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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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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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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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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
Politico
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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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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Quietly Grants Defense Guarantee To Autocracy That Gave Him A Luxury Jet — Maybe Ukraine should have just given him a gold-plated 747. — WASHINGTON - Just months after soliciting and receiving a $400 million luxury airliner for himself from Qatar, President Donald Trump …
2025-10-02 13:55:01 UTC
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Chris Mason / BBC:
Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed to have been killed - police — Summary — Two people have died after a car and stabbing attack at a synagogue in Manchester - here's a timeline of how the attack unfolded — A third person - thought to be the suspect …
2025-10-02 13:50:00 UTC
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Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Trump Finds a New Way to Use the White House for Tacky Racist Trolling — DOOM LOOP — AI-generated meme of Hakeem Jeffries ran on loop in the press room. — Racist AI-generated videos set to mariachi music were played on repeat for hours in the White House in a doom-loop attempt to troll Democrats.
2025-10-02 13:35:01 UTC
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego García's request to reopen case — The judge found “insufficient evidence” to show that the Trump administration would send Abrego to Uganda, according to a copy of the decision reviewed by The Washington Post. — A U.S. immigration judge …
2025-10-02 13:10:00 UTC
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Mike Ludwig / Truthout:
Trump's ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants — ICE demanded Meta hand over personal information attached to Instagram accounts that track immigration raids. … As President Donald Trump prepares to further unleash a rapidly expanding surveillance state …
2025-10-02 13:00:05 UTC
Truthout
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Washington Post:
The health care subsidies at the heart of the government shutdown — Just now — Good morning, Early Birds. If only all of us could be so iconic that “friend to chimpanzees” is how we are described in our obituaries. Send tips to earlytips@washpost.com. Thanks for waking up with us.
2025-10-02 12:55:01 UTC
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ABC and Disney’s attempt to please our dim idiot king by banning a critical comedian didn’t go all that well. The company managed to lose 1.7 million streaming subscribers as customers voted with their wallets to punish the company for taking a giant dump on the First Amendment. This latest effort, you’ll recall, came on […]
2025-10-02 12:30:31 UTC
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Cindy Hernandez / Chicago Sun Times:
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: ‘I feel defeated’ — Dan Jones was jolted awake around 1 a.m. Tuesday to the sound of federal agents trying to break through his apartment door. They couldn't get past his double lock, so he went back to bed.
2025-10-02 11:45:00 UTC
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
How John Thune sees the shutdown ending … “I keep telling them: When they have eight or 10 — preferably 10, or more — when they have a critical mass, let me know if there's a conversation they want to have,” Thune said. — He insisted he would not negotiate on the substance of an extension while the government is closed.
2025-10-02 04:20:00 UTC
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Female veterans slam Hegseth's questioning of their combat fitness … - But Elisa Cardnell, the president and CEO of the Service Women's Action Network, said in a statement the “physical requirements for infantry school, special operations, or any other combat role are already gender-neutral.”
2025-10-02 04:05:03 UTC
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Back in 2023, Trader Joe’s, the famous grocery chain, decided to sue its own employee union for trademark infringement. At issue was the merchandise that Trader Joe’s United sold on its website, which all include a logo for the union that is a modified version of the Trader Joe’s logo. Here’s an example: Compared with […]
2025-10-02 03:22:50 UTC
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Gabby Deutch / Jewish Insider:
FBI's Kash Patel attacks ADL as ‘extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization’ — The FBI director said the bureau is cutting all formal ties with the Jewish civil rights group — FBI Director Kash Patel called the Anti-Defamation League “an extreme group functioning …
2025-10-02 01:50:01 UTC
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Dorothy Thompson / Harper's:
Who Goes Nazi? — It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one's acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France.
2025-10-02 01:45:01 UTC
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Wall Street Journal:
White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage — An initial round of nine schools is being asked to sign a wide-ranging accord — The Trump administration is laying out a set of operating principles that it wants universities to agree to in exchange for preferential access to federal funds.
2025-10-02 01:40:05 UTC
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Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Howard Lutnick tells ‘Pod Force One’ ex-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein showed off massage room, made creepy comment during townhouse tour — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in a notable break with the Department of Justice, claimed late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was “the greatest blackmailer ever” …
2025-10-02 00:35:00 UTC
New York Post
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James Elder speaks to Mehdi about Israel’s Northern Gaza siege, the Global Sumud Flotilla, and ‘man-made’ famine.
2025-10-02 00:00:24 UTC
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Keith Schneider / New York Times:
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 — Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world's great scientific achievements.”
