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Originally Posted By u/Buster_xx At 2025-06-01 01:27:38 PM | Source

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New strategy?

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Originally Posted By u/LinksLackofSurprise At 2025-06-01 05:24:36 PM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/DontRememberOldPass At 2025-06-01 02:26:52 PM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/victorybus At 2025-05-31 07:47:17 PM | Source

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If Trump is the face of the authoritarian movement, Russell Vought is its brain. The danger he poses is quiet, calculated, and relentless.

Vought doesn’t want the spotlight. Because once you see what he’s doing, it’s terrifying.

He’s not trying to shrink the government. He’s trying to dismantle it and rebuild it into a dictatorship.

His weapon is a fringe legal theory called the “unitary executive.” It claims the president alone should control the entire executive branch, with no checks from Congress, no independence for the courts, and no oversight from watchdogs. Just one man, ruling it all. ❌👑

Under Vought’s plan: • Thousands of career civil servants are being purged and replaced with Trump loyalists • Agencies like the EPA, DOJ, and even the Federal Reserve are being gutted or captured • Power is being concentrated inside the White House to eliminate internal dissent • Checks and balances are being erased one memo at a time

In his own words, we are in a “post-Constitutional time.” He means it.

This is not just another Trump term. This is a second insurrection, led by men in suits, using bureaucracy as their weapon.

Vought was the architect behind Project 2025, the step-by-step guide to authoritarian control. He leads the Office of Management and Budget, the nerve center of federal operations. He is now poised to take over DOGE, following Musk’s withdrawal.

His tools are not speeches. They are deadlines, firings, executive orders, and buried footnotes in thousand-page reports. And he is moving quickly. Schedule F. Executive Order 14215. Federal gag orders. Already in motion.

Russell Vought is a shadow operator. He works best in silence. He avoids exposure because public attention slows him down.

If you are reading this, do not stay quiet. Say his name. Share this post. Tag your representatives. Alert the press.

Then take action. 🔗 Go to NoKings.org and find or host a #NoKings protest near you.

#50501Movement #NoKings #FiftyFiftyOne #June14 #StopTheCoup #SaveDemocracy

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Originally Posted By u/FiftyFifty1Movement At 2025-06-01 06:58:32 PM | Source

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Ingrassia seems a bit conflicted.

He seems to want to say that Ukraine is bad because (to them) Ukraine is nothing more than a rebellious part of Russia.

But then again, he also seems want to deny anything bad about the Confederacy or the role of slavery in the decisions of those states to secede.

...and this is the guy that Trump has nominated to head the Office of Special Councel. Among other duties, this office's:

"primary mission is to safeguard the merit system in federal employment by protecting employees and applicants from prohibited personnel practices (PPPs), especially reprisal for "whistleblowing". "

Yeah. I am sure he'll be super professional about that.

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Originally Posted By u/crescent-v2 At 2025-06-01 01:06:21 PM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/WildImportance6735 At 2025-06-01 06:23:26 PM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/LeanderthalTX At 2025-06-01 05:17:33 PM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/Adventurous_Rule_157 At 2025-06-01 03:36:59 PM | Source

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First they came for the undocumented immigrants,

And I did not speak out

Because I was not an undocumented immigrant.

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Then they came for the asylum seekers,

And I did not speak out

Because I was not an asylum seeker.

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Then they came for the "home grown" criminals,

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a criminal.

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Then they came for Habeas corpus,

And I did not speak out

Because Habeas Corpus didn't matter to me.

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Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me.

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Originally Posted By u/ilikeover9000turtles At 2025-06-01 10:06:11 AM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/Spare_Ad_9657 At 2025-06-01 04:13:32 PM | Source

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Section 70302 means that a government employee, like Trump, could ignore a federal ruling and the judge could not force that person to comply by holding them in contempt. This would include the 170 times the Federal courts have already ruled against the Trump Administration.

If you don’t believe me? Read it for yourself.

Below is a template for a letter I wrote to my Senators. You are welcome to copy it or modify it as you like. I know we’re all tired and sometimes feel powerless, but we do have power if we work together. Even if you’ve never taken action before, please help us defeat this bill.

