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golfsobad.bsky.social
"...Russell Vought told Garrison that the center is 'one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country'...”

Anything this administration wants to deny it labels as "fake". Vought's just got a larger vocabulary.

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December 17, 2025
This morning, four vulnerable Republicans signed onto the discharge petition all House Democrats have signed to force Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring a bill to extend the premium tax credits for ...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
dirkvdberg68.bsky.social
The Republicans found a way around cancelling the ACA. Now the majority of Americans can't afford their healthinsurance anyway and will stop or lose it.

Precisely what Republicans intended from the getgo.
Typical Russell Vought-thinking. If you can't beat them in court, you get around them.
December 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
littlethorn.bsky.social
Promise me: when this miserable administration is out of office there will be prosecutions of Stephen Miller and Russell Vought. Please. If no one else, nail those hateful lowlifes.
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
slotsqueen3.bsky.social
Russell Vought of the Famed Project 2025 is the CUTTER of all Government Programs..Social Security is next..and Medicare
bselected.bsky.social Lee K @bselected.bsky.social · 2h
All Blue States should hold back money usually sent to Federal government to help pay for benefits tRump and Musk slashed from the American people.
December 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
martijon.bsky.social
Russell Vought is communicating orders like that? Going to be an interesting power struggle when Golem expires.
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
climatedesk.org
For the basics on the story, read @environment.theguardian.com's breakdown of the events.

“This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country,” Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office and management budget, wrote in a social media post about it.
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado
Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR would put ‘public safety at risk’
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
antiss.bsky.social
Trump and Russell Vought move to dismantle Climate Research Hub.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
tultican.bsky.social
Trump Administration Will Close Major Center for Research on Climate Change - Screwball Russell Vought called the center “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country”. dianeravitch.net/2025/12/18/t... via @dianeravitch #ClimateCrisis
Trump Administration Will Close Major Center for Research on Climate Change
The Trump administration is engaged in a war against science and medicine. It has eliminated funding in many crucial areas of research conducted by universities and by the National Institutes of He…
dianeravitch.net
December 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
paulusg.bsky.social
Mike Levin

Trump budget director Russell Vought, who Susie Wiles rightly called “a right-wing absolute zealot,” is dismantling one of the world’s leading Earth science research centers. It is ideological sabotage.

Putting ideology over evidence is just plain stupid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
energywatch.bsky.social

#JD Vance #Russell Vought #Susie Wiles
→ Go to article
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
17x2lizards.bsky.social
Russell Vought, director of OMB, is the de facto shadow president for domestic affairs. As one sr gov't official told ProPublica, “It feels like we work for Russ Vought. He's centralized decision-making power to an extent that he is the commander in chief”
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December 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
no-nyheter.bsky.social
USA vil legge ned National Center for Atmospheric Research – NRK – Klima

https://www.europesays.com/no/116788/

USAs budsjettdirektør Russell Vought sa onsdag at USAs nasjonale senter for atmosfære-forskning (NCAR) vil bli lagt ned. –…
USA vil legge ned National Center for Atmospheric Research – NRK – Klima - Norge
USAs budsjettdirektør Russell Vought sa onsdag at USAs nasjonale senter for atmosfære-forskning (NCAR) vil bli lagt ned.
www.europesays.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
kraigpeck.bsky.social
Trump is focused on his enrichment, golf, and tweeting. Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, is running domestic ruination. Stephen Miller on domestic terrorism. And Rubio, Hesgeth, and Kushner on war & piracy.
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
National Center of Atmospheric Research/NCAR; Katherine Hayhoe; Russell Vought; Jared Polis
December 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
sababausa.bsky.social
Revisiting David Brooks' Nov. 21, 2025 "Epstein story? count me out" column

Brooks posits that the interest in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes & associations is a distraction of apiece with QAnon because it positions "the elites" as a cabal of predators

