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Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
www.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
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We’ve gotten several messages that the Trump administration has tampered with federal employees’ email systems, making some people’s automatic Out of Office replies blame the government shutdown on the “radical left.” This was done without the employees’ knowledge.
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
We’ve gotten several messages that the Trump administration has tampered with federal employees’ email systems, making some people’s automatic Out of Office replies blame the government shutdown on the “radical left.” This was done without the employees’ knowledge.
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NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...
www.propublica.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.
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ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.
Sepsis Rates Soared in Texas After Abortion Ban: Report
Women in Texas are forced to wait with dangerous infections due to extremist anti-choice laws
meidasnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.
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Some updates:
1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction.
2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.
1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction.
2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.
February 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Some updates:
1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction.
2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.
1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction.
2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.
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There’s something happening in this country.
Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There’s something happening in this country.
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First, they banned books.
Then they banned words.
Then they banned people.
What will be next?
Then they banned words.
Then they banned people.
What will be next?
February 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
First, they banned books.
Then they banned words.
Then they banned people.
What will be next?
Then they banned words.
Then they banned people.
What will be next?
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NEW: The USPS has now REVERSED its decision to halt the acceptance of packages from China and Hong Kong less than 24 hours announcing the acceptance of these packages would be halted.
February 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
NEW: The USPS has now REVERSED its decision to halt the acceptance of packages from China and Hong Kong less than 24 hours announcing the acceptance of these packages would be halted.
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More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday (Gift Article)
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
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The Trump administration has begun drafting an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education.
This action would negatively impact school libraries and literacy rates.
www.saveschoollibrarians.org/deptofed2025
This action would negatively impact school libraries and literacy rates.
www.saveschoollibrarians.org/deptofed2025
SEND AN EMAIL: Don't Dismantle the Dept. of Education
www.saveschoollibrarians.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The Trump administration has begun drafting an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education.
This action would negatively impact school libraries and literacy rates.
www.saveschoollibrarians.org/deptofed2025
This action would negatively impact school libraries and literacy rates.
www.saveschoollibrarians.org/deptofed2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...
Don't cut NPR and PBS funding!
Millions of Americans rely on public media for their news and educational programming. In many rural areas in our country, public broadcasting is their main avenue for receiving news, emer...
sign.moveon.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
January 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
Good day! I'm new here and looking forward to new friends :) Has anyone switched to RedNote yet? I'm curious but skeptical... any thoughts?
January 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Good day! I'm new here and looking forward to new friends :) Has anyone switched to RedNote yet? I'm curious but skeptical... any thoughts?