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[christylemon☮️ christylemon23.bsky.social @christylemon]

@SenRandPaul @bret8202 Apparently, you haven’t read the act. This is going to hurt Republicans way more than Democrats. Just might end this malignant administration.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is one of the few officials in America willing to stand up and make the Fake Electors pay a price for trying to steal the 2020 election. She is a hero.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

RO KHANNA: “Let me be clear, Netanyahu is the one that actually told members of congress to add section 224 (merging the U.S. and Israeli militaries) into the bill.”

Khanna says the quiet part out loud. Our elected officials are subservient to a foreign nation. We are Occupied.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

The House Armed Services Committee just voted to merge our military with Israel's. This is utterly insane!! @RoKhanna tried to stop it and nearly all the Democrats voted against him, too! Nearly our entire Congress is bought by the Israeli lobby. This is a core betrayal.

[christylemon☮️ christylemon23.bsky.social @christylemon]

@sickofdischit @HunterBiden @Cactuscali19912 What a joke! Miller has a BA, that’s it. And a long history of being a white nationalist.

[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

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

BREAKING: Senate Republicans have just begun a marathon vote-a-rama in the Senate.

Why? Not to lower health care or housing costs. Instead, they are fighting tooth & nail to give ICE another $70 billion blank check with ZERO reforms.

A disgrace.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Trump the idiot... thought that Massie, Cornyn and Cassidy were "immediately" "kicked out of Congress" after he defeated them in the GOP primaries.

He didn't realize they can still vote until the Christmas recess.

So did a lot of the MAGA morons.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, this sick old man can't even keep himself upright, seated in the Oval Office.

He's practically sideways. How TF is this not a bigger story?

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@SoundDobad I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Rep. Fletcher: The New World screwworm has been found in Texas. This flesh-eating parasite previously eradicated from the U.S. poses a huge threat to our cattle. Last March, the Trump administration fired more than 15,000 USDA employees and eliminated a program to contain the screwworm in Central America. The threat of New World screwworm is just one consequence of the Trump administration's reckless campaign to eliminate funding for government programs that Americans rely on.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

About to hit REM during those extended blinks.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Doctors also said they’ve seen a growing number of adults refuse tetanus shots for themselves, and parents refuse them for their children after injuries such as dog bites or lacerations from dirty objects.

Roughly 1 in 10 people infected with tetanus die; a full course of vaccination is very effective at preventing infection.

Dr. Sonali Meyer, an emergency medicine physician in Minnesota said a patient refused a tetanus shot by saying, “I know you get paid more the more shots you give, but no thanks.”

https://t.co/R4RGzgJyeN

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

A terrible outcome from RFK and others promoting vaccine skepticism.
https://t.co/iLNiEcfxtj

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Trump administration has been telling you they had screwworm under control for months. Now, it's here.

What happened? Trump and DOGE slashed funding for screwworm monitoring programs.

And the entire GOP let them. Thank them for today's new hell they unleashed on you.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

i will never forgive the American people for voting this guy back into office because of burger and gas prices just to watch him put worms in the burgers and shut off 20% of the world's oil supply

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The NAACP asked a federal court to stop the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing a rule that could block voters from receiving mail-in ballots — arguing it violates a court-enforced settlement that requires USPS to prioritize election mail through 2028. https://t.co/KxWFrKxKQG

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

AI could generate trillions in wealth in the coming years.

We can let Elon Musk and a few Silicon Valley billionaires become richer and richer—OR we can tax AI and invest in schools, healthcare, and workers.