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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse — Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them — The worst thing that the federal government has done to labor unions in my lifetime happened last night. Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that the government will no longer recognize and bargain with a huge portion of the unions that represent federal workers.
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Trump administration moves to end union rights for many federal workers — The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said Thursday that President Trump signed an executive order limiting numerous agency employees from unionizing and instructing the government to stop engaging in any collective bargaining.
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Trump moves to strip unionization rights from most federal workers
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Trump signs executive order to end collective bargaining at agencies involved with national security
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NPR, New York Times, Washington Times, Raw Story, The Nation and Plain Dealer

Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs
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Another law firm targeted by Trump sues to block punishing executive order — Jenner & Block is the second law firm to try to fight Trump in court over his executive orders. — A law firm targeted by President Donald Trump sued Friday to bar enforcement of his executive order that seeks …
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Skadden, a Top Law Firm, Is in Talks to Avert an Executive Order — The discussions come as other major firms are said to be trying to cut deals with the White House. — The elite law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has had discussions with President Trump's advisers about a deal …
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Another law firm targeted by Trump, Jenner and Block, suing to block executive order
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Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs — Threat came in a call earlier this month, in which carmakers feared punishment if prices go up — When President Trump convened CEOs of some of the country's top automakers for a call earlier this month …
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'If We Don't Get Our S—t Together, Then We Are Going to Be in a Permanent Minority' — It's been months since Democrats suffered a devastating defeat at the polls. For all the talk about the party's need for change, few seem actually willing to make the leap.
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Stefanik's withdrawal suggests Republicans are sweating their thin margins
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Democrats outraged at Trump's changes pour millions of dollars into 2 special elections in Florida

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Florida's special elections
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This Is Just Dumb — It's not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it's the stupidity. We're all shocked — shocked! — that President Trump and his team don't actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws. But we knew that already.
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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted …
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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with ‘improper ideology’ — President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” …


Detained Tufts Student Is Moved to Louisiana Despite Judge's Order — Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national with a student visa, was detained by federal authorities this week — Federal agents moved a Turkish student arrested in Massachusetts to Louisiana despite a judge's order barring her transfer without notice.
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The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn't “Signalgate”
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Republicans, Men Push Trump Approval Higher in Second Term — Black, Hispanic adults more approving of Trump in second term, but still disapprove of him overall — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Key members of President Donald Trump's political base — Republicans, conservatives and men …
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Inflation Remained Sticky Ahead of Trump's Escalating Trade War
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Vance and wife to tour US military base in Greenland after diplomatic spat over uninvited visit — NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders …
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Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case … President Donald Trump pardoned Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton for his October 2022 conviction of federal crimes related to defrauding investors with false claims about the success of the electric and hydrogen-powered truck maker.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to the Press — SECRETARY RUBIO: Grant? — QUESTION: The Ukrainian children who — SECRETARY RUBIO: Oh, the data. The data is secured. We secured the data. We'll transfer it to the appropriate party. We've ensured that.
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All the laws flouted during SignalGate — 📱 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever. Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers. If you aren't one already, please click the button below and become one to support our work.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ‘Alien Enemies Act’ deportations — The Justice Department argues that a lower-court judge unconstitutionally intruded on the president's national security powers by barring him from swiftly deporting Venezuelans the administration says are gang members.
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Venezuelan Deportations
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Works to Make Our Nation's Capital Safe and Beautiful — MAKING WASHINGTON THE GREATEST CAPITAL CITY IN THE WORLD: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to make Washington, D.C. what it should be—the pride of every American to whom it belongs.
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Bannon: Trump ‘going to prison’ if Democrat wins White House in 2028 — President Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon predicted Thursday that President Trump will go to prison if a Democrat wins back the White House in 2028. — “God forbid we don't win in '28, President Trump is going to prison …


Texas Never Wanted RFK Jr.'s Unproven Measles Treatment — Kennedy made a show of shipping vitamin A to measles-stricken communities. The state's public-health department didn't take up the offer. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., staring down his first major health crisis as the head of Health and Human Services, had a plan.


Fallout coming for House GOP over Trump's rug pull on Stefanik — President Trump's dramatic rug pull of Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-N.Y.) UN ambassador nomination has given House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) a new series of headaches. — Why it matters: Johnson has to reassure GOP lawmakers …
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Mediaite, New York Times and The Daily Wire


Officials say texts sent by Waltz, Ratcliffe in Signal chat may have damaged US' ongoing ability to gather intel on Houthis — Current and former US officials have told CNN they believe two texts sent by national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA Director John Ratcliffe …
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Raw Story, Washington Examiner, The Free Press, KTVZ-TV and The Guardian


March 27, 2025 — Today, Wired reported that it had found four more Venmo accounts associated with the Trump administration officials who participated in the now-infamous Signal chat about a planned military attack on the Houthis in Yemen. A payment on one of them was identified …