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Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management — Sources tell WIRED that the OPM's top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
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Compelling Mass Civil Servant Resignations Will Create Chaos — Elon Musk's role at Twitter represents a Rorschach test for how people think he will fare in restructuring government. For fans, he was able to cut the majority of the employees, and the site continued to run more or less as before.
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ABC News, Townhall, ClearanceJobs and Raw Story
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Trump and Musk's plan for a massive purge of the federal workforce, explained — Donald Trump and Elon Musk's sweeping effort to purge and reshape the federal government is underway. — Federal employees have arrived at a “fork in the road,” the new administration proclaimed in a Tuesday night announcement.
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RedState and OutsideTheBeltway
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Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign — An email is set to go out to federal workers beginning Tuesday. — President Donald Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a “deferred resignation” …
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Trump offering federal workers buyouts with about 8 months' pay in effort to shrink government
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Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
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Washingtonian, New York Times, Ken Klippenstein, Twitchy, Mediaite, Daily Mail, FedScoop and Scripps News
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“Trump is trying to collapse our economy”: War on “woke” revealed as a war on all Americans — Christian nationalists behind the spending shutdown aim to punish everyone, not just imaginary Marxists — Initially, the most striking detail in the White House Office of Management and Budget memo …
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The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government — Washington's newest pastime is counting the number of impeachable offenses Trump commits in his first 100 days. It's a parlor game rather than a government proceeding because you don't impeach a president less than three months into his term …
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Talking Points Memo
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Trump is already acting like a king — Late on Monday night, the Trump administration sent out a stunning memo suspending all federal grants. Chaos followed, with everything from veteran's charities facing financial ruin to reports of Medicaid portals shutting down across the country.
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Axios, Reason, The Lever, The Dispatch and Esquire
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Throw Biden under the bus — Sleepy Joe landed us in this mess with bad, selfish decisions — When Joe Biden stepped aside in favor of Kamala Harris, the overwhelming majority of Democrats praised him for the decision and painted an overall flattering portrait of Biden's presidency and his career.
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New Jersey Online
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Powerless, Democrats Debate Just How Deep in the Wilderness They Are
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‘Written by children’: Critics slam New York Times' glowing coverage of Trump official — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt received glowing coverage from the New York Times for her press briefing debut despite delivering a performance that other observers have described as an “embarrassment.”
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New Republic, Jerusalem Post, PinkNews and Twitchy
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White House Press Secretary Makes Steely and Unflinching Debut — Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant. — So much for respecting your elders. — Karoline Leavitt, the new White House press secretary …
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RFK Jr. is in the hot seat — Donald Trump's attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, who represented the president during his first impeachment trial, was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning in a party-line, 12-10 vote. The former Florida attorney general is expected to be confirmed on the Senate floor.
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Live Updates: R.F.K. Jr. Faces Bipartisan Grilling Over Vaccines and Medicaid
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This Is About More Than RFK Jr.
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Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them. — A Trump administration memo sent to U.S. federal agencies Monday night ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs across the government. It caused widespread confusion among agency officials …
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Defense One and Palo Alto Online
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New Trump memo claims authority to ignore Congress
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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us — The narrative that OpenAI, Microsoft, and freshly minted White House “AI czar” David Sacks are now pushing to explain why DeepSeek was able to create a large language model that outpaces OpenAI's while spending orders …
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OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor — White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft — OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company's proprietary models …
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Iowa Democrats flip Senate seat in special election to cut into Republican majority — Iowa Democrats have flipped a state Senate seat vacated earlier this year by Chris Cournoyer, who resigned to become the state's new lieutenant governor. — Democrat Mike Zimmer has defeated Republican Kate Whittington …
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Daily Kos, The Hill, WQAD-TV, The Downballot, Washington Examiner, Iowa Capital Dispatch, New York Daily News and Iowa Starting Line
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Trump hires new lawyers to appeal his hush money conviction — The lawyers will replace Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who represented Trump during the trial last spring. — NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has hired the elite white-shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell to appeal his criminal conviction in the Manhattan hush money case.
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Fox News
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Trump appeals hush money criminal conviction
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Alternet.org and WHDH-TV
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DOJ moves to drop prosecution of former Trump co-defendants in classified documents case — The request offered no explanation for the Justice Department's decision to abandon the case against the two Trump allies. — The Justice Department on Wednesday moved to drop its effort …
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DOJ Drops Push to Prosecute Trump Associates in Records Case
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Trump revokes temporary protected status for 600,000 Venezuelans — New DHS secretary Kristi Noem ends extension that allows people to stay if they cannot return safely to home country — The Trump administration has revoked an extension of deportation protections that the previous Biden …
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SCOOP: RFK Jr. Secretly Recorded Second Wife During Divorce and Acknowledged Being “Polygamous” — One recording might have violated state law. It was part of a messy saga that ended with her suicide. — In the early 2010s, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went through a contentious divorce with his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy.
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Trump DOJ appointee in DC lashes out after flurry of ‘personally insulting’ leaks in his first week — The acting top federal prosecutor in Washington under President Donald Trump is furious about recent leaks to the press and also specifically directed staff to scrutinize a former official's work …
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Rubio backtracks on near-total foreign aid freeze, issues humanitarian waiver — The secretary of state, in a memo, approved the continuance of potentially billions of dollars in “life-saving humanitarian assistance.” Many aid groups are still unsure what that means or whether they are allowed to continue work.
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Ted Cruz Leads Republican Charge to Defund Consumer-Protection Agency — CFPB was created by Democrats in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis — WASHINGTON—Republicans, riding high from their election sweep of the House, Senate and White House, are again pushing to hobble …
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Bolsonaro Sees ‘Big Trump’ as His Ticket Out of Brazilian Limbo — The former Brazilian president speaks in a Bloomberg interview — Bolsonaro wants Trump, Orban, Milei to intervene on his behalf — Donald Trump's presence is everywhere in former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's orbit.
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DeSantis plans to veto Florida immigration bill passed by GOP Legislature — The veto decision represents further decay of the quickly deteriorating relationship between the governor and Legislature. — TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis said he will veto a sweeping illegal immigration …
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Trump Signs Order Restricting Gender-Affirming Treatments for Minors — The directive built on a string of recent actions to roll back federal protections and services for transgender people. — President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday taking steps to end gender-affirming medical treatments …
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Florida Republican introduces bill to add Trump to Mount Rushmore — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) introduced a bill Tuesday seeking to add President Trump's face to the Mount Rushmore monument. — “His remarkable accomplishments for our country and the success he will continue …
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Anna Paulina Luna, The Independent and FOX 13 Tampa Bay
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House Democrat: Colleagues need to focus on ‘reestablishing our own credibility’ — Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) sent a message to his colleagues in the Democratic Party, urging them to focus on “reestablishing our own credibility” and to revert from solely “bashing” what President Trump's administration does in response.
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Breitbart, Daily Caller News Foundation and Mediaite