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.
#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.”
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/
"Yes, this is #illegal. Yes, someone needs to stop it. But how?
...
The #PublicCitizen lawsuit names as defendants the #Treasury, its Secretary, and the Bureau of Fiscal Services, which granted access and even admin rights to Musk’s team. This is smart. The #lawsuit goes after these defendants in particular because, if ordered by a court, they are the ones that have the power to revoke the access they granted earlier to DOGE."
- @jaykuo
https://statedemocracydefenders.org/anti-autocracy-movement/
The organisation , along with #PublicCitizen are suing the #fascists i the U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgYBCjbWmks
Good news 
#AdolphMusk hit with #lawsuit by #NormEisen and #PublicCitizen we've been waiting for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0A8x5SwRAw
'Profoundly Dangerous': #PublicCitizen SUES Trump Legality of #AdolphMusk - Led #DOGE
#PublicCitizen 17 january
#FireSurvivors Call for Accountability for #BigOil's Role in Causing Infernos in #LosAngeles
Their fortunes are the result of poisoning you, me, our children and grandchildren, every other living thing on Earth, and destroying the temperature stability of our atmosphere. This week it's horrifying to look out and see the world they are creating for the rest of us.
by #ThomHartmann, Jan 11, 2025
"#PublicCitizen would like you to know that there are killers among us.
"They wear $2,000 suits and travel in #PrivateJets, unbothered by the TSA or the teeming masses. Their children attend the finest universities in the world, and they vacation on private islands and yachts. Many 'earn' more in a day than most Americans take home in a year; their positions ensure their heirs will never have to work a day in their lives.
"Their fortunes are the result of poisoning you, me, our children and grandchildren, every other living thing on Earth, and destroying the temperature stability of our atmosphere. This week they’re arguably responsible, in part, for billions of dollars in losses, numerous deaths, and thousands of shattered lives in Southern California."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-oil-climate-criminals
#Ecocide #AHexOnExxon #BigOilAndGas #BigOilKnew #ClimateEmergency #ShellOilKnew #ExxonKnew #ChevronKnew #ClimateCriminals #YeetTheRich #EatTheRich #EatSeasonally
Mehmet Oz potentially violated influencer marketing standards promoting supplements, watchdog says https://www.diningandcooking.com/1746433/mehmet-oz-potentially-violated-influencer-marketing-standards-promoting-supplements-watchdog-says/ #DonaldTrump #Dr.MehmetOz #FederalTradeCommission #HerbalSupplements #InfluencerMarketing #NBCNews #nutrition #PublicCitizen #RobertWeissman #tiktok
#AmnestyInternationalUSA Urges No Vote on #HR9495
November 12, 2024
"#Amnesty International USA warns that language in H.R. 9495 poses an alarming threat to the work of U.S. civil society organizations who document #HumanRights abuses around the world and urges members of Congress to vote against it.
"If enacted, this legislation would grant the Secretary of the Treasury broad discretionary powers to terminate the tax-exempt status of nonprofit organizations based solely on a subjective declaration that they are 'terrorist supporting organizations.'
"'In any other context, this legislation would be seen for what it is, a play from the #authoritarian leader’s playbook,' said Paul O’Brien, Executive Director at Amnesty International USA.
"The broad and vague authority to terminate non-profit status in the name of 'counterterrorism' is a practice that many governments have used to target civil society organizations. There are no safeguards to prevent H.R. 9495’s broad authority from being misused to harass or intimidate organizations for exercising their rights.
"The bill includes no due process for organizations deemed to be supporting 'terrorist' groups. The Secretary of the Treasury can use 'classified information' to make these designations without permitting nonprofits to review or challenge such evidence in federal courts. The loss of tax-exempt status similarly has no due process guarantees and would inflict economic harm and legally burden nonprofit organizations.
"Amnesty International USA joins more than 100 #CivilSociety groups, including #ACLU, #BrennanCenter, #PublicCitizen, #AFT, #NEA, #LCV, #CAP, #Indivisible, #NAACP, #ReproductiveFreedomForAll, and #NationalWomensLawCenter to oppose this legislation.
"'This bill, if it becomes the law, would not require officials to explain the reason for designating a group, nor does it require any evidence,' continued O’Brien. 'Members of Congress must recognize the danger posed and vote down this bill that could shrink civic space and silence civil society organizations.'"
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/amnesty-international-usa-urges-no-vote-on-h-r-9495/
