• Politics, Schmolitics

    El Rey Trompo Has $1B In Pro Malo Legal Work In The Bag

    April 12, 2025 - By 

    Post: These are just the latest legal firms to bend the knee to Trump, the king of spin and deceit. Now the Deputy Attorney General of the United States can call on his former law firm for free legal work…for evil, not the public good. And also bar Justice Department lawyers from American Bar Association events.     Four of the firms – Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett– agreed to pledge $125m each in pro bono work to causes backed by the Trump administration. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft said it would…

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    Grade D for DOGE:  Email Terminates NEH Grant For Archeology Southwest

    April 12, 2025 - By 

    Post: How one NEH-funded group found out their grant was terminated – in an a poorly written, bellicose email that looked like spam.   Dear Friends, Well, last Thursday, April 3, after I wrote to you, we received a uniquely sourced, strangely formatted, poorly written e-mail. Ostensibly (see below) from the federal government, it was a notice of termination for our recently awarded $350,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant that funds meaningfully important expansions of the cyberSW […] Link: New Mexico Delegation Reintroduces Chaco Protection Legislation – Archaeology Southwest