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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/03/2025

Politicians, fired federal workers, university presidents and chief executives who would normally speak out against the Trump administration say they are intimidated by online attacks from President Trump and Elon Musk, concerned about their businesses and worried about the safety of their families.

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Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves

People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/03/2025

A robotic spacecraft that toppled after landing on the moon yesterday ran out of power and died. The Athena lander, built by Intuitive Machines of Houston, largely failed to accomplish science and technology tasks for NASA and other customers.

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Texas Company’s Lander Dies on Moon the Day After Toppled Landing

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CNN @cnn.com · 07/03/2025

Russia’s assault targeted several regions across Ukraine, using nearly 70 missiles and almost 200 drones, Volodymyr Zelensky said on X, adding that the “massive” attack was “directed against infrastructure that ensures normal life.”

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Russia launches major aerial assault on Ukraine days after US shut off military aid | CNN

Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukraine in a major overnight attack, Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday, as the Ukrainian president renewed his plea for a partial ceasefire at the end of a w...

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 06/03/2025

Trump’s decentralized-finance project World Liberty Financial appears to have bought more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrencies two days before executives at major digital-asset companies are set to visit the White House to discuss crypto policy

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Trump’s Crypto Project Appears to Buy Tokens Before White House Summit

President Donald Trump’s decentralized-finance project World Liberty Financial appears to have bought more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrencies including Ether two days before executives at majo...

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NPR @npr.org · 06/03/2025

The president's message to his Cabinet secretaries comes amid continuing questions over the role of billionaire adviser Elon Musk in the drastic reshaping of the federal government.

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Trump says Cabinet secretaries, not Elon Musk, are in charge of agency cuts

The president's message to his Cabinet secretaries comes amid continuing questions over the role of billionaire adviser Elon Musk in the drastic reshaping of the federal government.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/03/2025

Elon Musk and his allies in the U.S. DOGE Service have justified their efforts to dismantle federal agencies by invoking a frequent refrain: They’re merely targeting fraud, waste and abuse.

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DOGE redefines ‘fraud’ to defend cutting federal employees, programs

Outside watchdogs and analysts say Trump and Musk are using overly broad claims of fraud to build political support for their plans.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 07/03/2025

“They can never finish the damn thing,” President Trump complained about his unfinished Air Force One jets. About a dozen technical hurdles are keeping Boeing's deliveries delayed, the Air Force says

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Trump Wants a New Air Force One. Boeing Has About a Dozen Problems

Donald Trump has come, gone and returned to the White House, but Boeing Co. still hasn’t delivered the new Air Force One jet that he’s eager to board after it’s painted in a red, white and blue color ...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/03/2025

Public-health officials “are charged with stopping literal plagues and pestilence, and perhaps with mitigating chronic illnesses at scale, not with eradicating social ills that they metaphorically liken to a disease,” @conor64.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/Ar6XuEDM

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Make Public-Health Officials Stay in Their Lane Again

Fighting anti-Semitism isn’t RFK Jr.’s job.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/03/2025

“Hegseth’s willingness to find enemies within is of a piece with his firing of senior military lawyers and his overall approach to war,” writes Jason Dempsey: theatln.tc/pphdxY6v

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Hegseth Has All the Wrong Enemies

Appointing his personal lawyer to a top spot at the Pentagon is another sign that the U.S. military no longer believes in preventing war crimes.

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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Are we winning yet? 🤦🏻‍♀️ ‘American officials, including in the C.I.A., are concerned about mass closures hampering national security work. And China has overtaken the United States in global diplomatic footprint.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas

American officials, including in the C.I.A., are concerned about mass closures hampering national security work. And China has overtaken the United States in global diplomatic footprint.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/03/2025

President Trump’s freeze on international aid has hampered Uganda’s ability to respond to an Ebola outbreak, U.S. officials said in private.

