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PrivacyDigestPrivacyDigest@mas.to
2026-02-01

#Trump Admin's Plans for $500 Million #USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers

The #StateDepartment 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.”
#boardofpeace

wired.com/story/trump-admins-p

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2026-01-29

Admin's Plans for $500 Million
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Steve Thompson PhDSteveThompson
2026-01-29

Republican Trump Admin's Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers | WIRED

wired.com/story/trump-admins-p

NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-12-19

…The current board consists of loyalists to #Trump following a purge of trustees…. They met Thurs in Palm Beach, Florida.

This is not the only building to which Trump’s name has been added in recent weeks in Washington. Earlier this month, his admin renamed the building that houses the US Institute of Peace [#USIP] downtown, emblazoning “Donald J. Trump” in several areas of the structure.

#KennedyCenter #PerformingArts #vandalism #criminal #law #Congress #vanity #narcissism #felon47

Trump recently added his name to the building for the U.S. Institute of Peace.
PrivacyDigestPrivacyDigest@mas.to
2025-12-05

Former #USIP Lawyer on DOGE: ‘Brass Knuckles on an #Authoritarian Fist’

George Foote, who served as the outside general counsel to the US Institute of Peace, said at WIRED’s Big Interview event that #DOGE operatives arrived like a “strike team.”

wired.com/story/big-interview-

Haggo
2025-12-04

Die ist jetzt also perverserweise Namenspatron des Donald J. Institute of Peace, nachdem sie im Februar verfügt hatte, die Finanzierung des USIP "shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law" to "reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law".
Das ist möglicherweise die Antwort darauf, dass das sich u.a. deswegen gewehrt hatte.

edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/pol

Bob K Mertz :distressedUS:bobkmertz@techhub.social
2025-07-26

Man who hates put in charge of peace....

No, I'm not kidding

yahoo.com/news/articles/academ

#USpol #peace #beattie #usip

informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:informapirata@mastodon.uno
2025-05-30

Dopo l'occupazione degli idiotopitechi del DOGE, l'Istituto per la Pace degli USA sembra il set di Idiocracy

Il direttore generale dello #USIP dice che il Dipartimento per l'efficienza governativa di Elon Musk ha lasciato la sede centrale dell'organizzazione no-profit a Washington DC in completo disordine, con danni causati dall'acqua, ratti e scarafaggi, secondo una nuova dichiarazione giurata riportata per la prima volta da Court Watch

techcrunch.com/2025/05/30/doge

@politica

Alan Miller :verified_paw: 🇺🇦fencepost@infosec.exchange
2025-05-30

At my college reunion watching a session between the college president and George Moose, head of #USIP.

WYM Modwhatyoumissed@mastodon.vtip.me
2025-05-22

In a pivotal ruling, the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) regained its headquarters as Judge Beryl Howell rejected the Trump administration's moves that ousted agency leaders. George Moose affirmed a commitment to USIP's peace mission after rogue efforts by DOGE's staff led to chaos. The Trump administration is appealing, claiming USIP's executive ties, while USIP maintains its independence. The dispute is not over yet; click for the full story. thedailybeast.com/small-agency #USIP #DOGE #GeorgeMoose #TrumpAdministration #Peacebuilding #FederalCourt

PrivacyDigestPrivacyDigest@mas.to
2025-05-20

#DOGE Loses Battle to #TakeOver #USIP —and Its $500 Million Headquarters

A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace “unlawful.”
#Musk

wired.com/story/usip-doge-head

Anomalous HumanJustToOdd@nerdculture.de
2025-05-19

>>U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled the USIP president and board members were unlawfully fired . . . and should be reinstated. In her 102-page ruling, Howell also declared that the transfers of the institute's assets, including its headquarters, seized in the administration's takeover are null and void.<<

#NPR #USIP #BerylHowell #USPol
npr.org/2025/05/19/g-s1-67681/

aztecladyherhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club
2025-05-19
NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-19

Judge #BerylHowell rules that #Trump / #DOGE's *entire takeover* of the U.S. Institute of Peace #USIP was unlawful—including the removal of board members & termination of programs.

