1. Pardons and commutations for every single criminal convicted on January 6th charges, over 1500 people.
Trump Grants Sweeping Clemency to All Jan. 6 Rioters
The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.
2. Executive orders undoing President Biden’s executive orders rescinding racial equity, voting access, census and apportionment, protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community, AI (from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)
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Trump's executive orders against DEI explained
Trump’s Executive Orders on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Explained ›
In his first week in office, President Trump issued a series of executive orders (EOs) targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the public and private sectors. These executive orders are designed to chill and prohibit lawful efforts to advance equal opportunity. They attempt to do so by spreading disinformation and distorting federal laws to advance an agenda based on division and hate.
What do the EOs do?
Among other things, the EOs direct the Trump administration agencies and staff to:
- Terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, positions, and programs in the federal government.
- Terminate equity-related grants and contracts.
- Repeal prior executive orders designed to ensure equal opportunity in the workplace, including a decades-old executive order from the Johnson Administration that required contractors receiving federal funds to take active steps to prevent discrimination and address barriers to employment opportunities.
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3. Executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Thursday blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump that would end birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally, becoming the fourth judge to do so.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin came three days after U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante in New Hampshire blocked the executive order and follows similar rulings in Seattle and Maryland.
4. Changing federal employees so that they become schedule F and can be fired for partisan and other reasons leading to the dismissal of experienced nonpartisan experts and their replacement with unqualified or disqualified loyalists
What switching federal employees to Schedule F means
“Donald Trump’s executive order reverses course on 140 years of civil service reform meant to ensure federal employees have the required skills and expertise to best serve the American people and protect the civil service from dangerous nepotism and cronyism,” said CREW President Noah Bookbinder. “With one of his first acts in office, Donald Trump put the country on a path toward getting rid of merit-based hiring and staffing crucial government functions with unqualified loyalists.”
Trump’s order, nearly identical to his previous Schedule F executive order in 2020, would lay the groundwork to convert a huge percentage of the federal civil service from employees who can only be fired for cause to at-will employees who can be fired for any reason at all. Thousands of employees—including those who protect our public health, the environment and our food and water—who were hired for their expertise and serve in non-partisan positions could be stripped of vested job protections in one fell swoop, in violation of their due process rights and in excess of the president’s constitutional authority.
5. DOGE gaining access to sensitive information gaining access to sensitive information of taxpayers violating The Privacy Act of 1974. www.npr.org/…
government watchdog is to launch an inquiry into security over the US treasury’s payments system as a judge on Friday considered whether access by Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to the highly sensitive data base was unconstitutional.
Amid mounting court cases concerning Doge’s activities, the treasury department’s inspector general said it would launch an audit after Democrats complained about the access gained to a 25-year-old Musk associate, Marko Elez, who was briefly granted edit access within the system, meaning he had the potential to change entries. The access was later rescinded by an interim court ruling.
6. Fired inspector generals — Inspectors general are there to prevent abuse of power and curb fraud. There are nonpartisan and they are there for a reason. If President Musk really wanted to reduce waste, he would not have dismissed them without cause.
The suit says the firings are "contrary to the rule of law," including protections for inspectors general that Congress strengthened in 2022. That law requires a 30-day notification window between the White House's informing Congress of its intention to fire an inspector general and the inspector general's being removed from on-duty status. The White House must also provide substantive reasons for why the inspector general is being removed.
“The purported firings violated unambiguous federal statutes — each enacted by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed into law by the President — to protect Inspectors General from precisely this sort of interference with the discharge of their critical, non-partisan oversight duties,” their filing says.
7. Nominates Patel, RFK jr, Pam Bondi, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth
8. Creating DOGE and putting it in a cabinet
Is the creation of DOGE and placing it in an executive branch cabinet legal?
For starters, a president can’t just create a new federal agency via executive order — that can only happen through an act of Congress. Then what is DOGE? In essence, what Trump did is rename the United States Digital Service — created within the Executive Office of the President under Barack Obama to improve all the federal and executive websites — into DOGE and retooled its mission to hunt down fraud and waste within federal agencies.
The short answer is: We don’t know yet. The method of creating DOGE via executive order — and its authority — is the subject of a trio of lawsuits filed Jan. 20, the day Trump returned to the White House.
