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.
admission in open court that CA grant cancellations were 100% politically motivated
maybe the government preferred to stipulate political animus rather than go through discovery about it
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...-canceled.html
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...41312.25.0.pdf
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the evident politicization and corruption of the DOJ is beginning to draw some tart judicial rulings
background:
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/202...t-footage.htmlThe long-standing quasi-consent decree case about the Portland Police Bureau's pattern of excessive force against people with mental illness. DOJ tried using it as a wedge to get backdoor discovery about the City's ICE facility response and to punch at perceived Antifa boogeymen.
DOJ Civil Rights Chief Dhillon threatened to bury PPB with litigation and asked that Judge Immergut be impeached for ruling adversely
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Judge Immergut's deep background:
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/u...icle-152953556Immergut briefly stepped into the national spotlight in 1998 when she worked as associate independent counsel for Kenneth Starr during the investigation that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
She was one of two lawyers who personally interviewed Monica Lewinsky about her relationship with the president.
Critics accused the team of asking invasive questions, but Immergut later defended her approach. She said she needed "very detailed information about those [sexual] contacts because the perjury allegation was dependent on the details of the President's testimony."
The lawful response to losing a case is to appeal it. Threatening impeachment was a political choice by Dhillon unrelated to the merits. It was a threat.
Particularly because DOJ elected to dismiss its appeal from Judge Immergut's order after it became clear they were going to lose on appeal. Bad faith indeed.
official oppression is the current status quo, maybe if DOJ leaders could keep their mouths shut they'd be better at it
For our non-lawgeek friends, the clean hands doctrine is the idea that parties asking the courts for equitable relief must "come with clean hands."
In short, you can't ask the court for equity if you have behaved inequitably.
radical and extreme cons utional rot
Trump is promoting disunion
In little-noticed court do ents, federal officials acknowledged this month that they had terminated the funding “based solely” on political criteria, targeting projects in states that were represented by Democrats and had voted for Kamala Harris, the party’s presidential nominee, in the 2024 election.
The admission showed how President Trump has weaponized the provision of federal education, energy, health, housing and infrastructure aid in his second term. Far from rooting out the sort of misspending that Mr. Trump sees as rife in Washington, the White House has instead sought to leverage the budget as a tool to assist its allies — or as a cudgel to hurt the president’s foes.
The saga illustrates the stakes as the Trump administration is completing a set of rules that would provide the president even greater control over more than $1 trillion in annual federal grants. To critics, the new regulation would only make it easier for Mr. Trump to strike wider tranches of congressionally approved funding over political differences.
Arbitrary and capricious
https://www.eenews.net/articles/fema...d-them-anyway/President Donald Trump overruled his own agencies when he denied disaster aid for four Democratic-led states this month.
Emails between state and federal officials obtained by POLITICO along with more than 150 pages of do ents submitted to FEMA by three states — New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island — provide new details about Trump’s low rate of approving disaster aid for his political adversaries. He also denied a request by New York after administration officials verified that it had met federal standards for approval, according to state officials.
Trump’s rejections came after regional offices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and NOAA determined that the states met government thresholds for receiving aid following a record-breaking snowstorm in February.
abuse of power, illegal surveillance, corruption of justice
https://www.ms.now/news/secret-servi...ase-8647-trumpOn the night of May 15, 2025, agents at the U.S. Secret Service faced what some considered an improper and possibly illegal request from higher-ups in the administration: secretly access former FBI Director James Comey’s phone so they could monitor his movements.
President Donald Trump and his top aides were riled up the Thursday night that Comey had posted on social media a picture of seas s on a beach, which had been arranged to spell out the words “86 47”, according to two people briefed on the incident. The slang phrase was a threat on the life of the 47th president, Trump’s close advisers claimed.
But some Secret Service agents and supervisors were deeply concerned that night and early the next day about that dubious claim — and the pressure they faced to surveil the former director, newly released internal records show. They argued the Secret Service did not have the legal authority to surrep iously track Comey’s phone without a warrant. Law enforcement agents could invoke emergency powers, but only if they had a reasonable belief that Comey posed an imminent threat to someone’s life.
“At the time we did not believe anyone’s life was in danger and legally it was a bad idea,” a midlevel supervisor in the Washington field office wrote in an email memorializing his handling of the request. It was one of several internal records newly released Tuesday night in court filings by Comey’s attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
But then, a top Justice Department official told them he wanted them to do it anyway, the records show.
The next day, May 16, Secret Service agents were following that directive.
sham investigation for political purposes
Secret Service agents who questioned the former FBI director James B. Comey were told to send details of the interview to Air Force One so President Trump could review them....One government do ent said that 'POTUS was requesting a copy of the interview notes to use in his 6pm press conference.'"
Presidential shakedowns and bribes
‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projectshttps://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...hare_permalinkAlmost every night in the White House, President Trump calls his fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke, for an update.
