New Scooplet from me: The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.” @wired.com http://www.wired.com/story/trump-…
— Vittoria Elliott (@telliotter.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T14:56:25.372Z
The Peace Building in DC has been renamed the “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace”The institute created by Congress, signed into law by Reagan, and axed by Trump back in February. He literally had the president of the USIP hauled out by police and has now deemed himself the emperor of peace.
— Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) 2025-12-07T15:24:49.322Z
Another clip shared by DC Metropolitan Police in response to my FOIA lawsuit from the DOGE raid on USIP shows the same white shirt cop addressing three USIP staff members outside the building. He says "Obviously there's gonna be lawsuits on the back end of this, and civil stuff."
— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T22:53:22.917Z
A former USIP official said of Trump: “It’s pretty ironic that he put his name on an institution he destroyed.”Taking over institutions and putting your name on it is another sign of authoritarianism.www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p…
— Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T18:14:15.997Z
Sad! 