Trump just booted the Dem members of the FTC, the latest in a string of firings at agencies designed to be insulated from the White House. “The president just illegally fired me,” FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya wrote in a post on X.
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I see a lot of class actions suits against both Trump and Musk in the near future
mar 18, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
If he isn't your boss and cannot fire you, WHY ARE YOU LEAVING? That makes NO sense. So anyone can come in and fire you, and you just pack up while thing they aren't my boss. They can't fire me + you go home
mar 19, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
At least he did not have them tossed out of a hotel window like his buddy Putin does
mar 18, 2025, 10:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Nyet…I mean, not yet.
mar 19, 2025, 6:23 am • 0 0 • view
I just don't get this. If he "illegally" fired you, then you're not legally fired. The front lines of this literal fight for democracy and freedom should and must be those in any entity within the government. Stay there. Say no. MAKE THEM DRAG YOU OUT. A resignation of conscience does nothing for us
mar 18, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
If the firing is illegal, then are you really fired?
mar 19, 2025, 3:26 am • 0 0 • view
sue baby sue
mar 18, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
mar 19, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
Total abuse of power. He must be stopped.
mar 18, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Really left out a lot of important points on this one: bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
mar 18, 2025, 10:15 pm • 18 2 • view
Then why is the guy leaving? Americans are very much cowards
mar 19, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
What's the SC going to do about it?
mar 18, 2025, 10:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Roberts is going to send him a strongly worded email!
mar 18, 2025, 10:33 pm • 8 0 • view
Why did trump deport astronauts, he had cause no papers is not a reason to be jailed
mar 19, 2025, 12:31 am • 0 0 • view
This won't last! Any judge will block this move too.
mar 19, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
Treason
mar 18, 2025, 11:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Musk X is the official web site of this White House , , more than 50 percent voted that it is the voice of the American government, piss off usa , 🇨🇦
mar 19, 2025, 12:27 am • 2 0 • view
Hope the Courts prevail🫨
mar 19, 2025, 12:10 am • 2 0 • view
Challenging the Rule of Law again.
mar 18, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
The FTC was designed to protect consumers against the worst efforts of telemarketers, scammers and fraudsters. Trump is on the side of the criminals again. Of course it's a coup.
mar 18, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 1 • view
Another TRO coming in about five minutes.
mar 18, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
More wasted tax dollars on court cases to overturn these treasonous actions by traitor donald.
mar 18, 2025, 10:20 pm • 4 1 • view
“Make me.” ”Prove me wrong.” “What you gonna do?” “Shut up about authoritarianism.”
mar 18, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Why is FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya still padding twitter’s DAU/MAU metrics? Why is anyone _still_ feeding musk clicks at this point? DEMONETIZE HIM #TeslaTakedown #TwitterBoycott #ItWillAlwaysBeTwitterElon
mar 18, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I think he's living in a fever dream of his favorite time - when he had a reality show. You're fired! Wish they would get him checked for his mental "health."
mar 19, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
Trump won't ever leave. He's crossed the Rubicon, right? Purging all DEM commissioners wherever they can be found invites retaliation someday, but only if there is another fair election. Trump will smash what he can knowing that the DEMs won't be allowed to reciprocate. "Fascist to the core."
mar 18, 2025, 10:16 pm • 21 1 • view
Dude is wicked old, surrounded by sycophantic morons, and dgaf. elections are run by the states. These are the death throes of the republican and democratic parties as we have known them. By 2032 politics will look very different.
mar 18, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
You may be right. Vance, unlike Pence, will throw an election back to the states if given the order. Trump trashed the economy last time & may very well do it again. Voters don't like recessions at all. Election will be a shitshow. MAGA can't be trusted, obviously. Expect endless dirty tricks.
mar 18, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
"another fair election" Like Stalin? Like Putin? Like Castro? Like Jung Un? You guys have 1 chance. Civil war. While you still can.
mar 18, 2025, 10:27 pm • 11 1 • view
We'll get by somehow. The world has been telling us will will tip over any day now since 1776 or so. Trump will soon be our oldest president ever & it shows. He's not all there. His brain is turning to jelly & it will just get worse. Right-wingers will be left defending a babbling idiot.
mar 18, 2025, 10:32 pm • 7 0 • view
Agree
mar 18, 2025, 11:06 pm • 3 0 • view
He wants the FTC to revoke NBCs license
mar 18, 2025, 10:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump has to fire someone to feel like a man. Trump will get to see places in hell that most demons do not even know exist. Trump to fellow demon: "You don't even know you're dead."
apr 22, 2025, 6:04 am • 0 0 • view
That that SOB has done even ONE illegal thing affecting thousands & hasn't immediately been wrestled to the ground (at least figuratively) means we've lost our way. Thousands of us are sitting around, wide-eyed, unable to believe what we're seeing, and nothing/no one is stopping this assault. WHY?
mar 18, 2025, 10:17 pm • 3 0 • view
100%
mar 18, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
And he will suffer no consequences
mar 18, 2025, 11:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Why non of you realize that was what he was going to do baffles me!!!! How gullible are you people!?!?!?
mar 19, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
Fun fact: A blue whale’s anus can stretch to about 3.5 feet in diameter—making it the second-largest asshole on the planet.
