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DrWeb<p><strong>Opinion | Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar – The New York Times</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Opinion</a>, Michelle Goldberg</p><p><strong>Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar</strong></p><p>Aug. 15, 2025</p>The National Museum of African American History and Culture, with the Washington Monument in the background.Credit…Jared Soares for The New York Times<p>Listen to this article · 5:32 min <a href="https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/24318293692180" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Learn more</a></p><p>By <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/michelle-goldberg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Michelle Goldberg</a>, Opinion Columnist</p><p>Before Poland’s illiberal Law and Justice party came to power in 2015, the country had been deep in a reckoning over its role in the Holocaust. In 2000, the historian Jan Gross published an explosive book, “Neighbors,” about a 1941 massacre in the Nazi-occupied Polish town of Jedwabne, where Poles enthusiastically tortured and murdered up to 1,600 Jews. The book punctured a national myth in which Poles were only either heroes or victims in World War II.</p><p>After “Neighbors” came out, Poland’s president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, went to Jedwabne for a ceremony broadcast on Polish television. “For this crime, we should beg the souls of the dead and their families for forgiveness,” he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/11/world/at-site-of-massacre-polish-leader-asks-jews-for-forgiveness.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">said</a>.</p><p>The notion of Polish historical guilt made many conservative Poles furious. Law and Justice capitalized on their anger, running against what its leader called the “pedagogy of shame.” After the party’s 2015 victory, one of its first targets was the Museum of the Second World War, then being built in Gdansk.</p><p>The museum was supposed to explore the war’s global context and to emphasize the toll it took on civilians. Among its collection were keys to the homes of Jews murdered in Jedwabne. Before it ever opened, Law and Justice wanted to shut it down for being insufficiently patriotic.</p><p>Today in America, this history has an eerie familiarity. Five years ago, many institutions in the United States tried, with varying degrees of seriousness and skill, to come to terms with our country’s legacy of racism. A backlash to this reckoning helped propel Donald Trump back into the White House, where he has taken a whole-of-government approach to wiping out the idea that America has anything to apologize for. As part of this campaign, the administration seeks to force our national museums to conform to its triumphalist version of history.</p><p>In March, Trump signed an executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” criticizing versions of history that foster “a sense of national shame.” Museums and monuments, it said, should celebrate America’s “extraordinary heritage” and inculcate national pride. This week, the administration announced that it was reviewing displays at eight national museums — including the Museum of American History, the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Smithsonian American Art Museum — and giving them 120 days to bring their content in line with Trump’s vision.</p><p>We’re already seeing glimpses of what that looks like. Last month, the National Museum of American History removed references to Trump’s impeachments from an exhibit on the American presidency. Those references were restored last week, but with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/arts/design/smithsonian-trump-impeachment-jan-6.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">changes</a>: The exhibit no longer says that Trump made “false statements” about the 2020 election or that he encouraged the mob on Jan. 6.</p><p>Amy Sherald, the artist who painted Michelle Obama’s official portrait, canceled an upcoming solo show at the National Portrait Gallery after being told the museum was considering removing her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty to avoid angering Trump.</p><blockquote></blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/opinion/trump-history-museums-censorship.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Opinion | Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar – The New York Times</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/american-history/" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/books/" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/content-censorship/" target="_blank">#ContentCensorship</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/education/" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/executive-order/" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrder</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/maga/" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/national-museums/" target="_blank">#NationalMuseums</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/racism/" target="_blank">#Racism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/reading/" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/smithsonian/" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/the-new-york-times/" target="_blank">#TheNewYorkTimes</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
A. Rivera<p>I've got a review copy of the book, which I hope to read soon. </p><p>&gt; Crazy About Those Martians! <a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/08/look-you-can-see-the-martians-or-maybe-not/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/08/look</span><span class="invisible">-you-can-see-the-martians-or-maybe-not/</span></a> via <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LibraryOfCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryOfCongress</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PopCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PopCulture</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TBR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TBR</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Trump’s DOJ warns of another Great Depression in court filing to save tariffs – MSNBC</strong></p> <p></p> ‘Why are we doing this?’: Tariffs hit highest level since Great Depression<br>07:25<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-tariffs-appeals-court-economy-great-depression-rcna224525" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>‘Why are we doing this?’: Tariffs hit highest level since Great Depression, 07:25<p>An absurd new court filing from the <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-qatar-jet-warren-senate-rcna224349" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump administration</a> tries to scare a U.S. appeals court with grim predictions of economic catastrophe should it uphold and immediately enforce a ruling that blocked many of the president’s <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/us-china-trade-deal-tariff-extension-what-to-know-rcna221774" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">haphazard</a> and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/politics/polling-tariffs-trump-analysis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">widely unpopular</a> tariffs.</p><p>On Monday, the <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/donald-trump-letitia-james-subpoenas-rcna224310" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Justice Department</a> basically copied and pasted a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/business/tariffs-trump-great-depression" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">hysterical plea</a> from Donald Trump’s Truth Social account, in which the president claimed the country would experience another Great Depression if the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirms and enforces a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/court-international-trade-rules-against-trump-tariffs-rcna209627" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">May decision</a> from a Court of International Trade panel that found many of Trump’s tariffs on foreign countries were illegal. Judges at the appeals court have <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-court-lawsuit-trade-4c289f51008f6a3a02939caa73ab5404" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">already expressed skepticism</a> about the Trump administration’s arguments.</p><p>In <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cafc.23105/gov.uscourts.cafc.23105.154.0.