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DOGE - A Lawyer’s Perspective on the @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump Policy Centerpiece I inherently do not trust the media so I decided to look into DOGE myself and see what is under the hood. Initially I was quite concerned about the legality of a “new agency” created by executive order but that - just like everything else - is a lie put out by the mainstream. The order is here and the thread is below: To understand anything the government does it’s usually best to start with the law or something else I might be able to sue over… in this...

WEST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United States, often seen against a clear blue sky — is having a moment. The eagles find themselves in an environmental updraft of sorts since the early 2000s, when the federal government took the thriving birds off its endangered species list with more states following suit. Culturally, too, the animals are soaring. In December, Joe Biden signed legislation making the raptor the country’s national bird (thought that was already the case? More in...

A USAID worker said Monday that office employees scrambled to hide anything "incriminating" when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) came knocking. DOGE is not a government agency but has been tasked by the White House’s executive office with dismantling wasteful spending initiatives, and "special government employee" Elon Musk's most recent target is the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Microsoft aims to smoothly transition from one presidential administration to the next. The company recently secured a major win in DC, receiving the official blessing of the President in a $500 billion AI investment partnership between SoftBank, Oracle, and Microsoft’s OpenAI. But as official policy turns against online censorship, the tech giant may have to confront its track record of deep involvement in the suppression of Americans’ online speech. Newly uncovered evidence now shows that Microsoft served as the tip of the spear in the private sector in censorship-industrial complex – the coordinated effort between corporations, government agencies, NGOs and...

The jihadist terror organization Hamas reacted with outrage to President Donald Trump’s unprecedented proposal on Tuesday for the United States to seize the Gaza Strip and turn it into a global resort destination, calling Trump “irresponsible.” Hamas is a genocidal radical Islamist terror group backed by Iran whose objective is the destruction of the Israeli state. Gaza was plunged into a brutal war following Hamas’s decision to invade Israel on October 7, 2023, killing an estimated 1,300 people and abducting dozens of others. Hamas terrorists tortured, gang raped, abducted, and desecrated the corpses of their victims, the vast majority of...

...In November of last year, U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett ordered San Luis Obispo County to implement a new water release plan for the Lopez Lake Dam. Now, the county is appealing that decision, citing a "catastrophic impact on South County water supply." Per the order, the county has to release 7.9 CFS or cubic feet per second over the entire year and have two "pulse flows,"..

The Trump administration is finalizing plans to dismantle the Education Department through an executive order that would build on the president’s campaign promise to hammer the longtime conservative target. The order — which President Donald Trump is expected to sign sometime this month, according to a White House official — was expected to lay out a two-part strategy for shuttering the agency, according to two people familiar with the plans and granted anonymity to discuss them. It would direct the department to craft a plan to wind down its functions using its existing administrative authority. But the order was also...

SJV Water is an independent, . .nonprofit... news site covering water in the San Joaquin Valley... .. Consistent with the direction in the Executive Order on Emergency Measures to Provide Water Resources in California, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Success Lake to ensure California has water available to respond to the wildfires,” wrote Gene Pawlik, a supervising public affairs specialist in the Army Corps’ Washington, D.C. office. ... Tulare County water managers were perplexed and frustrated, noting both physical and legal barriers that make it ....virtually...

WASHINGTON — Democrats are looking to use any point of leverage they have to push Republicans into a corner and put a stop to President Donald Trump’s agenda — even if it means withholding support on legislation to keep the government funded. Although Republicans hold majorities in both the House and Senate, Democrats are eyeing ways to capitalize on their GOP counterparts’ slim margins to rein in their power as Trump and his allies issue in a number of sweeping changes to the federal government. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the lower chamber, released a 10-point...

After, the recent fantastic Trump win in America, it would seem this would be the most inopportune moment to cast a shadow on the future. But reality takes no holidays and while prophecy may seem like some sort of outlier, it is, in fact, a thousand times more important than any major event in history. It is the very culmination of history as we know it. World events have forced together four major occurrences that now have converged to create the basis of the most prophetically charged moment in world history. Let’s look.

