Agent of Democracy

son of a Navy pilot | dog lover | nascent photographer | history warned us

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

A remarkable moment I will never forget - she spoke truth directly to the face of power!

[CSPAN @cspan]

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: "The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors...may I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away."

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

We are governed by the dumbest group of cultists!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Solar is irrelevant in the winter"

(this, dear reader, is false)

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

This isn’t a “plea deal.” It’s a tornado siren for democracy.

John Bolton’s diaries were private & contained no classified docs.

Yet he might go to prison.

Trump stole actual classified docs, lied to investigators, and reportedly hid them.

Yet he’s in the Oval Office.

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

How it’s done with these dolts!

[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

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

Making coal great again! So 1961! Love this and screw clean energy alternatives and the jobs they create - just gimme that black lung disease!

[Josh Wingrove @josh_wingrove]

President Donald Trump will announce a plan today to send $425 million in government funding to 13 existing coal power plants in the US, as well as $185 million to build two more, @jendlouhyhc reports.

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

More of this is coming

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Yesterday I told you the government is pulling 900 ocean monitoring instruments out of the water.

Here is the part that should make every American angry, regardless of where you stand on climate.

Congress voted to fund this network. Not once. Twice. The Trump administration proposed cutting it by 80 percent in 2025. Congress restored the money. Proposed the same cut in 2026. Congress restored the money again.

So the administration labeled it a "descope" and ordered the instruments pulled anyway.

That is not a budget disagreement. That is an executive branch telling the legislative branch that its votes do not matter. The public paid for this infrastructure. Congress protected it. One office in Washington decided the public should not have it.

This is the pattern I document in 𝑾𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒅 𝑮𝒖𝒚𝒔. It is not about left or right. It is about who decides what Americans are allowed to know about their own planet.

Who should make that call?

[FactPost @factpostnews]

A highly dangerous maggot that eats the living flesh of pets, livestock, and humans has been discovered in Texas.

Last year, Trump ousted thousands of key staff from the office dedicated to preventing the spread of dangerous pests.

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

Huge if true 🙃

[America News @AmericaPartyX]

🚨TRUMP: THE U.S. IS IN THE MIDST OF FINAL NEGOTIATIONS TO END THE WAR WITH IRAN

[Outspoken™️ @Out5p0ken]

“To limit my War Powers.”

The Constitution is not a restraining order against Congress. It’s a restraining order against presidents who think they’re a King.

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

This regime will laugh when that happens - the 4th largest economy on the planet will begin to falter - and MAGA will cheer.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

California is about 4 weeks away from running out of jet fuel and diesel.

The issue is that there is no pipeline setup to get these fuels to California from other parts of the USA.

There are simply not enough tankers arriving in California to meet current demand.

The Strait of Hormuz is reducing oil supply and certain areas of the world without their own refineries are losing access to fuel.

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

‘Dumb’ with a b!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The President of the United States has discovered that a pool can be longer than a skyscraper is tall.

We live in the dumbest timeline.

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

This is insane!

[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

[Praise @tufpraise]

Because pedophiles are in power

[Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA]

If being a spineless bitch makes you a good America you can have that title. Eat your goy slop. Just do me a favor and switch your flag 🇮🇱
5k to 15k cost to every hard working American not getting paid millions.
13 dead Americans for Israel..
Traitor

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

Making America stupid is so on brand

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY

[Shaun King @shaunking]

Look at this.

The WHOLE WORLD does not want these Zionist pedophiles anywhere near their land.

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

@jacksonhinkle He is and a cultist sellout!

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

FTG

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

Albania just froze Kushner’s $4 billion coastal mega-project.

I think Albania is weeks away from building a nuclear weapon.

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

Fuck tRump!

[💙🇵🇷Deanna🇺🇦💙 @DemDeanna]

Thank you, Denmark. 🇩🇰

[Agent of Democracy @agent_democracy]

Deserved! He’s a sellout cultist!

[𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 @JimmyJ4thewin]

An activists tells United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio:

“You’re a cuck for lsrael.”