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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year. n.pr/4z0FPpq
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'It's a nightmare.' Former refugee, professor on Trump's new Medicaid policy
Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 24/09/2026
New federal rules likely will force three dozen states to reduce their annual Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals by a total of more than $50 billion — potentially shrinking the number of providers willing to see Medicaid patients, according to a new analysis. From @stateline.org
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Doctors and hospitals to see lower Medicaid payments in three dozen states • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
New federal rules likely will force three dozen states to reduce their annual Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals by a total of more than $50 billion — potentially shrinking the number of provi...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thanks to @joanalker1.bsky.social & @edwincpark.bsky.social for rebutting the editorial. A conservative think tank said lots of people on Medicaid are not working. The Post just went with that without sourcing the claim or methods or noting it contradicts multiple credible nonpartisan studies. Awful
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Korakine @korakine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is not normal.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/09/2026
21 states, led by Attorney General Bonta, are suing the federal government to block a medicaid ban for those under 19 from taking effect. The new rule is slated to go into effect in six weeks. They raise novel legal issues, and have been successful before. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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21 States Sue Federal Government To Block Anti-Trans Under-19 Medicaid Ban
The rule is slated to go into effect in six weeks.
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Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You may remember that Trump fired nearly 20 inspectors general last year after he took office. The transformation of the system of watchdogs has continued since. They're "scared to do anything," one senior OIG official told us of those who are left. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
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From Watchdogs to ‘Lapdogs’: Inside the Trumpification of Agencies’ Inspectors General
Between canceled reports, deleted pages and mass firings, the government is getting less oversight.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lawyers for President Donald Trump issued a letter demanding the Center for American Progress retract a factual report or face a $5 billion lawsuit.
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STATEMENT: Baseless Threats Won't Stop Our Independent Research, Says CAP's Neera Tanden
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19/08/2026
Trump & Republicans have used "fraud" as a pretext to cut essential services that help Americans put food on the table & afford health care. Don't fall for their con. If they actually cared about fraud, they wouldn't have fired Inspectors General across the government.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 18/08/2026
Late last month, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services finalized a new rule broadly expanding the types of public benefits that, if used, would cause a green card application to be denied. prospect.org?p=142717
A candidate for U.S. citizenship holds an American flag and a USCIS envelope
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Mary Tuma @marytuma.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Texas committee tasked with reviewing maternal deaths has decided to forgo analyzing the two years following the demise of Roe v Wade. Health care advocates and lawmakers believe politics played a role, at least tacitly. My latest for @texasobserver.org: www.texasobserver.org/maternal-mor...
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Texas Maternal Mortality Committee's Next Report Will Skip Post-'Roe' Deaths. Lawmakers Suspect Political Influence.
And one Texan says the body’s decision “retriggered” the pain of losing his wife, who counts among the preventable deaths that soon followed the state’s abortion bans.
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just to clarify, this is due to Trump Admin guidance from June that again goes far beyond what H.R. 1 required by making it difficult for states to renew existing #Medicaid waivers/apply for new ones. H.R. 1 only codified longstanding budget neutrality policy. ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/06/25/t...
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Trump Administration Issues Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver Financing Guidance Which Goes Far Further Than H.R. 1 (Again)
On Friday, June 11 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new guidance on the Secretary’s approach to implementing Section 1115(g) which was added to the Social Security Act by H....
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you want to understand Trump's new Medicaid rule denying coverage of gender-affirming treatment for trans kids, read @matthewcort.land here: shouldntneedtobealawyer.com/posts/cms-mo...
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CMS moves to end Medicaid & CHIP gender-affirming care for youth | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
The Trump regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized a rule ending federal Medicaid payment for puberty blockers, hormo
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 04/08/2026
The Trump administration’s demand for states to provide Social Security numbers, immigration status, and other private information on low-income residents who receive cash benefits is improper and unconstitutional, a group of mostly Democratic-led states alleges. From @newjerseymonitor.com
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Pennsylvania among states suing the Trump administration over plan to share antipoverty program data • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
A group of states is challenging a Trump administration rule that would force them to provide data on people receiving antipoverty benefits.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.
thecityreporter.nyc
Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump 'Mega Master' Hearings Accelerate
A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
* U.S. HHS SECRETARY SAYS CMS IS PAUSING MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA @reuters.com
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OPB @opb.org · 10/07/2026
Starting Tuesday, the federal government embarked on what it says is a new way to process a backlog of cases. Now, hearings for minors are being moved up, sped up and packed in on more days — in what are called “mega master” hearings.
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Hundreds of children ordered to appear at new ‘mega’ immigration hearings in Seattle
Seattle's immigration court was packed with minors this week as the federal government attempts to expedite their hearings and work through a backlog of cases.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“.. The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” said David McCraw, The Times’s top newsroom lawyer .. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Also it appears that Alito and the majority are simply deciding on their own what the facts are, as if they are a court of first impression rather than an appellate court obligated to give deference to the lower courts’ fact finding.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.
MULLIN v. DOE
Syllabus
that the termination of Haiti’s TPS designation violated the constitutional right to equal protection because it was motivated by race. The
District Court granted interim relief, and a divided D. C. Circuit panel
declined to issue a stay. The Government sought a stay and a writ of
