The stories that got them banned: Trump lists ‘reporting incidents’ in letters to three news outlets

Reporting on the planned military bunker beneath the new East Wing complex and an article about the Defense Department’s munitions shortage are among the stories the Trump administration used to justify banning CNN, Politico and MS Now from the White House this week. The Washington Times stories: White House

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18 More Federal Agencies Eye Making Vaccine Religious-Objector Lists

This week, we revealed that an obscure federal agency plans to keep lists of the “personal religious information” employees who had religious objections to the federal employee vaccine mandate. As it turns out, the little-known Pre-trial Services Agency for the District of Columbia isn’t the only federal agency involved. As we feared, a whole-of-government effort looks to be underway. A little digging at the Federal Register revealed that there are at least 19 total federal agencies—including five cabinet level agencies—that have created or proposed to create these tracking lists for…

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