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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response. — Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — ✊ Subscribe to PN ✊ — Before the No Kings rallies that took place across the country on Saturday, Republicans were desperate …
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The Nation, New Republic, NPR and Strength In Numbers
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Paul Krugman:
Civil Resistance Confronts the Autocracy — While MAGA's spin was both insane and revealing, the No Kings Day 2 Marches were a major step towards taking our country back. — Last Saturday's No Kings Day 2 was awesome to behold. The very best of America shone through.
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Politico
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump's over-the-top reaction to the ‘No Kings’ events was proof of their success — The “No Kings” events were intended to send a powerful message to an increasingly authoritarian figure, who appeared rattled by the national dispatch. — A few days before millions of his detractors held …
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday …
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Florida Times Union, Metro.co.uk, WFAA-TV and The Verge
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's response to ‘No Kings’ marches only proved the protesters' point
Trump's response to ‘No Kings’ marches only proved the protesters' point
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To the Contrary, Paul Krugman, Vanderbilt Political Review, Mediaite and Semafor
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump posts AI video showing him dumping on No Kings protesters
Trump posts AI video showing him dumping on No Kings protesters
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Deadline, Futurism, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Raw Story, Mediaite, NewsMax.com, HuffPost, Wired, The Gateway Pundit, NOTUS, Salon, The American Conservative, The Daily Beast, New York Times and New York Post
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Trump calls ‘No Kings’ protests a ‘joke’: ‘I work my ass off’
Trump calls ‘No Kings’ protests a ‘joke’: ‘I work my ass off’
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Miles Bruner / The Bulwark:
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party — SINCE DONALD TRUMP DESCENDED that golden escalator in 2015, the Republican party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes of the last one hundred years. — For ten years, the GOP has waged …
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New York Times:
America Still Has a Political Center, and It's the Key to Winning — American politics today can seem to be dominated by extremes. President Trump is carrying out far-right policies, while some of the country's highest-profile Democrats identify as democratic socialists. Moderation sometimes feels outdated.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Sanity Clause and Raw Story
Alan Elrod / Liberal Currents:
Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies — The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans. … This text exchange is part of the cache of messages sent in a Telegram group chat by Young Republicans.
New York Times:
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines' Celebration, California Officials Say — The mishap, during an anniversary celebration for the Marine Corps attended by the vice president and defense secretary, underscores safety concerns that Gov. Gavin Newsom voiced before Saturday's event at Camp Pendleton.
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Politico:
Lawmakers bemoan Trump's latest power grab: Troop pay … The Senate is scheduled to consider legislation this week that would allow members of the military and other federal workers to receive pay while the government remains shuttered. It's far from certain it will attract the necessary 60 votes …
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Washington Post:
In tense meeting, Trump told Zelensky to concede land, meet Putin's demands — Following the trip to Washington, Zelensky has set up a series of calls and meetings with his main European backers. — BRUSSELS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is rallying the support of his European partners …
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Politico:
Prosecutors may move to oust James Comey's defense lawyer … The prosecutors asked the judge to quickly approve a proposal for a “filter team” of lawyers to sift through evidence in Comey's criminal case that could clarify Fitzgerald's role in the 8-year-old disclosures — without breaching Comey's attorney-client privilege.
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Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
China is well positioned for a trade showdown with Trump — Rare earths are not the only Chinese product that America would struggle to replace — Like boxers before a championship bout, America and China are trash talking each other. — Last week, Scott Bessent, the US Treasury secretary …
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New York Times, Reuters, The Japan Times and Washington Examiner
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Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns — Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share — The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court agrees to review law that bars drug users from having firearms
Supreme Court agrees to review law that bars drug users from having firearms
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Los Angeles Times, UPI and SCOTUSblog
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Definitely on purpose’: Hit-and-run driver slams into seated No Kings protester — A hit-and-run driver remains at large after injuring a woman taking part in a No Kings protest in Ohio. — Witnesses say the driver of a white pickup truck deliberately drove into a group of demonstrators shortly …
Washington Post:
He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career. — Charles Borges says Musk's cost-cutting team uploaded a copy of a mainframe database containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans. — Just now — Charles Borges, then chief data officer …
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Audrey Dutton / ProPublica:
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country. — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week.
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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Fired Justice Department lawyer says he refused to lie in the Abrego Garcia case — Erez Reuveni, a fired Department of Justice lawyer who's now blowing the whistle, says he witnessed a disregard of due process and for the rule of law at the DOJ. — Reuveni previously won commendations …
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Mediaite, Raw Story and New Republic
Steve Vladeck / One First:
184. The Massive Stakes of Trump v. Illinois — The Trump administration's 29th emergency application—to let it deploy federalized National Guard troops in Chicago on a profoundly dubious factual predicate—is a make-or-break moment for the Court. — Welcome back to “One First,” …
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Politico:
ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount … The detention centers — which currently hold more than 60,000 people — are overcrowded and the use of hastily constructed facilities like tent cities makes it easier, public health officials said …
CNN:
Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday — The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the Department of Energy.
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Scripps News, Straight Arrow News, UPI and The Independent
Jerusalem Demsas / The Argument:
No Kings wasn't cringe — At 10:16 a.m., the Berkeley No Kings march kicked off. A crowd full of men, women, students, seniors, babies, and dogs left the campus meetup spot to march west through the college town. — Three young women leading the pack giggled, realizing they hadn't fully thought through their chant strategy.
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America, America and The Hill
Patricia Lopez / Bloomberg:
Food Prices Could Go Even Higher After These ICE Raids — The US Labor Department is sounding a stark warning that the Trump administration's immigration crackdown has devastated the ranks of agricultural workers and now may threaten the food supply. — It's bad news for farmers …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Shutdown could halt SNAP benefits for millions, states say — Millions of families could go without food aid next month, states have begun warning, as the government shutdown threatens November's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, commonly known as food stamps.
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The Hill
Gary Shteyngart / New York Times:
The Tactical Frivolity of the Chicago No Kings Protest — On the morning of Oct. 18, after giving a reading at the University of Chicago, I decided to take a cab up to Grant Park to attend Chicago's No Kings march. The two-hour demonstration took place beneath the city's downtown skyscrapers on a slightly overcast day.
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Daily Caller News Foundation, Washington Post, Althouse and Slate
Sean James / Mediaite:
The White House Joins BlueSky and Instantly Becomes the 2nd-Most Blocked Account — After JD Vance — President Donald Trump's White House is already the second most-blocked account on Bluesky, just days after joining the platform. The only account ahead of it on the block list?
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