On August 21, 2025, President Trump signed the EO Improving Our Nation Through Better Design as a national initiative to breathe new life into the design of places where the public interacts with government. President Trump wants these places to be both usable and beautiful.
Of course, with every new initiative comes a new government position. In this case there will be a Chief Design Officer housed in a National Design Studio whose position it will be to help recruit top creative talent, coordinate with departments and agencies, and devise innovative solutions both digitally and physically. This person will report to the White House Chief of Staff. It is a 3-year position.
Agencies have until July 4, 2026 to produce initial results in making their digital and physical locations designed such that they are both beautiful and useful. The focus is to be those areas that have the largest impact on American lives on a day-to-day basis. They will comply with the December 20, 2018 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act, Public Law 115-336 (aka 21st Century IDEA).
Section 3 of this act gave 180 days for agencies to comply with the following 8 rules for any new or redesigned website, web-based form, web-based application, or digital service:
does not overlap with or duplicate any legacy websites and, if applicable, ensure that legacy websites are regularly reviewed, eliminated, and consolidated
contains a search function that allows users to easily search content intended for public use
is provided through an industry standard secure connection
is designed around user needs with data-driven analysis influencing management and development decisions, using qualitative and quantitative data to determine user goals, needs, and behaviors, and continually test the website, web-based form, web-based application, or digital service to ensure user needs are addressed
provides users of the new or redesigned website, web-based form, web-based application, or digital service with the option for a more customized digital experience that allows users to complete digital transactions in an efficient and accurate manner, and
is fully functional and usable on common mobile devices.
I will have to state that from what I have seen, agencies simply did not redesign any of their websites in order to avoid this law. Of course, the law goes on to give a 1 year after the enactment of the Law for executive agency heads to:
review each website or digital service
submit to Congress a report prioritizing high-use website pages for revision
And the law requires 4-year follow up reports after the initial year (which was 2019, so the 4-year update was due 2023 and the next will be 2027). But now they have President Trump's EO to contend with and I doubt that he will let 'not accomplishing the task' slide.
The accompanying Fact Sheet President Donald J. Trump Improves our Nation Through Better Design explains that having a new National Design Studio it will enhance the usability and aesthetics of Federal digital and physical services by eliminating duplicative costs, standardizing design, and improving quality of public interactions with government services as well as bring Federal websites into compliance with the 21st Century IDEA law.
The Fact Sheet goes on to explain that only about 6% of Federal websites are rated "good" for use on mobile devices with a full 45% being not mobile friendly in the least. In total, there are about 26,000 Federal websites in the US and very few of them are in compliance with the 21st Century IDEA law.
President Trump wants to bring back both beauty and function to our country and he is starting with the Executive Branch of the government to bring about a digital renaissance, starting with ordering executive branch employees back to job sites, reducing paperwork, using plain language to communicate, using electronic payment systems (I am not happy about this one because it removes CASH from the equation and I firmly believe that our government should accept our currency as payment), and digitizing Federal retirement records.
As discussed in previous OBBB sections of my ANP Articles (I created an index to the topics in my August 2, 2025 ANP Article), those who receive tips or overtime will see the biggest change in their taxes. Those who receive Social Security will probably see some change; but, many already don't earn enough to have been paying taxes on Social Security anyway (like my aunt and uncle). The US-made-car-loan interest deduction is a gamble because you have to buy a new car in order to qualify and who can afford that right now? But, a good number of people will qualify for tips or overtime rebates (you still have to report the amount and you are only allowed up to a certain amount before it reverts back to taxable) to make it something to crow about until the cuts expire.
Now they just need to get the laws changed that allow all those arrested to be given a slap on the wrist and released to do it again!
Another category of 'delivering results' is American manufacturing with Johnson & Johnson announcing a $2,000,000,000 investment in North Carolina in addition to the already committed $55,000,000,000 with CEO Duato crediting the business tax changes of the OBBB as the primary reason.
President Trump decided to do a 'ride along' with DC National Guard the evening of August 21, 2025 beginning with the press conference below. During the press conference he discussed making DC beautiful again. He told them the National Guard would be in town for a while before moving on to the rest of the country. Judge Jeanine Pirro stated she is making sure DC Prosecutors "back the blue" in every case they try. [RELATED: ICONIC: Trump Is Going on Patrol in DC]
On August 21, 2025, the White House published the article President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian. Usually, I try to summarize the articles the White House produces; but, in the case of this one, I do not think I could do it justice. Look at what they found at the Smithsonian (click on the link for the article above to see the images that accompany some of these lies):
The National Museum of African American History and Culture debuted a series to educate people on “a society that privileges white people and whiteness” — defining so-called “white dominant culture“ as “ways white people and their traditions, attitudes, and ways of life have been normalized over time” and portraying “the nuclear family,” “work ethic,” and “intellect” as white qualities rooted in racism.
