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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

YouTube video by Jessica Craven Republicans are lying to you about cutting Medicaid. Here’s what you can say to them.

youtu.be/JSuhiT-rZFs For people who are calling their republican representatives and being lied to about the budget resolution:

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This continues to bother me for reasons that should be self-evident - but it seems interesting that GOP, MAGA and Musk behaviors appear to respond to these same "obligations."

The President has zero authority to "take control of the USPS", and zero control over getting rid of the postal board or their members.
If that were the case Biden would have kicked DeJoy the fuck out of there years ago.
He has as much authority here as he does to make Canada a state - fucking ZERO.

Just to recap, the orange convicted felon threatened Canada and Mexico with tariffs but he never expected Canada and Mexico to retaliate in a big way, so then he folded under pressure and agreed to deals with them that President Biden had already put into place last year. 🤣

Edward Coristine, one Musk's engineers tasked w/ hacking into federal agencies, locking out govt officials, and accessing data from SS system and transferring it to external hard drives

Musk enlisted help of partners-in-crime 30 years younger so they wouldn't realize gravity of what they're doing

Call them want they really are: HACKERS

This "DOGE engineers" thing is bullshit!

They are boy hackers! Plain and simple

This is 2016 Cambridge Analytics bullshit on steroids

My post got a million views on twitter but can't share it in one piece here because of the space limitation. PLEASE READ AND SHARE

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The media is complicit!

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week

and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

These people are idiots. Nothing they offer is consistent with being "meritorious of having the job".

DOJ threatens to prosecute local officials over immigration enforcement U.S. attorneys’ offices were told to investigate any official who defies federal immigration enforcement efforts and consider prosecuting them.

ICYMI: “The Trump administration has directed federal prosecutors nationwide to investigate and potentially bring criminal charges against state and local officials who don’t cooperate with the president’s plans to carry out mass deportations.”

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And block them everywhere....

@governorshapiro.bsky.social ... what do you plan to do?

We’ve always been at war with Eurasia…

For anybody who sees Trump as a savior, you are a stupid, uninformed bitch and you need to sit and read something.

Learned to change the channel when he and others appear. They're not worth the time or ratings.

I love her.

What would YOU rather being doing instead of watching the inauguration?

I'm scheduled for a colonoscopy later in the year. I think I'll tune my TV to another channel and practice my Golytely prep.

#Inauguration

President Biden's farewell speech 😭 He was such a great President. I'll miss him.❤

President Biden's farewell speech

😭 He was such a great President. I'll miss him.❤

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

If this cartoon is available, @democracydocket.com would like to publish it on its site.

If not, I hope @anntelnaes.bsky.social would be willing to create another one for Democracy Docket to publish. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.

This is the first time I've seen this.

Holy. Shit.

Helga Von Tippler from "the bad place"

Looking in the rearview mirror at "The Cesspool"

I kindof enjoyed following her a while - it was all benign. Then, one day, she face-planted with some m*g*-speak BS and that was it! Couldn't find her funny again.

I don't miss her.

There are better, and wittier on here.
You know who you are.