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    “The choice of Mr. Bongino is a radical and abrupt departure from that practice and raises startling questions about how two people who have never served as F.B.I. agents will oversee the vast surveillance and investigative powers of an agency of 38,000 people…”

    www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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    Feb 24, 2025
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    Exclusive: “Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon…”

    www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

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    Feb 28, 2025
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    New- Chris Krebs’ “membership in Global Entry has been revoked. Krebs, who has repeatedly attested to the security of the 2020 election, told CNN he finds it hard to believe this isn’t another act of retribution…”
    @jaketapper.bsky.social

    www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/p...

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    Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush deliver rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell on Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

    apnews.com/article/obam...

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    Jun 30, 2025
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    “On Friday, Democratic attorneys general went back to court to demand that a federal judge enforce his restraining order that was meant to keep billions of dollars in federal grant funds flowing. They said that the Trump administration had not complied”

    www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

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    Feb 9, 2025
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    Breaking - super lawyer Abbe Lowell starts his own firm. Will represent people targeted by Trump including Letitia James,
    Mark Zaid and Miles Taylor.
    www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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    May 2, 2025
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    New from 5 former Treasury Secretaries:

    “We take the extraordinary step of writing this piece because we are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful and corrosive to our democracy.”

    www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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    Feb 10, 2025
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    Breaking - White House is forcing out top leadership at the National Archives.
    “The exodus of senior staff is seen as a huge loss for the agency, which is considered nonpartisan and dedicated to the preservation of history and documents.”

    www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/p...

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    Feb 15, 2025
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    New: Liz Cheney statement on Trump latest on January 6 committee (thread)

    mailchi.mp/greattask/ch...

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    Dec 8, 2024
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    New: “This is not a man who respects the rule of law, nor one who seeks to understand it.”

    Judge Luttig’s new piece on President Trump and “The End of Rule of Law in America”

    @judgeluttig.bsky.social

    www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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    May 14, 2025
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    DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress
    Elon Musk now says his group will produce only 15 percent of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork.

    Gift article

    www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

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    Apr 13, 2025
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    “The purchase of Cybertrucks, an atypical choice for government armored transport, is likely to raise conflict of interest issues, especially as Mr. Musk trumpets his own efforts to root out what he regards as unnecessary spending.” @nytimes.com

    www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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    Feb 13, 2025
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    NY Times Editorial Board:
    “The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term have done more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction. Mr. Trump is attempting to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts…”
    www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

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    May 1, 2025
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    “For the German establishment, the situation was very clear.

    “A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute,” the prominent German weekly Die Zeit wrote in an editorial. “There is no need to make this unnecessarily complicated,” the editorial said.”

    www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

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    Jan 25, 2025
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    New: “I resigned from the military because of Trump” - “I could not swear to follow a commander in chief who seems so willing to disregard the Constitution.”

    www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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    Oct 16, 2025
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    “The initiative to have the Secret Service purchase suits happened because Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed in the suits they bought for themselves, two sources familiar with the matter told @CNN.” w/ Holmes Lybrand

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    Feb 20, 2026