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5:50 PM ET, October 7, 2025

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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay  —  Furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown, according to a draft White House memo described to Axios by three sources.
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GovExec.com:
OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance  —  The Office of Management and Budget on Friday quietly revised a shutdown guidance document to remove references to a law passed in 2019 to guarantee that all federal workers are provided backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Congress erupts over Trump's shutdown backpay threat  —  Members of Congress in both parties bristled Tuesday at a White House memo arguing that federal workers who have been furloughed as part of the government shutdown are not necessarily entitled to backpay.
NBC News:
White House looks for a loophole in the law that ensures federal workers get paid after a shutdown
Discussion: The Hill
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Brett Samuels / The Hill:   Trump says backpay for furloughed workers 'depends on who we're talking about'
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court weighs challenge to bans on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ kids  —  Kaley Chiles, a Christian talk therapist in Colorado, argues that the state's ban violates her rights under the Constitution's First Amendment.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday considers …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court fights over whether medical expertise actually exists  —  On Tuesday, the Supreme Court broke from its increasingly common practice of deciding important cases without holding an oral argument or even explaining the reasoning of its decision, to hear a case about whether states …
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
The Supreme Court upheld a ban on transgender care for minors during the last term.
John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court's conservative majority prepared to rule against conversion therapy ban
Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
There is no budget “deal” to be made  —  President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible. … The original budget justification for the State Department for FY2025, which ended September 30th last week, stretched to hundreds of pages and totaled nearly $60 billion.
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River Page / The Free Press:
The Shutdown Is a Meme War
Discussion: The Atlantic
NPR:
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained  —  President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities such as Portland, Ore., and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Chicago Tribune:
Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area
Reuters:
Trump's threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
Josephine Walker / Axios:
“Insurrectionists”: Trump blasts Democrats over shutdown, immigration
NBC News:
Airport delays hit second day amid government shutdown  —  Staffing shortages have already caused delays at airports in Denver; Burbank, California; and Newark, New Jersey.  —  Flight delays across the United States stretched into a second day Tuesday as the Federal Aviation Administration braced …
Washington Post:
Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.  —  We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them.  We're doing that again today.  —  The writers are all former U.S. surgeons general.  —  As former U.S. surgeons general appointed by every Republican …
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
“Unprecedented threat”: Six former surgeons general sound alarm on RFK Jr.
Discussion: Washington Times and MSNBC
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Republican leaders clash on emergency troop pay vote  —  Speaker Mike Johnson said the House could come back to pass emergency legislation to pay troops during the government shutdown.  Senate Majority Leader John Thune wasn't willing to go there.  The unusual tactical disagreement between …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and NOTUS
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Bondi tells Schiff he should ‘apologize’ for impeaching Trump  —  Just weeks weeks after Sen. Adam Schiff was called a “buffoon” and a “fraud” by FBI Director Kash Patel during a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, the California Democrat was similarly pilloried Tuesday by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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April Rubin / Axios:
Bondi dodges senators' questions on Comey, Epstein probes
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97  —  He led his parents' appetizing store, Zabar's, for more than 70 years, turning it into an institution synonymous with New York.  —  Saul Zabar, who across more than seven decades as a principal owner of the Upper West Side food emporium bearing …
Discussion: NextDraft and New York Post
Robert Mackey / The Guardian:
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest - using photos of South America  —  A federal judge had blocked Trump's request to deploy California national guard to Portland  —  Before a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting members of California's national guard on the streets of Portland …
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're doomed … To: Bari Weiss  —  RE: Good luck, babe!  —  I honestly cannot believe you've willingly decided to go into the worst kind of job that exists: management at a dying company. … Managing sucks!  It sucks even when you like the people you're managing and it's a low-stress position!
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War.  Neither Is Stephen Miller.  —  President Trump has unleashed new weaponry in his war against Democrats, liberals and the left.  Over the past four weeks, he has initiated what amounts to a unique form of partisan civil war designed to amass power …
Rachel Bovard / The Federalist:
Trump Should Prosecute Many, Many More Biden Officials  —  Under President Trump, the United States is not entering an era of extraconstitutional, criminal authoritarianism, but coming out of one.  —  Joe Biden's presidency was a multi-trillion dollar criminal conspiracy that shred every …
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory
Discussion: twitchy.com
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid $825,000 earlier this year to a company that manufactures vehicles equipped with various technologies for law enforcement, including fake cellphone towers known as …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Sen. Josh Hawley falsely says FBI ‘tapped’ senators' phones during Jack Smith probe  —  Sen. Josh Hawley falsely claimed Tuesday that newly disclosed records revealed that the FBI “tapped” the phones of eight sitting U.S. senators during special counsel Jack Smith's investigation …
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Jessica Valenti / Abortion, Every Day:
Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser's Tip  —  Back in May, 404 Media published a bombshell report: Texas police tried to track down an abortion patient using an automatic license plate reader (ALPR), accessing more than 83,000 cameras across the country.
Anna Betts / The Guardian:
Federal agents taunted Chicago woman to ‘do something’ before shooting her, attorney claims  —  Officers say woman was in chase ending in ramming border patrol vehicle during Trump's immigration crackdown  —  The attorney for a woman who was shot by federal agents in Chicago over the weekend …
Sabrina Moreno / Axios:
Jay Jones scandal throws Virginia Democrats into crisis  —  A scandal over resurfaced texts from Virginia Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones has Democrats in a catch-22. … - But standing by him risks reinforcing Republican attacks about double standards on political violence.
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: White House says it has funding to save food aid program  —  The White House has found funding to keep afloat a food aid program that had been threatened by the government shutdown. … - The program — which provides vouchers for healthy food, breastfeeding assistance and nutritional education …
Ken Klippenstein:
Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7  —  “We're expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror investigations.  —  As the federal government begins to implement President Trump's new national security directive to investigate the so-called radical left …
Discussion: Blaze Media
 
 
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Ali Breland / The Atlantic:
Are You a ‘Heritage American’?  —  Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Hunter Biden Pursued a Deal to Sell Land Around the U.S. Embassy in Romania
NBC News:
A key lifeline for rural communities, federal air travel funds, will expire Sunday if the shutdown continues
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
The UnPopulist:
Can Each Side's Faith Break the Cycle of Mutually Assured Destruction for Israelis and Palestinians?
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Thinking of AI as a Social Problem
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Marco Margaritoff / HuffPost:
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Torches CNN For ‘New Dark Low’ On Trump
Discussion: The Hill, TV Insider and Mediaite
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Biden didn't want intel disseminated showing Ukrainian concerns over family's ‘corrupt’ business ties: records
Slate:
The National Failure at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Story
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
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