Wow, the Trump EPA is proposing a change to the definition of “discharge of a pollutant” that would exempt moving boats and ships from National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program requirements. Let the dumping begin*! *Let’s not. Please comment in the Federal Register.

EPA Moves to Redefine “Discharge of a Pollutant” - Eos

The EPA is proposing a change to the definition of “discharge of a pollutant” that would exempt moving boats and ships from pollution regulations.

eos.org

I have seen some rough FOIA staffing situations but the FLRA IG's "we only have 0.03 FOIA staff" is, wow! not good! my sympathies to that poor 3% of an employee

Among hundreds of daily acts of naked corruption, bulldozing a millionaire's private access road into Yosemite's Sequoia groves is uniquely disgusting www.notus.org/agencies/tru...

Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

notus.org

The Wreck of the Cantor Fitzgerald Howard Lutnick is more Gordon Gekko than Gordon Lightfoot, and he's shipwrecked US-Canada relations while his boss Sundowns. If you could read my mind, you'd know I'd like the Gales of November 2026 to sink them to the bottom of "Lake America." by Maureen Dowd

The University of Iowa "Center for Intellectual Freedom" just sent an invitation to every faculty member to a lecture by Professor Todd J. Zywicki on constitutional law

LAW TIP: do not do this!

Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 7d ago

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! An IG report I obtained via #FOIA found that a veteran market analyst misused his govt email & exchanged 100s of personal messages with a former colleague, including predictions and advice about the markets the agency regulates www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The budget drafters at EPA may be the staff most vulnerable to AI displacement. Tens of thousands of words to say exactly nothing about what these investments actually do.

My 2015 local Acrobat install works better than any modern subscription. Rolling back my printer drivers to their 2014 factory is the only way to make it work with W11. The entire last decade of updates is just broken adware

This renaming is weak shit, a true alpha president would redefine the 12" foot to his own foot size

Dear FOIA Officer, I know it's been a while since my request but the eclipse tonight got me thinking of how you always black out public records-

He's escaped to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism :(

Do we know for certain JD Vance didn’t meet Dolly Parton within the last 72 hours?

Shit I thought I had good seats but this guy has us all beat

Woke 2 shall include a legislative ban on air force flyovers for sports bullshit

FOIA expert here: no clue what Sarah is talking about but she's about to find out Twitter DMs are public records

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2w ago

Insane scene over on “the other site,” where a State Department undersecretary admits to handing off “leaks” to an election conspiracy theorist social media influencer, who then flames her for it

WASHINGTON (AP) — Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'

This conduct by ICE is unconscionable. ICE should know they cannot enter private property without a judicial warrant. Instead of complying with the law, ICE agents chose to threaten violence against a law firm because of whom they represent. We intend to investigate this incident.

Armed men claiming to be ICE agents tried to enter Sacramento immigration law firm

Multiple employees said the men identified themselves as federal immigration agents who said they wanted to tour the office for beds.

sacbee.com

Watching S1-4 of distressed government employees dealing with irrational xenophobic leadership until they finally break was a great leadup to the launch of my firm after I quit last year

Thomas Marrone@thomasthecat.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Official Babylon 5 YouTube Channel (yes, there is one!) has started posting full episodes of B5, starting with the Pilot, called "The Gathering." If you haven't seen B5, go check it out. Premiering in 1994, B5 was a prototype for today's Prestige TV formula. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGVW...

Another easy heuristic is any time you see the clause "since 2007" you can assume it is Bad

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Personal heuristic: If the lead story on the NY Times website is about the bond market, things are not going well with the economy.

That's Berthwright Citizenship

mcc@dryad.technology · 3w ago

So does that mean anyone born on a boat in the Strait of Hormuz has US citizenship

If someone with an outstanding FOIA request relating to this is in need of counsel to get the records 🫡

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

“These men and women signed up to serve their country. The least their country owes them is hot water, a working toilet and a real meal. Hegseth cannot even manage that, and he has the nerve to look their families in the eye and call them liars.”

Received a solicitation in the post today

Please join my campaign to increase transparency and accountability in the U.S. Virgin Islands and ensure equal access to public records and meetings. Just click on the @freedom.press link below and send the enclosed petition to the VI Legislature. #USVIFOIAInitiative freedom.press/action/moder...

📣 Take Action: Modernize US Virgin Islands open records law

Make an impact with guided actions from Freedom of The Press Foundation.

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Visited the historic Tanger Outlet Mall memorial to the horrors of slavery today. Great time for the whole family, and oh those deals!

NEW: ICE attorneys have been detailed to work as prosecutors in DC Superior Court.

"Sacrificial Lambs": The ICE Attorneys Working as DC Prosecutors

ICE lawyers are now working in DC Superior Court

turtlediaries.net

All my life I wanted to do two things: help organize labor and sue the government. Today I got to do both

Incredibly proud to represent the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, to sue TSA for records of their secret privatization plan www.afge.org/publication/...

AFGE Sues TSA for Hiding Records on Secret Airport Screening Privatization Program

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the exclusive union representative of 47,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) at 400 airports across the country, filed suit today in the...

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Breaking: Trump administration repeals Biden-era subsidies for electric slide

Senator Javits threw some real heaters in the 1974 FOIA amendment floor debate

Safeway it is JUNE