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What We’re Reading: Spongebob Crypants, Burdened By Cringe, DEI Is DIEing … And More

DOGE Update

Trump Seeks to Sell the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco — Townhall

The Industry Hit Hardest By DOGE Cuts So Far? Consultants. — Yahoo Finance

More USAID Fraud? Billions Of U.S. Tax Dollars Are Missing From Haiti Relief Projects — Zerohedge

Elon Musk’s Demand That Federal Workers Document Weekly Achievements Sparks Fury — Fox News

Jim Jordan Derides Critics Of Federal Workforce Cuts  —  Politico

To Cut Government Spending, Trump Targets Pocket Change — Reason

Washington in Crisis as Federal Employees Asked to List What They Did Last Week — PJ Media

Spongebob Crypants: Trump and Musk Hilariously Troll Leftists Whining About Progress Reports — Twitchy

Key Agencies, Including Some Led By Trump Loyalists, Refuse To Comply With Musk’s Latest Demand  —  AP News

Lawfare

The Judicial ‘Resistance’ Is Setting Itself Up for an Epic Smackdown — American Spectator

The Only “Constitutional Crisis” is That Democrats Lost, Now They’re Trying To Govern from the Courtroom — Legal Insurrection

Times Are a Changin’

At Darien Gap, Migration Slows From Torrent to Trickle Under Trump — Daily Signal

‘The Status Quo Hasn’t Worked’: Hegseth Breaks Down Why Pentagon Needs Major Shake Up — Daily Caller

Trump Administration Predicts Minerals Deal With Ukraine Will Get Signed This Week — Washington Times

New Poll Shows Trump Approval Rating at 53% — Just the News

California Dreamin’

After Signing $50 Million to Fight Trump, Newsom Asks Congress for $40 Billion in Fire Relief — Without Oversight — Breitbart

Grenell: There Will Be ‘Strings’ Attached to Federal Aid for California Wildfires — Breitbart

Misc

Handling Horror Is Hard — Andrew Malcolm, RedState

Kamala, Still Burdened by Cringe — Powerline

Millionaire with Three Homes Launches Nationwide Tour to Fight the Elites — Not the Bee

Germany’s Center-Right CDU Party Wins Election — Straight Arrow News

Trump On Major Losing Streak On Birthright Citizenship — Washington Times

DEI

How Companies Are Changing DEI In The Trump Era — Axios

Democracy Thrives on Wokeness: WaPo Doubles Down on DEI — Washington Free Beacon

Democrats Should Retire the Term ‘People of Color’ — Yahoo News

Humor

Trump Claimed, Without Evidence, That 2+2 Makes 4. Not So Fast, Experts Say — Babylon Bee

The Week in Pictures: 1 Down, 47 to Go — Powerline

BREAKING: Anti-War Democrats Furious At Trump For Attempting To End Two Wars — Genesius Times

Trump Proposes Two Golf-Course Solution For Gaza — Babylon Bee

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