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(if I understand this right, Judge Lamberth has instructed the government to put Humpty-Dumpty -- er, Voice of America and the rest of the USAGM -- back together again)
Kari Lake's losing streak in court continues
A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.
(if I understand this right, Judge Lamberth has instructed the government to put Humpty-Dumpty -- er, Voice of America and the rest of the USAGM -- back together again)
OMB is selling off the crown jewel of US atmospheric research
https://www.science.org/content/arti...-moves-forwardScience has learned that one proposal is expected to come from the University of Oklahoma, an academic powerhouse in severe weather research. Another will likely come from Lynker, a NOAA contractor that wants to take over NCAR’s space weather research. The details of the bids are sparse, but atmospheric scientists hope any new scheme will preserve NCAR’s functions and expertise.
"cover the war the way we want or we'll yank your broadcast license"
Russ Vought's attempt to defund CFPB hits a roadblock
"Shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed" means nothing to these ssholes, even though it's in the oath of office
If the executive branch can just ignore appropriations it doesn't like, we don't have a democracy anymore
https://thehill.com/regulation/court...-trump-vought/A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration unlawfully took the position last year that it couldn’t request more funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ordered the agency’s acting director, Russ Vought, to continue requesting the necessary funds from the Federal Reserve to carry out the CFPB’s obligations.
It’s a legal loss for top Trump administration officials as they look to curtail the consumer watchdog agency. Created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis with largely Democratic support, many conservatives have targeted the CFPB as unaccountable.
https://bsky.app/profile/nytpitchbot.../3mh4m4pqcps2qWhether it’s the head of the FCC demanding that networks run pro-Trump propaganda or a kid at Oberlin asking for a trigger warning, there’s been plenty of frightening anti-free speech rhetoric on both sides
using US humanitarian aid as a club to beat Zambia into line
Trump has gone from unlawful attempts to deny permission to wind energy projects, to heavy bribes with public money
this is just dumb
depriving the public of honest services gets taken to a whole 'nother level in Trump 2.0
(granular info @https://www.cato.org/people/david-bier)
https://www.cato.org/blog/banned-imm...ded-governmentThe US government is taking fees from immigrants and US sponsors for services that it has no plans to provide. The government took their money, and now it won’t even adjudicate their applications—in many cases, it refuses even to issue denials. The State Department is actually telling consular officers not to notify future applicants that the government has banned them.
During testimony before the US Senate, I called it the largest fraud in the history of the US immigration system. In fact, it is likely the first $1 billion fraud—a theft of processing fees for services never rendered. Even Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana told me at the hearing that he was shocked it was happening. It is happening, and it is shocking.
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US Forest Service shuttered
https://morethanjustparks.substack.c...utm_medium=ios
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news...salt-lake-city
BECAUSE FENTANYL AND GANGSTERS AND STUFFthis is just dumb
BECAUSE COLLEGE SPORTS IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW IN THE WORLD. I FIXED IT LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE. IT'LL BE THE BEST COLLEGE SPORTS EVER.
who are you and I, Blake, to interfere with the president meddling in college football as if it were his own little fiefdom?
lol the most own-branded mfer in the universe denouncing "fraudulent NIL"
Calling it now..... at some point he'll have an executive order to have his own Trump Bowl
the executive branch wants all your personal medical information, for some reason
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...ecords/412961/Last December, OPM published an information collection request in the Federal Register that would require insurers who participate in the Federal Employee Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits programs to provide monthly reports with identifiable health data on their enrollees, prompting unease from both health ethicists and health care providers alike. The notice would require the collection of medical visits, prescriptions and treatment data, and fails to task insurance carriers with redacting personally identifiable information.
In a letter to OPM Director Scott Kupor on Monday, more than dozen senators, led by Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Mark Warner, D-Va., demanded the agency rescind its request, arguing that the agency’s general “oversight” rationale is insufficient, given the extraordinary nature of OPM’s request.
“Such sweeping access to personal health information would violate the core principles of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which was enacted to strictly regulate how protected health information can be disclosed to ensure that patient data is shared only for limited, clearly defined purposes,” they wrote. “Mass, centralized access to identifiable medical records absent individualized consent, clear necessity or narrowly tailored legal authority undermines those protections and lacks a valid statutory basis.”
two years ago, applicants would have crawled over broken glass for DOJ positions, now DOJ needs bonuses to attract lawyers
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law...cruitment-lagsThe Justice Department is taking a new tack to overcome hurdles in attracting qualified legal talent and to prevent current lawyers from leaving: offering signing and retention bonuses throughout the Civil Division.
New vacancy postings show signing bonuses of $25,000 are newly available to staff offices investigating youth transgender treatments and litigating the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.
Further, the head of the Civil Division—which plays a crucial role advancing and protecting the president’s policies in court—informed all his attorneys Monday that they’ll begin receiving a “retention incentive allowance” ranging from around $60 to $220 every pay period through Thanksgiving, according to an internal email reviewed by Bloomberg Law.
Trump to create J6 Truth and Reconciliation slush fund
https://abcnews.com/US/trump-adminis...y?id=133005480
Trump is a thief
stealing money for a J6 slush fund
people about to learn about 14A, Section 4
money in exchange for an official act -- US justice is for sale
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/20...0bn-investmentThe administration of United States President Donald Trump has moved to dismiss criminal fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani in a case where he is accused of bribing Indian officials for as much as $265m to secure contracts and lying to US investors to land a solar energy project in India, allegations that his company has long denied.
The case was dropped by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) after Adani pledged a $10bn investment in the US.
shady af
COONS: Will you commit to making reports fully public so Americans know who is getting taxpayer dollars out of this settlement fund?
BLANCHE: There are privacy laws that may prevent some of the information from being fully public
if I'm reading this right, Trump's defense lawyer Todd Blanche -- the current acting US Attorney General -- has just shielded Donald Trump from any future tax audit
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