[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[City, State ZIP Code]
[Email Address]
[Phone Number]
[Date]

(You can find the following information at this link)
The Honorable [Senator’s Full Name]
United States Senate
[Senator’s Office Address]
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator [Last Name],

I am writing as your constituent to strongly oppose Section 70302 of the One Big Beautiful Bill. As currently written, this provision would severely undermine the authority of the federal judiciary by conditioning the enforcement of contempt orders on the posting of a bond at the outset of litigation, even in cases where courts have historically exercised their discretion to waive such bonds under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c).

Section 70302 would create a dangerous precedent. Courts have long been empowered to enforce compliance with lawful orders, including injunctions, especially in public interest litigation and cases involving the federal government. By making enforcement contingent on a bond that courts often (and rightfully) waive, this provision effectively strips courts of their ability to act against open defiance. It would allow individuals and entities found in violation of the law to avoid consequences not because their claims had merit, but because of a procedural technicality introduced after the fact.

Even more troubling, this provision applies retroactively to ongoing cases, changing the rules midstream. Judges who issued orders without requiring bonds — entirely consistent with current law — would now find themselves unable to enforce their rulings. This is not just unfair; it is a deeply destabilizing approach to judicial process, and it risks shielding those who knowingly disobey lawful court orders.

I urge you to oppose Section 70302 and to work toward ensuring that our courts retain the authority they need to uphold the rule of law. Judicial discretion and the fair administration of justice must not be compromised by retroactive, arbitrary limitations.

Thank you for your consideration and for your service to our state and country.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

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Originally Posted By u/RecognitionOk4087 At 2025-06-01 01:52:59 PM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/transcendent167 At 2025-06-01 07:44:01 AM | Source

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“As President Donald Trump prepares to celebrate the Army's birthday with a military parade in Washington, D.C., on June 13, Pope Leo XIV will deliver a special message to young people from the heart of Chicago on the same day, ABC7 Chicago reported Thursday.

The large-scale celebration is set for Saturday, June 14 at Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox.”

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Originally Posted By u/Regular_Welcome5959 At 2025-06-01 02:40:26 PM | Source

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The Trump administration has contracted with Palantir Technologies to build a centralized data platform that pulls sensitive personal information from the IRS, Social Security, immigration services, and more, creating a record on every American.

With Trump’s history of constitutional defiance and open contempt for the rule of law, this opens the door to massive abuse. Experts warn this system could become a digital dragnet, echoing the surveillance dystopia of Orwell’s 1984.

Even former Palantir employees are sounding the alarm, saying this move betrays the company’s core values. There are no meaningful safeguards. No oversight. Just a power-hungry administration stockpiling our data.

This is not national security… it’s techno-fascism.

📞 CALL YOUR REPS and demand an immediate halt to this authoritarian surveillance scheme. Look up their info at bit.ly/hellorep

📍 Then join us on June 14 as we rise up in cities across the country to say: NO KINGS.

Find or host a protest at NoKings.org

#50501Movement #NoKings #FiftyFiftyOne #50501 #PeoplesMovement #June14 #StopTheSurveillanceState #ResistFascism #Project1984

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Originally Posted By u/FiftyFifty1Movement At 2025-05-31 04:18:17 PM | Source

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Why help them violate our civil rights? Plus, these f'kers supported this regime. Let's put them out of business. Stop using Amazon too as they will add our shopping habits to their database

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Originally Posted By u/ZippyZappy9696 At 2025-06-01 10:47:59 AM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/-Ouijaboardwhore- At 2025-06-01 02:54:01 PM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/transcendent167 At 2025-06-01 02:30:33 PM | Source

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This wasn’t just a local protest—it was a blueprint.

When a GOP-backed hate group tried to hold an event in Ventura County, CA, local organizers responded immediately. In 72 hours, they applied coordinated pressure, flipped the narrative, and transformed the venue into a Pride celebration.

This is the kind of grassroots power we need everywhere.

📖 Read it. 📣 Share it. ⚙️ Use it.

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Originally Posted By u/Puzzleheaded_Mix4012 At 2025-06-01 01:42:40 PM | Source

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From 404 Media.

A woman allegedly self-administered an abortion. Her family was supposedly worried that she was “bleeding out” and they called the police. A Texas cop checked license plate cameras in Texas and in other states, even where abortion is legal, looking for her. She was eventually found and confirmed to be ok.

