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Trump: Iran asked me to be Supreme Leader, but I said no thanks

Trump’s “Iran asked me to be Supreme Leader” joke at an NRCC fundraiser uses a real, deadly leadership crisis in Iran to normalize assassination-as-policy and blur what’s confirmed about the war and succession.

Mar 26, 2026

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‘Men need to be perp-walked’ after Epstein files release, Massie tells BBC

A GOP lawmaker says the Epstein document releases are still falling short—because redactions and withheld material may be blocking accountability and survivor-centered justice.

Mar 25, 2026

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Trump fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

A Cabinet secretary was forced out amid contracting and oversight scrutiny, signaling that executive control—not transparent accountability—can dictate leadership of the agency driving mass detention and deportation.

Mar 5, 2026

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The Trump gold coin is not normal : Consider This from NPR

A federal design panel OK’d a Trump portrait for a commemorative gold coin, but the key question is whether Treasury can legally bypass long-standing limits meant to keep living politicians off U.S. money.

Mar 23, 2026

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White House Confronted Over Huge Bets Made Minutes Before Trump’s Big War Move

A $580 million burst of oil-futures selling minutes before Trump’s Iran “talks” post raises a basic public-interest question: did anyone trade on advance knowledge of a market-moving national security decision?

Mar 24, 2026

Norms Impact

Trump administration deletes list of hundreds of federal buildings targeted for potential sale

Publishing a hit-list of federal facilities and then scrubbing it overnight without explanation turns public asset management into executive whiplash, undermining transparent, accountable stewardship of government property.

Executive

Mar 4, 2025

Sources

https://apnews.com/article/gsa-federal-buildings-doge-fbi-doj-aa123e9c3b12e38c8fa511c2a727f880

Summary

The Trump administration publicly posted a list of more than 440 federal properties for potential disposal, then replaced it within hours with a shorter list that removed all Washington, D.C., buildings before deleting the page entirely by Wednesday morning. The General Services Administration shifted from naming specific targeted assets to withholding them while promising a revised list “coming soon,” without answering repeated questions about the changes. The practical consequence is immediate uncertainty for agencies, local officials, and the public about which federal facilities may be sold, reshaped, or displaced as workforce cuts and lease terminations accelerate.

Reality Check

This kind of opaque, on-again/off-again control over the federal real-estate portfolio invites insider advantage and retaliatory targeting, because it moves billions in public assets without stable, reviewable decision-making that citizens can challenge. On this record alone, criminal liability is not clearly established, but any offloading that pivots on private “compelling offers” raises immediate federal anti-corruption exposure under 18 U.S.C. § 201 (bribery), § 208 (conflicts of interest), and honest-services fraud theories under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 1346 if officials trade public action for private benefit. Even without a provable quid pro quo, the deletion of the list after widespread interest signals a governance failure: we are being asked to accept major structural changes to agency operations without durable transparency, predictable process, or meaningful public accountability.

Detail

On Tuesday, the Trump administration posted on the General Services Administration website a list of more than 440 federal properties identified as “non-core” and potentially subject to disposal, including the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building and the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building. Hours later, GSA issued a revised list with 320 entries that excluded every building previously listed in Washington, D.C. By Wednesday morning, the list was removed entirely and the webpage displayed “Non-core property list (Coming soon).”

GSA did not respond to repeated questions about why the list changed or why properties were removed. In an internal email obtained by The Associated Press, GSA’s buildings division told staff the list generated “an overwhelming amount of interest” and would be republished after the agency evaluated input and clarified “nuances of the assets listed.” The email stated that inclusion did not mean immediate sale, but said GSA would consider “compelling offers.”

The administration has also directed GSA regional managers to begin terminating leases on roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, with a stated goal of terminating as many as 300 leases per day.

Norms Impact

Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings

By ordering GSA to kill 8,000 federal EV charging ports as “not mission-critical,” the administration uses administrative control to dismantle operational infrastructure without public justification.

Executive

Feb 21, 2025

Sources

https://electrek.co/2025/02/21/trump-to-shut-down-all-8000-ev-charging-ports-at-federal-govt-buildings/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fu.s.politics

Summary

The Trump administration is directing the General Services Administration to take roughly 8,000 EV charging ports at federal government buildings out of service. GSA is moving to cancel the network contracts that keep the chargers operational after being told the stations are “not mission-critical.” Federal agencies, government-owned vehicles, and federal employees with personal EVs will lose access to workplace charging once breakers are turned off and stations go dark.

Reality Check

Stripping operational access to federal infrastructure by directive and contract cancellation normalizes governance by abrupt internal order, leaving our public services vulnerable to ideological whiplash instead of accountable administration. Based on the facts provided—an internal instruction to cancel network contracts and shut chargers “off at the breaker”—this looks more like an abuse-of-office and process problem than a clean fit for federal criminal statutes. Even if not criminal on these facts, it undermines core norms of evidence-based stewardship by turning routine facility management into a political lever that can be pulled against workers and agencies with no transparent rationale.

Media

Detail

The Trump administration is shutting down EV chargers at federal government buildings and is expected to offload electric vehicles recently purchased by the General Services Administration (GSA).

GSA manages federal government-owned buildings and operates the buildings’ EV chargers. The charging infrastructure includes about 8,000 charging ports used by federally owned EVs and by federal employees charging personal EVs.

An internal announcement is expected next week. Reporting cites an email sent by GSA to regional offices stating that GSA “received direction” that all GSA-owned charging stations are “not mission-critical.”

GSA is working on the timing of canceling existing network contracts that keep the chargers operational. After contracts are canceled, stations will be taken out of service and “turned off at the breaker,” with other chargers beginning to be turned off starting next week. The email states that neither government-owned nor privately owned vehicles will be able to charge once stations are out of service.

Colorado Public Radio reported seeing the email sent to the Denver Federal Center, which has 22 EV charging stations across 11 locations.