The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...
#Project2025 #OMB #DOGE #science #SpoilsSystem
#Project2025 #OMB #DOGE #science #SpoilsSystem
The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.
www.techpolicy.press
July 14, 2026 at 7:47 PM
The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...
#Project2025 #OMB #DOGE #science #SpoilsSystem
#Project2025 #OMB #DOGE #science #SpoilsSystem
Interesting discussion here about the "personalist" leader from Ezra Klein; replacing experts with cronies. Return of the #SpoilsSystem seems to be coming soon in a country near you.
Opinion | Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’
The political scientist Erica Frantz describes the regime change the second Trump administration represents.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Interesting discussion here about the "personalist" leader from Ezra Klein; replacing experts with cronies. Return of the #SpoilsSystem seems to be coming soon in a country near you.
But SC(R)OTUS said it’s okay to accept gratuities!!! $100 million is basically the same thing as giving a gift basket to your favorite teacher for a job well done, right?
#snydervunitedstates #lawless #spoilssystem
#snydervunitedstates #lawless #spoilssystem
March 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
But SC(R)OTUS said it’s okay to accept gratuities!!! $100 million is basically the same thing as giving a gift basket to your favorite teacher for a job well done, right?
#snydervunitedstates #lawless #spoilssystem
#snydervunitedstates #lawless #spoilssystem
Statue of Andrew Jackson on a pig, which is over "fraud," "bribery," and "spoils," eating "plunder." Harper's weekly, April 28, 1877. #SpoilsSystem
December 18, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Statue of Andrew Jackson on a pig, which is over "fraud," "bribery," and "spoils," eating "plunder." Harper's weekly, April 28, 1877. #SpoilsSystem
In flagrant violation, need one even add, of the Civil Service Act.
#Coup
#Corruption
#SpoilsSystem
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
#Coup
#Corruption
#SpoilsSystem
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Trump Orders Plans for ‘Large Scale’ Work Force Cuts and Expands Musk’s Power
The latest executive order by the president made clear that the billionaire’s cost-cutting team will have continuing oversight of the Civil Service.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
In flagrant violation, need one even add, of the Civil Service Act.
#Coup
#Corruption
#SpoilsSystem
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
#Coup
#Corruption
#SpoilsSystem
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Spoils System Drop New Album ‘The Nope Out’ — Shoegaze Power-Pop With Teeth #music #indiemusic #spoilssystem
https://cultureaddicts.com/spoils-system-drop-new-album-the-nope-out-shoegaze-power-pop-with-teeth/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
https://cultureaddicts.com/spoils-system-drop-new-album-the-nope-out-shoegaze-power-pop-with-teeth/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
July 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Spoils System Drop New Album ‘The Nope Out’ — Shoegaze Power-Pop With Teeth #music #indiemusic #spoilssystem
https://cultureaddicts.com/spoils-system-drop-new-album-the-nope-out-shoegaze-power-pop-with-teeth/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
https://cultureaddicts.com/spoils-system-drop-new-album-the-nope-out-shoegaze-power-pop-with-teeth/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
The hiring policy that trump has put in place for the US government.
#SpoilsSystem
#SpoilsSystem
May 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The hiring policy that trump has put in place for the US government.
#SpoilsSystem
#SpoilsSystem
July 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I have a new post over at @newsracket.bsky.social about the supercharging of the spoils system during the Jackson administration, and what lessons that teaches us to prepare for the chaos as Trump emulates the seventh President.
#Politics #SpoilsSystem #Patronage #AndrewJackson #DonaldTrump
#Politics #SpoilsSystem #Patronage #AndrewJackson #DonaldTrump
To the victor go the spoils
The history of the spoils system and why we don't want it
www.theracketnews.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:06 PM
I have a new post over at @newsracket.bsky.social about the supercharging of the spoils system during the Jackson administration, and what lessons that teaches us to prepare for the chaos as Trump emulates the seventh President.
