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DOGE Is Officially Ending. Agencies Are Hiring Again.

https://www.notus.org/agencies/doge-is- ... are-hiring

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Journalists float astonishing theory around silence surrounding Mitch McConnell’s health

https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-2677159427/

“In Kentucky, a special election to replace a Senator will NOT be called if it’s closer than 3 months till the next election,” Cochran wrote Saturday in a social media post on X. “If McConnell’s condition is clearly unfit for office, they’d hide that to avoid being forced to submit a resignation letter until after that date.”

According to Kentucky election law, independent candidates have until “the second Tuesday in August preceding the regular election” to file to run in the case of a vacancy that occurs after the state’s June filing deadline.

And, with a medical expert recently declaring McConnell, “even if he is alive, unfit to serve” based on details of his latest health incident, Cochran suggested that Republicans may be seeking to avoid having ousted Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) make a last-minute grab for McConnell’s seat.

“So all they have to do is drag their feet until [the second Tuesday in August], then tell you that he didn’t make it,” Cochran continued. “And in turn block Massie from disrupting an otherwise safe Republican seat.”

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11th Circuit strikes down part of Florida's 'Stop WOKE Act' as unconstitutional

Source: Courthouse News Service

July 7, 2026

ATLANTA (CN) — Part of a Florida law limiting discussions on race, gender and diversity unconstitutionally restricts the speech of college professors, a divided 11th Circuit panel ruled Tuesday.“If the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it,” U.S. Circuit Judge Britt Grant wrote on behalf of the majority.

In a 2-1 decision, the Atlanta-based appeals court rejected a request by Florida officials to toss out a federal judge’s ruling preventing the Sunshine State from enforcing a provision of Florida’s Individual Freedom Act, also known as the Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act (Stop WOKE Act).

The law would have restricted state university professors from endorsing certain views on eight concepts related to race, color, national origin or sex during classroom discussions.

The Individual Freedom Act amended the Florida Education Equality Act by creating new speech restrictions barring any “training or instruction that espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels” students at public state universities to believe any of eight concepts: a “blacklist of ideas,” an attorney for the plaintiffs said.

Read more: https://courthousenews.com/11th-circuit ... itutional/


Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://courthousenews.com/wp-content/u ... ruling.pdf

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I mean in theory maintaining hormonal balance in older adults is a good thing, though obviously Hegseth is not looking at it from that perspective.

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