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a letter</a> to the court, Solicitor General John Sauer and Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate argued that even if the judges agree that some of Trump’s tariffs are illegal, they should hold off on enforcing its decision while the administration appeals to the Supreme Court. And the letter was replete with Trumpian self-praise and propaganda:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p class=""><em>There is no substitute for the tariffs and deals that President Trump has made. One year ago, the United States was a dead country, and now, because of the trillions of dollars being paid by countries that have so badly abused us, America is a strong, financially viable, and respected country again. If the United States were forced to pay back the trillions of dollars committed to us, America could go from strength to failure the moment such an incorrect decision took effect.</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p class=""><em>These deals for trillions of dollars have been reached, and other countries have committed to pay massive sums of money. If the United States were forced to unwind these historic agreements, the President believes that a forced dissolution of the agreements could lead to a 1929-style result. In such a scenario, people would be forced from their homes, millions of jobs would be eliminated, hard-working Americans would lose their savings, and even Social Security and Medicare could be threatened.</em></p></blockquote><p>The country, of course, wasn’t “dead” a year ago — though it <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5380204/trump-economy-gdp-tariffs-recession-consumers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>has </em>teetered on the brink of recession</a> under Trump and <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/422053/jobs-report-trump-tariffs-us-economy-gdp-inflation-ai" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">continues to suffer the impact of his protectionist agenda</a>. For instance, U.S. companies paying these tariffs have started <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/business/trump-tariffs-consumer-prices.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">passing the costs on to consumers</a>.</p><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-tariffs-appeals-court-economy-great-depression-rcna224525" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump’s DOJ warns of another Great Depression in court filing to save tariffs</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-tariffs-appeals-court-economy-great-depression-rcna224525" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/great-depression/" target="_blank">#GreatDepression</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/msnbc/" target="_blank">#MSNBC</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/tariffs/" target="_blank">#Tariffs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-lies/" target="_blank">#TrumpLies</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
50+ Music<p>"Chances Are" is a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/popular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>popular</span></a> song with music by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RobertAllen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobertAllen</span></a> and lyrics by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AlStillman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlStillman</span></a> that was recorded by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JohnnyMathis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnnyMathis</span></a> in 1957. It reached number one on various <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/recordCharts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>recordCharts</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Billboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billboard</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CashBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CashBox</span></a> magazines. It was selected by the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LibraryOfCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryOfCongress</span></a> for preservation in the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NationalRecordingRegistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalRecordingRegistry</span></a> and inducted into the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GrammyHallOfFame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrammyHallOfFame</span></a>. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-7k_QXm_Ss" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=P-7k_QXm_Ss</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Seeing Things – Trump’s Autocrat Check List – Liza Donnelly</strong></p><p>&nbsp;Trump’s Autocrat Check List</p><p><strong>It’s long<a href="https://substack.com/@lizadonnelly" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></strong></p><p>By <a href="https://substack.com/@lizadonnelly" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Liza Donnelly</a>, Aug 06, 2025</p><p>I realise the above drawing only touches on what he is doing. Voting rights, immigration abuses and Esptein nonsense are the main stories in my reading today.</p><p>Texas Democrats who left the state to block a vote on redistricting voter maps<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/greg-abbott-lawsuit-texas-democrats-redistricting" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> say they received bomb threats</a> at their hotel in Illinois where they are sequestering. <em>“This is what happens when Republican state leaders publicly call for us to be ‘hunted down’. Texas Democrats won’t be intimidated,” </em>John Bucy III, who represents Austin district, said. Govenor Abbott filed an emergency petition <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/In_re_Abbott_Petition_%28FINAL%29_-_Filed.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">asking the state supreme court</a> to remove Wu, the top Democrat in the state house of representatives, and declare his seat vacant. Legal experts say this tactic is a long shot. I am so proud of the Texas Dems.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/greg-abbott-lawsuit-texas-democrats-redistricting" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Other states appear to be following Texas’s lead </a>and considering mid-cycle redistricting . Ohio, Indiana and Missouri Republicans are exploring their options to try to gain more GOP seats by redrawing their voting maps. Democratic govenors are also exploring options, but it appears they don’t have the power to draw as many seats as the Republicans do. California, with 52 seats in congress, may be the best bet. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/california-texas-redistricting-maps.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Governor Gavin Newsom</a> is “reportedly moving ahead with a referendum this fall to ask to adopt a new map that would add Democratic seats and override an independent redistricting commission.”</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/physical-sexual-abuse-pregnant-women-children-immigration-centers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Senator John Osssof’s office reported hundreds</a> of reported cases of human rights abuses in US immigration detention centers. <a href="https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/250721_Pregnancy_Report_v7.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Here is the report.</a> The alleged reports include: deaths in custody, physical and sexual abuse of detainees, mistreatment of pregnant women and children, inadequate medical care, overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions, inadequate food and water, exposure to extreme temperatures, denial of access to attorneys, and child separation. This is not who we are.</p><p>in news of the Epstein files, apparently, JD Vance is holding a meeting at his home with senior officials to strategize on how to handle the Epstein Scandal. At the top of their list is whether or not to release the transcripts of justice department representative (and former Trump personal attorney) Blanche’s recent interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell. After the interview, Maxwell, who is serving time for trafficing girls, was transferred to a lower security, a nicer prison. Outrageous. The justice department <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79l38vl3lwo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">subpoenaed a number of high profile people</a> to interview them for more information about Epstein, among them Bill and Hillary Clinton. While it is public knowledge that they knew Epstein, so did Trump. Yet Trump was not subpoenaed. This is a tactic to stall and to try to show Trump’s MAGA base that he is doing something about the scandal. Everything but releasing the files, which he can do, but won’t.</p><p>At least 60% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the Epstein case.</p><p>That’s all today for me. Hope you have a good Wednesday, what’s left of it. See you tomorrow, thank you so much for being here!</p><a class="" href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_%21NK86%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F570d63b5-5119-4f69-8d93-3959c08e5928_2033x1615.jpeg?ssl=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/trumps-autocrat-check-list?publication_id=595083&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=email-share&amp;triggerShare=true&amp;r=1gx2e" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump’s Autocrat Check List – by Liza Donnelly</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/trumps-autocrat-check-list" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/autocrat/" target="_blank">#Autocrat</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/checklist/" target="_blank">#Checklist</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/liza-donnelly/" target="_blank">#LizaDonnelly</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/seeing-things/" target="_blank">#SeeingThings</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/substack/" target="_blank">#Substack</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
