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- 2025/02/15 01:49 UTC [L..T] DHS cuts at least 405 employees from workforce «The Department of Homeland Security has cut 405 employees from its workforce, a DHS official first told ABC News on Friday. [/] The bulk of the cuts were at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which saw over 200 people cut, and then the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which saw 130 people cut. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services saw under 50 people cut, and DHS Science and Technology Directorate saw 10 people cut.»
- 2025/02/14 17:56 UTC [L..T] NC State hiring freeze: Faculty, staff positions on hold amid federal budget uncertainty «North Carolina State University Executive Vice Chancellor Warwick Arden told college deans, vice provosts and senior vice provosts on Friday that he was implementing an immediate "pause on all hiring activities" in response to uncertainty about the federal budget. [/] "Given the uncertain impacts of the presidential administration's Executive Orders and guidance, the potential shut down of the federal government on March 14, and financial challenges that the state government is dealing with, leadership is becoming increasingly concerned with our budgets over the next year or two," Arden wrote in part in a memorandum. [/] Arden wrote that the hiring pause would be "until further notice."»
- 2025/02/14 17:38 UTC [L..T] The Government Is Literally Erasing Trans People from American History «The National Park Service, following orders from the Trump administration, has begun removing references to transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument's website. They're quite literally trying to erase trans people from American history. And no, I'm not being hyperbolic here: they are systematically going through government websites and removing references to trans people's existence, including one of the most important sites in LGBTQ history.»
- 2025/02/13 16:33 UTC [L..T] RFK Jr. confirmed as Trump's health secretary, over Democrats' loud objections «Kennedy faced opposition from the left for his decades of espousing conspiracy theories on vaccines and from the right for his past support of abortion rights. For several weeks, it was uncertain whether he had enough senators backing him to get through. Yesterday, Democratic senators made speeches on the floor past midnight in protest. But on Thursday morning, he had the votes to be confirmed. The vote was 52 to 48. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former Republican majority leader and a polio survivor, was the sole Republican joining Democrats to vote against Kennedy.»
- 2025/02/13 05:00 UTC [L..T] Seattle voters embrace excess compensation tax to build social housing, reject Chamber-conceived alternative «A grassroots initiative that would create a new source of progressive revenue to build publicly-owned social housing in Seattle appears to be on its way to a decisive victory tonight despite an onslaught of corporate cash in opposition, suggesting that voters in the Emerald City are eager to try a new approach to tackling our housing crisis.» [...] «The Seattle Times and the region’s largest corporations campaigned emphatically for the alternative conceived by the Chamber. Amazon, Microsoft, T‑Mobile, and Russell Investments underwrote the 1B campaign with large checks. Mailers sent out by the campaign for 1B carried the endorsement of Mayor Bruce Harrell.»
- 2025/02/13 05:00 UTC [L..T] Worcester passes sanctuary city resolution for transgender community «Every Tuesday for the past month, dozens of members of the LGBTQ+ community have shown up to Worcester City Council meetings and told elected officials how scared they are. For themselves. For their families. For their communities. [/] On Tuesday night the city council responded to the community's petition and voted in favor of becoming a sanctuary city for transgender and gender-diverse people.»
- 2025/02/11 07:52 UTC [L..T] Black Folks Have Been Calling for A Boycott and It's Happening on February 28th. Here's The Tea «As soon as Trump took office, he took aim at Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives in the Federal Government. Following his lead, corporations like McDonalds and Walmart started rolling back DEI initiatives in their stores. Incensed, Black folks started calling for boycotts of places like Walmart and others. However, there was no real organization to those calls. Now, it seems that white folks are on board and there is a push for a February 28 boycott of places like Amazon, Walmart and any other corporation that is following the 47th president’s lead.»
- 2025/02/11 07:33 UTC [L..T] Georgia Senate votes along party lines to ban state medical coverage of transgender procedures «The Georgia Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would prohibit state health insurance plans from paying for medical care related to changing gender. [/] Senate Bill 39 was adopted by Republicans on a 33-19 party-line vote. [/] The measure comes after a similar vote last week when the Senate passed a proposed ban on participation of transgender athletes in school sports.» ... «The legislation would prohibit the use of state health benefits coverage for "gender-affirming care." It would also ban state-owned health-care facilities and physicians who work for the state from providing such care. [/] The legislation defines such care to include hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery. [/] Republicans voted down an amendment offered by Democrats that would have carved out an exception for mental health care related to gender identity. Tillery said the underlying legislation would clearly allow such services, but Democrats insisted the language was unclear.»
