Trump regime

NY Times -  The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country.The move puts the future of the report, which is required by Congress and is known as the National Climate Assessment, into serious jeopardy, experts said.

Since 2000, the federal government has published a comprehensive look every few years at how rising temperatures will affect human health, agriculture, fisheries, water supplies, transportation, energy production and other aspects of the U.S. economy. The last climate assessment came out in 2023 and is used by state and local governments as well as private companies to help prepare for the effects of heat waves, floods, droughts and other climate-related calamities.

 Washington Times -  The University of Pennsylvania must erase transgender swimmer Lia Thomas from its women’s record books or risk federal charges under a resolution agreement proposed Monday by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

The office drew up the agreement after finding that the university violated Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination in education, by “permitting males to compete in women’s intercollegiate athletics and to occupy women-only intimate facilities.”  The university has 10 days to “voluntarily resolve these violations or risk a referral to the U.S. Justice Department for enforcement proceedings,” the office said.

 Robert Reich  -  Trump’s DOJ has revoked funding for nearly 400 nonprofits, including organizations that: -Advocate for non-English speaking crime victims -Support victims of child abuse, hate crimes, and human trafficking  -Work to reduce school shootings

Joyce Vance - Last week, I wrote to you about Losing the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. At that time, media reports confirmed that about a dozen top people had been reassigned to jobs so far beneath their level of experience and specific expertise that it was tantamount to firing them. The dozen included the senior career official in the Voting Rights Section. I wrote that many Civil Rights Division employees were preparing to leave the Justice Department.

The new head of the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, was on the Glenn Beck podcast over the weekend. That, in and of itself, is enough to raise the hairs on the back of the neck of anyone who understands the Justice Department’s non-political mission. Dhillion said in the interview that as many as 100 lawyers in the division have left the department since she began redefining how civil rights laws will be enforced during her tenure, which is more like, they won’t be enforced unless you’re white, Christian, or anti-abortion.

 Scott MacFarlane - Despite Trump's promised cuts, U.S. spent about $220 billion more in first 100 days than last year