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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h

Seems bad. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

www.wsj.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h

CDC division within the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) that directs the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) — a bellwether of the country’s health — lost all its planners in last weekend’s firings. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11h

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Jon @jonp214.bsky.social · 10h

It’s yet more proof that Online-revolutionaries do not believe in mass population movements and only believe in the legitimacy of Vanguardism of which of course *they’ll* be in the leadership structure of.

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 11h

I really think we need to reconceptualize this shutdown as the last stand for the rule of law and Art I. Bring it to default if that’s what it takes. If Congress can’t assert the power of the purse, we are in “move to Portugal” territory of screwed.

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 11h

This cannot just be about healthcare. The existing constitutional system hangs in the balance. The rule of law is now baked into this shutdown in a huge way.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 11h

This cannot just be about healthcare. The existing constitutional system hangs in the balance. The rule of law is now baked into this shutdown in a huge way.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10h

the idea something like No Kings could evolve into something more than occasional marches is beyond their understanding, revolutions must burst forth fully formed, all contradictions resolved

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

i hope platner wins, but asserting that a complete unknown who has been campaigning for like 90 seconds is sure to win an election against one of the most formidable senators in congress is just an embarrassing childish fantasy and should be treated as such. it also does platner no favors.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 1d

my man, nobody is "sure to win" against Susan Collins, she is literally one of the most talented & successful Republican politicians of the last 60+ years. anyone who says ANY Democrat is a sure thing in Maine clearly has no clue what the fuck they're talking about other than their own vibes.

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Jon @jonp214.bsky.social · 10h

I no longer blame the Founders for these kinds of issues because before basically this year no one could quite predict that greedy power hungry politicians would be totally happy and cool with abdicating all their power and authority to a demented brain dead 80 year old.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

a memo is not sufficient to usurp one of the most important powers of congress

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

this fucking article makes no mention whatsoever about the fact that he does not legally have this authority, nor that claiming it is unconstitutional, not in small ways, but in fundamental ways

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

A dark batch of headlines tonight.

@wsj.com @nytimes.com @axios.com @politico.com

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 11h

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 11h

No Kings is a good slogan but if we're being pedantic then it seems important that Trump is claiming much more expansive powers than any English king ever had.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

not liking charles I week, ngl

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11h

you know I could have sworn that like ten years ago they pretended this happened against them (it didn’t) and said it was the worst offense that had ever happened (again it didn’t).

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 11h

Whatever your thoughts on Will Stancil, there are entire neo-Nazi group chats dedicated to him specifically because they believe that he as an individual must be destroyed for their movement to succeed. You should reach at least that level of hate by Nazis for me to take your resistance seriously.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

There’s a reason Ezra Levin is on Trump’s enemies list, is being investigated by the government, while no one much cares about Talia Jane.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

The whole point isn’t *not wanting to get in trouble*, it’s showing that we have done nothing to provoke state repression, and yet we will be repressed regardless

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

having been wrapping my head around this, this is, like, very, *very* bad

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

[low whistle]

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 14h

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

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Jon @jonp214.bsky.social · 11h

I do not know really how taxes work, I thought I did, but as it turns out looking at *everything* going on with this administration and Congress I don’t. But I do know, for a fact, that our tax dollars aren’t supposed to work like *this*. It’s basically the opposite.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

This has been bothering me all day because the obvious point of No Kings is to show we have the power to do a color revolution if they don‘t honor the results of future elections.

The other point is to radicalize fence-sitters by having people who are *clearly doing nothing wrong* be tear gassed

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 22h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 13h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Jon @jonp214.bsky.social · 12h

I’m seriously asking, yet again, if the federal government literally no longer abides by a separation of powers because Congress just doesn’t give a fuck anymore and instead Trump just dispenses money himself then WHY should blue states be funding any of this?

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