"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

Unrelated, but the tiny hands thing appears to have been passed down

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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I love this suggestion. Who do you think is most likely to start that process? I’ll be calling my representative!

Amen.

Is the money for troop pay coming from the Border Wall?

Imagine that

Evil. It’s all Evil

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

Has anyone followed the money on Russ Vought? He’s making bank on this chaos somewhere.

Use the word Evil. And their hearts have hardened to Good.

The Political Scene | The New Yorker The Washington Roundtable discusses how this week’s government shutdown can be best understood by looking at the background and influence of Russell Vought, the director of the White House Office of M...

The New Yorker’s roundtable on how Russell Vought is destroying the federal government and destroying its services.

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another wave of illegal and immoral RIFs are underway tonight. I'm hearing that feds not only feds with reasonable accommodations are being targeted but also the departments that determine what RAs are.

Russ Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government.

The shutdown has officially introduced the public to Russ Vought and they're not liking what they see -- an unelected bureaucrat butchering their services. How long until Trump realizes Vought is a liability like Musk?

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Vought sounds layoff siren: 'The RIFs have begun' At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

Once again: if President Trump & Russ Vought decide to do more mass firings, they are CHOOSING to inflict more pain on people. “Reductions in force” are not a new power these bozos get in a shutdown.

We can’t be intimidated by these crooks.

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown White House budget director Russell Vought said reductions-in-force were underway.

Russell Vought is out to dismantle the civil service to return us to robber baron era corruption.

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Trump might have immunity, but ICE does not.

He won’t be able to protect federal agents from criminal and civil prosecution once he’s gone.

Their day of reckoning will come. Broken down here…

I agree with you, apologies for adding to the echo. To escape the echo chamber, are there any ideas or techniques that you’ve seen get some traction in real life?

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

- Indicting political rivals
- Suppressing dissent
- Rewriting history

These are all chapters in the authoritarian playbook, and Donald Trump is following them step by step. Now is not the time to stand on the sidelines; it’s time to make your voice heard.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

The Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Census Bureau. The CDC. The FDA. Now NOAA. There's seemingly no source of government data that Trump doesn't want to be able to corrupt.

At least the metaverse promised a fun escape and not an original Star Trek overlord computer

I can’t quite figure out if WIC is still being funded or not, but if it runs out it’s adding to the stress on enlisted service members.

Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown President Donald Trump’s administration is warning of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a shutdown.

Air traffic controllers and meteorologists should seriously just go home. Land everything and grind it to a halt.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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USAID was “thrown into the wood chipper” by Javier Milei buddy Elon Musk, and then Milei gets $20,000,000,000 for Argentina. That’s a good two thirds of USAID’s budget. And it covered the world and advanced US interests. Why fund a failure like Milei over US farmers and US interests?