This group needs more flair. This is a women’s rights issue, yes, but also a civil rights issue.

https://archive.ph/2025.05.29-234519/https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/

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Originally Posted By u/PorcelainFD At 2025-05-31 11:47:05 AM | Source

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I'm encountering people who don't know that June 6th is the next protest date, because so much focus has been put on June 14th. I don't think that's an accident -- there are lots of people out there who would hate to see us build strong connections with veterans, and they've been working overtime to distract us.

FIND YOUR PROTEST, SHOW UP, AND SUPPORT OUR VETERANS JUNE 6TH

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Originally Posted By u/l94xxx At 2025-06-01 11:18:01 AM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/death-ignorer At 2025-05-31 07:07:56 PM | Source

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"2 million dead by the end of the year": Ex-USAID chief says aid cuts will kill starving children

Where the hell are the so-called Christians? Evangelicals, usually oh so holy and ready to condemn and pontificate on the most venial of sin, suddenly you are rendered mute in the face of Republican policy that allows infants and children to starve to death, all in the name of tax cuts for those already obscenely rich.

(Some of those children are white.)

You are Trump's base -- you preach it from your pulpits -- yet you turn a blind eye to the suffering of untold hundreds of thousands, if not millions of your fellow human beings -- is that what Jesus taught you to do?

Are you all descendants of Cain?

Trump/Musk, and the Republican congress have not yet attained the appalling numbers accrued by Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin or the like, but they are trying their damnedest.

A researcher at Boston University has been tracking the anticipated death toll from the funding freezes, particularly in relation to diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. One estimate suggests that if USAID funding is not restored by the end of 2025, more than 176,000 additional deaths could occur due to disruptions in HIV treatment alone, with at least 62,000 additional deaths from tuberculosis. Another tracker estimates that nearly 15,000 people had already died as of early March 2025 due to the funding freeze.

These figures highlight the severe consequences of halting foreign aid, but the total number of deaths will depend on whether funding is reinstated and how global health programs adapt

"2 million dead by the end of the year": Ex-USAID chief says aid cuts will kill starving children. Former USAID chief Andrew Natsios told Salon that the Trump-Musk cuts will directly and immediately cost lives.

If you have a conscience and not a total hypocrite, see report here:

Salon:

In the wake of USAID’s shuttering by billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, those familiar with USAID’s work have been fighting for the restoration of key programs, like those that relieve the starvation of children, while bracing for the impact of the cuts around the world. One of the most high-profile programs since Musk’s gutting of USAID was a program that supplied acutely malnourished children with a peanut-based food product called Plumpy Nut meant to help save children who are unable to ingest normal food safely. This program was first cut by Trump and his billionaire partner before being reinstated after significant public pressure.

Andrew Natsios, the former administrator for USAID under the President George W. Bush’s administration, told Salon that there are countless programs like this one and that the destruction of the agency will lead to famine, mass migration and suffering unless some of these programs are restored.

” Natsios said. “I hope that doesn't happen, but the evidence is that the international system is breaking down now, the other donors are not cutting their budgets back. Once USAID was shut down, many other donors said, ‘You know, we're going to shut ours down too.’ They do follow the leader.” Some of the countries following the United States in cutting foreign aid include the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France and

Belgium. Jean Van Wette, the head of the Belgian development agency Enabel, described the trend as a “snowball effect” to Euronews Health.

“Something we've never seen, I think in the history of international cooperation, is such a massive cut, not from one donor, but from multiple,” Van Wetter said.

Earlier this month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that, after a six-week purge, 83% of USAID's programs had been permanent cut — despite congressional authorization — and that the remaining programs would be administered by the State Department. In fiscal year 2023, USAID distributed roughly $44 billion in aid. In a statement, Rubio thanked Musk, saying that "our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform."

The White House had previously claimed that the agency, which was audited in 2024 and 2023, was rife with fraud and abuse, while also claiming it was "woke," asserting that USAID had funded a Colombian "transgender opera" and a Peruvian "transgender comic book." The White House did not provide any evidence for these claims, and they've since been debunked.

