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Taking dismantling the #AdministrativeState seriously and literally.
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Is it cuz they have all the data about where the fault-lines are in the #AdministrativeState
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America’s Promise and Achievement – Leonidas Zelmanovitz
On August 20, 2001, I arrived in the United States with my family after leaving Brazil, the country…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #administrativestate #america #Americanexceptionalism #Immigration #Latinamerica #LeonidasZelmanovitz
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https://www.europesays.com/3096521/ America’s Promise and Achievement – Leonidas Zelmanovitz #AdministrativeState #america #AmericanExceptionalism #Conflicts #Immigration #LatinAmerica #LeonidasZelmanovitz
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What if distracting from training, draining resources, and undermining readiness are strategic objectives of dismantling the #AdministrativeState?
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The petrotechbroligarchy is pot-committed to executing a decapitation exercise of the #American #AdministrativeState with the objective of replacing it with one that resembles their own delusional fantasies of a #NetworkState run by #AI, powered by coal and gas.
It’s less complicated than you think.
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The crackpot king loses his bid to shut down offshore wind
Back in January, I wondered whether wind investors had standing to sue the Trump administration over the inauguration day memorandum suspending all federal approvals for offshore wind projects. It turns out the answer is yes, but the investors I had in mind — individual and big name institutional investors — are not the stakeholders who prevailed at the Massachusetts District Court yesterday in State of New York et al. v. Trump.
Instead, it was a coalition of states “with investments in wind development” and the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, whose members face the prospect of “billions of dollars in stranded investments.” These plaintiffs showed “ample evidence” that they were harmed by the federal government’s actions, and they also satisfied the court that the pause in wind development was unlawful, “a final agency action that is arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law.”
This is obviously a welcome outcome, and it will allow some major offshore wind projects to get back on track. (I’m unsure whether this one court victory will do much to lift wind energy stocks over the near term, but shares of both Ørsted and Vestas jumped briefly on the news. )
What I found even more compelling as I read through the order this morning is the route Judge Saris travels to reach her finding that the actions taken by the agencies are arbitrary and capricious. Here, she makes some important distinctions about the limits of presidential directives and agencies’ reliance on them:
the Agency Defendants candidly concede that the sole factor they considered in deciding to stop issuing permits was the President’s direction to do so.
Further, given that the Wind Order constitutes a change of course from decades of agencies’ issuing (or denying) permits related to wind energy projects, the Agency Defendants were required, at minimum, to “provide a reasoned explanation for the change” and to “display awareness that [they were] changing position….” They failed to do so. Instead, they implemented the Wind Order on Inauguration Day without elucidating the “reasons for the new policy.”
To put it bluntly, just because the president doesn’t like offshore wind and has drooled out some crackpot ideas about the harm it does (it drives whales crazy, the noise causes cancer, etc.), that’s not sufficient ground for policy change:
…And even assuming, arguendo, that the Wind Memo itself could be characterized as the Agency Defendants’ own explanation for their manner of implementing it, the Wind Memo does not provide adequate explanation: It merely includes a single sentence citing “various alleged legal deficiencies underlying” wind permitting, “potential inadequacies in various environmental reviews,” and the possibility that these vaguely defined issues “may lead to grave harm.” Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas, 90 Fed. Reg. at 8363 (emphases added). The Court is “unable to divine or fathom a relationship between” this cursory sentence “and the immense scope of the moratorium” on all wind energy authorizations. …Whatever level of explanation is required when deviating from longstanding agency practice, this is not it.
The big takeaway here is that federal agencies —the organs of the much-maligned administrative state — are not merely (or not always) instruments of this president’s erratic will and syphilitic delusions. It’s a common-sense finding that should be read expansively against ongoing efforts to destroy independent agencies and establish personalist rule.
Update 5 January 2026: Just before the holidays, the Trump administration issued a second stop work order, based on “national security” concerns. They tried this move before and it didn’t work; I am not sure why they think it will work this time around. I was struck by what I guess I would call the Orwellian stupidity of the letter communicating this order from Matthew Giacona, former offshore oil lobbyist and current Acting Director of the Bureau of Ocean Management.
In November 2025, the Department of War (DoW) completed an additional assessment regarding the national security implications of offshore wind projects, and provided senior leadership at the Department of the Interior with new classified information, including the rapid evolution of relevant adversary technologies and the resulting direct impacts to national security from offshore wind projects. These impacts are heightened by the projects’ sensitive location on the East Coast and the potential to cause serious, immediate, and irreparable harm to our great nation.
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Can presidents fire all federal bureaucrats at will? Supreme Court to hear case with major implications
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That is the side-effect of dismantling the #AdministrativeState
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The #AdministrativeState must die and Republicans are on a kamikaze mission.
