"Dave Murphy, a former fundraiser for Kennedy’s 2024 presidential bid..estimates that a minimum of 10, & as many as 20, Republicans could lose their seats on the pesticide issue alone."
With new lobbying & electoral orgs:
"“We will be targeting Republicans in Congress that have stood against us""
Name them
shame them
President Trump is going to promote the Rural Health Transformation Fund today. The program:
-gives states only a fraction of what they're losing in Medicaid cuts
-rewards states that implement Trump-favored policies like SNAP restrictions
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
“> 800 service sites were unable to provide Title X services. 100s of 1,000s of patients were unable to get..services. So the impact was tremendous..
damage certainly was done as a result of their unlawful withholding of the funds.”
-Brigitte Amiri, deputy director, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project
BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
For the vultures, by the vultures, f*** everyone else…
"[Sundareshan] added that she’s concerned the structure of the program will penalize states like hers that have a divided government — in Arizona’s case, a Democratic governor and Republican-dominated state legislature — where it’s difficult to pass major health policies of any kind."
"“They’re holding our rural health as a hostage, essentially, for these broader policy goals, and that’s a problem,” said Priya Sundareshan, a Democratic state senator in Arizona, one of the dozen states that refused to adopt SNAP restrictions."
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
NEW: The Pentagon inspector general says Hegseth’s Signal use endangered U.S. troops and missions and the department still lacks a secure messaging platform.
NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
"the policy could burden already overwhelmed hospitals if immigrants skip preventive care b/c they lack health ins. & end up in the emer room. [Health pol. experts & imm. rights advocates] also predict it'll make it harder to control both outbreaks of infectious diseases & chronic health conditions"
"Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough"
" The best way to prevent whooping cough is by receiving the Tdap or DTaP vaccine, which protects against three bacterial infections — diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, say public health experts." kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
Organizers told me that at least 7 faith leaders were among those arrested on Friday.
In a statement posted on X, DHS referred to demonstrators as "imbeciles" who need to "get a job."
One pastor told me "this is our job," adding, "to advocate for the oppressed. religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Republicans see RFK Jr. as an asset for the midterms.
Democrats -- looking at recent polling on his vaccine moves as measles outbreaks proliferate -- are confident he'll be a liability.
My latest -->
PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
We'll keep a (metaphorical, because there will be cats that like to knock over things) flame lit for ya at the watch party our friends are hosting...
Avelo is an ICE Air charter, transporting shackled detainees on deportation flights. You'll not be shocked to learn that the flights are a fiasco: loss of cabin pressure, slow evacuations, dangerous cargo onboard, no safety checks, long tarmack delays.
Great piece by Gillian Brockell:
Alabama is about to lose PBS! Alabama Public Television's board is meeting to decide whether to stop carrying PBS. APT is projecting millions of dollars in lost donations if they lose PBS. This could kill public TV in Alabama. This meeting is open to the public. Tuesday November 18 at 10am 2112 11th Ave S. #400 Birmingham Al 35205 Or watch it live at aptv.org
I know fewer local people on here but if you live in Alabama and in particular are in driving distance to Birmingham, the APT board of directors is meeting to decide whether to cut PBS, if you can make it out on Tuesday to show them how important PBS is to you it would be very helpful.
Extremely minimally hopeful that, w/ things like the Mamdani win, hagiographic garbage like this is on its way out. Bush-Cheney set us on the course toward the Tr*mo nightmare & Obama/Biden didn’t do nearly enough to break w/ it. Show me Joe’s tweet a/b what a great family man Darth Vader was next.
Capt. White, who oversaw detention of unaccompanied minors during Trump's 1st term, told me that the ICE's current dragnet and plans for a massive expansion of detention "cannot be made humane or healthy or safe no matter how many people you throw at it.” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
“The lack of medical staffing is a consistent theme..Specialist care is denied. People are transferred from place to place before they’re able to actually get their care. People are not given medication.”
Eunice Cho, @aclu.org
Human rights groups are also concerned that deaths may be undercounted."
"-Earlier this year, DHS tried to to eliminate its offices that investigate complaints of discrimination, neglect & mistreatment of detainees..
-After human rights groups sued, the offices were restored in May, but 100s of..staff were laid off a few months later..
-Trump also fired..independent IGs"
“The larger problem is that this is a system to abduct & detain people w/o meaningful due process. That is inherently harmful & can't be made humane or healthy or safe no matter how many ppl you throw at it.”
CDR Jonathan White, oversaw detention of undocumented, unaccompanied minors-1st Trump admin
"the admin isn't having conversations a/b offering subsidies to companies that provide fertility benefits to employees, according to another senior official, & no employer will be required to offer [them]..
..new policies also don’t directly address [IVF cost] other than the 1 pricey fertility drug"
"“If you’re a researcher..conducting research w/ ppl seeking abortion care, even ppl seeking maternal health care, & you provide them w/ details a/b abortion services, are you aiding & abetting..? There’s a lot of confusion. There’s a lot of fear.”
The FDA did not respond to a request for comment."
Big protest from immigrant organizers in the Wilson Building today demanding an end to MPD cooperation with ICE. A spicy banner, too.
Some video from earlier, multiple journalists bloodied in the scrum. This is just 90 seconds of over 10 minutes of extremely aggressive LAPD response tonight
"Health policy experts and patient advocates who expressed relief that the Trump administration opted to defend Obamacare remain concerned that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials will now deploy that power to reshape what services must be covered by insurance without copays."
