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    Trash pandering to BigCarbon for campaign cash

    Trump gives U.S. agencies power to fast-track big infrastructure projects

    an executive order that gives federal agencies emergency powers to fast-track major energy and other infrastructure projects by overriding environmental permitting requirements.

    the order was a way to help the economy rebound from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and improve infrastructure.

    It instructs the Interior, Agriculture and Defense Departments to accelerate projects on federal lands.

    Trump has been a vocal advocate of fossil fuels as president and

    has sought to roll back regulations slowing their development and

    reduce state powers to block projects for environmental reasons.

    Trump administration proposed to streamline the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a bedrock environmental regulation that creates time consuming environmental reviews and public feedback requirements for major infrastructure projects.

    “Gutting NEPA takes away one of the few tools communities of color have to protect themselves and make their voices heard on federal decisions impacting them,”

    letting agencies “ram through” fossil fuel projects will harm “the very same communities that are dying at higher rates from COVID-19 and police violence.”

    the Environmental Protection Agency cited the coronavirus when it announced a policy to ease compliance and monitoring for industrial facilities and power plants.

    Industry groups praised Trump’s order.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-environment/trump-gives-u-s-agencies-power-to-fast-track-big-infrastructure-projects-idUSKBN23B2WD?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews



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    KY Senators working hard for the Black Vote

    It's 2020, and

    the Senate won't pass an anti-lynching bill

    because of Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell



    The Emmett Till Antilynching Act passed the Democratic House
    410-4on Feb. 26

    When the Senate tried to pass it this year with unanimous consent, Sen. Rand Paul objected.

    "language of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act is

    IDENTICAL to the bill that was unanimously approved by the Senate."

    Twice, in fact.

    "The only conclusion I can draw from [Paul's] sudden opposition is

    he has an issue with the House bill being named after Emmett Till."

    McConnell, could also just bring the damn bill to the floor for a roll call vote.

    But right now McConnell and the rest of the them are hiding behind Paul.

    They're letting his punchable face be the one of white supremacy,

    protecting them from having to take

    this vote that could anger their racist base.


    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/4/1950391/-It-s-2020-and-the-Senate-won-t-pass-an-anti-lynching-bill-because-of-Rand-Paul-and-Mitch-McConnell?detail=emaildkre




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    Christian supremacists hire The tiest People

    New Trump Appointee to Foreign Aid Agency Has Denounced Liberal Democracy and “Our -Empire”

    Merritt Corrigan, USAID’s new deputy White House liaison, has condemned the “tyrannical LGBT agenda” and celebrated Hungary’s right-wing prime minister as “the shining champion of Western civilization.”

    has said that the country is in the clutches of a “ -empire” that pushes a “tyrannical LGBT agenda.”

    “Liberal democracy is little more than a front for the war being waged against us by those who fundamentally despise not only our way of life, but life itself.”

    Corrigan wrote on her Twitter account that “our -empire couldn’t tolerate even one commercial enterprise not in full submission to the tyrannical LGBT agenda.” Corrigan’s Twitter account is now private.

    wrote an op-ed in The Conservative Woman, a London publication, decrying “the false song of feminism” and calling for women to take up traditional roles of mother, wife and homemaker.

    a Tea Party activist with a history of making and sharing anti-Islamic comments on his personal social media profiles would be the agency’s new religious freedom adviser.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/n..._content=river

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    Trump administration seeks to allow bear-baiting in Alaska refuge

    Killing brown bears at bait stations would be legal for the first time in Alaska’s most-visited national wildlife refuge

    The new rule for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge would also allow

    trapping,

    more discharge of firearms and

    increased motor-vehicle access.

    Using bait stations to hunt brown bears has never been allowed in the 1.9 million-acre (769,000-hectare) Kenai refuge

    The state’s all-Republican congressional delegation and Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy support the rule change.

    could threaten the sustainability of the isolated population of Kenai brown bears in Alaska,”

    On Tuesday, the administration

    overturned an Obama era ban

    on several contentious hunting practices in Alaska’s national preserves.

