What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...

Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government.

Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.

Wow.
Good night!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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REPUBLICAN Senator Lankford on Trump bombing boats and killing people with no due process or real evidence they’re drug-related: “The administration needs to give Congress insight on this. If this was happening under Biden with this level of insight I’d be apoplectic.”

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

The GOP in Congress are worse than useless. They are craven enablers of murder.

This is literal insanity

In 2022, the tech critic and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe what's happened on the Internet to a lot of the most widely used platforms: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Spotify. He writes: "First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die." That could serve as a model for Trumpism too. Trump promised vengeance and cookies to his base, promised he could deliver whatever the hell Make America Great Again meant, even while he failed to deliver much besides corruption and destruction. He got a lot of business leaders on board with the usual Republican incentives of tax cuts and deregulation. Now the USA is a platform he's downgrading as he, yes, per Doctorow claws back all the value for himself – quite literally with his utterly corrupt side deals, including the self-dealing with Qatar, the Trump family cryptocurrency scams, the extortion of the news media and law firms for tens of millions of dollars, and most recently and outrageously, his demand that the US Justice Department hand over over $230 million to him for compensation for prosecuting him for crimes we know were real and he continues to lie about. Final-stage enshittification because the most powerful and wealthy country in the world is in crucial respects being run for the benefit of one man. That includes the fact that the obsequious Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has largely shut down the business of Congress for months in order to protect Trump from whatever's in the Epstein files...

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We are all paying for this vanity project

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

I hope something comes with this investigation, we have rights, we call it the BILL OF RIGHTS!

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Trump’s tax cut for billionaires is adding $425 Billion - monthly - to the national debt, and we’re fighting amongst ourselves for scraps.

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

You cannot trust the federal government Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie.

"The leadership of the FBI, DOJ, and DHS have proven their agencies are not capable of conducting investigations based on anything other than Trump’s political objectives. Simply put: the federal govt can no longer be trusted, & the Trump admin only has itself to blame." — @justinglawe.bsky.social

Be smart. No panic. No violence anywhere. This regime is making its move. No it's not a warrior ethos pep rally. Portland don't take the bait.

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Guy says to scientist presenting board full of evidence “Nuh-uh, some guy on Twitter just said you’re wrong.”

This is old, but seems more relevant than ever.

Reposted from The Woke Ginger, here is a list of companies that Sinclair has investments in, as noted on their website. This web page has since been taken down.

Sinclair broadcasting still refuses to put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. We could boycott these companies, ye??

Wait, the solution to the housing crisis is to provide housing?
THIS IS MADNESS!

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson The United States Constitution | Heather Cox Richardson

Wonderful, TRUE, factual, history! #WeAreAmericans
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There goes the First Amendment.

Paper Clip Protest On Thursday, E.

When E. Jean Carroll comes up with a good idea, we should all pay attention. And she has one here! open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Messier 96 is a spectacular spiral galaxy 35 million light-years away that resembles a giant maelstrom.

Interestingly it has an off-centre core and uneven arms shaped by nearby galaxies.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and the LEGUS Team - Acknowledgement: R. Gendler)

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

[Portland, OR] March to Shut Down ICE, Saturday, July 19, 2025 [Portland, OR] Saturday, July 19, 2025 - We are organizing a march to shut down ICE by revoking its permit and holding the city government accountable. Join us to make a stand.

March to Shut Down ICE

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🗓️ Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
️📍 Battleship Oregon Memorial, Portland, OR

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