They called her Mr. Smith.When the newly installed USAID chief Gayle Smith was at a conference in Africa recently, the local leaders didn't recognize the gender of her name. So they gave her a "Mr. Smith" tag — which she now has on top of a bookshelf in her corner office at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C.The nameplate on her desk makes things clear. It says: "GIRL BOSS."Being a boss anointed in the final months of a president's term is not an easy job. Three months ago, Smith took the top spot of the federal agency in charge...

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok "Nobody elected your ass! This is not Elon Musk's country!" - Rep Maxine Waters goes on an unhinged rant attacking Elon Musk at the anti-Elon rally. All this drama because Americans simply asked what our tax dollars are funding.

Let’s say your child, like the majority of schoolchildren in America, is having trouble reading and doing math. Your state offers a corrective. See if you can guess which: Option No. 1: The state will hire teachers who excel in language arts and math. Option No. 2: The state will hire teachers who underachieve in language arts and math. If you’re in New Jersey, your political leaders just chose Option No. 2. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, with huge support from the New Jersey Education Association, signed Act 1669, which removed the requirement for those seeking to become teachers to pass...

FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D.C., Saturday, Feb. 4. President LINCOLN and Secretary SEWARD arrived here from Fortress Monroe, at 10 o'clock this morning. They had an informal conference with Mr. STEPHENS and his associates, Messrs. HUNTER and CAMPBELL, on board the River Queen, in Hampton Roads. The conference occupied four hours, and is positively known to have resulted in no change of attitude, either of the Government or of the rebels. In other words it was a failure. The Star has the following particulars of the return of President LINCOLN, and Secretary SEWARD. "President LINCOLN and Secretary SEWARD arrived in Washington...

And the intent here is to give you all of the possible tools to, I'd say, engage with the Iranian government to ensure that going forward, they are less of a malign actor on the world stage. Donald Trump 00:05:03-00:05:30 (27 sec) So this is one that I'm torn about. Everybody wants me to sign it. I'll do that. It's very tough on Iran. It's what we had before. We would have never had the problem -- you would have never had October 7th. We would have never had the problem had the election gone a different way which it...

Ukraine would need a million-man army, including contingents of soldiers from allied nations, a nuclear deterrent, and batteries of advanced missiles to deter future Russian aggression if it isn’t allowed to join NATO, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.Ukraine gave up its Cold War-legacy nuclear arsenal in the 1990s “for nothing” and would seek to acquire nuclear bombs again if it wasn’t able to quickly join NATO in the aftermath of the present war or a ceasefire, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday.

Russia has experienced around one million casualties following its invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said while asserting it was twice as many as suffered by Ukraine and with an even greater ratio when counting just fatalities. Ukrainian combat casualties are comparatively rarely discussed in the West compared to Russian casualties, which are the subject of frequent speculation, estimates, and reviews. Given the opportunity to discuss these figures in an interview on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asserted his position that Russia had seen nearly eight times as many deaths in the Ukraine war as Kyiv’s forces had. Speaking to...

Let’s get this out of the way: this is what we voted for, and it’s something that’s beyond refreshing. Despite reports of an overhaul, USAID has been virtually decapitated. Its functions were incorporated into the State Department, with a large swath of staffers destined to be furloughed in the coming days. The era of waste and relief aid going to cockamamie DEI nonsense is over. Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, acting on orders of President Donald J. Trump, rolled in like the Golden Horde and exposed a web of wasteful spending that’s likely to be a preview...

As many as 400 million Hindu pilgrims are expected to visit Prayagraj, India, during this year’s 45-day Maha Kumbh Mela festival. Held every 12 years at one of four places in India, the Kumbh Mela is considered to be an especially auspicious time to bathe in the Triveni Sangam—the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers—for purification from sin.

California’s latest secession push is a delusional stunt driven by contradictions, but Trump’s growing support proves that voters may be waking up to reality. Californians disgruntled with President Trump are promoting a ballot initiative to allow the state to secede from the United States. The initiative is being promoted by Marcus Ruiz Evans, a Fresno resident who describes himself as an activist, debate moderator, and author. After the initiative was cleared for circulation by the California Secretary of State, in a local television interview, Ruiz Evans claimed that 2016 polling found 32 percent of Californians supported full secession. It’s worth...