Donald Trump is deploying at least 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles—against the wishes of the city’s mayor, Karen Bass, and California’s governor, Gavin Newsom. Newsom accurately called what Trump has done “a serious breach of state sovereignty.”
Please join Public Citizen and the 23 Democratic governors (and me!) in condemning the flagrantly authoritarian actions the Trump regime is currently taking in Los Angeles.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is asking Texas residents for input on a new rule change that environmental advocates say would use money paid by motorists to offset pollution caused by industry.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Galveston #Houston #Local #News #Texas #Transportation #AirPollution #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #KERANews #Ozone #PublicCitizen #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality
Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi: Do your job! Reinstate Department of Justice investigations and oversight of police departments with records of racism, brutality, and corruption. Uphold the nation’s civil rights laws. Launch investigations and prosecutions to address the outlandish and embarrassing corporate crime wave that is getting even worse under your watch.
The Trump regime is threatening a sitting member of Congress with prosecution for the “crime” of exercising her legal duties and opposing Trump’s unlawful deportations. Each and every one of you should assert your legal authority and highlight the absurdity of the threat to one of your colleagues by visiting federal detention facilities all across America during next week’s congressional recess.
Public Citizen urges investigations into crypto corruption & its growing influence on politics. #CryptoCorruption #PublicCitizen #Crypto
https://www.citizen.org/news/public-citizen-renews-call-for-investigations-into-crypto-corruption/
There is no good reason to eliminate federal funding for NPR and PBS, and Donald Trump has no authority to unilaterally do so.
Please join me in calling on every member of Congress to do everything in their power to assert Congress's rightful control over federal funding for public broadcasting and to save NPR and PBS from the illegal MAGA buzzsaw.
Tell Congress: With Donald Trump back in the White House and Republicans controlling Congress, they've taken aim at more than a dozen important regulations. The only reason to think “regulations” is a bad word is if you are under the thumb of Big Business. The reality is that regulations protect people from corporate greed and wrongdoing. Do not use the Congressional Review Act to overturn commonsense safeguards that protect Americans.
https://www.fogolf.com/949077/term-limited-trump-hosts-1m-per-plate-campaign-fundraiser/ Term-limited Trump hosts $1M-per-plate campaign fundraiser #AOC #Bondi #Branch #campaigns #CampaignsU0026Elections #Citizen #Democratic #DemocraticParty #Donald #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpGolf #DonaldTrumpGolfing #Elections #executive #ExecutiveBranch #Kelly #Laura #LauraKelly #Negative #overall #OverallNegative #pam #PamBondi #Party #Politics #Public #PublicCitizen #trump #TrumpGolf #TrumpGolfing #u0026
#Resistance #Indivisible #WomensMarch #MoveOn #WorkingFamiliesPower #PublicCitizen #50501
From USAToday: 'There's a movement bubbling up': Anti-Trump protests planned nationwide Saturday
"In what may have been a first, #Trump pardoned a #corporation. The company to earn that distinction was a #cryptocurrency exchange sentenced to a $100 million fine for violating an anti-money laundering law."
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/02/trump-pardons-corporation-bitmex-crypto/
Comment by @rickclaypool of #PublicCitizen: "Putting corporate pardons on the table strengthens Trump’s corrupt and authoritarian power over corporations. This has the potential to trigger a lobbying frenzy for any corporation that has faced federal enforcement.”
Is Elon Musk exploiting his influence? With stakes in various companies and dual roles as a policy advisor to Trump, scrutiny intensifies. As Musk's Department of Government Efficiency eyes federal budget cuts, regulatory oversight falters, potentially benefitting his enterprises like Tesla and SpaceX. Questions arise: Are we witnessing a dangerous conflict of interest? Click to explore the implications in depth. [Source](https://www.thedailybeast.com/musks-doge-axe-hobbles-fed-agencies-probing-his-companies/) #ElonMusk #Trump #Government #Regulations #PublicCitizen
The Chris Hedges Report: Media-Led Autocracy
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/11/the-chris-hedges-report-media-led-autocracy/
Ralph Nader says that when you shut out the civic community, you shut down democracy. He places responsibility for that happening, first and foremost, on the mass media. By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report This interview is also available…
#Politics #Censorship #Commentary #Labor #Media #Protests #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.Congress #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AbeRosenthal #BallotAccess #CenterForAutoSafety #ChrisHedgesReport #CommonCause #CommunistParty #DanaMilbank #Gm #LewisPowellMemo #OccupationalSafetyAndHealthAdministration(osha) #PensionRightsCenter #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentJimmyCarter #PublicCitizen #RalphNader #SocialSecurity #TheNewYorkTimes #TheWashingtonPost #ThirdParties #TonyCoelho #U.s.EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #VicePresidentKamalaHarris
If Social Security misses payments even once, millions upon millions of Americans—who have already paid into the system—will suffer. Not just Democrats. Not just the “coastal elites.” Congress must work together to prevent the so-called Department of Government Efficiency from interrupting Social Security payments and to undo whatever damage DOGE has already done at the Social Security Administration.
