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5:10 PM ET, December 16, 2025

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Vanity Fair:
Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”: The White House Chief of Staff On Trump's Second Term (Part 1 of 2)  —  Throughout the first year of Donald Trump's second administration, Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple has interviewed Wiles amid each moment of crisis.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions … President Trump's chief of staff said she tried to get him to end his “score settling” against political enemies after 90 days in office, but acknowledged that the administration's still ongoing push for prosecutions …
Vanity Fair:
Susie Wiles Talks Epstein Files, Pete Hegseth's War Tactics, Retribution, and More (Part 2 of 2)  —  Trump's chief reveals her thoughts on the first year, and on the team she's built with JD Vance, Karoline Leavitt, Marco Rubio, and 3 more key players.  Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple reports.
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump stands by chief of staff Susie Wiles after bombshell Vanity Fair interviews — admits he has 'alcoholic's personality'  —  President Trump defended White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in an exclusive interview with The Post Tuesday — saying she was right to tell Vanity Fair he has an …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Musk diving into 2026 midterms for the GOP  —  Elon Musk has begun funding the GOP's House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms — an indication his relationship with President Trump has thawed since their messy breakup earlier this year.
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
The Psych-Ward Presidency  —  Another tranche of sour economic data came down from the Bureau of Labor Statistics today.  Jobs rose by 64,000 in November, but fell in October by 105,000, thanks in part to DOGE-induced federal layoffs that finally took effect.
Cate Martel / The Hill:
Top moments in Susie Wiles's unfiltered interview
Discussion: Fox News
Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
Susie Wiles slams Vanity Fair ‘hit piece,’ which included her unflattering comments about Trump and his team
NBC News:
House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise  —  Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans worked on the issue throughout the weekend but could not come to an agreement with a group of members who want the funds extended.
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Axios:
“It's idiotic”: House moderates fume at Johnson over inaction on ACA  —  House GOP moderates are threatening to cut a deal with Democrats after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ruled out giving them a vote on extending expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Elias Isquith / Vox:
Republican women in Congress are tired of Mike Johnson
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Dan Burns / Reuters:
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November  —  The unemployment rate for two U.S. groups that are often the most vulnerable to job loss in a softening economy - Blacks and teenagers - surged to the highest levels in more than four years in November, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Mediaite
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Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October, November; unemployment rate up
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Employers likely added 40,000 jobs in November as government releases report delayed by shutdown
Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones:
“I've Never Seen So Many Police Cars”  —  On a dark November evening, I find myself outside a unit at a garden-style apartment complex in Memphis, its parking lot alight in flashing blues and reds.  The police are here—about a dozen cars—responding to reports of a violent crime.
Discussion: Daily Memphian
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The Longest Suicide Note in American History  —  The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.  —  last year, a team of American diplomats from the State Department's Global Engagement Center traveled to two dozen countries and signed a series of memoranda.
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and The Hill
David Strom / HotAir:
Hey Boomers and Gen X, if You Think DEI Has Been Bad for You, Ask a Millennial or Gen Z Guy  —  One point I have made about Affirmative Action is that, for many years, it was more of a conceptual problem than one that directly affects most people.  —  When you are discussing admissions …
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Trump's Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying  —  The actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, the producer and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, were found stabbed to death in their home on Sunday.  Yesterday, their son Nick, who has spoken about his bouts of drug addiction and homelessness, was arrested on suspicion of murder.
