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Loved ones of victims of Boeing's 737 MAX crashes 6 years ago are questioning Trump's nominee for DoT dep sec, contending he obstructed a Congressional probe into the crashes & caused delays for safety reforms "(S)uch behavior should be unacceptable," per letter to Senate trans comm chair Ted Cruz

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Update, per NYT: A core group of the CDC’s “disease detectives” who track outbreaks around the world has apparently been spared, “perhaps because of an uproar among alumni after a majority of its members were told on Friday that they would be let go.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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Word.

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CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do..., via @propublica.org

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For the second time, a federal judge in Seattle, who was appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan, has rebuked Donald Trump's attempt to rescind birthright citizenship as unconstitutional, via @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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USAID's top recipient of funds, Catholic Relief Services, has been forced to begin laying off staff and cutting programs after Trump's foreign assistance shakeup, via NCRonline www.ncronline.org/news/exclusi...

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The messages indicate that, under Elon Musk’s leadership, DOGE is actively taking steps to make sure its communications and records are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act

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"His fanboys and the MAGA faithful don’t care that X is a flailing business because Musk did deliver on giving liberals their supposed comeuppance … in their eyes he succeeded in turning X into a political weapon. The same thing is happening right now with DOGE." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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NYT: Inside Elon Musk’s incursion into the federal government www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

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A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.’s website went dark on Saturday afternoon, via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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Powder day #pnw

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Lawmakers in Washington state have introduced a bill seeking to ban hospitals from using nondisclosure agreements to silence patients accusing them of medical malpractice. The bill comes in response to my @nbcnews.com report about public hospitals’ wide use of NDAs www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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A declassified World War II-era CIA field manual to sabotaging fascism is going viral amid the first days of Trump 2.0 It provides strategies for ordinary citizens to become saboteurs who are “highly effective at resisting the Nazis.” Story via 404 Media www.404media.co/declassified...

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The latest example of a big corporation settling a lawsuit brought by Trump

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Washington state‘s new Attorney General Nick Brown, who sued the Trump administration over its order to end birthright citizenship and won a ruling declaring it unconstitutional, headlines this year’s Washington Coalition for Open Government’s ‘Sunshine Breakfast’ www.washcog.org/in-the-news/...

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Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

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RIP Eric www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Adiel is a rock star of a journalist. Snap her up quick — any newsroom would be lucky to have her

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Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud, via @maryhudetz.bsky.social @propublica.org Responsehttps://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-sober-homes-deaths-medicaid-fraud

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Elon Musk appears on video at German far right campaign event, via @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Three years ago, we broke the news that a school superintendent in Granbury, TX, ordered librarians to remove books with LGBTQ characters It led the Education Department to open a civil rights investigation It now appears the Trump admin has ended the investigation and 10 others tied to book bans

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Trump fires at least 12 inspectors general overnight in legally murky move www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

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A federal district court judge in Seattle temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship — the first skirmish in what promises to be a protracted legal battle over the new administration’s agenda www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

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Federal employees told to name colleagues working in DEI roles www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

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Idaho woman who stormed the Capitol rejects Trump’s pardon, via Idaho Statesman www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...

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Relief, revenge but little repentance: Trump's pardons delight Jan. 6 offenders www.nbcnews.com/politics/don..., via @ryanjreilly.com @garygrumbach.bsky.social

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“You have to wonder whether you really want to put people back on the street who haven’t paid their dues for having done those things.” -- Newt Gingrich Trump's last-minute decision to go big on Jan. 6 pardons took many allies by surprise, via @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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'Appalling': Current and former prosecutors lament Trump's Jan. 6 pardons @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Senators have received affidavit containing new allegations against Pete Hegseth, who denies the claims www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Trump pardons 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... via @ryanjreilly.com

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Trump will pull U.S. out of Paris climate agreement www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...

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When houses are fuel: Why firefighting was no match for a California disaster decades in the making www.nbcnews.com/weather/wild...

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Tik Tok app says it already “isn’t available” as of Saturday. “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution …”

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Supreme Court gives green light to law that could ban TikTok within days via @lawrencehurley.bsky.social @kattenbarge.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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SpaceX Starship rocket breaks up midflight as debris video emerges online www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...

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David Lynch, visionary filmmaker who created "Twin Peaks," and "Blue Velvet," dies at 78, via @danielarkin.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

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There was no deal

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Latest: Israel and Hamas reach ceasefire deal www.nbcnews.com/news/world/c...

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Special Counsel Jack Smith releases Jan. 6 report, says Trump would have been convicted www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Newsom slams Trump's disinformation about wildfires www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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From smoke to roaring flames: Inside the first hours of LA’s deadly Palisades fire www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news..., via @jonschuppe.bsky.social

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'Entirely foreseeable': The L.A. fires are the worst-case scenario experts feared www.nbcnews.com/weather/wild..., via @evanbush.bsky.social @adielkaplan.bsky.social

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New: Trump gets no jail time, but sentencing in NY hush money case formalizes his status as a felon — 10 days before his presidential inauguration www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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More than 15,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr. as health secretary www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news..., via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

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