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CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
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ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Native American woman nearly deported after Polk County Jail issues ICE detainer by mistake
A Native American woman from Arizona was nearly deported by federal immigration officials after a clerical error at the Polk County Jail. The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous...
www.iowapublicradio.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
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It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
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A very disturbing video has emerged from today’s ICE/CBP operations in Avondale.
An officer pushes a woman to the ground, prompting bystanders to react angrily and throw what appears to be a rock at a moving unmarked vehicle.
This seems to be the new normal in Chicago.
An officer pushes a woman to the ground, prompting bystanders to react angrily and throw what appears to be a rock at a moving unmarked vehicle.
This seems to be the new normal in Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
A very disturbing video has emerged from today’s ICE/CBP operations in Avondale.
An officer pushes a woman to the ground, prompting bystanders to react angrily and throw what appears to be a rock at a moving unmarked vehicle.
This seems to be the new normal in Chicago.
An officer pushes a woman to the ground, prompting bystanders to react angrily and throw what appears to be a rock at a moving unmarked vehicle.
This seems to be the new normal in Chicago.
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Yes, there is money there for taxing and doing good. But the real lesson of the Trump era is the degree to which radical wealth inequality confers toxic powers upon those at the top.
from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Yes, there is money there for taxing and doing good. But the real lesson of the Trump era is the degree to which radical wealth inequality confers toxic powers upon those at the top.
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New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
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📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
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For researchers in health equity 👇
We’d normally make some snarky comments about living among folks who get “a Chinese” and how they mispronounce jalapeño, but we are really grateful for every opportunity made available to our colleagues. 🇬🇧
We’d normally make some snarky comments about living among folks who get “a Chinese” and how they mispronounce jalapeño, but we are really grateful for every opportunity made available to our colleagues. 🇬🇧
@altcdc.altgov.info Flagging in case useful: sanctuary programme incl temporary relocation for health researchers just opened with UK academic institute for development studies! www.ids.ac.uk/news/uk-inst...
IDS offers sanctuary to US health researchers amid academic restrictions - Institute of Development Studies
American academics facing threats to their work on health equities can apply to temporarily relocate to the UK to continue their research, in a new initiative announced today. The Sanctuary for Health...
www.ids.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
For researchers in health equity 👇
We’d normally make some snarky comments about living among folks who get “a Chinese” and how they mispronounce jalapeño, but we are really grateful for every opportunity made available to our colleagues. 🇬🇧
We’d normally make some snarky comments about living among folks who get “a Chinese” and how they mispronounce jalapeño, but we are really grateful for every opportunity made available to our colleagues. 🇬🇧
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One way to make lots of money in politics is to find two special interest groups with directly opposed priorities - and then play them off each other for campaign cash. 🏧
This is exactly what politicians and lobbyists are doing today in our state legislature between the nurses and the doctors.
This is exactly what politicians and lobbyists are doing today in our state legislature between the nurses and the doctors.
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
One way to make lots of money in politics is to find two special interest groups with directly opposed priorities - and then play them off each other for campaign cash. 🏧
This is exactly what politicians and lobbyists are doing today in our state legislature between the nurses and the doctors.
This is exactly what politicians and lobbyists are doing today in our state legislature between the nurses and the doctors.
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violence is bad (i’ve been pretty consistent on that for a long time), and when you ignore the terror and violence that man unleashed on marginalized people in your pieces about violence being bad, you are erasing his victims
September 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
violence is bad (i’ve been pretty consistent on that for a long time), and when you ignore the terror and violence that man unleashed on marginalized people in your pieces about violence being bad, you are erasing his victims
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Here's me today on shutdown politics goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/shutdown-p...
And here's @mattglassman312.bsky.social mattglassman.substack.com/p/a-strategi...
We agree on almost everything, including that a shutdown is mostly a "do something" idea, except our final position...
And here's @mattglassman312.bsky.social mattglassman.substack.com/p/a-strategi...
We agree on almost everything, including that a shutdown is mostly a "do something" idea, except our final position...
September 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Here's me today on shutdown politics goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/shutdown-p...
And here's @mattglassman312.bsky.social mattglassman.substack.com/p/a-strategi...
We agree on almost everything, including that a shutdown is mostly a "do something" idea, except our final position...
And here's @mattglassman312.bsky.social mattglassman.substack.com/p/a-strategi...
We agree on almost everything, including that a shutdown is mostly a "do something" idea, except our final position...
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no one has ever been more furious
September 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
no one has ever been more furious
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His father and his uncle were literally assassinated... by people with guns... in the 1960s.
RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.
