y u wonder?
https://www.propublica.org/article/t...go-hotel-taxesThe [IRS] concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower.
Lol "forever barred". Unless the next president declares "executive action" to audit the felon.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
Markwayne Mullin threatening to remove BPS from airports serving sanctuary cities
This is really stupid and I hope he does it
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/...-city-airports"We are currently drawing up plans to say, listen, in these sanctuary cities where the local radical left Democrats aren't allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn't be processing international flights into their cities."
doing so would of course be wildly illegal and per se impeachable
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/const...erence-clause/"No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another"
California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”
judicial roadblock for Trump's slush fund for aggrieved MAGAs
ttps://www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/politics/federal-judge-halts-work-on-trumps-anti-weaponization-fundttps://www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/politics/federal-judge-halts-work-on-trumps-anti-weaponization-fundA federal judge in Virginia has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving ahead with plans to create a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who it says were wrongly targeted by the government in the past.
Thebrief order from US District Judge Leonie Brinkema says the administration cannot take any action “pursuant to the creation or operation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund, which includes the transferring of money to the Fund; the consideration of any claims submitted to the Fund; and the disbursing of any funds from the Fund.”
why would he do that?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...eps-rcna345342A rookie federal prosecutor who brought a case accusing former FBI Director James Comey of threatening President Donald Trump’s life by posting a photo of seas s on Instagram has stepped off the case.
Judge Kathleen Williams orders Trump legal team to respond by June 12 to Florida federal court filing questioning if fraud or collusion were part of Trump’s lawsuit vs IRS and its dismissal
USAG Todd Blanche acting like he's still Trump's defense attorney
https://bsky.app/profile/nytdiff.bsk.../3mndrwdxlwe2z
DOJ suggests settling collusive lawsuits as a way to reward J6ers and other aggrieved MAGAs
There is no IRS Commissioner because they made up a position called CEO of the IRS to give to Frank Bisgiano, so he could avoid Senate Appointment. No statute recognizes the CEO of the IRS, which means anything done by this made-up person may be ultra vires.
the spiteful and vandalistic demolition of US public capacity is a Trump hallmark
President Trump has issued an executive order turning an estimated 8,000 federal workers into at-will employees, which means the government could fire them without providing any reason.
The move culminates an effort Trump launched during his first term to strip vast numbers of federal employees of civil service protections designed to insulate their work from political interference.
Nearly all of the 8,000 people affected are at the highest level of the civil service, known as GS-15. The Trump administration characterizes the roles as senior positions with significant influence over policy. They include leaders of policy offices and their chiefs of staff, heads of regional offices, program managers, senior public affairs officers and those overseeing spending and grants.
subsidies for an uneconomical energy source that employs fewer Americans than bowling alleys
https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18b.htm
all Trump does is up and hurt people
www.gao.gov/products/gao...@gao.gov
finds the Trump administration's last-minute changes to the "2026 Census Test" raise the risk of cost and quality challenges for the #2030Census as the Census Bureau struggles with agency-wide skills gaps after last year's slashing of the bureau's workforce
work requirements for cancer patients
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/04/...ncer-patients/One of those concerning policies was work reporting requirements for people covered by Medicaid. The then-proposed legislation mandated that states verify Medicaid enrollees’ monthly work status at least every six months to ensure that they are engaging each month in a minimum of 80 hours of community service, educational activities, and/or work. But undergoing cancer treatment is already a full-time job; many patients are unable to work because of their condition.
Our meetings with congressional staff and lawmakers were tense. Many lawmakers were surprised to hear our concerns, given that the legislation they were considering included an exemption for people with serious conditions like cancer. When we shared that exemptions previously failed to protect patients, many lawmakers told us we were misinformed or being lied to. Lawmakers were clear that the legislation’s protections were rock solid: No one with cancer would lose their coverage.
A few weeks later, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — and Medicaid work reporting requirements — became law. On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued its interim final rule on work reporting requirements. It breaks lawmakers’ promises to patients.
