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Andrew Schwartz / Willamette Week:
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver  —  Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester.  Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.  —  Late on Oct. 5, a Portland ambulance crew informed dispatchers …
NBC News:
Mike Johnson slams Obamacare funds as a ‘boondoggle’ as shutdown drags on  —  Johnson also addressed conservative calls to repeal Obamacare, whose enhanced tax credits form the main dispute between the two parties that led to the funding impasse.  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson …
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  Against all odds, Democrats seemed to have gained the upper hand in the conflict over the government shutdown …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
On keeping health care coverage affordable, the GOP's Steve Scalise gives away the game
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
As the shutdown continues, Trump and his team advance plan for ‘Democrat-oriented’ firings
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Greene's deepening split with GOP leaves Republicans exasperated
Gregory Royal Pratt / Chicago Tribune:
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: 'It's not fair...I'm a resident'  —  Rueben Antonio Cruz was sitting with a friend in Rogers Park when ICE agents pulled up onto the street.  —  The immigration officers stopped their truck and went straight after them on Oct. 9, Cruz told the Tribune.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump's Power to Fire Officials  —  As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president's power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.  —  The Supreme Court will hear arguments in December …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Bombshell!’  Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning  —  The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal scholar sent …
Fred Lambert / Electrek:
Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks  —  Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk's private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having issues selling the electric pickup truck.  —  Cybertruck turned out to be Tesla's first real commercial flop.
Discussion: The Verge
Associated Press:
After hostages and prisoners are freed, complex issues remain for Israel-Hamas ceasefire  —  Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  Israel and Hamas moved ahead on a key first step of the tenuous Gaza ceasefire agreement …
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Abeer Abu Omar / Bloomberg:
Netanyahu Declines Egypt Peace Summit Invite After Reports He'd Go
Reuters:
How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs  — US companies, consumers bear brunt of US tariffs  — Some foreign sellers are raising prices  — Further price hikes likely in coming months  —  U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs …
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Rob Wile / NBC News:
U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says
Discussion: The Hill and Bloomberg
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Rove: Trump National Guard deployments ‘going to end up being a loser’  —  GOP strategist Karl Rove predicted Saturday that deploying National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities, over the objections of their respective states' governors, will ultimately be a losing issue for President Trump.
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Jake Wittich / Windy City Times:
Ald.  Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident  —  Ald.  Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month.
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Chicago Sun Times:   Chicago is choosing justice over fear, as it has in the past
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline  —  The Washington Post joined the New York Times, CNN and the Atlantic in refusing to sign the restrictive new policy.  —  Journalists working at The Washington Post, the New York Times and other major news publications …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Are YOU Antifa?  —  Plus: Hostage releases and prisoner swaps.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Taking Antifa Seriously  —  Andrew talked about Antifa and No Kings this morning, but I want to dig in a little more to draw your attention to three Antifa-related actions Republicans have taken over the last four weeks.
Discussion: HotAir, Mercury News and Blaze Media
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:   Trump's Guilt-By-Association Law Enforcement
Josh Dawsey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies Sold Sponsorships to What Appeared to Be a Treasury Event.  It Wasn't.  —  Treasury says it didn't approve marketing pitch for private Oct. 21 event about AI that is to be headlined by Scott Bessent  —  An investment fund run by prominent Trump supporters tried to sell sponsorships …
CNN:
Exclusive: Senior prosecutor removed as Lindsey Halligan reshapes key US attorney's office  —  Maggie Cleary — the senior Justice Department prosecutor who briefly led the powerful US attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia last month before Trump ally Lindsey Halligan took over …
Gary Robertson / Associated Press:
North Carolina GOP announce plans to vote on new House map amid nationwide redistricting battle  —  Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  North Carolina Republican legislative leaders announced plans Monday to vote next week …
Paul Krugman:
How Trump Is Making China Great  —  Six months ago Donald Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs — huge tariffs imposed on just about every nation.  As everyone noted, this announcement suddenly brought average tariffs back to 1934 levels.  Less widely noted was the fact that the long decline …
Steve Vladeck / One First:
183. The Missing Defenses of the Court's Behavior  —  Rather than knocking down straw men or attacking their critics, the justices (and their defenders) would do well to explain why the sharpest criticisms of the Court's recent behavior are *wrong.  Welcome back to “One First,” …
Juby Babu / Reuters:
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers  —  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.  —  JPL is NASA's only federally funded research and development center.
Discussion: CNBC and SpaceNews
Jeet Heer / The Nation:
The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump  —  Trump is mad that he didn't win.  But by honoring María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has endorsed his war against Venezuela—and continued Europe's MAGA groveling.  —  Pocket  —  Donald Trump's narcissism is truly a force of nature …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer  —  The attorney general and the vice president confronted straightforward questions about the scandal surrounding the border czar.  Both Republicans struggled.  —  It's been nearly a month since the public …
Washington Post:
Historic wave of retirements is putting huge strains on the government  —  Tens of thousands of federal employees have taken retirement or other voluntary departures on top of the Trump administration's latest layoffs.  —  Just now  —  A historic wave of retirements and other departures …
Discussion: Raw Story
Violet Miller / Chicago Sun Times:
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: ‘We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today’  —  A federal judge's temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas.  Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.
The Bulwark:
Bill Kristol and Ty Cobb: Recapturing America  —  Peaceful protesters in Chicago and Portland have been so clever and effective at ridiculing the masked Stasi agents in their cities that the political momentum for putting troops on the street feels like it's petering out.
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Johnson: 'We're barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history'  —  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen the government.
Danielle Sassoon / New York Times:
Law Schools Are Using Security Concerns to Silence Speech  —  Since I resigned from my job as interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in February, I have accepted several invitations from law schools to speak to students about public service.
Discussion: The Daily Signal
 
 
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Joseph Mackinnon / Blaze Media:
New poll shows Trump is beating Obama and Bush, winning over Americans
Discussion: Breitbart and RedState
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Touts Gaza Ceasefire As Government Shutdown Continues: Live Updates
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Punchbowl News:
Dems' Prop 50 TV spending edge nears $40M
Aaron Glantz / The Guardian:
Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests
Discussion: NewsNation
Harry Thompson / The Daily Beast:
Parliament Hands Out MAGA-Style Hats Before Trump's Speech
Rolling Stone:
The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections
Discussion: Raw Story
Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth / Bloomberg:
Norway Suspects Espionage in Nobel Peace Prize Winner Breach
Discussion: New York Post and CBS News
 Earlier Items: 
Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Shutdown polls show Democrats' economic messaging still falling flat
Washington Post:
Congress is losing its grip on the power to spend Americans' money
Discussion: Raw Story
José Ignacio Castañeda Perez / Spotlight Delaware:
‘Bring her back’: Delaware abuse victim rescued from ICE deportation
Discussion: Raw Story
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The New Julia Roberts Movie Seethes With Anti-Woke Resentment
 

 
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