DOJ is trashing the presumption of regularity
Bove in particular should be prosecuted
“What we’re seeing here is something I never thought would be possible on such a wide scale: federal prosecutors appointed by the Trump Administration intentionally presenting dubious if not outright false evidence to a court of jurisdiction in cases that impact a person’s fundamental rights not only under our Cons ution, but their natural rights as humans,” Bakaj said.
“What this means is that federal career attorneys who swore an oath to uphold the Cons ution are now being pressured to abdicate that promise in favor of fealty to a single person, specifically Donald Trump,” he said. “Loyalty to one individual must never outweigh supporting and protecting the fundamental rights of those living in the United States.”
heavy eugenics vibes
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age.
Darren Beattie just got another hat to wear: acting president of the US Ins ute for Peacenew Rubio appointment
former White House speechwriter Darren J Beattie was abruptly ousted from the WH in 2018, in a guilt-by-association smear campaign involving some white nationalists Beattie had been hanging out with at a convention.
he's our new head of public diplomacy at State
Interesting backstory here, DOGE cancelled USIP building lease, stole its $13 million dollar private endowment (and gave it to ICE), then kicked its (private) workforce out.
Subsequently the government lost a lawsuit and had to give the building back. A couple of weeks back, Trump mass fired the workers (illegally, of course, USIP is a private foundation)
https://www.rawstory.com/darren-beattie-2673761771/One official in President Donald Trump's administration just got a new job heading up a congressionally funded organization that Trump previously tried to eliminate.
According to a Friday report in Politico, Darren Beattie — who is currently the acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs in the U.S. State Department — has been named as the acting president of the U.S. Ins ute of Peace (USIP). Beattie was a speechwriter in Trump's first administration who was eventually fired after speaking at a white nationalist conference.
In a statement, the State Department said that Beattie will be serving a dual role in the administration, maintaining his role at the State Department while also heading the USIP. The Department stated that it "look[s] forward to seeing [Beattie] advance President Trump’s America First agenda in this new role."
In 2016, Beattie spoke at the H.L. Mencken Club's annual conference (named for the late 19th and early 20th century writer who harbored racist views and railed against democracy) alongside white nationalist activist Peter Brimelow. Brimelow is the founder of the website VDare, which has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. And in 2024, he posted to social media: "competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work."
Beattie's initial hiring at the State Department alar
right wing woo woo can be deadly
RFK Jr as HHS Sec'y -- like much of Trump 2.0 -- is civilizational sabotage
https://www.propublica.org/article/p...aadfest-rfk-jrThey went to a Las Vegas conference this month that promised pathways to an “unlimited lifespan.” But at least two attendees left in ambulances and were hospitalized in critical condition, requiring ventilators to breathe.
The two women, who are recovering, fell ill after receiving peptide injections at a conference booth. The doctor who ran the booth was a Los Angeles physician specializing in “age reversal” therapies who did not have permission to practice medicine or dispense prescriptions in Nevada. Public health investigators are trying to determine if anyone else who attended the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival experienced a similar illness.
The investigation comes as peptides grow in popularity, thanks in part to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of the amino acid chains as a way to fight aging and chronic disease. Since becoming Health and Human Services secretary, Kennedy has vowed to end the Food and Drug Administration’s “war on peptides” and other alternative health therapies. Kent Holtorf, the doctor overseeing the booth where the women became ill, also has called for less regulation of alternative therapies and has criticized the FDA for blocking compounds he sees as lifesaving.
Holtorf told ProPublica he is cooperating with the investigation. “Of course, I want to get to the bottom of it. But almost assuredly it will come out that it was not the peptides.”
He said he became convinced the peptides weren’t the cause of the severe reactions after plugging everything he knows about the incident into an artificial intelligence app, which he said gave him a 57-page report that “basically says that it is impossible it was the peptides.” He refused to comment on what the report attributed the illnesses to.
“I don’t think it was the peptides, but I don’t want to try and push the blame and say it wasn’t us,” he said. “We are reassessing everything we are doing.”
Holtorf acknowledged he is not licensed in Nevada but said he hired a prac ioner who is and did not personally write prescriptions or administer therapies at his booth. “I knew what was going on but was not hands on,” he said.
He described the situation as “horrific” and “unacceptable” and said he’s “terribly sorry.”
Your tax dollars at work letting Noem buy her side piece a ride on a horsey.
https://x.com/hissgoescobra/status/1950191475267936692
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Billy Long on his way out
There have been five different heads of the IRS this year alone:
Doug O'Donnell (Jan. 20th thru Feb. 28th)
Melanie Krause (Feb. 28th thru April 16th)
Gary Shapley (April 16th thru April 18th)
Michael Faulkender (April 18th thru June 16th)
Billy Long (June 16th thru today)
Trump keeps asking his IRS toadies to do highly illegal and they'd rather be fired than do it
giving agency heads orders to break the law would ordinarily imply impeachment
but the frequency and scale of criminality are so great in Trump 2.0
that singling out any particular crime feels somewhat arbitrary and meager
Who is the clubhouse leader in the shoulder pad compe ion?
https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1954928041345552585
Bessent to take over as acting
Congrats Billy on the promotion!
“It is a honor to serve my friend President Trump and I am excited to take on my new role as the ambassador to Iceland. I am thrilled to answer his call to service and deeply committed to advancing his bold agenda. Exciting times ahead!” the former Missouri congressman wrote on X.
Advancing his bold crime spree. Keep eating it up.Bessent to take over as acting
Congrats Billy on the promotion!
