Top Items:
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.
Discussion:
GovExec.com, NBC News, Fox News, New Republic, The Hill, HuffPost, Politico, MeidasTouch News, Breitbart, Raw Story, The Guardian, The Free Press, CNBC, CNN, NPR, Forbes, The Daily Signal, Semafor, Washington Examiner, Daily Kos, Business Insider, New York Sun, UPI, The Independent, E&E News, IJR, HotAir, NewsMax.com, Defense One, Blue Virginia, CBS News, NewsNation, NOTUS, al.com, Mediaite, Grabien and Al Jazeera
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
The Hill, New Republic, Washington Examiner and EPIC for America
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.
Discussion:
Raw Story and New Republic
Tony Romm / New York Times:
White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers — Union leaders and Democratic lawmakers say the move would run afoul of a law adopted under President Trump's first term. — Hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers may not automatically receive …
Discussion:
NBC News, USA Today, New Jersey Online, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, UPI and Newsweek
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown
Discussion:
Axios, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Parnas Perspective, Quartz, WAGA-TV, Washington Times and Bloomberg
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race
Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race
Discussion:
Bangor Daily News
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Discussion:
GovExec.com, Federal News Network, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Roll Call, NewsMax.com and New York Times
NBC News:
White House looks for a loophole in the law that ensures federal workers get paid after a shutdown
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says backpay for furloughed workers 'depends on who we're talking about'
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Exclusive: Schumer-linked PAC tells Dems they're “winning” shutdown fight
Exclusive: Schumer-linked PAC tells Dems they're “winning” shutdown fight
Discussion:
Daily Caller News Foundation
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 …
Discussion:
SCOTUSblog, The Daily Caller, CBS News, Roll Call, Advocate, Los Angeles Times and Althouse
RELATED:
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court weighs challenge to bans on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ kids
Discussion:
Associated Press, Axios, Washington Examiner, Rolling Stone, NewsMax.com, The Daily Signal, Public Discourse, The Independent, LGBTQ Nation, UPI and ABC News
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
The Supreme Court upheld a ban on transgender care for minors during the last term.
The Supreme Court upheld a ban on transgender care for minors during the last term.
Discussion:
Axios, Washington Post, Politico, Al Jazeera, Plain Dealer, LGBTQ Nation, NPR, The Daily Caller, New York Post, The Colorado Sun, The Hill, CBS News and Washington Examiner
John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court's conservative majority prepared to rule against conversion therapy ban
Supreme Court's conservative majority prepared to rule against conversion therapy ban
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sharply questions law banning conversion therapy
Supreme Court sharply questions law banning conversion therapy
Discussion:
Gay City News, New York Times, Fox News, CBS News, Mother Jones, ABC News and NewsNation
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.
RELATED:
Josephine Walker / Axios:
“Insurrectionists”: Trump blasts Democrats over shutdown, immigration
“Insurrectionists”: Trump blasts Democrats over shutdown, immigration
Discussion:
BBC, Reuters, Townhall, Washington Examiner, The Daily Signal, NewsMax.com, Mediaite, IJR, Washington Times and The Independent
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.
Discussion:
New Republic, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, CBS News, Raw Story and Roll Call
RELATED:
April Rubin / Axios:
Bondi dodges senators' questions on Comey, Epstein probes
Discussion:
New York Times, The Hill, NOTUS, NPR, Rick Wilson's …, Salon, Forbes, The Guardian, New York Sun, twitchy.com, Raw Story, CNBC, Fox News, CBS News, Straight Arrow News, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Grabien, Oregonian, Political Wire, NewsMax.com and PBS NewsHour
Halina Bennet / Slow Boring:
Tuesday discussion thread
Tuesday discussion thread
Discussion:
CBS News, ABC News, New York Magazine, WAGA-TV, The Hill, Raw Story, The Guardian, Breitbart and The Last Refuge
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 …
Discussion:
ABC7, New York Times, Semafor, New York Sun, Washington Times, Reuters, NPR, CBS News, The Hill, Mercury News, The Independent, Fox Business, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, UPI, 77 WABC and New Jersey Online
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Democrats are winning the shutdown — 🎉 It's PN's fourth anniversary and we're commemorating it this week by offering paid subscriptions at a special discounted price. Click the button below to take advantage and support our work ⬇️ — 🥳 PN anniversary special offer 🥳
Discussion:
MSNBC, Politico, New Jersey Online and Matt's Five Points
RELATED:
Alex Miller / Fox News:
Senate Republicans confirm more than 100 Trump nominees as government shutdown continues
Senate Republicans confirm more than 100 Trump nominees as government shutdown continues
Discussion:
Axios, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Plain Dealer, Townhall and IJR
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 …
Discussion:
MSNBC, The Guardian, New Jersey Online and Truthout
RELATED:
Avery Lotz / Axios:
“Unprecedented threat”: Six former surgeons general sound alarm on RFK Jr.
“Unprecedented threat”: Six former surgeons general sound alarm on RFK Jr.
Discussion:
Washington Times and MSNBC
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:
New York Post and NextDraft
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.
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 …
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!
Discussion:
Poynter, Lawyers, Guns & Money, PinkNews, Semafor and LGBTQ Nation, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Discussion:
New York Magazine and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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 …
Discussion:
Associated Press, Raw Story, Oregonian, The Moderate Voice, New Republic and Pharyngula
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 …
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, New York Post, NewsMax.com, IJR, Washington Times, Newsweek and al.com
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 …
Discussion:
United States Senate Committee …, One America News Network and HotAir
RELATED:
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory
The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory
Discussion:
twitchy.com
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations — Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence — A Rutgers University professor is temporarily relocating to Europe as he grapples with threats …
Discussion:
New Republic, New Jersey Online, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion and The Daily Caller
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 …
Discussion:
New Republic, The Post Millennial, ABC7, Raw Story, emptywheel, Truthout, WBEZ Chicago and Fox News
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.
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.
Discussion:
404 Media and Electronic Frontier Foundation