beSpacific<p>1)The US <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> has just removed <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/deleted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deleted</span></a> sections 9 &amp; 10 of Article I of the US <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> from Congress.Gov run by <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/LibraryofCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryofCongress</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a> Office - both Sections 9 &amp; 10 deal with:<br>- Writ of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HabeasCorpus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HabeasCorpus</span></a><br>- <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Congresses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congresses</span></a> ability to control <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a>. <br><a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">constitution.congress.gov/cons</span><span class="invisible">titution/</span></a><br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courts</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> Public pressure on Library of Congress <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/LC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LC</span></a> resulted in return of the censored text of the constitution</p>
Third spruce tree on the left<p>The <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> (alright <a href="https://mas.to/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a>, but you know why and for who) has REDACTED sections (it doesn't agree with) of the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>constitution</span></a> of the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> from the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/libraryofcongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraryofcongress</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> website. </p><p>Why are you yanks not fucking marching in he streets? <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> wears a tan suit and you lose your shit, but this doesn't have you seething and demanding heads?</p><p>RE: <a href="https://mas.to/@tezoatlipoca/114982403631639789" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@tezoatlipoca/114982403</span><span class="invisible">631639789</span></a></p><p>EDIT: restored now, and "maybe" a mistake, but sheesh - bad optics.</p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away – The New York Times</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Opinion</a>, By Thomas L. Friedman</p><p><strong>The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away</strong></p><p>Aug. 4, 2025</p>Credit…Will Matsuda for The New York Times<p>Listen to this article · 7:12 min <a href="https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/24318293692180" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Learn more</a></p><p>By <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/thomas-l-friedman" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Thomas L. Friedman</a>, Opinion Columnist</p><p>Of all the terrible things Donald Trump has said and done as president, the most dangerous one just happened on Friday. Trump, in effect, ordered our trusted and independent government office of economic statistics to become as big a liar as he is.</p><p>He fired Erika McEntarfer, the Senate-confirmed head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for bringing him economic news he did not like, and in the hours immediately following, the second most dangerous thing happened: The senior Trump officials most responsible for running our economy — people who in their private businesses never would have contemplated firing a subordinate who brought them financial data they did not like — all went along for the ride.</p><p>What they should have said to Trump is this: “Mr. President, if you don’t reconsider this decision — if you fire the top labor bureau statistician because she brought you bad economic news — how will anyone in the future trust that office when it issues good news?” Instead, they immediately covered for him.</p><p>As The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-bureau-of-labor-denial-851be8c0?mod=opinion_lead_pos2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">pointed out</a>, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer had actually gone on Bloomberg TV early Friday and declared that even though the jobs report that had just been released was revised downward for May and June, “we’ve seen positive job growth.” But as soon as she got the news hours later that Trump had fired the very B.L.S. director who reports to her, she wrote on X: “I agree wholeheartedly with @POTUS that our jobs numbers must be fair, accurate, and never manipulated for political purposes.”</p><p>As The Journal asked: “So were the jobs data that were ‘positive’ in the morning rigged by the afternoon?” Of course not.</p><p>The moment I heard what Trump had done, I had a flashback. It was January 2021, and it had just been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reported</a> that Trump, after losing the 2020 election, had tried to pressure Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” him enough votes — exactly 11,780, Trump said — to overturn the presidential election and even threatened him with “a criminal offense” if he didn’t. The pressure came during an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/politics/trump-georgia-call-excerpts.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">hourlong telephone call</a>, according to an audio recording of the conversation.</p><p>The difference, though, is that back then there was something called a Republican official with integrity. And so Georgia’s secretary of state did not agree to fabricate votes that did not exist. But that species of Republican official seems to have gone completely extinct in Trump’s second term. So Trump’s rotten character is now a problem for our whole economy.</p><p>Going forward, how many government bureaucrats are going to dare to pass along bad news when they know that their bosses — people like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; the director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett; Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer; and the U.S. trade representative, Jamieson Greer — will not only fail to defend them but will actually offer them up as a sacrifice to Trump to keep their jobs?</p><p>Shame on each and every one of them — particularly on Bessent, a former hedge fund manager, who knows better and did not step in. What a coward. As Bessent’s predecessor, Janet Yellen, the former Treasury secretary and also the former chair of the Federal Reserve — and a person with actual integrity — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-bls-firing-economic-reports.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">told my Times colleague Ben Casselman</a> of the B.L.S. firing: “This is the kind of thing you would only expect to see in a banana republic.”</p><p>It is important to know how foreigners are looking at this. Bill Blain, a London-based bond trader who publishes a newsletter popular among market experts called <a href="https://morningporridge.com/blog/nations/usa/without-data-we-know-nothing-walk-away/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Blain’s Morning Porridge</a>, wrote on Monday: “Friday, Aug. 1 might go down in history as the day the U.S. Treasury market died. There was an art to reading U.S. data. It relied on trust. Now that is broken — if you can’t trust the data, what can you trust?”</p><p>He then went on to imagine how his Porridge newsletter will sound in May 2031. It will begin, he wrote, with “a link to a release from Trump’s Ministry of Economic Truth, formerly the U.S. Treasury: ‘Under the leadership of President Trump, the U.S. economy continues to grow at record speed. Payrolls data from the Ministry of Truth, a subsidiary of Truth Social, show full employment across America. Tensions in the inner cities have never been so low. All recent graduates have found highly paid jobs across America’s expanding manufacturing sector, causing many large companies in Trump Inc to report significant labor shortages.’”