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Everyone’s getting rich off Trump’s war. Leaked Pentagon planning documents obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein reveal the Trump administration is refining the next generation of plans for a “major regional conflict” with Iran. Meanwhile, lawmakers looking to cash in on more war are dumping money into Palantir, a cybersecurity firm founded by Trump and Vance ally Peter Thiel that sells its software to the Defense Department. Taxpayer-funded government contracts account for half of Palantir’s revenue.
The Lever
How Elon Musk Helped Close Your Local Pharmacy
The billionaire’s rage-tweets protected the corporate middlemen inflating your medicine prices and killing your community’s economy.
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Trump’s Tuesday Night Massacre
The Lever
Trump’s Tuesday Night Massacre
The president just fired antitrust regulators investigating his corporate boosters. The Lever speaks with one of them about why he’s now taking T...
 Echoing Richard Nixon’s infamous Saturday Night Massacre purge during Watergate, President Donald Trump this week moved to fire both Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, which had been investigating some of Trump’s biggest corporate boosters. These weren’t routine pink slips given during an administration turnover. Trump fired Senate-confirmed commissioners at an agency that Congress — by law — deliberately created to be independent from the executive branch’s control. Hours after receiving Trump’s termination letter, FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya spoke with Lever Time’s David Sirota about why this is a battle over not just one federal agency, but over whether the presidency will end up becoming a corrupt monarchy — one that will benefit only those who kiss the king’s ring. Bedoya is now taking Trump to court in a battle that he says is barreling toward the Supreme Court.
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DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
WIRED
DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurit...
 Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old engineer with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) known as “Big Balls,” is now on staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, WIRED has confirmed. He is joined by another member of the DOGE team, 38-year-old software engineer Kyle Schutt, who is now also on the CISA staff, according to a government source.
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Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
WIRED
Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, b...
 US agencies responsible for preventing the global proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and building security capacity around the world are facing deep cuts, perhaps total abolition, as the Trump administration continues its assault on any and all spending going overseas.
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White House withdraws executive order targeting law firm Trump has withdrawn an executive order targeting an international law firm after the firm agreed to review its employment practices and provide the equivalent of $40 million in free legal services to support certain Trump administrative initiatives. The White House sought to punish the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison because of the work of one of its former lawyers, Mark Pomerantz, who oversaw an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office into Trump’s finances in between his first and second terms in office. The White House agreed to withdraw the order against the law firm because of commitments that the firm had made, including that it would not use DEI in its hiring and promotion practices.
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White House rescinds executive order targeting prominent law firm
President Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order targeting a prominent international law firm after it pledged to review its hiring practice...
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Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health care and other services for millions of veterans, according to an internal memo obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
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Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency.
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‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships. Mass layoffs and weak leadership are taking a severe toll on the US government’s cyber defense agency, undermining its ability to protect America from foreign adversaries bent on crippling infrastructure and ransomware gangs that are bleeding small businesses dry.
WIRED
‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge
Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismis...
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