Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

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Perhaps as good an explanation as we’ll ever get of why Trump didn’t retaliate against Musk over this claim.

A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name.

This is your legacy!

No wonder I had a feeling that the Trump administration was determined to put guns in the hands of domestic violence perpetrators. It’s because they are. Definitely watch this interview.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025.

Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

I swear to God the things that viscerally scare me the most aren't the executive orders or the policies or the implications. It's opening up NYT and seeing articles like this one

“When your cat thinks he's a dog, and waits for the kids to get on the bus every morning” 🐾

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#cats

A total constitutional failure. We have neither a functioning legislature nor executive constraints nor the rule of law at the moment in 🇺🇸. Again we can quibble about the bad social science of Polity scores, but that feels almost obscene in its category error-ness right now:
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Giving this a try. Hopefully I will still be able to find and follow most political and covid aware accounts that I follow on twitter!