Needs to be understood in tandem with the IG Firings, and as a whole chapter of Project 2025--strip oversight entities of authority. Disable security cameras before robbing the bank. Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u... - ThreadSky

harrylitman.bsky.social • 29 days ago

Needs to be understood in tandem with the IG Firings, and as a whole chapter of Project 2025--strip oversight entities of authority. Disable security cameras before robbing the bank.

Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/trump-privacy-civil-liberties-oversight-board.html?smid=bs-share

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doorwizard.bsky.social•29 days ago

If there is a god I hope he gives the Shurbert schizter a massive STROKE!

orangeclown45.bsky.social•29 days ago

You have always been one of my main reasons for watching Meridian Touch.
I wish nothing but the absolute best for you sir!

starman-x.bsky.social•29 days ago

So no longer is "Elect a clown, expect a circus" acceptable. This is my proposed upgrade: "Elect a mob boss, expect a crime syndicate".

raindropsbc.bsky.social•29 days ago

Reads just like a Hitler bio after he became Chancellor

notumbus727bumbus.bsky.social•29 days ago

Harry, please don't post articles from behind paywalls, it really isn't fair.

carronlaforce.bsky.social•29 days ago

Did they resign?

demagoguewatch.bsky.social•29 days ago

This was the worst week in my 73 years as an American. We've turned the corner decisively towards the establishment of a gleefully cruel white supremacist Christo-fascist oligarchy that I fear could prove impossible to unseat given all the pillars of democracy and the rule of law being destroyed.

oasismania25.bsky.social•29 days ago

100% agree….

It started in 15’ with delegitimization of news

Then they’ve brainwashed (hopefully only) half the country into thinking any opposition is the enemy.

Now, they’re going for broke…

demagoguewatch.bsky.social•29 days ago

You are right. Like you, I saw the seeds of this in 2015 and have been deeply worried about it for the duration. And, now, here is everything we feared in full force and the minds of half the nation poisoned by hate and grievance.

oasismania25.bsky.social•29 days ago

It is starting to hit home…

As a teamster in probably the Bluest state… in a suburb with mostly rural surrounding…

I’ve heard plenty of fellow members now question if our $50.00 monthly dues and the union is worth it.

Their Brains are cooked.

demagoguewatch.bsky.social•29 days ago

That is baffling as it will bite them in the butt with salaries and benefits.

oasismania25.bsky.social•29 days ago

You’re not kidding

cactisflor.bsky.social•29 days ago

We are all saying this. Are we at the end of the road?

buddshenkin.bsky.social•29 days ago

Exactly.
US govt has just experienced a hostile takeover by a PE firm. They are now in the process of stripping assets.

This is what Trump admires so about Putin. Take over the state and appropriate assets personally. Putin is probably world's richest man. Trump would like to be there, too.

srchowub.bsky.social•29 days ago

And no one will do anything about it because of the GOP majorities and the Unsupreme Court Justices. If there are more bureaucrats like Merrick Garland we're going to get creamed.

photoonist.bsky.social•29 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/photoonist.bsky.social/post/3lglv3rsa722w

lpburdick.bsky.social•28 days ago

This is what the Trump voters wanted when they voted for him. It is really important to understand the current mindset of these people now. It is not all about Trump. It is about the people who elected him into office. What are they thinking and why.

ojodio.bsky.social•29 days ago

Look at what the right wing media stuck us with

dibon5.bsky.social•29 days ago

Surely he cannot do that legally —not the Felon in charge believes in law

dibon5.bsky.social•29 days ago

Doing a hell of a good job of it too. We need a Captain America to shake him up

karent.bsky.social•29 days ago

Urgh- paywall

joelkaye.bsky.social•29 days ago

Yup. Upcoming figurative raid on Fort Knox. Possibly even a literal one at this point.

resist77.bsky.social•29 days ago

Hi, we’re the @nytimes.com and we have just started to report to the American electorate the stake in the 2024 presidential election.
Stay tuned…

eileenmont.bsky.social•29 days ago

And Musk will be given unprecedented access to data collected by the US gov-without having even basic security clearance- this whole DOGE nonsense is really just a DODGE.

genthesen.bsky.social•28 days ago

Then there's this:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-wiped-january-6-convicts-records-clean-now-his-doj-is-wiping-evidence-of-rioters-crimes-from-the-internet/ar-AA1xS8fY?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=c4b3c0400fb34f1089b9ac3d84fb5d2d&ei=67

agosteen.bsky.social•29 days ago

By replacing independent watchdogs with his own cronies, Trump can now more easily launch sham investigations against public servants he has a beef with—forcing them to hire attorneys, etc and making their lives utterly miserable until they quit or toe the line.

2s04dosrkzjd.bsky.social•29 days ago

46% of women voted for diaper-boy, as did our friends in Dearborn, MI.

She/her was elected both Electoral College and Popular.
This is all on the DNC, the idiot Obama who did not groom a candidate who was young enough and could win two terms.

This is on all Dems and the MSNBC crowd.

katyalex.bsky.social•29 days ago

I see it as getting rid of the quality control inspectors at factories. The ones that would come around and inspect the bottle packaging to make sure no holes or if automobile switches work. Worked at both in my younger years.

katyalex.bsky.social•29 days ago

The laboratories I worked in would get lab samples from research facilities to make sure we were reporting out correct results.

willie911stroker.bsky.social•29 days ago

This is why Trump doesn’t know a god-damn thing about policy and doesn’t care as his only concern is instituting his autocracy; it’s all he thinks about and all he is doing and people keep bitching about the price of eggs totally missing the plot.

the-thc-ministry.bsky.social•26 days ago

ramrca.bsky.social•29 days ago

Dictator

jhdiscenza.bsky.social•28 days ago

Immunity at work

lambdabeta.bsky.social•29 days ago

Kind of hard to steal with those cameras in place.

uilleccdubh.bsky.social•29 days ago

Yeah, but doesn’t that actually just draw sharper attention to what you’re doing?

It’s the kinda incompetence that always gets “smart” crooks caught…

schadenfreude666.bsky.social•29 days ago

oh we got it!...now what ???....

drlizgeriatrics.bsky.social•29 days ago

There should be a gift copy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/trump-privacy-civil-liberties-oversight-board.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r04.D5Tm.s71PAObmEg7I&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

my2cnz.bsky.social•29 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/my2cnz.bsky.social/post/3lglthskd5s24

allisonitqueen.bsky.social•29 days ago

Gee, if people had only read Project 2025 or Mein Kompf .
And the sheeple stood and looked as the wolf burned the world down and wondered what they were missing.

4legsrgood.bsky.social•29 days ago

Time for some independent watch dogs

grizpapa.bsky.social•29 days ago

This also may put US infotech companies out of compliance with EU data privacy law, handicapping US firms' ability to do business in Europe.
Putin's playbook - divide Europe and the USA.

mdwth.bsky.social•28 days ago

America is in a very PERILOUS TIME....AS DANGEROUS AS IT'S EVER BEEN but the masses are doing nothing....it makes me me terrified for America and the world