Seriously: Every penny the federal government has belongs to the American people. Without Congressional appropriations for the specific use of those funds, these vanity projects are actual crimes. POTUS does not own or control the federal government, public land, or the people’s money.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · yesterday

Scoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost

The First Amendment says Congress cannot abridge the people’s right to redress. It is unlawful for anyone to give Trump special immunity for his alleged tax crimes. Anyone doing so adds themselves to the list of accomplices. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity (Gift Article)

The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.

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Relief efforts for Northwest fires: ‘The whole rez is on fire’ As wildfires burn through Native nations in OR and WA, communities have banded together to set up sites to donate and support families impacted by the fires. How to help details are in article. ictnews.org/news/northwe...

Relief efforts for Northwest fires: ‘The whole rez is on fire’ - ICT

As wildfires burn through Native nations in Oregon and Washington, communities across both states have banded together to set up sites to donate and support families impacted by the fires.

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The First Amendment says Congress cannot grant Trump or his cronies immunity from the people’s right to pursue redress. Since Congress cannot make it law, it is not lawful for the Executive or Judicial branches to claim it would be lawful. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

Why Blanche Can’t Win Republican Approval for Attorney General — Yet (Gift Article)

The decision by the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, to grant President Trump protection from I.R.S. audits has become the central issue in his confirmation process.

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The ballroom nobody wants is being built, despite a judge finding that the entire project is unlawful without Congressional authorization. It will be impossible to treat any part of this structure as secure. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump’s Ballroom Is Racing Ahead. Its Legality Is Still Being Contested.

See how the construction of the White House ballroom and bunker complex has progressed since December, while its legality is being weighed in court.

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Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives sole tariff authority to Congress. It does not give Congress authority to transfer that power. The 1st Amendment prohibits unreviewable powers. The people’s representatives have a legal duty to formally end these abuses. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...

Opinion | Tariffs Will Long Outlive Trump

We will be stuck with tariffs long after this president is out of office.

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Congress has a legal duty under the Constitution to promote the general welfare. Defunding access to healthcare directly contravenes that legal responsibility. Theft of public funds for other purposes is undermining health, safety, rights & freedoms. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients (Gift Article)

More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.

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Targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure is a war crime. The President of the United States has zero lawful authority to make such criminal threats or to commit war crimes. This is grounds for impeachment, conviction & criminal prosecution. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

Iran War Live Updates: Trump Threatens Retaliation Against Civilian Targets if Iran Strikes in Strait

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Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives sole tariff authority to Congress. It does not give Congress authority to transfer that power. The 1st Amendment prohibits unreviewable powers. The people’s representatives have a legal duty to formally end these abuses. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...

Opinion | Tariffs Will Long Outlive Trump

We will be stuck with tariffs long after this president is out of office.

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The gravest threat to human rights & freedom is unaccountable authoritarian regimes having access to the world’s most dangerous weapons. POTUS has no legal authority to fake any action to make that threat worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/u...

Saudis Reach Deal With U.S. That Could Let Them Enrich Nuclear Fuel

U.S. lawmakers and Israeli officials have expressed opposition to such a plan, to be announced Wednesday, fearing that the kingdom could use a civilian nuclear project to develop nuclear weapons.

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Disregarding the Supreme Court ruling on his tariff powers, Trump is rapidly implementing a massive new tariff war which will have devastating consequences for the US economy, even as his advisers warn him against risking the economic shocks of his original trade war ahead of the midterm elections.

Donald Trump prepares fresh tariff barrage with 10% levies set to expire

US president to renew trade war after Supreme Court threw out reciprocal duties

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Absolute madness. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry

A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.

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Trump admin officials are using the intentionally deceitful language of polluters to justify an illegal campaign of collusion which amounts to stealing from the American people to profit friends & cronies of the President. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

The U.S. Is Pulling Back on Energy Efficiency

The Trump administration is undoing fuel-saving efforts even as war in Iran, data centers and heat waves are pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.

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Reminder to all Americans: Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants sole tariff authority to Congress. It is illegal for Trump to “declare” or “impose” tariffs, a crime against the Constitution & against all Americans. Congress has no lawful authority to transfer tariff powers to POTUS.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2w ago

My statement on the United States administration’s intention to impose new tariffs on Canadian goods:

Canada issues air quality warnings over US wildfire smoke. One week smoke drifts from Canada into the U.S. The next, U.S. fires send smoke into Canada. Climate-related risks are increasingly shared, which means emergency response has to be as well. share.google/zPx5MJ83c9Sy...

