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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The massive flotilla, which Italian and Spanish ships shadowed until it approached Gaza, is the fourth one attacked in the last year.
2025-10-01 19:54:05 UTC
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Laura Esposito / The Daily Beast:
Construction on Trump's Ballroom Continues Amid Government Shutdown — PRIORITIES — Critics think the multimillion dollar White House renovation is a little out of touch. — Nothing will stop President Donald Trump's construction of a lavish new White House ballroom—not even a U.S. government shutdown.
2025-10-01 19:40:00 UTC
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NBC News:
Trump budget chief says firings are coming in ‘one to two’ days due to shutdown — Russell Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget, told House Republicans on a conference call Wednesday that reductions in the federal workforce would happen soon.
2025-10-01 19:30:01 UTC
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Politico:
Trump to withhold billions of dollars from Gateway tunnel and Second Ave. subway projects … A spokesperson for the Transportation Department, in a statement, blamed Democratic leaders in Congress for the shutdown and said it led to the agency furloughing civil rights staff responsible for conducting the administrative review.
2025-10-01 19:20:01 UTC
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I’ve spent considerable time lately documenting how America’s corporate elite have transformed themselves into the exact cartoon villains that Marxists always claimed they were—groveling before authoritarian power, paying tribute to criminal regimes, abandoning every principle they’ve spent decades claiming to represent. But criticism without constructive alternatives is just intellectual masturbation, so let me offer some practical guidance […]
2025-10-01 19:04:50 UTC
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Recent US government shutdowns stem from a common root cause: the extremism of the modern MAGA Republican Party.
2025-10-01 18:51:40 UTC
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We’ve spent plenty of time talking about various people who are failing to meet this moment, but I will say that a number of district court judges have really been stepping up. The latest example is Reagan-appointed conservative Judge William Young (who had previously—somewhat sarcastically—mocked the Supreme Court’s ridiculous abuse of the shadow docket), who […]
2025-10-01 17:50:50 UTC
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The Ultimate Unity Game Development Bundle has 4 courses are designed to designed to teach about game dev and how to create your own games using the Unity engine. You’ll learn about the fundamentals of C# programming, 2D and 3D game development, mobile game development, how to build amazing cutscenes, and more. It’s on sale […]
2025-10-01 17:45:50 UTC
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court lets Lisa Cook remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Lisa Cook to remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now, declining to act on the Trump administration's effort to immediately remove her from the central bank.
2025-10-01 17:15:00 UTC
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump administration freezes $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects, Vought says … The Trump administration has frozen about $18 billion for infrastructure projects in New York City to make sure that funding is not “flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles,” a top official said Wednesday.
2025-10-01 16:50:01 UTC
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A lot of money was spent to make this happen. And, for all the money spent and all the logistical problems it created, it had nothing to do with rallying the troops and everything to do with giving the president and his defense secretary yet another place to air their personal grievances. This insanely large, […]
2025-10-01 16:35:33 UTC
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Washington Post:
Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks — Thousands of uniformed and civilian officials would be required to sign nondisclosure agreements and take lie detector tests, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ramps up war on leakers. — Just now
2025-10-01 16:35:00 UTC
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ProPublica:
Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration's Deportation Campaign — A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.
2025-10-01 16:35:00 UTC
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Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown — Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies. — At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration …
2025-10-01 16:30:00 UTC
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Punchbowl News:
10/1/25 ☀️ AM: … The federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. this morning. It's the first government shutdown since 2019. … The party looking to force a policy change via a shutdown rarely gets what it wants. — We know that from the Republicans' 2013 shutdown seeking …
2025-10-01 16:25:01 UTC
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Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Pete Hegseth Is Living the Dream — A man who retired as a major lectures hundreds of generals about the need to meet his standards. — In the end, it was mostly blither. When Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth announced a gathering of some 800 generals and admirals (with their senior enlisted advisers), rumors ran wild.
2025-10-01 16:05:01 UTC
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Assuring the Security of the State of Qatar — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in recognition of the enduring alliance between the United States and the State of Qatar, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Policy.
