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How Are the Brains of Liberals and Conservatives Different?
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[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

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@MarioNawfal Very disingenuous, pathetic remarks by Rubio. USAID has been a force of American good will and saved 10’s of millions of lives with its efforts toward immunizations, aids prevention, malaria & infectious disease prevention programs. And on and on😡😡😡

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@ShaiDavidai ‘They’?

[Resurrected Relics @ResurrectdRelix]

Call your rep NOW and tell them how you feel! The house votes on this TODAY! Tell them to vote NO on HR 8800 on the grounds that section 224 IS TREASON! There are no acceptable amendments in that section, it must be STRICKEN FROM THE BILL ENTIRELY! Pass this message on! The time to act IS NOW!

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This is So Out of WHACK https://t.co/KTFv5RBhg4 via @YouTube

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Marco Rubio will probably go down in history as one of the key members of this regime that absolutely knew what he did in service of this regime was wrong, but he did it anyway in furtherance of his own political ambition.

Under his knowing watch, hundreds of thousands of people will die before this regime falls, as a direct result of both his complicity in conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and the gutting of USAID.

That’s before we discuss his treasonous complicity with Russia to abandon the people of Ukraine to an indicted war criminal. Rubio will be labeled the foreign policy Hannibal Lecter of the 21st Century.

He is responsible for the gutting of the US foreign diplomatic service and as you will see from this clip answering questions from Rep McBride. Despite knowing it is NOT in the interests of American national security, he shows utter disdain for the sacrifice of NATO allies who gave their lives to honour NATO’s article 5 call to arms in defense of the US after 9/11.

He has firmly cemented himself as the enabler in chief of the man running a transnational extortion gang from the Oval Office.

Not only is he a traitor to his country, he is a Judas to his catholic faith. May God have mercy on his already rotting soul.

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@VoteRandyFine @SenSchumer You ooze slime. Yuck.😖😖😖

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This!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[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.
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@JesseBWatters 4 republicans found their spines and FINALLY stood with the American people vs the insane madman in the Oval Office.

[Ben Tavener @BBCBenTavener]

Rodney Mims Cook Jr - the man charged with overseeing Trump’s ballroom and arch projects - was in no mood to speak to the press in St Petersburg today. Marco Rubio said he was “unaware” a US delegation was at the International Economic Forum, once dubbed “Putin’s Davos”. Surreal!

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@realannapaulina I’d like to report a prime culprit- you can find him in the Oval Office, he may be sleeping, but he’s still dangerous.

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@HarryBajraktari As an American, I question why Albania’s PM allows corrupted opportunists to seize one of the most pristine & valuable assets from the Albanian ppl? WHY? For money? There is no price high enough. You want American colonization on your lands? find another way! Respect Albanians!

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FIVE ALARM FIRE HERE🔥🔥🔥🔥😡

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸 A letter from Netanyahu to Congressman Stutzman reveals his plan to restructure the entire U.S.-Israel military relationship, in his own words: "my plan."

"The time has now arrived for us to move from aid recipient to partner."

The framework: draw down U.S. financial military assistance over the next decade and replace it with "joint defense cooperation, codevelopment, coproduction and mutual investment in advanced missile defense, artificial intelligence, unmanned systems, cybersecurity and next generation military platforms."

On the surface, this sounds like Israel weaning itself off American money.

But read it again. Aid is a line item Congress can cut with a vote.

What replaces it is structural integration: shared weapons development, joint production lines, intertwined AI and cyber programs, mutual investment in each other's defense industries.

You can end aid with a pen.

You cannot easily separate two defense industrial bases that build their next-generation platforms together.

After a war where a lot Americans said the U.S. fought for Israel's interests, the political vulnerability was always the aid line.

Netanyahu's answer is to delete the line item and replace it with something deeper that never shows up as a check Congress has to approve.

The relationship that critics spent this war trying to loosen is being rewired into something far harder to unwind.

Source: @ShadowofEzra

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@RepStutzman @TND @CharlotteHazar5 Apparently is wants to partner and merge with USA military as it sees its future in funding by Americans threatened - He wants an 'irreversible pact'... Better NOT HAPPEN!

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@IR_Media24 He’s a triple headed snake.. says one thing to Israelis and another to Americans, and yet another to the world!

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No, Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund isn't 'dead' https://t.co/R51QQe0m4q

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@HanShawnity There was never any 'peace through strength' that is a useless slogan and you've been had. There was only 'Personal enrichment through corruption' That's it. Americans were screwed. It's time to open eyes and see that we are on the same side on this issue.

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Albania Freezes Assets in Kushner Resort Probe | OCCRP(Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project) https://t.co/dGmKUEIQGn

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@RabbiPoupko So then, the oppressed became the oppressors. Israel killed all these kids + 80k innocents.