Trump asks O’Rourke which companies and donors have cut checks and which haven’t, and for how much. He often asks her to make much larger financial requests than she was planning—for some donors the ask is $5 million, for others it is $50 million. And the president gives her names to call, often including people who have recently met with him, according to people with knowledge of the calls.
“This is very important to the president. He’s asked me to call you and ask you for this donation,” O’Rourke has relayed on phone calls with companies, persistently following up with them. In some calls, she has referred to Trump as the boss, saying “the boss wants this money.” In turn, Trump has called her the “princess of darkness” because she is such a “killer” with donors, according to people who have heard his comments.
SoftBank donated $50 million toward Trump’s presidential library. Apple cut a check for around $25 million toward his White House ballroom project, while Microsoft gave around $10 million and Amazon chipped in around $5 million, according to people familiar with the contributions. Meta Platforms recently gave $10 million to a Trump-aligned political committee, people familiar said, on top of a multimillion donation to the ballroom and a prior $22 million payment to the planned presidential library.
principals for the companies should go to prison too, for bribing Trump
using agency action as a political cudgel is normal
censorship and official oppression are SOP in Trump 2.0
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...rship-01016992ABC accused Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr of “attempted censorship” in a regulatory filing posted Thursday, saying the agency is creating a potential chilling effect across the media by helping President Donald Trump attack his perceived adversaries.
“The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: accommodate the Administration’s view of what news coverage should look like or pay the price,” the Disney-owned television network wrote, in its sharpest response yet to the potential loss of its eight TV broadcasting licenses.
FCC altering legislation all by itself
Commish should be impeached, tbh
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...o-law-says-no/Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican who was House majority leader from 2003 to 2005, said the Federal Communications Commission has no legal authority to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule. Despite DeLay’s warning, the Trump FCC appears ready to eliminate the rule at its meeting this week.
DeLay wrote an op-ed describing how he helped write the law that prohibited any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. DeLay said that only Congress, not the Trump FCC, can change the cap because the 39 percent limit is specified in US law and wasn’t chosen by the commission.
there's a bunch of lawless birds that need to be removed from office, tout suite
Trump using National Parks as a piggy bank for vanity projects
in America’s national parks under President Trump, the most dramatic sight might be the rapid shifting of taxpayer and donor money.
Internal park service records obtained by Scott MacFarlane Reports reveal a controversial and overwhelming re-routing of money to Trump vanity projects.
The topline dollar figures are astounding, according to multiple sources inside the US Department of Interior, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to news media.
The records show more than $323 million have been made available for upgrades and projects on the White House grounds this year.https://macfarlanenews.substack.com/...into-piggybankThe internal park service records show declines in the money allotted to – or projected for use at - dozens of other major U.S. parks this year. There were multi-million dollar reductions in funds for Yellowstone, Yosemite and Grand Canyon national parks, which are some of the flagship attractions of America’s National Park Service.
lock them up
“Secretary Burgum is running the National Park Service as a personal trust or a personal valet service of the President. He’s viewing his role as pleasing the President and he’s using funds that were appropriated and collected by the National Park Service to do that.”
About the use of tens of millions of dollars of donated funds for the White House grounds, Whitehouse said, “What are these private funders getting in return? Why is the National Park Service being thrust into chaotic reorganizations and downsizing, while huge amounts of money are flowing into the coffers of Donald Trump from his donors?”
Trump's deranged jihad against wind power is deindustrialization and rips off the US taxpayer
It also puts the USA further behind in electrification and shackles us to a retrograde technical base
https://www.engadget.com/2232653/tru...farm-projects/The Trump administration has reached a deal with the German energy company RWE to cancel offshore wind leases and redirect funds to fossil fuel investments. This agreement is worth over $1.2 billion dollars. These funds are being drawn from the Department of the Interior which, in turn, is utilizing taxpayer dollars. Wind turbine projects will be cancelled near New York, California and Louisiana.
dumb as losers like Trump and RFK Jr. want to dictate vaccine policy based purely on political vibes
https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-r...2f83dd0ee98b29President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.
The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different shots administered in separate appointments, and directs the nation’s health department to improve vaccine research, according to a White House fact sheet on the order. Separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines for children are not currently available in the United States, and vaccines are already extensively researched.
Speaking about the order at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump repeatedly suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism spectrum disorder, even as scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link. He also touted several changes to the childhood vaccine schedule that his health department has already attempted, but that have been blocked by a federal judge.
e.g.,
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/0...mmits-to-coal/President Donald Trump said Friday the federal government will fund $180 million in grants for mining schools across the country as part of his administration’s goal of rebuilding the U.S. coal industry.
The grants will include $100 million from the Department of Energy spread across the 14 accredited mining schools in the U.S., while the Department of Defense will dedicate just over $80 million for three major schools of mining and metallurgy: the Colorado School of Mines, the South Dakota School of Mines and Johns Hopkins University
coal has been in a decades long funk because coal is relatively expensive compared to other energy sources
the coal sector employs fewer people in the USA than bowling alleys
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