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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
RFK Jr's war on vaccines is about shaming women, not helping kids — The MAHA movement regards all childhood ailments as a sign that moms are failing — To understand why Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is attacking the hepatitis B vaccine, look to the rhetoric coming …
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Vaccine Rant About Babies and Horses
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The Independent and The Guardian
Libbey Dean / NewsNation:
Trump autism announcement to urge limited Tylenol use: Source
Trump autism announcement to urge limited Tylenol use: Source
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Mediaite, The Independent, Newsweek, Straight Arrow News, Semafor and The Hill
Adriel Bettelheim / Axios:
Trump to link autism to Tylenol use during pregnancy
Trump to link autism to Tylenol use during pregnancy
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The Hill, CBS News, NBC News, KSTP-TV, Metro.co.uk, Breitbart, ABC7 and The Independent, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Turns out Republicans don't care about free speech after all — PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 🚨🚨 Subscribe to PN 🚨🚨 — We have some shocking news: The Trump administration and the American right may not be quite …
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The Contrarian
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
Trump's escalating war on speech raises a chilling question: Where does it end?
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CNN, The Guardian and New York Times
Svante Myrick / The Hill:
Trump is breaking his most important promises and keeping the worst — When President Trump was sworn into office for his second term, he made a lot of promises to the American people. He has broken many of them. — In his 2025 inaugural address, Trump declared, “Never again …
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New York Times
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Why Won't America's Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump?
Why Won't America's Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump?
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Townhall, more at Mediagazer »
Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It's Down to Two. — The Public Integrity Section is the latest casualty in the administration's attacks on Nixon-era good-government reforms. — Copy — When Donald Trump took office eight months ago …
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Raw Story
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Paul Krugman:
Hey, Let's Undermine America's Technology, Education and Research! — H-1B visas: The latest front in a campaign of destruction — It often seems as if Donald Trump and his minions are engaged in a systematic campaign to undermine America's preeminence in the world.
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NBC News, Semafor and New York Times
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Financial Times:
UK explores plan to drop visa fees for top global talent
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Bloomberg and Daily Mail
Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee sparks a global race to grab top talent
Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee sparks a global race to grab top talent
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Reuters, Reason, Fortune, NewsMax.com and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Tables turn for Democrats as they use shutdown for leverage … It's Republicans who are pushing a “clean” seven-week continuing resolution, which they say will buy time for more negotiations on full-year spending bills and possibly an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies.
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Punchbowl News, Raw Story and Florida Politics
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's directive to AG Bondi should be seen as an impeachment-level scandal — The president isn't just being accused of trying to weaponize federal law enforcement, he's now publicly flaunting his corrupt and authoritarian efforts. — Imagine a scenario in which an investigative reporter uncovered …
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UPI, Bloomberg, The Mahablog, Raw Story and NBC News
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Financial Times:
US offers financial lifeline to Argentina's Javier Milei — Scott Bessent proposes support package during market volatility — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said “all options” are on the table for the Trump administration to support Argentina through a bout of severe market volatility …
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Reuters
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Patrick Gillespie / Bloomberg:
Bessent Says All Options on Table to Help Milei's Argentina
Natalie Fertig / Politico:
Why Democrats can't match Trump's gerrymander push … “It's no doubt the case that it's harder for Democrats to do this right now than Republicans,” said All About Redistricting author and researcher Douglas Spencer, an expert in election law at the University of Colorado.
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New York Times and The Hill
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Republican Redistricting Is Sowing Chaos in Houston
Republican Redistricting Is Sowing Chaos in Houston
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The Gateway Pundit and Election Law Blog
Debra Kamin / New York Times:
Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws — Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and D.E.I. in disguise. — In one email, a Trump appointee at the Department of Housing …
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges — The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 22 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. — (Editor's note: After we recorded, Trump bombed a third vessel in similarly lawless fashion.)
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Just Security
Chance Phillips / Liberal Currents:
Trump Must Lose the Second Bank War — Henry Clay understood what was wrong with the unitary executive theory back in the 1830s. — “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more,” Supreme Court Justice Ketanji …
NBC News:
White House bullish after a long string of Supreme Court victories — Officials are on a winning streak at the high court, in part due to a strategy of selecting cases most likely to find favor with the conservative majority. — WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump's aggressive use …
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One First
Reuters:
Exclusive: South Korea's President Lee says US investment demands would spark financial crisis — Commercial feasibility of $350 bln investments main trade obstacle with US, Lee tells Reuters — President says talks with North Korea unlikely for now — Lee frets tensions between democratic, socialist states
Matt Egan / CNN:
The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege — The nation's top economic statistician was fired. Central bank independence is being undermined. The federal government is buying chunks of private companies and demanding cuts of revenue streams.
Reuters:
Putin offers Trump a temporary nuclear arms control deal that would extend status quo by one year — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that he was ready to extend by one year the last arms control treaty between Washington and Moscow that limits the number of nuclear weapons each side …
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Bloomberg, New York Times, Associated Press, New York Post and KSTP-TV
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook — Conservative efforts to call out and punish educators over liberal ideas have grown for years, led in part by Charlie Kirk himself. — “NO CLASS TODAY,” read the email. It was the morning after the November 2024 presidential election.
Steven Levy / Wired:
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong — Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact. — For decades, Mark Lemley's life as an intellectual property lawyer was orderly enough. He's a professor at Stanford University and has consulted for Amazon, Google, and Meta.
Sam Judy / The Barbed Wire:
She Survived 141 Days in ICE Custody Thanks to a ‘Beautiful Sisterhood.’ Now She's Fighting for Those Still Inside. — 22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.”
Yan Zhuang / New York Times:
Dominican Republic Says It Recovered Cocaine From Boat Struck by U.S. — The Dominican Republic said it was the first time it had carried out a joint operation against “narcoterrorism” in the Caribbean with the United States. — The authorities in the Dominican Republic said on Sunday …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, UPI, Al Jazeera, Fox News, Associated Press and New York Sun

