A far-left faculty member at @WSUPullman was among two people arrested for allegedly beating and bloodying an Indian-American student for wearing a MAGA hat. Patrick Mahoney, the instructor, and Gerald Hoff were arrested over the violent assault. Read: https://t.co/WIgfEP99QF
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Mahoney also has strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America and progressive labor groups and publicly touts his admiration for the communist party
In a serous world, all that would be a disqualification for being a grownup, much less a university professor.
[APNEWS] A federal judge says some nonprofits awarded billions for a so-called green bank to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects cannot have their contracts scrapped and must have access to some of the frozen money. The ruling is a defeat for President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... 's Environmental Protection Agency, which argues the program is rife with financial mismanagement.
The order late Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ''gives us a chance to breathe after the EPA unlawfully — and without due process — terminated our awards and blocked access to funds that were appropriated by Congress and legally obligated,'' said Climate United CEO Beth Bafford.
The lawsuit by Climate United Fund and other groups contends that the EPA, Administrator Lee Zeldin and Citibank, which held the grant money, illegally blocked the funds awarded last year and had jeopardized the organizations' operations.
Chutkan said Citibank must provide the money that was due to the nonprofits before the EPA had frozen their accounts in mid-February. The EPA immediately appealed.
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, commonly referred to as a ''green bank,'' was authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act under Democratic President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... . Its goals run counter to the Trump administration's opposition to climate-friendly policies and its embrace of fossil fuels. Zeldin quickly made the bank a target, characterizing the $20 billion in grants as a ''gold bar'' scheme marred by conflicts of interest and potential fraud.
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due process
Outside criminal prosecutions, where the hell did handling government grants get tagged with that? If it is not a contract but a grant, why doesn't a grantor have the power to terminate. Smells like another power the judiciary granted itself.
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a decent way to revise the grant statement of work is to require the grantee to list a number of specific tasks they expect to accomplish and for each one develop a work plan that has to be reviewed and approved before costs may be incurred and require each quarter's work to be reviewd and approved before costs may be incurred on the next quarter's work
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^ And 15% max Overhead
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04/17/2025 14:27 Comments ||
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not sure if overhead rates may be adjusted retroactive to initial approval.
certainly they can be capped at 15% for new grants or amended grants that just add on to ongoing work that is nearing completion
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[APNEWS] A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court and warned he could seek officials' prosecution for violating his orders last month to turn around planes carrying deportees to an El Salvador prison.
The ruling from U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg, whom President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... has said should be impeached, marks a dramatic battle between the judicial and executive branches of government over the president's powers to carry out key White House priorities.
Boasberg accused administration officials of rushing deportees out of the country under the Alien Enemies Act last month before they could challenge their removal in court, and then willfully disregarding his order that planes already in the air should return to the United States.
The judge said he could hold hearings and potentially refer the matter for prosecution if the administration does not act to remedy the violation. If Trump's Justice Department leadership declines to prosecute the matter, Boasberg said he will appoint another attorney to do so.
''The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it,'' wrote Boasberg, the chief judge of Washington's federal court.
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Just a conspiracy theory considered - As the velocity of petty, illogical, inappropriate and obviously unconstitutional law-fare by the Resistance swells geometrically at selected federal jurisdictions across the fruited plains, consider that their aim seems to be to force either a Lilliputian-style halt of all of Trumps MAGA agenda, weakening his mandate and public support for the 2026 midterms to win control of the House, and/or induce Trump to some Executive Action like a Lincoln-ian State of Emergency. Such an Act might help them convince even a Republican Congress to successfully impeach Trump.
Absent stopping Trump and DOGE, the demokrat party apparatus and nomenklatura will be effectively destroyed. This is existential for the radical left coalition of domestic and foreign players formed behind the Kalorama Kartel and their plans for the future demise of traditional America.
[FoxBusinessNews] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... from enacting his tariff plans, Gov. Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... announced.
Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday morning. It argues that Trump overstepped his authority by imposing tariffs without congressional approval, and calls on the court to declare Trump's tariffs void and block their implementation.
"The uncertainty is pronounced, and it is profound in the state of California," Newsom said at a Wednesday presser. "The impacts of these tariffs disproportionately impact the state of California."
"It's not just the coast and technology," he added. "No state is poised to lose more than the state of California. So that's why we're standing up."
Newsom is suing Trump over tariffs, asking for massive loans to cover the healthcare costs for illegal aliens, and trying to woo Canadians to tour the state.
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I don’t see how the suit could be successful inless the rule that only Dems have standing applies.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. 
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