The three lawsuits — one filed by the progressive consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen, another by the pro-democracy organization Democracy Forward and a third by public-interest firm National Security Counselors — allege that DOGE shouldn’t be considered a federal agency but rather an advisory committee. They argue that not setting up DOGE as an advisory committee violates the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 which, among other requirements, states that all meetings are public record and that its membership be “fairly balanced” in its points of view.
9. Ending the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Vought illegally defunded CFPB
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But Vought took this a step further. His midnight memo repeated Bessent’s pause on rulemaking, enforcement actions, settlements, public communications, and litigation, but added that the bureau must “cease all supervision and examination immediately” and “cease all stakeholder engagement.” He also changed Bessent’s directive to “not commence, take additional investigative activities related to, or settle enforcement actions,” by adding that the CFPB cannot “open any new investigation in any manner, and cease any pending investigations.”
All of these are bad, but the supervision restriction is particularly incendiary.
It should be said that none of what Vought did yesterday was legal, at least according to prominent critics. Adam Levitin, a law professor at Georgetown University who served on the CFPB’s Consumer Advisory Board from 2012 to 2015, explained that the statute creating the CFPB is pretty clear that the bureau “shall require reports and conduct examinations on a periodic basis” for at least the non-bank entities it covers. “Shall” has a very specific legislative meaning. Maybe you could temporarily pause the frequency of supervision, but you cannot stop it entirely. (Vought appears to have more wiggle room on supervision of large banks, where there isn’t the same requirement for examinations.)
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new leader has shuttered the agency's headquarters and told staffers to stay at home and refrain from doing any work.
It implements U.S. consumer finance laws and issues new rules for lenders and other financial institutions, such as one announced last year to wipe medical debt from credit reports. The CFPB also goes after companies it suspects of dishonest or illegal activity. "At its core, it's a law enforcement agency," Rohit Chopra, the former director of the CFPB appointed by President Biden, told NPR on Monday. "It takes big financial institutions to court who cheat consumers, whether it's a credit reporting agency or a large bank or a credit card giant."
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10. Corruption. Quid pro quo — Adams was indicted for crimes by a grand jury. Bove tried to use that to pressure Adams to end protection of undocumented people in the city by offering to not prosecute him if he would carry out the president’s agenda. SDNY attorneys refused to go along with this corruption and resigned rather than be part of it. It went back to DOJ and DOJ attorneys resigned rather than be part of this corrupt act. So far six attorneys within DOJ have resigned because they would not engage in this.
Federal prosecutors in New York and Washington resign after refusing to drop Adams charges
At least six prosecutors, including the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, have stepped down over the DOJ order to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams
"Adams’s attorneys repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed," Sassoon wrote. "Mr. Bove admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting’s conclusion."
Sassoon also said in the letter that her office was preparing to file additional charges against Adams “based on evidence that Adams destroyed and instructed others to destroy evidence and provide false information to the FBI.”
The top federal prosecutor in New York and two senior federal prosecutors in Washington have resigned after they refused to follow a Justice Department order to drop the corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, multiple officials said Thursday.
The resignations amount to a stunning public rebuke of the Trump administration's new Justice Department leadership in one of the country's highest-profile criminal cases.
The prosecutors resigned after Emil Bove, the acting U.S. deputy attorney general, issued a memo Monday ordering federal prosecutors in New York to drop the case against Adams, arguing, in part, that it hampered his ability to tackle “illegal immigration and violent crime.”
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Another Trump Saturday night massacre of DOJ prosecutors
‘Massacre’: Six DOJ officials resign in protest of ‘dangerous’ Trump abuse in widening scandal
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11. Trump's unconstitutional executive orders
The orders, which Trump critics say greatly exceed his constitutional authority, range from tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada, to pauses on foreign aid and crackdowns on illegal immigration to bans on transgender people serving in the military and the use of federal funds for gender-affirming medical care for minors.
12. Defunding NIH and pandemic and vaccine and cancer research
Trump defunding cancer research
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“Once again, President Trump and Elon Musk are acting in direct violation of the law. In this case, they are causing irreparable damage to ongoing research to develop cures and treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, ALS, Diabetes, Mental Health disorders, opioid abuse, genetic diseases, rare diseases, and other diseases and conditions affecting American families,” said Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro. “The Trump Administration is attempting to steal critical funds promised to scientific research institutions funded by the NIH, despite an explicit legal prohibition against this action.”
