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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 …
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A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system — The visit comes after a union representing FAA workers says hundreds are being laid off. … A team from Elon Musk's SpaceX is visiting the Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia Monday …
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Axios, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, Townhall, Daily Mail, Politico, Whittier Daily News, KFOR-TV, RedState and Washington Examiner


Hundreds of FAA employees let go as Trump's mass layoffs continue
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Forbes, Must Read Alaska, Hollywood Life, Al Jazeera, UPI, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit and passnational.org

Hundreds of FAA probationary workers fired by Trump administration, union says
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New Republic, New York Post, IJR, Metro.co.uk, Fox Business, MeidasTouch News, Daily Mail, TechCrunch, Mediaite and Forbes


Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk's DOGE over data — Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk's team for sensitive government information.
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Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo


4 Top Officials to Resign Over Adams's Cooperation With Trump — Four deputy mayors to Eric Adams are leaving “to stay faithful to the oaths we swore to New Yorkers and our families,” they said in a statement. — Four top New York City officials said they would resign after the Justice Department moved …
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The Guardian, CNN, Spectrum News NY1, Daily Kos, The Forward, The Independent, Associated Press, The Status Kuo, Raw Story, NBC News and New York Post
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Mass resignations from Eric Adams' administration spark chaos in NYC government
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Washington Examiner, New York Daily News, Wall Street Journal, UPI, ABC News, Staten Island Advance, New York Post and abc7NY

N.Y.C. Council Speaker Calls on Mayor Eric Adams to Resign
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Politico and New York Post

Four Adams Deputy Mayors Quit Following Trump Deal
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Reuters, New York Daily News, The Hill, New York Post and Politico

At least 3 NYC deputy mayors express intent to resign from Adams administration: Sources
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New York Times, New York Daily News and NBC News


‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk's purge is cutting more than costs, say experts — In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy — Donald Trump and Elon Musk's radical drive to slash billions of dollars in annual federal spending …
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TechCrunch and The Independent
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Musk's DOGE expected to arrive at SEC in coming days
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Washington Post, The Independent, The Hill and Fox Business

Judge appears inclined to deny request to block DOGE's mass firings, access to data
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HotAir, UPI, Raw Story, The Post Millennial and The Daily Caller


No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits — Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation. — Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …
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Talking Points Memo, PolitiFact, Washington Examiner and New York Post


Thousands Gather on Presidents' Day to Call Trump a Tyrant — Thousands of protesters opposing broad swaths of President Trump's agenda took to the streets across the country, including outside the U.S. Capitol. — Thousands of protesters opposing broad swaths of President Trump's agenda took …
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‘No Kings Day’: Protesters Denounce Trump and Musk
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The Hill, WMTW-TV, KFOR-TV, Twitchy, Scripps News, The Gateway Pundit, PoliticusUSA, Daily Mail, Daily Kos and New Republic


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
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New Republic, Fox News and Raw Story
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‘Turned out the lights’: Fury hits Washington Post as it refuses to run $115K anti-Musk ad — The Washington Post canceled plans to run a front-and back-page advertisement that would have earned the paper $115,000 — and ran straight into fresh fury. — The ad, reportedly sponsored …
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New Republic, CNN, The Independent and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »
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Vance's real warning to Europe — Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversarial America — When JD Vance took the stage at the Munich Security Conference last week, he issued a stern warning. The US vice-president told the assembled politicians and diplomats …
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Raw Story and Asia Times
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Rubio spars with Brennan over Vance's Munich speech
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This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk — Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It's the path to pushing Musk out of politics. — WITH THE BACKING of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk has embarked on an unconstitutional rampage against the federal government.
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Raw Story


Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work. — Musk's unparalleled online reach on X has given him a powerful tool to attack individuals who criticize DOGE. — Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette works at the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group focused on reducing bureaucratic waste.


'It's gone': Elon Musk suggests without evidence that gold was ‘stolen’ from Fort Knox — Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Department of Government Efficiency Chair Elon Musk demanded access to the gold stored at Fort Knox. — Writing on Musk's social media platform X, Lee said he was repeatedly denied access …
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The Hill, Fox Business, New York Post, Blaze Media, The Post Millennial, RedState, Daily Mail, The Gateway Pundit and Babylon Bee


Jewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens fire on them in Miami — Victims reportedly posted ‘death to Arabs’ on social media after shooting while suspect held on attempted murder charges — A Jewish man in Miami Beach is facing charges of attempted murder following accusations …
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Mondoweiss, New York Post, Reuters, CBS News and Jewish Telegraphic Agency


Argentina president faces impeachment calls over crypto crash — Argentine President Javier Milei is facing impeachment calls - and legal action accusing him of fraud - over his promotion of cryptocurrency on social media. — Milei posted on X, formerly Twitter, about the $LIBRA coin on Friday …
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Bloomberg, Euronews, Politico, Al Jazeera, JURIST, CityNews Toronto, Reuters, Raw Story, The Indian Express, Gizmodo, The Gateway Pundit and CoinDesk


Bice: An Elon Musk-backed group buys at least $670,000 of TV time to support Brad Schimel — Conservative Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel said just recently he was hoping conservative third-party groups would start buying up TV time in the state “very soon.” — Ask and you shall receive.
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WisPolitics


Trump casts psychiatric and weight-loss drugs as threats to children — Trump directed a panel headed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to assess “the prevalence of and threat” posed by SSRIs, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs.
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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.
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Raw Story


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 …
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New Republic, Raw Story, The Independent, Gizmodo, The Hollywood Reporter and The Gateway Pundit


WSJ asks Kennedy to cast aside ‘antivax hooey’ amid Texas measles outbreak — The Wall Street Journal's editorial board published on op-ed on Monday calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to set aside his anti-vaccine activist positions in light …
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Wall Street Journal
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Measles outbreak in Texas rises to at least 48 cases — the state's worst in nearly 30 years
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Daily Kos, Raw Story, New York Post and USA Today