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Clara Jeffery / Mother Jones:
It's Time for Soft Secession  —  In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper launched a “Six Californias” ballot initiative.  The upshot was that with some 40 million people, more than the population of the 20 smallest states combined, California was too big, too diverse, to be “efficiently” governed.
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Robert Reich:
The Mad King's Television  —  How Trump is making potentially lethal decisions  —  When over the weekend federal Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) blocked Trump from deploying Oregon's National Guard to Portland, Trump said she “should be ashamed of herself” because “Portland is burning to the ground.”
Dakin Andone / CNN:
Illinois and Chicago sue Trump administration over deployment of National Guard
Chris Edelson / The UnPopulist:   Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act
New York Times:
Live Updates: Illinois Sues Trump Over Guard Deployments, Expanding Multistate Fight
Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun Times:
Illinois sues Trump over National Guard deployment
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon
MSNBC:
Top prosecutor is refusing to charge New York AG despite Trump pressure  —  A key federal prosecutor in Virginia, where James Comey was indicted, is resisting bringing charges against Letitia James.  —  A top prosecutor in Virginia has informed colleagues she plans to decline to seek charges …
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Paramount Buys Bari Weiss's the Free Press for $150 Million  —  Weiss to take control of CBS News's editorial vision, aiming for ‘news that reflects reality’  —  Can Bari Weiss reinvent CBS News?  —  That is what Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison is betting on with a $150 million deal …
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Bari Weiss / The Free Press:
The Future of The Free Press  —  We've sent more than 4,000 emails since we started The Free Press five years ago.  This one is different.  —  We're a news organization, so I'll get right to it: This morning, The Free Press is joining Paramount.  —  This move is a testament to many things …
Tom Jones / Poynter:
Today is MSNBC's first day apart from NBC.  Here is its new code of principles.  —  The new network's 10 core principles emphasize fairness, accuracy, transparency and firm limits on AI … Today is a groundbreaking day at MSNBC.  After more than 29 years of association with NBC News …
New York Times:
Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News
pbump:   You can't get anti-institutionalists to trust an institution
Miranda Jeyaretnam / Time:
House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze  —  The home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein was set on fire after she had reportedly received death threats.  —  State law enforcement is investigating the house fire on Edisto Beach which began …
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Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Judge's waterfront mansion burns in possible arson as first responders use kayaks for dramatic rescue  —  Circuit Court Judge Diane Schafer Goodstein's waterfront mansion burned to the ground in suspected arson attack under investigation by authorities.  —  South Carolina authorities …
Discussion: MSNBC and Post and Courier
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
New conspiracies over Trump's health swirl after text interview with CNN's Jake Tapper  —  The president famously does not use email and is not known to frequently use text messages  —  in Washington, D.C.  —  Your support helps us to tell the story  —  From reproductive rights …
Discussion: The Independent
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
The “Dual State” Theory Was Invented to Describe Nazis.  The Supreme Court Could Take Us There.  —  Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.  —  Perhaps the most brazenly illegal action of President Donald Trump's second term so far took place on his first day in office …
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Associated Press:
The Supreme Court will evaluate Trump's expansive claims of presidential power in its new term
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
The Supreme Court v. Democracy
Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency … Last year, in the months before the 2024 presidential election, the magazine surveyed 50 members of what might be called the Washington legal establishment about their expectations for the Justice Department and the rule of law if Donald Trump were re-elected.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Ken Dilanian / MSNBC:   Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm'
John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court rejects appeal from Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell  —  The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, brushing aside an argument from Ghislaine Maxwell that she should have been shielded from prosecution under a plea agreement …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Shutdown Politics Has G.O.P. Singing Government's Praises  —  As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.  —  The congressional leaders couldn't contain their concern.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Norman Ornstein / The Contrarian:
Democrats must stay on message with the shutdown
Discussion: Fox News
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens  —  Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.  After they arrived at 7500 S. South Shore Drive, agents from Border Patrol …
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Paul Krugman:
State Terror, American Style
New York Times:
C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency's Top Legal Official With Himself  —  It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist.  A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues.  —  Michael Ellis, the deputy director of the C.I.A. …
Discussion: GovExec.com
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Power Is the Order of the Day, and Other Beds Trump Has Made  —  One of the biggest challenges I've had in the last nine months and especially since the summer is how to convey both the very brittle, thin nature of Trump's power and also the scale of the threat his government poses.
Associated Press:
French PM resigns hours after naming government, plunging France further into political chaos  —  France's new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned less than 24 hours after naming his government and after less than a month in office, plunging the country into a deep political crisis …
Ruchir Sharma / Financial Times:
America is now one big bet on AI  —  It's seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy … Despite mounting threats to the US economy — from high tariffs to collapsing immigration, eroding institutions, rising debt and sticky inflation — large companies and investors seem unfazed.
Discussion: Fortune, New York Times and NextDraft
Eric Friedman / New York City Bar Association:
Unlawful Attacks on Venezuelan Vessels  —  New York City Bar Association Statement  —  This September, President Donald J. Trump ordered U. S. military strikes against three private Venezuelan-flagged vessels on the high seas, killing at least 17 individuals and severely damaging or sinking those vessels.
Discussion: Slate and Al Jazeera
Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
As Money Rushed In, ICE's Rapid Expansion Stalled Out  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  Few provisions in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act were as thrilling to immigration hard-liners as the $45 billion …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Manosphere Influencers Who Boosted Trump Are Now Cooling on Him  —  Creators like Theo Von and Adin Ross are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House  —  Manosphere podcasters didn't win Donald Trump the presidency in the 2024 election cycle …
Discussion: Comic Sands and NBC News
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say  —  Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth  —  On Tuesday, a Christian legal group …
 
 
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Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg:
Trump Approves Road Project in Alaska, Stake in Trilogy Metals
Discussion: Washington Examiner and E&E News
Washington Post:
Trump's new IRS ‘CEO’: The head of Social Security
Washington Post:
How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls
Discussion: HotAir
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Despite campaign promises, White House eyes new changes to Social Security and Medicare
Discussion: Raw Story
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Americans remain wary of electing a female president, new poll reveals
Discussion: IJR and The Independent
 Earlier Items: 
Josephine Walker / Axios:
Chicago journalists sue Trump over “extreme brutality” at ICE protests
Jeff Nesbit / The Contrarian:
The end of federal funding for NPR stations cuts deep in Trump country
Adam Wren / Politico:
Michigan's Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Libraries Can't Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump's Tariffs
C.J. Ciaramella / Reason:
Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for US Senate in Texas, defying GOP leaders to take on Cornyn and Paxton
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The groups have learned nothing
 

 
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Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
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