It's a declaration of war on the fed govt—a vow to transform its size & scope & make it more beholden to TFG’s whims & worldview -to sweep away civil service protections. He’d make every exec branch employee fireable by the pres -at will.
"A massive research undertaking: American Autocracy Threat Tracker
A fully updated, comprehensive catalog of Donald Trump and close associates’ plans and promises for 2025"
By @normeisen, @ruthbenghiat, Siven Watt, Andrew Warren, Jacob Kovacs Goodman, Francois Barrilleaux
…more than 400 far-right authors under the guidance of the Heritage Foundation have put together a 920-page blueprint for a Trump dictatorship known as #Project2025, that if elected, his acolytes will use to ride roughshod over the Constitution and create a far-right state.
The plan is to dismantle every federal agency, replacing knowledgeable and dedicated public servants with hard-core Trump loyalists to carry out a radical agenda and create an imperial Presidency bound by no law, seeking retribution against Trump’s “enemies” in the government, the free press, and the public at large. And they are already starting to recruit.
There is nothing hidden about Trump's radical agenda for a second term . It's laid out clearly in the #Project2025 book and report. Expansive remaking of government and increased presidential power, rights reduced for many, with specific, detailed plans, backed by 100 right-wing think tanks led by the Heritage Foundation: https://www.project2025.org https://mastodon.social/@uspolitics/112289299222949533
With #ClimateChange come record-breaking heatwaves, posing severe health risks, especially for workers exposed to prolonged heat. Despite this, some Republican-led states like Florida and Texas are passing laws preventing local protections for workers in extreme heat.
#Project2025 attacks decades-long workers' rights achievements and proposes to classify more workers as independent contractors, stripping away crucial protections.
These deranged people are the fundamentalist #ChristoFascists intending to impose #TheNewInquisition rule over the rest of us, to eliminate all #WomensRights like in Afghanistan, to execute #LGBTQ folks and #Atheists like Gaza and Iran, to bring back #Slavery like in Libya and Qatar, and make America a Saudi style ethno-state in the #WhiteNationalist flavor. They intend to turn all schools into #ForcedReligion hellholes and #Kidnap your kids if you dare to let them be themselves. They intend to deport #Immigrants and force the poor into servitude with no #MinimumWages or #WorkerProtections at all, including no #SocialSecurity or #Healthcare since only the rich deserve a decent life - their disgusting god told them so while they were here wallowing on the floor and babbling.
THIS IS OUR FUTURE IF MAGATS ARE NOT VOTED OUT AND KEPT OUT PERMANENTLY: rule by hateful misogynist nutjobs using POLICE STATE VIOLENCE to enforce their whackadoodle beliefs onto us.
In 2017, Andrew Intrater donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund
and, a few months later, donated $35,000 to Trump’s reelection campaign.
Intrater is a cousin of Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch who was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2018 for his connections to Putin.
We know that oligarchs play an integral role in funding Russian influence operations.
One oligarch revealed to special counsel Robert Mueller that Putin held quarterly meetings with his oligarchs to discuss strategic spending.
In 2018, a Texas-based firm donated money to House Speaker #Mike#Johnson.
That firm is 88 percent owned by three Russians.
And last week, we learned that Trump Media received loans from a Russian bank to help the company stay afloat before it went public and at a time when no U.S. bank would lend to Trump.
Any donations that might have been made through anonymous LLCs to PACs
—perhaps with attached quid pro quos
—are likely to remain opaque, due to the Supreme Court’s #CitizensUnited decision.
And we cannot say if the financial transactions we do know about are nefarious.
But the pattern paints a disturbing picture, particularly given many 🔸House Republicans’ rabid opposition to Ukraine aid 🔸and Trump’s reported Ukraine peace plan, which would 🔹cede Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine to Russia. 🔹
A similar plan was floated by Paul #Manafort, Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman, and his partner Konstantin #Kilimnik, a Russian intelligence operative, during the 2016 election.
Among the entities promoted by the Voice of Europe propaganda network was Hungary’s Center for Fundamental Rights, which “considers preserving national identity, sovereignty, and Judeo-Christian social traditions as its primary mission.” #CFR is funded by the government of Viktor Orbán and has twice organized a conference in Budapest for the Conservative Political Action Committee, which helps shape policy on the American right.
The #Heritage#Foundation
—which has spearheaded #Project2025, the authoritarian blueprint for a future Republican administration
—has become increasingly cozy with Hungary, and even hosted Orbán privately last month.
It is quite possible, perhaps even likely, that some people who are 🔥on the Russian payroll were at the Heritage event, their role to influence and build support for pro-Russian policies.
We now have overwhelming evidence of 💥vast pro-Russian influence operations throughout Europe 💥that seek to exploit politicians, media personalities, and others—and some of these efforts have been successful.
Here in the United States, while a pattern has emerged, we don’t know the full extent of the influence yet.
👉But it would be foolish, not to mention dangerous, to think we are immune.
"Yesterday, former president Trump released a video celebrating state control over abortion; today, a judicial decision in Arizona illuminated just what such state control means. With the federal recognition of the constitutional right to abortion gone since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, old laws left on state books once again are becoming the law of the land."
"Project 2025 is the MAGA minimum and you don’t need an imagination to see what that nightmare will look like. It’s already happening in the south. And soon it will be real in Arizona, thanks to Donald Trump.
No one on the right is confused about this. Yet somehow, the press still manages to be."
Stiglitz "said rich countries should support the creation of $300bn of #IMF special drawing rights (SDRs) each year to finance a global green transition."
But the devil is in the details: if this money comes in the shape of high interest loans that's not helping developing countries, that's loansharking.
"The US should stop funding the World Bank and IMF because they promote “policies that are harmful to the countries they’re trying to help,” especially on climate change, said Stephen Moore, a co-author of the #Project2025 chapter on finance & a longtime economic adviser to Trump. That includes funding renewable energy projects when it would be more beneficial to build power plants that run on fossil fuels, he said."
"An alliance of #rightwing groups has crafted an extensive presidential proposal to bolster the planet-heating #oil and #gas industry and hamstring the #EnergyTransition.
#Project2025, was convened by the notorious rightwing, #climate-denying thinktank the Heritage Foundation, which has ties to fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch."
US citizens: please vote, and organize your friends. It's you against the #FossilFuel industry. The stakes are high.
"Allies of former President Trump want to muzzle federal climate science if he wins a second term.
The #Project2025 report says #NOAA should be “broken up and downsized” because “its current organization corrupts its useful functions.”
The document describes the agency’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research as the “source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism” and says the “preponderance of its #ClimateChange research should be disbanded.”"