He says it's unfair to say all elites are rapists 😵‍💫
The New York Times opinion column OPINION DAVID BROOKS THE EPSTEIN STORY? COUNT ME OUT. November 21, 2025 By David Brooks Opinion Columnist Never before have I been so uncertain about the future. Think of all the giant issues that confront us: artificial intelligence, potential financial bubbles, the decline of democracy, the rise of global authoritarianism, the collapse of reading scores and general literacy, China’s sudden scientific and technological dominance, Russian advances in Ukraine. … I could go on and on. So, what has America’s political class decided to obsess about over the last several months? Jeffrey Epstein. This is a guy who has been dead for six years and who last was in touch with Donald Trump 21 years ago, Trump has said. Why is Epstein the top issue in American life right now? Well, in an age in which more and more people get their news from short videos, if you’re in politics, the media or online it pays to focus on topics that are salacious, are easy to understand and allow you to offer self-confident opinions with no actual knowledge. But the most important reason the Epstein story tops our national agenda is that the QAnon mentality has taken over America. The QAnon mentality is based on the assumption that the American elite is totally evil and that American institutions are totally corrupt. If there is a pizzeria on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest D.C., it must be because Hillary Clinton is running a child abuse sex ring in the basement. The Epstein case is precious to the QAnon types because here, in fact, was a part of the American elite that really was running a sex abuse ring. So, of course, they leap to the conclusion that Epstein was a typical member of the American establishment, not an outlier. It’s grooming and sex trafficking all the way down. (A previous generation of John Birch Society conspiracists were not content to claim Alger Hiss was a Communist spy, which he was. They also had to insist that President Dwight Eisenhower was a paid Soviet agent.) Another feature of the QAnon mentality is the conviction that if investigators fail to find evidence to support their febrile imagining, then that is proof that they, too, are part of the cover-up. If the F.B.I. and Justice Department conclude that there was no Epstein client list and there is no evidence that Epstein blackmailed people (as they did conclude), then let’s throw out the rule of l… state! We don’t actually have to practice the art of democracy; if we can just reveal the hidden conspiracy, our enemies will be destroyed. I can kind of understand why Machiavellian Republicans would spew conspiracy theories. Those theories stoke cynicism, which serves Republican ends: The government can never be trusted; politicians are all liars. Cynicism causes people to check out of politics. Or, to be more precise, it causes them to care only about politics when they can destroy something. As The Economist noted in an editorial in 2019, “Cynical politicians denigrate institutions, then vandalize them.” It’s a straight line from Candace Owens to Russell Vought. What I don’t understand is why some Democrats are hopping on this bandwagon. They may believe that the Epstein file release will somehow hurt Trump. But they are undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism in ways that make the entire progressive project impossible. They are contributing to a public atmosphere in which right-wing populism naturally thrives. I have been especially startled to see Ro Khanna, a House Democrat and one of the most impressive politicians in America, use the phrase “the Epstein class” in his public statements. In an interview with my colleague David Leonhardt this week, Khanna explained that he had gotten the phrase from voters who asked him if he was on the side of “forgotten Americans” or “the Epstein class.” Khanna tried to describe the mentality of the people he encountered: “I realized how much the abuse by rich and powerful men of young girls and the sense of a rape island that Epstein had set up for people embodied the corruption of government. And then many of them saw Donald Trump as fighting this corrupt government.” I know a thing or two about the American elite, ahem, and if you’ve read my work, you may be sick of my assaults on the educated elites for being insular, self-indulgent and smug. But the phrase “the Epstein class” is inaccurate, unfair and … These are genuine challenges. If I were a Democratic politician, I might try telling the truth, which in my version would go something like this: The elites didn’t betray you, but they did ignore you. They didn’t mean to harm you. But they didn’t see you in the 1970s as deindustrialization took your jobs; in the ensuing decades as your families and communities broke apart; during all those decades when high immigration levels made you feel like a stranger in your own land. But over the last decade you have made yourself seen. Now the question is: Who is actually going to work with you on your problems? Which party is actually going to help you improve your health outcomes or your kids’ educational outcomes? Which party is actually going to help you achieve the American dream? Will Trump’s war on scientific research or any of the other stuff he’s doing actually do anything to help American workers? If I were a Democratic politician (this role-playing is kind of fun) I’d add that America can’t get itself back on track if the culture is awash in distrust, cynicism, catastrophizing lies and conspiracy-mongering. No governing majority will ever form if we’re locked in a permanent class war. I’d try to recognize that no political moment is forever. Right now, the dark passions are ascendant. But after one cultural moment, voters tend to hunger for its opposite, which in this case means leaders who project integrity, unity, honesty and hope. The smart play, I’d say, is to rebut conspiracy-mongering, not abet it. When the giant issues like A.I. and Chinese dominance come crashing down on us, we will look back on the Epstein moment and ask: “What the hell were we thinking?” The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We’d like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here’s our email: letters@nytimes.com. Follow the New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, WhatsApp…
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
trixiebelden75.bsky.social
Has anyone seen a budget besides Russell Vought
December 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The difference between money power & voting power? We each get one vote. A billion buys you a billion votes. See the problem?
Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Marc Andreessen, Larry Ellison & spawn, Elon Musk, Curtis Yarbin, Russell Vought, Joe Lonsdale, the Mercers, V. Putin & Oligarchs, Rupert Murdoch
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
imtailor.bsky.social
How come more people aren’t blasting the heritage foundation for this attack on our country? Russell Vought & his minions should be running into protesters everywhere he goes. His home,his work,the grocery store, the gas station, everywhere they go!
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
aquamarineinca.bsky.social
Corrected headline: "Russell Vought, author of Project 2025, Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center". The ongoing catastrophic damage to our country's scientific institutions is heartbreaking. #ClimateChange 🧪
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
lawrencegraham.bsky.social
And he said nothing about other pressing problems: Russell Vought ripping up the government in preparation to install a Christian fundamentalist regime. RFK Jr.’s destruction of the CDC and FDA. How Trump is deeply aligned with Russia about Ukraine. And on and on.
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
powermacuser1.bsky.social
Director of the Office of Management & Budget Russell Vought said the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO is “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country” & that the government will break it up, moving what he called “any vital activities such as weather⬇️
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
nelaindivisible.bsky.social
Closing the National Center for Atmospheric Research?!?!?
Russell Vought, a zealot, hates science
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December 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
wampwamp.bsky.social
Sent there by the dementia president of the United States. OK, Russell Vought, the real president of the United States via HIS puppet, Stephen Miller.
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
democracyactionnet.bsky.social
Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
knightlat.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
President Russell Vought & Vice President Stephen Miller are wrecking the United States.
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM