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DHS has been DOdGEballed and now their Secretary’s office is required to review all contracts over $100K, just like many other agencies have already been requiring extra reviews via @federalnewsnetwork.com. Make America more efficient again… federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition-...

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“CDC terminated 2,400 employees through a reduction-in-force in April, but has since walked back about 800 of those RIF notices” via @federalnewsnetwork.com. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

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7.5K gone from the Department of Interior as Feds scramble to get off the sinking ship. That’s “1,000 staffers each from the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and Bureau of Reclamation” via @eenews.bsky.social: www.eenews.net/articles/750...

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“Trump is ‘losing confidence’ in Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as he mulls removing her entire office, senior official says” via @theindependent.bsky.social. The leopards are circling. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Wishing everyone a day where you feel seen and heard! 💙🩵

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When asking the public to identify NPS signage with “language that negatively discuss[es] America’s past or present,” you have not been helpful. 🤭 “Instead, visitors accuse the Trump administration of seeking to erase the nation’s history” via @govexec.bsky.social www.govexec.com/management/2...

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NSF seeks input on focus areas for its Technology, Innovation and Partnerships directorate. The science research agency is looking for comments on a potential refresh of the breakthrough technology directorate’s focus areas. via @madialder.bsky.social fedscoop.com/nsf-seeks-in...

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"The Department of Energy is eyeing elimination of a 45-year-old regulation aimed at ensuring new buildings are accessible to disabled people, a move it says will make the private sector more efficient..." 😢 www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

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🤣 you talking about how this kid, who isn’t even shaving yet, in charge of counterterrorism, doesn’t make you feel SAFE…🧐

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If this bill passes, our public lands will fall into the hands of fossil fuel interests.

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SCOOP: The far-right “Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

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Department of Justice losing 4.5K staff via @bloomberglaw.com. “The workforce will shrink more…through 2025, and additional reduction-in-force actions ‘will also be implemented as needed,’ the agency said.” news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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“Congress is making more than 250 million acres of public lands available for sale” via @wilderness.org: www.wilderness.org/articles/blo...

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Via Fed Reddit, this poster created a tracker of Trump's impacts on nature conservation - (federal agencies, grants, and laws). Check it out! If anyone knows the OP, happy to tag them, but didn’t see a someone with the same screen name. worksfornature.org/nature-under...

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New Fed performance standard requirements issued via edict today in the form of an OPM memo, calling for an end to “inflation of employee performance ratings” and calling for a new supervisory performance element, “Holding Employees Accountable.” chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...

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Wondering where that random statistic about 40% of SSA calls being fraudulent came from? We now have our answer: Stephen Miller’s wife and former White House staffer, Katie Miller. Via @theindependent.bsky.social. Tons of $ wasted trying to find fake fraud… www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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National Archives to lay off 3% of its workforce while allegedly “enabl[ing] faster public access to the agency’s records, artifacts and holdings.” Via @govexec.bsky.social Impacts: eliminating the Office of Innovations and reducing support to Presidential libraries www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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DOgGEball may have stolen Federal data—Congress asks for info on a staffer's account on GitHub “that allegedly hosted ‘bespoke code’ designed to remove data from a sensitive case management database” used by the NLRB via @npr.org. www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

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You can’t make this up: Pentagon to “direct commission four tech executives at the rank of Lt. Col., charging them with leading a new Army innovation corps” called Detachment 201, via @breakingdefense.com. Includes execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI. breakingdefense.com/2025/06/andu...

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FEMA is hemorrhaging more leaders as the head of the National Response Coordination Center resigns via @npr.org. The NRCC “acts like air traffic control for first responders after a hurricane, tornado, flood, wildfire, earthquake or other national emergency.” www.npr.org/2025/06/17/n...

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The Sammies, the Oscars of Federal Government Service, will be presented tonight

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A senior DHS official held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group last week on how federal databases can be used to check voters' citizenship status, according to an email sent by the group. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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#BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s cancelling of federal health grants over their connections to “gender ideology” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” was unlawful and void.

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Trump tells Forest Service, Interior to merge wildfire management programs

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GAO finds Trump administration’s second violation of federal spending law

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An internal Department of Commerce watchdog found that the bureau that’s focused on safeguarding national security via export controls lacks the capabilities to detect and respond to cyberthreats effectively. via @madialder.bsky.social fedscoop.com/watchdog-bur...

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“DC roads reopen, cleanup continues after military parade” via @wtopnews.bsky.social. Bet DC will be left with the bill, once again. wtop.com/dc/2025/06/d...

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White House and Department of Veterans Affairs officials fighting over @theguardian.com report about changes to hospital treatment rules and “bylaws” thehill.com/policy/healt...

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Bizarrely, it appears that Trump’s nominee to lead the FAA has been lying about holding a commercial pilot license www.politico.com/news/2025/06... #aviation

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US Copyright Office’s fired leader is suing the Administration as a controversial report on training AI use/infringement just landed via @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

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IRS lost 2K IT employees since January and now must “reset and reassess.” They had about 8,500 IT employees at the start of FY25 via @federalnewsnetwork.com: federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

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