#Politics #SpoilsSystem #Patronage #AndrewJackson #DonaldTrump
#Politics #SpoilsSystem #Patronage #AndrewJackson #DonaldTrump
#ABitOfHistory #AndrewJacksons 1829-37 #pretense of #merit #scrapped favoring #populist #spoilssystem #hiredfriends #others #loyal #Jackson based his #candidacy #representing #thecommonman only #whitemen could #vote #opposing #power #privilege #wealthy #eliteclasses
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Donald Trump & his cabinet of clowns really think they deserve their jobs. This delusion has a name. — LGBTQ Nation
Fasten your seatbelts, everyone. Sunday, February 09, 2025 A demonstrator holds a handmade sign protesting actions taken by President Donald Trump in his first few weeks in office on Wednesday, Feb. 5...
apple.news
February 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#ABitOfHistory #AndrewJacksons 1829-37 #pretense of #merit #scrapped favoring #populist #spoilssystem #hiredfriends #others #loyal #Jackson based his #candidacy #representing #thecommonman only #whitemen could #vote #opposing #power #privilege #wealthy #eliteclasses
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This system was changed in 1883. Even way back then people figured out it was a bad way to run an effective government. We however after 150 years have decided to go backwards.
#government #spoilsSystem
www.cbsnews.com/news/preside...
#government #spoilsSystem
www.cbsnews.com/news/preside...
April 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This system was changed in 1883. Even way back then people figured out it was a bad way to run an effective government. We however after 150 years have decided to go backwards.
#government #spoilsSystem
www.cbsnews.com/news/preside...
#government #spoilsSystem
www.cbsnews.com/news/preside...
If you understand even a little US history, you’ll understand why Trump is wrong about everything
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2CKVmMQ/
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2CKVmMQ/
Merit Based Hiring for government jobs wasn’t always a given. #andrewjackson in 1828 introduced the #spoilssystem where the government workforce would be totally replaced by political supporters with ...
TikTok video by Bryan
www.tiktok.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If you understand even a little US history, you’ll understand why Trump is wrong about everything
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2CKVmMQ/
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2CKVmMQ/
The #DOGE Plan: Burn out the remaining federal government workforce left after the 'buyouts' and replace them with political stooges. #TrumpDictatorship #PresidentMusk #FederalGovernment #SpoilsSystem #Resist
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fedscoop.com/trump-order-...
Trump order limits agency hiring, puts DOGE leads in decision-making roles
The executive order continues the president’s push to slash the federal workforce, with sweeping actions that include large-scale RIFs.
fedscoop.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The #DOGE Plan: Burn out the remaining federal government workforce left after the 'buyouts' and replace them with political stooges. #TrumpDictatorship #PresidentMusk #FederalGovernment #SpoilsSystem #Resist
fedscoop.com/trump-order-...
fedscoop.com/trump-order-...
Blue-state energy grants? Cut. Motive? ❝Constitutionally permissible❞ partisanship (their words). 🤡⚡️🧾 #SpoilsSystem #PartisanPayback #RuleOfLaw #FAFO
![The reporting (and the court record it cites) suggests the administration is no longer pretending the grant cancellations were purely technocratic: partisan alignment is being defended as an acceptable decision factor, raising a straightforward retaliation problem for any blue-state grantee with a lawyer and a pulse.
❝[C]onsideration of partisan politics is constitutionally permissible, including because it can serve as a proxy for legitimate policy considerations.❞
Defendants’ proposed stipulation (quoted in plaintiffs❜ filing), City of Saint Paul v. Wright, D.D.C. (15-Dec-2025)
❝A lot of good can come down from shutdowns… [w]e can get rid of a lot of things we didn’t want, and they’d be Democrat things.❞
Donald Trump, quoted in The Washington Post (17-Dec-2025)
❝It really undermines the idea that you’re passing neutral laws that… are supposed to apply equally to everybody.❞
Dan Farber (UC Berkeley law), quoted in The Washington Post (17-Dec-2025)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wnhlwfb44kfyi4gb6yc2tvbz/bafkreiehhmgtmmd6bsqvrr2j2todko4fft2swu6jgrzlh2d2xlbogpbnaq)
December 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Blue-state energy grants? Cut. Motive? ❝Constitutionally permissible❞ partisanship (their words). 🤡⚡️🧾 #SpoilsSystem #PartisanPayback #RuleOfLaw #FAFO
Trump’s 📝✅💰 pardon spree for crooked officials isn’t just ❝mercy❞ 🤝💸📝: it’s a transactional signal. If clemency rewards loyalty and money, the rule is simple — 𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖆𝖑, 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖞 𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖋𝖚𝖑, 𝖌𝖊𝖙 𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖉. #PayToPlay #RuleOfLaw #SpoilsSystem
December 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump’s 📝✅💰 pardon spree for crooked officials isn’t just ❝mercy❞ 🤝💸📝: it’s a transactional signal. If clemency rewards loyalty and money, the rule is simple — 𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖆𝖑, 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖞 𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖋𝖚𝖑, 𝖌𝖊𝖙 𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖉. #PayToPlay #RuleOfLaw #SpoilsSystem
Exponential increase in number of recent screw-ups w/ USPS package delivery. Have talked to multiple people experiencing the same thing. Hate to suggest it, but I question whether it's intentional to justify privatizing the USPS. Whether it's intentional or not DeJoy is failing. #SpoilsSystem
December 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Exponential increase in number of recent screw-ups w/ USPS package delivery. Have talked to multiple people experiencing the same thing. Hate to suggest it, but I question whether it's intentional to justify privatizing the USPS. Whether it's intentional or not DeJoy is failing. #SpoilsSystem
#SpoilsSystem poison. #AmericaFirst Jacksonianism is such a weak kneed petty small world shitty existence.
