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Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers abruptly increased the amount of water flowing from two California dams. — The federal agency made the decision after President Trump signed an order calling for increased water deliveries.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Governor of California
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Trump's emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes — The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response to President Trump's Jan. 24 executive order mandating …
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Digby's Hullabaloo


Trump says he opened California's water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them. — The Army Corps of Engineers moved to release massive quantities of water in Central California, panicking local officials. — SACRAMENTO, California — President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday …
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Raw Story, CNBC and Mercury News


Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say — Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees …
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Wait - what ?, Tusk, The Bulwark, New Republic, RedState, The Mahablog, Raw Story, Tumblr, Mediaite, it's so dumb it's brilliant! and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency — Elon Musk's former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.
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Transman Badass and New Republic


Trump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It's a Scary One — President Donald Trump has granted Elon Musk unprecedented power to carry out his war on the “deep state.” The justification for this is supposed to be that the government is corrupted to its core precisely …
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CNN, New York Times, Althouse, Salon, Townhall, Mediaite, Digby's Hullabaloo, Ars Technica and Washington Post


Elon's Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It's Even More Dangerous — from the twisting-the-chaos-knob-on-the-levers- of-power dept — Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government.


Who Can Stop Elon's ‘Team’ Wilding Its Way Through the Federal Government? — Over the course of the last two weeks, I've tried to drive home the point that the Democrats in Congress mostly can't do anything to stop what the Trump administration is doing. That's not a matter of weakness or bad strategy.
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Raw Story


Watch live coverage: Plane crash in Philadelphia leaves multiple houses on fire, causes explosion — Emergency crews are responding to an explosion in Northeast Philadelphia after a small medical jet crashed in the area of Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue, Philadephia police confirmed to CBS News Philadelphia.
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Reuters, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, UPI, New York Post, Breitbart, The National Pulse and KTVX-TV
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A medical plane carrying a child patient and 5 others crashes in Philadelphia, setting homes ablaze
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USA Today, The Detroit News, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, WHYY, KFTC-TV, New York Post, WTOP News, DNyuz, Raw Story, Al Jazeera, Fox News, HotAir, Washington Examiner, RedState, CBS News, Blaze Media, New York Daily News and KSDK-TV

Live Updates: Medical jet carrying 6, including girl, crashes in Northeast Philly
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6abc, FOX 32 Chicago, Fox News, IJR, CBS News, Raw Story, New York Post, Fortune, KFTC-TV, Hollywood Life, ABC7, UPI, WTOP News and WAGA-TV

Small Plane Crashes Near Philadelphia With Six People Aboard
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New York Times, Associated Press, DNyuz, KFTC-TV, CBS News, Fox News, New York Post, Deseret News, NewsNation and WTOP News

Air ambulance carrying 6 crashes near mall in Philadelphia
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NBC10 Philadelphia, TMZ.com, KFTC-TV, DNyuz, Townhall, Fox News and Saywhat Politics


These Clowns are Economic Illiterates — Trump treats tariffs like a toddler treats a new word, repeating it endlessly without grasping its meaning in his stained, clutching hands. — Donald Trump has discovered tariffs again, and God help us all. The President and souvenir coin salesman announced …
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Trump tariffs will cost U.S. households $830 a year, study says
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Washington Examiner

Trump sketches unprecedented plan for sweeping tariffs
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and ABC News


Public health information pulled offline in response to Trump orders — Massive amounts of information about HIV, LGBTQ+ health were pulled from cdc.gov Friday night. — Large amounts of public information about HIV and the health of teens, transgender and LGBTQ+ people abruptly disappeared late Friday …
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CNN and Advocate, more at Mediagazer »
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CDC Data Are Disappearing
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Reuters, DNyuz, Daily Mail and STAT


Federal Judge Orders White House to Keep Money Flowing to 22 States — A court in Rhode Island issued a temporary restraining order to block Trump's directive to defund programs he considers to be “woke.” — A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to keep taxpayer dollars flowing …
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State of California, Wall Street Journal, WUSA, Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit
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Brett Kavanaugh has very bad news for Donald Trump
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Missouri Independent and Axios


Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover. Chopra was one of the more important regulators …
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The Hill and Los Angeles Times, more at Techmeme »
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Chopra removed from consumer bureau post
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New York Times and Axios


FBI Agents Are Stunned by the Scale of the Expected Trump Purge — This afternoon, FBI personnel braced for a retaliatory purge of the nation's premiere law-enforcement agency, as President Donald Trump appeared ready to fire potentially hundreds of agents and officials who'd participated …
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The RFK Jr. Op-Ed the Los Angeles Times Didn't Want You to Read — Editors note: As The New Republic reported on Friday, the Los Angeles Times—currently in a race to the bottom with The Washington Post to determine which of the two venerable institutions can sell out to Donald Trump the hardest …
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Techdirt and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »


D.C. U.S. attorney fires Jan. 6 prosecutors, launches new probes — Ed Martin has fired Jan. 6 prosecutors, launched investigations of Capitol riot prosecutions and threatened the nation's top elected Democrat with an inquiry. — Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr. …
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RedState, New York Post, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit, Grabien and One America News Network
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Pentagon to swap traditional media with pro-Trump outlets under new rotational program for Defense Department workspace — One America News Network would soon replace NBC News and Breitbart would swap with National Public Radio in coveted Pentagon press corps workspace under a plan shared with journalists Friday night.
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NBC News and One America News Network, more at Mediagazer »


Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs — REALLY?! — Federal employees were told they could use their paid time off to explore “dream destinations” before quitting.
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New Republic


Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended — A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names …


Trump's fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus — The president's baseless claim that diversity programs are to blame for a deadly plane crash follows conservatives' growing criticism of such efforts. — Donald Trump knew exactly what his audience wanted to hear when he addressed …
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Crooks and Liars, The Daily Beast and Raw Story
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Trump's disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, legal experts say — Scholars warn of president's lawlessness in actions such as federal funding freeze and birthright citizenship order — Donald Trump's rapid-fire and controversial moves that have ranged …


The Truth About Democrats, According to Amy Klobuchar — Let's skip the happy talk: Democrats are in a dark place. It's not merely that Donald Trump has rolled back into Washington with an everything-everywhere-all-at- once approach to grabbing power. The new president is buoyed by eager …
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People For