Mission Hill Health Movement

08/16/2026

Mission Hill, Bring your Tomatoes!

08/12/2026

No flying for me!

Alarm after Trump admin hires 2,000 gamers to fill air traffic controller jobs: ‘If they f*** up, people die’
Source: The Independent

The Trump administration is facing backlash after transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced 2,000 video gamers have been hired to serve as air traffic

08/12/2026

LA Lakers sell for a record $12.5 billion to ex-Disney CEO Iger and Jared Kushner’s brother Josh
Source: CNN

In a stunning twist, former Disney CEO Bob Iger and venture capitalist Josh Kushner are buying one of the greatest trophy assets in US sports: The Los Ange

08/07/2026

08/07/2026

Well, this is a new flavor of dumb. The Trump administration just cut a German energy company a check for $1.22 billion. Not to build something. To make sure they don't.

Fifth time this year. The running total for paying companies to abandon clean power is creeping up on $4 billion in public money.

RWE had leases lined up for wind turbines off New York, California, and Louisiana, including a project near Humboldt, California. Doug Burgum's Interior Department bought them out instead. RWE says the cash is headed toward gas and LNG projects.

Let's call this what it is. Not a subsidy for wind. A bounty for killing it.

Here's the punchline. Burgum framed this as protecting Americans from "costly subsidies." Said with a straight face, apparently, while wiring over a billion taxpayer dollars to a foreign company.

None of this was illegal on RWE's end. The leases were approved, the projects permitted. Courts haven't been kind to this administration's attempts to just cancel wind farms outright, either. A federal judge in Oregon was reportedly leaning against them on this exact issue this week.

So when you can't win in court, you buy your way around it.

The bill comes due later. A German company walks away with the payout. Everyone else inherits the heat.

08/07/2026

BREAKING: Federal appeals court orders Trump to halt his $400 million White House ballroom

A federal appeals court just dealt Donald Trump a major legal blow, ordering his administration to immediately stop construction on the $400 million ballroom being built on the site of the demolished East Wing.

In a divided 2-1 ruling on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction won by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued after Trump tore down the historic East Wing and began construction on a sprawling 90,000-square-foot ballroom without ever asking Congress for authorization.

The court gave the administration 14 days to appeal to the Supreme Court, but for now, the message from the bench is clear: the president doesn't get to bulldoze American history and rewrite the White House on a whim, without any oversight from the people's representatives.

This isn't the first time a judge has told Trump no on this project. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, already ruled that no federal law comes close to giving Trump the authority he claims to have. Leon allowed underground work to continue but blocked any further above-ground construction, a decision the administration immediately fought to overturn.

Trump's lawyers tried everything to keep the bulldozers running, even claiming that pausing construction posed a national security threat to the president and his family. Justice Department attorneys called the halt "unprecedented" and pointed to plans for bulletproof glass, bomb shelters and missile-resistant steel as reasons the work needed to continue right away.

The courts weren't buying it. Leon had already written that the giant hole next to the White House is a problem entirely of Trump's own making.

This ruling adds to a growing pattern of accountability catching up with Trump this year, from the courts stripping his name off the Kennedy Center to now blocking his personal $400 million vanity project at the White House. Piece by piece, the checks and balances this administration tried to steamroll are holding.

08/07/2026

08/07/2026

President Donald Trump’s recent clawback of nearly 3 million acres of protected land in Utah represents the largest removal of land from federal monument status in American history, an Emancipator investigation found. It is more than five times the amount of land all previous presidents combined h...

08/07/2026

So hard to figure out.