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THIS guy is who should be named on your protest signs, calls to Congress, & in every headline. Russell Vought. If you’ve wondered how such an incompetent administration is destroying gov’t at speed or why they are killing off all science, this authoritarian Christian nationalist is your answer. 🧪

bloomberg.comThe Real Mastermind Behind Trump’s Imperial PresidencyElon Musk is the face of DOGE, but Russell Vought is the brains. He’s been planning such a crusade since well before Project 2025.

13/5/25, 4:41 pm47 reposts130 likes

kottke.org

@kottke.org

13 May 2025

Vought on government "bureaucrats": "We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma." kottke.org/25/02/theyre...

kottke.orgThey’re Purposefully Traumatizing the Federal WorkforceRussell Vought is a Christian nationalist, a significant contributor to Project 2025, the policy director of the RNC’s platf

kenrodbodine.bsky.social

@kenrodbodine.bsky.social

13 May 2025

Just a coincidence that the evil company in “The Boys” is Vought International?

☑️ #nokings

I warned about this before. 🧵

Ariel Waldman@arielwaldman.com

Do not sleep on this one. This guy will be the grand architect of executing Project 2025. Being the director of OMB gives you extremely broad powers to utterly gut federal agencies from the inside out and intimidate them into submission, without oversight. I’m calling my senators today.

This Ain’t Michael

@micheil.bsky.social

13 May 2025

Thanks for continuing to help focus us on the root of the problem. Seeing Project 2025 take root has been both shockingly devastating and, I guess, completely expected.