NYT: Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.
“This work is too important to die,” Dr. Levin wrote in a separate email to the reports’ authors, this one from his personal account. “The country needs what we are producing.”
Now key experts who worked on the report, called the National Nature Assessment, are figuring out how to finish and publish it outside the government, according to interviews with nine of the leading authors.
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That left the project more vulnerable. It became one of a slew of Biden-era environmental orders that Mr. Trump revoked on his first day in office. Mr. Trump has also frozen climate spending, begun withdrawing the United States from the main global pact to tackle climate change and launched an assault on wind energy while seeking to expand fossil fuels.
What kind of idiot is against the environment?!
NYT: Trump Muses About a Third Term, Over and Over Again
The president’s suggestion that he would seek to stay in office beyond the constitutional limit comes as he has pushed to expand executive authority.
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Since then, he has floated the idea frequently. In public, he couches the notion of staying in office beyond two terms as a humorous aside. In private, Mr. Trump has told advisers that it is just one of his myriad diversions to grab attention and aggravate Democrats, according to people familiar with his comments. And he has made clear that he is happy to be past a grueling campaign in which he faced two assassination attempts and followed an aggressive schedule in the final weeks.
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Three days after Mr. Trump was sworn in for the second time, Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee, a relative newcomer in the House, proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would allow the president to serve a third term. His proposal: that presidents who serve two nonconsecutive terms, like Mr. Trump, would be able to run again.
TorStar: Two Trudeau cabinet ministers won’t seek re-election
International Trade Minister Mary Ng and Justice Minister Arif Virani told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday that they will not be running in the next federal election campaign.
Two more ministers from the GTA jumping ship!
TorStar: Poilievre promises a military base in Iqaluit, would cut foreign aid to pay for it
Poilievre made the announcement in a video on social media, ahead of a press conference scheduled in Iqaluit this morning.
A Conservative government would build a permanent military base in Nunavut and pay for it by “dramatically cutting” Canada’s foreign aid budget, party leader Pierre Poilievre said Monday in Iqaluit.
Following Trump’s lead on foreign aid isn’t going to play well here. There’s no housing for support staff in Iqaluit either, and it’s not well positioned to surveil the Northwest Passage. Not much thought seems to have gone into this one.
New Republic: Trump’s Supreme Court Immunity Ruling Just Came Back to Bite Him
A federal judge ruled Monday that Trump’s FBI must disclose records from its Mar-a-Lago case file, complying with a FOIA request by Business Insider’s Jason Leopold. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell decided that the Supreme Court’s decision–combined with his return to the White House and its executive privileges–has insulated Trump enough from further criminal prosecution to allow the release of documents.
Last Updated: 10.Feb.2025 19:55 EST
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