The rule is catastrophic for cancer patients and forces states to go far beyond what Congress included in its legislative text. It narrows the “medical frailty exemption,” a mechanism that allows patients with cancer and other serious health conditions to be exempt from work reporting requirements. In effect, it means that cancer patients, including those in active treatment, could be forced to work the same number of hours as a healthy person — regardless of whether that’s physically possible, just to keep the health insurance coverage that they rely on to stay alive.
The rule also limits patients’ ability to attest that they qualify for their exemption. I don’t know a single cancer patient who would choose not to work if they could. But rather than trusting patients to certify that they have a health condition that precludes them from work reporting requirements, starting nationwide in 2028, patients now face red tape. We don’t know exactly how states will require patients to “prove” their inability to work 20 hours a week, but it seems likely that some patients will need to work with their doctors to submit a written assessment of their ability to work to Medicaid to prevent loss of their insurance.
As a result, patients will be inundated with paperwork. One small misstep by a patient, provider, contractor, or state employee could mean the difference between having health coverage and losing it. Research shows that continuous access to Medicaid is critical to the survival of children and young adults with cancer.
The interim final rule is in direct conflict with OBBBA. While Congress chose to implement these work reporting requirements, it also carefully chose to exempt people with serious medical needs, like cancer patients, from them.
The right hand doesn't know when the left hand is lying
Trump 2.0 is largely coercive funding and official oppression
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...-admit-it-did/Energy Secretary Chris Wright was unrepentant on Capitol Hill this week, firing back at a congressman’s charge that the Trump administration canceled clean energy projects in blue states to exact political revenge.
“No decisions were made on politics,” Wright told the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on Wednesday. “I keep hearing that charge. It’s bull . We’re going to say it a million times. It’s not true. It’s actually false.”
Across town, a federal judge was drafting a court order based on Wright’s lawyers admitting the Energy Department had done just that. The Thursday ruling by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in D.C. restored 11 clean energy grants in states President Donald Trump lost in 2024; government attorneys had acknowledged those election results influenced why the funding was nixed.
arbitrary and capricious
Trump crypto firm to be given a banking license by Trumpy regulators
Direct self dealing, official actions undertaken to benefit the president
https://www.notus.org/economy/trump-...anking-charterPresident Donald Trump’s family crypto business is expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank — a decision that would give U.S. companies a new route to steer money to the president.
World Liberty Financial, the stablecoin and trading platform co-founded by Trump and his three sons, applied for a national trust bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC, on Jan. 5. The Trump-appointed head of the OCC, Jonathan Gould, is due to announce his decision soon, and industry experts and congressional aides expect it to go in the Trump family’s favor.
Two former staffers at the banking regulator, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisals, said it is all but certain that the OCC will approve the charter for Trump’s firm, with one saying it was “inconceivable” that the application would be denied.
proving government is bad by governing badly is typically Republican
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...ponse-00964448The Trump administration’s sweeping federal spending reviews slowed government efforts to contain the New World screwworm, according to three former Agriculture Department officials and a fourth person with knowledge of the matter.
USDA reviews held up funding for the construction of one facility that is crucial to slowing the flesh-eating pest’s threat to the U.S. cattle supply, according to the three former officials, who like the fourth person were granted anonymity to discuss internal decision-making. A $100 million research initiative designed to create new tools to slow the screwworm’s advance was also delayed, two of the former officials said.
Skepticism from the White House budget office meanwhile delayed plans for a second facility at a Texas air base, said two of the former officials and the person with knowledge of the matter.
“That sense of urgency wasn’t there,” said one of the former officials. “Even though screwworm was given a high priority, it did not help us get things done faster.”
another mass impoundment scheme
every instance is impeachable
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-t...200204000.htmlDonald Trump's administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president's nationwide campaign against "fraud" in government spending.
In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use "every available tool" to combat "waste, fraud and abuse" within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including "withholding administrative funds from states" for the first time in history.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1...ss-veterans-laTrump pledged to house 6,000 homeless vets. His budget funds zero
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