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 Erwin Chemerinsky / New York Times:
Trump's ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion — On Wednesday, the Trump administration sent letters to nine major universities proposing a “compact.” As The Times reports, the agreement would, among other things, require these universities to freeze tuition rates for five years …
2025-10-03 00:55:00 UTC
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Los Angeles Times:
Newsom threatens to cut state funding to universities that sign Trump's political compact — The White House asks nine elite universities to adopt Trump's political priorities in exchange for priority access to federal grants. — Gov. Gavin Newsom swings back and threatens to cut state funding if any California campus agrees.
2025-10-03 00:50:00 UTC
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Pablo Manríquez / Migrant Insider:
SCOOP: Lutnick's $5 Billion in Gold Card Sales Has Gone Missing — WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick bragged this spring that he had already raked in $5 billion for the Trump administration's new “Gold Card” program, a $5 million fast-track for green cards and citizenship for wealthy migrants.
2025-10-03 00:50:00 UTC
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New York Times:
At Saudi Comedy Fest, American Free Speech Becomes the Punchline — American comics used Saudi Arabia's first global comedy festival to skewer a debate raging at home. Critics said the event was part of Saudi efforts to draw attention away from a political crackdown.
2025-10-03 00:45:05 UTC
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Mack Liederman / Block Club Chicago:
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: ‘It Looks Like Hell’ — A “now renting” sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse. — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
2025-10-03 00:30:00 UTC
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Politico:
Lewandowski weighs bid against Gov. Ayotte amid White House pressure campaign … POLITICO first reported that the White House is considering a primary challenger to Ayotte as the president's team ratchets up pressure on the first-term governor to follow other Republicans in redrawing congressional maps …
2025-10-02 23:50:00 UTC
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Mike Fox / Orange County Register:
Rejecting injustice: The jury's role in a politicized justice system — The acquittal of Brayan Ramos-Brito is more than just a legal victory for one individual; it is a powerful reaffirmation of the American jury system. After a federal jury in Los Angeles took just over an hour …
2025-10-02 23:50:00 UTC
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James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter:
Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival — “It's easier to talk here than it is in America,” the comedian told an audience at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. … The comedian was one of more than 50 performers participating in the event …
2025-10-02 23:15:01 UTC
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Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, pleads guilty to sexually abusing a child — Under a plea agreement, Morris was given a 10-year sentence, but he will serve only six months in an Oklahoma jail. — PAWHUSKA, Okla.— Robert Morris, the Texas megachurch pastor who built Gateway Church …
2025-10-02 22:50:01 UTC
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I’ll start with this: I am certainly not fully politically aligned with Senator Bill Cassidy, but I have typically found him to be genuine and intelligent. Points of disagreement aside, he doesn’t strike me as a grifter or psychopath, which is unfortunately quite rare amongst government these days. He is a doctor, specifically a gastroenterologist, […]
2025-10-02 22:37:51 UTC
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Emma Bubola / New York Times:
‘A Crazy Moment’: Shock and Terror Spreads in Manchester Synagogue's Community — Many Orthodox Jews who live in the area reacted with horror to an attack that killed two people and seriously injured three on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day. — Observant Jews generally do not use …
2025-10-02 22:25:01 UTC
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Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers From Both Sides Pressed Pentagon on Legal Basis for Cartel Boat Strikes — Defense Department general counsel faced questions from Republicans and Democrats in a closed-door briefing — Senators on both sides of the aisle pressed the Pentagon's top lawyer in a closed-door meeting …
2025-10-02 22:10:07 UTC
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Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers From Both Sides Pressed Pentagon on Legal Basis for Cartel Boat Strikes — Defense Department general counsel faced questions from Republicans and Democrats in a closed-door briefing — Senators on both sides of the aisle pressed the Pentagon's top lawyer in a closed-door meeting …
2025-10-02 22:10:07 UTC
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The judge who just denied Abrego Garcia’s asylum bid co-authored a memo clearing the way for Trump to arrest immigrants at their court hearings.
2025-10-02 21:57:29 UTC
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Weekend votes ‘unlikely,’ Thune says, meaning shutdown could push into next week — Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Thursday that it's “unlikely” senators will be in the Capitol voting this weekend, all but guaranteeing the government shutdown goes into next week.
