Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Administrator of CMS, announced that an internal audit uncovered over $1 billion in Medicaid payments to #undocumented #immigrants.

Undocumented or working green card holders?

I smell misinformation...

PROVE IT !!

BTW, the money is paid to the provider not to the patient.

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

CBS News is dead.

I'm glad broadcast journalists like Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley and Morley Safer aren't alive to see this.

Dr Oz: “I think we all agree that Covid has passed”.

No we do not agree!

Anyone who thinks Covid has passed has no business in charge of public health.

It’s still here. It’s still killing and disabling.

Get your booster if you can. Wear a mask (ideally an N95) and clean the air!

I’ve been watching & listening to Mike Johnson for the past few weeks. He has two basic go to responses; he lies outright or he says he doesn’t know anything about whatever the subject is. There is one solution for this problem. He doesn’t know anything about his job or lies. Get rid of him now!

The principal function of this amicus brief, by contrast, is to explain why it is unnecessary for the Court to address those questions because the applicants are not likely to succeed on the merits for an independent reason—namely, that both the President and the Solicitor General have mistakenly assumed that the term “the regular forces” in § 12406(3) refers to civilian law enforcement personnel (in this case, to actors in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers). That is incorrect. “[T]he regular forces” to which § 12406(3) refers are the regular, or “standing,” military personnel serving in the United States Armed Services. Even assuming arguendo that the President has the legal authority to deploy those regular military forces to help execute federal laws in Illinois—an uncertain question that this Court need not and should not address, see infra at 19-24—there is no basis for concluding that the President would be “unable” to enforce such laws with the assistance of those forces if it were legal for him to direct such a deployment. Accordingly, a necessary precondition for the President’s order to deploy the National Guard to Illinois pursuant to § 12406(3) has not been met.

Read the @martylederman.bsky.social amicus that almost certainly explains why SCOTUS is asking for more briefing on the Guard invasion of Illinois.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

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This show is so badass. Every time I watch it I am reminded how unserious the Trump Administration is. We are currently living on the kookiest timeline. 🤡 🎪 youtu.be/l6UX4V71jzc?...

America’s Team: the Toronto Blue Jays

When asked as to when he'd bring the House back into session, Mike Johnson responded with complaining followed by "what's the point?".

The House hasn't voted since Sept 19th and Johnson, unlike other federal employees, continues to get paid during the shutdown.

#Pinks

Cuomo is trash.

Zohran Mamdani is the bright future of the Democratic Party — brimming with excellent ideas about what working families need.

I was delighted to chat with him earlier today.

If you're a New Yorker, don't forget to cast your vote for him by Tuesday, Nov. 4.

Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."

WE FOUND THE WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE:

FBI Director Kash Patel used a $60 million government jet for a booty call during the shutdown.

Not the first time. In April, he made multiple trips to Nashville to see his 26-year-old country-singer girlfriend and even flew her around to hockey games.

Casually

Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽

Six days left and a whole lotta doors to knock.

Let's get it: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

Killing people on the open seas without a declaration of war is mass murder.

😯

Well, my family has lost health insurance.

My disabled family member has lost their health insurance and they can't get the health insurance that they need and the support that they need.

We are living in a country that is going to kill us via soft genocide bc there's no access to healthcare

The fact that they’re charging her for THIS while saying Jan 6 rioters should go free makes me feel like I’m in a drug-induced nightmare.

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

Nuclear testing isn’t something you greenlight in a post, but turning national security into a fear show is how authoritarians rule.

As a self-employed middle-aged person who doesn't have an employed spouse to lean on for insurance and also has a chronic condition that is well managed with proper care and a $$$ medication, I don't know if I can convey how frightened I am about the increase in premiums on the exchange.

A big night for Trey Yesavage 🔥

The Blue Jays pitcher broke the rookie World Series record with 12 strikeouts.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Do you really think they check the backgrounds of these ICE goons? Ever think you could be walking down the street, get grabbed by a group of masked, armed maniacs, and end up in jail in a country you’ve never heard of?

They must expect a lot of people all over the country to be really upset about something next year. I wonder what that could be?

How long before mainstream media starts correctly comparing ICE to the Brown Shirts?