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@RestPoliticsUS Trump is death.

[The KardashiHENS 🐔 @kardashihens]

@NathanJRobinson @RavenRage2010 This is like the Epstein files. I read it and want to vomit and scream.

[Amy Coplan @amycoplan]

It’s worth remembering that last year the White House intervened with the Romanian government & then U.S. customs & border officials in order to remove travel bans & restrictions to enable the Tate brothers to travel to & throughout the U.S..

This was reported by the BBC, FT, WAPO, & other outlets—as Grok details:

https://t.co/6930FN3xny

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JFC

[Critter @asclepiasyriaca]

@NathanJRobinson @BarbaraComstock The more human trafficking charges the Tate Brothers accumulated, the stronger their alliance with the right wing manosphere and the Trump family.

Trump intervened to help them evade prosecution for sex with minors, human trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

@NathanJRobinson @krystalball Fun fact — Before he gave the brother’s scumbag lawyer a job in the WHITE HOUSE, Donald Trump personally intervened on their behalf to lift their travel bans so they could come to the states.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

New Yorker exposé of Andrew Tate is even more horrifying than what we already knew. According to it, he raped and beat a 15-year old girl and bought her off with teddy bears. Tate was promoted by Tucker Carlson, Don Trump Jr., and Musk suggested he should be UK prime minister

[Xavier Becerra @XavierBecerra]

All you need to know.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear @NYCMayor / @ZohranKMamdani

BAN THIS EVIL PRACTICE NOW!!

BAN CARRIAGE HORSES IN NYC.

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

The Supreme Court has been rubber-stamping the regime’s attacks on working families while protecting billionaires.

It’s time to hold John Roberts accountable.

Tell Congress to impeach him:
#CantAffordTrump
https://t.co/TVKgC1ilEm

[Jerrad Christian for Congress @JerradChristian]

I'm running for Congress against a ghost. Most people in our district have no idea who Rep. Troy Balderson is, and that's the way he likes it. I will never hide from my constituents. If you've got a problem, you'll talk to me.

[The Poke @ThePoke]

A Democratic congressman just demanded full disclosure from the White House about Donald Trump’s well-being and he’s really not messing around
https://t.co/dF4fmoCIB4

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Ohio secretly gave 100% sales tax breaks, lasting up to 40 years, to tech giants for data centers, per https://t.co/9Wr6itu0Jb.

The exemptions—signed by Gov. Kasich—give Google, Meta and Amazon at least $600 million each.

Legislators say the contracts can't be undone.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Republicans want to hand over another $70 BILLION to ICE and CBP with zero meaningful guardrails or reforms.

This bill is a sham and does absolutely nothing to address the real issues Americans are facing. I’m a NO.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Babies.

[Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg]

A new GAO report details “millions of dollars of waste” and several serious incidents at an ICE tent detention camp in El Paso: a detainee who died after an officer used force, a detainee suicide, and a detainee with TB housed with the general population
https://t.co/nSC1NDB4QL

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught.

A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.

1. I have the right to do it.
2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump.
3. People don’t care.

That’s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they’re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now.

Please stand up and prove him wrong.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"I support impeachment, full stop, of the president and his cabinet. It's the reason why I'm running. ... [Removing @realDonaldTrump] is the first thing we have to do before we can even think about getting to the other things, because he stands in the way, and he's making everything worse."

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

There is nothing left of the Justice Department I worked at.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

I’ll never forgive Susan Collins for giving us Brett Kavanaugh who took away federal protections for our right to choose.

[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