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Retired translator, writer, and editor with a 1970-vintage BS in physics.
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Fact check: Eight ways Elon Musk has misled Americans about government spending flip.it/f.f.ni

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

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Trump fires Gen. Charles Q. Brown as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, other senior officers flip.it/Tsjr4X

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Trump executive order takes back funds to help low-income Alabama residents pay electric bills flip.it/k.ockm 'About 2,000 low-income households in Alabama are poised to lose federal assistance to help them pay high energy bills, under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump.'

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RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign flip.it/3RUXsI

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Trump’s USPS takeover plan a 'reckless power grab' endangering m​ail-in voting: critics flip.it/3eG8DN 'According to The Washington Post, which first broke the story, the move “would probably violate federal law.”'

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Elon Musk is coming for our weather service flip.it/bslSOQ

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CNN made FOIA request about DOGE—only to learn FOIA staff was fired flip.it/dDqYjv

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Trump administration hasn't complied with order to halt foreign aid freeze, judge says flip.it/wX2rvL

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Senate confirms Kash Patel as FBI director flip.it/5I1lXn

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Trump’s Next Planned Cuts Guarantee Disaster—Literally flip.it/MCZLPs '[T]he Trump administration plans to cut the Office of Community Planning and Development, part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), by 84 percent. The office helps with recovery efforts ...'

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DOGE is causing the very problem it claims to be solving thehill.com/opinion/5154... 'Unfortunately, DOGE access to backend program data systems is now actively undermining everybody else’s ability to monitor government spending.' .

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Mexico warns the US not to 'invade our sovereignty' in fight against cartels flip.it/zpA8uG

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See the ads declined by The Washington Post that say 'Fire Elon Musk' flip.it/LPoBZ8

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Trump Accuses ‘Dictator’ Zelensky of Swindling U.S., Hints at Excluding Ukraine from Peace Talks flip.it/FZUi1X '“Decisions on how to end the war in Ukraine cannot be made without Ukraine, nor can any conditions be imposed,” Zelensky said.'

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First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's flip.it/HOY.HS

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“For the last 75 yrs, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine were seeded by NIH funding. When we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. — @tuthill.bsky.social 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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DOGE team's "wall of receipts" shows errors in tallying billions in savings flip.it/VnZeBa 'DOGE "may be more interested in inflating savings than in accurately reporting them," said Scott Amey, general counsel for the nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight.'

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Using our “global strength” to force an invaded country into concessions with an invader makes us complicit with the invader. It’s like returning an abuse victim to the abuser’s home. Shameful. Wrong. Un-American.

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Trump claims expanded power over independent agencies flip.it/H9TOzB

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A dictatorship that kills people from democracies if they say something inconvenient hosting another dictatorship that does the same and a country run by a wannabe dictator who wants people jailed for saying anything inconvenient gathered to decide the fate of a democracy that wasn’t even invited?

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JFK Presidential Library And Museum Closed Until Further Notice flip.it/STzwnr 'Jack Schlossberg, JFK's grandson, wrote in a post on Instagram that ... the library was instructed to "fire probationary staff effective immediately and until further notice."'

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New experiments finally prove a long-forgotten theory about how quantum particles spin flip.it/4D5o_h

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Top criminal prosecutor in U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. resigns flip.it/G-qVXC

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Is the Justice Department cutting breaks to people who seem loyal to Trump? flip.it/G1aNO2

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Donald Trump defies court order by adding transphobic text to restored webpages - LGBTQ Nation flip.it/mY0x_D

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Can President Trump ignore Congress' spending laws? The debate over 'impoundment' flip.it/Uo4PFY

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Egypt Is Developing a Plan to Rebuild Gaza, Countering Trump Plan to Remove Palestinians flip.it/QAucoF

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Leader of FDA food division resigns flip.it/p.fuab

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I’m sorry. You can’t conduct “peace talks” with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine without Ukraine at the table.

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The sledgehammer approach is madness. America is not a company you can strip for parts.

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Social Security head steps down over DOGE access of recipient information, sources say flip.it/NOytCC

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A Warning to Trump Targets: The Law Isn’t on Your Side flip.it/PRSOWE '...Trump also put a target on ... his future political rivals: “If I win and somebody wants to run against me, I call my attorney general. I say, ‘Listen, indict him.’”'

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'Unconstitutional threat’: Trump border czar under fire over AOC DOJ request flip.it/XnGh7t “There is nothing more unconstitutional than threatening to punish someone for sharing information about the Constitution.”

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Build the wall! Around DOGE!

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Trump administration tries to bring back fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal flip.it/ObhqSP

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Trump administration firings hit key office handling bird flu response flip.it/_51azy

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Justice Department fires multiple immigration judges amid case backlog flip.it/bOQRDG

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RFK Jr. Goes After Widely Used Antidepressants, Claiming They Could Be A Threat To Americans flip.it/5XUQLB

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He’s right again.

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Zelensky warns days of guaranteed US support for Europe are over, as Kellogg says Europeans won’t be at table for peace talks flip.it/qirA9h '“Right now, the most influential member of NATO seems to be Putin – because his whims have the power to block NATO decisions,” Zelensky said.'

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17 States Sue To End Protections For Students With Special Needs flip.it/Ax9JiX

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Top federal prosecutor in NY resigns after being told to drop Adams charges flip.it/8lbOxt 'The resignations amount to a stunning public rebuke of the Trump administration's new Justice Department leadership in one of the country's most high-profile criminal cases.'

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'Grift': Elon Musk slammed after Tesla’s name disappears from State Dept. doc for $400 million contract flip.it/scJOVx

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White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP style policy on 'Gulf of America' flip.it/A97hLp

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Trump to pause enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials flip.it/AuIUgW

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thehill.com/homenews/adm... Insuring an increase in inflation.

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Judge hits Trump admin for refusing to obey restraining order on funding freeze flip.it/2Bkx_h

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