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lots of spending exempted from normal review this year
All lip service
Sounds about right
lots of spending exempted from normal review this year
arbitrary and capricious government and impoundment are Trump signatures
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...nding-43773351
this runs afoul of the Antideficiency Act, POTUS isn't supposed to be able to spend money all by himself, nor can he solicit private companies for money to go around Congress
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...icopter-issue/Trump begins construction of unannounced White House helipad
The project, funded with a Lockheed Martin donation, is intended to resolve a years-long problem with the new Marine One helicopters: They run the risk of scorching the White House’s grass.
Trump 2.0 disdains public notice and comment of intended bureaucratic changes
arbitrary and capricious all the way
https://bsky.app/profile/gabrielmalo.../3mowe2kmjam27One of the corrupt features of this administration is that it could, if it wanted, make regulatory changes ... through the normal notice-and-comment process under the APA.
Partisan disaster relief, not for the first time
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...tates-00989418President Donald Trump denied disaster aid to four Democratic-led states in a move that is raising new questions about whether he’s injecting political motivations into emergency management decisions.
Trump on Friday rejected $227 million in aid requests from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island for help recovering from a major snowstorm in February. Two days earlier, Trump approved Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster aid for six Republican-led states, while extolling the political virtues of GOP politicians and candidates in the states.
Trump sics FBI on NYT for reporting he didn't like
The White House directed Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, to oversee a leak investigation into reporting by The New York Times about security issues with the new Air Force One, leading to a flurry of subpoenas to several Times reporters Friday night, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Mr. Patel scuttled a planned trip to Chicago and spent roughly eight hours at the White House on Friday, running the investigation from there rather than F.B.I. headquarters — a major departure from historical practice. Mr. Patel also briefed senior administration officials on the investigation, two people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal discussions.
The White House’s deep involvement in the case came after officials said that President Trump was enraged about the coverage of the Qatari-donated plane, which The Times reported Thursday lacks the same defensive countermeasures of the previous Air Force One.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...core-ios-shareMr. Patel’s role in the investigation, in close coordination with top administration officials, reflects a further dismantling of the wall that had separated the White House and the F.B.I. in previous administrations. The government’s effort to immediately seek information from journalists, when such cases are typically centered first on identifying potential internal wrongdoing by officials, comes as the Trump administration has intensified pressure on news organizations.
subtext: Trump is big mad he had to ditch his deluxe bribery jet
Mr. Trump has basked in the luxury of the new plane, which is more than a decade old but has the kind of opulent furnishings the president prefers. He has repeatedly described the Qatari jet as cost free to the United States. But in reality, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were spent to upgrade its security systems. Officials have said that he plans to take the plane with him as a donation to his presidential library when he leaves office.While Mr. Trump has said the Qatari plane was upgraded with the necessary security “bells and whistles,” The Times reported on Thursday that it lacks the defensive countermeasures that were security features of the old model, including its advanced antimissile capabilities.
Trump has gone from unlawful attempts to deny permission to wind energy projects, to heavy bribes with public money
Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation.
Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...6172.106.0.pdf
But perhaps the most startling misstatement advanced by Plaintiffs is their characterization of this case as “ordinary.” (DE 89 at 9). The Parties here are not private actors to a mine-run dispute, recounting their proficiency in the art of the deal they negotiated. Lead Plaintiff and Defendants are public servants—the pinnacle of the Executive Branch—sworn to uphold the law, faithfully perform the duties of their office, and protect the interests of the American public. The issue before the Court is whether, instead, they ignored ethical norms, court rules, and legal authority to manipulate the judicial process. The issue is whether they did so to gild their efforts to gain unprecedented access to the public fisc with the patina of legitimacy. There is nothing “ordinary” about this case; it is the very definition of sui generis.