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The play for creepy weirdos to dismantle the #AdministrativeState they now control is to grind it to a halt.
By. Any. Means. Necessary.
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What it really means to be a conservative in America today
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Why does the administrative state hate people who work for a living?
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The FDA’s deadly betrayal of pro-life America
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Yes, that is collateral damage in the objective of dismantling the #AdministrativeState.
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Shutting down the government is another front in the war on dismantling the #AdministrativeState.
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Creepy weirdos want to demolish the #AdministrativeState and replace it with an Apple Store.
Got it.
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The SCOTUS is gonna rule the Constitution is unconstitutional—clause…by…clause—to achieve the overall objective of dismantling the #AdministrativeState.
Claiming it is not “dangerous” nor a “threat” is to intentionally turn off your #CriticalThinking skills.
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When creepy weirdos talked about dismantling the federal #AdministrativeState, this is what they meant all along.
This is a long-held desire—a feature, not a bug—of the #DarkEnlightenment types.
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This thoughtful discussion from the left of conservative Christopher Caldwell's "The Age of Entitlement" made me think about the 1964 Civil Rights Act, white racial resentment and the roots of Trumpism, and how best to challenge Caldwell's claims.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-christopher-caldwells-case-against-civil-rights/#USPolitics #USHistory #1964CivilRightsAct #Conservatism #Liberalism #Racism #AdministrativeState #Reagan #BabyBoomers #ChristopherCaldwell #TheAgeOfEntitlement #DonaldTrump
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David Bernhardt Sets Up His Own Shop to Lobby (indirectly) For Twin Metals
I missed this June Politico story about David Bernhardt breaking with Brownstein Hyatt and setting up his own lobbying shop at 1455 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, just a block away from the White House. The former Secretary of the Interior, who oversaw Trump’s first assault on the Boundary Waters, will now run the Twin Metals lobbying game.
The most recent Senate lobbying disclosures show Brownstein Hyatt filing a termination report on July 16, after collecting $110,000 for lobbying the Senate, House, and the Department of the Interior on behalf of Twin Metals in the second quarter of this year.
Just one day before that, on July 15, the Bernhardt Group LLC filed a new registration, to lobby — not directly for Twin Metals, but for Brownstein Hyatt “obo” (on behalf of) Twin Metals LLC. The Bernhardt Group has the same arrangement “on behalf of” other Brownstein clients, including Barrick Gold, USA Rare Earth, Bakelite, Denver Water, and the Central Arizona Water Conservation District.
In these cases, the Bernhardt Group LLC will lobby for a lobbying firm on behalf of the lobbying firm’s clients. I suppose “subcontractor” is the charitable term here.
Former Brownstein lobbyists with a Twin Metals track record, including Kate Gonzales, William McGrath, and Luke Johnson, will lead the Bernhardt Group’s lobbying effort for their former lobbying firm on behalf of Twin Metals. Their declared focus will be “mine leasing issues.” The Group billed $40,000 in the second quarter for its work.
In 2023, Bernhardt wrote a self-promoting book all about accountability and the “failing” administrative state. So it’s a little odd to see the former Secretary of the Interior’s new lobbying firm enclosed like a Matryoshka doll within another lobbying firm — an arrangement that should raise serious questions about public accountability and what people like Bernhardt call the DC swamp.
Maybe this is just another small reminder that David Bernhardt and the America First crowd were never talking about public accountability; they are complaining that sometimes the DC bureaucracy cannot be brought readily to heel.
For years, this crowd has worked behind the scenes to discredit the very idea of American government while exerting power within it and influence over it; now they are also dismantling the parts that stand in their way, so that their clients and cronies can strip, hoard, and sell our natural resources, our public lands, and other public goods.
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#administrativeState #corruption #deconstructionOfTheAdministrativeState #governmentCapture #governmentFailure #lobbying #lobbyingDisclosures #publicGoods #resourceHoarding
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Bela análise do Secretário Gaetani sobre os primeiros meses do #DOGE nos EUA e suas principais desconstruções da máquina pública.
Agora é ver o que se dará quando Musk deixar o governo.https://www.jota.info/artigos/100-dias-de-doge-observacoes-para-o-brasil
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Does Tina Smith’s Boundary Waters Legislation Change the Outlook?
Yesterday, Senator Tina Smith introduced legislation to protect the Boundary Waters and make permanent the Biden administration’s 20-year moratorium on copper and nickel mining in the Rainy River Watershed. It was a rare spot of welcome news.
