dying patient?

LEAVITT: That's probably not a question for me to answer. That's a question for healthcare professionals and legal experts to answer.

(That's not a no!)

Disabled and Covid Cautious people: “Don’t ban masks we’re in a pandemic and they’re a critical tool to protect ourselves”

Government: “Too bad. Masks are criminalized”.

ICE: “Don’t ban masks we need to hide our faces while we torture people”

Government: “Mask bans are unconstitutional”

The people who’ve been calling you baby murderers your whole life want you to turn down the temperature.

I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

"Immigration will destroy British culture"

Woah, I'm already pro-immigration, you don't have to keep selling it to me.

Insurance coverage and employment after Medicaid expansion with work requirements: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study Objective To understand how health insurance coverage and employment changed among working age adults with low incomes in Georgia, the first state to implement Medicaid expansion with work requirement...

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Evidence keeps piling up: Medicaid work requirements do not increase employment. They just make it harder for people to get health insurance.

Latest evidence comes from a BMJ study on Georgia. 🧵