    Practices that will now be allowed there include

    bear-baiting,

    the killing of bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens,

    use of artificial lights to hunt at dens and

    hunting of swimming caribou.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-alaska-bears/trump-administration-seeks-to-allow-bear-baiting-in-alaska-refuge-idUSKBN23H3L6?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

    Capitalism ing sucks, a inhumane, failed system



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    hater Pence and his hate-driven Christians in action

    The Trump Administration’s Hateful Message on Health Care for Transgender Americans


    On Friday, the Trump Administration released a set of guidelines dictating that

    discrimination against L.G.B.T. people in health care is not forbidden.

    It was the fourth anniversary of the
    Pulse massacre, when forty-nine people were murdered in a gay night club in Orlando, Florida.

    It was three months and one day since the World Health Organization declared the
    coronavirus a global pandemic.

    It was days, perhaps a week or two, before the Supreme Court is expected to release its

    ruling on whether
    discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender iden y is illegal under le VII of the Civil Rights Act.



    The timing is con uous.

    The new do ent reverses a rule, put in place by the Obama Administration,

    in 2016, that banned health-care providers from discriminating on the basis of gender iden y or whether a patient had sought an abortion.

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-trump-administrations-hateful-message-on-health-care-for-transgender-americans?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing= TNY_Daily_061320&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd6795524c17c1048022fcc &cndid=43758549&hasha=992d608214b505003aa04bf10a59 5031&hashb=542eb31d958e85ddd5a4c3ccf3faae18526a77b d&hashc=54b3612ab970ce13a64a16665b1987080ca5b72e2e e762b722fbba6ab378f2f5&esrc=bounceX&utm_term=TNY_D aily

    Trash has probably told his mafiya to find EVERYTHING and ANYTHING done by Obama and his Exec, so Trash can kill, cancel, overrule all of it



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    Trump administration finalizes rule allowing Alaskan hunters to kill hibernating bears, wolf cubs


    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...ears-wolf-cubs

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    Betsy DeVos sued by New York for subjecting students to ‘ongoing injury’

    On Thursday, the City and State of New York filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education to block a controversial new rule, pushed by Secretary Besty DeVos, that would allow people accused of sexual harassment and assault to cross-examine accusers as part of university adjudication procedures.

    The plaintiffs are alleging a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act

    the same law the Supreme Court used to block President Donald Trump from suspending the DACA program that gave work permits to young immigrants.

    DeVos and her officials’ decision will “discard decades of established le IX policy and practice,”

    and was forced through in the middle of COVID-19 lockdowns for educational ins utions,

    with no regard for how the current public health situation would affect the change.

    Civil rights advocates have warned that if DeVos’ rule change goes through,

    it will make it harder for victims of harassment and assault to come forward,

    as well as reducing the kinds of incidents that are required to be reported in the first place.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/bet...e+Raw+Story%29

    Repug/Christian misogynist assumption: ALL rape victims are lying until proven truthful



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    The oligarchy wants to privatize, exploit, crapifiy EVERYTHING

    Trump nominates controversial, longtime acting head of land management bureau as director

    tasked with managing federal lands because he has previously advocated for selling them off.

    whether an extremist and long-time opponent of America’s public lands should be in charge of the agency he has spent an entire career trying to undermine.”

    criticized Pendley for his 17-page recusal list detailing ties to a number of industries that could benefit from increased access to public lands.

    He has also overseen the relocation of the agency’s headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Colorado, resulting in the loss of more than half the staff slated to move.

    “Pendley has a long record of opposing the very existence of the public lands he now oversees,”

    “He may be the perfect choice for Donald Trump, but

    he is a terrible choice for those who seek a higher standard of environmental ethics and integrity."

    https://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...ment-bureau-as

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    Judge Orders DeVos: Cancel These Student Loans Immediately

    to cancel outstanding federal student loan debt for over 7,000 student loan borrowers.

    The case concerns the Borrower Defense to Repayment program. This loan forgiveness program was

    originally created
    by the Obama administration

    to provide student debt relief to students who were misled, defrauded, or otherwise harmed by predatory colleges and universities – often, for-profit schools.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammin.../#32d55e6071a6



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    just one of many, more to come.

    here's Repugs doing Pootin's bidding

    A bill has already been introduced in Congress to remove the US from the United Nations

    http://www.businessinsider.com/american-sovereignty-restoration-act-us-withdraw-un-2017-1
    They're still at it


    SMH

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    Corruption of the 2020 Census INCOMING

    House Dems Ramp Up Objections To Two ‘Questionable’ Political Appointees At Census

    the Commerce Department turn over various do ents related to their appointment and

    why “these responsibilities should be carried out by political appointees rather than civil servants.”


