What election? I’m expecting Marshal law before then. Whose going to stop him ?
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President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
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BREAKING: U.S. task force headed towards Venezuela carries hundreds of missiles including Tomahawks, SM-series, ASROC & defensive interceptors
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BREAKING: U.S. task force headed towards Venezuela carries hundreds of missiles including Tomahawks, SM-series, ASROC & defensive interceptors
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So, what is it with Venezuela? Does Trump have a problem with how it markets its oil?BREAKING: U.S. task force headed towards Venezuela carries hundreds of missiles including Tomahawks, SM-series, ASROC & defensive interceptors
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BREAKING: U.S. task force headed towards Venezuela carries hundreds of missiles including Tomahawks, SM-series, ASROC & defensive interceptors
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Use of federal troops in Los Angeles is unlawful, US District judge says
The Trump administration's use of federal troops in Los Angeles to conduct law enforcement operations is unlawful, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer issued an order prohibiting troops from engaging in security patrols, riot control, arrests, searches and crowd control. The order does not take effect until Sept. 12 to allow the Trump administration to appeal.
Breyer said the use of federal troops effectively created a "national police force with the president as its chief" and violated the Posse Comitatus Act.
"The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles. In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act," Breyer wrote.
The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act limits the military from being involved in civilian law enforcement unless Congress approves it or under circumstances "expressly authorized by the Constitution."
One exception is the Insurrection Act, a 218-year-old law signed by President Thomas Jefferson.
The Insurrection Act states, in part: "Whenever there is an insurrection in any State against its government, the President may, upon the request of its legislature or of its governor if the legislature cannot be convened, call into Federal service such of the militia of the other States, in the number requested by that State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to suppress the insurrection."
Another provision states it can be used "whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings."
The ruling on Tuesday sets the stage for a high-profile appeal, as the Trump administration ramps up the use of the federal troops in other U.S. cities, including threats to do so in Chicago.
Breyer issued his decision after holding a three-day trial last month featuring testimony from military leadership about the ongoing operations in the Los Angeles area.
In June, Breyer also ruled President Donald Trump lacked the authority under the Insurrection Act to federalize the National Guard, concluding that the immigration protests in the city failed to meet the criteria of a "rebellion."
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President Trump will reportedly announce that Space Command headquarters is moving to Alabama, reversing former President Biden’s decision to keep the command in Colorado.
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President Trump will reportedly announce that Space Command headquarters is moving to Alabama, reversing former President Biden’s decision to keep the command in Colorado.
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Move it to alligator Alcatraz. There’s fixing to be plenty of space. We’ve already spent nearly half billion there. Another great tax boondoggle for his beloved Florida. His near constant brain farts are costing us dearly. TACO don’t care. He’s above the law.President Trump will reportedly announce that Space Command headquarters is moving to Alabama, reversing former President Biden’s decision to keep the command in Colorado.
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President Trump will reportedly announce that Space Command headquarters is moving to Alabama, reversing former President Biden’s decision to keep the command in Colorado.
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At 1 pm Donald Trump To Make Televised Announcement at White House: What to Know
Donald Trump to make televised announcement at White House
The president is set to make an announcement from the Oval Office.
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Unless there are consequences, its not illegal. Saying it is, and then not enforcing penalties means absolutely nothing.
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I thought the Republicans were a party of the rule of law ..not the action of law????
That looked alot more boring than it could have been. Moved SPACE FORCE to Alabama because he doesn't like that Colorado wants everyone to vote.
Trump Family Amasses $5 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch
The WLFI token trades above its previous value, confirming a paper windfall for the president and his sons
The Trump family notched as much as $5 billion in paper wealth on Monday after its flagship crypto venture opened trading of a new digital currency.
The launch is akin to an initial public offering, in which the cryptocurrency, called WLFI, can now be bought and sold on the open market like a listed company’s shares. Beforehand, people who had privately bought WLFI from the Trump venture, World Liberty Financial, hadn’t been able to exchange their tokens.
The trading debut was most likely the biggest financial success for the president’s family since the inauguration. The Trump family, including President Trump himself, holds just under a quarter of all WLFI tokens in existence. Trump’s three sons are co-founders of World Liberty, while it names the president a “Co-Founder Emeritus.”
World Liberty says founders and team members’ tokens remain “locked,” meaning they still can’t sell them. But the trading launch now puts a real-world valuation on their holdings, which previously were valued based on private sales.
WLFI is likely now the Trumps’ most valuable asset, exceeding their decades-old property portfolio. While the president’s family has continued to pursue property deals around the world since taking office, the fast-moving crypto business has had the biggest early impact.
