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[Travis @timefried]

@Verbal_Vortex Oh please!

[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

[t/a Underscores Rn’t Us @AndyPlumb4]

‘Two men charged in relation to Southampton disorder’

Your footage was invaluable, @YoungBobRB.

Thank you 😉

[Osasu Obayiuwana @osasuo]

Wait a minute… Somalian @FIFAWorldCup referee Omar Artan has been denied a visa to travel to the United States to participate in the tournament? 😳

[Brian Owen @Brian__Owen]

Albion liked a lot of what Ayto did and thought he would come to love and trust the data model as they do.
Ayto thought they would bend a little to his way of working.
Good intentions, by the sounds of it, but ultimately it was not the right fit. #bhafc
https://t.co/4abKgYSZY4

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

A special ‘well done’ to all of the live streamers, content creators and ‘auditors’ who have ended up doing a lot of the police’s investigative work for them surrounding the disorder in Southampton last night.

[Travis @timefried]

@EssexPR @ahsanforbritain @DerylLynn ‘Commentator’ 😂😂😂

[Zona Concacaf @ZConcacaf]

¡¡FIFA EN TREMENDO LÍO!! 😳

La FIFA enfrenta una nueva y grave acusación: habría usado plataformas de reventa NO OFICIALES para deshacerse de entradas de partidos con poca demanda, en lugar de bajar los precios en su propia web.

¿El motivo de la supuesta jugada? Si la FIFA bajara los precios oficialmente, los miles de fans que ya pagaron PRECIO COMPLETO podrían exigir que les devuelvan la diferencia. Moviendo las entradas por fuera, evitaría ese problema.

La sospecha estalló cuando aparecieron FILAS Y SECCIONES ENTERAS juntas en la plataforma SeatGeek para el Arabia Saudita vs Cabo Verde. Algo que no ocurre en una reventa normal entre aficionados.

SeatGeek y StubHub NEGARON tener cualquier acuerdo con la FIFA. Y esto se suma a la investigación que ya abrieron Nueva York y Nueva Jersey contra el organismo.

[Inevitable_GB_News (TWAT ACCOUNT) @GBNews23653867]

🚨@YoungBobRB has gone quiet, we hope he's ok after filming all those #FarageRioters and helping the police identify them so they can be prosecuted.

[Travis @timefried]

@timespolitics Simply not true.

[Travis @timefried]

@Fiiiinchh @bhafctom90 @PolymarketSport ‘They would have hoped’

[Travis @timefried]

@Fiiiinchh @PolymarketSport Clueless

[Miss Chief 🤨 @Midge1415]

I find it kind of astonishing that people who were enraged about police officers being attacked at Manchester Airport went to Southampton last night to erm….attack police officers 🤔

[Travis @timefried]

@ZiaYusufUK Oh do be quiet. Cosplaying at politics is really very unseemly.

[Travis @timefried]

@PKikos @ZelenskyyUa @Keir_Starmer You failed your objective Paul

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

HOLY CRAP 🚨🚨

Albania’s anti-corruption prosecutors just froze Kushner’s dirty assets in the $4 billion resort fraud probe.

The jewish-linked land grab on the Albanian coast is collapsing under fraud investigations and furious public protests.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

I would boycott UFC because of their ties to Trump but I already don’t watch that stupid shit because I’m not a moron.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

If you haven't sussed yet that Farage has complete contempt for democracy, you're probably a Reform voter.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

We have laws about hate speech & inciting violence. The purpose is to prevent civil unrest. But if you're a well connected ex-City boy, they probably won't apply to you.

[Dave Holmes @DaveHo1mes]

How disgustingly predictable from Farage to slither out of hiding to try and take advantage of the suffering of an innocent family at a time of tragedy.