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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 …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Anatomy of a news story: ‘60 Minutes’ invites audience into the editing process with Trump interview
Anatomy of a news story: ‘60 Minutes’ invites audience into the editing process with Trump interview
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Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Heritage Foundation in revolt over Tucker Carlson defense after controversial Nick Fuentes interview: ‘Footsie with literal Nazis’ — WASHINGTON — One of the largest conservative think tanks in Washington, DC, has been roiled by their president's embrace of Tucker Carlson …
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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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Annie Karni / New York Times:
G.O.P. Figures Seek Distance From Tucker Carlson, Denouncing Antisemitism — Prominent Republicans rejected the views of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist, though some refrained from directly criticizing Tucker Carlson for interviewing him. — Republican lawmakers and influencers continued …
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Jewish Insider, NewsMax.com, The Hill, Semafor and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Top Heritage Foundation staffer departs after Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes controversy
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Michael Edison Hayden / MSNBC:
Nick Fuentes started a MAGA civil war — and it looks like he's winning
Nick Fuentes started a MAGA civil war — and it looks like he's winning
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Jewish Insider and NewsMax.com
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump and Musk tell New York to ‘vote’ Cuomo over Mamdani on eve of mayoral election … President Donald Trump on Monday night explicitly called on New York City residents to vote for Andrew Cuomo over Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral election.
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs and Push Against Limits Face Election and Court Tests
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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
Trump tells New York ‘you must vote’ for Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani in NYC election — and ditch Curtis Sliwa
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Admin Tells Judge It'll Disburse Half of SNAP Benefits for Eligible Households in November, With ‘Significant’ Delays — The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday that it plans to use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contingency fund to cover 50 percent …
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Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Divided Democrats Hope Attacking the Trump Economy Unites Party — In Virginia, New York and New Jersey, Democrats emphasize affordability, believing voters are dissatisfied with the president's economic policies — President Trump, who promised to use his business savvy to bring down everyday costs …
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Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
It's My Party and I'll Leave When I Want To
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Why Tuesday's elections could give Democrats two paths to coming back from Trump
Why Tuesday's elections could give Democrats two paths to coming back from Trump
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twitchy.com, USA Today, The Hill, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Semafor, Washington Times, PBS NewsHour, IJR, Salon, France 24 and Off Message
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.
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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 …
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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.
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NOTUS, The Hill and Chicago Tribune
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.
Max Rego / The Hill:
Pelosi: Trump is ‘worst thing on the face of the earth’ — Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called President Trump “the worst thing on the face of the earth” during a recent interview with CNN's Elex Michaelson. — “He's just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the Earth,” Pelosi said in a video clip posted on X.
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Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Pelosi spokesman sidesteps retirement rumors as Dem primary threats wait in wings
Pelosi spokesman sidesteps retirement rumors as Dem primary threats wait in wings
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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.
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
A Confederacy of Toddlers — The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children. — In 1949, the German historian and political philosopher Hannah Arendt visited Europe for the first time since fleeing to America during the war. A year later, she wrote an analysis of what she called “the aftermath of Nazi rule.”
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
Senate Republican warns about potential interruptions to federal worker health care — Sen. James Lankford is warning that the prolonged shutdown could soon threaten the health care coverage of federal employees. In a letter sent Oct. 30 to Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor …
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 …
Politico:
House members release bipartisan ‘principles’ for extending Obamacare subsidies … The new blueprint is a sign the partisan freeze is thawing among some factions on Capitol Hill — and that frustration over the impasse is growing. Moderate Republicans in the House are especially losing patience …
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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 …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump ousts watchdog of US housing regulator involved in mortgage probes of his foes, sources say — FHFA's acting inspector general Joe Allen removed amid political tensions — Pulte bypassed Inspector General in pursuing cases against Trump foes
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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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.
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.
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Washington Times
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.
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Raw Story
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Report: Donors to Trump's White House ballroom have $279B in federal contracts — The list contains heavyweights in the tech, financial and defense sectors, including Google, Comcast and Lockheed Martin. — Most of the publicly identified donors to President Donald Trump's White House ballroom …
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