Smith’s Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act appears to be closely modeled on Representative Betty McCollum’s bill, which is currently wending its slow way through the House.
Both bills set out reasonable positions that appeal to a strong majority of voters. Neither bill is likely to become law anytime soon. As Smith told MPR:
I understand that it will be hard to get this through Congress, given the current political makeup of Congress. But I think it’s important to put a marker out there and give us all something to work towards.
In other words, don’t bet on anything significant happening before 2026 or 2028, or long after that, and bear in mind that any legislation along these lines will face stiff opposition and counter-legislation.
Just a couple of months ago, Representative Pete Stauber reintroduced his Superior National Forest Restoration Act. Despite its name, the bill doesn’t do much to restore Superior National Forest. Stauber aims to undo the Biden moratorium. The only things he’s out to restore are his Chilean patron’s cancelled mineral leases.
So, at best, the 119th Congress is likely to end in a standoff on this issue.
In the meantime, Boundary Waters litigation is still before the DC District Court of Appeals. The last entry in the docket showed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum asking for a 90-day abeyance, during which time, he informs the court, he plans to conduct a farcical exercise in foregone conclusions and hand the Boundary Waters over to the Chilean mining company.
The court still has not answered that 7 March request. It was predicated on what Burgum calls “a meaningful likelihood that the contours of the issues presented in this case will change.” There’s no question about that. Now, however, it appears that they may not change in the direction Burgum and Antofagasta anticipate.
Smith’s legislation sets out a marker, as she says, and Congress, not Trump’s kleptocratic crony, has the greater constitutional authority and should have the ultimate say. This Congress may choose to abdicate its constitutional authority; and confidence placed in politicians is always confidence misplaced. But even the most hardened cynic would have to acknowledge that with Smith’s legislation on the table next to McCollum’s, the long-term outlook has changed a little, and so have the business risks associated with Antofagasta’s approach to its Twin Metals project.
Now there’s a chance — nothing more than that, but a chance all the same — that Antofagasta could see any services Secretary Burgum hastily and corruptly performs on its behalf eventually undone by statute.
#ANTO #administrativeState #congressionalAuthority #corruption #DougBurgum #politicalAuthority #politicians #risk #socialLicense #Water
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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum Wants Just 90 Days to Hand the Boundary Waters over to a Foreign Mining Company
This morning, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum again joined Twin Metals to urge the DC District Court of Appeals to put the Boundary Waters litigation on hold.
The Burgum Reply explains that a review of the Twin Metals matter is already underway at Interior; and it assures the court that this review will be an exercise in a foregone conclusion: “there is a meaningful likelihood that the contours of the issues presented in this case will change as a result of the agency’s review.”
The filing also reveals that Interior has placed the previous Solicitor’s legal opinion under “Suspension Review,” which means that “Interior may not ‘rely on those M-opinions as authoritative and binding without first consulting with the Office of the Solicitor for guidance.'”
That office is currently headed by Acting Solicitor Gregory Zerzan, who in the past has held a number of government positions and served as Principal Deputy Solicitor under Daniel Jorjani in Trump’s first term. Jorjani, of course, wrote the M-Opinion that determined Chilean mining giant Antofagasta plc had a “non-discretionary” right to renewal of its leases near the Boundary Waters. (I’ve written about that opinion, its genesis, its selective use of history, and its contorted logic at length on this blog and elsewhere. This link should bring up some of those posts.).
Neither Burgum nor the attorneys for Antofagasta seem especially confident that the Chilean mining company can win on the merits, and they are asking for a 90-day reprieve to render this case moot.
250307BurgumReplyrdDownload#administrativeState #BoundaryWaters #corruption #DanielJorjani #mining #Water
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Yes, the objective of the Creepy Weirdos is to roll back the precedents underpinning the #AdministrativeState which are upheld by the 13th through 19th Amendments of the #Constitution.
This is Occam’s Razor + THEY TOLD US so 🤷🏻♂️
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If we’re being frank and honest, engaging our critical-thinking skills, the #American #AdministrativeState was not built to be resilient.
It was designed to be fragile.
That’s what makes it easy to deconstruct and disassemble rapidly.
Who - exactly - do you think designed it?
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What broke the brains of Creepy Weirdos was Brown v Board, because it over-turned Plessy v Ferguson.
If the State considered The Others™ equals, then the State needed to be disassembled.
What we have now is a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of the #AdministrativeState.
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when the "destruction of the #AdministrativeState" *is* the point.
#Bannon -esque #zoneflooding
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Elect clowns who want to demolish the “#administrativestate” don’t expect effective governance, I always say, every day, all the time
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What the neofeudalist reactionaries don’t mention about destroying the #AdministrativeState is that it will be a highly controlled demolition, with every brick, nail, and hunk of drywall sold off as quickly as possible to the lowest bidder.