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Trump's cuts end grants for research to treat, cure or prevent many illnesses
Trump Administration Cuts Put Medical Progress at Risk, Researchers Say
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. A planned $4 billion cut would leave colleges with large budget gaps. The nation’s universities and academic medical centers were reeling on Saturday from a directive by the Trump administration to slash funding for medical research, a decision that doctors and scientists said would have a devastating effect on studies aimed at finding treatments for diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Judge blocks cuts to medical research funding
Judge blocks Trump from cutting billions in medical research funding
Major universities and 22 states sued over administration’s proposal to slash National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants
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13. More on DOGE
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seeks to roll back the size, scope and spending of the federal government, a key figure in those plans has been tech billionaire Elon Musk. Musk leads the Department of Government Efficiency, an idea that was conceived as an outside review of how the government operates but has now become an entity based inside the White House with virtually unfettered access to federal agencies and wide-ranging permission to eviscerate purchases, programs and staff to achieve its goals. As we outlined last Friday, DOGE has had a busy few weeks, encouraging federal workers to resign, pushing for the shutdown of USAID — responsible for doling out about half of U.S. foreign aid — and accessing agencies' records, including sensitive payment information at Treasury. And this week's pace was no different. So let's sift through the continued onslaught of headlines: about how the world's richest man is wielding the power given to him by Trump to help remake the United States, the lack of transparency into his actions and the ongoing concerns that his companies stand to benefit from many changes.
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14. Trump and Vance have started a Constitutional Crisis
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Experts warn president’s blatant violations of law could upend US government’s system of checks and balances
“Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” wrote Vice-President JD Vance, a graduate of Yale law school, on X as he waded into an escalating tug-of-war between his boss, Donald Trump, and the US federal courts.
Whatever it lacked in rhetorical flourish or polish, the post represented an unambiguous rejection of long-established constitutional norms while offering no supporting legal basis, some scholars say.
It also amounted to an implied statement of intent to ignore court rulings which, if enacted, would upend the US government’s intricate system of check and balances and lay the ground for dictatorship, they warn.
“The vice-president has absolutely no basis in the constitution and its historical development for making this claim,” said Bruce Ackerman, a law and political science professor at Yale University, Vance’s alma mater. “It repudiates the fundamental principle of checks and balances.”
Vance’s intervention was triggered by a series of court rulings that have slowed Trump’s pell-mell rush to grab the levers of powers across the US government since returning to the presidency on 20 January.
Trump, Ackerman says, has acted outside his legitimate power in arbitrarily shuttering institutions including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the National Labor Review Board and the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, the latter two of which he has rendered inoperable by firing sitting Democratic members while not appointing replacements. He also summarily fired 17 inspectors general – who are charged with rooting out government waste, fraud and abuse – across the executive branch without giving Congress the statutory 30 days’ notice.
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Trump's blitzkrieg against the Constitution and the law
Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, legal experts say
Scholars warn of president’s lawlessness in actions such as federal funding freeze and birthright citizenship order
Donald Trump’s rapid-fire and controversial moves that have ranged from banning birthright citizenship to firing 18 inspectors general means the US president has shown a greater willingness than his predecessors to violate the constitution and federal law, some historians and legal scholars say.
These scholars pointed to other Trump actions they say blatantly broke the law, such as freezing trillions of dollar in federal spending and dismissing members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), even though they were confirmed by the Senate and had several years left in their terms.
“Without any doubt Donald Trump is the most lawless and scofflaw president we have ever seen in the history of the United States,” said Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars and a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.
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15. Safety (air and sea)
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Air safety at risk under Donald Trump
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As information trickles in regarding what caused a plane and a helicopter to collide in Washington DC, all eyes are on air traffic rules and regulations. An investigation of the crash is under way, but few are waiting for its results to jump to their lines of attack.
The crash also comes as Trump’s new administration is cleaning out the facets of government it disagrees with – including freezing hiring and requiring in-person work arrangements.
Notably, when the Trump administration came in on 20 January, it started swiftly firing federal employees, meaning the Federal Aviation Administration’s leadership is now dotted with vacancies. There is no Senate-confirmed administrator leading the agency.
“Hiring air traffic controllers is the No 1 safety issue according to the entire aviation industry,” Larsen said. “Instead of working to improve aviation safety and lower costs for hardworking American families, the administration is choosing to spread bogus DEI claims to justify this decision.”
Trump forced out the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administrator, David Pekoske, as well, and gutted an aviation security advisory committee. A prior division leader at the TSA warned that the effort to end remote work would lead to attrition and a loss of knowledge at the agency.