Canada issues air quality warnings over US wildfire smoke after Trump tariff threat

Officials say smoke from US fires has crossed border days after US president accused Canada of improper fire management

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This article is missing the important sentence clarifying that burning of fossil fuels is, in fact, driving climate change. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/c... @karenzraick.bsky.social

This CCI report lays out, for the first time, exactly how the oil & gas industry created and pushed the myth of "clean," climate-friendly natural gas—a myth that persists to this day. This is an INCREDIBLE, meticulously-researched resource for anyone who works on climate.

Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2w ago

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

Read Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. It clearly grants to Congress sole authority over most of what Trump claims authority to do. This includes making war, imposing tariffs & regulating trade & commerce. Fantasist judges cannot change that. faithful-citizen.org/2026/07/08/r...

Read Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution of the United States is arguably the most important, yet underappreciated portion of our founding charter. It defines the powers of Congress in some very s…

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Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants sole tariff authority to Congress. No part of the Constitution grants anyone, including Congress or the Supreme Court, any authority to transfer that power to the President. 100% of Trump’s tariffs are Constitutional crimes.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

At a moment when inflation and affordability are on virtually everyone’s mind, Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, said the Trump administration was planning a new slate of tariffs. On "The Daily," our reporter explains why Greer thinks the policy has been a success. No one else thinks that

The Fed’s independence is still under threat, warns Slaughter ft.trib.al/rZwqJWm

The Fed’s independence is still under threat, warns Slaughter

Regulator fired by Donald Trump says Supreme Court decision is not ‘durable’

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Crude Oil has 43 days of supply left in the U.S. — the lowest inventory in 45 years @barchart.com ⛽️

78% of Americans have never given Trump a vote. He is by far the most reviled figure in American politics, about as well-liked as Benedict Arnold. Trump has intentionally killed hundreds of thousands of people by robbing them of food & medicine. He is hated. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump could ‘do something positive’ rather than fixate on 2020 loss, Fetterman says

Senator says Trump revisiting failed run against Biden ‘distracts from important things’ such as Iran war

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People inside ICE & the Maine National Guard may be personally criminally liable for ignoring & condoning violent, racist tendencies of the agent who shot & killed Joán Sebastián Durán Guerrero last week in Maine, or for covering up criminal acts. apple.news/A8VjB3_8jRZC...

Ex-wife says ICE agent who killed man in Maine had racist beliefs, violent tendencies — NPR

Ashley Brouillette has identified her ex-husband, David Brouillette, as the officer who fatally shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday. She said she learned he was the offic...

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It is important that cases against people assaulted by rogue agents are failing in court. Our freedom, however, depends on ensuring that any attacker who falsely claims their victim was to blame faces serious charges for their violence & for betraying their oath. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/u...

They Were Charged With Assaulting ICE Agents. The Cases Are Crumbling. (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has lost or abandoned hundreds of criminal cases against protesters and immigrants, a Times investigation found.

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Donald Trump’s idiotic, uninformed menacing remarks about Canada’s fires do not represent the American people’s interest, any Constitutional authority, or the reality of our world. Trump is doing more to prevent action to stop climate change than anyone in history.

You cannot be the people’s lawyer and the president’s lawyer at the same time. Donald Trump is setting up Todd Blanche to be his henchman, and he is wholly unfit to serve as Attorney General. The Senate must reject this nomination.

🚨BREAKING: A federal court dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit demanding access to Connecticut's unredacted voter registration list. The department has now lost its sweeping legal hunt for access to states' private voter data in 16 states.

Trump’s former White House lawyer says Trump is likely plotting to declare an emergency and use force to control the November election. Reminder: Any discussion of such a plot by Trump & aides is a coup plot & must result in prosecutions.

One of the reasons for the protection of universal human rights, including the right to science & information, is that access to facts, evidence & learning are necessary for the use of free will to make virtuous choices. rescuerights.org/2026/07/16/w...

Wildfire smoke limits human freedom

Midsummer wildfire smoke from Canada has again flooded the skies across much of the United States. The dangerous levels of smoke stretch from Minnesota to the Atlantic Ocean and as far south as Mar…

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As part of Trump's sick, illegal war on science, his administration began dismantling surveillance of pathogens that cause serious illness & result from industrial mismanagement. Now, we have outbreaks of these same pathogens. Ignorance hurts people.

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11mo ago

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?