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Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

Gregg gets it correct here. “New OMB grant rule” sounds nerdy. But this is a huge and insane plan. This is the Trump admin writing down their goal of fundamentally changing the relationship between government and society. Funding for everything will be taken over. 1/

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social

My latest for @thenation.com. Russell Vought is on a mission. He wants to take over all federal grant making & re-make it in his image. He is a dangerous ideologue who wants to inflict trauma on the whole nation. He is cruel and he has a plan. Only we can stop him. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

thenation.comRussell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify YouA proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱
@navinpokala.bsky.social

Given that the only beneficiary of the destruction of American scientific leadership is the Chinese Communist Party, the simplest explanation is that Vought and/or Heritage are employees of Xi Jinping bsky.app/profile/jmga...

Joe Gannon@jmgannon.bsky.social

What I don't understand about Vaught is what does he want? What is his end-game? It seems he's the cryptkeeper and I don't understand where his dark powers come from. It's more than he's evil, he has plenty of company there.

buddshenkin.bsky.social
@buddshenkin.bsky.social

Making his bid for worst person in the world list. He's moving up. What motivates these destructive people? I imagine they think they're doing good, somehow. But I can't help thinking that, as we used to say in medicine, he has pencil-thin stools.

Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

Worse, it is the culmination of fifty years of conservative schemes— building institutions like AFP and Heritage, taking over the Supreme Court, injecting big money in politics, rolling back law enforcement… And now, at last, exerting supreme political control over the entire US government budget.

Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

And just as part of this radical restructuring of American society, they will impose a Lysenkoist regime of political control over science. (Trofim Lysenko’s bad ideas were chosen by a political actor, Stalin, and that led to mass famine and the destruction of Soviet biology.)

Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

Vought is the radical leader, the guy who is willing to break the law and shred the Constitution to go as far as he can—until we stop him. But a radical slice of American movement conservatism supports him. Project 2025 had what, a hundred conserv thinktanks as part of it?

propublica.orgRussell Vought, Trump’s Shadow PresidentFrom the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

*entire discretionary budget is fair to say, I think, between the Roberts Court and Trump admin theories of removal/agency control, impoundment, and now control over funding.

mungonna8.bsky.social
@mungonna8.bsky.social

..If the Justice System worked, John Eastman would be behind bars thus unable to be a source of inspiration for the Voughts of the world. Allowing Eastman to go free, allowed shit Vought to think he could get away with same.

Joe Gannon
@jmgannon.bsky.social

What I don't understand about Vaught is what does he want? What is his end-game? It seems he's the cryptkeeper and I don't understand where his dark powers come from. It's more than he's evil, he has plenty of company there.

Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱
@navinpokala.bsky.social

Given that the only beneficiary of the destruction of American scientific leadership is the Chinese Communist Party, the simplest explanation is that Vought and/or Heritage are employees of Xi Jinping bsky.app/profile/jmga...

Joe Gannon@jmgannon.bsky.social

What I don't understand about Vaught is what does he want? What is his end-game? It seems he's the cryptkeeper and I don't understand where his dark powers come from. It's more than he's evil, he has plenty of company there.

old_faithful
@indivisiblemalvern.bsky.social

I don't say this easily, but Voight is verging on treason IMO. A major contributor to Project 2025 with the main intent to make the President all powerful, superseding the clear authority of Congress (the voice of We the People) based on the Constitution. And SCOTUS majority seems OK with this?