Trump’s plan for the USIP building may be illegal

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

Vance and others don’t mention Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Pritzker does this the right way. Vance’s statement leaving out any mention of Jews is horrible. Search for my other posts on the Holocaust.

Today, we mourn the six million Jews and countless others murdered during the Holocaust.This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we recommit ourselves to honoring their memories and standing up to antisemitism and bigotry in all its forms.

JB Pritzker (@jbpritzker.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T18:46:50.462Z

The widespread erasure of Jews from the Holocaust is an exploding trend. Stop playing into it. Once that succeeds, we are truly on a rapidly decaying downward spiral.

Kristin Reid (@kristinmreid.bsky.social) 2026-01-28T05:07:15.129Z

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) 2026-01-28T03:00:30.056Z

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's getting harder to remember as the number of living Holocaust survivors dwindles. Read this piece on the work of remembering: lnk.thebulwark.com/49ZzOP0

The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-01-27T21:15:49.765Z

this story quotes:- A trump ambassador- A museum run by Trump appointees- Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors… aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.

David M. Perry (@lollardfish.bsky.social) 2026-01-28T03:01:38.939Z

ICE’s murder in Minnesota – 1/24/26

They murdered a man and lied about it.

ANOTHER ANGLE: the original video was deleted but I screen capped it. Here it is.

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-01-24T20:39:19.185Z

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) 2026-01-24T20:31:15.375Z

The Mercator map makes Greenland appear much larger than it is

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) 2026-01-18T19:43:41.100Z

I believe Denmark

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Danes agreed to form a working group to discuss the surrender of Greenland to Trump. "No we didn't" says the Danish foreign minister, indeed "there will be no discussion of turnover." http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/det-…

Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T02:06:49.702Z

I believe Denmark. Trump and his flunkies are liars.

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T02:57:43.331Z