</p><p class="">If you think this is far-fetched, you clearly have not been following the foreign policy news, because this kind of tactic — the tailoring of information to fit Trump’s political needs — has already been deployed in the intelligence field.</p><p>In May the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/gabbard-fires-intel-officials-oversaw-memo-contradicting-white-house-c-rcna206918" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">fired two top intelligence officials</a> who oversaw an assessment that contradicted Trump’s assertions that the gang Tren de Aragua was operating under the direction of the Venezuelan regime. Their assessment undermined the dubious legal rationale Trump invoked — the rarely used 1798 Alien Enemies Act — to allow the suspected gang members to be thrown out of the country without due process.</p><p>And now this trend toward self-blinding is spreading to further corners of the government.</p><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p><p>Continue/Read Original Article: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opinion/columnists/friedman-trump-labor-firing.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opinion/columnists/friedman-trump-labor-firing.html</a></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/edited-truth/" target="_blank">#EditedTruth</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/federal-government/" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/lies/" target="_blank">#Lies</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/political-bias/" target="_blank">#PoliticalBias</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/the-new-york-times/" target="_blank">#TheNewYorkTimes</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-corrupts/" target="_blank">#TrumpCorrupts</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite – Futurism</strong></p><a href="https://futurism.com/white-house-orders-nasa-destroy-important-satellite" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Image by NASA / Futurism<p>The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.</p><p>As <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>NPR</em> reports</a>, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. They’ve been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.</p><p>One is attached to the International Space Station, and the other is collecting data as a stand-alone satellite. The latter would meet its permanent demise after burning up in the atmosphere if the mission were to be terminated.</p><p>We can only speculate as to why the Trump administration wants to end the missions. But considering president Donald Trump’s <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/donald-trump-fans-hospitalized-heat-rally" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">staunch climate change denial</a> and his administration’s efforts to deal the agency’s science directorate a <a href="https://futurism.com/trump-budget-nasa-horrifying" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">potentially existential blow</a>, it’s not difficult to speculate.</p><p>Worse yet, the two observatories had been expected to function for many more years, scientists working on them told <em>NPR</em>. A <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023-nasa-essr-fullreport-final.pdf?emrc=ad85a1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">2023 review</a> by NASA concluded that the data they’d been providing had been “of exceptionally high quality.”</p><p>The observatories provide detailed carbon dioxide measurements across various locations, allowing scientists to get a detailed glimpse of how human activity is affecting greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p>Former NASA employee David Crisp, who worked on the Orbiting Carbon Observatories’ instruments, told <em>NPR</em> that current staffers reached out to him.</p><p>“They were asking me very sharp questions,” he said. “The only thing that would have motivated those questions was [that] somebody told them to come up with a termination plan.”</p><p>Crisp said it “makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data,” pointing out it costs only $15 million per year to maintain both observatories, a tiny fraction of the agency’s $25.4 billion budget.</p><p>Other scientists who’ve used data from the missions have also been asked questions related to terminating the missions.</p><p>read Original Article: <a href="https://futurism.com/white-house-orders-nasa-destroy-important-satellite" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://futurism.com/white-house-orders-nasa-destroy-important-satellite</a></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/nasa/" target="_blank">#NASA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/satellites/" target="_blank">#Satellites</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/white-house/" target="_blank">#WhiteHouse</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>DrWeb’s Domain – Deep Dive – Trump’s Circle Not Best, Not Brightest…</strong></p> <p></p> DrWeb’s Domain – Podcast Video…<p>Video and podcast made with Google NotebookLLM, Headliner, Spotify, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and human brain power. Remember this? </p><p><strong>The Best and the Brightest, by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/42850.David_Halberstam" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">David Halberstam</a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414062.The_Best_and_the_Brightest#CommunityReviews" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></strong></p><p><em>The Best and the Brightest</em> is David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, <em>The Best and the Brightest</em> reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country’s recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam and why did it lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It’s an American classic. — Goodreads</p><p><strong>Above, the discussion team tackle Trump’s “team” (little “t”)… I am not surprised that as a whole, they are NOT the best NOR the brightest.. the loyalty test seems like a raised arm salute, to me.</strong></p><p>Editor’s Note: NotebookLLM doesn’t provide a good solution to saving or copying the content of a notebook. Instead it offers you the choice to allow public access with a link. For the full Notebook of this deep research project, the link is:<br> <a href="https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/fc0eeb1c-cebb-49a9-94c5-daf92e798908" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/fc0eeb1c-cebb-49a9-94c5-daf92e798908</a></p><p>Unfortunately, this is not a true “public” link. You will still need to login with some Google account (their requirement and yes, it’s dumb to offer “public” when it’s not) to view the notebook. A shame but that’s monster entity choice.</p><p>At the link and notebook, you can view my sources, notes, discussion, and more. I hope this is helpful to understanding Trump’s “people.” Below is a mind map from the research, showing the relationships…</p><p>Continue Reading/Listening: <a href="http://drwebdomain.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DrWeb’s Domain | all things library and life.. from a librarian</a></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/books/" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/drwebs-domain/" target="_blank">#DrWebSDomain</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/dwd/" target="_blank">#DWD</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/headliner/" target="_blank">#Headliner</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/musk/" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/notebookllm/" target="_blank">#NotebookLLM</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/reading/" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trumps-cabinet/" target="_blank">#TrumpSCabinet</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trumps-inner-circle/" target="_blank">#TrumpSInnerCircle</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trumps-minons/" target="_blank">#TrumpSMinons</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Trump’s immigration crackdown has led to abandoned pets, crowded shelters – The Washington Post</strong></p><p><strong>Pets are being abandoned, surrendered amid Trump’s immigration crackdown</strong></p><p><strong><em>The heightened need is colliding with a shelter system already stretched thin by post-pandemic overcrowding, chronic staffing shortages and plummeting adoptions.</em></strong></p><p>By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/maria-luisa-paul/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">María Luisa Paúl</a>, Yesterday at 7:00 a.m. EDT, 6 min</p>Daymi Blain, founder of Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission in Miami, on Friday pets two of the dogs she rescued. (Bryan Cereijo / For The Washington Post)<p><strong><em>Daymi Blain dreads the sound of her phone.