certiorari before judgment in both cases. This Court granted review,
consolidated the cases, and deferred ruling on the stay applications.
Held:
1. The TPS statute bars judicial review of non-constitutional claims.
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(a) Section 1254a(b)(5)(A) provides that “[t]here is no judicial review
of any determination of the [Secretary of Homeland Security] with respect to the designation, or termination or extension of a designation,
of a foreign state.” The term “determination” may mean either an individual decision or the process leading to a decision. Under either
understanding, §1254a(b)(5)(A) bars all of respondents’ non-constitutional claims. Further, the phrase “with respect to” “generally has a
broadening effect, ensuring that the scope of a provision covers not
only its subject but also matters relating to that subject.” Patel v. Garland, 596 U. S. 328, 339 (internal quotation marks omitted). Pp. 12–
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The CBO “estimated last year that there would be roughly 15 million more uninsured people by 2034 due to the Medicaid cuts and expiring subsidies. “We’re already at 5 million,” said Brad Woodhouse, executive director of Protect Our Care. “This is going to get worse.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
nbcnews.com
Medicaid and ACA enrollment falls by more than 5 million, new report finds
The decline over the last 12 months stems in part from President Donald Trump’s Medicaid cuts and the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New at Can We Still Govern: The Trump admin released a report saying that Medicaid work requirements will increase work and reduce poverty. There is a technical term for this: malarkey. Actual experts @chloeneast.bsky.social & @adrianna.bsky.social break it down. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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The Trump Administration’s Dubious Case for Work Requirements
Cherry-picked studies and unrealistic assumptions define a new government report
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Korakine @korakine.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
notus.org
The Trump Administration Is Taking a Strict Approach to Medicaid Work Requirements
New rules would help determine whether millions will fall off the program over the next decade.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
SCSEP trains older workers. The Trump administration wants to cut it www.cnbc.com/2026/05/16/s...
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This federal program trains older workers. The Trump administration wants to cut it
The Senior Community Service Employment Program provides older, low-income individuals with an opportunity to train for work. But its future is uncertain.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
One thing people don’t realize is that even if you don’t use Medicaid—even if you never would use Medicaid—your ability to access care, and your ability to access healthcare providers like me, will be affected in some way or another by every cut or barrier to Medicaid. Nobody will be unaffected.
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Korakine @korakine.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Terribly sad stories these folks have. And blood boiling that these prosecutors can't at least let them move on with the rest of their lives.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"The feds have been demanding that tech companies identify the administration's anonymous online critics." Civil liberties groups are now suing for more information on these speech-chilling subpoenas. [Autumn Billings, Reason]
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Civil liberties groups sue for information on ice's speech-chilling subpoenas
The feds have been demanding that tech companies identify the administration's anonymous online critics. That violates the First Amendment.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 23/04/2026
While testifying last week, RFK Jr. dismissed Medicaid programs that pay families to care for disabled loved ones as “rife with fraud” and claimed that they pay people to complete menial tasks they “used to do as family members for free.” Disability rights advocates & family caregivers are furious.
nbcnews.com
RFK Jr. draws backlash for ripping Medicaid programs that pay people to care for relatives
Advocates for disabled people and those who care for them said they were insulted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allegations that the programs are "rife with fraud."
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“To reduce the number of people stymied by paperwork and red tape, New York State has been working to automatically certify residents who are already fulfilling the requirements, by accessing information not only from state databases but from payroll providers.”
nytimes.com
Trump and New York Are in a Tug of War Over Medicaid Coverage
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
From my colleague Adam Searing: States are Beginning to Grapple with Federal Medicaid Cuts Impact on Rural Health Care ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/03/31/s...
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States are Beginning to Grapple with Federal Medicaid Cuts Impact on Rural Health Care
Over the past week more national media outlets published articles on the effects of federal cuts to health care passed last year by Congress and signed into law by President Trump in H.R. 1, “The One ...
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A very real problem with our foreign policy is that we are able to easily kill for causes we don’t actually think are worth dying for
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 23/03/2026
Sponsoring a spouse costs US citizens up to $2,675 in fees alone, $675 to petition, $1,440 to adjust status, $560 for a work permit. The government is cashing those checks and then doing nothing. That's fraud not delay.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad: "The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Minnesota has sued to halt CMS' unlawful, punitive effort to block federal #Medicaid funding through a "deferral". My colleague Andy Schneider takes a look at the lawsuit and how CMS isn't following its own regulations. A court hearing is scheduled for tomorrow: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/03/06/c...
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CMS Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid in Minnesota: The State Fights Back
On March 2, the state of Minnesota filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in federal district court. The case, State of Minnesota v. Oz, is in response to two actions tak...
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
As promised my colleague Andy Schneider with a *must read* blog taking a deep dive into the Trump Admin's latest unprecedented effort to block federal #Medicaid funding in order to punish Minnesota. A few key takeaways to follow (1/x): ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/03/02/c...
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CMS Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid in Minnesota: Part 2
At a White House press conference last Wednesday, Vice President J.D. Vance, newly tasked with leading a war on fraud, announced that “we have decided to temporarily halt” $259 million in federal matc...
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched. 1/8 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#1 in Rodriguez v. Porter (D. Idaho, 1:26-cv-00075) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number AIDDC-3055371.), filed by All Plaintiffs. (Attachments: # 1 Cover Sheet Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Cover Sheet Civil Cover Sheet Attachme...
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated. Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC... I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
GEORGE RETES: “My name is George Retes. I was born and raised here in Ventura, California. I’m 26 years old and I am an Iraq combat veteran.

