The Trump administration’s table of authorities in this filing:

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

His job is to destroy the United States

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.

"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."

newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Accurate and succinct.

From day one this has been the plan. The shutdown is only their latest move in this sick game.

Republicans want to dismantle the federal government and repurpose it to serve only the billionaires.

Republicans shut down the government because they don’t want people to be able to afford health care.

Now, they’re firing patriotic civil servants because what? They don’t want Americans to have jobs?!

This will hurt countless Americans who rely on government services.

Q: "How many layoffs have you authorized?"

Trump: "A lot. It will be Democrat oriented...They should be Democrat oriented. It will be a lot and we'll announce the numbers over the next couple of days, but it will be a lot of people...Many of them will be fired."

You’ll never guess who is in charge of the Homeland Security Council….

(Miller. It’s Stephen Miller.)

Yup

If they are criminals, why don’t the ICE agents have arrest warrants?

Administration officials pile lie upon lie upon lie. When a president and his aides are doing that, it’s no longer America.

When masked government thugs take potshots at a priest, it’s no longer America.

State-sponsored mayhem starts at the top. trib.al/wacZVvn

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

Trump: "I saw Israel dancing in the streets. But they were dancing in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and UAE and many many countries. I saw Egypt, they were dancing."

It would be good to know how many military orders Stephen Miller has forged.

obviously the Fox News-pilled are already calling him “woke Pope” and there are a lot of people talking shit

but is that just Fox News pundits and random influencer blowhards and like five asshole cardinals? can Trump’s base of white Catholic voters be turned around? this feels like a test of that

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

Leo has done two things recently that interest me very much. this is one of them. I didn’t know much about the last Pope Leo until the new one, but I believe he was an Industrial Revolution-era guy who took poverty and workers’ rights really seriously

the name choice always tells you who they are

Soooooo I'm not an expert. But when there was pushback against it & people took to calling Roosevelt and others who supported it communist, he did this public address basically saying anyone who said caring for the poor was stupid and anti-Christian & calling it communism was propaganda for the rich

$85 million. I could rent some U-Hauls and move the homeless to a different part of the city 1000x over for a fraction of that