</em></strong></p><p>It rings at all hours now — and every time, she braces for the voice on the other end. A person calling because their relative was taken in an immigration raid, leaving several cats behind. A neighbor reporting dogs wandering the street after their family vanished overnight. A trembling voice begging her to take in a pet because its owner is leaving the country and can’t bring it.</p><p>“This is all we’re getting now: pets with deported and detained owners. Nobody calls for anything else,” said Blain, who runs the South Florida-based Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission. “I don’t know what’s going to happen with all this, but I can tell you that the animals are the ones paying the price.”</p><p>From California to Tennessee, the effects of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown have reached a place most wouldn’t think to look: the kennels of overcrowded animal shelters.</p><p>Animal welfare groups across the country say they’re fielding a surge of calls about pets left behind when their owners are detained or deported, or self-deport in fear. That heightened need is colliding with a shelter system already stretched thin by post-pandemic overcrowding, chronic staffing shortages and plummeting adoptions — leading to longer stays for animals, difficult choices about space and growing fears that more pets could be euthanized simply because there’s nowhere for them to go.</p><p class=""><strong><em>Editor’s Note: So sad, and the reality of homeless people, and these ICE kidnappings without cause, and their pets. They are love, loved, and sometimes all these people have in the world. </em></strong></p><blockquote><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p></blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/01/pets-abandoned-trump-immigration-ice/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump’s immigration crackdown has led to abandoned pets, crowded shelters – The Washington Post</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/01/pets-abandoned-trump-immigration-ice/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/books/" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/cats/" target="_blank">#cats</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/dogs/" target="_blank">#Dogs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/ice-prisoner-pets/" target="_blank">#ICEPrisonerPets</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/pets/" target="_blank">#Pets</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/the-washington-post/" target="_blank">#TheWashingtonPost</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>The Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following funding cuts – The Washington Post</strong></p>NPR headquarters in Washington. (Tom Brenner / For The Washington Post)<p><strong>The Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following funding cuts</strong></p><p><strong>Trump’s successful campaign to strip federal money to NPR and PBS effectively ended the public media middleman.</strong></p><p>August 1, 2025 at 1:32 p.m. EDT, Yesterday at 1:32 p.m. EDT, 2 min</p><p>By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/scott-nover/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Scott Nover</a></p><p>The Corporation for Public Broadcasting <a href="https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">said it will close </a>following Congress’s decision to strip its current funding and foreclose on future appropriations.</p><p>CPB, established by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, is a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/15/trump-sues-corporation-public-broadcasting-oust-board-members/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">nonprofit</a> set up to dole out <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/25/npr-pbs-funding-philanthropy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">congressionally appropriated funds</a> to NPR, PBS, and public radio and TV stations around the United States. President Donald Trump launched a successful campaign to claw back the $1.1 billion allocated for the organization for the next two years, a measure he signed into law last month.</p><p>At the heart of the campaign was a critique that public media produce news that is biased and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/19/pbs-npr-cpb-cuts-rural/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">too liberal</a> and should not be funded by taxpayer dollars. That argument, long held among many conservatives, finally prevailed thanks to unified Republican government during Trump’s second term.</p><p>“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said in a statement. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”</p><p>CPB not only served as a funding middleman between Congress and public media stations but also negotiated <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2025/07/15/corporation-public-broadcasting-npr-funding-legislation/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">music rights</a> and procured technical infrastructure on behalf of the stations. That leaves an open question as to what entity, if any, will fill that gap.</p><p>The closure was announced one day after the Senate Appropriations Committee released a bill that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/31/trump-presidency-news/#link-SPR36ZHF25BFFBFZFYVBXROLOM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">would zero out</a> funding for CPB.</p><p>In a press release, CPB said it told its employees that most positions would be cut on Sept. 30, the final day of the fiscal year, and a small team will stay on to shut down the agency through January, in part because the music licenses they have negotiated expire at the end of December.</p><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/01/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shutdown/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/01/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shutdown/</a></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/01/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shutdown/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/corporation-for-public-broadcasting/" target="_blank">#CorporationForPublicBroadcasting</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/cpb/" target="_blank">#CPB</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/national-public-radio/" target="_blank">#NationalPublicRadio</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/npr/" target="_blank">#NPR</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/reading/" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/television/" target="_blank">#Television</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/the-washington-post/" target="_blank">#TheWashingtonPost</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston – Space</strong></p><a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/the-smithsonian-institution-owns-the-discovery-museum-resists-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-plan-to-move-space-shuttle-to-houston" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Thirty years after its first launch, the space shuttle Discovery is now the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution / Dane Penland)<p><strong>‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston</strong></p><p>By <a href="https://www.space.com/author/josh-dinner" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Josh Dinner</a>, published July 30, 2025</p><p>“This is not a transfer — it’s a heist.”</p><p><a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/the-smithsonian-institution-owns-the-discovery-museum-resists-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-plan-to-move-space-shuttle-to-houston#viafoura-comments" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/the-smithsonian-institution-owns-the-discovery-museum-resists-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-plan-to-move-space-shuttle-to-houston#viafoura-comments" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> Comments (81)</a></p><p>Thirty years after its first launch, the space shuttle Discovery is now the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution/Dane Penland)</p><p>A provision in President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” orders the Air and Space Museum to transfer ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery back to NASA for relocation near the space center in Houston. However, the Smithsonian Institution is not backing down on its stance that Congress has no legal authority to mandate Discovery’s removal, and they’re bringing the receipts.</p><p>It all started with the “Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act.” <a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/space-shuttle/texas-senators-move-space-shuttle-discovery-from-smithsonian-to-houston" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Introduced</a> by Texas Senators John Cornyn (R) and Ted Cruz (R) in April, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/s1403/BILLS-119s1403is.xml" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">this act</a> was an attempt to force the transfer of Space Shuttle Discovery from the <a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/smithsonian-national-air-and-space-museum-reopens-5-renovated-galleries-starring-spacex-rocket-parts-a-3d-printed-mars-habitat-and-more" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Smithsonian</a>‘s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center just outside Washington D.C. to NASA’s <a href="https://www.space.com/17216-nasa-johnson-space-center.