This is all he does now, run to the Supreme Court whenever he doesn’t get his way. It feels like every day there’s another “emergency” request. Now the Trump administration says it will appeal the federal court ruling blocking construction of the White House ballroom project to the US Supreme Court.

Trump has nominated Dennis Kirk, a former White House official and one of the authors of Project 2025, to serve as the Interior Department’s inspector general, the independent watchdog responsible for investigating waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct.

A win! A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with its proposed White House ballroom, ruling that construction cannot begin without congressional authorization.

Some good news for gray wolves! Senator Cory Booker blocked an effort to fast-track legislation that would have stripped gray wolves of their federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.

The Trump administration really seems to be all about asking people to carry out unlawful orders.

The Trump administration announced that it is moving forward with plans to eliminate hundreds of federal regulations governing Head Start, a 61-year-old program that provides early education and support to some of the nation’s lowest-income children. The proposal would strip away many long-standing

Some good news! Senators Adam Schiff and Sheldon Whitehouse have introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Trump administration’s rule that removed habitat destruction from the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted along party lines, 8–5, to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-senate-panel-votes-hold-fauci-contempt-congress-2026-08-06/

A shout out to everyone defending the last ancient cottonwood in Arizona. 💚✊

Mainstream media isn’t talking about it, but bulldozers and construction crews have descended upon Texas’ Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration moves forward with its border barrier project. The project will permanently damage one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.

A federal judge has officially allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for about 330,000 Haitians who have been living and working legally in the United States for years.

A disappointing decision. A federal judge reluctantly dismissed the remaining criminal charges against eight Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack after the Justice Department requested the case be thrown out.

Let’s see if Susan Collins stands by her “concerns”, or if she folds like she always does.

Thank you to everyone who voted today. And a special thank you to everyone who volunteered and helped at the polls! 💚

Well, this isn’t going to be good. We all know how this will likely go. The Supreme Court has announced that one of the first cases it will hear when its new term begins in October is a major climate change lawsuit. Boulder County, Colorado, is seeking millions of dollars from fossil fuel

The Trump administration may have agreed to scrap the proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, but there’s a major loophole. The order rescinds the fund for now, but it may not permanently amend or terminate the underlying settlement that created it.

A win! A federal court has dismissed the Department of Justice’s lawsuit seeking access to Colorado’s unredacted voter registration list.
https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/40-2026-02-10-Colorado-secretary-of-states-motion-to-dismiss.pdf

This hasn’t gotten much attention, but it should. While everyone was focused on Schedule F, the administration created something even broader. On July 30, a new OPM rule took effect that creates a second way to fire federal employees outside the normal civil service process.

A win! Prosecutors in Washington are dropping charges against three more defendants who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

We’ve been saying this for a while now many of the people being targeted are just fishermen. Evidence now supports that the United States has killed individuals who were not involved in drug trafficking during its “counternarcotics interdiction operations” in the Caribbean and Pacific.
https://www.kaine.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/southern_spear_letter.pdf

Update: We initially thought the Trump IRS settlement had been eliminated. It wasn’t. Part of it was eliminated.

The biggest change is that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche formally rescinded the proposed $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” a taxpayer-funded slush fund that was created as

A win and a loss. At least Trump’s proposed slush fund is gone. Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) announced they will support Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general after Blanche said he would formally scrap the administration’s proposed “anti-weaponization” fund.
https://www.reuters.com/world/acting-us-attorney-general-blanche-rescinds-anti-weaponization-fund-before-2026-08-03/

Our hearts are with everyone in Spokane and across Washington! 💚

The Trump administration’s goal, along with many of its allies, has been to destroy the resistance. But there’s one thing they’ll never understand is we defend our own.

Trump is publicly fighting with his own hand-picked appointees after his Justice Department concluded in court that the Reflecting Pool damage was primarily caused by a “rushed and botched installation.” Maybe whoever installed the grass was also unqualified and is responsible for the “8647”.

The Trump administration has begun removing signage from both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments following its decision to shrink the monuments.

A win! A federal court has denied xAI’s request to block Minnesota’s AI nudification law from taking effect. That means the law is set to go into effect today as scheduled.