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NEW: Republicans consider major budget change to obscure deficit impact of extending Trump's tax cuts www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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Find your school district's latest state aid allocation in this @njspotlightnews.bsky.social searchable database.

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A federal program to slash the emissions of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas that seeps from oil and gas facilities and heats Earth at a rapid rate, will likely soon vanish after a push from Congressional Republicans from @bhulac.bsky.social www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/02/cong...

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement representatives said they struck a 15-year, $1.2 billion deal with GEO Group, which owns Delaney Hall in Newark, to use the facility as a 1,000-bed processing and detention center.

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For the first time in NJ, a feral cat has tested positive for bird flu in Hunterdon County. Other animals and humans who may have been in contact with the sick animal are being tested. There's a ton of helpful information in this release from the NJ Department of Health. www.nj.gov/health/news/....

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exclusive for @starledger.bsky.social, I obtained audio of a #NewJersey official saying Friday’s huge EMR fire could have led to flooding of half-a-million homes with sewage or caused a spill into nearby waterways. It could have “made national news.” www.nj.com/camden/2025/02/unnecessary-evil.html

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Some people were pretty incredulous when we published this before the election www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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If you are a current or former federal worker in New Jersey, we at NJ Spotlight News want to hear about what you're experiencing and how cuts to the federal government are going to impact your work in NJ. My signal is msoldub.06

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NEW: Transgender troops will be removed from the military, Pentagon says For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

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This is something to watch. The "endangerment finding" is simply EPA's acknowledgment of the plain fact that greenhouse gases are dangerous pollutants. The "normal" Republican response is to slow-walk some weak rule (what they tried under Trump I). The new MAGA response? Deny the plain fact.

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Exclusive: The Nature Conservancy was told by @noaa.gov it had to use “Gulf of America” or lose its federal funding, according to a leaked email and memo sent to all staff this morning cc @heatmap.news heatmap.news/climate/natu...

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Wild new detail on the PFAS hotspot in rural Warren County: a private well tested last year had the chemicals at a total concentration of 18,997ppt I haven’t found another drinking water well in NJ that comes close For @njspotlightnews.bsky.social www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/02/star...

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What lies beneath: www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/02/star... From @michaelsolwarren.com

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Could the EPA even function with a 65 percent cut in staff? @mlavelle.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2602202...

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In our report tonight: the VA cut contracts with two of the firms helping implement the PACT Act, which expands benefits for vets exposed to toxic substances. Sources told me/Dan Sagalyn that cutting these contracts will put burden back on vets to figure out eligibility www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

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We're closing in on expected firings at the Defense Department. Discussions about exemptions were still underway today, I'm told. Reach out with what you've heard by DM or on Signal at danlamothe.30 Please and thank you. We'll get to real transparency one story at a time.

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I think we should trust the talented Washington Post reporters who have said that they will alert the public — and even quit their jobs — if they feel they can no longer do them with integrity.

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"When leaders try to silence reporters through intimidation, legal threats and denial of access, they are not protecting the country; they are protecting themselves from scrutiny." www.sej.org/sej-signs-jo...

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🚨 Scoop: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has privately urged the White House to repeal a landmark scientific finding that underpins key climate rules for cars and power plants. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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BREAKING: House passes budget bill outlining $4.5 Trillion in tax cuts, $2 trillion in spending cuts and a two year lift of the debt ceiling. Final vote: 217-215. Republicans could not afford to lose a single other vote.

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Law phasing in overtime pay for Oregon farmworkers has led to higher wages but lower overall earnings, a study finds, because some farms are now scaling back hours. Farmworker advocates say there's no going back: “They deserve equal pay like everyone else.” oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/25/r...

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new for @starledger.bsky.social, I spoke with @alexfromnj.bsky.social of @njpolicy.bsky.social about @govmurphy.bsky.social’s new budget proposal and what it means for #NewJersey’s climate. Good news and clean energy investments but (again) diverting funds to NJ Transit www.nj.com/mercer/2025/...

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NEW: Money from a new tax started flowing a few years ago to help clean up abandoned toxic waste sites, including many in New Jersey. But Congress may soon kill that tax, placing clean up efforts at risk. www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/02/ted-... @njspotlightnews.bsky.social

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Scoop: As federal health agencies are gutted, Kyle Diamantas, a Florida attorney w/ a slim resume + no prior gov't experience, is the new head of food safety at @US_FDA. Turns out, he's Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting buddy, @vanityfair.com is reporting exclusively: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f... /1

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⚡️Ukraine passes resolution on elections when there is 'sustainable peace' at 2nd attempt. The decision was supported by 268 members of parliament, while 12 others abstained.

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“The line item struck by Johnson would have provided $103 million of assistance to support families facing opportunistic scammers and miserly insurance companies seeking to avoid paying out on policies.” www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-stri...

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NEW: Hegseth rejects scrutiny of Trump’s Joint Chiefs pick, attacks reporter www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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This morning, myself, @bobkopp.net, and about 230 other academics in New Jersey, sent a letter to Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim, asking that they respond to the attacks on higher education and research with the urgency and determination that the moment demands.

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump Justice Department from transferring 12 transgender female inmates to male prisons — a setback for Trump's executive orders denying recognition of transgender people.

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What was once an almost unimaginable sentence.

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“Let’s be honest, Americans do not have their skin in the game, so it’s not that personal for them." Ukrainians fear the US will turn its back on the devastated nation, as American humanitarian aid donations decrease, and Trump embraces Putin. www.njspotlightnews.org/video/ukrain...

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The SHERIFF of this town got three unidentified men to violently assault a woman in public because he didn't like what she was saying - and no one stopped them. www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...

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It would seem as though this is a federal expenditure that both reporters and budget reviewers might want to scrutinize

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When your freedom-of-information request will be processed by an analyst who is subbing in for an analyst who is no longer with the agency just as soon as the agency finishes processing requests from 6 and 7 years ago. Mad respect for @jasonleopold.bsky.social, who fights this fight every day.

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Elon Musk tweeted 222 times yesterday www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Canceling the measurement of economic impacts from climate change doesn't make the costs go away, it puts them on citizens who will see their expenses for everything from housing to food rise higher and faster than they otherwise would www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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“Please be advised that this email did not originate from the Judiciary or the Administrative Office and we suggest that no action be taken.” www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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NEWS: Air traffic controllers received the email sent to all federal employees today asking them to explain what they accomplished last week. It’s not clear if they will be exempted. Understand that interim guidance is not to respond. WH did not respond to a request for comment.

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Yet another scrap yard fire courtesy of Eastern Metal Recycling causing the evacuation of South Camden. Residents have had enough, this facility must be closed. #environmentalracism #overburdenedcommmunity

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In 2023, we started a project of putting NCAA football team logos over state outlines, because we noticed that Texas teams do this all the time. We took a break during the season, but we're starting back up again. Next up, New Jersey.

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I’ve long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the return and actions of wanna-be dictator Donald Trump and the coup by Musk if it was happening overseas in a foreign country. Here's the story the US should be writing this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

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Friday night file: Trump ousts Joint Chiefs chairman, other leaders in major Pentagon shake-up www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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