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Johnson Space Center</a> in Houston. The act stalled in committee and would have been dead in the water, but was rebranded and folded into the more than 1,100 pages of President Trump’s “<a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-pushes-for-crewed-moon-missions-but-proposed-budget-cuts-leave-nasa-science-behind" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Big Beautiful Bill</a>” in an attempt to force the issue.</p><p>While the language of the legislation was altered to comply with Senate reconciliation rules, such as refraining to name Discovery directly, the goal remained the same. The new wording instead refers to the transfer of a “space vehicle” — to be specified by the <a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/trump-names-transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-as-interim-nasa-administrator" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">NASA Administrator</a> within one month of the bill’s signing — to a NASA facility “involved in the administration of the Commercial Crew Program” by January 2027. The Smithsonian has rejected the attempt outright, saying it has the paperwork to prove the Institution’s ownership of Discovery and that it’s critical the space shuttle remains in its care.</p><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p><blockquote></blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/the-smithsonian-institution-owns-the-discovery-museum-resists-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-plan-to-move-space-shuttle-to-houston" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston | Space</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/the-smithsonian-institution-owns-the-discovery-museum-resists-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-plan-to-move-space-shuttle-to-houston" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/discovery/" target="_blank">#Discovery</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/nasa/" target="_blank">#NASA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/space-shuttle/" target="_blank">#SpaceShuttle</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/space-com/" target="_blank">#SpaceCom</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.</strong></p><p><a href="https://slate.com/life/2025/07/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ad-jeans-controversy-eugenics-soap.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A Fascinating Enigma </a><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/jurisprudence" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Jurisprudence</a></p><p><strong>Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.</strong></p><p>By <a href="https://slate.com/author/mark-joseph-stern" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Mark Joseph Stern</a>, July 30, 20254:07 PM</p>What penalty will Trump impose on these infants? Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images and Taws13 / iStock / Getty Images Plus.<p><em><a href="https://slate.com/theslatest?utm_source=slate&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=article_plain_text_topper" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sign up for the Slatest</a> to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily.</em></p><p>Ever since Donald Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">vowed</a> to end birthright citizenship for the children of many immigrants, one question has loomed: How could the executive branch possibly implement such a sweeping rollback of constitutional rights? The United States has granted birthright citizenship <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-supreme-court.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">to virtually all children</a> born on its soil since 1868, when the 14th Amendment enshrined that guarantee into law. What would it look like for the government to abruptly change course, adopting a radically different system of citizenship through presidential decree? How could the Trump administration identify the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-may-rule-allowing-enforcement-trump-birthright-citizenship-2025-06-27/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">roughly 150,000 babies</a> born each year who would no longer receive their fundamental right of citizenship? What penalty would it impose on these infants, some of whom would be rendered <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/116328/trump-casa-statelessness/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">literally stateless</a>?</p><p>For months, federal courts blocked the Trump administration from developing any such plans, finding the executive order unconstitutional from top to bottom. In June, however, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">expressly permitted</a> the government to begin “developing and issuing public guidance about the executive’s plans to implement” Trump’s order. Acting on that decision, an immigration agency released the first stage of its “implementation plan” last Friday. It shocks the conscience. In dry bureaucratic language, the <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-alerts/IP-2025-0001-USCIS_Implementation_Plan_of_Executive_Order_14160%20%E2%80%93%20Protecting_the_Meaning_and_Value_of_American_Citizenship.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">memo</a> outlines a plan to revoke citizenship from the children of both immigrants who lack permanent legal status <em>and</em> many lawful residents, including visa holders, Dreamers, and asylum-seekers.</p><p>Read online: <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/trump-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ice-maternity-ward.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/trump-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ice-maternity-ward.html</a> – some behind paywall</p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/birthright-citizenship/" target="_blank">#BirthrightCitizenship</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/citizenship/" target="_blank">#Citizenship</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/rule-of-law/" target="_blank">#RuleOfLaw</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/slate/" target="_blank">#Slate</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>The 225-Year-Old Library Of Congress Remains A ‘Library For All’ — So Far – Honolulu Civil Beat</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/07/the-225-year-old-library-of-congress-remains-a-library-for-all-so-far/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/07/the-225-year-old-library-of-congress-remains-a-library-for-all-so-far/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p><blockquote> <a href="https://www.civilbeat.org/category/beyond-hawaii/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> Beyond Hawaiʻi </a> <p><strong>The 225-Year-Old Library Of Congress Remains A ‘Library For All’ — So Far</strong></p> <p class="">Trump fired the head of the library in May saying she put inappropriate books in the library for children.</p> <span class="">By</span> <span class=""><span class=""><a href="https://www.civilbeat.org/author/alex-h-poole/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Alex H. Poole</a></span></span> <span class=""> / </span> About 20 hours ago </blockquote> <strong>Carla Hayden, the 14th librarian of Congress, who has held the position since 2016, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5393737/carla-hayden-fired-library-of-congress-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">received an unexpected email</a> on May 8, 2025.</strong> <blockquote> <p>“Carla, on behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” <a href="https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/librarian-of-congress-carla-hayden-fired" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wrote Trent Morse</a>, deputy director of presidential <a href="https://www.legistorm.com/person/bio/395602/Trent_M_Morse.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">personnel at the White House</a>.</p><p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later explained that Hayden, who was the <a href="https://www.fulcolibrary.org/blogs/post/library-of-congress-at-225-years/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">first woman, Black person and professionally trained librarian</a> to oversee the Library of Congress, had done “<a href="https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/librarian-of-congress-carla-hayden-fired" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">quite concerning things,</a>” on the job, including “putting inappropriate books in the library for children.”