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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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Axios, One America News Network, ABC News, Townhall, Daily Mail, ClearanceJobs, The Guardian 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
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Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
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Washingtonian, CNN, New York Times, Ken Klippenstein, Twitchy, Mediaite, Daily Mail, FedScoop and Scripps News
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Trump offering federal workers buyouts with about 8 months' pay in effort to shrink government
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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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Trump's First Big Fiasco Triggers Stephen Miller's Rage—Take Note Dems
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Axios, Alternet.org, Vanity Fair, WisPolitics, Shore News Network, Digby's Hullabaloo, New York Times, Daily Mail, Roll Call, Washington Examiner and PoliticusUSA
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House Democrat: Colleagues need to focus on ‘reestablishing our own credibility’
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Breitbart, Daily Caller News Foundation and Mediaite
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Powerless, Democrats Debate Just How Deep in the Wilderness They Are
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HotAir
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Trump White House reverses course, rescinds freeze on federal grants — The budget office came under immense pressure over the impacts on a sudden pause in key government spending — The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants …
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White House rescinds Trump's funding freeze after massive backlash — The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo Wednesday that had ordered a “temporary pause” on federal funding and unleashed major confusion across the country.
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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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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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Associated Press, Axios, The Lever, Reason, The Dispatch and Esquire
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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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Senate Democrats rip into RFK Jr. — Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee went on offense against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s past statements about vaccines, infectious disease and other health-related conspiracy theories. In a heated exchange, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) …
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RFK Jr. is in the hot seat
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Live Updates: R.F.K. Jr. Faces Bipartisan Grilling Over Vaccines and Medicaid
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Politico, WQAD-TV, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Protect Our Care, Mediaite, Bloomberg, The Guardian, NPR and CBS News
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This Is About More Than RFK Jr.
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Former RFK Jr. running mate threatens to primary senators who vote against nomination
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Fox News, IJR, Business Insider, New Republic, Washington Examiner, RedState, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
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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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Karoline Leavitt's first briefing: Press room enters new era
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One America News Network, The Moderate Voice, The Independent and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Washington Examiner, Fortune, RTÉ, Engadget, Quartz, TechCrunch, Forbes, Technext, Mashable, Fox News and Semafor, more at Techmeme »
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OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
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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 — President Trump appealed his New York hush money criminal conviction and has brought on a new team of attorneys to represent him. — The five-attorney team from elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, which will be led by Robert Giuffra …
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Washington Examiner, Alternet.org, Townhall and WHDH-TV
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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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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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The Status Kuo, CBS News, New York Times, Wired, AgricultureDive, America Magazine, Michigan Advance, The Daily Caller, Politico, Al Jazeera, Texas Standard, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Rolling Stone, Civil Discourse …, Capitol News Illinois, Associated Press, Daily Mail, HuffPost, Axios, Business Insider, WQAD-TV, FOX 32 Chicago and New Republic
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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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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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New York Post
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Ed Martin Jr., a crusader for Jan. 6 defendants, now oversees their absolution — Trump tapped the conservative lawyer to carry out his directive dismissing hundreds of pending Jan. 6 cases. — For four years, Ed Martin Jr. has embraced the cause of Jan. 6 rioters, downplayed their violence …
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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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New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, RedState, Breitbart, Minnesota Reformer, New York Post and The Gateway Pundit
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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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Mediaite
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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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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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The Contrarian, New Republic and The Independent
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Governor Leaves Indiana's Predominantly Black University Out of Budget — Martin University had a short-lived burst of state funding. But those funds disappeared in Governor Mike Braun's budget proposal, unveiled on the heels of an anti-DEI executive order. One lawmaker calls it racist.
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Indiana Capital Chronicle