The Paper Trail: May 6, 2025
Hegseth Used Multiple Signal Chats for DOD Business; Judges Ruling Against Trump Face Threats; DOGE Cuts Have Devastating, Disgusting Impacts; And More.
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Hegseth Used Multiple Signal Chats for DOD Business; Judges Ruling Against Trump Face Threats; DOGE Cuts Have Devastating, Disgusting Impacts; And More.
Trump’s First 100 Days; DOGE Gains Access to Nuclear Secrets Networks; Tech Companies Fighting to Sell Your Data; And More.
OPM to Continue DOGE’s Work as Musk Backs Away; The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm; Another Fighter Jet Falls Off the USS Harry S. Truman; And More.
Signalgate: Act III; Trump Cryptocurrency Pay-To-Play; RFK Jr. Amassing Americans’ Medical Records; And More.
Hegseth on Thin Ice after Second Signal Screwup; DOGE Creating “Surveillance Tool of Unprecedented Scope”; Opaque Tariff Process Sows Confusion, Suspicion;
And More.
Intel Findings Contradict Mass Deportation Rationale; U.S. Attorney Nominee a Regular on Russian TV; Thousands of Donated Organs Discarded Each Year; And More.
5 More Law Firms Knuckle Under to Trump; Pentagon Ponders Privatizing PXs; How RFK Jr. is Undermining Vaccines; And More.
SCOTUS Allows Purges to Continue; ICE Envisions Deportations “Like Amazon Prime”; Payouts for Opioid Victims Fall Short; And More.
DOJ Lawyers Feeling Squeezed; DOGE Using AI to Snoop on Federal Workers; iPhone Quirk Blamed for Signalgate; And More.
Pentagon IG to “Evaluate” Signalgate; DOGE Happily Existing in the Murky Middle; No Toilet Paper or Privacy: Federal Workers Return to the Office; And More.
Trump Cleared to Fire NLRB, MSPB Members; USAID Cuts Hamper Myanmar Earthquake Relief; Companies Pay X to Stay off Musk “Naughty List”; And More.
White House War Plans Accidentally Texted to Journalist; Trump Revokes More Security Clearances, Declares War on “Lawfare”; Dr. Oz’s Conflict of Interest; And More.
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