</p><p>Democratic <a href="https://democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-releases/leader-jeffries-statement-firing-librarian-congress-dr-carla-hayden" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">politicians sharply criticized</a> Hayden’s termination, saying the firing was unjust. It was actually about Trump punishing civil servants “who don’t bend to his every will,” New York Sen. <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/leader-schumer-statement-on-president-trump-firing-the-librarian-of-congress-dr-carla-hayden" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Chuck Schumer said</a>.</p><p>An information science scholar, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Fe9cMqwAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">I have written</a> extensively about the history of libraries and archives, including the Library of Congress. To fully understand the role Hayden played for the past nine years, I think it is important to understand what the Library of Congress does, and the overlooked and underappreciated role it has played in American life.</p>The main reading room is seen at the Library of Congress on June 13, 2025, in Washington. (<a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-main-reading-room-at-the-library-of-congress-is-seen-news-photo/2221003836?adppopup=true" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Kevin Carter / Getty Images </a>/via Thae Conversation)<p><strong>The Library Of Congress’ Work</strong></p><p>The <a href="https://www.loc.gov/about/history-of-the-library/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a> is an agency that was first established, by an act of Congress, in 1800. The act provided for “the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress at the said city of Washington, and for fitting up a suitable <a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/llsl//llsl-c6/llsl-c6.pdf#page=91" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">apartment for containing them</a>.” Its chief librarian is appointed by the president and <a href="https://www.loc.gov/about/frequently-asked-questions/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">confirmed by the Senate</a>.</p><p>The library has six buildings in Washington that hold a print and online collection of nearly 26 million books, as well as more than 136 million other items, including <a href="https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/manuscript/about-this-research-center/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">manuscripts</a>, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/geography-and-map/collections/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">maps</a>, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/notated-music/collections/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sheet music</a> and <a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">prints and photographs</a>.</p><p>It also houses historic documents, like <a href="https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/ruffdrft.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence</a> and <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/mjm023109/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">James Madison’s notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention</a>.</p><p>The library is the property of the American people. Anyone over the age of 16 with a government-issued photo identification can enter its buildings and read or view its materials on-site. The Library of Congress was partially <a href="https://www.loc.gov/about/frequently-asked-questions/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">designed as a research institution</a> to suit the needs of members of Congress, and only Congress members can borrow items from the library and take them home.</p> </blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/07/the-225-year-old-library-of-congress-remains-a-library-for-all-so-far/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The 225-Year-Old Library Of Congress Remains A ‘Library For All’ — So Far – Honolulu Civil Beat</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/books/" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/carla-hayden/" target="_blank">#CarlaHayden</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/censorship/" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/hawaii/" target="_blank">#Hawaii</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/honolulu-civil-beat/" target="_blank">#HonoluluCivilBeat</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/reading/" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Trump’s Epstein nightmare worsens amid new revelations and a GOP revolt | CNN Politics</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Politics</a>• 10 min read</p><p><strong>Trump’s Epstein nightmare worsens amid new revelations and a GOP revolt</strong></p><p>Analysis by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/stephen-collinson" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/stephen-collinson" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Stephen Collinson</a>, Updated 4 hr ago<a href="https://www.cnn.com/follow" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> </a></p>Sources: DOJ told Trump his name is among many in Epstein files. 1:59.<p>The Jeffrey Epstein morass surrounding President Donald Trump is deepening amid growing defiance by some Republicans and despite the administration’s most inflammatory attempt yet at distraction.</p><p>New reports Wednesday that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/bondi-trump-epstein-list-files" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May</a> that his name appeared in documents related to the case of Epstein, an accused sex trafficker, offered a plausible explanation for the president’s growing fury over the drama.</p><p>They will fuel accusations of a cover-up since the administration has refused to release the files.</p><p>And although there is no evidence that Trump was involved in any wrongdoing or that he knew of Epstein’s criminal activities when they ran in the same social circle decades ago, there is bound to be intense speculation about the nature of mentions about the president in the investigative files.</p><p>The storm is also intensifying in Congress.</p><p>A vote in the House Oversight Committee <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/house-epstein-files-subpoena" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">to subpoena the Department of Justice for files related to Epstein</a> worsened Trump’s political headache, since it revealed the appetite for more disclosure among some MAGA Republicans. The GOP-majority committee also voted to subpoena testimony from Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison term.</p><p>Trump <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/murkowski-trump-obama-epstein-fallout" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">responded to the ballooning crisis</a> with the oldest trick in his political book, pushing a conspiracy theory <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/obama-trump-rage-epstein-furor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">against Barack Obama</a> — a decade and a half after his false claims about the 44th president’s birthplace electrified his coalition and political career. He enlisted the top US intelligence official, Tulsi Gabbard, who misleadingly claimed<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/gabbard-russia-documents" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> in a theatrical White House appearance </a>that Obama’s handling of Russian election meddling in 2016 amounted to a coup to destroy Trump’s first presidency, a day after her boss <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/trump-obama-treason-accusation-analysis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">accused his predecessor of treason</a>.</p><p>There is no evidence that Trump did anything wrong or illegal in his interactions with Epstein. But days of stalling by the White House and new disclosures drove speculation to a fever pitch over their relationship in the 1990s and early 2000s, long before the wealthy financier was charged with sex trafficking and abuse and died in prison in 2019.</p><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p><blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/politics/trumps-epstein-nightmare-worsens-amid-new-revelations-and-a-gop-revolt" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump’s Epstein nightmare worsens amid new revelations and a GOP revolt | CNN Politics</a></em></p></blockquote> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/cnn/" target="_blank">#CNN</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/cnn-politics/" target="_blank">#CNNPolitics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/epstein/" target="_blank">#Epstein</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/epstein-files/" target="_blank">#EpsteinFiles</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/photos/" target="_blank">#Photos</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-epstein-history/" target="_blank">#TrumpEpsteinHistory</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
