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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
What Were Democrats Thinking?  —  Back in September, when I was reporting an article on whether Democrats should shut down the government, I kept hearing the same warning from veterans of past shutdown fights: The president controls the bully pulpit.  He controls, to some degree …
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Politico:
‘Schumer is no longer effective’: Dems outraged over shutdown deal … After 40 days of stalemate, eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus voted to advance the bill Sunday night, though notably none of the eight are up for reelection in 2026.  But it's Schumer — who voted no Sunday …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Democrats Are So Angry, One Senator Faces Blowback From Her Daughter  —  Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire voted to move to end the shutdown.  But her daughter Stefany Shaheen, a congressional candidate in their state, sharply criticized the deal.  —  It's not great when your defiant kid says you are wrong.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
As the Senate advances a plan to end the government shutdown, what happens now?  —  As the shutdown continued, the pieces were in place for Democrats stand firm in support of a popular cause.  Eight Senate Democrats folded anyway.  —  As the ongoing government shutdown was poised to begin …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Quick Take on Team Cave's Big Win  —  I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the deal Senate Democrats' Team Cave made with the Republican Senate caucus tonight.  This is an embarrassing deal, a deal to basically settle for nothing.  It's particularly galling since …
Dave Karpf / The Future, Now and Then:
The Shutdown Surrender  —  It makes perfect sense to me that the Senate Democrats caved last night and voted to end the government shutdown with only the vaguest of promises from Senate Republicans: I am a lifelong Washington Wizards fan.  I am accustomed to watching my team throw away a lead.
Discussion: Slow Boring, Breitbart and twitchy.com
The Hill:
Live updates: Senate kicks off vote series on deal to end shutdown
Discussion: KUSA-TV and CBS News
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Six Takeaways From the Senate Deal to End the Shutdown
NBC News:
Democrats rebel after 8 senators cut a deal to end the shutdown without ACA funds
Politico:   Rand Paul wants hemp vote to speed up shutdown endgame
Associated Press:
Speaker Johnson says House will return to Washington for voting on shutdown deal
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Trump made a huge blunder on the shutdown. So why did Democrats cave anyway?
Discussion: New Republic and Wonkette
Lauren Green / Washington Examiner:
Johnson to swear in Grijalva after nearly 50 days
Discussion: MSNBC
emptywheel:
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
These 8 senators broke with Democrats on the government shutdown deal. Here's how they explain it
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide  —  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 Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling  —  The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away …
Ben Penn / Bloomberg Law:
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue for Jack Smith Searches  —  Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government.
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:   Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
New York Times:
Felon Freed by Trump Is Set to Be Sentenced Again in Brooklyn  —  A judge found that Jonathan Braun had violated the rules of his release by sexually assaulting a nanny, swinging an IV pole at a nurse and dodging tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari.  —  In the final hours of President Trump's …
New York Times:
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election  —  The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions.  —  President Trump has granted pre-emptive pardons …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election
Wall Street Journal:
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves  —  Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied  —  / Photography by Alessio Paduano for WSJ  —  CAMPOBASSO, Italy—Your favorite Italian-origin fusilli …
Discussion: Raw Story, ABC News and New York Post
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It  —  The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.  —  At a secret gathering in May south of London …
Discussion: Raw Story
MSNBC:
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign  —  Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.  —  The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting on Monday afternoon …
Discussion: Washington Post and NewsMax.com
Martyn Ziegler / Reuters:
Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events  —  IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male  —  The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban …
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Mimi Montgomery / Axios:
D.C. plastic surgeons see surge in “Mar‑a‑Lago face” requests from Trump insiders  —  Since January, D.C. plastic surgeons have seen a wave of Trump insiders asking for overt procedures in line with the “Mar-a-Lago face” look. … - As with the $100 million “Arc de Trump” …
Associated Press:
States face uncertainty as Trump administration tries to reverse SNAP food payments  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  States administering a federal food aid program serving about 42 million Americans faced uncertainty Monday …
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Sam Ogozalek / Politico:
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’ … “We have controllers who, again, are making decisions to feed their families as opposed to come to towers or [Terminal Radar Approach Control] or centers and do their jobs,” Duffy said Sunday on CNN.
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear Major Challenge to Mail-In Ballot Laws  —  The justices agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi's law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of states before the 2026 election.  —  The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would hear a challenge …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to weigh imposing new limits on mail-in ballots in a major election case
Media Matters for America:
On The Gateway Pundit podcast, Stewart Rhodes announces he is relaunching the Oath Keepers  —  Rhodes: Trump should “call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing”
Madison Fernandez / Politico:
Watson Coleman to retire from Congress  —  Longtime Democratic Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman announced Monday that she is not running for reelection next year and will retire at the end of her term, saying that it is “time to pass the torch.”  The 80-year-old has served New Jersey's 12th District since 2015 …
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Ken Dilanian / MSNBC:
Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’  —  In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell's treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel.”  —  Ghislaine Maxwell …
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
FDA removing warnings from hormone replacement therapy products  —  Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday the black box warning on women's estrogen-based products for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) will be removed.
Discussion: New York Daily News and NPR
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Trump's new plan for Obamacare leaves Americans to fend for themselves
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Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
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Discussion: Raw Story
CBC News:
MMA gym owners, coaches ID'd at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
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