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6:50 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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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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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
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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Dakin Andone / CNN:
Illinois and Chicago sue Trump administration over deployment of National Guard
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
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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Cindy Von Quednow / CNN:
South Carolina authorities are investigating a fire that engulfed the home of state circuit court judge
Laura Esposito / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Demanded ‘Holy Hell Fire’ Before Judge's Home Exploded
Discussion: Raw Story and elhayat-life.com
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act … “You look at what's happening with Portland over the years, it's a burning hell hole,” Trump added.  “And then you have a judge that lost her way that tries to pretend that there's no problem.”  —  The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a federal law …
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Robert Reich:
The Mad King's Television  —  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.”  —  Trump promptly ordered the California National Guard to Portland.
Chris Edelson / The UnPopulist:   Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities
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'
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
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 …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:   Shutdown Politics Has G.O.P. Singing Government's Praises
David Struett / Chicago Sun Times:
Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said ‘Do something b—  ’ before shooting  —  Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b—
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 and Above the Law
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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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 …
CNN:
Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say  —  The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers …
Discussion: Washington Times
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Biden-era FBI requested Senate Republican phone records, lawmakers say  —  The FBI investigated Republican lawmakers as part of its Biden-era probe into President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, GOP Senators announced Monday.
Discussion: New York Post and NewsMax.com
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Acting CDC director endorses Trump's call to split up MMR vaccine  —  The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday endorsed President Trump's call to split up the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine despite there being no research to support such a massive change.
Discussion: STAT
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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.
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
The Supreme Court v. Democracy  —  The Nation's justice correspondent previews the court's coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.  —  Pocket  —  After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 with its landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
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Associated Press:
The Supreme Court will evaluate Trump's expansive claims of presidential power in its new term
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
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 …
Our World in Data:
Does the news reflect what we die from?  —  What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?  —  Reuse our work freely  —  Acknowledgments  —  For this work, we relied on Media Cloud, an open-access platform for media analysis.
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 …
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
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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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Treasury Defends Lawfulness of Minting a $1 Trump Coin
Discussion: The Maine Wire and CBS News
Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Denies Google's Bid to Pause App Store Changes
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
5 eye-popping revelations in newly released filing of Smartmatic's case against Fox News
Josephine Walker / Axios:
Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers demand oversight ahead of Pam Bondi hearing
Discussion: PBS NewsHour
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Harvard Has Identified Another Problem: Its Own Students
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Salt Lake Tribune
 Earlier Items: 
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Manosphere Influencers Who Boosted Trump Are Now Cooling on Him
Discussion: Comic Sands
Washington Post:
How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls
Discussion: HotAir
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Americans remain wary of electing a female president, new poll reveals
Adam Wren / Politico:
Michigan's Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza
Discussion: National Review
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say
 

 
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