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10:55 AM ET, November 7, 2025

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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
The 2024 Trump “realignment” is over already  —  It is a matter of fact that Donald Trump won the 2024 election in large part by shrinking the vote margins for Kamala Harris among non-white, working-class, and young voters, relative to past Democratic nominees.  —  But the interpretation of Trump's 2024 win is a matter of opinion.
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump
Discussion: The Bulwark and Raw Story
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
“None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:   America Begins Clapping Back at Donald Trump
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Hopes for shutdown resolution fade after Democrats balk at GOP offer
Politico:   Former DOJ lawyers switch sides
Alex Burness / Bolts:
Five Ways Tuesday's Results Will Affect Voting Rules and Democracy
Politico:
Senate will vote Friday to advance shutdown-ending deal, Thune tells Republicans
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The softest Nazis you ever did see  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ✊ Subscribe to PN ✊  —  The Trump administration only wants the most formidable warriors, real stone-cold-killer types, to join his war on immigrants.
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Jury acquits D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent  —  Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.  —  WASHINGTON — Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department's case against …
Molly Roberts / Lawfare:
Sandwich Guy, Thrower of Hoagie-Or Hero?  —  The trial ended in an acquittal.  But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.  —  Meet The Authors … It's Nov. 3, a day some recognize as National Sandwich Day.
Tony Romm / New York Times:
Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month  —  The Justice Department later said it would appeal, leaving the program known as SNAP in limbo.  —  A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans …
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Aria Bendix / NBC News:
Judge orders Trump administration to deliver full SNAP benefits to states by Friday
Regina Garcia Cano / Associated Press:
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists.  The truth, AP found, is more nuanced  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month.  Another was a career criminal.
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Regina Garcia Cano / Associated Press:   What a reporter found when she investigated US military strikes on Venezuelan drug boats
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump Wine Hits Government Shelves  —  Topline  —  The Trump Organization's second-term push to monetize Donald Trump's presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores, which provide service members and their families with access to tax-free consumer goods, have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider.
New York Times:
Musk Wins $1 Trillion Pay Package, Creating Split Screen on Wealth in America  —  Tesla shareholders approved a plan to grant Elon Musk shares worth nearly $1 trillion if he meets ambitious goals, including vastly expanding the company's stock market valuation.
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Supreme Court lets Trump block transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump's administration …
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Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump pardons former Tennessee House speaker, top aide awaiting prison  —  Trump has granted clemency in the opening year of his term to several former elected officials convicted on corruption-related charges.  —  President Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker …
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Chasity Maynard / WSMV-TV:
President Trump pardons former TN House Speaker Glen Casada, chief of staff, after corruption convictions
Discussion: Associated Press
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump touts cost of Walmart's Thanksgiving meal to vindicate his policies — ignoring a key detail
Philip Allen Lacovara / The Bulwark:
The Founders Would Abhor Trump's Domestic Deployments  —  STARTING IN THE SPRING and then escalating over the summer, President Donald Trump sent federal troops or “called up” National Guard units to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, Portland, and Chicago.
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Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark:
How the Supreme Court Could Save Christmas
Discussion: Above the Law, OSV News and Townhall
CNBC:
Airlines cancel more than 700 U.S. flights as FAA-ordered shutdown cuts begin … U.S. airlines started cancelling hundreds of flights on Friday, hours after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the cuts amid the more-than-monthlong government shutdown.
Minho Kim / New York Times:
To Preserve Records, Homeland Security Now Relies on Officials to Take Screenshots  —  Experts say the new policy, which ditches software that automatically captured text messages, opens ample room for both willful and unwitting noncompliance with federal records laws.
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury Trump Hotel on Historic Bombing Site  —  Despite a fraud investigation into officials who endorsed the project, Parliament used an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to push the plans through.  —  The Serbian Parliament approved a new law Friday …
New York Times:
10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here's Where We Are  —  Almost exactly 10 years ago, a remarkable thing happened in a conference hall on the outskirts of Paris: After years of bitter negotiations, the leaders of nearly every country agreed to try to slow down global warming …
Politico:
Vance is the frontrunner for 2028, Rubio privately confides … “He will do anything he can just to support the vice president in that effort,” said the person close to Rubio, who was granted anonymity to share the secretary of state's private conversations.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Is Said to Be Investigating D.C. Mayor Over Foreign Trip  —  The investigation into Muriel Bowser could face significant hurdles because of the known facts of the case and recent turmoil inside the Justice Department.  —  4 MIN READ  —  Got a Tip?
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Stefanik officially launches campaign for New York governor … POLITICO reported on Thursday that Stefanik planned to enter the race.  —  Another Democrat who featured prominently in Stefanik's campaign announcement was New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist whose brand …
New York Times:
Sexual Assault of Mexico's President Exposes Challenges of Her Equality Push  —  President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped on the street this week, in an episode that set off a national conversation about what has and has not changed since Mexico elected its first female leader.
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh to conservative law students: Don't give up
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Riley Mellen / New York Times:
U.S. Sends Attack Aircraft to El Salvador Amid Regional Troop Buildup
Thomas Black / Bloomberg:
A $1.4 Billion Rare-Earth Deal With a Trumpian Twist
Discussion: New York Times
Margie Mason / Associated Press:
Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the ‘working man’
Caitlin McCormack / New York Post:
Rep. Nancy Mace's ex files lawsuit claiming she falsely accused him of rape in plot concocted with friend's estranged wife
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Antisemitism Task Force Severs Ties With the Heritage Foundation
Morgan Lee / Associated Press:
New Mexico lawmakers propose a Jeffrey Epstein probe of activity at secluded desert ranch
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Axios:
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CNN:
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New York Times:
Bishops With Ties to Trump Commission Criticize Treatment of Immigrants
Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune:
‘The use of force shocks the conscience’: Judge issues sweeping injunction on Chicago tactics of immigration agents
Washington Post:
Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor
 

 
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