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4:45 PM ET, October 6, 2025

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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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Molly Roberts / Lawfare:
Next Up: Letitia James
Discussion: New York Sun
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.”
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon  —  A federal judge Sunday night issued a new broader order barring any National Guard members from being relocated from any state for federal service in the state of Oregon.
Dakin Andone / CNN:
Illinois and Chicago sue Trump administration over deployment of National Guard  —  The state of Illinois and Chicago on Monday sued the Trump administration over its move to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago as the White House targets Democrat-led cities amid weeks of protests …
Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun Times:
Illinois sues Trump over National Guard deployment
New York Times:
Live Updates: Illinois Sues Trump Over Guard Deployments, Expanding Multistate Fight
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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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 …
MSNBC:
Bari Weiss runs a Trump-friendly site — now she'll be in charge of CBS News  —  Paramount Skydance hired the anti-woke opinion journalist to run the venerable news organization — giving Trump an ally with a big legacy media platform.  —  Paramount Skydance announced Monday that it has acquired …
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
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
Discussion: The Dean's Report
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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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 …
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Michel Rose / Reuters:
Macron wanders alone by the Seine as grip on his future slips away
Discussion: Politico and The Gateway Pundit
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
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'
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 …
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.
Irie Sentner / Politico:
White House: Trump is not talking to Democrats … The Senate is set to vote Monday evening on Republicans' proposal to fund the government, but the chamber remains at an impasse, with Democrats saying they will not advance a short term stopgap without securing Republican agreement to extend soon …
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Norman Ornstein / The Contrarian:
Democrats must stay on message with the shutdown
Discussion: Fox News
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: NextDraft and New York Times
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 …
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: Post and Courier
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Trump's new IRS ‘CEO’: The head of Social Security  —  Frank Bisignano will run both agencies, though Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will formally remain the acting IRS commissioner.  —  The Trump administration has found its seventh leader for the Internal Revenue Service since the start …
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Americans remain wary of electing a female president, new poll reveals … Nearly one in five voters said they or someone they are close to would not elect a woman presidential candidate.  That includes one-quarter of women under 50 and 20 percent of men under 50, who said they would not …
Discussion: The Independent and IJR
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke  —  The White House aide equates opposition to Trump's agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.  —  Stephen Miller spent his weekend, as he is wont to do, describing American politics as if the nation were in the advanced stages …
Adam Wren / Politico:
Michigan's Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza … “I'm not accepting AIPAC support,” McMorrow told the questioner.  “I'm not seeking their endorsement.  I've never accepted their support.  And what we are seeing in the Middle East is a moral abomination.”
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Despite campaign promises, White House eyes new changes to Social Security and Medicare  —  “I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump vowed in 2024.  I have bad news for voters who believed him.  —  About a decade ago, Donald Trump stressed …
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Mail
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
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for US Senate in Texas, defying GOP leaders to take on Cornyn and Paxton  —  Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign.
 
 
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Josephine Walker / Axios:
Chicago journalists sue Trump over “extreme brutality” at ICE protests
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