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Alexander B. Howard

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OBBBA makes good on Trump’s promises of tax cuts at the expense of massive cuts to Medicaid, clean energy incentives, and student loan programs. My Morning Joe Chart

OBBBA makes good on Trump’s promises of tax cuts at the expense of massive cuts to Medicaid, clean energy incentives, and student loan programs.

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Scoop: 330+ federal agency websites are being targeted for elimination, following a governmentwide review led by GSA. That includes decommissioning sites for the National Flood Insurance Program & a CDC site on vaccinations federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernizati…

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ā€œDescending on a person in public, laying hands on them, and taking them to a distant prison is a naked expression of state power. For it to be tolerated in a democracy, it cannot be done by shadowy, masked agents,ā€ Brandon del Pozo argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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The GSA plans to sunset hundreds of websites following a review: federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernizati… These .gov websites, webpages, & docs should be regarded as public records & properly archived, but it’s now unclear whether U.S. National Archives can or will ensure that happens across agencies

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Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s deep staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives. to.pbs.org/4nzITEc

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Per Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, the Director of the The White House Presidential Personnel Office, Sergio Gor, was born in Uzbekistan in 1986, when it was part of the Soviet Union. occrp.org/en/news/exclus… Sometimes, all roads lead to Damascus. Others, to Tashkent, or Moscow.

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Tip of the hat to the @DCDMV for keeping the inspection station in SE running smoothly on a HOT day. The Iron Lady sorting the long queues was quietly competent & the technicians couldn’t have been more efficient & friendly. A welcome reminder of when & how organization &

Tip of the hat to the @DCDMV for keeping the inspection station in SE running smoothly on a HOT day.
The Iron Lady sorting the long queues was quietly competent &amp; the technicians couldn’t have been more efficient &amp; friendly.
A welcome reminder of when &amp; how organization &amp;
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ā€œThis will be one of @ElonMusk’s legacies, and the most consequential one for human life. A man who talks about saving our species condemned millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy.ā€ā€” Don Moynihan donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-of…

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ā€œThe calls from Alligator Alcatraz’s first detainees brought distressing news: Toilets that didn’t flush. Temperatures that went from freezing to sweltering. Giant bugs. And little or no access to showers or toothbrushes, much less calls with attorneysā€ miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

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The The New York Times reports Linda Yaccarino discussed leaving X with staff prior to Grok declaring itself MechaHitler. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/tec… She has not provided any public reason for leaving, yet.

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When Ezra Klein told Jon Stewart that liberal regulations ruined Biden's broadband program, the clip went viral, with Elon Musk’s help. But the story wasn’t true—and the telecom monopolies who were the real saboteurs are still laughing. New Washington Monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/09/the…

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EFF’s @Maassive told @TheIntercept he'd expected Trump’s budget bill "to quadruple-down on wasteful surveillance technology at the border, but I was not expecting language that appears to grant an exclusive license to Anduril to install AI-powered towers.ā€theintercept.com/2025/07/09/tru…

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HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest statnews.com/2025/07/09/ken… STAT "The new members Kennedy appointed bring their own potential conflicts of interest." "...might retain ties — financial or otherwise — with anti-vaccine groups."

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The President Donald J. Trump, who escaped prosecution for an attempted autocoup & conspiring to overturn the 2020 election after he won re-election last year, abused power by demanding Brazil stop prosecuting a former president who’d attempted a coup & threatening tariffs if they do not. It’s