2025-10-01 15:55:01 UTC
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Paul Krugman:
Bulging Biceps Don't Win Modern Wars — Hegseth's speech was vile. It was also stupid. — 1,110 — A Ukrainian drone operator — Why did Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary — he may call himself secretary of war, but Congress has not, in fact, voted to change his department's name …
2025-10-01 15:35:00 UTC
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay — Trump put on a disturbing show for America's generals and admirals. — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's convocation of hundreds of generals and admirals today turned out to be, in the main, a nothingburger. Hegseth strutted and paced and lectured and hectored …
2025-10-01 15:10:01 UTC
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Fox News:
Madison Cawthorn aims to make political comeback, announces run for Congress — Cawthorn says Charlie Kirk's assassination inspired him to run — FIRST ON FOX: Former North Carolina Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn announced he will be running for Florida's 19th congressional seat …
2025-10-01 14:45:01 UTC
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Experts now rate the U.S. as a “mixed” or “illiberal” democracy — Experts say political violence, Trump's attacks against non-partisan agencies and institutions, and partisan gerrymandering are their top concerns — The U.S. has never been a full democracy.
2025-10-01 14:40:00 UTC
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Josh Moody / Inside Higher Ed:
Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida — Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization. — More than two years into a conservative takeover …
2025-10-01 14:35:01 UTC
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
The Silence of the Generals — Well, here we go: The federal government has shut down. Senate Democrats have vowed to oppose any spending measure that doesn't restore some of the health care cuts of this summer's One Big Beautiful Bill Act; meanwhile, Republicans are refusing to negotiate point blank …
2025-10-01 14:15:08 UTC
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Associated Press:
Vote to end government shutdown fails in Senate as Democrats hold firm on health care demands — A vote to swiftly end the government shutdown failed Wednesday, as Democrats in the Senate held firm to the party's demands to fund health care subsidies that President Donald Trump and Republicans refuse to provide.
2025-10-01 14:10:00 UTC
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Associated Press:
Government shutdown begins as nation faces new period of uncertainty — Plunged into a government shutdown, the U.S. is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programs and services running by Wednesday's deadline.
2025-10-01 14:10:00 UTC
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Unions sue Trump admin over mass layoff plan during government shutdown … - The government shut down after the Senate failed to pass a funding measure Tuesday. … - The lawsuit names the Office of Management and Budget and its director, Russell Vought, and the Office of Personnel Management …
2025-10-01 14:10:00 UTC
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Zeteo’s editor-in-chief denounced mainstream media ‘complicity’ in the Gaza genocide, but also gave his Palestinian diaspora audience a message of hope and strength.
2025-10-01 13:54:32 UTC
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Carten Cordell / GovExec.com:
Maryland Dems float unemployment insurance for federal workers during shutdown — Congressional Democrats aim to provide benefits to federal employees forced to work during the shutdown, and other pay and benefits news you may have missed this week. — Managing Editor, Government Executive
2025-10-01 13:40:00 UTC
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation's top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to meet at Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Virginia, today. Such a meeting was unprecedented …
2025-10-01 13:30:01 UTC
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NPR:
Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE's push to cut — The so-called Department of Government Efficiency effort has failed to deliver on its outsized promises to cut costs and increase efficiency, NPR's latest analysis of federal data finds.
2025-10-01 13:30:01 UTC
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Rage at Zohran Just Backfired in a Surprisingly Revealing Way … The Democrats who are capturing media and public attention right now all share something in common. They are openly and urgently leveling with the American people about a singular basic reality: President Trump …
2025-10-01 13:25:01 UTC
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Chris Tye / CBS News:
Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as “training grounds” — After President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested cities like Chicago should be used as “training grounds for our military,” Gov. JB Pritzker said the 25th Amendment …
2025-10-01 13:25:01 UTC
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Greg Ryan / Bloomberg:
Boston Mayor's Blowout Victory Jolts CEOs Seeking New Direction — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is coasting to reelection after her main opponent quit the race, giving her a commanding mandate that's putting city business leaders on edge. — The progressive Democrat defeated Josh Kraft …
2025-10-01 13:15:01 UTC
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Justin Glawe / Public Notice:
Trump attempts a major step toward dictatorship — PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 🫡 Subscribe to PN 🫡 — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday delivered a speech to the nation's top generals and admirals that laid out his plans …
2025-10-01 11:50:00 UTC
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Jimmy Fallon Plans to ‘Keep My Head Down’ and Avoid Politics on ‘The Tonight Show’: ‘We Hit Both Sides Equally’ — Jimmy Fallon plans to keep “The Tonight Show” out of politics. — During a recent interview with CNBC's “Squawk on the Street,” the late-night frontman said his show has …
2025-10-01 11:15:01 UTC
Variety
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Heather Richards / Politico:
National parks will remain mostly open in shutdown … The Trump administration will keep most national parks open to the public if the government shuts down Wednesday, according to two people briefed on the plan. — With congressional leaders still gridlocked on a deal to fund …
2025-10-01 05:50:00 UTC
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