2025-10-02 21:50:01 UTC
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John Gramlich / Pew Research Center:
Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports — Public awareness of legal sports betting has grown in recent years - and so has the perception that it is a bad thing for society and sports, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
2025-10-02 21:35:00 UTC
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Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report — Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday …
2025-10-02 21:25:01 UTC
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Turning Point USA’s first tour stop after the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 was at the University of Minnesota, and for many the experience was spiritual.
The post Turning Point’s Christian Revival appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.
2025-10-02 21:12:53 UTC
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Congressman Jamie Raskin:
Raskin Statement on Trump Administration's Use of Federal Departments and Agencies for Propaganda Purposes; Possible Violations of the Hatch Act — Washington, D.C. - Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08) released the following statement: — “I have been contacted by numerous constituents outraged …
2025-10-02 21:05:01 UTC
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Automation undeniably has some useful applications. But the folks hyping modern “AI” have not only dramatically overstated its capabilities, many of them generally view these tools as a way to lazily cut corners or undermine labor. There’s also a weird innovation cult that has arisen around managers and LLM use, resulting in the mandatory use […]
2025-10-02 20:23:32 UTC
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Nick Turse / The Intercept:
Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict” — “The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.” — THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is waging a secret war against undisclosed enemies without …
2025-10-02 20:10:01 UTC
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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Bari Weiss to be named editor in chief of CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources — Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network …
2025-10-02 19:55:00 UTC
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Today's links Decarbonization at a distance: A post-American century that runs on sunshine. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Human shields for…
2025-10-02 19:50:43 UTC
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Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
Jane Fonda relaunches McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech — The actor said the Committee for the First Amendment — first backed by her father in 1947 — would fight the Trump administration's attempts to silence critics. — Actor and activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee …
2025-10-02 19:50:00 UTC
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Trump making plans to send billions in cash bailouts to farmers with taxpayer money … Trump officials are still working on estimates of how big the first tranche of aid will be, according to the three people, who were granted anonymity to share private details.
2025-10-02 19:40:01 UTC
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Karoline Leavitt Says It's OK to Target Americans Repped by Democrats — The Trump administration is doubling down on its shutdown ultimatum to Democrats: Surrender to our backward austerity bill, or we'll rip more funding and resources from the hands of your constituents.
2025-10-02 18:45:00 UTC
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Wired:
Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown — Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.
2025-10-02 18:40:00 UTC
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NBC News:
Early polls show Trump and GOP taking more blame than Democrats for shutdown — The national surveys taken in the final days of September and the first day of the shutdown find that voters are more inclined to blame Trump and his party. But many are uncertain.
2025-10-02 18:35:01 UTC
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NBC News:
Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown — Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
2025-10-02 18:30:00 UTC
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Well, that didn’t last long. Remember back in August when we reported that the UK had supposedly “backed down” from its dangerous demand that Apple create encryption backdoors? Remember how the Trump administration (mainly Tulsi Gabbard and JD Vance) went around patting themselves on the back for tough-arming the UK into acquiescence? At the time, […]
2025-10-02 18:03:45 UTC
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Bolts:
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections — Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California's redistricting measure. But there's so much else on the ballot.
2025-10-02 18:00:31 UTC
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Michael Copley / NPR:
The Energy Department canceled billions in funding. Democrats say it's retribution — The Department of Energy is cancelling more than $7 billion in funding for hundreds of projects that the agency said don't address the country's energy needs and aren't economically viable.
2025-10-02 18:00:31 UTC
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The Academy of Educational Engineering is a premier platform tailored for aspiring and professional geeks. This all-in-one educational ecosystem is designed to empower you with expert-level knowledge and hands-on experience across embedded systems, electronics, IoT, and software development. As a premium member, you’ll access comprehensive tools, engaging projects, personalized feedback, and direct mentorship, helping you […]
2025-10-02 17:58:45 UTC
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New York Times:
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told — A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.” — President Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a formal …
2025-10-02 17:45:00 UTC
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Paul Krugman:
An Autocracy of Dunces — How stone-faced generals, Wall Street pushback, and a government shutdown may save America's quickly declining democracy — If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump's speech Tuesday to the assembled generals would have ended his presidency.