The unilateral shuttering of the agency has been challenged in court, with a federal judge saying that Trump had overstepped his authority by closing down the congressionally mandated agency, though the judge's order did not force officials to revive canceled contracts. Beyond food aid, the agency supplied assistance for projects like containing the spread of Ebola, clearing landmines and providing prosthetic limbs to injured soldiers in Ukraine. USAID’s President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief was also one of the largest global programs for combating HIV and AIDS, with operations in more than 50 countries, and had been credited with saving some 26 million people since it was created in 2003.

PEPFAR has since been effectively shuttered. That and the cancellation of food aid threatens the lives of millions, critics say.Natsios said that, without USAID's intervention, he’s expecting to see at least 2 million people dead by the end of the year from a combination of famine and disease, citing the discontinuation of programs supplying corn soy blend, a food item created to help treat malnourished children; it has recently been used to help treat children in places like Niger and Malawi and is specifically meant to help children who are at risk of dying if they are given too much food too quickly, administered up to 20 times a day in small portions.

Rachel Beatty Riedl, a professor of government at Cornell and director of the university's Center on Global Democracy, told Salon that these sorts of short-term interventions in response to acute humanitarian crises are exactly the sort of thing for which USAID was built. She said that, in the absence of American aid, she expects famines in places like the Congo to quickly worsen in places like Sudan. She also said that populations remember the aid long after the crisis is over.

“Where food supports are provided, those are such immediate and timely interventions that are responding to an acute crisis, but they have very long-term implications in thinking about who has influence with the population,” Riedl said. “The point of these types of programs is that they are rapid response and that they move location as the crisis is identified. That’s why the USAID expertise is so critical, and the dollar amount is so small for the long-term investment.”

Oral rehydration salts are another program that Natsios provided as an example, saying that they save countless lives around the world at a relatively low cost to the United States. “The refugee and displaced camps have oral rehydration salts, ORS, because a lot of the children that die in the famine die from diarrheal disease. That's the biggest killer,” Natsios said. “So we use oral rehydration salts that you mix with clean water, and if you give it to a child, it prevents the child from going into shock.” While it’s not known how many lives oral rehydration salts have saved exactly, they are credited as being part of the reason that deaths from diarrheal diseases plummeted in the last 20 years of the 20th century, from 4.8 million in 1980 to 1.2 million in 2000, according to an article published in the journal of Health, Population and Nutrition.

While cutting off food will have one of the most immediate effects, Riedl said that ending USAID's infectious disease monitoring programs in places like Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo may have the most serious long-term consequences globally. USAID, Riedl explained, has played a critical role in monitoring and containing outbreaks of Ebola and the Marburg Virus in these and other countries. Combined with domestic public health programs, she says the effort to contain these outbreaks has been highly effective.

Aside from nutritional interventions, Natsios said that there are other public health interventions, once provided by the United States and other countries, that saved countless lives, like vaccinations for measles and other common childhood diseases.

“There are five childhood diseases all kids are supposed to be immunized from under the age of five, because children die first in the famine, then pregnant women and lactating mothers,” Natsios said.

Even interventions like sending condoms and other contraceptives to places like Afghanistan have helped save the lives of women, who, when pregnant, normally die first in a famine. Natsios said that the intervention was administered through health centers established by the United States during its occupation of the country and that he would have sent the aid as well if he were in office, despite the fact that the aid was mocked by conservatives.

“The reason we do is that many of the women who are pregnant will be dead by the end of year, because there's a famine spreading across the country and a woman who is acutely malnourished, usually dies because they're feeding two people, the child they’re pregnant with and themselves” Natsios said.

The effect of Musk and Trump’s efforts to cut USAID, Natisos said, will go far beyond the millions of people he expects to die due to famine. One example is in combating novel viruses and epidemics. Migration is another issue he expects to be affected by the pullback in aid. Specifically, Natsios said he expects the pullback in aid to worsen the ongoing forced migration crisis, which he says is the worst since World War II.

“It's been building up for eight or 10 years now; it's getting worse and worse. The same thing happened, by the way, when the Cold War ended, there was the same kind of crisis, but not as bad as this. This is worse, right now,” Natsios said.

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Originally Posted By u/PrincipleTemporary65 At 2025-06-01 07:59:43 AM | Source

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