“People are doing things. You will meet those people when you start doing things.”
“Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile.”
“National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated — but they struggled to find them because they didn’t have their new contact information. … The individuals the letter refers to had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.”
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired ‘several’ agency employees who are working on the federal government’s response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency said it is now trying to quickly reverse the firings.”
“The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.”
“With the Department of Government Efficiency and the Office of Management and Budget moving at a rapid clip and flouting federal law to carve up the government, the lawmakers face monumental challenges in getting the White House to spare their constituents from the ax.”
“It was also part of an eventual wider series … that includes striking comments denying the Holocaust, questioning 9/11, and engaging in anti-Black racism.”
“The Texas Observer has identified the operator of ‘GlomarResponder,’ an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden,”
“Texas Republicans have largely stayed quiet on the cuts, despite protest from medical institutions across Texas, which collectively received $1.9 billion in NIH funding last year.”
“Musk and Trump seem to have a particular knack for shortchanging veterans — even those who don’t rely on care from the Department of Veterans Affairs or work for the federal government.”
“The U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ordered lawyers hired to represent unaccompanied children to stop working.”
“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
“Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend.”
“A video on his YouTube channel titled ‘Elon Musk is Lying About Being Good at Video Games‘ has garnered over 1.2 million views in the month since it was posted.”
“It’s not exactly comforting that the people with access to the entire federal government can’t even set up a basic website.”
“To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise to a U.S. senator: He would not change the nation’s current vaccination schedule. But on Tuesday, speaking for the first time to thousands of U.S. Health and Human Services agency employees, he vowed to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule that prevents measles, polio and other dangerous diseases.”
“Her resignation is the latest by career Justice Department prosecutors to protest what they see as improper political interference by the Trump administration in criminal investigations.”
“Matt Schlapp, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the CPAC convention, allegedly engaged in lewd conduct and allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a restaurant and bar in Virginia on Saturday night, six witnesses and the man who alleges he was assaulted tell me.”
“In a 19-16 vote, the South Dakota Senate voted Tuesday to kill a bill that would raise the age of marry in South Dakota to 18-years-old.”
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