mar 19, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
That’ll calm the markets, I’m sure.
mar 18, 2025, 10:19 pm • 3 0 • view
He needs to be impeached!
mar 19, 2025, 2:09 am • 1 0 • view
He’s literally Terrorizing Americans!
mar 18, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
He is literally a walking, talking, steaming pile of shit!
mar 19, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
The Federal Trade Commission? Gee, why do you think he wanted to do that? Hmmmm🤔
mar 19, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
And can he even do that?
mar 19, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
🤬😔 So sick of his BS!
mar 18, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
This is unacceptable. Being a member if a particular political party should not be a requirement to be a federal employee
mar 18, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
USA 🇺🇸 Must Ask For Impeachment For D.Trump Another Betrayal Towards The Nation His mandate was not To Destroy The Welfare State Instead And What He Is Doing By Imposing Dictatorship
mar 18, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Infuriating, bewildering, disgusting, and pathetic. Not just Trump, but Schumer for not raising all hell in response to this blatantly illegal, tyrannical move by Trump. Lawyers in courtrooms will only take us so far. There has to be real action. But that would take a real leader. Not Schumer
mar 18, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
….early steps in the White House bozo’s attempt to stymie and then fully control news services and agencies….
mar 19, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
Drump wants rate cuts. The FED will not give it, so he threw a tantrum and fired people. The USA elected, an entitled man baby. Nothing he does will shock me this term.
mar 18, 2025, 10:19 pm • 9 0 • view
The fed and the ftc are not the same thing.
mar 18, 2025, 11:46 pm • 2 0 • view
All true. My bad
mar 19, 2025, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
The laws only pertain to democrats haven’t you learned that! This lawless president needs to be rebuked by the Supreme Court! And if that doesn’t work I say start a revolution!
mar 18, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder if Susan Collins is concerned . . .
mar 18, 2025, 10:17 pm • 2 0 • view
If he can’t fire them, why do they comply. The federal employees should all stand their ground and refuse. I don’t understand. I would have papers in hand and say no you do not have the authority to fire me.
mar 19, 2025, 12:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I still don't understand why people say things like "illegally fired me" rather than "tried to fire me, but the law doesn't permit that". It seems like that's a stronger take?
mar 18, 2025, 10:33 pm • 1 0 • view
If they try to go back to work, will their badges work? Will security let them in? If the answer is yes, then the president tried to fired them and it didn't work. If the answer is no, then they've been fired.. illegally.
mar 18, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I see the argument, but I disagree. If their badges don't work and security won't let them in, then someone has removed an employee's id from the system, and security is blocking them without justification.
mar 19, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view
If we say they were illegally fired, then only Trump is at fault. If we maintain that they are in fact still employed, we emphasize that everyone going along with Trump's criminal activity is also at fault; so people shouldn't do that.
mar 19, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
Are you surprised, you shouldn't be, not with Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
mar 19, 2025, 12:39 am • 1 0 • view
Each illegal firing is a declaration of war against the people of this country. Will we eventually answer the call?
mar 18, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
What are we supposed to do?
mar 18, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, I suppose a step would be to take to the streets by the millions like they’ve had to do in other countries. A general strike, probably. I mean, if we want to cling to the hope that our nation will survive this, we’re going to have to take action. It’s clear the “guardrails” are failing us.
mar 18, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Why isn't anyone in power stopping this fuck? Courts? Congress? Hell, even the military.
mar 18, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe they’re just waiting for him to keel over of natural causes. But then we’ll be stuck with Vance. That’s a whole OTHER thing to deal with.
mar 19, 2025, 6:29 am • 0 0 • view
So there will be another court case against the Trump Administration and the judge will order him to restore these board members back to the FTC. How many lawsuits does a presidential administration have to get filed against it before they get kicked out for cause?
mar 18, 2025, 10:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Legally, the only body authorized to remove the sitting president is Congress. The need to file articles of impeachment, convict him and then have him removed. I don't think that's at all likely.
mar 18, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Not in the next two years anyway.
mar 20, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
👀👀
mar 18, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
POS 🖕🍊💩
mar 18, 2025, 10:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Fun race to watch: Will Trump destroy US democracy... OR Will public opinion turn far enough against him while it still makes a difference.
mar 18, 2025, 10:21 pm • 4 2 • view
Capturing the court. Replacing Civil Service with toadies. Replacing JAG and military leadership with toadies. Firing Inspectors General. Replacing FBI and DOJ with toadies. Then democracy is over.
mar 18, 2025, 10:20 pm • 5 2 • view
There is an actual book with the literal title. It can't happen here. It was written back in the 1960s. I truly wish it had just stayed fiction forever.
mar 18, 2025, 10:38 pm • 4 0 • view
I've heard of that book too. The 1980 science fiction TV series V was going to be a take of that movie. Warner Brothers executives believed it was impossible. So they replaced American Nazis with lizard alien Nazis instead. That was more believable. I wish it still were more believable.
may 12, 2025, 12:51 am • 1 0 • view
When you are an aspiring dictator, burning all the "insulation" is a first step.
mar 18, 2025, 10:19 pm • 4 1 • view