The campaign featured content from hardcore woke activist Ibram X. Kendi.
As part of its campaign to stop being “wealthy, pale, and male,” the National Portrait Gallery featured a choreographed “modern dance performance“ detailing the “ramifications“ of the southern border wall and commissioned an entire series to examine “American portraiture and institutional history… through the lens of historical exclusion.”
The American History Museum prominently displays the “Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride flag” at its entrance, which was also flown alongside the American flag at multiple Smithsonian campuses.
The National Portrait Gallery features art commemorating the act of illegally crossing the “inclusive and exclusionary” southern border — even making it a finalist for one of its awards.
The National Museum of African Art displayed an exhibit on “works of speculative fiction that bring to life an immersive, feminist and sacred aquatopia inspired by the legend of Drexciya,” an “underwater kingdom populated by the children of pregnant women who had been thrown overboard or jumped into the ocean during the Middle Passage.”
The American History Museum’s “LGBTQ+ History” exhibit seeks to “understand evolving and overlapping identities such as lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, transsexual, transvestite, mahu, homosexual, fluid, invert, urning, third sex, two sex, gender-bender, sapphist, hijra, friend of Dorothy, drag queen/king, and many other experiences,” and includes articles on “LGBTQ+ inclusion and skateboarding“ and “the rise of drag ball culture in the 1920s.”
The National Museum of the American Latino features programming highlighting “animated Latinos and Latinas with disabilities” — with content from “a disabled, plus-sized actress” and an “ambulatory wheelchair user” who “educates on their identity being Latinx, LGBTQ+, and disabled.”
The National Museum of the American Latino characterizes the Texas Revolution as a “massive defense of slavery waged by ‘white Anglo Saxon’ settlers against anti-slavery Mexicans fighting for freedom, not a Texan war of independence from Mexico,” and frames the Mexican-American War as “the North American invasion” that was “unprovoked and motivated by pro-slavery politicians.”
According to the National Museum of the American Latino, “what unites Latinas and Latinos“ is “the Black Lives Matter movement.”
The National Portrait Gallery commissioned a “stop-motion drawing animation” that “examines the career“ of Anthony Fauci.
The American History Museum’s exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of Title IX includes biological men competing in women’s sports and argues in favor of “transgender” athletes competing in sports against the opposite biological sex.
A exhibit at the American History Museum depicts migrants watching Independence Day fireworks “through an opening in the U.S.-Mexico border wall” and says America’s founders “feared non-White immigration.”
The American History Museum features a display that refers to the founding of America as “a profound unsettling of the continent.”
The American History Museum’s “American Democracy” exhibit claims voter integrity measures are “attempts to minimize the political power” of “new and diverse groups of Americans,” while its section on “demonstrations” includes only leftist causes.
An American History Museum exhibit features a depiction of the Statue of Liberty “holding a tomato in her right hand instead of a torch, and a basket of tomatoes in her left hand instead of a tablet.”
The National Museum of the American Latino features an anti-American exhibit that defines Latino history as centuries of victimhood and exploitation, suggests the U.S. is stolen land, and characterizes U.S. history as rooted in “colonization.”
The exhibit features writing from illegal immigrants “fighting to belong.”
The exhibit displays a quote from Claudia de la Cruz, the socialist nominee for president and a director an anti-American hate group, as well as another quote that reads, “We didn’t cross the border; the border crossed us.”
The exhibit remains prominently featured on its website alongside a quote from the Communist Party USA’s Angela Davis, who was once among the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives.
The National Museum of the American Latino describes the post-Mexican-American War California describes a “Californio” family losing their land to American “squatters.”
The Museum of American Art uses American sculpture “to invite dialogue and reflection on notions of power and identity.”
The American History Museum’s “Upending 1620” exhibit claims Pilgrims are a “myth,” instead framing them as colonizers.
The American History Museum’s exhibit about Benjamin Franklin focuses almost solely on slavery, directing visitors to learn more about his “electrical experiments and the enslaved people of his household,” noting his “scientific accomplishments were enabled by the social and economic system he worked within.”
The National Portrait Gallery was set to feature a “painting depicting a transgender Statue of Liberty” before the artist withdrew it.
The former interim director of the future Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum declared the museum will be “inclusive” of biological men posing as women.
I am appalled at what the loony left was able to accomplish as revisionist history at the Smithsonian! I am so glad President Trump is President right now, during our 250th Anniversary as a Country and that he had the forethought to create a commission to ready the country for a year of celebration (EO 14189 discussed in my August 12, 2025 ANP Article). And that one of the goals of that commission was to review the contents of the Smithsonian (discussed in my August 13, 2025 ANP Article).
14 SCOTUS stays or motions to vacate of lower court orders
1 SCOTUS affirmation of lower court order
8 suits where judges ruled for the federal government
23 suits where judges ruled against the federal government
There have been no updates to the LAWFARE Tracker since August 20, 2025.
