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The DOGE 100: Musk Is Out, but More Than 100 of His Followers Remain to Implement Trump’s Blueprint <[link removed]>

At least 38 DOGE members work, or have worked, for one of Elon Musk’s companies. Meanwhile, nearly two dozen DOGE officials are making cuts to the same federal agencies that regulate the industries that employed them.

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“It just never really dawned on me that we were watchdogs over Richard. It never really was explained to me that way.”

 
—Chris Coffey, Knox County lawyer and former board member of the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center

For half a century, through scandals, investigations, failed state inspections and even the illegal use of seclusion <[link removed]> to punish children, Richard L. Bean remained in his perch of power as the superintendent of the juvenile detention center that bears his name, wrote Paige Pflegler, a WPLN/Nashville Public Radio reporter. In late May, Bean announced he would be stepping down, but last week Pflegler and ProPublica research reporter Mariam Elba <[link removed]> revealed that for decades, Bean’s closest friends and allies held positions as board members of the detention center. Bean did not respond to requests for comment.

A 2023 investigation by ProPublica and WPLN/Nashville Public Radio found that Bean’s center had repeatedly violated laws against the seclusion of children <[link removed]> as punishment, according to public records. There, kids had been locked alone in cells more often than in other Tennessee facilities, sometimes as punishment and sometimes for an indeterminate length of time. The state had known about it for years yet fell short of enforcing steps to correct the practice.

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Trump DEI Purge Made Black Women in Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”

In March, legal teams including the American Civil Liberties Union filed a case <[link removed]> representing hundreds of fired federal employees. It contends the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of employees by targeting them for holding views perceived as contrary to the administration’s agenda. What has received less attention is the suit’s claim that the administration also violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It claims the purge that followed Trump’s executive order to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government disproportionately affected those who aren’t white men.

ProPublica reporter J. David McSwane <[link removed]> interviewed three career civil servants, all Black women who are represented in the case. Each woman describes her experience of sudden career termination and tells McSwane what she stands to lose — but not without a fight.

A spokesperson for the White House declined to comment.

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