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[KentuckyBlue🐎 @KentuckYCat73]

@reredevaux Good gravy, built like mama!

[Karolis Stasiukenas 🇺🇸🇦🇹🇪🇺🇮🇱🇺🇦 @Texas_Charles]

Wait wait wait… let me clutch my pearls properly.

The “bombshell” is Talarico dated a woman he worked with, who wasn’t even his staffer?

My God. A grown man dated a grown woman. In Texas. Somebody put the brisket in the storm shelter.

Y’all spent year calling him a gay vegan communist, and now the article accidentally discovered heterosexuality.

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

@bwaltens First he was gay, now a womanizer? Sounds like a single man dating. The alternative is a man who’s cheated on his wife multiple times. What are we doing here?

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Let's be clear about what happened: DOGE cut the programs and staff that tracked dangerous outbreaks like screwworm.

So this has nothing to do with Joe Biden, but Trump and DOGE definitely screwed our cattle industry.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?  

Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

@atrupar Whereas in fact...

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

Trump told me this a couple of hours before Bibi struck Iran. He has turned himself into a prisoner of other people's decisions.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

When Democrats tried in 2020 to get Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to count early votes early—like Florida—Republicans killed the bills so Trump could win day-of-voting tallies and try to throw out mail in ballots. It’s a scam for people Trump thinks are stupid.

[Juls @julshamel99]

This man is completely insane. How anyone with a functioning educated brain could vote for this man is unfathomable! He said no forever war. Now he says he didn’t guarantee it. He is a mentally sick man that can’t tell the truth and when it’s in his face just lies more. He is a complete disgrace.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I don’t really think it’s about me Karoline. I think it’s about the idea that we all have fallen down and that we all wish we could be a little kinder to each other. And we all hope for a little grace and understanding when we get honest with ourselves and the world. And we all have that friend or brother or parent or son that has fucked up but fought to get back on their feet. Or that may be you. Or it may be the one that lost the battle and we are mourning them every day- and asking why couldn’t he fight for himself. Whatever it is- it’s not about me. It’s about all of us. So I genuinely ask you to forget about me- and reach out to someone you love who is struggling and tell them you’ll fight alongside them if they will fight for themselves.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

If you think I’m trashing MAGA (whatever that is now) I really am sorry. I know for certain there are millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump that love this country and love their neighbors and love their families and struggle and succeed and fail just like me and you and everyone. And I don’t begrudge them their political affiliation in any way. I just abhor the hate. The meanness for the sake of being mean. No matter where it’s coming from. I’m not your enemy man. I’m really not. They’re trying to get us to fight among ourselves while they pick our pockets and piss on our legs and tell us it’s raining. I’m not doing that to you and I sure as hell know you’re not doing that to me. What could we possibly gain by hating each other as they walk off with all the food on the table. We can disagree with each other without hating each other. We just all need to break the algorithm man. It’s so much more fun finding a reason to love someone than it is finding a reason to hate them.

[At The Races @AtTheRaces]

GOLDEN TEMPO! THE KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER IS THE BELMONT STAKES WINNER TOO!

[KentuckyBlue🐎 @KentuckYCat73]

@atrupar I know he can afford a tailor.
He should splurge.

[KentuckyBlue🐎 @KentuckYCat73]

@CalltoActivism I'm guessing he touched his leg earlier since he knows it's "like a rock" and he is upset he missed his chance to touch it again.

[KentuckyBlue🐎 @KentuckYCat73]

@Acyn

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Might be worth doing some follow up reporting with the Trump Admin to see if they still think this was a good decision, but that would require doing actual journalism and we know that's in very short supply these days 🤡

[KentuckyBlue🐎 @KentuckYCat73]

@agraybee The sterile flies were male screwworms.
They don't eat the larvae.
Female screwworms mate only once so if they mated with a sterile male screwworm there would be no larvae.
She would lay eggs that never hatch for the rest of her life.

[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

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

DOGE cut 15K USDA jobs that included monitoring of screwworms in Mexico.

They also cut funding for a project, that released sterile flies, that helped maintain a buffer between Latin American cattle and our domestic cattle.

Make sure to thank a Republican.

[KentuckyBlue🐎 @KentuckYCat73]

@YarrowGrace Bad time for this to happen with complete incompetence in charge.