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[Julia Seattle💙 @Juliane_Seattle]

@SykesCharlie @morgfair Saturday night in Washington

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.

Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.

A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.

[Julia Seattle💙 @Juliane_Seattle]

@iJermaine360 Did they speed up the footage?

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@atrupar OMGoodness…so silly

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@Thevictoria76 No

[Julia Seattle💙 @Juliane_Seattle]

@ABC But what about the curtain?

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@LegacyKillaHD https://t.co/hdzX0AfFLg

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@The_PunKing https://t.co/hdzX0AfFLg

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@atrupar 😡😡😡

[Julia Seattle💙 @Juliane_Seattle]

@atrupar So people who are financially insecure, can’t afford standard care for many reasons-likely struggling to get by & have a disability, or are mired with chronic disease, recovering from traumatic injury or surgery are just in your eyes watching tv and taking advantage?-Dr Oz=LOSER

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@cwebbonline @TrefaultPaulina 😟

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Scott Pelley gets real.

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@Reuters

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨🚨🚨 Kushner Albania deal

The best piece of journalism I’ve seen on this issue.

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@SenateDems @PattyMurray @GovPressOffice @nytimes @reuters @Angry_Staffer @dailybeanspod @gtconway3d

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The National Park Service ordered the removal of three quotes at the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston after visitor complained to staff about a quote related to women’s suffrage as being “woke” feminist ideology, according to people familiar with the matter. https://t.co/9Q4m4hV6M9

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“Trump’s power grab over the executive branch is intensifying. Trump seems no longer to care much about electoral consequences. It’s almost as if he doesn’t expect elections to matter because he’s going to do everything he can to make them not matter.”

https://t.co/g3usu8pl5x

[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

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Today, Jon Ossoff offered an amendment to stop insurance companies from denying or delaying medically necessary care.

Republicans blocked it.