September 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
His father and his uncle were literally assassinated... by people with guns... in the 1960s.
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If you’re wondering what we have lost at the FDA, here is a handy info graphic for you.
September 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If you’re wondering what we have lost at the FDA, here is a handy info graphic for you.
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I'm demanding the Department of Labor reverse its failure to protect federal contractors with disabilities, a violation of both law and basic justice.
Rights and protections are not given nor handed down, we must stand and fight for them.
Rights and protections are not given nor handed down, we must stand and fight for them.
September 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'm demanding the Department of Labor reverse its failure to protect federal contractors with disabilities, a violation of both law and basic justice.
Rights and protections are not given nor handed down, we must stand and fight for them.
Rights and protections are not given nor handed down, we must stand and fight for them.
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DOGE, he said, began acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/insi...
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
www.propublica.org
September 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
DOGE, he said, began acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/insi...
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Fox: The Florida Surgeon General wants to end vaccine mandates for public schools. Good idea or bad idea?
Doctor: Bad idea. Measles is a wildly contagious virus and there is an incredibly effective vaccine. Nobody would say 'Can I bring a knife to school?' You can't bring measles to school either
Doctor: Bad idea. Measles is a wildly contagious virus and there is an incredibly effective vaccine. Nobody would say 'Can I bring a knife to school?' You can't bring measles to school either
September 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Fox: The Florida Surgeon General wants to end vaccine mandates for public schools. Good idea or bad idea?
Doctor: Bad idea. Measles is a wildly contagious virus and there is an incredibly effective vaccine. Nobody would say 'Can I bring a knife to school?' You can't bring measles to school either
Doctor: Bad idea. Measles is a wildly contagious virus and there is an incredibly effective vaccine. Nobody would say 'Can I bring a knife to school?' You can't bring measles to school either
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Interesting shutdown politics thread by health policy expert and former OMB official Topher Spiro.
September 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Interesting shutdown politics thread by health policy expert and former OMB official Topher Spiro.
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Re-reading the report of the Social Security whistleblower, it is striking how many times good people within SSA tried to keep DOGE from committing crimes.
Here's my understanding of the timeline 🧵
Here's my understanding of the timeline 🧵
whistleblower.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Re-reading the report of the Social Security whistleblower, it is striking how many times good people within SSA tried to keep DOGE from committing crimes.
Here's my understanding of the timeline 🧵
Here's my understanding of the timeline 🧵
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A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
August 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
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NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
July 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Had missed this earlier. Trump CMS ending ability for states to cover kids via Medicaid/CHIP continuously from birth through age 6 without red tape www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
Wyden Statement on Trump Action to Throw Kids and Their Families Off Medicaid and CHIP | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Statement on Trump Action to Throw Kids and Their Families Off Medicaid and CHIP
www.finance.senate.gov
July 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Had missed this earlier. Trump CMS ending ability for states to cover kids via Medicaid/CHIP continuously from birth through age 6 without red tape www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
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NEW STUDY + POD: today we are releasing a comprehensive study of Biden '20 voters who were then not moved to vote in 2024. Lots of surprises in here! Start with our discussion with genius pollster @celindalake.bsky.social here -🧵
YT: youtu.be/rxl7JDtdqD8
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
YT: youtu.be/rxl7JDtdqD8
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
How Things Fell Apart (feat. Celinda Lake) - Charting the Way Forward Ep 31
YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
NEW STUDY + POD: today we are releasing a comprehensive study of Biden '20 voters who were then not moved to vote in 2024. Lots of surprises in here! Start with our discussion with genius pollster @celindalake.bsky.social here -🧵
YT: youtu.be/rxl7JDtdqD8
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
YT: youtu.be/rxl7JDtdqD8
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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“If anyone...agrees sheltered workshops should continue, [they] obviously never worked at one."
For @motherjones.com, I spoke with disabled workers who used to be paid subminimum wage about Trump admin nixing the plan to end it for disabled people federally.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For @motherjones.com, I spoke with disabled workers who used to be paid subminimum wage about Trump admin nixing the plan to end it for disabled people federally.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump just made It OK to continue paying disabled workers peanuts
In many states, the push to end the subminimum wage continues.
www.motherjones.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“If anyone...agrees sheltered workshops should continue, [they] obviously never worked at one."
For @motherjones.com, I spoke with disabled workers who used to be paid subminimum wage about Trump admin nixing the plan to end it for disabled people federally.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For @motherjones.com, I spoke with disabled workers who used to be paid subminimum wage about Trump admin nixing the plan to end it for disabled people federally.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