Scorch the earth of these demonspawn #EnemiesWithin, the republic cannot bear it, such facile small farts.
Scorch the earth of these demonspawn #EnemiesWithin, the republic cannot bear it, such facile small farts.
And now Bondi gets her reward: the top law enforcement job in the country. The Senate Judiciary Committee needs to thoroughly investigate the Trump-Bondi scandal.
November 22, 2024 at 1:29 AM
#SpoilsSystem poison. #AmericaFirst Jacksonianism is such a weak kneed petty small world shitty existence.
Scorch the earth of these demonspawn #EnemiesWithin, the republic cannot bear it, such facile small farts.
Scorch the earth of these demonspawn #EnemiesWithin, the republic cannot bear it, such facile small farts.
States must now bow and scrape and bend the knee to the chief executive to receive aid. This will be used as a weapon. #fema #corruption #spoilssystem
“Disaster funds to be distributed directly from White House.”
www.reuters.com/business/env...
“Disaster funds to be distributed directly from White House.”
www.reuters.com/business/env...
Trump says FEMA to be wound down after hurricane season
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he planned to start "phasing out" the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the hurricane season and that states would receive less federal aid to respond to natural disasters.
www.reuters.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
States must now bow and scrape and bend the knee to the chief executive to receive aid. This will be used as a weapon. #fema #corruption #spoilssystem
“Disaster funds to be distributed directly from White House.”
www.reuters.com/business/env...
“Disaster funds to be distributed directly from White House.”
www.reuters.com/business/env...
Does anybody #rememberthealamo anymore? Related: I think I was the last child in America to be taught about Jackson's #spoilssystem: "to the victor go the spoils" of government. So many lessons of history we repeatedly fail to learn and apply. Probably time to pull that guy off the $20. #tdwo50K
March 11, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Does anybody #rememberthealamo anymore? Related: I think I was the last child in America to be taught about Jackson's #spoilssystem: "to the victor go the spoils" of government. So many lessons of history we repeatedly fail to learn and apply. Probably time to pull that guy off the $20. #tdwo50K
Garfield ended the ‘SpoilsSystem’ over 100 years.
It made the US a professional, non partisan efficient, effective government that became the model for the world.
So much for make America great again, let’s just reinvent the wheel
Or
Rule of law
It made the US a professional, non partisan efficient, effective government that became the model for the world.
So much for make America great again, let’s just reinvent the wheel
Or
Rule of law
July 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Garfield ended the ‘SpoilsSystem’ over 100 years.
It made the US a professional, non partisan efficient, effective government that became the model for the world.
So much for make America great again, let’s just reinvent the wheel
Or
Rule of law
It made the US a professional, non partisan efficient, effective government that became the model for the world.
So much for make America great again, let’s just reinvent the wheel
Or
Rule of law
The Trump team has begun questioning the loyalty of career civil servants! Actually asking them who they voted for, what political contributions they've made, and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered “incriminating” by Trump!
#Project2025 #SpoilsSystem #politics
#Project2025 #SpoilsSystem #politics
Incoming Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about their loyalty
Incoming senior Trump officials have begun questioning career civil servants serving on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for, their political contributions in the 2024 el...
apnews.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Trump team has begun questioning the loyalty of career civil servants! Actually asking them who they voted for, what political contributions they've made, and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered “incriminating” by Trump!
#Project2025 #SpoilsSystem #politics
#Project2025 #SpoilsSystem #politics