So that he can say that he 'drained the swamp'?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/21/trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Trump claims multiple people arrested for vandalizing Reflecting Pool (Kaanita Iyer/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/politics/reflecting-pool-lincoln-memorial-algae-renovation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p1#a260621p1
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came across this pretty amazing WBAI broadcast of lenny bruce's 1966 memorial at judson church, with ginsberg & other heavies, & a brief sliver of the '66 fugs performing a garage-jangle "carpe diem": https://youtu.be/PzGy9VAKpc8&t=1254
snipped a l'il mp3 for fugs…
Today, much of the Inyo Mountains is Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land.
In 1872, westward expansion-hungry lawmakers passed a pro-mining law that still holds:
if a prospector finds gold or another valuable mineral on federal land,
they can stake a claim, file it with the bureau, and 20 acres around the site are theirs for a small fee.
In 1872, a prospector was a man with a floppy-brim hat and pickaxe.
In 2026, it’s a billion-dollar company and 1,200lb steel …
Blue paint seen chipping off in Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after algae turn it green (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/blue-paint-peeling-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-algae-green-rcna350883
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p74#a260619p74
The Trump administration does not plan to seek approval from Congress for Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot arch,
arguing that they do not need it because lawmakers a century ago authorized a somewhat similar project that was never built.
Trump has targeted Memorial Circle
— a traffic roundabout on Columbia Island, a man-made island tucked inside the edge of Washington
— for his planned arch.
Teams of workers conducting surveys and geophysical testing began work …
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