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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.
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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 …
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Says MAGA Shooter Just Hated Mormons  —  SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS  —  Trump's press secretary made the claim as officials continue to probe the motive.  —  White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed on Monday that the Mormon church shooter “hated” members of the faith.
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Mormon Church Shooter Had a Trump Sign Outside His House  —  GUNMAN'S LAIR  —  Authorities stressed that they have yet to identify a motive for the attack on the Mormon church amid social media speculation.  —  The Mormon Church shooter who killed at least four people in an attack on Sunday …
Detroit Free Press:
Michigan church shooting suspect went on anti-LDS tirade, political candidate said
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Mormon church shooting suspect had Trump sign outside home, records show
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 …
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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
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Chicago Sun Times:
Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’
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 …
Discussion: Salon and New Republic
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Trump would head Gaza ‘board of peace’ in new postwar plan  —  President Trump would chair an international “board of peace” to govern and reconstruct the Gaza Strip as part of a 20-point plan released Monday by the White House, describing an end to the war between Israel and Hamas and a transition toward peace.
Robert Reich:
Again: Why isn't the media reporting on Trump's growing dementia?  —  Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News — it wasn't — in which an AI-generated, deepfaked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that …
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
John Thune / Washington Post:
What Democrats are demanding isn't negotiation  —  Republicans are ready to reach a bipartisan funding agreement right now.  Time is short.  —  John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, is majority leader of the U.S. Senate.  —  On Wednesday, Oct. 1, the federal government will shut …
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The Hill:
Do Social Security payments stop during a government shutdown?
NBC News:
Government shutdown looms ahead of a high-stakes White House meeting
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Trump says US to impose 100% tariff on movies made outside the country  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made movies, an unprecedented move that threatens to upend Hollywood's global business model.  —  The step signals Trump's willingness …
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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
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Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
Layoff implementation work is exempted from shutdown, Trump admin says  —  While the Trump administration is threatening mass layoffs if the government shuts down this week, it is leaving the door open to those plans to be revised once Congress restores agency funding.
Discussion: E&E News
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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 …
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
The ADL Defended Elon Musk's ‘Awkward Gesture.’ Now He Calls It a Hate Group  —  “The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group,” Musk tweeted Sunday.  —  READING TIME 4 MINUTES  —  Read Later Read Later  —  When Elon Musk gave two Nazi-style salutes the day President Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Independent
MSNBC:
How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting  —  A former associate of Trump's border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.  —  Tom Homan, the White House border czar, became entangled in an FBI sting last year …
Associated Press:
Video gamer Electronic Arts to be acquired for $52.5 billion in largest-ever private equity buyout  —  Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired for $52.5 billion in what could become the largest buyout ever funded by private equity firms.
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 …
Axios:
Democrats turn up heat on Johnson over Epstein files vote delay … But she has to be sworn in first.  — Grijalva was elected in a landslide last Tuesday in the race to succeed her father, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), in Congress.  — She has accused Johnson of dragging …
Discussion: The Independent
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”
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Not Suicidal’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Posts Ominous ‘If Something Happens’ Message  —  The Republican lawmaker has been pushing for the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted a message on social media over the weekend instructing followers to …
Joe Pinkstone / Telegraph:
First-cousin marriage has ‘benefits’, says NHS guidance despite birth defect risk  —  Tory MP says health service should ‘stop taking the knee’ to damaging cultural practices  —  The NHS has been urged to apologise for publishing guidance extolling the benefits of first-cousin marriage despite the increased risk of birth defects.
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
We Are in the Worst-Case Scenario  —  The November 2024 version of you would be shocked at what the September 2025 version accepts as reality.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Plans  —  After Trump's re-election I did my best to imagine how things might go better than we feared.
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.
Dan Zaksheske / OutKick:
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Finebaum ‘Considering’ Leaving ESPN To Pursue U.S. Senate Seat As A Republican  —  SEC Network host and analyst Paul Finebaum says he is “considering” leaving ESPN to run for the U.S. Senate.  And he would run on the republican ticket.  —  In an exclusive interview …
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
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.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
She Was Fired for a Comment on Her Private Facebook Account … Two days after Charlie Kirk was killed, Suzanne Swierc, an employee at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., woke up to a cascade of missed calls, texts and voice mail messages from numbers she did not know.
 
 
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Melts Down as Bad Bunny Is Named as Next Super Bowl Headliner
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Is Trump keeping all his promises? This MAGA couple doesn't think so.
Discussion: Raw Story
Charlie Sykes / To the Contrary:
A Failure of Imagination
Robert Schmad / Washington Examiner:
New Jersey gubernatorial candidate took large donations from CCP-linked auto executives
Discussion: NewsMax.com and E&E News
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection
Khaya Himmelman / Talking Points Memo:
DOJ Keeps Escalating Its Attempts to Get Ahold of States' Voter Rolls
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Guy Chazan / Financial Times:
Stephen Miller: Donald Trump's ‘prime minister’ executes his plan to reshape America
Felicia Schwartz / Politico:
An Entire Generation of Americans Is Turning on Israel
Discussion: Washington Post
Jesse Coburn / ProPublica:
Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan
Stephen Mcgrath / Associated Press:
Moldova's pro-EU party wins clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Small Businesses Wither Under Trump's Tariffs: 'It's Hard to Breathe'
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