Originally published at: The Big Questions Around a Damaging Trump Administration Concession in Court - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Russ Vought’s Power Play Sows Legal Chaos for Administration Last month, the New York Times reported that the administration confessed, in federal court, to having blocked grants in October 2025 for clean energy projects in blue states simply because they voted against president Trump. TPM discovered that the administration has in fact conceded this point…
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Last month, [the New York Time reported that the administration confessed, in federal court, to having blocked grants in October 2025 for clean energy projects in blue states simply because they voted against president Trump.
Why is this not the lede story in every newscast on the boob tube??
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Trump Comes for Birthright Citizenship Again
This reeks of an administration desperate for a win, any win.
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. The next one could be worse, but WTF are we going to do.
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From the EO on “birth tourism,” exceptions may be made:
Sec. 5. Exemptions. Notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by this order, the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security may exempt a foreign national from actions taken pursuant to this order on humanitarian grounds or when the foreign national’s entry is in the national interest, as determined by the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security. (Ending Birth Tourism )
It could be boilerplate; but, then again, in a regime credibly accused of selling pardons, maybe it’s not.
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“Just win, baby.” (Al Davis)
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Russ Vought has used lies and threats to gut the Federal government. That amounts to fraud committed against the US. Indict and convict the SOB and lock him up for 20 years.
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Re Trump v. BBC:
https://x.com/occupydemocrats/status/2085422998312419811?s=46
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I’ll be surprised to learn that anyone in this regime could keep their hands out of the cookie jar.
There may well be no shortage of grounds to charge the lot of them on.
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Bad DoGE!
But the most important finding, in my opinion, is that GAO couldn’t replicate either Musk’s results or even his claimed accounting method. GAO could only confirm that DOGE used its claimed methodology in 27.5% of its claims. Over sixty percent it did not.
Coming from GAO, this is an actionable finding, one that makes the prospect of subpoenas for Musk and Katie Miller’s testimony next year positively delightful. They didn’t just lie about their savings, they lied about what they claimed were their savings. (Receipts! DOGE Fails an Audit - emptywheel )
ETA:
(TPM Live Wire )
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making standard the kind of control the administration has exercised over federal funding since the days of DOGE
I know a bunch of southern states that really need attention.
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https://x.com/georebekah/status/2085409441839509785?s=46
Just a few of the orders Trump’s administration has openly defied:
- Order halting Alien Enemies Act deportation flights proceedings.
- Protective order barring Kilmar Abrego García’s removal to El Salvador
- Orders releasing immigration detainees
- Nationwide and district-level immigration habeas orders
- Order requiring bond hearings for detained
- Order unfreezing congressionally appropriated federal funds
- Orders requiring payment of foreign-aid obligations
- Order restoring Voice of America operations
- Order protecting refugee-admissions processing
- Orders restricting immigration conditions on disaster grants
- Orders blocking unlawful federal-worker layoffs
- Orders involving spending cuts and agency programs
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No benefit of the doubt for these crooks. If it’s not about hate, it’s about money.
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Watergate came from an incompetent burglary.
It would be poetic justice if this regime unspooled over a half-assed, petty attempt to frame a passer by for an imagined offence to protect Dear Leader’s projected image and vanity.
(@emptywheel.bsky.social on Bluesky )
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The state of play on the Senate’s imprimatur for a Blanche AG-hood:
(@emptywheel.bsky.social on Bluesky )
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“When viewed from a really idiosyncratic perspective, we’re doing a really good job!”
(@bradmossesq.bsky.social on Bluesky )
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And not a damned thing has happened with his doing these.
That’s where the whole government-thing falls apart.
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Folks, be sure to scroll down. Commenters added their own hairstyle memes. My sides ache from laughing.
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