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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

ICYMI in @playbookdc: With little fanfare, federal prosecutors-now overseen by Trump appointees-closed a probe into theft of Ashley Biden's diary. Court records indicate they mulled charging Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe & associates, but did not www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

U.S. Navy has paused all Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) training, per Navy memo leaked to me

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

BREAKING: A hearing is set for 1p tomorrow (Thursday) in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Massachusetts by federal employee unions challenging OPM's "Fork" plan. Today, they asked the court to issue a TRO staying the 2/6 deadline for Fork. Thursday's hearing will be over that request.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
AMERICAN FEDERATIONOF
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO et al.,
Plaintiffs,
Civil Action No. 25-cv-10276
VS.
REQUEST FOR ORAL ARGUMENT
CHARLES EZZELL, ACTING
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, et al..
ON AN EMERGENCY BASIS
Defendants.
MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
Plaintiffs respectfully move the Court, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P 65(b), to enter a Temporary Restraining Order against Defendants Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and
Acting OPM Director Charles Ezzell staying the February 6, 2025 deadline for acceptance of the
Fork in the Road Directive, pending submission and resolution of Plaintiffs' upcoming motion for
preliminary injunction.
Plaintiffs request the Court promptly hold a hearing, by video conference, regarding this motion, no later than tomorrow February 6, 2025, as that is the Defendants' deadline for Fork
in the Road Directive resignation.

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 05/02/2025

Per a press release from Sen. Blumenthal's office, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is "conducting a preliminary inquiry into DOGE and the ramifications of its conduct." The subcommittee sent a letter to Tesla (which you can view below) and 5 other Musk-run companies.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

HAPPENING NOW: IN a court hearing on DOGE's access to treasury system, government lawyer says two Musk allies — Tom Krause and Marko Elez — have been given accesss to treasury's payment systems They are special employees of the Treasury Dept, DOJ attoreny Bradley Humphreys says

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

BREAKING: Federal judge in Maryland grants nationwide preliminary injunction against Trump executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee, says order is likely 'unconstitutional.' More to come....

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

NEW: Thousands of FBI employees got a 12-question survey from DOJ leaders asking about their involvement in Jan. 6 investigaitons. Some inside the FBI are urging rank-and-file agents to resist filling it out or to include objections. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social politico.com/news/2025/02...

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