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Dusty Langdon's avatar

We’re going to rely heavily on judges going forward since Congress isn’t going to do anything.

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Veronica Alleyne's avatar

none of this had to be if y'all hadn't voted for him so, whose fault is it, really?

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Dusty Langdon's avatar

I did not vote for Donald Trump so take your weird misguided rage and give it to someone else

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Veronica Alleyne's avatar

we need to face the fact that this country is stuck on stupid when it comes to anything sensible or progressive even when it would greatly benefit us all people insist on returning to broken systems, personalities & character types that just don't work, maybe if the majority of folks would just quit with the trying to feel themselves superior to others we might begin to get somewhere & make themselves reject the cheap, easy high of bullying, hatred & incessant greed?

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Dusty Langdon's avatar

Girl you came at me 😂 with some BS like i voted for this man?? You tried to bully me on substack of all places 💀 i ain’t got nothing productive to say to you

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Veronica Alleyne's avatar

if the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it, nobody here knows you personally so, get a grip

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Dusty Langdon's avatar

😂😂😂 think about whose substack this is? You think he’s got Trump supporters flocking to subscribe to his content? You just wanna be mad. Go yell at ppl on twitter and TikTok and mind your business weirdo

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ELD's avatar

Both of you need to grow up a bit. You're a party to the hate and anger that t's MAGA are promoting. Figure out how to disagree with respect. Let it go already!!

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CoAd's avatar

I'm confused for Dusty too. It appears you are on the same side but you are definitely antagonizing her. I'm not sure why you felt the need to do as your input is thoughtful. It weakens your reply to be honest. The overtones of superiority in the ways you've conducted yourself definitely gives an ick to your more productive ideas.

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KC's avatar

Huh? I didn't vote for him either. And I have rage at his level of of abuse of the power the Executive Branch.

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Dusty Langdon's avatar

I’m saying we’re going to rely on judges to stop these orders bc they are not legal. But go off Veronica

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Veronica Alleyne's avatar

you haven't heard me go off yet, trust me

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Dusty Langdon's avatar

😂 what could i possibly have done to you for you to want to whine to me like this?

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ELD's avatar

I can pretty much assure you no one following Aaron voted for this insanity. The most guilty people are the millions who chose to not vote at all! t barely won by under 300K votes, nearly the lowest votes on record. The most votes were for someone else. It's the EC that elected him...again. That's why the EC needs to be removed.

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Alek's avatar

Where do you think we are?

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Sabbath's avatar

It doesn't matter who anyone voted for. He admitted to rigging the election on stage in front of everyone.

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Angela Schlickbernd Amith's avatar

I didn’t vote for that orange pos.

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Debra Dobbs's avatar

I doubt anyone here voted for Trump.

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Russ Titelman's avatar

I believe Veronica was addressing the stupid people who voted for him...not any of us.

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Cheri Kanaan's avatar

O think you are on the wrong Substack

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Mary's avatar

Federal judges yeah. So far, they’ve doing the right thing.

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Jana Fite's avatar

Not Aileen Cannon!

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Mary's avatar

Yeah. She’s unbelievable. I’m surprised she’s not under scrutiny by the FL Bar.

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Mary's avatar

Of course. I just don’t think everything is a slam dunk, even with this SCOTUS

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Whitney Shaw's avatar

You do realize that if anything goes to the Supreme Court they are majority in his pocket?

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AshleyW's avatar

We need to take all the wins, no matter how little! Thank you Aaron for all you do.

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lovingmomma0828's avatar

It's time to impeach him....

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SRae's avatar

He’s been impeached twice. Where has that gotten us?

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MomOfRath's avatar

Came here to say that

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Patricia's avatar

It will never happen with maga majority in house and senate.

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Diane B's avatar

No matter what it’s still illegal as hell. He was impeached the first time for blocking federal spending.

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Krista's avatar

Hopefully he will be facing impeachment again soon. I just don’t understand how we got to this point, he should have never been allowed to run.

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Genevieve's avatar

Right like? Why aren’t felons allowed to vote in this country but they can run for president? This is insane

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Rae C's avatar

My thing is, he’s already a literal felon so what does he care about “illegal” or not. This is the consequence of unchecked power and zero accountability in political leadership.