- 2025/02/11 04:07 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security ...«overexpansive and unpredictable FCPA enforcement against American citizens and businesses – by our own Government – for routine business practices in other nations not only wastes limited prosecutorial resources that could be dedicated to preserving American freedoms, but actively harms American economic competitiveness and, therefore, national security.»
- 2025/02/11 01:15 UTC [L..T] Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials «Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the US justice department to halt prosecuting Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials to win business. [/] The order instructs the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to pause prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 until she issues revised enforcement guidance that promotes American competitiveness.»
- 2025/02/07 23:27 UTC [L..T] Transgender and Nonbinary People Take Trump to Court Over Passport Restrictions «Following an executive order from President Donald Trump barring people from updating the sex designation on their passports, seven people have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the State Department's refusal to issue passports with accurate sex designations.»
- 2025/02/07 22:29 UTC [L..T] North Carolina judge's ruling retains close court election result, but more legal steps are expected «In three one-page orders, Superior Court Judge William Pittman affirmed the December rulings of the State Board of Elections. Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs maintains a 734-vote lead over Republican rival Jefferson Griffin after more than 5.5 million ballots were cast and two recounts. [/] Pittman entered the orders only a few hours after listening to arguments by lawyers for Riggs, Griffin and the State Board of Elections. The hearing marked another step through a legal jumble on the outcome of the race, which is one of but a few unresolved nationwide from the Nov. 5 elections.»
- 2025/02/07 20:59 UTC [L..T] AG Bondi to Criminally Prosecute Private Entities for DEIA «This week a contact at the DOJ sent me a dozen memos just been issued by new US Attorney General Pam Bondi. The memos, among a range of instructions, informed DOJ employees that the Department will criminally prosecute private entities that implement Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEI/DEIA) policies. This is Project 2025 in action. This is fascism, plain and simple.»
- 2025/02/07 19:54 UTC [L..T] Trump energy secretary allowed 23-year-old DOGE rep to access IT systems over objections from general counsel On Wednesday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright «granted access to DOGE representative Luke Farritor – a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern – even over objections from members of the department's general counsel and chief information offices [...]. The DOE chief information office is the department's IT and cybersecurity office. [/] Members of the general counsel and chief information offices "said this is a bad idea" because Farritor hadn't had a standard background investigation needed to access the department's system, one of the people told CNN. "He's not cleared to be in DOE, on our systems. None of those things have been done."»
- 2025/02/07 17:56 UTC [L..T] DOJ agrees to give two-days' notice if it releases names of FBI employees who worked on January 6 cases «FBI employees and the Justice Department agreed to a court order Friday that bars the DOJ from releasing a list of FBI employees who worked on January 6 cases – including the one against Donald Trump – publicly, to the White House or to any other government agency without two days' notice.» ... «But Thursday night, after a full day of hearings on the matter, FBI leadership said in a memo obtained by CNN that it had complied with the demand from the Justice Department to hand over the names.»
- 2025/02/07 17:38 UTC [L..T] Trump delays cancellation of de minimis trade exemption targeting China imports «President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday* that puts a pause on his closing of the de minimis trade exemption, a provision commonly used by Chinese e-commerce companies Temu and Shein.» (*The document is officially dated Wednesday, but may have actually been posted on Friday for some reason.)
- 2025/02/07 15:51 UTC [L..T] Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens responsible for protecting drinking water for 30 million in U.S. and Canada «At the same time, the Trump/Vance administration is moving to fire or force out more than 20% of the agency's Chicago staff, including officials who enforce clean air and water laws and others dedicated to helping poor communities disproportionately harmed by pollution in the Midwest. [/] The disconnect highlights how Trump, his aides and fellow Republicans in Congress repeatedly attempt to gut environmental protections while promising to guarantee Americans have clean air and water.»
- 2025/02/07 11:57 UTC [L..T] Trump Says He Will Dismiss Kennedy Center Board Members and Install Himself as Chair «President Trump announced his intention on Friday to bring the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington more firmly under his control, saying he would dismiss several board members and install himself as chairman. [/] "At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform. [/] Mr. Trump said he would "immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture."» Dear Leader Envy, anyone?
