CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Dollars spent don't capture the human cost of this war, but the dollars spent represent a stark choice.
"Priced at around $2.2 million, a single Tomahawk missile could cover 775 children on Medicaid for a year or provide more than 3,600 children with meals in the National School Lunch Program."
Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Because housing assistance is drastically underfunded, only 1 in 4 eligible low-income households receive it.
Providing it to all who qualify would cost $118 billion a year—a tiny fraction of the proposed $1.5 *trillion* defense budget for 2027.
Poverty would fall 13% overall and 23% for children.
After receiving more than 32,000 negative public comments, the National Capital Planning Commission has delayed its final vote on Trump’s proposed $400 million ballroom. The commission moved the vote to its April 2 meeting next month.
If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.
They bombed a girls school you pricks
THEY BOMBED A GIRLS SCHOOL
"Let’s not bury the lede here: The DoD wants to use AI for fully autonomous lethal systems and mass surveillance of American citizens. Anthropic said 'no,' and now the US government is retaliating by trying to destroy it." — @lizdye.bsky.social
Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states
wishing a very SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN to all other anti-trans Democrats nervously looking ahead to their own primaries
🚨 BREAKING — At the request of Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Supreme Court has halted a Dallas judge’s order to extend voting hours.
29 point swing towards Democrats in *Arkansas*. Texas Republicans should be gulping nervously, right now.
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There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
people not in Texas, let’s get ready to open our wallets to whatever grassroots orgs are helping voters navigate this fucking bullshit (media campaigns, carpools and transport, door knocking, whatever is needed)
this fuckery cannot stand
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Let’s do WA-03 next. @gluesenkampperez.house.gov @bhennrich.bsky.social
PARALLEL RESULT #4, which concludes this thread on North Carolina.
RESULT: Over & over, Democratic lawmaker Shelly Willingham helped the North Carolina GOP override the vetoes of Governor Stein & Cooper.
He lost just now to a progressive challenger, 56% to 44%.
(And he's likely one of several in this position. Stay tuned.)
![screenshot of legal document filed by Trump's FDA with two sections highlighted in yellow, denoted by double asterisks:
Approval Suspension. The provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that specifies the circumstances in which a drug application can be withdrawn, 21 U.S.C. § 355(e), includes authority to suspend an application prior to its withdrawal. In particular, **if the Secretary of Health and Human Services 1 [refers to footnote 1] finds that a drug presents “an imminent hazard to the public health,” he may suspend the approval of the application (including a supplemental application) “immediately.”** 21 U.S.C. § 355(e). The Secretary then must “give the applicant [aka the drug manufacturer] prompt notice of his action and afford the applicant the opportunity for an expedited hearing” on whether to withdraw approval. Id. Approval may be withdrawn if, among other things, “new evidence of clinical
experience . . . evaluated together with the evidence available to [FDA] when the application was approved, shows that such drug is not shown to be safe for use under the conditions of use upon the basis of which the application was approved.” Id. § 355(e)(2).
Apart from the Secretary’s suspension authority, there are no “interim orders” FDA could issue. However, FDA possesses authority to require a sponsor to propose changes to a drug’s conditions of use, including by adding or modifying a REMS requirement related to prescribing or dispensing. The timing of implementation is...
Footnote 1: Although the Commissioner of Food and Drugs generally “execut[es]” the Secretary’s authorities under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. § 393(d)(2), **“the authority . . . to suspend approval of an application”—as distinct from withdrawal of approval—“shall not be delegated” and remains with the Secretary**, id § 355(e) (emphasis added)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fdfjfnhhyeo4hsmoxpeazsg/bafkreigmbfgslyj2xflilnjlgfcmpvjho7265dbtjexv3vkv4u25kcnvzq@jpeg)
screenshot of legal document filed by Trump's FDA with two sections highlighted in yellow, denoted by double asterisks: Approval Suspension. The provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that specifies the circumstances in which a drug application can be withdrawn, 21 U.S.C. § 355(e), includes authority to suspend an application prior to its withdrawal. In particular, **if the Secretary of Health and Human Services 1 [refers to footnote 1] finds that a drug presents “an imminent hazard to the public health,” he may suspend the approval of the application (including a supplemental application) “immediately.”** 21 U.S.C. § 355(e). The Secretary then must “give the applicant [aka the drug manufacturer] prompt notice of his action and afford the applicant the opportunity for an expedited hearing” on whether to withdraw approval. Id. Approval may be withdrawn if, among other things, “new evidence of clinical experience . . . evaluated together with the evidence available to [FDA] when the application was approved, shows that such drug is not shown to be safe for use under the conditions of use upon the basis of which the application was approved.” Id. § 355(e)(2). Apart from the Secretary’s suspension authority, there are no “interim orders” FDA could issue. However, FDA possesses authority to require a sponsor to propose changes to a drug’s conditions of use, including by adding or modifying a REMS requirement related to prescribing or dispensing. The timing of implementation is... Footnote 1: Although the Commissioner of Food and Drugs generally “execut[es]” the Secretary’s authorities under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. § 393(d)(2), **“the authority . . . to suspend approval of an application”—as distinct from withdrawal of approval—“shall not be delegated” and remains with the Secretary**, id § 355(e) (emphasis added)
NEW: The FDA just outlined the ways it could restrict the abortion drug mifepristone during its horseshit "safety" review. The first? RFK Jr. has the power to immediately suspend the approval of drugs that he deems “an imminent hazard to the public health”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This flew under the radar, but Trump's DOJ has abandoned its legal assault on the law firms that courageously refused to bend the knee to him.
This should serve as a reminder for the firms that sucked up to Trump: appeasing a tyrant will get you nowhere.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
🧵 1/4
Total eclipse of the full blood moon is tonight, in case you haven’t checked in on the doom portents lately.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE KAGAN would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE JACKSON joins, dissenting from denial of certiorari. This case asks whether federal law prohibits the poorest prisoners from splitting the $350 fee required to file a federal lawsuit when it allows everyone else to do so. The answer statutorily appears to be no. Because the decision below held otherwise and deepened a split among the Courts of Appeals, the Court should grant the petition for a writ of certiorari.
Petitioners Topaz Johnson and Ian Henderson were incarcerated at High Desert State Prison in California when they filed this lawsuit in federal court. According to their complaint, corrections officers forced them and a third prisoner to stand in filthy cages that reeked of urine and measured 2.5 feet by 2.5 feet. They alleged that the officers forced them to stand in those cages for nearly nine hours with their hands cuffed behind their backs.
By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS refuses to review a judge-made rule that bars indigent prisoners from splitting the filing fee among themselves when filing a federal suit—even though everyone else is allowed to split that fee. These defendants were allegedly tortured. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Reminder that the CFTC is already mandated by law to prohibit these kinds of contracts and is abdicating its responsibility
Florida doesn’t allow for same-day voter registration, so those left off the rolls due to a late postmark won’t be able to cast a ballot. “Voters are unfortunately out of luck if they register late,” says the state director for All Voting is Local.
“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”
These assholes are really gonna go with “war is peace, actually.”
