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New — State Department employees have been instructed not to reply to OPM’s 5 bullet email, per an email I reviewed, saying leadership “will respond on behalf of the Department.”

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I wonder what totally cool and normal thing tomorrow will bring

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On this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social... I speak with @willoremus.com about Musk's propaganda machine. @beccalew.bsky.social discusses the authoritarian roots of Silicon Valley Brooke interviews @elysegraham.bsky.social about how scholars and librarians helped win World War II.

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Musk has tweeted more than 220 times in last 24 hrs. That's not counting the replies.

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Breaking — All Department of Justice office leaders just received an email saying they should be “prepared to follow the instructions” in the OPM/Musk bullet email, according to a copy shared with me. Full text:

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some Defense Dept employees are being told not to respond to today’s OPM email yet: “Our current understanding is OSD will be issuing guidance on how to respond. We will communicate that guidance as soon as we have it. Until the guidance is received, please hold off on responding.”

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are you a fed who got today’s OPM email? NPR wants to hear how you're responding — or if you're not, why. do you see this as a chance to show the value of your work? are you burnt out from another chaotic week? did your system flag the message as spam? reach me at shannonbond.01 on Signal

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just like at Twitter but this time it's ppl working on bird flu, nuclear security, the Veterans Crisis Hotline, and the Indian Health Service www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

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"I'd say that 99% of what I'm doing now is putting out fires started by these wellness influencers," one public health scientist tells NPR's @jjoffeblock.bsky.social. Pro-science creators say the stakes are only getting higher w RFK Jr named top US health official: www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

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AP sues the Trump administration: "The White House has ordered The Associated Press to use certain words in its coverage or else face an indefinite denial of access. ...The Constitution does not allow the government to control speech." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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"Landing right in the middle of the tax season, the [IRS] job cuts are expected to make it harder for taxpayers to get questions answered and for the government to collect all of the money it's owed." www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

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a deep dive into DOGE data from @stphnfwlr.com finds of the $55 billion Musk's team claims it's saving, only $2 billion in contracts have actually been cancelled www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

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"...I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion,” Scotten wrote. “But it was never going to be me.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

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this but it’s nukes www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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"Musk can’t claim he wasn’t aware that the National Reconnaissance Office is one of the nation’s intelligence agencies. His company, SpaceX, has a $1.8 billion contract with NRO to build hundreds of spy satellites."

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just want to note that USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service — which confirmed this — was hit by layoffs today

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- Layoffs hit employees at USDA, EPA, and CDC on Friday - Pentagon and HUD are gearing up for budget cuts and staff reductions www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

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Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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DEVELOPING: As part of sweeping cuts, the Trump administration has terminated around 300 employees at the agency responsible for maintaining America's nuclear weapons arsenal and combating nuclear terrorism. More on today's mass firings here: www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

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National Nuclear Security Administration staffers were cut today after the agency was denied a national security exemption, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social scoops NNSA maintains & upgrades US nuclear weapons arsenal of nuclear, combats nuclear terrorism, prevents proliferation www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

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Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Office of Personnel Management, the General Services Administration: job cuts are sweeping across federal agencies, with recent hires targeted first: www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

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After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

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Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

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an update: GSA probationary staff - those who were hired relatively recently - are being called into meetings this afternoon and told they will be terminated www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

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The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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"The fact that Musk is now engaged in payment businesses that would be regulated by the CFPB at the same time he's trying to tear down the CFPB puts in sharp relief the conflicts of interests here," former CFPB head Richard Cordray tells @bobbyallyn.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n...

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confirming Wired’s stellar reporting and contradicting what the govt has said repeatedly, including in court about what access Elez had

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New: Trump's Small Business Administration sent termination notices to probationary workers, then emailed to say they'd been "sent in error," then emailed workers the next day to say they were fired after all Unpaywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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A little-known office in the FAA safeguards the public during commercial rocket launches. Elon Musk says it works too slow. Now he’s in a position to change that. New: www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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I wrote about a growing community of Christians in Silicon Valley — including Peter Thiel and his favorite commandments, Elon Musk's turn from atheism, and the Bay Area's favorite theologian, Rene Girard. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

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Trump's attacks on federal workers have led to a surge in union signups, according to AFGE. The union's goal was to hit 325K members by end of 2025 but they might hit it by end of this week. “I really want to send him an organizing award,” union prez says of Trump. www.huffpost.com/entry/afge-g...

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The inspector general for the US Agency for International Development was fired, a USAID official said, a day after his office published a report critical of the Trump administration's effort to eliminate the agency reut.rs/4hvIEqs

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The new Trump administration is moving quickly to roll back long-standing work to counter foreign influence in U.S. elections, work that began in the first Trump term after revelations about the extent and ambition of Russia's efforts to sway the 2016 election. from @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social

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Elon Musk claims he post's DOGE's actions to their website for full transperency. This is all that is on the website currently: doge.gov

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Report on Musk long enough and you start to see him say the same things over and over. He agreed to buy Twitter then made sweeping accusations about fraud and bots to try to break the deal. He also accused Twitter of harboring "ghost employees" who took paychecks. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Top Treasury official in sworn statement to federal court: Ousted DOGE member Marko Elez was the only person on Musk's team with direct access to Treasury payment systems and source code: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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"Traditional federal conflict of interest rules seem almost antiquated, if Mr. Musk is determined to be involved in specific decisions about agencies his companies do business with." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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SCOOP from @nbcnews.com — A senior FEMA official instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Johns Hopkins officials said the NIH funding cut puts at risk approximately 600 current and ongoing clinical trials at Hopkins, including open clinical trials in cancer, pediatrics and children’s health, heart and vascular studies and the aging brain. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

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