Musk's DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS  —  The unusual request would put sensitive data about millions of American taxpayers in the hands of Trump political appointees.  —  Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system …

Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash  —  The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision …

Trump Voters Splinter Over His Rapid Shake-Up of Washington  —  Some core supporters love his no-holds-barred approach, but several swing voters are taken aback at his early moves

Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly  —  Musk is moving fast and breaking important things  —  Last month SpaceX carried out a test launch of its in-development Starship rocket.  Liftoff was achieved, but as the company later announced, “Starship experienced …

Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Tate brothers  —  Tristan and Andrew Tate have been charged with sexual misconduct, organised crime and money laundering  —  The Trump administration has pressured Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions …

Rubio spars with Brennan over Vance's Munich speech  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio sparred with CBS host Margaret Brennan over Vice President Vance's speech in Munich.  —  Rubio joined Brennan on “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where he was asked what Vance accomplished by meeting with a leader …

Elon Musk's X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service  —  Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.  —  Elon Musk's social media platform, X, is currently banning links to “Signal.me,” a URL used by the encrypted messaging service Signal.

Judge calls rare hearing on a holiday in case against Musk's DOGE  —  A U.S. judge has scheduled a rare holiday court hearing on Monday, in a case brought by Democratic state attorneys general seeking to protect major federal agencies from Elon Musk's government cost-cutting team known as DOGE.

CDC ‘disease detectors’ among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts  —  Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal probationary employees.  —  The Trump administration on Saturday terminated hundreds …

Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order  —  The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause.  —  The group said it signed a $115,000 agreement …

In botched DEI purge, OSHA trashes workplace safety guidelines  —  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an internal February 7 email obtained by Popular Information.

Trump Posted 14 Times About His Daytona 500 Trip, Nothing About Multi-State Flooding  —  An indifferent Trump was chauffeured around the racetrack as Kentucky mourned 8 deaths including a mom and her 7 year old child  —  On Saturday, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social:

The Marco Rubio guide to survival is not working well  —  The secretary of State is taking positions that were once anathema and sounding very Trumpy online.  —  It is becoming increasingly clear that Marco Rubio is secretary of State in name only.  —  Since taking over Foggy Bottom …

Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0  —  His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's pick to lead the nation's health agencies.  He's delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies …

Jan. 6 Rioters Argue Pardons Apply to Charges Including Murder Plot, Child Porn  —  Defendants argue that Trump pardons should absolve them of additional crimes, some discovered during investigations of the Capitol riot

How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left  —  The hypocrisy of Trump's language wars  —  One of the defining features of the social-justice orthodoxy that swept through American culture between roughly the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012 to Hamas's assault on Israel in 2023 was the policing of language.