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I do not doubt that some Creepy Weirdos™ are committing arson in an attempt at #StochasticTerrorism to strain the #AdministrativeState.
Did I mention one of my superpowers is temporarily occupying the minds of the worst people in the world, like a video game, and then putting down the controller, and stepping out of their awful simulation?
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You’re witnesssing #BombsOverBaghdad for the #AdministrativeState of Babylon.
It’s a #ShockAndAwe campaign against the “Cathedral”, to undermine the #American Republic, hyper-target #institutions of the #GreatSociety, #NewDeal, then 13th through 19th Amendments, roll back the #Enlightenment, then manifest a society where the #Renaissance is “novel”.
The reason it’ll be semi-successful is because the average citizen has not been #ExtremelyOnline for 3+ decades to grok it all.
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The neofeudalist strategy is to bleed the #AdministrativeState dry, reducing the population to serfdom.
It’s not even a secret.
People just refuse to believe it.
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New Correspondence Entered into the Twin Metals v. US Docket, Reiterating the Risk of Serious and Irreparable Harm to the Boundary Waters
The attorney for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ just entered this correspondence into the Twin Metals v. US docket.
It attempts to clarify a point on which the federal government has insisted: since the Forest Service moved to withdraw more than 225,000 acres Superior National Forest lands from mineral exploration and development in September of 2021, the Bureau of Land Management acted lawfully — or with authority — when it denied Twin Metals’ Preference Rights Lease Applications, or PRLAs. Therefore, the government contends, Twin Metals has no claim, so Judge Cooper was right to dismiss Twin Metals’ complaint. (For a little more context, see this post.)
In response to the Bureau of Land Management’s request for clarification, the Forest Service reiterates its position:
The record for the 2016 lease consent determination and 2023 withdrawal application demonstrate that development of these mineral resources presented an unacceptable, inherent risk of serious and irreparable harm to the BWCAW natural resources. It has been thoroughly documented that the proposed mineral leasing is not a compatible use within the watershed in such proximity to the wilderness and that the Forest Service’s withholding of consent to the issuance of leases for MNES-057965 and MNES- 050264 would be consistent with the record. This is entirely consistent with previous consent decisions on mineral lease renewals in the same area of the Rainy River Watershed, as well as last year’s decision to withdraw approximately 225,378 acres of land within the watershed from mineral leasing. Extensive analysis and public input associated with prior consent decisions and the mineral withdrawal process informs and supports this response. [emphasis mine]
There is a to to unpack here, and can’t help but wonder why this correspondence comes at such a late hour. Is the federal government is just making sure to cover all bases, or are there alarm bells ringing? Be that as it may, here are the letters in question.
BLM Letter to US ForestService re Twin Metals PRLAs 241219Download#ANTO #administrativeState #corruption #environmentalEthics #ethics #lawfulAuthority #pollution #Water
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I’m so uninterested in the backstories of the creepy weirdos stepping into public services roles in the American government with salaries funded by taxpayers.
These are destructive nihilists who are intent on enshittifying, before terminating the #AdministrativeState, and then look admiringly at the ashes.
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The objective is to dismantle the #AdministrativeState built in top of precedents founded by the 13th thru 19th Amendments.
This is barely the start.
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It appears the #NeoFeudal #oligarchs have advanced their strategy of immolating the #AdministrativeState underpinned by the 13th through 19th Amendments of the #American Constitution.
Well-played good sirs of the Federalist Society.
The Founders would have spit in your #Ubermensch faces.
#Nietszche lampooned the #Christofascists
The end of the American Experiment is the Republic as a client state with #Putin as the patron sponsor.
It's a wild chapter of #history.
Write it all down.
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That's the objective of the #NeoFeudal #oligarchs who appear to have advanced their strategy of immolating the #AdministrativeState underpinned by the 13th through 19th Amendments of the #American Constitution
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The neofeudalists have been butt-hurt over the 13th thru 19th Amendments for generations, undermining the #AdministrativeState is their way of accomplishing a long-held goal.
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Government and defense contractors who want to undermine the federal #AdministrativeState are unpatriotic and not serious people.
I said what I said 🤷🏻♂️
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#RussVought, a key architect of #Project2025, is shaping policy proposals for a potential second #Trump administration. As head of the #CenterForRenewingAmerica, Vought advocates for dismantling the #administrativestate, aiming to empower the presidency while shrinking federal bureaucracy, aligning with the far-right vision for reshaping US governance.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/russ-vought-profile-project-2025-trump-architect/