Jimmy Tobias
Investigative reporter for The Nation, The Guardian, and more. FOIA fan. Co-founder, Public Domain: www.publicdomain.media Email: jimmytobias@protonmail.com Signal: jtoby.06
- Public Domain gets a shout out in The New York Times for breaking the story on the Interior Department’s leaked draft strategic plan. Not bad for a publication that's only a few months old: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/s...
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- In a new legal filing, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility asserts that Tyler Hassen — DOGE’s man at the Interior Department — violated the Whistleblower Protection Act and abused his authority. peer.org/new-interior...
- RECORDS: Trump's Interior Secretary Has Close Ties To The De-Extinction Company He Promotes www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d...
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- Reposted by Jimmy TobiasWe’re two weeks away from an EO mandating the construction of Jurassic Park.
- We obtained records that detail Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's close ties to Colossal Biosciences, the company that claims to have revived the extinct dire wolf: www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d...
- We obtained records that detail Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's close ties to Colossal Biosciences, the company that claims to have revived the extinct dire wolf: www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d...
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- Dino Grandoni out with an exclusive on Trump's emerging plans for national monuments. And Public Domain gets a shout out for our scoop on DOI's draft strategic plan: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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- SCOOP: Draft Strategic Plan for Trump's Interior Department Would Boost Extractive Industries, Cut Protections. The latest from Public Domain: www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-t...
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- Reposted by Jimmy TobiasPresident Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific populated by endangered sea turtles and whales. Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
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- ProPublica is now confirming our reporting on Bryton Shang's role as a DOGE operative at NOAA. They've also added Katrine Trampe to their DOGE database. We first uncovered Trampe's role at DOGE back in February: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
- A DOGE-linked tech executive with ties to the fish farming industry is now a senior adviser at NOAA. Story also features an internal email from NOAA with names of the Trump political team embedded at the agency: www.publicdomain.media/p/doge-linke...
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- A little scoop from Public Domain: Vivek Ramaswamy's best friend from high school is working for DOGE at the Interior Department. www.publicdomain.media/p/vivek-rama...
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- Probationary employees at the Department of Commerce were fired (again) last night:
- Breaking: Kathleen Sgamma, longtime oil and gas industry advocate, withdraws her nomination to be the next director of the Bureau of Land Management. The White House said in a statement it accepts her withdrawal and looks forward to naming another nominee: www.publicdomain.media/p/trumps-blm...
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- The top leaders at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 are leaving the agency, including the regional director and assistant regional director for ecological services, which oversees the endangered species program. Their resignation/retirement emails below:
- Public Domain gets a shout out in this Field and Stream story re: DOGE impacts on USFWS' migratory waterfowl programs: www.fieldandstream.com/hunting/doge...
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- A DOGE-linked tech executive with ties to the fish farming industry is now a senior adviser at NOAA. Story also features an internal email from NOAA with names of the Trump political team embedded at the agency: www.publicdomain.media/p/doge-linke...
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- Fish and Wildlife Service employees received an email today asking them to preserve their data, likely in anticipation of mass layoffs to happen later this spring or summer. “Mass fire us without losing our data/work?” was one source’s take on the purpose of the email.
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- This Utah Congresswoman Is Waging War On ‘Government Waste.’ She Oversaw A Nonprofit Accused Of Misusing Taxpayer Funds. The latest from Public Domain: www.publicdomain.media/p/utah-celes...
- Public Domain obtained the names and positions of some 40 Interior Department political appointees, many of which have not previously been reported: www.publicdomain.media/p/loyalists-...
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- Reposted by Jimmy TobiasUnidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
- Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
- Karen Budd-Falen, an attorney for public lands ranchers and a key figure in the sagebrush rebellion, has been delegated the authority of the Deputy Secretary at the Interior Department:
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- Public Domain obtained an internal USFWS memo on the agency's plans to use Emergency Consultations under ESA Section 7 for the benefit of timber and energy projects. Among other things the agency is keeping a close eye on FOIA requests related to these Emergency Consultations:
- PROFILES OF THE PURGE: This Federal Watchdog’s Firing Exposes MAGA’s Fear of Oversight www.publicdomain.media/p/profiles-o...
- Cougar Cubs Spotted in Michigan for the First Time in More Than a Century - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
- Reposted by Jimmy TobiasReally good article by @jamesctobias.bsky.social and @chrisdangelo.bsky.social about Inspectors General using the former IG from Interior to illustrate the role -- and the problem of firing them. www.publicdomain.media/p/profiles-o...
- Coastal liberals scapegoating NEPA and the ESA for their political coalition's abject failure against Trump. It smacks of desperation and is probably not going to work, but sad to see nevertheless.
- PROFILES OF THE PURGE: This Federal Watchdog’s Firing Exposes MAGA’s Fear of Oversight. The latest from Public Domain: www.publicdomain.media/p/profiles-o...
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- A nice breakdown of the billionaire-funded think tanks with bland names that are backing the attack on NEPA: prospect.org/economy/2024...
- Trump Fired Park Rangers — But Not the Ones Who Tend to the White House. Thanks to The Intercept for republishing our Public Domain scoop: theintercept.com/2025/03/17/t...
- Interior Department employees received early retirement and buy out offers today. Application deadline March 26:
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- NEW from Public Domain: Park Service Employees at White House Were Exempted from Mass Firings www.publicdomain.media/p/park-servi...
- DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
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- @zey.bsky.social on Covid origins. Proud to have one of my stories cited in the piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
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- Rep. Raúl Grijalva, longtime public land champion, has died. www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...
- “It’s a sad day when the federal government would fire a good employee and say it’s based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie,” Alsup said. “That should not be done in our country.” www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
- "The reality is the magazine has been gutted. Those left are capable professionals, but even if Outside still had a robust staff of journalists, Outside Inc. has demanded ... reporters and editors 'refrain from investigative journalism and political coverage.'" escapecollective.com/theres-a-wil...
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