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Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

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Budget Hearing - United States Forest Service

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This isn’t efficiency or modernization. This is the dismantling of a 120-year-old agency done illegally, done deliberately, and done fast enough that most people won’t notice until it’s too late.

The union that represents Forest Service employees estimates 6,500 workers will be affected by the headquarters move. Another 2,700 will be impacted by the research station closures. Most of them will quit rather than uproot their lives.

So what did USDA do? Their lawyers wrote an internal memo declaring both laws unconstitutional. They didn’t go to court. They just decided the laws don’t apply to them and kept moving.

Then in January 2026, Congress passed a spending bill with Section 421, which says none of the Forest Service’s funds can be moved around without advance approval from appropriations committees.

They announced it with a press release, a fact sheet, a memo to all employees, and a dedicated webpage. They violated the standstill the moment they hit publish.

The administration is creating 15 new state director offices. Every single one triggers that provision.

There’s also a standstill clause. During the required 30-day notification period, the agency can’t take any action to begin implementation and can’t make any public announcement “in any form.”

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Here’s the thing. Congress already passed laws specifically designed to stop this. Section 716 of the appropriations law says you can’t create any new organizational entity with five or more employees without committee approval.

its full reorganization (headquarters to Salt Lake City, 57 of 77 research stations closed, all nine regional offices shut down) with or without Congressional approval.

The Forest Service just told Congress to go pound sand. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz appeared before the House Appropriations Committee this week and made it clear the agency is moving forward with

On, off, deal, no deal, nice guy, killing machine. This is the same pattern we’ve seen with tariffs for over a year. The chaos isn’t incompetence it moves markets, and somebody always seems to know when the turn is coming.

Trump just posted threatening to knock out every power plant and every bridge in Iran if they don’t take his deal. He called it “the Iran Killing Machine.” Targeting civilian infrastructure isn’t negotiation it’s a war crime threat, posted publicly on social media like it’s nothing.

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If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

Election officials in red and blue states threw it out. Over 60 lawsuits, zero evidence of widespread fraud.

Kash Patel went on Fox News this morning and promised arrests are coming “this week” over the “rigged 2020 election.” We’ve heard this for five years. Courts threw it out. Trump’s own Justice Department threw it out.

Link to letter: www.michigan.gov/ag/-/media/P...

The Justice Department demanded Wayne County, Michigan turn over every single ballot, receipt, and envelope from the 2024 election. Wayne County is Detroit the largest Democratic county in the state.

Congress has pushed back the Senate Appropriations Committee held funding steady, and the House proposed only a 23% cut instead of 57%. But the damage from canceled grants and leadership chaos is already being felt at universities across the country.

The agency has been without a permanent director since its last director resigned in protest. Trump’s nominee to replace him would be the first non-scientist ever to lead the NSF a former venture capitalist with ties to Peter Thiel and no research background.

The cuts aren’t random. They’re targeting climate research, clean energy, social sciences, and programs that helped bring underrepresented scientists into the field. NSF has issued 1,000 fewer graduate fellowships this year alone a 50% drop.

Over 1,300 grants have already been canceled, wiping out $700 million in research funding. The White House wants to cut the agency’s budget by 57% (dropping from $9 billion to $3.9 billion) and slashing the grant approval rate from 26% down to 7%.

The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.