    The Trump administration’s announcement last month that Nathaniel Cogley and Adam Korzeniewski were joining the Census Bureau has prompted widespread scrutiny of the move.

    There are very few political appointee roles at the Bureau,

    put them within the Bureau’s upper echelons.

    resumes contain little of the experience typical for working at the wonky and technocratic agency.

    Their appointment to the Bureau blindsided even its Trump-appointed Director Steve Dillingham

    the timing of the appointments was also met with su ion,

    because it came so late in the operational timeline for the 2020 census count.

    Inspector General Peggy E. Gustafson has sought information about

    why their positions were created,

    how the appointees were recruited and

    what the goals of their tenure will be

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/c...+%28TPMNews%29

    I expect Trash to fire the Commerce IG



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    Denouncing Seema Verma's "Textbook Definition of Corruption,"

    Jayapal Calls for Medicare Chief's Ouster


    "She must resign or be removed."



    watchdog's report revealing that the administration official violated federal requirements in her management of over $6 million in contracts.

    "Verma has been using government money for her personal benefit" and showed that

    the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator engaged in "the textbook definition of corruption."

    the OIG said it looked at three contracts for strategic communications services from June 2017 through April 2019 and found:

    CMS allowed a subcontractor individual to perform inherently governmental functions, such as making managerial decisions and directing CMS employees.

    CMS also administered its strategic communications services contracts as personal services contracts.

    CMS officials exerted a level of control over the contractors' work that exceeded what is allowed under service contracts;

    in essence, CMS administered these contracts as if the services had been procured under CMS's statutory authority to contract for experts and consultants.

    Lastly, CMS

    did not comply with FAR [Federal Acquisition Regulation] requirements in managing contract deliverables and approving the use of a subcontractor,

    did not maintain complete working files for all three contracts, and

    paid some questionable costs.


    "She has defied rules, skirted regulations, violated trust, misled Congress, and she must be replaced,"

    "Besides arranging contracts with personal friends to raise her profile and thus misspending CMS dollars,

    the IG investigation identified additional hundreds of thousands of 'questionable costs' all associated with reckless spending,"

    "She has put the agency at risk of fraud and abuse and therefore she has put the public in jeopardy."

    The "report confirms that Administrator Verma and her top officials

    used contracts in violation of federal regulations and

    spent taxpayer funds inappropriately to retain these private consultants,"

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...edicare-chiefs

    Verma is ally and protege of Christian supremacist idiot Pence

    Will Trash first the IG?

    Trash/Barr's "unitary executive" means nobody and nothing in the Exec branch is subject to Congressional oversight.





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    ^^^ another topic Trump s don't want to touch with a 10 foot pole, tbh

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    The CFPB once defended consumers.

    Thanks to Trump,

    it now helps companies prey on them instead.


    Kraninger, a thoroughly unqualified Trump appointee, has shown little interest in doing her purported job, which is protecting Americans from the financial services industry.

    Kraninger’s main accomplishment since the start of the covid-19 pandemic has been the
    loosening of regulations on payday loans.

    Previously, regulations stopped people who couldn’t afford to repay the loans from taking them on,

    Annual interest on payday loans can run above 500 percent.

    payday loans are exploitative products that prey on the financially desperate.

    since the beginning of the shutdowns,
    tens of thousands of consumer

    complaints have poured into the CFPB about mortgage issues,
    inaccurate credit reports,
    hassles with debt collectors,

    No surprise, the financial services sector, which hates the CFPB,
    cheered Kraninger’s appointment to the job.

    the sabotage — and make no mistake, that’s what it is — of the CFPB isn’t even a major story in the Trump era.

    Her tenure in the top role of the government’s most powerful consumer advocacy organization is a demonstration of

    the contempt Trump and Republicans hold for governance,

    not to mention their

    prioritization of the interests of the wealthiest segments of our economy over the well-being of everyone else.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/01/cfpb-once-defended-consumers-thanks-trump-it-now-helps-companies-prey-them-instead/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_so urce=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

    How many Ms of Trash's supporters are being raped by payday loan sharks?