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Washington plane crash: Trump gutted key aviation safety committee for DEI rollback days before deadly mid-air collision
Was Trump warned of 'dangerous policy' before crash?
According to a report in The Mirror, US President Donald Trump has come under fire for implementing a "dangerous" federal hiring freeze, dismissing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard, and dismantling a crucial aviation safety advisory committee. This all occurred just days before a fatal collision between an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter. Earlier this month, Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday and fired the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group. Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo saying that the department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees as part of a “commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security.”
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Trump fired 400 FAA senior officials, the TSA head, and 3,000 air traffic controllers just 8 days ago. Policy choices have consequences. Today, American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a Blackhawk over the Potomac, killing 65 Americans. This is the Trump #PlaneCrash #AA5342
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One person noted:
Trump did this. Everyone needs to know what happens when you decimate government agencies tasked with keeping Americans safe
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Under Trump, the USS Truman, an aircraft carrier, was involved in a collision
US aircraft carrier collides with ship in Mediterranean Sea
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A collaborator helpfully added the following:
Official list of the 64 (so far) executive orders.
That is the tip of the iceberg.
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1,000 Veterans Administration workers were fired today.
5,000 workers at Health and Human Services are being fired.
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1,300 workers at the Center For Disease Control were fired today,
including half of the Epidemic Intelligence Service — the first responders to a disease outbreak. Which may be a problem because there is an outbreak of Measles in Texas.
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The nominee for FBI Director was paid by Russia to star in an anti-FBI film.
The Director of National Intelligence appears to be a russian asset.
The Secretary of Defense is a drunk womanizer suspected of sexual assault.
Billions in legally required payments were stopped, including funding to food shelfs.
Funding was stopped to schools that have vaccine requirements.
The DOGE website published classified data.
Tariffs are going to cause a recession.
And trump is going to betray Ukraine.
Basically the worst parts of the bible and the worst parts of the Civil War mixed together.
1,000 veteran administration employees were fired today
VA Fires 1,000 Employees as Part of Trump's Trimming of the Federal Workforce
The CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service workers are among the fired workers, CBS News and others reported.
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Approximately 5,000 HHS employees were fired
Department of Health and Human Services officials expect most of the agency's roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired Friday under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of nearly all probationary employees, according to an audio recording of a National Institutes of Health department meeting.
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Of the impacted workers, 1,300 are employed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Tulsi Gabbard's views on Russia shaped in part by Kremlin propaganda outlet, ex-aides say
U.S. intelligence has deemed the Russian news site RT to be a propaganda outlet.
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Patel, Trump's nominee for FBI, was paid by Kremlin propagandist to star in anti FBI film
Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker tied to Kremlin, ...
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Radical Extremists Kash Patel Would Weaponize The FBI To Target Enemies Of Trump, Not Enemies Of America
Radical extremist Kash Patel is a staunch MAGA loyalist who has repeatedly peddled false conspiracy theories and threatened to go after President Trump’s political enemies.
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Accused of Sexual Assault, Drunkenness, and Financial Mismanagement, New Defense Head Is Confirmed
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Trump moves to defund schools with a vaccine requirement
Trump bars federal funding for schools with COVID-19 mandates
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DOGE published classified data on its website
Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.
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Anger and betrayal were common emotions among those questioned on the streets of central Kyiv on Thursday Ukrainian society and the political elite are readjusting to a new political reality in which they are more likely to receive criticism and barbs from Washington than words of support and admiration.
On Wednesday evening, it seemed these hopes were exposed as illusions. News of Trump’s long phone call with Putin filtered through to Kyiv, followed by reports of his subsequent press conference, during which Trump rubbished the idea that Ukraine would be an equal partner in potential talks and even appeared to suggest that Russia may have a right to hold on to some seized Ukrainian territory because “they took a lot of land and they fought for that land”.
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Trump's talk on Ukraine condemned on social media
Donald Trump’s Turn Of Phrase On Ukraine Is Slammed On Social Media
“I think they have to make peace,” he continued. “Their people are being killed, and I think they have to make peace. I said that was not a good war to go into, and I think they have to make peace, that’s what I think.”
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Trump chose to lie because he knows that Russia started this war by invading Ukraine and Ukraine should defend its homeland, not simply give itself away to Russia because Trump’s best buddy wants it. What he said is beyond stupid. The only thing dumber on this topic is that Trump’s followers will believe what he said.
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