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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship — And they're not even trying to hide it at this point. … 🗣️ 🎤 🤯 — Donald Trump is busy seizing power through executive orders and letting Elon Musk and his gang of racist DOGE bros run amok through America's government agencies.
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Reuters and The Contrarian
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Robert Reich:
The end of law? — He is the most lawless president in American history. — He's allowed Musk's rats unfettered access to the Treasury's payments system. Banned birthright citizenship. Refused to spend money appropriated by Congress. Closed U.S. AID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, NBC News and Vox
Caleb Ecarma / Musk Watch:
Musk associates granted access to confidential info about X's competitors — With Elon Musk's social media platform X poised to launch a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services, Musk's associates have been granted access to confidential information about X's competitors …
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Bloomberg:
DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk's Plans for ‘X’ Digital Wallet
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Raw Story, Axios, Washington Post, Reuters, Alternet.org and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
What is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and why is it a Trump target?
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Wall Street Journal, UPI, UnHerd, CBS News and The Daily Wire
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Union sues Russell Vought over DOGE access to CFPB, attempts to shutter bureau
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CBS News, HuffPost, MeidasTouch News, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, CNBC and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy. — When we had the honor of being sworn in as the 70th, 71st, 75th, 76th and 78th secretaries of the Treasury, we took an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution.
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CNBC, The Hill, Mediaite, New Jersey Online, The National Pulse, Raw Story and The Guardian
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Reuters:
Trump says US may have less debt than thought because of fraud — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States may carry less debt than thought and said it could be because of fraud related to debt payments. — Trump made his comments to reporters aboard Air Force One while flying to the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
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Fox Business and Mediaite
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Bloomberg:
Trump Suggests Musk Effort at Treasury Found Irregularities
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The Hill, JURIST, Fortune and ZeroHedge News
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Says Some Treasury Notes May Not Be Real
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USA Today, Washington Post, Fortune, Associated Press, Daily Mail and The Gateway Pundit
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The NSA's “Big Delete” — Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a “Big Delete” of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including “privilege,” “bias,” and “inclusion.” The “Big Delete,” according to an NSA source and internal correspondence reviewed …
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump says Palestinians won't have right to return to Gaza under his plan for the territory — President Donald Trump said Palestinians in Gaza would not have a right to return under his plan for U.S. “ownership” of the war-torn territory, contradicting other officials …
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The Guardian, Fox News, The Independent and Reuters
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Wall Street Journal:
For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast — Deals market gets curtailed by uncertainty delivered in president's first weeks — It took less than a month for the second Trump administration to cool the enthusiasm of chief executives and dealmakers.
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Mark my words’: George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could ‘end’ U.S. democracy — George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy. — Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“'Women' is a banned word”: Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women — Under the guise of “protecting women,” the military, schools and labs are forced to take women's safety away — In a country where 1 out of 6 women have experienced rape or attempted rape …
Washington Post:
Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds — The White House had repeatedly said the funding freeze would not impact benefits that go directly to individuals. — Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department …
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Oklahoma Energy Today and Raw Story
New Republic:
Musk's Threats Suddenly Darken as Trump Legal Losses Trigger MAGA Fury — Rage is mounting among President Donald Trump's allies over the losses that Trump's agenda has suffered in court, which are clearly becoming a serious obstacle to him. It's gotten so bad that Elon Musk shared a tweet …
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New York Times
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emptywheel:
Rule of Law: Don't Obey in Advance, But Also Don't Give Up in Advance — For some time, we've all been assuming that Trump will defy court orders reining in his assault on the government. And then, in the wake of Judge Paul Engelmayer's order enjoining Scott Bessent from altering Treasury's payment system …
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Twitchy
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump administration seeks urgent end of ‘impermissible’ court order blocking access to Treasury systems
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ZeroHedge News and Raw Story
Maurício Alencar / The Daily Beast:
Kanye West Shutters X Account After Elon Musk Clamps Down on His Posts — Kanye West deactivated his Twitter account after days of posting antisemitic, misogynist and racist content which even forced so-called free speech advocate Elon Musk to take action.The X owner revealed that the rapper's account …
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The Hill, Forbes, Page Six, Rolling Stone, Variety, The Root, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, TMZ.com, Consequence, Daily Mail and Deadline
Sherrilyn Ifill / Sherrilyn's Newsletter:
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? — This past weekend a federal district court in Massachusetts issued a nationwide injunction ordering Elon Musk and his team of young tech supremacists to stop accessing payment and other systems at the Department of Treasury …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats launch portal for whistleblowers in Trump administration — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said they are launching a new portal for whistleblowers to expose wrongdoing …
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MeidasTouch News
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
To watch Musk, Senate Democrats start whistleblower platform for workers
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Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Trump Orders Treasury Secretary to Stop Minting Pennies — President Trump said that the coins cost more to produce than their face value. — President Trump said on Sunday night that he had ordered the Treasury secretary to stop producing new pennies, a move that he said would help reduce unnecessary government spending.
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Axios, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Althouse, New York Magazine, Raw Story and IJR
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Associated Press:
Trump says he has directed U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
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CNN, Forbes, USA Today, The Guardian, RedState, Metro.co.uk, Daily Caller News Foundation, American Greatness, ZeroHedge News, The National Pulse, UPI, Raw Story, The Independent, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, New York Post, Daily Mail, Fox News, Business Insider, The Post Millennial, The Hill, Washington Examiner, ABC7 and KFMB
Wall Street Journal:
DHS Seeks to Deputize IRS Officers to Help With Deportation Effort — Tax-collecting agency has thousands of special agents in its criminal-investigation division — WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security has asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to deputize some law-enforcement workers …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's power to fire executive branch officials will be tested in another lawsuit — Hampton Dellinger, who led an ethics enforcement office, said his firing is illegal. — A federal ethics enforcer swept up in a spree of firings President Donald Trump carried out Friday night is suing to get his job back.
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Associated Press
Jack Detsch / Politico:
Trump fires boards of U.S. military service academies — The president said that schools like West Point had been invaded by so-called “woke” ideology. — President Donald Trump on Monday said he had ordered the firings of the boards of visitors for all of the U.S. military's service academies …
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Washington Examiner, Townhall, New York Post, Blaze Media, Raw Story and The Post Millennial
Associated Press:
Third judge blocks Trump's order ending birthright citizenship for kids of people in US illegally — A third federal judge on Monday blocked President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally.
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New York Times, Maine Morning Star, Forbes and Mediaite
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Court Blocks U.S. From Sending 3 Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo — The men, who are detained in New Mexico, say they “fit the profile” of the type of migrants the Trump administration has started sending to the Navy base in Cuba. — A federal judge barred the U.S. government …
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Alternet.org, JURIST, The Gateway Pundit, Associated Press, Fox News, Axios and PolitiFact
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Brad Brooks / Reuters:
US judge blocks possible transfer of Venezuelan detainees to Guantanamo
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton
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