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1000% not AI
Trump claims a video showing people throwing bags out a White House window is "probably AI generated." Doocy then plays the clip for him. Trump still insists it's AI.
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Trump claims a video showing people throwing bags out a White House window is "probably AI generated." Doocy then plays the clip for him. Trump still insists it's AI.
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Trump claims a video showing people throwing bags out a White House window is "probably AI generated." Doocy then plays the clip for him. Trump still insists it's AI.
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Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
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Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
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Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department are facing blowback over their effort to block a lawsuit from members of the far-right Proud Boys, who are seeking financial reimbursement for their criminal cases and imprisonment for offenses stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
Donald Trump vs. the wind power industry
 | By David Gelles |
On Friday, the Transportation Department said it was terminating or withdrawing $679 million in federal funding for 12 projects around the country intended to support the development of offshore wind power.
That was just one in a string of moves that have thrown the wind industry into chaos, risking thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments. As Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman wrote, “even if developers are able to challenge the legality of the administration’s actions in court and ultimately win, the delays can drive up costs and inject enough uncertainty to potentially kill wind projects.”
The president has targeted wind since he returned to office in January. During his first month in office, he issued a moratorium on federal approvals for new offshore wind projects. Since then, the administration has been subjecting wind projects to intensifying scrutiny.
During a cabinet meeting last week, the president expounded on his long-stated aversion to wind turbines. “Windmills, we’re just not going to allow them,” he said. “They’re ugly. They don’t work. They kill your birds. They’re bad for the environment.”
In 2019, we examined some of Trump’s false and misleading statements about wind power. But the president has now moved well beyond that kind of talk. By using the full force of the federal government to penalize the industry, Trump could set back the wind business years.
Why wind matters
After decades of relatively steady demand, electricity consumption is soaring, driven by the rise of artificial intelligence, the electrification of homes and transportation, and an uptick in domestic manufacturing.Trump arrived in office declaring an energy emergency and proclaiming that his administration was going to pursue an “all of the above” energy strategy as it worked to meet rising demand.
Wind was well positioned to be a part of the mix. In recent years, wind energy has been providing a growing share of the energy in the United States. Wind turbines now provide more than 10 percent of the country’s electricity, and more than 20 percent of the electricity in some states, including Texas.
But last month, the Trump administration ordered that all construction stop on Revolution Wind, a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is already mostly built. That followed earlier orders to stop work on wind farms in Idaho and New York. (The New York project was eventually allowed to proceed.)
And also last month, the Energy Department terminated a commitment to provide a $4.9 billion loan guarantee to a company building an 800-mile-long transmission line across the Midwest that, in part, was intended to transmit wind energy produced in Kansas to Indiana.
There may be more cancellations to come. A court filing from the Trump administration suggested it plans to rescind federal approvals for another wind farm off the coast of Maryland.
Along with solar installations, onshore wind farms can also be constructed relatively quickly. (Offshore wind farms are typically subject to longer review and development processes.)
But at a moment when there is a multiyear backlog for new natural gas turbines, taking wind off the table as an option for new electricity generation in the United States is likely to place additional upward pressure on electricity prices, which are already rising sharply in some states.
“There’s no upside for anyone to this decision,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, told me in an interview, referring to the cancellation of the Revolution Wind project. “The economy’s going to be hurt. Consumers are going to see prices go up. There’s massive economic waste in stalling this project that is so nearly concluded.”
In a statement, Taylor Rodgers, a White House spokeswoman, said, “President Trump is realigning government policies to meet the needs of the American people and unleash economic prosperity.”
Wind’s allies
Democrats and clean energy supporters aren’t the only ones upset about the administration’s moves. Putting a stop to a project like Revolution Wind, which grid operators were planning on, may also affect electricity reliability in dense population centers like the Northeast.Katie Dykes, commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, said at a news conference that if Revolution Wind was interrupted, “we will have an elevated risk of rolling blackouts impacting our region.”
Erik Milito, president of the National Ocean Industries Association, which represents offshore energy companies, said in a statement that disrupting Revolution Wind “could ripple across jobs, contracts and communities already benefiting from the project.”
And Brent Booker, the president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, told me that the president’s actions were harming the workers he represents.
Booker negotiated the labor agreement for Revolution Wind, as well as the labor agreement for the Keystone XL pipeline, a contentious fossil fuel project that Biden canceled with an executive order on his first day in office in 2021.
Booker said he was also upset when Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline. But in that case, he noted, construction had not begun and the pipeline was already mired in legal challenges.
Revolution Wind, by contrast, had received all necessary government approvals and was nearly finished. “This project is 80 percent complete,” Booker said. “There wasn’t two million work hours completed on Keystone when we shut down. This is much worse.”
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