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Federal District Court Judge Amir Ali, frustrated by Donald Trump’s persistent non-compilance with his temporary restraining order, set a deadline of midnight tomorrow by which the State Department must release…
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Elon Musk’s Starlink installed terminals at some Federal Aviation Administration facilities in a first step toward taking over Verizon’s $2 billion contract to provide communications for the agency. Verizon’s 15…
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The encrypted messaging app Signal announced it will leave Sweden if the country insists upon access to its message content. Sweden wants encrypted messaging services to capture and save in …
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Shareholders in Apple rejected a proposal to end the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs, policies and goals. The proposal was shaped by conservative National Center for Public Policy Research…
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MSNBC announced mass layoffs, including 99 members of the WGA East union involved in 9 shows. A quick look at photos of the highest-profile people cut from the network showed…
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Congressional Representative Cory Mills (R-FL-7th) is under investigation regarding alleged assault of a 27 year old woman in Washington, DC, 19 February 2025 around 13:00. The complaint says he “grabbed…
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Twenty-one highly skilled federal civil servants resigned from U.S. Digital Services, under which Elon Musk’s DOGE operates. They refuse to apply their expertise to “dismantle critical public services” for DOGE.…
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, a subset of a White House IT team rather than a government department, is modifying AutoRIF software developed by the Department of Defense to…
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Southwest Airlines Flight 2504 from Omaha, Nebraska, was about to touch down at Chicago Midway Airport when a smaller business jet unexpectedly crossed the runway, forcing the Southwest flight to…
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Lawyers representing Rudy Giuliani say he has at last fully paid the $148 million judgement awarded to two Georgia election workers for his persistent false accusations that they manipulated 2020…
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Armed Serbian police raided four non-governmental civil society organizations associated with the U.S. Agency for International Development on the grounds of statements by Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio,…
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At Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, an American Airlines flight aborted its landing at an air traffic controller’s instruction to avoid getting too close to a departing aircraft on the…
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Federal District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly expressed concerns that DOGE may be operating in unconstitutional ways. The Department of Government Efficiency is a subset of a White House IT team,…
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The Department of Veterans Affairs fired another 1400 probationary employees, bringing its total such firings starting 13 February 2025 to 2400. The VA said fired workers were in “non-mission critical…
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Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim owner of América Móvil, cancelled his intention to work with Elon Musk’s Starlink and decided to develop his own company’s communications infrastructure instead. The project is…
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Federal District Judge Trevor McFadden declined an Associated Press request to temporarily lift Donald Trump’s ban on their press access to him over their continued use of the name Gulf…
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Federal District Court Judge Royce Lamberth issued a preliminary injunction to block the transfer of 12 transgender women to men’s prisons. This is an escalation from a previous temporary restraining…
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered USA consulates and embassies to ban entry visas for transgender applicants. This is supposedly part of Donald Trump’s push to ban transgender females from…
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The Merit Systems Protection Board issued a decision that at least some of Donald Trump’s mass firings of probationary period employees are unlawful. This may open the door for many…
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The Supreme Court declined to hear two cases seeking to overturn ordinances that provide a “buffer zone” around clinics to help patients get in despite protesters trying to keep them…
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Federal District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled that Donald Trump’s policy allowing ICE to raid churches in their quest to round up immigrants may violate religious freedom, so it is blocked…
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Donald Trump named Dan Bongino as the new FBI Deputy Director. This post does not require Senate confirmation. Bongino is a former U.S. Secret Service agent who has become a…
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France’s President Emmanuel Macron fact checked Donald Trump in the Oval Office in front of media when Trump lied about European support of Ukraine in its resistance to invasion by…
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To mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the USA sided with Russia on votes in the UN General Assembly and in the UN Security Council. A resolution…
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Federal District Court Judge Deborah Boardman issued a temporary restraining order to bar Elon Musk’s DOGE from access to sensitive information at the Office of Personnel Management and the Department…
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Elon Musk personally congratulated Alice Weidel, leader of the far right party Alternative für Deutschland, for nearly doubling its support in Germany’s election. AfD came second in the election results.…
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The conservative CDU/CSU bloc will take the lead in forming a new governing coalition, with Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz expected to be its new Chancellor. Germany has the…
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Donald Trump’s regime ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to find children who entered the country unaccompanied and pull them into the mass deportation program. During Trump’s first term in the…
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Donald Trump’s regime blocked a key step in the awarding of NIH grant funds, flouting a federal District Judge’s temporary restraining order to lift freezes on federal funding. NIH is…
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At a town hall with legislators in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl was forcibly dragged out and zip-tied by ununiformed men who appeared to be directed by Kootenai County…
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With Donald Trump’s authorization, Elon Musk sent email to federal workers Saturday from DOGE’s non-government server plugged into the Office of Personnel Management network. The Department of Government Efficiency is…
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Elon Musk’s email to federal employees demanding a list of five things they accomplished at work in the past week went to some of the judicial branch, over which the…
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Donald Trump’s team reportedly threatened to end Ukraine’s access to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network unless Ukraine accepts his terms. Ukraine relies heavily on Starlink since Russia decimated its communications…
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired the top Judge Advocates General for the Army, Navy and Air Force without explanation. A JAG is a uniformed principal judicial officer for a…
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired General James Slife, the number two ranking officer in charge of the Air Force. No explanation was given, although this seems to be part…
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Donald Trump fired Air Force General Charles Q. Brown from his role as Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the midst of his appointment term. Brown was the…
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Donald Trump fired Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman ever to hold that position and the first woman ever on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Franchetti…
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Federal District Court Judge Jeannette Vargas extended her order barring Elon Musk’s DOGE from access to Treasury Department payment records, systems or other repositories containing personal or financial information. Musk’s…
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After an outcry, Donald Trump’s regime rescinded its stoppage of legal assistance for children who enter the country unaccompanied. Unlike USA citizens, immigrants have no guaranteed right to free legal…
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A week after mass firing of probationary employees from the FDA, some whose jobs were for review of medical devices began to receive notices that their firings were rescinded. Their…
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Donald Trump’s regime removed from Guantanamo Bay all immigrants being held there after admitting to a judge how many were there. The immigrants did not all have any criminal records.…
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Federal District Court Judge Adam Abelson issued a preliminary injunction blocking most of Donald Trump’s executive orders terminating or changing federal contracts his regime deems related to diversity, equity or inclusion.…
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The Office of Personnel Management abolished its entire procurement unit in a sweeping Reduction In Force separate from recent for-cause firings, setting up a major federal crisis. Affected employees will…
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Donald Trump ordered shutdown of all electric vehicle charging points at federal properties. He also ordered the General Services Administration to sell off its entire fleet of newly acquired electric…
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Donald Trump threatened Governor Janet Mills (Maine), saying unless her state backs down from allowing transgender women and girls in women’s sports, he will block all federal funding for Maine.…
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The Des Moines Register newspaper and pollster J. Ann Selzer asked a federal District Court judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed against them by Donald Trump over a poll before…
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The Supreme Court paused an emergency request from Donald Trump, who wants to fire Hampton Dellinger from his role as head of the Office of Special Counsel. OSC fights political…
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Federal District Court Judge Carl Nichols lifted his order that had blocked dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development. This allows Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, which is…
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Associated Press sued three of Donald Trump’s officials in federal District Court over being banned from usual press access to Presidential events. (more…)
Some of billionaire Elon Musk’s security detail was officially deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service. Deputized members of Musk’s private security team are now allowed to carry weapons on federal…
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