2025-10-01 23:10:00 UTC
New York Times
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump Cuts Funding to 16 Blue States That Didn't Vote for Him — The Trump administration is yanking green energy and infrastructure funding away from blue states on day one of the Republican-led government shutdown. — “Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being cancelled.
2025-10-01 23:00:00 UTC
New Republic
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Cathy Young / The UnPopulist:
Hegseth's Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump — The secretary is a Christian nationalist who wants to eliminate those who don't agree with his totalitarian vision — The speech delivered by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth yesterday at an extraordinary meeting …
2025-10-01 22:30:01 UTC
The UnPopulist
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Rachel Wolf / Fox News:
Patel cuts ties Comey's FBI made with ADL as organization faces backlash for TPUSA criticism — 'That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey's policies and any partnership with the ADL,' Patel said — EXCLUSIVE - FBI Director Kash Patel is cutting ties with the Anti-Defamation League …
2025-10-01 22:30:01 UTC
Fox News
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Associated Press:
Activists say Israeli navy has begun intercepting a Gaza-bound aid flotilla — Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza said late Wednesday that the Israeli navy had intercepted three of its boats as they approached the besieged Palestinian territory.
2025-10-01 22:30:01 UTC
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
OpenAI's Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus — Within moments of opening OpenAI's new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give a speech about the “scourge of fish ruining Bikini Bottom.”
2025-10-01 22:20:02 UTC
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Melissa Goldin / Associated Press:
FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to ‘illegal immigrants’ — President Donald Trump and other high-ranking Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown fight because they want to give free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
2025-10-01 22:10:00 UTC
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Vance says he'll talk Obamacare premiums with Schumer — but only with government open … The federal government shut down in the early morning Wednesday, raising the specter of furloughs for up to 750,000 federal employees, per the Congressional Budget Office.
2025-10-01 21:50:00 UTC
Politico
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Washington Post:
White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities — The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government's grantmaking agency. — The White House on Wednesday abruptly terminated …
2025-10-01 21:50:00 UTC
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Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Trump targets states that voted for Harris in shutdown fight … New York-area lawmakers reacted with fury to the infrastructure cuts earlier Wednesday. — “Political revenge. Clearly outlined by Trump, time and again. He sees the U.S. as Blue and Red, and Blue states are enemies,” …
2025-10-01 21:35:01 UTC
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Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie — Hey, guys. Earlier today, my colleague Mona Charen and I talked about President Trump's speech before the generals and admirals, as well as the politics of the government-shutdown fight. Check it out here.
2025-10-01 21:25:04 UTC
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Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Trump Admin Tells Furloughed Workers To Set OOO Message Blaming Democrats For Shutdown — One health department employee said the directions seemed to be “coercing” subordinates into political activity. — After the government shutdown began Wednesday morning, furloughed employees …
2025-10-01 21:20:00 UTC
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Anastasia Tsioulcas / NPR:
Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech — On Wednesday, over 550 celebrities relaunched a group first organized during the post-World War II Red Scare: the Committee for the First Amendment. Their intent is to stand up in what they call a …
2025-10-01 21:00:34 UTC
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Reuters:
FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League, FBI director says — The FBI said on Wednesday it had cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish group that tracks antisemitism, after Republicans criticized the group for including slain activist Charlie Kirk's organization in a glossary on extremism.
2025-10-01 20:55:01 UTC
Reuters
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
DC federal court pumps brakes on Trump policy legal fights amid shutdown — The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday pumped the brakes on lawsuits challenging Trump administration policies amid the government's shutdown, citing its own need to preserve resources while the funding impasse persists.
2025-10-01 20:40:01 UTC
The Hill
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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz isn't part of Trump's Cabinet, sources say — The post of United Nations ambassador isn't a Cabinet position, according to sources familiar with the matter, as President Trump signals the decreased importance of the U.N. to his administration.
2025-10-01 20:40:01 UTC
CBS News
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Kori Schake / Foreign Policy:
Trump's Speech to Generals Was Incitement to Violence Against Americans — Military leaders' quiet professionalism offers hope amid a maelstrom. — Yesterday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behaved reprehensibly.
2025-10-01 20:35:00 UTC
Foreign Policy
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Vought: Mass firings will begin ‘in a day or two’ — OMB chief Russ Vought told House Republicans on a private call Wednesday that the administration will start mass reduction in force moves, or firings, of federal workers “in a day or two,” according to four people granted anonymity to describe the call.
2025-10-01 20:05:01 UTC
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Slate:
There's a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It's Absolutely Devastating. — Gregory Bovino, the officer in charge of roving immigration enforcement in American cities, admitted this week that his agents arrest people based on “how they look.” Asked by a WBEZ reporter to elaborate …
2025-10-01 20:00:33 UTC
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