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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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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 …
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
Anita Powell / Voice of America:
Trump hosts French leader to discuss Ukraine endgame  —  President Donald Trump said Monday he's nearing a deal with Ukraine and with Russia to end the war in Ukraine after a packed day of meetings at the White House with French President Emmanuel Macron.  —  Trump urged Europe to take a bigger role …
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 …
Megan Messerly / Politico:
Trump backs off Musk's 5 things threat — sort of
Allan Smith / NBC News:
HHS warns employees that responses to Elon Musk's email may ‘be read by malign foreign actors’
The Committee on Oversight …:
More than 100 House Democrats Push Federal Agencies to Regain Order, Renounce Musk Chaos
Discussion: HuffPost, PoliticusUSA and Fortune
Associated Press:
Federal workers sue over Musk's threat to fire if they don't explain accomplishments
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  —  The United States voted against a resolution, backed by most of Europe, demanding Russian withdrawal from Ukraine — a deep fissure between allies, and a sharp shift in American policy.  —  A showdown over Ukraine between …
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia's war against Ukraine
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: 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.
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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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, Raw Story and Mediaite
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
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
AI Video of Trump Kissing Elon's Bare Feet Plays Throughout HUD Office
NBC News:
Fake video of Trump kissing Musk's feet displayed at HUD office in Washington
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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David Gilbert / Wired:
How Dan Bongino Went From Infowars to FBI Deputy Director
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.
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: Associated Press, Forbes and STAT
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Christina Jewett / New York Times:   F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers
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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Bobby Allyn / NPR:
A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal  —  The controversy started in a very Washington way: as a line item in a government spreadsheet buried on the State Department's website.  —  It appeared as if the State Department was taking steps to award Elon Musk's Tesla …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP lawmaker threatens to ‘kill’ Tucker Carlson on sight: report  —  Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) told a British journalist he would “kill” right-wing broadcaster Tucker Carlson if he ever saw him, according to the reporter.  —  The remark came after Steven Edginton of GBNews interviewed Crenshaw.
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City Journal:
The NSA's Secret Sex Chats  —  Intelligence officials maintained a chatroom to discuss polyamory and transgender surgeries, internal documents reveal.  —  / Eye on the News / Politics and law, The Social Order  —  The “intelligence community” is one of the most powerful parts of the American national security apparatus.
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Monday's Final Word
Discussion: The Free Press and CDR Salamander
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: KGW-TV
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 …
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 …
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” …
Ariel Zilber / New York Post:
MSNBC drama intensifies as network axes shows hosted by 3 more lefty anchors in wake of Joy Reid's ouster: sources  —  MSNBC's new president continued to overhaul the embattled network Monday — canceling shows hosted by anchors left-wing anchors Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart, The Post has learned.
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
DeSantis Trashes MAGA Lawmaker Trump Endorsed Over His Wife  —  Ron DeSantis trashed Donald Trump's endorsement to succeed him as Florida's governor—a shocking rebuke of the president as rumors swirl that his wife, Casey, is teeing up a gubernatorial run of her own.DeSantis claimed Monday …
Bloomberg:
Musk Seeks to Use Starlink Terminals in US Airspace System  — FAA says testing Starlink terminals in Atlantic City, Alaska  — Starlink is SpaceX's rapidly growing internet-from-space unit  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate …
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Jordan uses first subpoena of new Congress to target Biden admin  —  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan subpoenaed the FBI for a trove of new materials related to the Biden administration's activities, including investigations around the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and communications with Big Tech companies.
Discussion: Twitchy, Townhall and The Federalist
 
 
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EU offers its own ‘win-win’ minerals deal to Ukraine
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