Her order is very long—she not only reinstates the true board members but also boots DOGE's imposter board members & nullifies all of the illegal actions they took during their illegitimate takeover of the Institute of Peace.

#law #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #Musk
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The Constitution makes clear that the President's constitutional authority only extends as far as Article II, but even Article Il does not grant him absolute removal authority over his subordinates, under current binding caselaw precedent. Outside of Article II, he has little constitutional authority to act at all. The President's efforts here to take over an organization outside of those bounds, contrary to statute established by Congress and by acts of force and threat using local and federal law enforcement officers, represented a gross usurpation of power and a way of conducting government affairs that unnecessarily traumatized the committed leadership and employees of USIP, who deserved better.DECLARED that plaintiff Board members who were purportedly terminated remain members of the USIP Board & may be removed by the President only pursuant to the terms of 22 USC §4605(f); …the purported removal of Amb. George Moose as acting president of the Institute by a resolution adopted by less than a majority of the duly appointed Board of Directors of USIP was invalid, & therefore null, void, & w/o legal effect; it…the purported appointments of Kenneth Jackson & Nate Cavanaugh to the positions of president of USIP pursuant to resolutions adopted by less than a majority of the duly appointed Board of Directors of USIP were invalid & therefore null, void, & w/o legal effect; …Amb. Moose therefore remains president of USIP & may be removed only by a duly constituted Board of Directors, under 22 USC §4606; …all actions taken or authorized by Jackson or Cavanaugh as acting presidents of USIP were invalid & therefore null, void, & w/o legal effect; …given the illegitimate appointment of Cavanaugh to the position as USIP president, the actions & documents by which he purportedly transferred USIP's headquarters…to the GSA were invalid & therefore null, void, & w/o legal effect; …the transfer of USIP's other financial or physical assets to the GSA was likewise invalid, null void, & w/o legal effect; it is furtherDECLARED that the resolution adopted by 2 ex officio Directors of USIP's Board purportedly appointing Adam Amar as president of the Endowment of the USIP Fund & authorizing & instructing him to transfer any & all of the Endowment's assets to USIP was invalid, null, void, & w/o any legal effect; …plaintiff Board members duly appointed under 22 USC §2605(b)(4) shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4605(e) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out their duties…; …USIP Acting President Amb. Moose shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4606(a) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out his duties…; …defendants, except for the ex officio members of USIP's Board of Directors to the extent their official positions allow, are ENJOINED from further trespass against the real & personal property belonging to the Institute & its employees, contractors, agents, & other representatives; …[&] are ENJOINED from maintaining, retaining, gaining, or exercising any access or control over the Institute's offices, facilities, computer systems, or any other records, files, or resources, & from acting or purporting to act in the name of Institute, & from using the Institute's name, emblem, badge, seal & any other mark of recognition of the Institute; it is furtherORDERED that the defendants who are ex officio members of USIP's Board of Directors may not act unilaterally or in any combination of the three of them together, without additional consent constituting a majority of members of the duly constituted USIP Board of Directors, to transfer any of USIP's assets; and it is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court is directed to close this case. SO ORDERED. Date: May 19, 2025 This is a final and appealable order. BERYL A. HOWELL
Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2025-05-19

Judge Beryl Howell with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down yet another attempt by Trump’s administration to reshape the federal government on Monday,
issuing an order ruling that the administration’s DOGE-led “unilateral actions” were
a “gross usurpation of power” that properly belonged to Congress.

The U.S. Institute of Peace ( #USIP ) was established by Congress as an “independent nonprofit corporation” in a 1984 bill signed by President Ronald Reagan
that explicitly spelled out the intention for USIP to operate independently and enacted statutory prerequisites for a president to remove any of USIP’s board members.

