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12:20 PM ET, September 29, 2025

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USA Today:
What we know about Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Michigan church shooting suspect  —  Joey Garrison Chris Quintana Dinah Voyles PulverUSA TODAY … Michigan law enforcement authorities identified 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford of Burton, Michigan as the suspect who killed four people …
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Iona Cleave / Telegraph:
Mormon church gunman was Marine ‘who supported Trump’  —  Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, killed by police after ramming truck into Michigan church and opening fire on worshippers  —  The gunman who rammed his truck into a Mormon church and opened fire on worshippers was an Iraq war veteran who had previously shown support for Donald Trump.
Brad Heath / Reuters:
Exclusive: Federal drug prosecutions fall to lowest level in decades as Trump shifts focus to deportations  — Federal drug prosecutions drop 10% in 2025 as agents focus on immigration  — Number of new cases being filed is lowest in decades, according to Reuters analysis
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Chicago Sun Times:
Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’  —  Dozens of federal agents took individuals into custody during a winding patrol Sunday through downtown Chicago, and a top U.S. Border Patrol official told WBEZ the agents were arresting people based on “how they look.”
New York Times:
'I'm From Here!':  U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump's Dragnet  —  As immigration agents take a more aggressive approach, they have stopped and in some cases detained American citizens.  —  U.S. citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody …
Politico:
Oregon sues to block Trump from deploying state's National Guard in Portland … “When the president and I spoke yesterday, I told him in very plain language there is no insurrection or threat to public safety that necessitates military intervention in Portland or any other city in our state,” Kotek said.
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Anna Griffin / New York Times:
Trump's Plan to Send Troops to Portland, Oregon, Prompts Frustration
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Oregon sues to block Trump from deploying troops to Portland
Andrew Solender / Axios:
“No one is safe”: Democrats fear Trump will prosecute them next  —  Some congressional Democrats are going so far as to check their own personal finances after the indictment of James Comey, Axios has learned. … - “I've explored liability insurance,” another House Democrat said.
Discussion: New Jersey Online and Raw Story
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Comey and the lessons of pre-capitulation  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🔥 Subscribe to PN 🔥  —  Former FBI Director James Comey was arguably one of the first consequential establishment figures to comply in advance with Donald Trump.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Peter Baker / New York Times:   In Going After His Foes, Trump Sets a Precedent That Could Haunt His Allies
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Schumer: 'I have no faith in Donald Trump's judicial system'
Discussion: The Federalist
Robert Reich:
Again: Why isn't the media reporting on Trump's growing dementia?  —  Trump's increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”  —  2,913  —  Friends,  —  Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News …
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump says he “would think” the DOJ is investigating ex-FBI chief Wray
Discussion: The Hill
NBC News:
Trump says he ‘would think’ DOJ is investigating former FBI Director Christopher Wray
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats  —  Exclusive: Miller's homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say  —  Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has played a leading role in directing US strikes …
MSNBC:
Democratic voters are furious with party leaders.  And that disaffection has a cost.  —  The Trump era has put the Democratic Party in an unprecedented bind.  —  By Jill Lawrence, author of “The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock”
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Politico:
‘Nothing has changed’: Leaders dig in ahead of crucial White House shutdown meeting
NOTUS:   Officials Working on Mass Firing Plans Deemed Essential During a Shutdown
Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN:
Trump announces 100% tariff on foreign-made movies  —  President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday he will be imposing a 100% tariff “on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States.”  —  Trump did not specify when or how the tariff could be enacted.
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Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Trump says US to impose 100% tariff on movies made outside the country
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump's Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire  —  A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary  —  Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced …
Politico:
‘Bibi is on his own island’: Trump will try to secure peace with an isolated Netanyahu … On Monday, when the two leaders meet again at the White House, the U.S. president will try to close the gap with a Netanyahu who Trump believes is losing his grip on power, according …
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Axios:
Netanyahu inches toward Gaza deal under pressure from Trump
Fox News:
Editorial overhaul: Washington Post's new opinion chief feels the weight of the challenges ahead … But that's the situation 33-year-old Adam O'Neal has found himself in at The Washington Post.  —  “I just feel a tremendous responsibility to get this right,” O'Neal told Fox News Digital …
Discussion: Fox News
New Republic:
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President.  These Brutal New Polls Confirm It.  —  What if we told you that Donald Trump is a really unpopular president?  Would that surprise you?  It's not something you hear much in the media.  Yet in recent days new polls from the Associated Press, Gallup …
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
pbump:
How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left  —  It is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration.  This is not really contestable and rarely seriously contested.
Discussion: Breitbart and Axios
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
The U.S. is not a Functional Democracy  —  We are no longer at a “tipping point” or “an inflection point.”  We are no longer “sliding” toward autocracy.  Donald Trump no longer “aspires” to be an autocrat.  Last week, in case you had any doubt, the Trump regime went full-bore authoritarian.
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Fed workers' unions call on Schumer, Jeffries to hold the line even if it means a shutdown  —  A coalition of federal unions are calling on Democratic leadership to fight back against budget cuts to “critical public services,” even if it leads to a government shutdown and mass layoffs.
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
The Man Behind Trump's Push for an All-Powerful Presidency … Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, was preparing the Trump administration's 2026 budget proposal this spring when his staff got some surprising news: Elon Musk's cost-cutting team was unilaterally axing items that Mr. Vought had intended to keep.
Discussion: Reason, Raw Story and NewsMax.com
Stephen Mcgrath / Associated Press:
Moldova's pro-EU party wins clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups  —  Moldova's pro-Western governing party won a clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups in a weekend election that was widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West.
 
 
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NBC News:
Sen. Chris Murphy sends funds to anti-Trump organizing groups
David Lim / Politico:
Trump's strategy to get drug companies to act voluntarily is about to be tested
Bloomberg Law:
Justice Department Loses a Third of Career Leaders Under Trump
John Thune / Washington Post:
What Democrats are demanding isn't negotiation
Discussion: IJR, NewsMax.com and Reuters
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court meets to discuss Ghislaine Maxwell appeal and other pending cases
Discussion: Washington Examiner and MSNBC
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
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Wall Street Journal:
FEMA Is Paralyzed. Disaster-Torn Communities Are Paying the Price.
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Felicia Schwartz / Politico:
An Entire Generation of Americans Is Turning on Israel
Discussion: Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Pushes to Double Missile Production for Potential China Conflict
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Rahm Emanuel, Weighing Presidential Bid, Navigates a Democratic Party Moving Left
Discussion: Politico
Neal E. Boudette / New York Times:
Electric Vehicles Face a ‘Pretty Dreadful Year’ in the U.S.
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Fragile N.C. Residents Lose Medicaid Support for Food and Housing
 

 
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