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• Grabbing legal residents and sending them to Guantanamo Bay (@viva.texas on TikTok)
• An update (@viva.texas on TikTok)
• Pro-migrant organizations sue Noem, DHS over Venezuelan TPS reversal (UPI)

• How Much Has DOGE Really Saved? Here’s the Scorecard to Date (Wall Street Journal)
• Trump administration tries to bring back fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal (AP)
• National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers (AP)
• An agency targeted by DOGE reportedly halts cuts after backlash (MSNBC)
• Obama cutting wasteful spending (YouTube)
• USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them (NBC News)
• Trump Repeats Claim That Biden Sent Condoms Worth $100 Million To Hamas (NDTV)
• Nancy Mace confuses “transgender” with “transgenic (Patt Morrison on X)
• Fact check: Musk, Trump deceive about a Trump-era Pentagon contract for ‘social deception’ defense (CNN)
• Signed Nov 9, 2011, Executive Order 13589 -- Promoting Efficient Spending (obamawhitehouse.archives.gov)
• Rep. Casar says fired inspectors general were...