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In response to Elon Musk’s rapid invasion of and dismantling of federal government agencies, protests at Tesla showrooms escalated on this second weekend of them, sparked by the hashtag #TeslaTakeover…
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Leland Dudek, a long time Social Security Administration fraud expert, was elevated to Acting Commissioner while under investigation for helping DOGE efforts to burrow into SSA’s trove of highly sensitive…
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Department of Defense Education Activity, which supports 161 schools around the world for children of military service members, ordered school libraries to remove all books that relate to diversity, equity…
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Acting Commissioner Michelle King resigned as head of the Social Security Administration after trying to refuse Elon Musk’s DOGE access to private taxpayer data. Her chief of staff Tiffany Flick…
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Russian-born Kseniia Petrova, a research associate at Harvard Medical School on a J-1 scholar visa since May 2023, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for having undeclared preserved frog…
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Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn District Court and Appeals Court blockage of his attempt to fire the head of the Office of the Special Council. (more…)
A small airplane crashed about 20 minutes after taking off from the airport at Covington, Georgia. Both people in the airplane died. Click here for more details.
Democrats won both Delaware state Senate seats that were up for grabs in a special election. The seats represent District 1 and District 5, replacing Congressional Representative Sarah McBride and…
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Former Army general and fired former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn abruptly dropped his $150 million libel lawsuit against Fred Wellman. The suit was over three tweets posted by Wellman…
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The Daily Beast published, then deleted, an article saying former Kazakh intelligence chief Alnur Mussayev claimed the KGB recruited Donald Trump in 1987 and gave him the code name Krasnov.…
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About 300 probationary federal employees were fired from the already understaffed Federal Aviation Administration despite a surge including four fatal crashes plus ground incidents involving aircraft since inauguration day. (more…)
The new regime’s mass firings of mostly probationary federal employees took 1165 from the National Institutes of Health. (more…)
An unknown number of federal employees were fired at the Food and Drug Administration at the direction of Elon Musk’s DOGE. This included key personnel overseeing Musk’s clinical trials of…
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To help people direct their buying to companies that support diversity, equity and inclusion, the NAACP has released lists of by whether they have continued or dropped their DEI programs.…
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Donald Trump posted on Truth Social and X, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” (more…)
Several of the most prominent countries in Europe called an emergency summit for Monday in Paris to discuss Ukraine, European security, a week after Donald Trump began to make plans…
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The National Nuclear Safety Administration is trying to rehire some of the nuclear experts fired by Elon Musk’s DOGE in a staggering screw-up. (more…)
Although Federal District Court Judge John Bates ordered the HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore web pages to the way they were 30 January 2025, many restored pages bear a…
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The Department of Homeland Security terminated policies that prohibited surveillance based solely on the targeted person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The reinstatement of such surveillance was justified by Donald…
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Federal District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered that for the time being, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must not fire any more of its employees or delete, destroy, remove…
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To protect the jobs of the rest of DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, federal career prosecutor Ed Sullivan agreed to request dismissal of corruption charges against New York City Major Eric…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE team published classified data about the size and staffing of a USA intelligence unit. (more…)
Hagan Scotten is the seventh federal prosecutor to resign over the DOJ’s efforts to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. (more…)
The Office of Personnel Management ordered 388 probationary employees fired from the Environmental Protection Agency. (more…)
Mass firings hit thousands of probationary federal employees in the Department of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture lost: About 1000 from the National Park Service, which had to withdraw from…
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Federal District Court Judge Lauren King issued a temporary restraining order blocking Donald Trump’s executive order that halted federal support for gender affirming care for youths under 19 years old.…
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Federal District Court Judge Leo Sorokin in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction to block Donald Trump’s attempt to curtail birthright citizenship, which would contravene the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE website is so insecure, anyone can modify its database. (more…)
All AP reporters are barred from the White House and Air Force 1, escalating pressure on the Associated Press to change its international style guide to reflect Donald Trump’s renaming…
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The Indian Health Service lost 950 probationary workers (18% of its staff) to the sweeping firings by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. IHS health care for 2.2 million Native Americans…
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The Department of Veterans Affairs fired more than 1000 probationary employees who had been in their jobs less than two years. (more…)
The measles outbreak in west Texas doubled in size in a few days and spread to adjacent New Mexico. Updates are available from those two states. The federal Centers for…
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Three men wearing DOGE shirts and MAGA hats walked into San Francisco City Hall and demanded sensitive government records. (more…)
Donald Trump signed an executive order to deny federal funding for schools and universities which require COVID vaccinations. (more…)
Donald Trump and Elon Musk purged 330 probationary employees from the National Cancer Institute, just under 10% of its workforce. (more…)
Donald Trump’s regime fired 325 workers from the National Nuclear Security Administration, which is responsible for the safety and security of nuclear weapons and radiological materials. Elon Musk’s DOGE team…
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Donald Trump’s regime fired 1200 to 2000 workers from the Department of Energy. (more…)
Donald Trump’s regime notified Centers for Disease Control that its 1300 probationary employees, 10% of its workforce, are all to be fired. (more…)
Billionaire AirBnB cofounder Joe Gebbia is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE to slash the federal government. The Department of Government Efficiency is not a department. It is a subset of a…
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Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference torpedoed the trans-Atlantic alliance between the USA and Europe. (more…)
A Russian drone with a high-explosive payload hit the Chernobyl nuclear facility’s containment structure, blowing a hole in it and igniting a brief fire. (more…)
Federal District Court Judge Amir Ali issued a temporary injunction requiring Donald Trump to restore foreign aid funding he froze while litigation is heard. (more…)
The State of Louisiana announced it will no longer promote mass vaccination of the public. The announcement came the same day anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as Secretary…
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Judge Carl Nichols extended to 21 February 2025 a temporary restraining order blocking the new regime’s directive putting 2,200 USAID workers on administrative leave and reinstating 500 already placed on…
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul rejected Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry’s extradition warrant for a New York doctor who has been indicted in Louisiana for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online. (more…)
Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned rather than comply with an order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. At least five other prosecutors quit too.…
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Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) for the state of Pennsylvania sued Donald Trump’s regime in federal District Court for their refusal to comply with existing court orders to release frozen federal…
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Fourteen states jointly sued Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Musk’s DOGE in federal District Court, saying the White House gave Musk and his team an unconstitutional amount of authority and…
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The Office of Personnel Management told federal agencies to fire nearly all probationary employees, who generally have been in their jobs less than two years. (more…)
A day after the “Fork in the Road” “offer” expired, about 3400 mostly probationary employees were fired from the U.S. Forest Service and 2300 from elsewhere in the Department of…
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