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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.
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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.
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.”
Washington Post:
The health care subsidies at the heart of the government shutdown
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Trump Finds a New Way to Use the White House for Tacky Racist Trolling
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Karoline Leavitt Says It's OK to Target Americans Repped by Democrats
NOTUS:
Mike Johnson Tells Hakeem Jeffries to ‘Just Ignore’ Trump's Sombrero Videos
Tara Suter / The Hill:   More Americans blame Trump, Republicans for shutdown than Democrats: Survey
The Guardian:
Trump to cut ‘Democrat agencies’ as White House says government shutdown layoffs could be in the thousands - live
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.
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Tony Romm / New York Times:
White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes
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 …
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Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Head of Eisenhower library resigns after sword spat with Trump administration
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told  —  A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.”  —  President Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a formal …
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.
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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 …
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NBC News:
Car and knife attack at U.K. synagogue that killed 2 people declared a terrorist incident
Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
Jane Fonda relaunches McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech  —  The actor said the Committee for the First Amendment — first backed by her father in 1947 — would fight the Trump administration's attempts to silence critics.  —  Actor and activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee …
Michael Copley / NPR:
The Energy Department canceled billions in funding.  Democrats say it's retribution  —  The Department of Energy is cancelling more than $7 billion in funding for hundreds of projects that the agency said don't address the country's energy needs and aren't economically viable.
Bloomberg:
Mamdani Says He Would Eliminate Gifted Programs for NYC Kindergarten Students  —  New York mayoral front-runner and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani said he wants to end the city's gifted and talented program for kindergarten students in public schools, wading into a contentious issue weeks before the election.
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New York Times:
Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades
Discussion: New York Post
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 …
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.
Paul Krugman:
An Autocracy of Dunces  —  How stone-faced generals, Wall Street pushback, and a government shutdown may save America's quickly declining democracy  —  If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump's speech Tuesday to the assembled generals would have ended his presidency.
Bolts:
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections  —  Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California's redistricting measure.  But there's so much else on the ballot.
Brendan Cole / Newsweek:
Mike Johnson's Response to Being Told Trump is ‘Unhinged’ Takes Off Online  —  A clip has gone viral of Democratic Representative Madeleine Dean telling House Speaker Mike Johnson that President Donald Trump's address to military top brass showed the U.S. president was “unhinged.”
Matt McGrath / BBC:
Pope Leo condemns climate change critics  —  Pope Leo XIV has hit out at those who minimise the “increasingly evident” impact of rising temperatures in his first major statement on climate change.  —  Reiterating the words of his predecessor Pope Francis, the new pontiff lambasted critics who …
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” …
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 …
Discussion: DDF
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.
Discussion: WTOP News
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.
New York Times:
At Stake in the Shutdown Fight: Obamacare Prices That Could Rise by Thousands of Dollars  —  Democrats say they will not vote to end the government shutdown unless Congress extends extra Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire next year.  Republican leaders have said the subsidies …
NBC News:
Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown  —  Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
Discussion: MSNBC and Mediaite
 
 
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