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As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Trump Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear

Two more people are reported dead from the disease, and dozens are in isolation, as the outbreak grows.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/03/2025

After Donald Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine, @olgakhazan.bsky.social wanted to understand how the Kremlin-friendly move was playing in Russia: “It seemed that Russian state TV, and Putin by extension, could not be more pleased with what has been happening.” theatln.tc/LWd2gZyG

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Putin Is Loving This

Russian state TV is sounding an awful lot like Trumpworld these days.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/03/2025

“Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse, and it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is losing the attritional war,” write Phillips Payson O’Brien and Eliot A. Cohen. That “makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic”: theatln.tc/FOIXEMOC

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Russia Is Losing the War of Attrition

Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse. That makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 07/03/2025

Tesla’s shares were down 4.6% at 11:53 on Friday, on track to erase their entire $700 billion post-election advance

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Tesla Erases $700 Billion ‘Trump Bump’ as Sales Slide Globally

A slide in Tesla Inc. on Friday is capping off a round trip of epic proportions in the company’s shares.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/03/2025

California Senator Adam Schiff delivers a scathing take down of Trump after Trump betrayed our NATO allies once again earlier today.

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Schiff DESTROYS Trump after MARKETS TANKS

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/03/2025

Employees of the U.S. DOGE Service successfully gained access to the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) headquarters in downtown Washington on Thursday, a day after the small aid agency blocked the group from entering.

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DOGE staffers bring U.S. Marshals to small federal agency that denied them access

The show of force by Trump administration officials and federal law enforcement resulted in a frantic and “traumatizing” scene, several officials of the aid agency said, and sparked a lawsuit from its...

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MS NOW @ms.now · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: U.S. added 151,000 jobs in February, less than the 170,000 economists expected www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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NPR @npr.org · 07/03/2025

The Trump administration has halted the U.S. refugee program, Pakistan is taking steps to force Afghans out — and their lives may be at risk if they return to their own country.

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Afghans in Pakistan awaiting U.S. resettlement are stuck in a treacherous limbo

The Trump administration has halted the U.S. refugee program, Pakistan is taking steps to force Afghans out — and their lives may be at risk if they return to their own country.

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NPR @npr.org · 06/03/2025

Dr. Marty Makary, President Trump's pick to run the Food and Drug Administration, faced questions from the Senate HELP Committee on the abortion pill, vaccines, FDA firings and chemicals in food.

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5 takeaways from the confirmation hearing for Trump's FDA nominee

Dr. Marty Makary, President Trump's pick to run the Food and Drug Administration, faced questions from the Senate HELP Committee on the abortion pill, vaccines, FDA firings and chemicals in food.

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CNN @cnn.com · 07/03/2025

JUST IN: President Trump established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve via executive order, according to a social media post by White House crypto czar David Sacks. cnn.it/41MqsTK

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/03/2025

After Donald Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine, @olgakhazan.bsky.social wanted to understand how the Kremlin-friendly move was playing in Russia. "It seemed that Russian state TV, and Putin by extension, could not be more pleased with what has been happening."

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Putin Is Loving This

Russian state TV is sounding an awful lot like Trumpworld these days.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 07/03/2025

Trump Pauses Tariffs, Crashes the Stock Market & Threatens China youtu.be/6DiPnzXlLnE

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Trump Pauses Tariffs, Crashes the Stock Market & Threatens China | The Daily Show

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/03/2025

The Trump administration has eased security requirements for some of the Boeing staff working on building new Air Force One jets, as part of an effort pushed by President Trump and Elon Musk to hasten the delayed project.

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As Trump Seeks New Air Force One Planes, Security Requirements Are Eased

Some Boeing staff will no longer need a high-level security clearance to help build new presidential jets, as President Trump has pushed to speed up the delayed project.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 07/03/2025

Trump and Musk are going after Social Security, Medicaid, the VA, and public education. In what universe, in what world, in what religion is it morally acceptable to cut programs for hungry children in order to reward the wealthy?

