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Three Watchdogs Fired By Email. They Never Left.
On August 1, 2025, Arthur Gonzalez opened his email and read two lines—his seat on the board that oversees finances for Puerto Rico was “terminated effective immediately.” Betty Rosa got the same email that day. Andrew Biggs got his twelve days later. There was no reason given.
Congress made the law so that should never happen. A president can only remove a member for cause, which means telling them why and letting them answer first. So they sued.
The regime claimed they already explained the reasons for the terminations. What they were referring to was an unnamed White House official speaking to the right-wing site Breitbart, when they said the Puerto Rican board was “run inefficiently and ineffectively by its governing members for far too long.”
When asked whether an anonymous quote to a news site counts as legal notice, the regime’s lawyer said: “I don’t know.” Seriously, that was their answer.
Judge María Antongiorgi-Jordán ruled the three were terminated with no process at all. The judge added that due to the fact the law was never followed, they were never lawfully removed. They didn’t need to be reinstated, because legally they never left. On September 1, the judge made the injunction permanent.
These three don’t get paid. Not a dime. The board seats are volunteer work, and the regime’s lawyers argued that was a reason they didn’t deserve an injunction. The judge said it cut the other way.
A Trump Voter Inside ICE Blew The Whistle
Last August at 10:13 on a Friday night, an ICE unit chief from the Office of Professional Responsibility sent an email to the Homeland Security Inspector General. They were a longtime Republican who voted for Trump in 2020 and in 2024, and had spent 17 years at ICE.
Attached to the email they sent was a memo which outlined how ICE was essentially handing out badges to people it never thoroughly vetted. Job offers were being made before the security division signed off on them. Applicants were getting favorable determinations “without fingerprints, identity verification, or credit checks.”
The unit chief asked the Inspector General to put a stop to all of it, in addition to reviewing every single recent hire. On February 11, 2026, that office closed the case with no findings, no referral, and no report. The unit chief, who’s now retired, handed the memo to reporters through their attorney.
The memo is public now. So every family fighting a wrongful ICE arrest can hand it to a judge. Every member of Congress can hold it up and demand to know who signed off.
They had 17 years in. They wrote the email on a Friday night and filed the complaint properly, but the watchdog buried it. So they made sure we all got to read it anyway. If Congress switches hands, it will be one of many investigations waiting.
Maryland Voters Get The Final Say
Over the last year, Trump’s been pushing Republicans to redraw maps in their states to hand him more House seats. Texas did it with just a legislative vote, never asking a single voter.
Maryland doesn’t work that way, especially since they’d need to change the state constitution. So Democrats put it on the November ballot. Vote yes and the state’s map-drawing rules stop applying to congressional districts. Vote no and they stay.
Republicans sued over it twice, in two different counties. Leading one of those cases was Jeffrey Clark—the man Trump nearly installed as acting attorney general to help overturn the 2020 election. Clark argued it himself, and told the court that Democrats want “to get rid of one Republican seat on the Eastern shore.”
That seat belongs to Andy Harris, the only Republican in Maryland’s congressional delegation. The state Republican Party is running the campaign to kill the measure. Its chair is Nicole Beus Harris. His wife.
They won both times, and printing stopped statewide. On Thursday evening, with the deadline to send ballots to the printer running out, the Maryland Supreme Court put the question back, ordering it rewritten in plainer language. Two justices would have thrown it off the ballot entirely.
“This ruling keeps the power where it belongs: with the voters,” Gov. Wes Moore said. He also pledged to campaign hard for the amendment.
Republicans went to court twice to keep this away from Marylanders. On November 3, the voters decide. As they should.
Sherrill Plugged It In Herself
Trump’s tax bill wiped out a 30% credit for home solar on December 31, nearly a decade earlier than expected. The tax break only reached people who own a roof. More than a third of New Jersey households rent.
This law doesn’t hand renters a tax credit. It clears everything standing in their way. On September 1, in Trenton’s Stacy Park, Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law that lets renters hang a solar panel on a balcony railing. It plugs into a regular wall outlet and makes up to 1,200 watts of electricity. No town can require a permit, and no utility can charge a fee or stall installations. And if you pay your own electric bill, no landlord or condo board can impose a blanket ban.
When making the announcement, Sherrill plugged a solar panel in. “These units cost a fraction as much as rooftop solar,” she said, “but they can still shave up to $50 off the typical monthly bill.”
That $50 isn’t a rebate. It’s what you stop paying the electric company once the panel starts working. The panels are already being sold at home improvement stores. Germany has 1.3 million of them running. The law starts March 1.
This is how it’s supposed to work. Politicians doing work to save us money, not just cash checks from billionaire donors. Fighting for our right to vote, not just trying to steal it from us. And actually working for us, not just themselves.
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The Puerto Rico seats don’t even pay. They still had to sue to keep them. That’s how small the respect is—and how little it took for a judge to say no.
Love that. Let’s carry this energy for two more months!
Sherrill plugged the panel in herself. Renters have been told for years the climate bill wasn’t for them. This one is. Don’t let it get buried under the map fight.