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July 02, 2025
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RELEASE: Tracking Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
“It’s only a matter of time before Trump and Musk’s reckless assault on disaster response and preparedness kills people in the United States.”
July 02, 2025
Abundance Praise for Trump Appointees
Abundance supporters were big backers of Trump appointees including Chris Wright, Doug Burgum and Jay Bhattacharya. Now that the Trump administration has (predictably) engaged in blatantly destructive actions, they’re hoping you’ll forget their earlier support of these Trump toadies.
June 30, 2025
Release: Revolving Door Project Executive Director On New Abundance Publication
The Revolving Door Project issues comment on the announcement of Abundance-focused publication, The Argument
June 27, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 23: Appointees Trade Power for Perks as Trump’s Financial Regulators Refuse to Do Their Jobs
In this week’s installment, we look into Scott Turner’s demands for palatial accommodations, Stephen Miller’s plans to profit from mass deportations, and the administration’s enforcement agencies’ redefinition of their roles as corporate protection agencies.
June 26, 2025
Man Who Crashed The Economy, Called For Further Recessions Warns Potential Socialist Governance Will Lead To Economic Devastation.
Larry Summers is up in arms over Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York Mayoral Primary, worried that Mamdani’s “Trotskyite economic policies” will crash the economy.
June 26, 2025
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Kelcy Warren
Oil baron Kelcy Warren made a multi-million dollar bet Trump after he got the Dakota Access Pipeline in the last administration. It is clear he will continue to reap the benefits of his relationship with Trump.
June 25, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Chatbot, Are We Cooked?
On Tuesday, as New Yorkers headed to the polls for the primaries—hours before Zohran Mamdani’s joyous triumph over Andrew Cuomo would be apparent—it was 100°F, the outdoor public pools were closed to the public, and my neighbors were barefoot in the spray of a fire hydrant. “Opening fire hydrants without spray caps is illegal, wasteful, and dangerous,” read the 12:34 pm email I received from the city. Also wasteful and dangerous was failing to open the city’s public pools in time for a record-breaking heat dome.
June 23, 2025
Attacks on Federal Climate Data Will Accelerate a Financial Crisis
The DOGE playbook for climate disasters: Gut federal climate data, let insurers jack up rates, and bury the financial results.
June 23, 2025
Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis: A Closer Look at North Carolina
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has called for abolishing the Federal Insurance Office. Is it because the data that FIO released makes him look bad?
June 23, 2025
Trump Cracks Down on Undocumented People as Corporate Harms Continue Unabated
The last two weeks saw the Trump administration continue to ramp up racist anti-immigrant rhetoric, raids, and deportation quotas, balancing the whims of industry with the demands of fascist political appointees.
June 20, 2025 | The American Prospect
Why Is a Former Obama Official Attacking the Left on Climate?
“We’ve lost the culture war on climate,” Harvard law professor and former Obama administration adviser Jody Freeman told Politico last Wednesday. The article amounts to a dry eulogy for efforts to combat climate change, with Freeman’s refrain that the climate movement failed to go mainstream in the background. What goes unmentioned: Freeman’s extracurricular work as oil industry whisperer.
June 20, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 22: Another Week In The Circus Of Destruction
We are just over ten percent of the way through Donald Trump’s second term, an ongoing project of destruction, destabilization and self-enrichment for the president and his gaggle of sycophants.
June 18, 2025
How Crypto Is Buying DC One Revolver At A Time
How the cryptocurrency industry bought influence at the highest levels of government, one payoff at a time
June 13, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 21: Trump Cuts the Corruption Cops
This week, nothing too unusual happened, which is to say that the Trump administration continued its crusade to further enrich the rich at the expense of everyone else.
June 12, 2025
Tracking State-Level DOGEs
While Elon Musk’s brainchild continues to rampage through our federal government, governors and state legislatures are creating their own DOGE-style bodies, seeking to emulate Musk’s DOGE’s destruction within their own state governments.