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[Grace Yarrow @YarrowGrace]

NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals

Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf

Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Donald Trump bought seven hundred fifty million dollars worth of stock, did not report it, and had to pay a $200 fine.

Remember that the next time the IRS threatens to garnish your wages.

[𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐒 @Antunes1]

Hunter Biden just attacked Jared Kushner 💥

“If you’re worried about who is selling out this country you might want to check out who is paying Jared Kushner."

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie were the lead authors and sponsors of the bipartisan Iran War Powers Resolution in the House. 💙

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Can we clap for the Albanians please? Over 100,000 of them took to the streets, shut down the capital protesting Maga Jared Kushner & Maga Ivanka Trump. Protecting their sacred lands from these vampires

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

TRUMP just admitted it on camera:

“Israel needed us. They couldn’t have done it without us. They couldn’t have even come close.
They needed us, and they got us to help them.”

America got pulled into this war because Israel couldn’t handle it alone.

[Kentucky Statesman @ky_statesman]

This is high treason.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.

And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.

His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”

Not whether it works.

Not whether Congress authorized it.

Whether it pleases Trump.

This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?

Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.

Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.

Grow a spine.

This is not about left or right.

It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.

History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
https://t.co/2yHKBTNLbj

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Pay attention.

Late last night the Trump-packed Supreme Court issued an UNSIGNED order to help Republicans erase Black voters and keep a congressional seat.

The Court's legitimacy is earned and they are burning it to the ground.

MAGA is rigging our democracy in real time!

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

NEW LAWSUIT: Kash Patel said his Olympic adventure was a work trip.

We filed a FOIA request to see the proof.

But the FBI told us it'd get back to us in... 2,010 days!

Public Citizen isn't waiting that long. We've sued.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former senior Trump administration official, said she resigned last month in part because she was increasingly frustrated with the lack of oversight of the intelligence community’s use of taxpayer funds—including gold bullion. 🔗 https://t.co/Db3dpdaTkr

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

DOGE was just a cover for the largest robbery of the American people in history.

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Congress wants to extend U.S. military benefits to Americans serving in a foreign army.

Not Ukraine. Not NATO allies. One country.

The bill is H.R. 8445. Here's what it would give you for serving in the IDF: your U.S. employer has to hold your job. Your U.S. loans get capped at 6%. Your U.S. home can't be foreclosed.

Benefits currently reserved for Americans who serve America.

[The Last Squatch @TheLastSquatch]

Melania never sued for the allegations she was close and intimate with Jeffrey Epstein

Eric never sued for the allegations that he has business ties China

Trump has never sued for being publicly called a pedophile

Q: Why?
A: Discovery and depositions

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Washington Post: Elias Irizarry, a convicted Jan. 6 rioter, has been hired by the Trump administration to work in a Pentagon office that oversees highly classified military operations, according to four people familiar with the matter.

The hire has raised alarm among staff, who question how someone convicted of taking part in the assault on American democracy could be trusted with such a sensitive role in the U.S. government.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie:

“Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors — instant peace.”

“Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.”

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

BREAKING: Blanche testifies that the Trump tax blanket immunity order portion of the slush fund “settlement” is NOT rescinded. Judge Williams, who has reopened the case, has said there IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. I imagine her probe into whether there was a fraud on the court will continue.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Top journalist Rachel Maddow exposes a massive DOJ coverup. A federal judge caught Trump administration prosecutors redacting grand jury transcripts to hide their own gross misconduct.

The US Attorney illegally contacted grand jurors. Total corruption!