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Washington Post:
Trump administration tells agencies they can ignore Musk order on email reply  —  The Office of Personnel Management told HR officials that employees wouldn't be let go for not replying to an email asking what they did last week.  —  The Trump administration has told federal agency leaders …
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NBC News:
Federal workers and agencies push back against Elon Musk's email ultimatum  —  The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond.  —  WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they'd accomplished over the past week …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Questions Constitutionality of Musk's Cost-Cutting Operation  —  The judge expressed concern over the unresolved issues about who is in charge of Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, if it is not Mr. Musk, as the White House has claimed.
Discussion: Raw Story and Scripps News
James Liddell / The Independent:
Elon Musk makes an admission about the productivity email his group sent to federal workers
Allan Smith / NBC News:
HHS warns employees that responses to Elon Musk's email may ‘be read by malign foreign actors’
New York Times:
Trump Administration, Breaking With Musk's Directive, Says Replying to His Email Is Voluntary
New York Times:
Trump Administration Highlights: Personnel Officials Say Musk's Directive Is ‘Voluntary’  —  Where Things Stand  — Musk's ultimatum: Federal personnel officials walked back Elon Musk's demand that government workers justify their jobs in an email or face termination, saying that his request had been “voluntary.”
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Rolling Stone:
Elon's Email Demand Is Being Met With ‘Very Rude’ Flood of Spam  —  After Musk told federal employees to list five accomplishments or be fired, internet users are encouraging people to flood the email with spam  —  President Donald Trump has let tech billionaire Elon Musk run rampant through …
Anita Powell / Voice of America:
Trump hosts French leader to discuss Ukraine endgame
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
Oversight agency finds Trump's federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated  —  An independent federal oversight agency has deemed at least some of President Trump's mass firings of probationary period employees unlawful, creating a pathway for those employees to regain their jobs.
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Government Watchdog Moves to Protect Probationary Federal Workers  —  Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, recommended pausing the mass firings of some probationary federal employees.  —  A government watchdog lawyer whose dismissal by President Trump has been stalled …
Discussion: USA Today
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:   Government Oversight Agency Rules Elon Musk's Mass Firings Are Illegal
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's New Deputy F.B.I. Director Has It Out for the ‘Scumbag Commie Libs’  —  When a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts last year, the conservative podcaster Dan Bongino made a veiled threat on social media.  “The irony about this for the scumbag commie libs …
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NBC News:
FBI agents express shock and dismay over naming of right-wing podcaster to No. 2 post
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
David Gilbert / Wired:
How Dan Bongino Went From Infowars to FBI Deputy Director
Politico:
Government funding deal ‘very close’ as negotiations hinge on Trump power struggle  —  The fight over curbing President Donald Trump's ability to freeze cash is now the make-or-break dispute as leading lawmakers close in on a deal to avert a government shutdown next month.
Discussion: E&E News and The Hill
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Stefanik's Confirmation Is on Ice as Republicans Guard Their Scant Majority  —  The congresswoman from New York is in line to be confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.  But first, her colleagues need her vote to pass their embattled budget plan.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war  —  BREAKING NEWS: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine  —  Washington's dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides …
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
U.S. Clashes With European Allies at the U.N. Over Ukraine
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia's war against Ukraine
Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall  —  Ariel Mollhagen couldn't hear what U.S. Rep. Mark Alford was saying but she didn't really need to.  The crowd's reaction told the story.  —  During an extraordinarily heated town hall on Monday …
Discussion: The Independent, Mediaite and Raw Story
Politico:
House Republicans unfazed by protests: 'We're moving forward with the cuts'  —  Many GOP lawmakers insisted their constituents back Musk's moves.  —  Rep. Jay Obernolte's town hall in California last week was drowned out by shouts of “No king!”  Rep. Glenn Grothman entered his Wisconsin town hall …
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Politico:
Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’  —  The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.  —  A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince …
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Jack Blanchard / Politico:
Playbook: Prayers for Mike Johnson
Discussion: Punchbowl News and The Hill
Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Hackers play AI video of Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet on cafeteria screens at HUD headquarters: ‘LONG LIVE THE REAL KING’  —  Cyberpunks breached a television at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday morning, broadcasting a stomach-turning AI video of President Trump caressing …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
AI video of Trump kissing Musk's feet plays on TVs in HUD building
Zach Everson / Forbes:
CEO Devin Nunes Made $47 Million While Truth Social Parent Company Reported $401 Million In Losses In 2024  —  Devin Nunes earned $47 million in total compensation as CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group last year, although he won't be able to get his hands on all of it until March 2027 …
Robert Unanue:
Goya Foods CEO, Bob Unanue, Announces Next Chapter  —  50-Year Food Industry Veteran Releases Statement After Being Left in “Limbo” by the Company's Board  —  Today, Robert “Bob” Unanue, with over 20 years as President & CEO of Goya Foods, is releasing a statement about his status …
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
FDA rehires staff to its medical devices division after mass layoffs  —  Around 180 FDA medical device workers were laid off this month by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.  —  The Trump administration is reinstating some employees in the Food and Drug Administration's medical devices division …
Discussion: Forbes, Associated Press and STAT
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Christina Jewett / New York Times:   F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers
Bernie Becker / Politico:
Acting IRS commissioner to retire amid agency disruptions  —  The move comes after layoffs at the agency and DOGE personnel seeking access to taxpayer data.  —  Doug O'Donnell, the acting head of the IRS, is expected to announce his retirement on Tuesday amid turbulence at the tax collection agency …
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:   Acting I.R.S. Commissioner Is Expected to Announce His Retirement
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
EU offers its own ‘win-win’ minerals deal to Ukraine  —  “The added value Europe offers is that we will never demand a deal that's not mutually beneficial,” top official Stéphane Séjourné says.  —  The European Union offered its own agreement on “critical materials” …
CNN:
Federal judge declines to temporarily restore AP's full access to White House  —  A federal judge declined on Monday to temporarily restore the Associated Press' access to some of President Donald Trump's events, the Oval Office and Air Force One.  —  US District Judge Trevor McFadden turned …
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
VA axes another 1,400 employees  —  The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday fired another 1,400 employees amid outcry over a lack of transparency from the agency after 1,000 workers were axed earlier this month.  —  The VA said the individuals dismissed were “non-mission critical” …
Madison Pauly / Mother Jones:
LGBTQ Federal Workers Brace for a McCarthyist Purge  —  “They're not asking people, ‘Are you gay?  Are you lesbian?’  They're asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?’”  —  When Michael first started working in the Department of the Interior over a decade ago, he hid the fact that he was gay from his co-workers.
Kaye Thornbrugh / Coeur d'Alene Press:
Coeur d'Alene prosecutors dismiss citation against woman dragged from town hall, city revokes security company's business license  —  COEUR d'ALENE — City prosecutors will dismiss a misdemeanor battery citation issued to the Post Falls woman who plainclothes private security guards dragged …
Discussion: New Republic and KGW-TV
Popular Information:
How to buy your way out of a federal lawsuit  —  On June 6, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges against Coinbase, a crypto trading platform, alleging that the company was operating as an unregistered securities broker.  The failure to register, according to the SEC …
 
 
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