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11:05 AM ET, November 8, 2025

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Charles Thrush / Block Club Chicago:
Feds Tell Faith Leaders ‘No More Prayer’ Outside Broadview Facility  —  BROADVIEW - Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be “no more prayer” in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.
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Cindy Hernandez / Chicago Sun Times:
Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility
Discussion: Block Club Chicago
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
November 7, 2025  —  The repercussions from Tuesday's vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo.  —  Since Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump has tried to reinforce the idea that he is, in fact, in control of the country, no matter what voters say.
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NBC News:
Democrats make a new offer to end the shutdown, but Republicans aren't buying it
Discussion: Axios and Roll Call
Julianna Bragg / Axios:   Trump says GOP would never lose an election again if filibuster is eliminated
Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
Trump wants to abolish the filibuster. GOP senators aren't on board.
Discussion: New York Times
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Senate Democrats propose 1-year Obamacare subsidies punt in new shutdown offer
Discussion: CNBC, New York Times and NOTUS
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown
Discussion: IJR and Wall Street Journal
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Democrats consider prolonging the shutdown as Republicans prepare new bills without health care fix
Discussion: Politico and Roll Call
Steve Vladeck / One First:
190. SNAP WTF?  —  Welcome back to “One First,” a (more-than) weekly newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike.  I'm grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you'll consider sharing some of what we're doing with your networks:
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NBC News:
Judge permanently bars Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland in response to immigration protests  —  Oregon officials have been embroiled in a legal battle with the administration since late September, when the Trump administration mobilized hundreds of troops.
Discussion: The Guardian and OPB
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Anna Griffin / New York Times:
Judge Blocks National Guard From Portland, Ore., Permanently  —  With her temporary block expiring, Judge Karin Immergut said the Trump administration had failed to prove that protesters against the federal immigration crackdown were hampering President Trump's policies.
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do  —  I have great news for President Trump!  —  He has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there, and the Pentagon has obligingly prepared plans for attack.
NBC News:
Education Department's out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules  —  The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed after the Trump administration altered employees' email messages to add partisan language about the government shutdown without their consent.
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Juan Perez Jr / Politico:   Judge orders Education Department to halt ‘partisan’ employee email messages
New York Times:
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler  —  The child was later reunited with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed immigrant rights groups.  The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a gun possession charge.  —  At first, the encounter seemed typical of the kinds …
Barbara McQuade / MSNBC:
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro wasted our money pursuing sandwich thrower  —  To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.”  That allegation was laughable.  —  Among a U.S. attorney's most significant responsibilities …
Discussion: Lawfare
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Mafia Presidency  —  Trump is saying, essentially, If you don't want to get hurt, you'll do what I say.  —  The Sunday before the New York City mayoral race, President Donald Trump told New Yorkers he might withhold federal funding if Zohran Mamdani won.
NBC News:
‘Mega detention centers’: ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants  —  The Trump administration is exploring a plan to buy warehouses designed for companies like Amazon, sources said, which would drastically increase the Trump administration's capacity for detaining immigrants.
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Jackie Llanos / NOTUS:
ICE Detention and Surveillance Translate Into Hundreds of Millions for Companies
Discussion: America Magazine and CBS News
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Cornell to pay $60M to settle Trump administration probes … In April, Cornell said it received more than 75 stop work orders from the Department of Defense related to research on national defense, cybersecurity and health. … “The decades-long research partnership between Cornell …
Telegraph:
Trump goes to war with ‘fake news’ BBC  —  White House attacks ‘Leftist propaganda machine’ over biased doctoring of president's speech  —  Donald Trump's White House has accused the BBC of “purposeful dishonesty” amid a row over bias at the broadcaster.  —  It launched its attack …
Discussion: The Guardian and GB News
Andrew Lapin / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech  —  A sudden change in leadership at Indiana University's Jewish studies program has erupted into a bitter internal feud, pitting a new interim director against faculty and students …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Todd Blanche on defending Trump policies: 'It's a war, man'  —  The Justice Department's No. 2 official, Todd Blanche, let loose Friday, railing against judges blocking administration policies and denying that prosecutions of President Donald Trump's enemies constitute weaponization of the justice system.
Charlotte Higgins / The Guardian:
Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’  —  Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center  —  The Washington National Opera (WNO) is considering moving out of the Kennedy Center …
Discussion: New York Times
Josh Moody / Inside Higher Ed:
Congress Accuses GMU President of Lying About DEI Efforts  —  The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee accused George Mason University's president of lying about DEI practices and likely violating civil rights laws.  He has denied the claims.  —  House Republicans have accused George Mason …
Discussion: Washington Post
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
The voices of SNAP  —  Recipients have become political pawns.  They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like. … Stephanie boarded a city bus Monday morning to make the 90 minute trek from one end of Mesa, Arizona to the other.
NBC News:
National Mall trust avoids most lawmaker questions about White House ballroom project  —  The nonprofit's president mostly provided previously reported information about its role in shepherding donations for the ballroom's construction.  —  WASHINGTON — Hours before the deadline Friday …
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 245. 11/7/25  —  ... Trump FINALLY got confronted today by the FACT that the Walmart Thanksgiving dinner he keeps citing to prove prices are down is only because his comparison from last year contained FEWER items, of less quantity, with more inexpensive brands.
 
 
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Washington Post:
U.S. steps up presence in Gaza to support fragile ceasefire
Discussion: LewRockwell and Quillette
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Did Trump's Supreme Court Tariffs Brief Include a Strategic Blunder?
Riya Misra / Politico:
‘We are at risk’: Governors, local officials call for shutdown end
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Iran plotted to assassinate Israel's ambassador to Mexico, U.S. officials say
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
This North Carolina Democrat can't win her district. So she's running as a Republican.
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Dems' resistance stymies DOJ in Stephen Miller doxxing case
Washington Post:
How a backlash to Trump fueled Democratic gains with Latino voters
Washington Post:
In MAGA stronghold, fury over SNAP but little blame for Trump in shutdown
 Earlier Items: 
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Discussion: Disaster Girl
Martina Di Licosa / Forbes:
Supermarket Billionaire Threatens To Cut Workforce, Move To Florida After Mamdani's Win
Wall Street Journal:
Flight Cancellations Could Rise to 20% if Government Shutdown Continues
Discussion: Reuters
M. Gessen / New York Times:
The Ruling About Passports Isn't About ID. It's About Social Control.
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
Politico:
Trump directs DOJ to investigate meatpackers amid beef price pressure
Discussion: CNN
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
ICE Has Created a ‘Ghost Town’ in the Heart of Chicago
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

New York Times:
The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months

Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the First Amendment Watch's SLAPP Back Initiative, a US SLAPP tracker; in 2024, 69 of 500 cases involved the media, of which 46 were dismissed

 
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