Over the past four decades, Congress has continued to fund USIP “through appropriations bills signed by seven different Presidents from both major political parties, including the current President during his first term in office,” wrote Howell in her 102-page opinion.

But then in “a drastic and abrupt change of course,” Trump signed an executive order in which he “unilaterally decided” that USIP is “unnecessary,” Howell continued.

This entailed “rushed” actions that were undertaken with “blunt force,
backed up by law enforcement,” including removing board members, having DOGE staff “forcibly take over USIP headquarters in mid-March” and replacing the board members,
“hand[ing] off USIP’s property for no consideration” to the General Services Administration (GSA),
and “abruptly terminat[ing] nearly all of its staff and activities around the world.”

The Trump administration took these actions
“without asking Congress to cease or reprogram appropriations or by recommending that Congress enact a new law to dissolve or reduce the Institute or transfer its tasks to another entity,”

a violation of the president’s constitutional duties under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution
mediaite.com/news/federal-judg

MrWtr0102MrWtr0102@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-05-18

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#JacobAltik, 32
Lawyer at #DOGE
Connected to: #ExecutiveOfficeOfThePresident (a/k/a #EOP), #USAfricanDevelopmentFoundation (a/k/a #USADF), #InterAmericanFoundation (a/k/a #IAF), #USInstituteOfPeace (a/k/a #USIP)

Links: projects.propublica.org/elon-m, newenglandlegal.org/administra, michigan.law.umich.edu/news/ja

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#NetworkOfDOGE
#ProPublica
#ElonMusk

Photo and information regarding Jacob Altik, an employee at the Department of Government Efficiency (a/k/a DOGE). From the website of ProPublica (February 6th, 2025) (Updated May 7th, 2025). Number 3, of 86.
MrWtr0102MrWtr0102@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-05-16

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#JustinAimonetti, 31
Connected to: #USInstituteOfPeace (a/k/a #USIP), #USAfricanDevelopmentFoundation (a/k/a #USADF)

Links: projects.propublica.org/elon-m, theintercept.com/2025/03/05/le, web.archive.org/web/2025011416, linkedin.com/in/justin-aimonet

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#NetworkOfDOGE
#ProPublica
#DOGE
#ElonMusk

Photo and information regarding Justin Aimonettti, an employee at the Department of Government Efficiency (a/k/a DOGE). From the website of ProPublica (February 6th, 2025) (Updated May 7th, 2025). Number 2, of 86.
NonilexNonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-02

#Trump’s #budget calls for an elimination of the federal agency known as #AmeriCorps, whose funding for nationwide #CommunityService programs had already been slashed & its staff sent home.
Also on the list of agencies to be eliminated, which the admin said will “reduce *waste* & reduce unnecessary governmental entities,” are several small govt institutions that have been effectively gutted by #Musk’s #DOGE, including the US Institute of #Peace [#USIP] & the #Smithsonian’s Woodrow Wilson Center.

Kim PeralesKimPerales@toad.social
2025-04-29

"First they came for USAID & USIP
And I didn't speak out
Bc I wasn't part of #USAID or #USIP
Then they came for the #immigrants
And I didn't speak out
Bc I wasn't an immigrant
Then they came for our #universities
And I didn't speak out
Bc I wasn't an educator or a student
Then they came for the queer community
And I didn't speak out
Bc I didn't identify as #LGBTQ+
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

My take💙on the poem by M Niemöller."
-K Kennedy

#Resist #USPol

A cartoon-style illustration depicting three historical contexts: the 1830s American West, 1940s Nazi Germany, and present-day USA. Each scene features a figure in authority accompanied by marginalized individuals, all expressing the phrase, "I’m just following orders.”
Piacecallihelper.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-04-23

Audio 22 minutes: "GUEST: South East Asian Expert and former employee of United States Institute of Peace" Brian Harding www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #USIP #DOGe #coup #frauds #law

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