EPA excludes harm to humans with regard to pollution
Under Trump 2.0, your life is literally worthless
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...pollution.htmlE.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, do ents show.
(paywalled)
The Trump Administration has been basically one continuous violation of the Administrative Procedures Act
Stop work order on Revolution Wind got struck down
htps://heatmap.news/sparks/trump-revolution-wind-orderA federal court struck down the Trump administration’s three-month stop work order on Orsted’s Revolution offshore wind farm, once again allowing construction to resume (for the second time).
Explaining his ruling from the bench Monday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said that project developer Orsted — and the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut, which filed their own suit in support of the company — were “likely” to win on the merits of their lawsuit that the stop work order violated the Administrative Procedures Act. Lamberth said that the Trump administration’s stop work order, issued just before Christmas, amounted to a change in administration position without adequate justification. The justice said he was not sure the emergency being described by the government exists, and that the “stated national security reason may have been pretextual.”
yoni says the impoundment intent letter to Congress is coming any day now
Trump was released on cash free bonds three times in 2023
all stick no carrot is one of a way to run a country
TACO'd on this one, for the time being
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-...rs-in-default/The Trump administration is delaying its plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments, backing off a measure that threatened to deliver a financial blow to millions of Americans.
The Education Department announced Friday involuntary collections on federal student loans will remain on hold as the agency finalizes new repayment plans. The shift reverses course on earlier plans to restart wage garnishments this month after a pandemic-era pause.
Nicholas Kent, the department’s higher education chief, said the agency is “committed to helping student and parent borrowers resume regular, on-time repayment, with more clear and affordable options.”
*civilizational suicide in progress*
www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, suggesting the public might want to reconsider the use of polio vaccines.
President Miller announces the forthcoming judicial purge
US flag taken down at World Health Organization
California flag will go up at WHO
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/l...f-13b40e43bcd8
another APA violation
all Trump would have to do to get his way on this and approximately all his policies getting slapped down in court is to post a two week notice of the changes, offer some reasonable basis for them and allow public comment
"arbitrary and capricious" for the L, these have been legion in the last year
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-...us-2026-01-23/-A federal judge on Friday ruled President Donald Trump's administration unlawfully suspended funding awarded to support the expansion of electric vehicle charger infrastructure, in a victory for 20 Democratic-led states that sued over the action.
U.S. District Judge Tana Lin in Seattle ruled in favor of 20 states as well as the District of Columbia, which had filed their lawsuit after the U.S. Department of Transportation in February suspended an EV charger infrastructure program enacted by Congress in 2021 under Democratic President Joe Biden.
Lin, a Biden appointee, said the DOT and the Federal Highway Administration "yanked the NEVI Formula Program’s cord out of the outlet," without working within the statutory confines of established administrative law as required.
pretextual impoundment of federal funding for blue states announced by Co-President Russ Vought
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...tates-00741440The Trump administration this week ordered a review of federal funding for 14 Democratic states and Washington, D.C., the latest step in the administration’s effort to target states that do not cooperate with the administration.
An OMB spokesperson confirmed the initiative, mandated by the agency in a memo dated on Tuesday and reviewed by POLITICO. All federal agencies except the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have been charged with responding to the request.
“This information will be used to better understand the scope of funding in certain States and localities in order to facilitate efforts to reduce the improper and fraudulent use of those funds through administrative means or legislative proposals to Congress,” OMB wrote in the memo.
When I say that Trump has stolen appropriations, I'm referring to stuff like this
US agencies played with the money and tried to conceal it
https://www.citizensforethics.org/ne...ending-secret/A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reveal legally binding plans to spend congressionally appropriated funds today in a lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington against Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and the Office of Management and Budget. CREW represented itself alongside Public Citizen Litigation Group.
In response to a previous order in the case, OMB posted thousands of apportionments it had approved since its abrupt removal in March 2025 of the legally required database, but in many instances it still controlled agency spending in secret through “spend plans” it incorporated by reference in legally binding footnotes that it withheld from the public. CREW and Public Citizen Litigation Group subsequently filed a motion to enforce, asking the district court to require that OMB make public the contents of those spend plans that included hidden conditions on spending and rules for apportioned funds.
“Transparency won today,” said CREW President Donald K. Sherman. “Vought and OMB tried to dodge accountability and leave the American public in the dark by burying the real information the public needed in secret spend plans in footnotes, and we could not let that slide. We are grateful for the Court’s thorough decision which will ensure Americans know exactly how their government is spending—or not spending—their tax dollars.”
In at least 131 apportionment do ents OMB approved between March and September, it included hidden rules in these incorporated spend plans. Those plans, which included legally binding terms for apportioned money, were not made public. Any individual or organization without access to the amounts and terms in these undisclosed yet legally binding plans could not rely on the “apportioned” amounts in the publicly posted do ents to be accurate.
“At every opportunity in this case, the Trump administration tried to leave the public in the dark, regardless of what the law mandated,” said Sherman. “CREW asked the court to step in again and force OMB to release everything: the numbers, the terms and the spending plans, and we will watch closely to make sure this order is followed.
ruling:https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp...to-Enforce.pdf
In particular, CREW states that “at least 131 of the 2,245 apportionment do ents in the database that OMB approved between March 24, 2025, and September 5, 2025, include a legally binding footnote that incorporates by reference the contents of an undisclosed spend plan.” Wentworth Decl., ECF No. 39-1 ¶ 6.
