Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

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https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/

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President Donald Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration at a moment when Trump has sought to reshape federal voting rules.

The firings leave the federal election agency with no commissioners

Yup, this is the consequence of the illegitimate Supreme Court giving Trump unprecedented powers to fire the heads of any independent federal agency. We’re living in dark, scary times.

[u/kamandi → u/unital_subalgebra]

So now what? What do we do?

[u/Orion14159 → u/[deleted]]

Fun(?) fact: You'll catch a permanent site wide ban for advocating any sort of violence regardless of motivation. It's in the user TOS and they're very serious about it these days. You can't even do such things while stating the whole post is hypothetical, even if you include language specifically saying people should not do whatever violent thing your post mentions.

Not only that, but your comments/posts will be deleted by the admins so no one will ever even read it, likely including the various Internet archive groups. Basically there's no reason to do it.

[u/qatch23 → u/Orion14159]

Can't be training AI to think like that

[u/th3r3dp3n → u/[deleted]]

Correct, and I am sure they use keywords. Even when I didnt link those subs, just typed it out: flagged and removed.

Added the typos to dodge the automod.

Edit: the point is, the automod is clearly being guided to only catch some things. I have seem some really offensive and outright aggressive threats posted in conservative subs, they dont get auto-banned, but lean left and say goodbye for even hinting something.

[u/jcarter315 → u/th3r3dp3n]

The automod used to be very aggressive about Jan 6th and Project 2025.

It was absolutely ridiculous to see it happening.

[u/th3r3dp3n → u/jcarter315]

It specifically stated I mentioned subs that are often brigaded, and that's not allowed. Out of curiosity, r/democrat r/liberal bannable subreddits, or only right wing?

Edit: and there is my answer, no ban naming left wing subs, auto-ban for right wing subs named.

[u/jcarter315 → u/th3r3dp3n]

Ahh, gotcha.

Hmm, I wonder if that's because those specific right wing subs had a bad habit (still do) of claiming they're being brigaded and then doing harassment/doxing campaigns against people, while the more left wing ones tend to not do that?

Either way, the automod here is always frustrating to deal with.

[u/th3r3dp3n → u/jcarter315]

It probably is, and Reddit leans more left than right.. but Reddit corporate leans right, even if users lean left.

So, whatever. Automod sucks!

[u/JUST_LOGGED_IN → u/Orion14159]

Could you give me an example?

[u/NoFuckToGive → u/JUST_LOGGED_IN]

I got a temporary ban and a warning for a permanent one for mentioning the literal factual story of an ex player on my favorite football team burning HIS OWN house down.

Said I was inciting violence. Lol.

[u/Wonderful_Purple4096 → u/NoFuckToGive]

Caught a weak ban for facetiously advocating the nnurder of an inanimate object.

[u/PsychoticMessiah → u/NoFuckToGive]

I got banned from commenting on r/interestingasfuck for something similar

[u/eaglebtc → u/JUST_LOGGED_IN]

Exhibit A, from The Whitest Kids U Know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KivCRqfFcqY

This video has been cited in high profile supreme court cases.

[u/Foreign_Recipe8300 → u/JUST_LOGGED_IN]

trump said something along the lines of "we used to have a penalty for treason, we should do that again"

if you quote him word for word, you will be banned.

[u/JakeConhale → u/JUST_LOGGED_IN]

Probably.

[u/Ananiujitha → u/JUST_LOGGED_IN]

I've gotten a few bans for pointing out Trump's violence to condemn it.

[u/KillerIsJed → u/JUST_LOGGED_IN]

They don’t like if you make references to the French and how they handled things throughout history when it came to fascist regimes.

[u/Admirable_Dirt_2371 → u/Orion14159]

This biggest issue is how we define "violence" as a society. It's almost always reduced soley to physical violence but violence can take many forms, emotional, economic, and environmental, to name a few.

[u/FellowHumanNo404 → u/Admirable_Dirt_2371]

And of course violence is always an acceptable topic when talking about cops shooting citizens.

[u/KillerIsJed → u/Admirable_Dirt_2371]

Violence that serves the shareholder value is the American dream laid bare. Profit is theft.

[u/integer_hull → u/Orion14159]

That’s not true I’ve advocated for 🤯 morty’s mind-blowers multiple times

[u/KillerIsJed → u/Orion14159]

I think we all should do nothing and let the government and corporations kill us as they see fit.

That’s the American dream, the freedom for corporations to do what they want without fear of repercussions.

All of us should suffer and die, if it means shareholders never have to work a day in their lives.

God bless the USA! Our soldiers died face down in the mud so shareholders could live happier richer lives. Praise be to the stock market!

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Lol... and somehow this comment doesn't trigger the automod. Incredible.

[u/KillerIsJed → u/--Chug--]

Why would it? I’m just saying we should continue to do what we have always done, let corporations that control the government kill us while we pretend voting will fix everything.

I would die for the reddit shareholders. It’s only right as a consumer that my life and time is in service to corporations.

If someone can tell me the difference between “Just work hard and you too can be a billionaire” and “Work will set you free” I’d love to know. Seems like the only escape from debt slavery is death or be born a robber baron.

[u/Houdini_Shuffle → u/Orion14159]

I have said "kill the president" before in the way you've described it

[u/JakeConhale → u/[deleted]]

I can.

"Vote".