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MS NOW @ms.now · 07/03/2025

OPINION: “The administration never says, ‘Oh, we shouldn’t do this,’ only ‘How can we better get away with this?’ @hayesbrown.bsky.social warns to not be fooled by Trump’s backpedals, and writes it’s a symptom of a larger problem. READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Opinion | The Trump administration's DOGE shell game is rigged

The Office of Personnel Management and DOGE claim they're not calling the shots on mass firings. Their actions still say otherwise.

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CNN @cnn.com · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: Trump threatens new "large scale" sanctions on Russia after weeks of conciliatory statements toward Moscow. Follow live updates: cnn.it/41KCFZ8

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/03/2025

Less than a month after placing the entire staff of the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights on administrative leave, the Environmental Protection Agency has reinstated dozens of employees in offices across the country.

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EPA reverses course, reinstating dozens of environmental justice workers

The staffing reversal comes one month after the agency dismissed employees of the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 06/03/2025

Rep. Rashida Tlaib leveled up the Democrats' protest with... a dry-erase board?

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/03/2025

Dozens of high-level federal officials and employees have quit in protest or been forced out amid the seismic upheavals the Trump administration has unleashed across government agencies. Workers who have quit or been forced out are airing their discontent in letters to their bosses or staffs.

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Trump-era resignation letters take center stage: ‘We will not falter’

A wave of federal government firings and resignations since President Donald Trump took office means colorful departure letters have burst into public view.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants for Columbia University LINK: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/03/2025

Military and intelligence partnerships “are the soft tissue of global security. They are based on mutual trust that is earned, not assumed,” Shane Harris writes. The Trump administration has put these relationships with U.S. allies under historic strain:

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‘What the Hell Is Happening to Your Country?’

American allies don’t trust Trump with the intelligence they share.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 07/03/2025

The EU's plans to beef up its defense are a potential threat to Russia, which might be forced to take countermeasures, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said today according to Russian media.

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EU’s defense plans a ‘threat,’ says Kremlin, warns of retaliatory measures

EU’s proposal to transform “from an economic to a military alliance” will make peace in Ukraine harder to achieve, top spokesperson says.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 07/03/2025

Trump revives his 2020 playbook to go after Social Security “The Social Security Administration is already making drastic budget cuts to comply with Musk and DOGE's mission,” writes @chrislhayes.bsky.social. READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

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Chris Hayes: Trump revives his 2020 playbook to go after Social Security

The president and his allies are telling a new version of the “big lie,” this time targeting America’s most important safety net.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 07/03/2025

Maddow: “Among the direct results of what Hampton Dellinger did are more than 5000 people at USDA who yesterday were told they must be reinstated to their jobs.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQi...

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How one man took on Trump's improper firings and saved the jobs of thousands of people

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/03/2025

Breaking news: The Trump administration said Friday it is cutting off $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University because the school has failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus.

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Live updates: Trump threatens ‘large scale’ sanctions on Russia after its major attack on Ukraine

The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

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CNN @cnn.com · 06/03/2025

When the Department of Government Efficiency swings an axe, it’s bound to hit a veteran who voted for President Donald Trump.

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Veterans are being hit hard by Trump administration firings | CNN Politics

When the Department of Government Efficiency swings an axe, it’s bound to hit a veteran who voted for President Donald Trump.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/03/2025

Breaking News: The State Department has drawn up plans to shut a dozen consulates overseas, causing some U.S. officials to worry about potential effects on national security.

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State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas

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MS NOW @ms.now · 07/03/2025

NEW: Trump says the U.S. may place reciprocal tariffs on dairy and lumber from Canada www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Trump says the U.S. may place reciprocal tariffs on dairy and lumber from Canada

A day earlier, Trump had pulled back new tariffs he had placed on Mexico and Canada earlier in the week.

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NPR @npr.org · 06/03/2025

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the causes of the Great Depression.

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Did tariffs contribute to the Great Depression? Here's what to know

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the causes of the Great Depression.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/03/2025

National parks had a record number of visits last year. Now, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers amid the Trump administration’s mass firings of rangers and other employees.

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National Parks Had a Record Year. Trump Officials Appear to Want It Kept Quiet.

As the administration fires rangers and other workers, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers.

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