The main pro-MAHA/Kennedy group is urging his supporters to flood congressional phone lines after his combative hearing last week.
(I reported here on how the group has been deploying a media strategy to promote him, icymi: bostonglobe.com/2025/09/01/n... )

DHS announces they're increasing the amount local law enforcement agencies will get for cooperation agreements for immigration enforcement:

Another example of the Trump administration pushing policy priorities in many different ways: US Citizenship and Immigration Services announces it will seek to deny visas to transgender athletes looking to come to the US to compete in women's divisions (ahead of LA Olympics)

Interesting -- Dem members of Congress are individually suing over being blocked at immigrant detention centers.
(As the minority, they can't prompt the House to take legal action on this if the majority doesn't agree)

👀
House Ethics report on Rep. Mike Kelly:
ethics.house.gov/wp-content/u...

Just for a sense of how much Trump 2 is different than Trump 1, check out the difference in tone for the USCIS July 4 naturalization ceremonies message this year vs. 2019 and 2020 as examples.

Barrett noted this in her opinion

As Trump repeats (and Kennedy has said multiple times recently) that the administration is phasing out food dyes, here's a reminder on how Kennedy and Makary answered reporters' questions at the announcement about what formal steps they are taking:

Scenes from inside the Oval Office today with the South African president and delegation from my vantage point as the print pooler

In response to questions from Sen. Warren, the military says it has spent roughly $1.2 million on deportation flights, which cost about $26,000 each
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Just jaw-dropping numbers over a five year span:
www.wbez.org/health-medic...

Verrrrry interesting line-up for an upcoming appropriations hearing when you remember that it is Trump's own party that makes the witness list

What year is it, because I am NOT doing middle school again, I don't care how good the music was

Shutdown probability seems to be on the rise ...

Will deeply miss reading Kevin Fagan in the SF Chronicle. Read his last dispatch after nearly two decades on the Zodiac beat:
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
And spend some time digesting this part:

Well this wasn't forecast: Dr. Oz for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator