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**Catherine Schmidt** @lillyfinch@mstdn.social · 57m

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#politics #oligarchy #alt #jamesandrewmalone #Project2025 #EliseStefanik #UN #elections
Heather Cox Richardson Popularity of Project 2025 Elise Stefanik
3/27/25

Heather Cox Richardson Popularity of Project 2025 James Andrew Malone Election Elise Stefanik
3/27/25
The problem for those who embrace this vision of America is that it is not popular. Before the election, only 4% of voters liked Project 2025, and it has not gained in popularity as the dramatic cuts to the government have hurt farmers by killing grain purchases for foreign aid, cut funding for cancer research, and thrown people out of work. Because Republican-dominated counties rely more heavily on government programs than Democratic-dominated counties do, cuts to government services are hitting Republican voters particularly hard.

On Tuesday, Democrat James Andrew Malone won a special election for a state senate seat in a Pennsylvania district that Trump won in November with 57% of the vote. Today, Trump was forced to withdraw New York Republican representative Elise Stefanik's name from consideration for ambassador to the United Nations out of concern that a Democrat might win her vacant seat, although Trump won her district in 2024 by 21 points.

**Catherine Schmidt** @lillyfinch@mstdn.social · 1h *

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Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#politics #signal #fascism #corruption #alt #trump #project2025
Heather Cox Richardson JD Vance’s Brave New World
3/27/25 my editing

JD Vance’s Brave New World
In place of those structures, today’s MAGA leaders intend to create their own new institutions, shaped by their own people, whose ideological purity trumps their abilities. As VP J.D. Vance explained in 2021 interview, he & his ilk believe that American “conservatives... have lost every major powerful institution in the country, except for maybe churches & religious institutions, which of course are weaker We've lost big business, lost finance, lost the culture, lost the academy. And if we're going to actually really effect real change in the country, it will require us completely replacing the existing ruling class with another ruling class.... | don't think there’s sort of a compromise that we're going to come with the people who currently actually control the country. Unless we overthrow them in some way, we're going to keep losing.” “We really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power,”

This plan is central to Project 2025, the plan Donald Trump insisted before the election he knew nothing about but which, now that he's in office, has provided the blueprint for a large majority of the admin’'s. actions. Project 2025 author Russell Vought, who is now Trump's director of the Office of Management and Budget, called for a “conservative President” to “use...the vast powers of the executive branch” aggressively “to send power away from DC and back to America’s families, faith communities, local governments, and states.”

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**William Lindsey** @wdlindsy@toad.social · 1h

William Lindsey @wdlindsy@toad.social

"Today HHS announced it will be cutting 10,000 employees on top of the 10,000 who have already left and the more than 5,000 probationary workers who were fired last month."

#Musk #Trump #Yarvin #Project2025 #dictatorship #FederalGovernment #HHS
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**William Lindsey** @wdlindsy@toad.social · 1h *

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William Lindsey @wdlindsy@toad.social

"Yesterday, Apoorva Mandavilli, Margot Sanger-Katz, and Jan Hoffman reported in the New York Times that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has suddenly cancelled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states. That money supported mental health services, addiction treatment, and programs to track infectious diseases."

#Musk #Trump #Yarvin #Project2025 #dictatorship #FederalGovernment #HHS
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**William Lindsey** @wdlindsy@toad.social · 1h

William Lindsey @wdlindsy@toad.social

"In a televised Cabinet meeting on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she planned to 'eliminate FEMA,' the Federal Emergency Management Agency that responds to national emergencies like hurricanes."

#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #dictatorship #Yarvin #Project2025 #SocialSecurity #FEMA #KristiNoem #NaturalDisasters
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**William Lindsey** @wdlindsy@toad.social · 1h

William Lindsey @wdlindsy@toad.social

Ruthlessly gut government so that one can seize control of the carcass and do what one wishes with it:

"Today, Emily Davies and Jeff Stein of the Washington Post reported that Trump officials are looking for cuts of between 8% and 50% of the employees in federal agencies. ...

Washington Post reporters Lisa Rein and Hannah Natanson warn that 'Social Security is breaking down.'”

#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #dictatorship #Yarvin #Project2025 #SocialSecurity
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**William Lindsey** @wdlindsy@toad.social · 1h *

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William Lindsey @wdlindsy@toad.social

"Yarvin called for 'giving absolute sovereignty to a single organization,' headed by the equivalent of the rogue chief executive officer of a corporation who would destroy the public institutions of the democratic government. ...

If the administration is working not to save money but rather to destroy the government, the cuts that threaten the well-being of American citizens make more sense."

#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #dictatorship #authoritarianship #Yarvin #Project2025
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**Bandersnatch** @Bandersnatch@mastodon.social · 2h

Bandersnatch @Bandersnatch@mastodon.social

@cstross

#Project2025 calls for a 25%-40% reduction to the #US #population over the next 4 years.

That's why we are seeing the idiocy we are seeing right now.

#Trump is actually trying to kill us.

**Coach Pāṇini ®** @paninid@mastodon.world · 4h *

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Coach Pāṇini ® @paninid@mastodon.world

The only things that unite the #culture of the #American #BodyPolitic are grief and the resulting grievances.

The Creepy Weirdos are executing #Project2025 with the expectation that another COVID-like phenomenon will push the Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of the Republic to be further atomized.

Then, they will expect the grieving and aggrieved to turn on each other.

Hear me now, believe me later.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/23/lots-of-gravare/

Inani Ludibrio · Aug 23, 2024Lots of GravareThe words “grief” and “grievance” share a common etymological root in the Latin word “gravare,” meaning “to make heavy” or “to cause grief.&#82…

**ritchiepage2001** @ritchiepage2001@mastodon.bida.im · 13h

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ritchiepage2001 @ritchiepage2001@mastodon.bida.im

#Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava DOGE has a dodgy plot to gut Social Security and please billionaires

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2025/03/27/social-security-cuts-lines-wait-doge/82684449007/

Musk says US$1 trillion in US spending cuts possible without touching services

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/musk-says-us1-trillion-us-spending-cuts-possible-without-touching-services

**beSpacific** @bespacific@newsie.social · 14h *

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beSpacific @bespacific@newsie.social

Washington Post continues to surprise readers w comprehensive reporting on White House, #DOGE plans to destroy the govt. The plans reveal overall goal to fire over 50% of govt employees - #project2025 is the playbook - Read free - White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agencies While officials stressed that the estimates were subject to change, the snapshot suggests how agencies are working to meet Trump’s mandate to shrink government. https://wapo.st/4l334sO #corruption #trump

The Washington Post · 19hInternal White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agenciesBy Emily Davies

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**Michael Fenichel** @drmike@mastodon.social · 15h

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Michael Fenichel @drmike@mastodon.social

Not that #MAGAMike can't use every shrieking #TrumpVIrus spewer he can get. Still, between Stefanik and his Press Doublespeakswoman, I see a storied future for both @ Fox, however the alternative- #truth landscape morphs into the #Project2025 screed of "Big Brother".

Sir Stable Genius of all the best words takes "1984" a step further, using AI on the screens and with the most terrific #disinformation #media since Orwell's vision. In his image, the Emperor spews his #WordSalad & Fox genuflects.