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Trump tried to steal $2B from the USA
Trump and everyone who tried to help him do it should be impeached, removed and prosecuted
lol Trump is attacking them again
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...smid=url-share
(once you identify the sheep, remember to shear them every year)
Todd Blanche btw vowed to revive the Comstock Act
Trump is coming after mifepristone
POTUS directing IRS to start or cease audits is impeachable all by itself, firing the official who warned against breaking the law probably is too
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/...violating-law/Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies has been ousted after he reportedly warned that the Trump administration was potentially violating a law prohibiting White House officials from intervening in IRS audits, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Kies also serves as acting chief counsel of the IRS. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Journal said Kies will be exiting in the coming weeks. The report said:
Kies at times clashed behind the scenes with White House officials, the people said. That included a recent meeting in which he contended that a potential White House request would violate Section 7217 of the Internal Revenue Code, one of the people said. That law prohibits the president, vice president, White House staff and certain agency heads from directly or indirectly requesting that the IRS conduct or terminate an audit or investigation of any particular taxpayer.Section 7217 of the IRS code deems it “unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.”
Trump shook down media companies for 10s of millions of dollars in 2025, promising the money would go to his presidential library
Nobody will say where the money went
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-librar...mocrats-letterLast September, the original recipient of the settlement payments, the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund Inc., was administratively dissolved by Florida’s Department of State after it failed to file a mandatory annual report.
In May 2025, a second en y, the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, Inc., was incorporated in Florida with nearly an identical mission, but whether it received the settlement money has not been publicly do ented. (In an April letter to Trump, the lawmakers directly questioned why two en ies with the same purpose had been created, and why the foundation was “preferred instead of the fund.”)
The lawmakers wrote to executives at the four companies in March to ask what happened to their money after the original fund’s dissolution. According to the letter, the companies indicated they had no information they were willing to share publicly about where most of the settlement money had gone.
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Taylor Farms pleads for special treatment after sickening hundreds with infected produce
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/h...smid=url-share
corrupting justice
(executive) impoundment (of appropriated funds) violates the law and the US Cons ution
it is 100% an impeachable offense -- Trump has already been impeached for it once before, in 2019
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-health-secretary-kennedy-says-cms-is-pausing-medicaid-payments-california-2026-07-21/The Trump administration is pausing $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota over "suspected fraud and noncompliance," U.S. Health Secretary #Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday.
"If those states want that money they need to provide do entation that these payments are legitimate," Kennedy said at a news conference alongside U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Noting promotes disunion quite like partisan impoundment, brute force censorship and coercive funding
White House used AI to vet "DEI" keywords in grant applications for UCal -- that's facial viewpoint discrimination as well as arbitrary and capricious administration of government
It's 100% impeachable
https://apnews.com/article/californi...68490a20be6207Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 to screen for projects that ran afoul of the Trump administration’s priorities.
It’s an admission that lawyers for the research professors say is proof that the agencies illegally cancelled nearly $2 billion in grants. And that’s a major development in a lawsuit filed by UC researchers against the Trump administration to permanently get their grants back. The researchers’ legal team is now asking the judge in the case to skip a trial and formally declare that the White House repeatedly violated the cons ution, including the First Amendment. A court hearing on whether that’ll happen is scheduled for Oct. 20.
three cons utional violations
By using keyword searches to review hundreds of grants and terminate them en masse rather than reviewing them individually on their merits, the Trump administration targeted research it found politically disfavorable, which is a First Amendment violation.In terminating 283 Department of Energy grants from states where a majority voted for Harris in 2024, and leaving untouched hundreds of grants that went to “red” states, the Trump administration wrongly punished researchers for merely living in states the White House politically opposed.https://bsky.app/profile/ubiquity75..../3mr77i7m4ss2lAnd by terminating billions of dollars in grants, and never rerouting that money to other grant opportunities, the Trump administration violated the cons ution by not spending money in ways Congress specifically required through laws it passed on how research funds should be used.
counterpoint: whatever government thinks private broadcasting companies should put on-air
variety.com/2026/tv/news..."... when you have the president of the United States standing inside the White House delivering an important speech, I think that’s something that broadcasters should be carrying,” Carr said.
...and they got it
Trump administration seemingly rests content with pointing the finger at Taco Bell -- the party in all this who demonstrated civic bona fides by investigating public reporting, diagnosing the Cyclospora problem and getting out in front of the public health issue with a press release recalling its own affected ingredients well before the US government involved itself to muddy the waters for Taylor Farms, the vendor of the tainted produce.
Last edited by Winehole23; 07-22-2026 at 04:46 PM.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...d-its-responseAs Parasite Spawned Chaos, Taylor Farms Slow-Walked Response
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