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[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

The bad moment in question:

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“You picked Johnny Cash’s picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.”

@HunterBiden putting on a master class

[Khal R @KhalR17]

@SusieWiles47 Ah yes, so many accomplishments... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Hey media

Not a Platner fan, but why is he a nonstop story and not Ken Paxton's TWENTY indictments by a GOP led-Texas legislature, securities fraud charges and his wife's filing for divorce on "biblical grounds?"

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

MAINE VOTERS: “Would I date him? No, but we’re not looking for perfection… we have a Senate controlled by Republicans who are not holding this president in check, and that is a higher priority.”

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Trump has ordered Bill Pulte to begin mass firings at intelligence agencies as he claims the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is "too large and unnecessary."

[Marcus Stanley @MarcusMStanley]

The most shocking part of this story is that the NYT had a former AIPAC Activist of the Year (Katie Glueck) write a piece devoted to detailing unsubstantiated claims from a professional Republican activist (Lyndsey Fifield) on how a left Democratic Senate candidate who has promised to take on Israel (Platner) was a lousy boyfriend and sold it as a legit journalistic scoop.

[Khal R @KhalR17]

@RonDeSantis Those are futures bets. Those are not actual statistical likelihoods

[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

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Add schedule F to the list of things that the next president will have to undo

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@elonmusk The first problem here does not seem to be the 60 vote rule.

[Knoxie @KnoxieLuv]

Todd Blanche is lying when he says there is no evidence of Video cameras!

"At approximately 10:30 am, I was informed that the videotaping was concluded. I entered the residence and located two covert (hidden) cameras. The first camera was a covert wall clock in the garage area. I traced the wire behind the clock and removed the RCA wire and unplugged the camera, The other covert camera was located within a desk clock beside Epstein's desk."

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

@AaronRegunberg People are missing the Times' admission that they read all her texts and messages from this time, and they found no corroboration. They even read her diary. Nothing. All they found was a text saying she wanted to campaign for Collins.

[Rep. James Walkinshaw @Rep_Walkinshaw]

.@PamBondi accused me of “misrepresenting” her Epstein files interview.

Then the transcript dropped.

Turns out I quoted her word for word, 100% accurate.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

To my Democratic friends: If you are uncritically swallowing the uncorroborated word of the founder of “Ladies for Kavanaugh” then I’m sorry but you haven’t been paying attention to how the far right has operated over the last 20 years.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Pulte referred Lisa Cook and Letitia James for criminal prosecution over mortgage document errors. Scott Bessent committed the same errors. No referral. No investigation. Bessent is in the cabinet.

Same paperwork. Three people. Three completely different outcomes based entirely on who they are to Donald Trump.

That is the man now running 18 intelligence agencies. The willingness to weaponize regulatory authority selectively wasn't a disqualification. It was the job interview.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

Ok I’ve just read the Platner story. It is built entirely on the claims of a Heritage staffer whose accusations lack even one shred of contemporaneous corroborating evidence. Two other women Platner dated felt dissed, but that’s all.

The NYT is running oppo for Collins.

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[Saad Yousuf @SaadYousuf126]

the fact he may carve out time to attend two basketball games merely weeks after saying he didn’t have time to attend his own son’s wedding is objectively hilarious 😂

[Khal R @KhalR17]

@MarioNawfal @WajahatAli A bill that does way more than you just stated got voted down yes. A clean bill with just those changes, and not giving more federal control over elections, would have passed