2025-10-02 17:30:05 UTC
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Washington Post:
Senior government officials privately warn against firings during shutdown — The Trump administration has telegraphed that mass firings are coming, but officials have cautioned that such moves could violate appropriations law. — Senior federal officials have quietly counseled several agencies …
2025-10-02 17:10:00 UTC
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ProPublica:
Elon Musk's SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies — The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America's most important military contractors.
2025-10-02 17:00:38 UTC
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Mike Johnson: Republicans ‘have nothing to negotiate’ on shutdown — Speaker Mike Johnson moved to shut down any attempts to negotiate a way out of the shutdown Thursday as some senators look for off-ramps. Johnson said in a news conference outside his Capitol office that Democrats …
2025-10-02 16:40:01 UTC
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Peter Nicholas / NBC News:
‘NATO for nonprofits’: Groups organize to band together if targeted by Trump — Nonprofit organizations took lessons away from law firms and universities that largely decided to act in isolation after finding themselves in the administration's crosshairs. — WASHINGTON — Nonprofit groups …
2025-10-02 16:40:01 UTC
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Politico:
Farmers, a key GOP constituency, hit hard by shutdown — The government shutdown is already hurting a key GOP constituency: farmers. Thousands of USDA's Farm Service Agency offices that help producers across the country access loans and other services are completely shuttered and only available for “emergency scenarios.”
2025-10-02 16:40:01 UTC
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God, what I wouldn’t give for another Nixon administration. Sure, it was corrupt and built from the ground up to punish the opposing party for being the opposing party. But that administration was limited and restrained by things like competent oversight, a functioning court system that wasn’t constantly undermined by five justices who want to […]
2025-10-02 16:37:31 UTC
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Michael G. Holzman / The UnPopulist:
Political Triumphalism Is Contrary to the Spirit of Yom Kippur — I can only imagine the scene that day in March of 1863 when Peter wandered into a Union army camp in Mississippi. Ten days earlier, he had escaped from slavery, along with three others, still bloodied from a recent brutal whipping.
2025-10-02 16:25:04 UTC
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Tony Romm / New York Times:
White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes — The Trump administration forged ahead with plans to conduct mass layoffs, as the fiscal standoff appeared to intensify. — The Trump administration took steps on Wednesday to maximize the pain of the government shutdown …
2025-10-02 15:55:00 UTC
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Thune warns Democrats about Russ Vought: 'We don't control what he's going to do' — Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn't endorsing the slash-and-burn campaign White House budget director Russ Vought has planned for the federal government during the pending shutdown.
2025-10-02 15:35:01 UTC
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Axios:
Axios Vibes: Grocery price pain rises, in warning sign for Trump and GOP — Americans say it's harder to afford their groceries now than it was a year ago, a warning sign for President Trump and Republicans, in the latest Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll.
2025-10-02 15:25:06 UTC
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Trust in Media at New Low of 28% in U.S. — Republicans' confidence in mass media to report news “fully, accurately and fairly” now at 8% — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” …
2025-10-02 15:15:01 UTC
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Anthony Clark / The Last Campaign:
EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles — James Byron, Special Assistant to Acting Archivist Marco Rubio at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, this week forced Dr. Todd Arrington, director of the federal Dwight D. Eisenhower …
2025-10-02 14:50:01 UTC
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Corey Lewandowski Drops Menacing ICE Threat Over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Show — The Department of Homeland Security adviser also joined in with MAGA outrage over the Puerto Rican superstar's halftime gig. — Department of Homeland Security adviser Corey Lewandowski on Wednesday fumed …
2025-10-02 14:35:00 UTC
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Washington Post:
We asked 1,000 Americans who they blame for the shutdown — Here's what they said. — Just now — How concerned are Americans about the partial shutdown of the federal government and whom do they blame for causing it? The Washington Post texted a nationally representative sample of 1,010 people on Wednesday to ask.
2025-10-02 14:35:00 UTC
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Omar Fateh talks to Mehdi about his brand of democratic socialism, the Islamophobic attacks he’s faced, and how he plans to deal with the Trump administration if he wins the mayoral race.
2025-10-02 14:00:18 UTC
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