Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views
Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise
10.10.2025 16:36 — 👍 3386 🔁 1283 💬 144 📌 71
HELLO? CONGRESS?
10.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 876 🔁 205 💬 53 📌 8
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
10.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 1888 🔁 744 💬 1257 📌 1695
AXIOS: “Dominion Voting Systems — the voting machine behemoth Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election — has been sold to a Missouri-based company run by a former Republican election official…” 🤔 www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
10.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 351 🔁 179 💬 56 📌 36
Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.
Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.
Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.
08.10.2025 23:24 — 👍 24633 🔁 7274 💬 895 📌 262
America, 2025: Government lawyers tell judges that the President can declare any protest he dislikes to be a rebellion, and the courts must agree.
09.10.2025 22:51 — 👍 487 🔁 157 💬 11 📌 4
Can we please get our $20 billion back?
09.10.2025 22:43 — 👍 551 🔁 134 💬 48 📌 19
BlinkRX, an online prescription drug delivery company, stands to benefit from proposed changes by Trump that would allow pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs directly to patients.
His son, Eric Trump, is on the company’s board.
Always follow the money.
09.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 1550 🔁 699 💬 70 📌 38
A man who has declared war on American cities is not deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”
09.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 2683 🔁 1184 💬 136 📌 48
We are witnessing the most lawless behavior by a leader in American history, just daily, extraordinary abuses of power. National Democrats must speak out in a loud and clear voice against Trump's escalating authoritarianism. It is time now.
09.10.2025 20:29 — 👍 2249 🔁 672 💬 54 📌 32
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New reporting CONFIRMS Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions
New reporting CONFIRMS Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions
New WSJ reporting reveals Trump accidentally posted what he thought was a private message to AG Pam Bondi, urging her to prosecute James Comey and other perceived enemies. @chrislhayes.bsky.social reports.
09.10.2025 15:13 — 👍 283 🔁 117 💬 52 📌 18
I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.
Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
09.10.2025 18:55 — 👍 2670 🔁 1402 💬 129 📌 230
Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then.
GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.
09.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 1440 🔁 320 💬 57 📌 25
SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records
The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.
Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.
08.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 10446 🔁 5037 💬 530 📌 347
How? How are we losing this messaging war? This is insane shit.
09.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 342 🔁 72 💬 16 📌 0
This is...uninformed nonsense. Or a knowing lie.
08.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 584 🔁 58 💬 48 📌 0
Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for an eighth day.
Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.
08.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 562 🔁 171 💬 20 📌 13
I don't doubt that Trumpism will soon crumble and things will return to a seeming normal. But what worries me is whether we will again make the mistake of offering impunity to these degenerates because if so, we're just waiting around for fascism that sticks.
08.10.2025 00:05 — 👍 801 🔁 187 💬 32 📌 6
He is denying representation to all her constituents.
07.10.2025 23:42 — 👍 294 🔁 69 💬 9 📌 3
Hey you know… that’s more than the US debt
03.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Trump to withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects amid shutdown battle
The pause affects a long-awaited plan to extend the city’s Red Line train. White House budget director Russ Vought wrote on social media Friday that the money was “put on hold to ensure funding is not...
Let me be clear: this is stealing from the American people. They think this illegal blackmail will make us cave — but it's just proving exactly why we can't give these crooks a blank check.
Americans won't tolerate their tax dollars and communities being held hostage.
03.10.2025 16:44 — 👍 682 🔁 204 💬 38 📌 3
MEDIA: Is it true that you want to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants who have committed violent crimes?
DEMS: No.
MEDIA: Nevertheless.
03.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 103 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 1
If that dude wasn’t at J6, I will eat my hat
03.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I had a discussion with my therapist who got a scam phone call during our visit that its just beyond frustrating that literally every single second of being american is fending off people trying to fleece you, email, phone, hobby stores, whatever its just scams on scams
03.10.2025 02:27 — 👍 216 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 3
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
02.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 8777 🔁 5544 💬 233 📌 220
There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.
These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.
An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...
02.10.2025 00:40 — 👍 4405 🔁 1577 💬 110 📌 72
Here are all the states Russ Vought announced just today he would be illegally stealing taxpayer dollars from.
Have we ever had a President work so hard to hurt the people he represents? I'm not going to be intimidated by these crooks.
02.10.2025 01:01 — 👍 3426 🔁 1303 💬 241 📌 93
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