However, SCOTUS made a ruling in the Application for Stay for NIH v American Public Health Association which was appealed to them after its journey through the lower courts:
It started April 2, 2025 with a filing by American Public Health Association (APHA) v National Institutes of Health (NIH) docket # 1:25-cv-10787 filed in District Court D of Massachusetts about Federal Grant Terminations. The lawsuit demanded the following remedies: 1) Declare that the Directives—including the February 28 Guidance and March 25 Guidance—and Defendants’ other actions to implement the Directives are unlawful and unconstitutional; 2) Declare that NIH’s termination of grants pursuant to the Directives, beginning on February 28, 2025, is unlawful and unconstitutional; 3) Temporarily restrain and/or preliminarily and permanently enjoin Defendants from implementing or enforcing the Directives going forward, including from terminating any grants or withholding review of applications, based on allegedly no longer effectuating agency priorities or; in a manner that this Court has determined is unlawful; 4) Order NIH to restore the grant awards, retroactive to the respective termination date, that NIH has terminated pursuant to the Directives or in a manner this Court has determined is unlawful or unconstitutional, including the grant terminations based on allegedly no longer effectuating agency priorities; 5) Order NIH and all ICs to review all properly submitted applications as required by NIH policy and consistent with priorities set forth in the currently operative NIH-Wide Strategic Plan and the ICs Strategic Plans; 6) Order Defendants to file status reports at regular intervals confirming their compliance with the Court’s order(s) and judgment(s) in this case; and 7) Enjoin Defendants from imposing any negative consequences on Individual Plaintiffs, Plaintiff Ibis, or Associational Plaintiffs’ Members and Pre-Members for involvement in this litigation. Judge D. J. Young denied the motion for the stay and suggested the defendants "seekexpedited briefing and review so that a precedential decision may issue with ramifications beyond these parties and these grants."
And the defendants did just that, on June 24, 2025, an appeal was filed by APHA v NIH docket # 25-1611 in the court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit over the denied stay. This court reversed the first decision by Judge William G. Young before Montecalvo, Kayatta, and Rikelman, as Circuit Judges.
NIH filed an appeal of this 2nd ruling with SCOTUS. On August 21, 2025, SCOTUS issued a 36 page document in which they are NOT in much agreement as in "granted in part and denied in part" on the application for stay filed by NIH.
First, SCOTUS says district courts do not have the jurisdiction to adjudicate claims "based on" the research-related grants or to order relief designed to enforce any "obligation to pay money" pursuant to those grants (page 1).
Page 2 of the document gives the disposition of the judges (with written justification by 4 of the judges):
Roberts (p7), Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson (p16) would deny the application in full.
Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch (p8), Kavanaugh (p13) would grant the application in full.
Barrett concurs in the partial grant of the application for stay.
After an early education by tutors and private schools in Charleston, Arthur's parents sent him to Britain at age 12 to study at Hackney (Harrow School), Westminster School in 1757, and Trinity Hall in Cambridge, graduating in 1760 at the age of 18. He studied law at Middle Temple in London. Followed by a 'walk-a-bout' in Europe for 2 years following his law graduation. He returned to South Carolina in 1763.
Arthur married Mary Izard on August 19, 1764. They settled at Middleton Place and had 9 children 8 of whom survived to adulthood (although a couple of those just barely).
Arthur was appointed a Justice of the Peace in Berkeley County in 1765 and held a seat in the provincial House of Commons from 1765 to 1768. He became a leader of the American Party, member of the Council of Safety, and member of the Council's Secret Committee. In 1770, Arthur and Mary took a 3-year tour of Europe.
From 1772 to 1775 he was elected to provincial House of Commons. In 1776, Arthur was elected to succeed his father, who had fallen ill, at the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence. Arthur and William Henry Drayton designed the Great Seal of South Carolina that year. He was ruthless against loyalists advocating the tar and feathering loyalists remaining in the city as well as confiscating the estates of those loyalists who abandoned their holdings.
He served in defense of Charleston in the Revolutionary War. When the city fell to the British in 1780, he was captured and sent to St. Augustine, Florida as a prisoner. Edward Rutledge and Thomas Heyward Jr were sent with him. Arthur was exchanged July 1781. He was then appointed to the state senate. In 1782, he was re-elected. In 1783, after peace was assured, he returned home to Middleton Place (declining another seat in the senate).
Arthur died from an unknown fever at Middleton Place on January 1, 1787 at age 44. He was interred in the Gardens at Middleton Place, Charleston, South Carolina. His estate is now a National Historic Landmark.
The US Navy Ship, the USS Arthur Middleton (AP-55/APA-25) was named in his honor on January 7, 1942. The ship was in service from 1942 to 1946 but not scrapped until 1973. The ship was one of the largest all welded passenger/cargo ships in service with accommodations for 116 passengers and 9,000 tons of cargo. It was reclassified as an attack transport on February 1, 1943.
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