Colleen Theisen<p>‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection<br><a href="https://glammr.us/tags/LibraryOfCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryOfCongress</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/SpecialCollections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpecialCollections</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/StephenSondheim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StephenSondheim</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jul/22/a-privilege-and-a-great-pleasure-inside-the-5000-item-stephen-sondheim-collection" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/stage/2025/jul</span><span class="invisible">/22/a-privilege-and-a-great-pleasure-inside-the-5000-item-stephen-sondheim-collection</span></a></p>
Dan Carkner🎻<p>my latest blog post, which is quite niche but is a process I wish I had known about earlier in researching American folk music (in my case, obviously <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/klezmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>klezmer</span></a>, but the same process could be used for a lot of genres). hope it helps someone in their research at some point. I used Ukrainian-American fiddler Pawlo Humeniuk as an example because he rules.<br><a href="https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/07/22/how-to-order-old-ukrainian-music-scores-or-other-heritage-folk-music-from-the-u-s-library-of-congress/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alte.klezmor.im/2025/07/22/how</span><span class="invisible">-to-order-old-ukrainian-music-scores-or-other-heritage-folk-music-from-the-u-s-library-of-congress/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusicHistory</span></a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/LibraryOfCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryOfCongress</span></a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusicResearch</span></a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/UkrainianMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UkrainianMusic</span></a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/LOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LOC</span></a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicArchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusicArchives</span></a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Nearly everyone opposes Trump’s plan to kill space traffic control program – Ars Technica</strong></p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/nearly-everyone-opposes-trumps-plan-to-kill-space-traffic-control-program/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=user/ArsTechnica" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Members of the 18th Space Defense Combat Squadron observe orbital data at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on October 4, 2024. Credit: <a href="https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8749181/18th-sds-operators-work" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">US Space Force / David Dozoretz</a><a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/nearly-everyone-opposes-trumps-plan-to-kill-space-traffic-control-program/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=user/ArsTechnica" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Astrophotography showcasing the Ground-based Electrical Optical Deep Space Surveillance facility, or GEODSS, operated by the 15th Space Surveillance Squadron, Detachment 1, at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, captured August 25, 2022. Credit: Kaitlin Castillo / US Space Force<blockquote><p><strong>The Trump administration’s plan to gut the Office of Space Commerce and cancel the government’s first civilian-run space traffic control program is gaining plenty of detractors.</strong></p><p>Earlier this week, seven space industry trade groups representing more than 450 companies sent letters to House and Senate leaders urging them to counter the White House’s proposal. A spokesperson for the military’s Space Operations Command, which currently has overall responsibility for space traffic management, said it will “continue to advocate” for a civilian organization to take over the Space Force’s role as orbital traffic cop.</p><p><strong>Giveth and taketh away</strong></p><p>The White House’s budget request submitted to Congress for fiscal year 2026 would slash the Office of Space Commerce’s budget from $65 million to $10 million and eliminate funding for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS). The TraCSS program was established in the Department of Commerce after <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/as-space-gets-more-crowded-us-seeks-to-ensure-a-safe-environment/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump signed a policy directive in his first term</a> as president to reform how the government supervises the movements of satellites and space debris in orbit.</p><p>The Office of Space Commerce, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been around since the 1980s as a licensing agency for remote sensing and Earth observation satellites.</p><p>TraCSS is designed as a cloud-based system to serve as a nerve center for collecting satellite tracking data from spacecraft owners and a network of government and commercial telescopes and radars. The space traffic control network then uses the information to provide alerts of potential in-space collisions to satellite operators. This is becoming more important as thousands more satellites head to space each year.</p><p>Industry trade groups are lobbying Congress to reverse the Trump administration’s proposal and restore the Office of Space Commerce’s (OSC’s) budget to this year’s level of $65 million.</p><p>“One of OSC’s most important functions is to provide space traffic coordination support to US satellite operators, similar to the Federal Aviation Administration’s role in air traffic control for the US airline industry,” seven trade groups wrote in joint letters to Congress.</p><p>The trade organizations count the largest Western commercial satellite operators among their members: SpaceX, Amazon, Eutelsat OneWeb, Planet Labs, Iridium, SES, Intelsat, and Spire. These are the companies with the most at stake in the debate over the future of space traffic coordination. Industry sources told Ars that some companies are concerned a catastrophic collision in low-Earth orbit might trigger a wave of burdensome regulations, an outcome they would like to avoid.</p><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p></blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/nearly-everyone-opposes-trumps-plan-to-kill-space-traffic-control-program/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Nearly everyone opposes Trump’s plan to kill space traffic control program – Ars Technica</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/ars-technica/" target="_blank">#ArsTechnica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/nasa/" target="_blank">#NASA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/office-of-space-commerce/" target="_blank">#OfficeOfSpaceCommerce</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/space/" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>DOJ ends probe into T-Mobile’s $4.4 billion merger 2 days after the company committed to end DEI policies – Business Insider</strong></p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/justice-department-closes-t-mobile-probe-uscellular-dei-policies-2025-7" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p>DOJ ends probe into T-Mobile’s $4.4 billion merger 2 days after the company committed to end DEI policies – Business Insider</p><blockquote><p>T-Mobile said in a July 8 letter to the FCC that it would end its DEI-related policies “not just in name, but in substance.”</p><p><em>Editor’s Note: Shame, hate, fear –just like with Hitler– Trump’s racism attacking diversity, equity, inclusion in corporations, universities, our very lives.</em></p></blockquote><p>Source Links: <em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/justice-department-closes-t-mobile-probe-uscellular-dei-policies-2025-7" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DOJ ends probe into T-Mobile’s $4.4 billion merger 2 days after the company committed to end DEI policies</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/business-insider/" target="_blank">#BusinessInsider</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/dei/" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/diversity/" target="_blank">#diversity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/equity/" target="_blank">#Equity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/inclusion/" target="_blank">#Inclusion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/justice-department/" target="_blank">#JusticeDepartment</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>