Public Citizen's statement: https://www.citizen.org/news/trump-eo-illegally-limits-independent-agencies-power/
#PublicCitizen
Trump taps #OilIndustry insider to oversee drilling on #PublicLands
#BureauOfLandManagement nominee #KathleenSgamma heads a #FossilFuel industry trade group that sued the Biden administration over a landmark #conservation rule.
By Maxine Joselow
"President Donald #Trump has nominated oil and gas advocate #KathleenSgamma to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, the agency tasked with managing millions of acres of public lands and waters for the benefit of all Americans.
"The nomination of Sgamma, who heads a Denver-based oil and gas industry trade group called the #WesternEnergyAlliance, heralds a seismic shift in the management of roughly 245 million acres of public property — about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass.
"If confirmed by the Senate, she would be a key architect of Trump’s #DrillBabyDrill agenda alongside Interior Secretary and '#EnergyCzar' #DougBurgum. An MIT graduate who previously worked in consulting, she has advocated for the BLM to prioritize oil and gas drilling, #HardrockMining and #livestock grazing on public lands nationwide.
"A spokesman for Sgamma did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"During his first term, Trump tapped conservative lawyer William Perry Pendley to lead the BLM on an acting basis. But Trump never nominated Pendley, a vocal advocate of selling off public lands, to helm the agency on a permanent basis, prompting a rebuke from a federal judge.
"President Joe Biden in 2021 chose Tracy Stone-Manning, a prominent Montana-based #environmentalist, to lead the BLM. Earlier in her career, Stone-Manning worked on conservation policy at the #NationalWildlifeFederation and led Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality.
"Under Biden, the BLM finalized a landmark rule that sought to put conservation, #recreation and #RenewableEnergy development on equal footing with #ResourceExtraction on public lands. Sgamma’s Western Energy Alliance filed a lawsuit challenging that rule, which the Trump administration is expected to overturn.
"In an interview with The Washington Post in April, Sgamma criticized the regulation for allowing ranchers, renewable-energy developers and other interests to lease federal lands for the purpose of #conservation and #HabitatRestoration.
"We have no choice but to litigate,' she said. 'These conservation leases seem to be designed to preclude energy development on federal lands.'
#Environmentalists criticized #Sgamma’s nomination.
"'This choice shows that the new administration will leave no favor ungranted for the oil and gas industry and the wealthy #FossilFuel #executives who funded Trump’s campaign,' #AlanZibel, oil and gas research director with the liberal advocacy group #PublicCitizen, said in an email.
"#JeffEshelman, president and #CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, which represents small oil producers, praised Sgamma’s selection while critiquing the Biden administration."
Original article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/12/trump-bureau-land-management-kathleen-sgamma/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/tmTH6#selection-645.0-724.1
#USPol #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #BigOilAndGas #BigOilKnew #KillCapitalism #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #CorporateColonialism #Corporatocracy #BigOilCriminals #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateCrisis
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #NoMiningOnConservationLands #DrainTheSwamp? More like, #OilUpTheSwamp!#IndepdendentPetroleumAssociationOfAmerica
So far what I have found to do to help win is 👇🏽
—Donated to #PublicCitizen to help pay the legal bills of parties suing to stop trump illegal orders.
—Will support the two boycotts I know about #SHUTDOWN315 and before that the #EconomicBoycott on 2/28.
—I SHOULD (but haven’t as yet) called the politicians who represent me. I’m frankly stunned that they’ve so readily ceded all their power.
@GottaLaff @Bookworm33333@
#TFG #TFGElon #DuckFoge #PublicCitizen #LawSuits #PersonalInformation #DeptOfEducation
Here are the basics:
In order to apply for and participate in federal financial aid programs, students must submit sensitive personal information to the Department of Education and authorize the Department to access their tax records.
The Department of Education retains this information for millions of current and former students and their family members.
Under the federal Privacy Act, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Department of Education’s own regulations, access to these records is strictly controlled, and these records may be used only for specified purposes.
Yet Elon Musk’s “DOGE” squad got access to the computer systems that house this data.
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#TFG #Patel #ForeignAgent #FBIDirector #PublicCitizen
"In a recent Senate hearing on how he could possibly be fit to run the nation’s top law enforcement agency, Patel claimed not to be familiar with a far-right podcaster who promotes antisemitism and white supremacism — even though he has been on the man’s podcast eight times.
But hold on, we’re just getting started:
Last week, we found out that Patel has served as a paid agent of the nation of Qatar and failed to identify himself as such under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
He also took $25,000 from a Russia-linked firm to appear in anti-FBI propaganda.
And he admits he owns up to $5 million worth of stock in a gigantic and controversial Chinese company — which he says he will refuse to give up even if he becomes FBI director.
Look, whenever we talk about the FBI, we must acknowledge that as an institution it has a long history of discrimination, corruption, and brutality."
Breaking: Federal Judge Pauses Parts of USAID Shutdown in Response to Lawsuit | Public Citizen
"[On Friday,] the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia stated it will issue a temporary restraining order regarding various aspects of the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to shutter the operations of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)."
#USAID #PublicCitizen
https://www.citizen.org/news/breaking-federal-judge-pauses-parts-of-usaid-shutdown-in-response-to-lawsuit/