Now, if we an just get out of the UN and boot them out of the prime real estate they're wasting in New York. The Board of Peace may be a good start.US flag taken down at World Health Organization
No.
It's a bad joke, you rube.
more partisan impoundment
stealing appropriations is impeachable every time Trump does it
htps://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/trump-public-health-cuts-california.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K1A.UTpr.o 8t-VDAy7aq8&smid=url-share“Dr. Deb Houry, who served as the C.D.C.’s chief medical officer before she resigned in August, noted that Congress had already appropriated the funds.
“It is concerning that H.H.S. is cutting public health funding to local communities that cover core functions in the middle of a measles outbreak”
imagine Obama stealing money from red states and saying some like this
“These grants are being terminated because they do not reflect agency priorities,” a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said.
Donald Trump is suing IRS for $10 billion for a single similar disclosure
Background:
IRS and DHS in April agreed to share info to help detail suspected undo ented immigrants.
That data sharing began in Aug.
In Nov, a judge said the whole process was illegal.
Now in recent weeks, IRS discovered that it violated its own internal process (that a judge already said was illegal).The Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials, according to three people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data.https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...-dhs-tax-data/The erroneous disclosure was only recently discovered, the people said. The IRS is working with officials from the Treasury Department, Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security on the administration’s response.
Federal law mandates strict protections of the iden ies of taxpayers, including the sharing of data within the federal government. Undo ented immigrants have for years paid taxes with assurances from the federal government that doing so would not result in them being targeted by immigration enforcement.
But in a controversial decision, Treasury, which oversees the IRS, in April 2025 agreed to provide DHS with the names and addresses of individuals the Trump administration believed to be in the country illegally, pursuant to DHS requests.
Follow
Federal courts have since blocked the data-sharing arrangement, holding that it violates taxpayers’ rights, though the government appealed those rulings.
Before the agreement was struck down, DHS requested the addresses of 1.2 million individuals from the IRS. The tax agency responded with data on 47,000 individuals, according to court records.
When the IRS shared the addresses with DHS, it also inadvertently disclosed private information for thousands of taxpayers erroneously, a mistake only recently discovered, said the people familiar, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
The affected individuals could be en led to financial compensation for each time their information was improperly shared. And government officials can personally face stiff civil and criminal penalties for sharing confidential tax information.
In a statement, a DHS spokesperson said that under the data-sharing agreement, “the government is finally doing what it should have all along.”
“Information sharing across agencies is essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety and terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, and identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense,” the spokesperson said.
There is little evidence that undo ented immigrants have attempted to participate in U.S. elections, nor is there a link between undo ented immigrants and higher levels of crime.
“With the IRS information specifically, DHS plans to focus on enforcing long-neglected criminal laws that apply to illegal aliens,” the DHS spokesperson said.
Treasury and Justice Department spokespeople declined to comment, citing agency policies not to comment on active litigation. The Office of the Deputy Attorney General is monitoring the ongoing litigation, but the office is not making any decisions on the matter, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly.
When the IRS began conversations with DHS over data sharing shortly after Trump returned to the White House, senior IRS employees warned administration officials that the program was likely illegal and could sweep up misidentified people, The Post has reported.
Ask The Post A
During early meetings on the project, one agency staffer asked immigration authorities how many people with the same name may live in the same state, according to one of the people, illustrating how easy it would be for the Trump administration to inadvertently breach taxpayers’ privacy, including those who are not targets of immigration investigations.
Donald Trump's privacy?
$10 billion, all day
Ours collectively?
Bupkis
USDA's attempt to withhold SNAP funding to Minnesota gets judicially blocked
"arbitrary and capricious"
(this could also filed under "Trump declares war on Americans")
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket...f-agriculture/CONCLUSION
The primary function of a preliminary injunction “is to preserve the status quo until, upon final hearing, a court may grant full, effective relief.” Missouri, 128 F.4th at 990 (citation omitted). By all accounts, Minnesota has operated its SNAP recertification process in compliance with federal law and with the express blessing of the USDA. The Recertification Letter and Enforcement Letter seek to upend that status quo, and, without any reasoned explanation, demand that Minnesota implement an entirely new process within 30 days. This sort of haphazard decisionmaking is precisely what the APA is intended to prevent and what a preliminary injunction is to remedy. Accordingly, because Minnesota is likely to succeed on at least one of its APA claims, and because all other factors for injunctive relief fall in Minnesota’s favor, the Court grants Minnesota’s motion for a preliminary injunction.
ORDER
For the reasons stated above, Minnesota’s motion (ECF No. 5) is hereby GRANTED, and the USDA is PRELIMINARILY ENJOINED from taking any adverse action against Minnesota based on the Recertification Letter, and PRELIMINARILY ENJOINED from withholding any of Minnesota’s administrative funding for the first quarter of calendar year 2026 as threatened in the Enforcement Letter.
LET JUDGMENT BE ENTERED ACCORDINGLY.
Dated: January 16, 2026
s/Laura M. Provinzino
Laura M. Provinzino
United States District Judge
lol @ all the big law firms who bent the knee
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trum...tions-cb839c39Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions
Justice Department plans to withdraw appeals defending punitive executive orders issued by the president, people familiar with the matter said
morally wrong, strategically dumb
Paul Weiss, Covington & Burling, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Jenner & Block
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