- 2025/02/07 11:08 UTC [L..T] Lawmaker Quits DOGE Caucus Live On TV With 'Dynamite' Slam Of Elon Musk «Rep. Val Hoyle (D-Ore.) on Thursday announced to NewsNation's Chris Cuomo that she is leaving the fledgling, efficiency-seeking DOGE Caucus in Congress – and she directly blamed billionaire Elon Musk's actions in President Donald Trump's second term for her resignation. [..] Hoyle argued it is "just not possible" for the bipartisan group of lawmakers that make up the caucus to have any success with their mission to cut fraud and public spending waste and be "good stewards of taxpayer dollars" when Musk is just "blowing things up."»
- 2025/02/07 00:38 UTC [L..T] FEC chair says Trump has moved to fire her «Federal Election Commission commissioner and chair Ellen Weintraub said Thursday evening President Trump has moved to fire her, but she indicated she won't be removed from office without a fight.»
- 2025/02/06 22:59 UTC [L..T] Congressional Democrats denied entry to EPA headquarters «A group of House and Senate Democrats said they were denied access to the Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. [/] Why it matters: It is the third time this week that Democratic lawmakers were blocked from an agency that has been targeted by President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.»
- 2025/02/06 16:47 UTC [L..T] Trump's global policy ideas have some wondering how the president went from America First to America Everywhere «President Donald Trump promised voters an administration that wouldn't waste precious American lives and taxpayer treasure on far-off wars and nation building. [/] But just weeks into his second go-around in the White House, the Republican leader laid out plans to use American might to "take over" and reconstruct Gaza, threatened to reclaim U.S. control of the Panama Canal and floated the idea that the U.S. could buy Greenland from Denmark, which has shown no interest in parting with the island.»
- 2025/02/06 15:29 UTC [L..T] Let's Fight RFK's Anti-Vaccine Grift «So! Let’s talk about RFK, Jr. Yes, again. Previously, two years ago I made a video very clearly pointing out that RFK is a disgusting, anti-vaccine kook who should be driven from the public stage at all costs. I went over his DECADES of dangerous anti-science bullshit, including of course the completely debunked, ridiculous, stupid idea that vaccines cause autism. No one with two firing neurons believes that, including the people most famous for spreading it.»
- 2025/02/06 15:13 UTC [L..T] Trump announces task force to 'eradicate anti-Christian bias' «President Trump announced plans Thursday to establish a task force and a presidential commission to protect Christians from religious discrimination. [/] Trump addressed the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, where he laid out multiple steps he planned to take to address what he described as attacks on religious liberty and on Christians in particular. [/] "While I'm in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares," he said. "And we will bring our country back together as one nation under God."» Won't somebody think of the overdog.
- 2025/02/05 16:52 UTC [L..T] Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China «Amendment. Regarding the Executive Order of February 1, 2025 (Imposing Duties to Address the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China), the following shall replace subsection (g) of section 2: [/] "(g) Duty-free de minimis treatment under 19 U.S.C. 1321 is available for otherwise eligible covered articles described in subsection (a) of this section, but shall cease to be available for such articles upon notification by the Secretary of Commerce to the President that adequate systems are in place to fully and expediently process and collect tariff revenue applicable pursuant to subsection (a) of this section for covered articles otherwise eligible for de minimis treatment."»
- 2025/02/05 16:42 UTC [L..T] Former NLRB board member sues Trump over firing «An ex-member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), whom President Trump fired last month, filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging her dismissal and asking a federal court to reinstate her to the board.» ... «The suit [...] comes as the agency is without the quorum it needs to fulfill its role enforcing the nation's labor laws – and protecting workers' rights.»
- 2025/02/03 20:52 UTC [L..T] U.S. attorney hints at prosecutions over 'targeting' of DOGE employees «U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. on Monday pledged his D.C. office's support to billionaire Elon Musk and his "Department of Government Efficiency," vowing to "pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people." [/] Martin's letter backing Musk’s White House team, which is charged with recommending overhauls to the federal bureaucracy, was posted on Martin’s personal account on X, Musk's social media platform.»
- 2025/02/03 17:33 UTC [L..T] Lawmaker introduces bill to demolish workplace safety agency, slams 'bloated federal government' «Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., introduced a bill Monday that would abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) – the federal agency tasked with overseeing workplace safety.» The article includes some background on OSHA and Biggs.
- 2025/02/03 10:09 UTC [L..T] Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. «BREAKING: Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. The entire text of the bill reads "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished."»
- 2025/02/01 19:38 UTC [L..T] Orange Felon Wants To Privatize The Government «The Orange Felon finally came clean with why he has put a hiring freeze on federal employees and offered current employees a buyout. He's planning on putting the government on a fire sale and privatizing it».... further results
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