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Diane B's avatar

I agree but this is why we have lawsuits. He has overplayed his hand, even for some republicans as it will hit red states the hardest.

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Dianah Childers's avatar

But he has absolute immunity. In his small demented brain he thinks he can do anything and get away with it. And so far he has. So what he’s a convicted felon. He still managed to get voted back in. He’s a dangerous man with dangerous people surrounding him. It’s frightening.

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MsTeeBlue's avatar

He’s pushing himself to the brink of political suicide and he’s taking senate and congressional republicans with him.

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AmyLorene's avatar

Idk. Kinda okay with that.

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ELD's avatar

Not with his radical base...that's who he is playing to. His problem is that he's made opposite promises that counter each other so he makes up something to counter the lie like the 'reverse revenue service'!

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Mia's avatar

Yeah but how many are this radical. Do we know?

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Sylvia Rivers's avatar

“The longest day of my life” 🤣

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Juanita Miglio's avatar

SAME! No I am drained & just want to rot in bed, eat pizza, ice cream & chips....my brain & emotions are mush

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Sylvia Rivers's avatar

Do it!

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Angela's avatar

Given the number of people saying something like this, I’m not so sure it isn’t deliberate. I’ve seen others mention it, and starting to think they might be right. Every day, something new, and it is wearing us out after only a week.

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Angelique Sternberger's avatar

it's meant to so that people disengage. Call your representatives and Senators and let them know how we the people feel. We need to vote the enablers out in 2026.

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Angela's avatar

I’ve got Ted Cruz and John Cornyn. Ugh.

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Eb Latrice's avatar

Same!

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Cassie Marie's avatar

Financial aid analyst here... today has been a WILD day

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AmyLorene's avatar

Working in community mental health that works to help people with Medicaid get a lot of services that the order would cut. I get this. As short of a reprieve as it will possibly be, I am definitely going to need to make plans. I love my work and am heartbroken.

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Sue Smith's avatar

This ordered was so confusing in addition to being deplorable. First I read Medicaid, SNAP, WIC were all in it. By day end after lawsuit filed, I was hearing they were not.So many poor, medically needy rely on Medicaid.I had students who were on Medicaid -they were so medically fragile. Wish you all the best and it gets tossed

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Krista's avatar

I bet it has! Thank you for what you do.

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Sylvia Rivers's avatar

I’m holding out for that. I’m in my master’s. It’s the only way to escape the cult

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KMcDSon's avatar

I will eat my hat if they offer you a seat, not because you don’t deserve it. I can’t see them wanting any critical ( or factual) voices there…just suck ups..

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Patricia's avatar

Agree. They will look at his social media and say nope. They want people who will not challenge them.

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Lisa Kriss's avatar

Thank you so much for being a source I can trust

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Elyce Murillo's avatar

Will you apply for one of the seats at the WH press conferences?!?

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Mikayla's avatar

He made a tt announcing he did

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Sue sauve's avatar

Trump is off his rocker.

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Shannon's avatar

The freeze not unblocked yet for HUD unhoused programs. We can’t get into our eLocks account as of 2:00 PST

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Stephen Guzman's avatar

Dang he broke this before most news outlets did. I like substack.

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Nope Nopereon's avatar

Question is whether they will let you report on what actually happens, or if terms and conditions apply to you being allowed in the press room. Hope your compass holds true...

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Tasha Green's avatar

I hope that the snap Medicaid and everything he has spoken about continues and that the people who are standing up against the administration gets him out and he’s impeached and finally goes to prison.

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Virginia Spargo's avatar

thank you aaron, you have helped me and the director of my DHHS office that i’m employed at stay in the loop faster than most news sources. DHHS has heard next to nothing until the later updates that FNS/Medicaid etc will not be paused, i forwarded this information along to her so hopefully we will have more information in the morning to tell our clients

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Tammy Clark's avatar

Thank you for the work that you do. I can't even imagine the level of panic aid recipients are feeling right now with only 3 days until February.

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Virginia Spargo's avatar

thank you, i am devoted to working and assisting my clients to the absolute best of my ability. I was a kid who grew up on those services so I know first hand how impactful they are. I know my job is at risk because of what it is, but i refuse to let that stop me from helping the people who need it

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