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    TRUMP’S CFPB DEPLOYS PREDATORY LENDERS AS FIRST RESPONDERS TO PANDEMIC



    The agency deregulated small-dollar lending by repealing key consumer protections on payday and auto le loans.

    https://theintercept.com/2020/08/12/...-payday-loans/


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    Trump administration finalizes plan to open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling

    https://www.theweek.com/speedreads/9...efuge-drilling

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    In the Tongass, a tussle over Alaska’s iden y

    A U.S. Forest Service rule limiting new roads is set to be lifted for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. But few say it will bring back logging



    https://www.csmonitor.com/Environmen...n y?icid=rss




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    Trump’s EPA Reauthorizes Use of Herbicide Linked to Congenital Disabilities


    https://truthout.org/articles/trumps...-disabilities/

    They figure it will mostly dehumanized farm workers' kids, just meat, that will be screwed up for profit.


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    Idaho massacre of 570 wolves and wolf Pups bolsters alarm over Trump attack on endangered species

    alarm about the Trump administration’s push to lift protections for gray wolves across the country after an analysis revealed how

    a record-breaking 570 wolves, including dozens of pups, were brutally killed in Idaho over a recent one-year period.

    Wolves no longer have Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and parts of Oregon, Utah, and Washington state but are still protected elsewhere.

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Aurelia Skipwith told the Associated Press last week that her agency is

    “working hard” to delist wolves nationwide by the end of the year, calling the policy change “very imminent.”

    http://redgreenandblue.org/2020/09/20/idaho-massacre-570-wolves-wolf-pups-bolsters-alarm-trump-attack-endangered-species/



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    E.P.A. Rejects Its Own Findings That a Pesticide Harms Children’s Brains

    The agency’s new assessment directly contradicts federal scientists’ conclusions five years ago that

    chlorpyrifos can stunt brain development in young children.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/c...-children.html

    The oligarchy/BigCorp/Capitalists don't ing care about your kids or about ANY lives, human or otherwise.

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    A judge just dismissed efforts to stop pesticides and GMO crops from being used in wildlife refuges

    Washington federal court last week dismissed a lawsuit against the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service after a pair of nonprofit groups sued the agency for reversing previous bans on specific insecticides and genetically modified organisms (GMO) in national wildlife refuges.

    The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that

    the plaintiffs failed to show that they would be harmed by the policy reversal,

    adding that

    the alleged injuries put forward by individual members are speculative and therefore do not establish standing.

    they're gonna start approving genetically engineered crops to be planted and neonicotinoid pesticides to be used,"

    https://www.salon.com/2020/09/29/a-j...dlife-refuges/

    so who THE has standing to protect nature?

    bears, wolves, bees, fish, insects gotta get their own lawyers?


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    Seems trump has bankrupt the RNC, hate to see it.

    Strapped for cash, Trump yanks TV ads in key states as Biden spending surges

    Trump’s retreat from Ohio, Iowa and New Hampshire reflects his struggle to change the dynamics of a race that polls suggest he is on track to lose.

    https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...eground-states

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    Debt collectors will soon be allowed to reach you by text or on Facebook

    The federal government has cleared the way for

    collection agencies to send unlimited texts, emails and even instant messages to debtors on social media platforms.

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final
    rule late last week outlining how collectors can use new communication methods.


    The federal agency, which is charged with protecting Americans from financial abuse,

    did not limit the number of messages collectors could send,

    but it did require that each message come with instructions on how to opt out.

    The bureau also limited the number of times collectors may call someone to seven calls per week for each debt.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/debt-co...tection-bureau

    Trash, Repugs, Exec branch in full "Nero Decree" mode, to accelerate when Trash is officially defeated.



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    EPA won't require industry to guarantee funding for toxic waste cleanups


    declining to require oil and gas, coal, chemical and mining companies to have insurance to cover major spills and accidents.

    poses the greatest risk to communities of color and low-income communities that most often live in the shadow of polluting industries.

    “EPA has found that

    existing environmental regulations and modern industry practices are sufficient to mitigate any risks inherent in these industries,”

    The U.S. has more than 1,300 Superfund sites on its cleanup list, but many have become “orphaned” by companies that go bankrupt and can no longer fund the cleanup.

    https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/527586-epa-wont-require-industry-to-guarantee-funding-for-toxic-waste


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