“It is a honor to serve my friend President Trump and I am excited to take on my new role as the ambassador to Iceland. I am thrilled to answer his call to service and deeply committed to advancing his bold agenda. Exciting times ahead!” the former Missouri congressman wrote on X.
Trump's new BLS chief on J6
cash bounties on kissing Marco Rubio's ass and Trump's too
space science is bad if we use it to understand the earth, which is an object in space
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...-space-agency/During this appearance, Duffy talked up NASA's plans to establish a permanent presence on the Moon and his push to develop a nuclear reactor that could provide power there. He also emphasized his desire to end NASA's focus on studying the Earth and understanding how the planet's surface and atmosphere are changing. This shift has been a priority of the Trump Administration at other federal agencies.
"All the climate science, and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we’re going to move aside, and all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration, which is the mission of NASA," Duffy said during the appearance. "That’s why we have NASA, to explore, not to do all of these Earth sciences."
Many people in the space industry welcome Duffy's push to focus NASA on exploration of deep space and other planets, particularly his emphasis on the Moon. NASA's effort to establish a sustainable lunar presence could certainly use some focus, as it appears increasingly likely that, absent serious changes, China will land humans on the Moon before NASA returns.
However, in abandoning Earth science, NASA would be violating the law that created the agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.
This charter legislation established "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space" as part of the space agency's core mission. To meet this mandate, NASA has typically spent about 10 percent of its budget annually on Earth science, including key missions to observe the planet's atmosphere, monitor weather, study land use changes, and more.
Dan Bongino is assigned a babysitter, erstwhile Missouri AG Andrew Bailey
Bongino's fecklessness and incompetence will be missed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ailey-epstein/“Thrilled to welcome Andrew Bailey as our new FBI Co-Deputy Director,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on social media Monday evening. “As Missouri’s Attorney General, he took on the swamp, fought weaponized government and defended the Cons ution. Now he is bringing that fight to DOJ.”
Fox News Digital first reported on Bailey’s appointment. Both Attorney General Pam Bondi and Patel provided comments to the outlet celebrating the move.
Multiple news outlets reported that Bailey was considered for a top Justice Department or FBI position at the beginning of the administration, but the president opted not to nominate him.
The FBI deputy director position does not require Senate approval and it was unclear how Bongino and Bailey will split the responsibilities of the job.
Doing performative workouts on Fox instead of their jobs
Sean Duffy runs two US agencies, Transportation and NASA
in principle, the rest of Trump's attempts to install AUSAs without Senate confirmation could be challenged too
it goes without saying that trying to skirt explicit provisions of the US Cons ution is contrary to Trump's oath of office and impeachable every time he does it
Trump accidentally truths out a PM to Pam Bondi then deletes it
rumor mill: Corey Lewandowski is running DHS with occasional help from his gf, Secretary Noam
https://newrepublic.com/post/200747/...ewandowski-dhsLewandowski’s reach is so extensive, and so disruptive, that it’s even ticked off the president.
Lewandowski and Noem are widely believed to be engaged in an extramarital affair with one another. They deny this, but such rumors were reportedly enough to help dash Lewandowski’s attempt to be named Noem’s chief of staff earlier this year.
But now he de facto serves in that role anyway, Terris writes. DHS officials describe him as Noem’s “handler” or “bulldog” (uh oh!), as well as a “shadow secretary.”
Lewandowski works at the department as a “special government employee,” a designation for temporary personnel who work unpaid for no more than 130 days a year—though he’s reportedly gone to great lengths to avoid counting days toward this limit. The designation comes with a key benefit for Lewandowski: He can work for Noem while still conducting business with undisclosed outside clients.
At DHS, Lewandowski is said to be “a micromanager who will approve and deny travel requests made by ICE employees.” He has also fired and reassigned dozens of staffers, who are afraid to say anything back lest he “rip their heads off,” according to one person close to the Trump administration.
Terris recounts several instances of Lewandowski’s influence at DHS.
When a DHS employee responded to orders from Lewandowski over the phone by saying he reported to Noem, “all of a sudden, you hear the secretary say, ‘It’s coming from me,’” a source told Terris. “She was on the call, in the background, not saying anything.”
Matt Strickland, a former government contractor for DHS, said “Lewandowski is running DHS. Kristi Noem is just the face of it.” Strickland said Lewandowski must greenlight every major decision in the department’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office.Noem’s disastrous rule that all DHS expenditures exceeding $100,000 must get her approval also extends to Lewandowski. “Everything has to go through Corey,” a lobbyist who’s worked with DHS told Terris. “It’s all based on ‘You’re my buddy, or you’re not my buddy. You hired my friend, or you didn’t hire my friend.’ That place just runs that way.”
“It’s the Corey show over there,” said a former administration official.
Lewandowski and Noem, according to an administration official Terris cites, “sort of avoid being at the White House” so as not to be “overexposed.” Last month, reports about delays resulting from the $100,000 rule compromised this effort: Such reports “caught the attention of the White House, which is now monitoring Lewandowski’s hours and, according to the administration official, complaining about how difficult Noem can be to reach.”
This month, Terris reports, Noem and Lewandowski were summoned to the Oval Office by the president regarding “concerns about their management style.” An administration official said Trump was particularly “mad” about Lewandowski’s inability to “get along with anybody.”
top Coast Guard position left unfilled because Kristi Noam likes the perks of the job too much
"'They’ve sent no three- or four-stars in the Coast Guard up for confirmation,' a top administration official told me, 'because she doesn’t want to get kicked out of the commandant’s house.'"
lol whack jobs...so many to choose from....
about en time
lol deranged echo chamber
Lol "many layers say so"Trump accidentally truths out a PM to Pam Bondi then deletes it
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