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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 …
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Anatomy of a news story: ‘60 Minutes’ invites audience into the editing process with Trump interview
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.
Michael Edison Hayden / MSNBC:
Nick Fuentes started a MAGA civil war — and it looks like he's winning
Discussion: Jewish Insider and NewsMax.com
Jordain Carney / Politico:
John Thune says he is ‘optimistic’ Senate will move to end shutdown this week  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he was “optimistic” an agreement can be reached this week to end the five-week shutdown as bipartisan rank-and-file talks make progress.  Thune, speaking to reporters …
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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 …
Axios:   1 big thing: 🚘 Off-ramp in sight
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
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
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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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Senate GOP blocks Dem effort to fund SNAP
Discussion: The Guardian
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.
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: NOTUS, The Hill and Chicago Tribune
Mirna Alsharif / NBC News:
Flight delays pile up as government shutdown enters second month  —  More than 5,000 flights traveling from and to U.S. airports were delayed Sunday alone.  —  As the government shutdown nears its second month, airports across the country are feeling its impact, with flight delays piling up because of staffing shortages.
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
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: HuffPost, Daily Camera and Raw Story
New York Magazine:
The 25 Young(ish) New Democrats to Watch … Who, beyond the well-known and much-profiled Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Zohran Mamdani, and Jon Ossoff, are the young people most likely to rebuild the Democratic Party?  The bright lights of the next generation don't fit into easy classifications.
Discussion: Salon
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Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
It's My Party and I'll Leave When I Want To
Discussion: Inside Elections
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.”
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and Public Citizen
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 …
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 …
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.
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
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump Advisers Were Paid Over $1.6 Million by the Albanian Opposition  —  The payments underscore how lucrative foreign political consulting can be for operatives with ties to the president.  —  Consultants who worked on Donald J. Trump's presidential campaigns were paid more than $1.6 million …
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 …
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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Alexander Mallin / Reuters:
Prosecutors urge judge to reject ex-FBI Director James Comey's claim he's being ‘vindictively’ prosecuted
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Mike Johnson Wants You to Believe He Lives Under a Rock
Discussion: The Hill and New Republic
Aaron Mak / Politico:
The case for campaign AI
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
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Trump approval rating falls to second-term low of 37%
Discussion: Newsweek
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Rachel Uranga / Los Angeles Times:
She helped get her violent husband deported. Then ICE deported her — straight into his arms.
Discussion: Raw Story
Robert P. Jones / The Contrarian:
Most Americans Are Seeing the Dangers of Trump's Authoritarianism
Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Travel Industry Sounds Alarm Over Government Shutdown
Discussion: Axios
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Jack Smith, Trump's Target, Shifts From Defense to Counterattack
Discussion: Raw Story
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
Exclusive: BBC ‘doctored’ Trump speech, internal report reveals
 

 
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Karl Bode / Techdirt:
The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China

Paul Glynn / BBC:
HarperCollins UK drops children's author and comedian David Walliams following allegations of inappropriate behavior toward young women

Ken Vogel / @kenvogel:
Politico ends its print edition after 19 years, as its early reliance on print ad revenue fades and its audience relies more on digital platforms

 
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