Parsuvian

#resistance, Interested in politics, science, history-- American democracy is in grave danger. When Rome becomes imperial, the whole world will pay the price.

[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

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

💤💤💤 Donald Trump fell asleep multiple times in the Oval Office today…. AGAIN!

That’s why we must invoke the 25th Amendment NOW.

This *man* is unwell and must be removed from office.

It’s a national security crisis.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Trump blatantly lies about China's windmills, saying they built 2 windmills last year.

Fact is China added a record 120.5 GW of new wind power capacity in 2025, accounting for roughly 73% of all new wind power installed worldwide. That’s not 2 windmills. That’s likely tens of thousands of new turbines.

China now has the world’s largest wind power fleet by a massive margin. Either Trump has no idea what he’s talking about, or he expects his supporters not to fact-check him.

"China, by the way, last year built 52 coal plants. They built about two windmills. You know, the only time they build a windmill is when they're trying to sell them to stupid people from the United States, the suckers. And by the way, and all over Europe, they sell the windmills, but they don't use them. I wonder why?"

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

A sexual predator responding to a female journalist by telling her to smile.

Absolutely disgusting.

[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?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

A new Post analysis finds the video showing the Trump administration’s recent Pentagon appointee clambering into the Capitol on Jan. 6

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

cc: @SecRubio

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Kyle Kulinski: “Jake Tapper wrote a motherfucking book about Joe Biden and his cognitive decline and the massive cover-up. Well Jake, why don’t you get to work on your Trump book now because I guarantee you the cover-up that’s happening with him is way worse and way more severe and they’re covering more extreme stuff. His body is failing and his mind is failing on a regular basis”

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

❌❌❌ DONALD TRUMP & JEFFREY EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS and I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who these monsters are and why the incriminating portions of The Epstein Files have suddenly disappeared ❌❌❌

[Rep. Ted Lieu @RepTedLieu]

Is something wrong with the president’s health and what does Marco Rubio know?

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Trump told Americans the bombing of the Minab girls' school was "done by Iran."

Then investigators, satellite imagery, and multiple news organizations began reporting something very different.

The school wasn't just collateral damage.

It appears the school itself was on the target list, allegedly due to outdated intelligence that misidentified it as a military site.

The result?

Roughly 165 people killed.
Most of them children.
Many of them schoolgirls.
So let's review:
A girls' school is destroyed.

Trump blames Iran.

Then evidence emerges pointing to a U.S. strike.

Those children deserved better.

And the American people deserve the truth 💔

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

George W. Bush: ZERO trades
Barack Obama: ZERO trades
Joe Biden: ZERO trades

trump: 3,700 TRADES

TRUMP IS CORRUPT AF.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Trump hasn't been seen in public in almost a week. Is he dead?

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

"Both terrifying and predictable" is a description that applies to almost everything about the second Trump administration.

[VoteVets @votevets]

Trump is reportedly about to hand them $300 BILLION to end a war that he started but can't win. This is what losing a forever war looks like.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Lawrence: “…Donald Trump’s face will never appear on American currency ever because the 60 votes necessary to do that in the U.S. Senate will never exist, and our self-clowning Treasury Secretary KNOWS that, but he felt the need today to carry his public worship of Donald Trump to the point of now being locked in history as the BUFFOON who actually held up that obscene piece of counterfeit money today in the White House…”😂😳

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

When Obama gave them $1.7 billion (of their own oil money) y'all dipshits considered it treason. When Trump gives them $300 billion of our taxpayer money y'all cheer in the streets. Make it make sense

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump’s slush fund for fascists was blocked and a rogue ICE agent was just arrested for shooting an immigrant.

Happy Friday!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

NEVER FORGET TRUMP RAPED LITTLE KIDS

And MAGA is totally cool with it.