Julie Novkov

Nothing to worry about, just state election officials preparing for possible illegal and unconstitutional efforts by the Trump administration to tamper with the 2026 election

The disappearing art gallery in your post office The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.

In 2021, I FOIA’d the database of USPS’s New Deal art, and each work’s condition.

In 2022, records came back with a massive spreadsheet & 1,700+ historical photos.

In 2024, I wrote the first draft of this story, at home in bed with Covid.

And now, we can finally bring you the full project.

nor shall any State deprive any *person* of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The second clause says "person," not "citizen." That means everybody. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Friends: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;

Not many federal attorneys---and certainly no leadership---left in Minneapolis. I suspect a contempt order is imminent. Without middle managers, however, that contempt order may go pretty far up the chain.

Oh you should absolutely sign up with a parental Facebook page for your college. "Why isn't there a single portal where I can review all of Johnny's assignment and test grades?"

I know there are many far more important things to worry about, but I'll be sad if the US fails to fulfill all of these charges.

3. It should celebrate and center the athletes.

2. It should lift and proclaim the optimistic spirit of the Olympics as a space to celebrate something beautiful that the world does together.

I have my own criteria for what makes an Opening Ceremony great. 1. It should give a confident sense of place, that of the home country, primary city, or both.

People are having fun at Kid Rock's expense but this doesn't bode well for the Olympics Opening Ceremony for LA28. Any other modern president would be, "LA? Terrific! We literally have the best people in the world for this. I'll just stand back and let Hollywood and the organizers do their thing."

I think we have to be very careful here. The appropriations bills are one thing, but as you all know, this administration has a bag of dirty tricks they have and will continue to use to undermine research and frankly, methodically chip away at it until it is a shell of its former self. 1/

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.

DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

How does one teach federalism without teaching Prigg v. Pennsylvania?

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

My version of con law could not be taught in some states. I'm guessing most poli sci versions of civil rights and liberties would not be teachable as well.

ICE After Minneapolis Trump’s team wants a reset on its mass-deportation goals, not a retreat.

NEW Trump has burned through much of his immigration political capital before ICE could scale up its mass deportation tools. Now he wants a “softer” tune to stop the agency from becoming a pariah, and to shift attention from Minneapolis to his border record www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

(The two actually did meet at the old I Love NY Cup, a junior gymnastics meet which was held at a hockey arena--they put plywood down over the ice to set up the meet. The girls were freezing!)

Summer Olympics: You will jump and twist barefoot on a surface with big springs under it, covered in carpet.
Winter Olympics: You will jump and twist on a rock-hard surface of LITERAL ICE with giant knives attached to your feet.

Infectious diseases plus college living settings is a really terrible combination. Thinking of these young people and hoping that UF and Florida DOH can stop this in its tracks before anyone is seriously harmed.

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Coverage Denied Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - Coverage Denied

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About 350,000 employees have been pushed out of government, disproportionately in agencies that are seen as more liberal. Federal hirings, annual performance evaluations, and even employee awards must now consider how loyal employees are to President Trump, and are closely monitored by political appointees. As I’ve detailed previously, employees with stronger protections than those afforded by Schedule F have been fired because they are related to the wrong person, because the investigated abuses of power, because they were tagged by the MAGA online right as being disloyal, because they refused to break the law by firing others without cause, because they are trans, because they provided accurate information to a judge, because they made public statements about the effects of the President’s policies on their agencies, or, for no reason at all.

The Schedule F plan has been around since Trump's first term, and in the meantime he has created a de-facto at will employment system where any federal employee can be fired for any reason (see below).
So does it still matter?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

It would be a service to the whole country for someone to extract a comment on this from George W. Bush.

I don't want to watch this race unfold but I kind of feel like I have to. You know, for professional reasons.

The way my jaw bounced off the floor when I saw that one . . .

3. How can we be sure we will know when things go wrong, as they inevitably will?
4. Who will be held accountable when things go wrong and what will accountability look like to reduce the risk of further occurrences?

Whenever you see this or a different version of this story, ask yourself these questions:
1. Should this tool (or a different version of it) be used for this purpose?
2. What guardrails ensure that it is operating in ways that respect people's rights?

Final Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf

Way back in the dark ages when I was young, there was this very unpleasant word used to describe teenage girls who were perceived as sexually attractive to older men. What was it? It's hard to remember. Oh yes, jailbait!

They 100% knew it was wrong. All of them. It wasn't "a different time."