1/25
The immunity decision does not mean that Trump can do anything now (via LawDork)
TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained (via User)
1/26
Trump tells US government to override California water policies if necessary (via The Guardian)
Trump establishes council to review federal disaster response agency (via Reuters)
1/27
Memos to Federal Employees Were Written By People With Ties to Project 2025, Metadata Shows (via 404 Media)
CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal (via AP)
After uproar, Tuskegee Airmen video to be added to Air Force training (via Alabama Political Reporter)
Lawsuit alleges new Trump administration email system for federal employees raises privacy concerns (via CNN)
The Handbasket is first to report catastrophic OMB funding memo (via The Handbasket)
Broad Categories Of Government Workers Eligible To Lose Civil Service Protections, Trump HR Chief Says (via HuffPost)
After 'confusion' over Trump team's directives, critical NIH research continues (via NBC News)
Trump's anti-DEI executive orders target employee resource groups, federal workers say (via NBC News)
National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders (via NPR)
Trump administration puts senior USAID officials on leave (via NPR)
Fired Inspectors General Raise Alarms as Trump Administration Moves to Finalize Purge (via NYT)
Trump takes aim at DEI, COVID expulsions and transgender troops (via Reuters)
1/28
Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts (via ABC News)
Coast Guard suspends its anti-harassment policy (via Federal News Network; see also, House Homeland ranking member statement)
With inspectors general under threat, Espionage Act charges may soar (via FPF)
Court temporarily blocks Trump's spending freeze; government's top watchdog is reviewing whether it is legal (via GovExec)
Trump Leans on WWII Japanese Incarceration Law to Deport Immigrants (via The Intercept)
Trump administration offers roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign (via NBC News)
New Schedule F guidance shows the Trump White House is rearing for a fight (via NextGov)
Nearly 400 USAID contract employees laid off in wake of Trump's 'stop work' order (via NPR)
Trump's 'stop-work' order for PEPFAR cuts off anti-HIV drugs for patients (via NPR)
All the executive orders Trump has signed after 1 week in office (via NPR)
Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them. (via NYT; includes original OMB spreadsheet)
Trump signs order to end federal support for gender transitions for people under 19 (via PBS)
“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer (via POGO)
Trump paralyzes US labor board by firing Democratic member (via Reuters)
The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government (via TNR)
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management (via Wired)
1/29
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral (via 404 Media)
Trump Almost Deleted Medicaid (via The American Prospect)
Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and more (via AP)
Trump wants to withhold money from schools teaching ‘discriminatory equity ideology,’ gender identity (via Chalkbeat)
Reset or Purge? Trump EPA Dismisses Agency Science Advisers (via Inside Climate News)
USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Post Escorted From Office by Security (via Gizmodo)
OMB rescinds freeze on federal financial aid (via The Handbasket)
Chaos Follows Trump’s Anti-DEI and “Efficiency” Measures (via Mother Jones)
DOJ's LGBTQ employee group shuts down after three decades (via NBC News)
Trump directs Pentagon and DHS to prepare migrant housing at Guantánamo Bay (via NBC News)
Employee groups, Democrats, experts warn feds not to accept ‘deferred resignation’ offer (via NextGov)
DOJ asks to dismiss case of 2 men indicted for allegedly helping Trump hide documents (via NPR)
Trump orders agencies to scrub 'gender ideology' from contracts, websites (via Reuters)
US to rescind Biden highway climate rule for states (via Reuters)
1/30
Trump DOJ Leader Said to Order Prosecutors Moved to Border (via Bloomberg Law)
Fifth Circuit declares age restrictions on adult handgun purchases unconstitutional (via Courthouse News)
Trump Orders Agencies To Target Universities Over Antisemitism Complaints, ‘Monitor’ International Students (via Harvard Crimson)
New DOT Memo Directs Funds To Communities With Higher ‘Marriage And Birth Rates’ (via HuffPost)
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Transfer Of Trans Woman To Men's Prison (via HuffPost)
Trump Administration’s Halt of CDC’s Weekly Scientific Report Stalls Bird Flu Studies (via KFF)
Anatomy of a plane crash (via nightcap.)
Will Trump End the Most Successful Foreign-Aid Program in US History? (via The Nation)
'Fear' and 'chaos' grip federal workers as Trump rapidly remakes the government (via NBC News)
Census Bureau Director Robert Santos is resigning, making way for Trump's pick (via NPR)
F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Stations (via NYT)
NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders (via science.org)
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills (via Stat)
Trump Gutted Key Aviation Safety Committee Before D.C. Plane Crash (via TNR)
1/31
US colleges returning to campus sexual assault rules created during Trump’s first term (via AP)
FCC demands CBS provide unedited transcript of Kamala Harris interview (via ARS Technica)
Trump administration directs 70% cut to internal OPM staffing, programs (via Federal News Network)
EEOC Rolls Back LGBTQ+ Protections, Raising Concerns Over Civil Rights Enforcement (via Forbes; see also, processing page via IA)
Acting on Trump’s order, federal officials opened up two California dams (via LA Times)
Social Security "immediately" stopped making sex identification changes on Friday (via Law Dork)
Trump Officials Fire Jan. 6 Prosecutors and Plan Possible F.B.I. Purge (via NYT)
Federal Judge Orders White House to Keep Money Flowing to 22 States (via NYT)
Musk aides lock Office of Personnel Management workers out of computer systems (via Reuters)
Who Can Stop Elon’s ‘Team’ Wilding Its Way Through the Federal Government? (via TPM)
Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system (via WaPo/MSN)
Transgender people removed from State Department travel page (via Washington Blade; see also, State travel page and adoption page)
2/1
Trump announces significant new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, sparking retaliatory actions (via CNN)
CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (via Inside Medicine)
Trump administration gives Musk allies access to Treasury payment system (via Politico)
'This is not right': Outrage as major government agency accused of 'breaking the law' [re: NTSB/plane crash updates] (via Raw Story)
CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be restored (via STAT)
"Dangerous rollback": Trump Department of Education reverses Biden-era Title IX rules (via Salon)
2/2
USAID security leaders on leave after trying to keep Musk’s DOGE from classified info, officials say (via AP)
Musk Says DOGE Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors (via Bloomberg/Yahoo)
Critical FAA warning system restored after outage (via CNN)
Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’ (via The Guardian)
‘Very retaliatory’: the federal workers caught up in Trump’s DEI purge (via The Guardian)
SEC's Republican-led commission tightens oversight of probes, sources say (via Reuters)
