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Lawsuit: Consumer Protection Data May Be Deleted

Axios reports: The former chief technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warns that twelve years of critical records could be “irretrievably lost” in the DOGE purge of the agency, per an affidavit filed in federal court Friday. The stability of the financial system is at stake, claims Erie Meyer, who served in that position at the agency until last …

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Felon Hangs His Framed Mugshot Outside Oval Office

USA Today reports: Photographs taken from inside the White House show President Donald Trump has his mug shot framed and hung just outside the Oval Office. Images taken during a Thursday meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office went viral after an open doorway revealed the New York Post’s cover of the infamous photo hanging on …

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Hundreds Protest Trump At Stonewall Monument

Gothamist reports: The Trump administration removed references to transgender and queer people from an official webpage for the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, drawing widespread recrimination from lawmakers and New York’s influential queer community. Hundreds of people swarmed the monument Friday, carrying LGBTQ+ Pride flags, along with signs reading “there’s no Stonewall without the T” and similar messages opposing …

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House GOP Plots To Impeach Anti-DOGE Judges

The Hill reports: House Republicans are pledging to bring up impeachment articles against federal judges who have blocked Trump administration actions, including those of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), backing up tech billionaire Elon Musk’s call for a “wave of judicial impeachments.” Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) said he is drafting articles of impeachment against Judge Paul Engelmayer of the …

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Missouri AG Sues To Overturn Ex-Gay Torture Bans

Kansas City’s NBC affiliate reports: A group of Christian counselors and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey have filed a lawsuit against the city of Kansas City and Jackson County over their conversion-therapy bans. In 2023, the Jackson County Legislature passed an ordinance banning the practice. The city of Kansas City banned conversion therapy in 2019, an effort led by KCMO …

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HHS Says 1300 CDC Employees Will Be Terminated

The Associated Press reports: Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — roughly one-tenth of the agency’s workforce — are being forced out under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of all probationary employees. The Atlanta-based agency’s leadership was notified of the decision Friday morning. The verbal notice came from the U.S. Department of …

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Trump’s “Iron Dome” Would Mean Jillions For SpaceX

Mother Jones reports: In late January, Trump announced details for the Dome. A land-based missile-interceptor system—like the one Israel has—would not be possible to build for a country the size of the United States. Instead, military commentators coalesced around another plan: build a cloud of “satellite missile interceptors” similar to former President Ronald Reagan’s ill-fated 1980s “Star Wars” proposal. In …

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Vance Meets With Germany’s Homocon AfD Leader

The Washington Post reports: JD Vance made his vice-presidential debut on the global security stage Friday in a scolding speech here, pressing Europe’s centrist leaders to move over to accommodate the rising anti-migration, nationalist voices they have at times sought to block from power. Vance also met with a far-right German leader whom the country’s centrist parties have long sought …

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Grenell: I’ll Run For CA Governor If Kamala Harris Does

Politico reports: One of President Donald Trump’s top aides said Friday that if former Vice President Kamala Harris enters the race for California governor, he might too. “If Kamala Harris runs for governor, I believe that she has such baggage and hundreds of millions of dollars in educating the voters of how terrible she is, that it’s a new day …

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New Trump Order Defunds Schools With Vax Mandates

Breitbart reports: President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday halting federal funds for schools and universities that require students to be vaccinated against coronavirus before they can attend classes in person, Breitbart News has learned. According to a White House document provided to Breitbart News, the expected order also applies to education service agencies, state …

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