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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris  —  from the the-absurd-stupidity.-it-burns dept  —  60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect.
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
CBS's interview with Donald Trump was an abdication  —  When you sit down with someone who constantly says things that aren't remotely true, you have a choice to make: Do you confront them?  Or do you enable them?  —  Sadly, in her interview with Donald Trump broadcast on Sunday …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Dems want FCC probe of “60 Minutes” omission of Trump's Binance pardon exchange
CNN:
Trump administration will provide only half of usual food stamp benefits in November  —  The Trump administration said Monday that it will provide only half of the normal food stamp benefits for November by tapping into the program's contingency fund amid the government shutdown.
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
SNAP update: Trump admin will pay 50% of food stamp benefits in November amid shutdown
Tony Romm / New York Times:
Trump Administration to Send Only Partial Food Stamp Payments This Month
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
It's My Party and I'll Leave When I Want To  —  Talking to the gerontocracy.  —  Last year's election debacle, rooted in the rapid decline of the then-81-year-old Joe Biden, took a heavy toll on New Hampshire congresswoman Annie Kuster.  “It was the most painful thing I've been through since …
Discussion: Inside Elections
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NBC News:
Democrats brace for Nancy Pelosi's possible retirement
New York Magazine:   The 25 Young(ish) New Democrats to Watch
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank  —  Heritage Americans Turn on One Another  —  BEN SHAPIRO DID SOMETHING UNIQUE on Monday.  Not only did he open his show with a fiery intervention in the right's roiling feud over white nationalist Nick Fuentes—he devoted his entire show to the topic.
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Michael Edison Hayden / MSNBC:
Nick Fuentes started a MAGA civil war — and it looks like he's winning
Discussion: Jewish Insider, Semafor and NewsMax.com
Chicago Tribune:
Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability  —  Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street.
Axios:
1 big thing: 🚘 Off-ramp in sight … But the optimism today was unmistakable.  — “I think we're getting close to an off-ramp here,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.  — “Now the challenge is to get leaders of both parties and both chambers to actually talk to each other,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) told us.
Discussion: Washington Times
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
8 Democrats sit at center of potential deal to end government shutdown this week
Discussion: Newsweek and Politico
Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Travel Industry Sounds Alarm Over Government Shutdown
Discussion: Axios
Washington Post:
Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon  —  The far-right activist and former congressional candidate has repeatedly criticized defense officials on her website and social media accounts while boasting of her close ties to President Donald Trump.
Oli Coleman / Page Six:
Bari Weiss' security detail costs CBS $10,000 a day as network undergoes layoffs  —  At the same time that CBS is being slammed with layoffs, an awkward number is circulating around the halls of the Tiffany Network.  —  Page Six hears that as staffers watch their colleagues pack up their desks …
Discussion: Townhall and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Trump readies US troops for ground invasion in Mexico to go after drug cartels: report  —  Officials say the strikes aren't meant to destabilize Mexico's government  —  in Washington, D.C.  —  Your support helps us to tell the story  —  From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech …
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NBC News:
Trump administration is planning new mission in Mexico against cartels, current and former U.S. officials say
NBC News:
Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s ‘sandwich guy’  —  Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.  —  WASHINGTON — Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of former Justice Department employee Sean Dunn, also known as the …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Trial starts for assault case against DC man who tossed sandwich at federal agent on viral video
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
As Condé Nast Folds Teen Vogue Into Vogue's Website, NewsGuild Condemns the Plan  —  The union, which reps staffers, says the move was “clearly designed” to blunt the journalism of the brand, which has leaned in to progressive politics.  —  The union representing writers at Teen Vogue …
Pablo Manríquez / Migrant Insider:
SCOOP: Latino Tenants Told to Vacate After Georgetown ICE Raid  —  Eyewitnesses describe multi-agency sweep at Wisconsin & O St. NW; 10-12 taken; Latino units “tossed;” ammunition left in the floor, and tenants told to vacate.  —  WASHINGTON — A pre-dawn raid on Friday …
The Rational League:
The Vacancy of the MAGA Mind  —  Introduction - The Performance of Conviction  —  There are few spectacles more revealing of the modern mind than the ritual of certainty.  The stage is crowded with the confident and the incurious, each declaiming his creed as if conviction itself were a credential.
Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun Times:
Rep. Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia won't seek reelection, leaves seat for chief of staff in move panned as ‘coronation’  —  U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia will not seek reelection — leaving in place a succession plan for his chief of staff with a last-minute maneuver that critics likened to a coronation and a Chicago political machine play.
Discussion: The Hill, NOTUS and Chicago Tribune
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Jack Smith, Trump's Target, Shifts From Defense to Counterattack  —  The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings and the 2024 election.
Discussion: Raw Story
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Trump approval rating falls to second-term low of 37%  —  New CNN/SSRS survey shows decline in president's popularity as 68% of respondents say things going badly  —  Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to one of its lowest points, with only 37% of Americans expressing approval of his performance as president.
Discussion: Newsweek
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Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
Democrats are more enthusiastic about the midterms as Trump's approval hits a second-term low, CNN poll finds
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump tells New York ‘you must vote’ for Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani in NYC election — and ditch Curtis Sliwa  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump made his most overt endorsement yet of Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race — saying that New Yorkers “must vote for” …
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Paul Krugman:
We're Number Two!  —  Does Donald Trump realize that he has ceded world leadership to China?  Probably not: During his recent Asian trip, foreign leaders flattered him and showered him with personal gifts, so he came home with his ego even more inflated than usual.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and New York Times
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Donald Trump Is a Commie  —  Bernie's democratic socialism is still compatible with liberal democracy.  Trump's national socialism is not.  Thank you for your attention to this matter!  — Trump wants to build nuclear power plants.  — He has chosen Westinghouse to build them.
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
Exclusive: BBC ‘doctored’ Trump speech, internal report reveals  —  Corporation edited footage to make it seem president was encouraging Capitol riot, according to whistleblowing dossier  —  The BBC “doctored” a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot …
MSNBC:
'If it was anybody else, we'd arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump  —  A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn't have authorization to see them.  —  This story is adapted …
Discussion: Raw Story
ABC News:
Lauren Boebert's racially charged Halloween costume sparks backlash  —  Boebert dressed as a Mexican woman and her boyfriend as an ICE agent.  —  Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., attended a Halloween party Friday dressed as a Mexican woman while her boyfriend Kyle Pearcy wore an ICE vest over military-style clothes.
Discussion: Daily Camera and Raw Story
 
 
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump ousts watchdog of US housing regulator involved in mortgage probes of his foes, sources say
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
A Confederacy of Toddlers  —  The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Mike Johnson Wants You to Believe He Lives Under a Rock
Discussion: New Republic
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Report: Donors to Trump's White House ballroom have $279B in federal contracts
Discussion: Public Citizen
Aaron Mak / Politico:
The case for campaign AI
Politico:
House members release bipartisan ‘principles’ for extending Obamacare subsidies
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
The Washington Post Has Become Right-Wing Even Faster Than I Thought
Talking Points Memo:
DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver's License Data for Citizenship Checks
 Earlier Items: 
Rachel Uranga / Los Angeles Times:
She helped get her violent husband deported. Then ICE deported her — straight into his arms.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Suspects in foiled Halloween terror plot pictured practicing at Michigan gun range: FBI
Robert P. Jones / The Contrarian:
Most Americans Are Seeing the Dangers of Trump's Authoritarianism
Richard Pollina / New York Post:
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus
 

 
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
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Wall Street Journal:
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