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A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Screenshot of opinion by Judge Karen Henderson: KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge, statement respecting the denial of a stay pending appeal: “Throughout the 1600s, the Stuart monarchs engaged in a titanic struggle with Parliament regarding who would reign supreme over the public purse. That struggle was marked by civil war, regicide and a new wellspring of liberty in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. By the end of the upheaval, Parliament emerged supreme in matters of taxation and spending. Our Constitution followed suit, granting the Congress plenary control over the public fisc. Recently, the Executive has once again locked horns in a struggle for control over the purse strings. Across a slew of cases, recipients of congressional funding have challenged the President's ability to unilaterally freeze or "impound" spending.' Today's case is but the latest chapter in the ongoing saga.”

Karen Henderson is the longest-serving Republican appointee on the D.C. Circuit. She’s deeply conservative but not Trumpy.

In ordering the Trump administration to restore a congressionally mandated database of federal spending, she strongly suggests the president is engaging in king-like behavior.

@kairyssdal.bsky.social has been setting an example for broadcasters (public and private) and mainstream reporters in his strict "let's the cut the BS" insistence on truth.

All other broadcasters and (especially) headline writers: Follow his lead.

Words of Wisdom? "Respect your feet." Happy Birthday!!

it's crazy that you can be a writer for the new york times and not know who the current mayor of new york city is or the current budget of the NYPD, who despite a constant presence in the area failed to intercept a man walking around with a GIANT FUCKING LONG GUN

Remember when people used to use cultural events like this to defect because they were so desperate to become Americans?

Newly released video shows ICE officials detaining an Iranian-born father as he is driving his child to daycare in Beaverton, Oregon. ICE says Mahdi Khanbabazadeh overstayed his visa – but his family ... TikTok video by cbsnews

It is hard to rank upsetting ICE videos but goddammit this is up there www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6hXsURW/

NYC high school student freed from ICE custody endured abysmal conditions Joselyn Chipantiza-Sisalema’s story echoes what critics of President Trump’s stepped-up deportation campaign have been saying: Asylum seekers who’ve been told by judges they are s…

Icymi www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/17/n... NYC high school student freed from ICE custody endured abysmal conditions

When will this polling start to make a difference to the republicans still bending the knee (even as they say "I know [x] is problematic, but I'm voting for it anyway")?

Trump's approval hits new low as Epstein pressure mounts The news is all about tariffs, deportations, and Trump's Epstein Files shenanigans. He's underwater on all three

Trump's approval rating on his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files is -42, 17% approve to 59% disapprove on average. This is by far the worst issue of his presidency.

This week, Trump's overall approval rating also hit a new low of 42% and -10.9 net.

Tedious to point this out, but:

- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.

-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.

Linda Greenhouse We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty 4 min read

Amidst all the criticism the Times receives,
let's give credit to Linda Greenhouse.

This piece shows a level of moral clarity we should all aspire to.

"To everyone involved, from policymakers in Washington to the masked agents on the street, undocumented ppl are “the other”" 1/

Opinion | We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty

Icymi www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

Opinion | We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty

Icymi www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

And the 1st Amendment, but only to the extent that it protects straight white Christian men

But what's he saying to Beltway Dems, many of whom seem to be playing politics-as-usual (note the silence about ICE, eg, from most of them)?

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Sunday shows can't discuss this with Republicans because the logical, obvious outcome would be that Trump is irredeemably bad.

Republicans can't accept that because they agree with Trump, and Sunday shows can't accept angering Republicans, who they rely on as guests to remain profitable.

🇺🇸 US Army Veteran speaking out against the use of military or military detachments against citizens of this country. It is wrong.

GALLUP: “62% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of immigration, 45% strongly disapprove - Just 21% say they strongly approve of how the administration is handling immigration.” www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...

On this call right now and it's funny because most of the guidance for combat vets in attendance is "PLEASE PLEASE do not pick fights with ICE agents at the courthouse."

This is, of course, important, but it reflects how incandescently angry veterans are over the treatment of our Afghan allies.

The worst chief justice of all time Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.

Yes. For the past couple of years I've been saying that the pious John Roberts is the Roger Taney of our day.

I realize now that is unfair to the memory of Roger ("Dred Scott") Taney.

www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...

"We've had our primary. And the people have spoken."

24% of victims who call 911 over a DV incident are arrested or threatened w/ arrest themselves; victims are far more likely to be jailed than their rapists/abusers. You don't have to be a leftist or abolitionist to know the current response system doesn't work+endangers victims

There is no point in representing people who suck and who don't share your values. It makes you a phony. A mentor once told me, "If you truly believe in something, dig your foxhole, stand your ground and be prepared to die in it if necessary."

My kingdom for a Democrat who fights like this.

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Really? Icymi: bsky.app/profile/reic...

Giant bugs, heat and a hospitalization: Inside Alligator Alcatraz’s first days Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ambulance.

State officials have no answers to basic questions about the facility, like how lawyers or family can contact the people held inside.

At least one medical emergency has already occurred, which state officials called "fake news" despite a hospital confirming. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This is one of the first dramatic "rubber meets the road" demonstrations of what anyone who knows the *mechanics of modern governance* has been warning about.

—A fed agency that *exists* to measure, forecast, and warn about unsafe water levels.

—Roster of that agency shows mass purges via DOGE

Supreme Court clears the way for Trump's plans to downsize the federal workforce The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, via the shadow docket, has greenlighted the DOGE mass firings.

From us at NIH:

The Supreme Court is an arm of Trump and Republican Party.
It is not a court, but a political body. And it must be disempowered if we want functional science in the US. 🧪