I was going to work like normal. I show up. ICE is there. There’s kind of like a roadblock. I get out. I identify myself — that I’m a U.S. citizen, that I’m just trying to get to work.

I’m trying to leave. I’m getting ready to leave and they surround my car, start banging on it, start shouting these contradictory orders.

Even though I was giving them no reason, they still felt the need to — one agent knelt on my back and another agent knelt on my neck. And during that time, I’m just pleading with them that I couldn’t breathe.

I was in isolation. I was in basically this concrete cell. I was stripped naked in like a hospital gown. And they leave the lights on 24/7.

They just came out and they said that I was violent and that I assaulted agents. Why lie when it’s on video of everything that happened? Why lie?”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/02/2026
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
cnn.com
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
Thus, rather than require such adjudications, the Department is changing its regulations to provide the Board more flexibility in reviewing appeals. Instead, for appeals taken from decisions issued after this IF becomes effective, as explained in
Section IV.A of this preamble, the default will be summary dismissal unless a majority of current Board members vote to consider the appeal on the merits. And such dismissals
will occur quickly—within 15 days of filing the appeal—allowing aliens to seek Federal court review expeditiously, rather than potentially waiting for years for a Board decision that in the vast majority of cases would affirm the underlying Immigration Judge
decision.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Post by Internet Hippo that says:

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
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'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22/01/2026
it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 23/01/2026
--avg. net premium hikes: 102% (more than double) --over 70,000 PA enrollees have already dropped coverage (~15% of all 2025 enrollees) ...and more, including enrollment & avg rate hikes by HOUSE DISTRICT.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 23/01/2026
🚨 PENNSYLVANIA: More ugly #ACA data caused by Republicans letting the enhanced tax credits expire: acasignups.net/26/01/23/pen...
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Pennsylvania: More ugly ACA data caused by expiration of enhanced subsidies
A few minutes ago I posted a press release from Pennie (Pennsylvania's state-based ACA exchange). The release mostly focuses on the upcoming final Open Enrollment Period deadline for February coverage...
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What’s this old thing
Constitution of the United States
Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New in the Federal Register, CMS has taken the next regulatory step toward withholding federal Medicaid dollars from Minnesota, following its January 6 letter to Walz public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-00512.p...
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/01/2026
As Evan reminds me, the state subsidy program for low-income enrollees is mostly being paid for by retooling the *existing* program which ELIMINATED deductibles altogether for enrollees up to 250% FPL. In other words, over 800K just saw their deductibles skyrocket as well. bsky.app/profile/evan...
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