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Republicans rebuff Trump's post on Rob Reiner
Washington Post:
Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’  —  A new workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of such symbols quietly went into effect this week.  —  Just now … The U.S. Coast Guard has allowed a new workplace harassment policy to take effect …
The Boston Globe:
Police release new photo of Brown shooting person of interest, whose identity remains unknown.  Follow live updates.  —  The search continues for the gunman who killed two students and wounded nine others in an attack at Brown University on Saturday.  —  On Tuesday afternoon …
Discussion: MS NOW
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
What is Heather Cox Richardsonism?  —  First, it was Blueskyism.  Now, it's “Heather Cox Richardsonism”?  Given the changes to the algorithm, tweets don't really go “viral” these days unless they fall into one of a few dubious niches.  But this one from the weekend sparked a relatively big reaction …
Straight Arrow News:
Trump sues BBC for $10B over edited Jan. 6 speech  —  This recording was made using enhanced software.  —  Summary  —  Trump vs BBC  —  President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a documentary he claims removed portions of his speech on Jan 6, 2021 …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
FBI doubted probable cause for Mar-a-Lago raid but pushed forward amid pressure from Biden DOJ, emails reveal  —  EXCLUSIVE: The FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in 2022, but moved forward amid pressure from the Biden Justice Department …
Associated Press:
Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean.
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Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Graham: Obama, Biden ‘have a lot to do’ with Australia Hanukkah attack  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday cast blame on former Presidents Obama and Biden after a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah event killed 15 people and injured 25.
Alex Nitzberg / Fox News:
Donald Trump Jr announces engagement to Bettina Anderson  —  President Donald Trump's eldest son and namesake, Donald Trump Jr., is engaged to Bettina Anderson.  “President Trump just announced at the White House that his son @DonaldJTrumpJr and his girlfriend Bettina Anderson are getting married!
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
The high cost of rolling over on immigration  —  What Matt Yglesias, Hakeem Jeffries, and Keir Starmer got wrong about the politics of immigration  —  In March 2025, the Trump administration illegally deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a resident of Maryland — to a prison camp for accused gang members and terrorists in El Salvador.
Discussion: MS NOW
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Bloomberg:
Judges Are Getting Fired as Trump Pursues Immigration ‘Purge’
Discussion: Balls and Strikes
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
The tech industry will come to regret its embrace of Trump  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🤖 Subscribe to PN 🤖  —  Over the course of Joe Biden's presidency, a great awakening took place among the nation's tech industry leaders.
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
CoreWeave's Staggering Fall From Market Grace Highlights AI Bubble Fears  —  The data-center provider's terrible six-week slide picked up speed when a famous short seller piled concerns on top of delays  —  CoreWeave , the largest of a new breed of companies driving the artificial-intelligence boom …
The White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Further Restricts and Limits the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the Security of the United States  —  STRENGTHENING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH COMMON SENSE RESTRICTIONS BASED ON DATA: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation expanding …
Lawfare:
The Situation: Why Can't Kash Patel Shut Up?  —  On the FBI director's penchant for commenting on pending matters.  —  benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org  —  Meet The Authors … The Situation on Sunday posed the question of who exactly is the “responsible United States Attorney” in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and MS NOW
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Trump's war on democracy is failing  —  If you want to understand how the US government works today, you should study President Donald Trump's attempt to pardon a woman named Tina Peters last week.  —  Peters is a former Colorado election clerk and a die-hard believer in the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
New York Times:
Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich  —  For years, rumors swirled about where his wealth came from.  A Times investigation reveals the truth of how a college dropout clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society.
Discussion: CBS News and Wonkette
 
 
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Alexa St. John / Associated Press:
States sue Trump administration again over billions in withheld electric vehicle charging funds
Discussion: Mercury News and E&E News
Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
As DOJ Sues More States For Voter Rolls, Federal ‘Power Grab’ Comes into Focus
J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch News:
Trump Promotes Artist Who Suggests Earth is Flat
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
U.S. Sends Cubans to Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay
Discussion: Reuters
Fox News:
Trump Cabinet official calls on Walz to resign over massive fraud scandal in scathing letter: ‘Shame on you’
Discussion: twitchy.com and Townhall
 Earlier Items: 
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Trump Stymied on Prosecutors as G.O.P. Refuses to Defy Democrats
Discussion: Misrule of Law and New York Sun
Claire Cameron / Scientific American:
RFK, Jr.-Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill
Discussion: E&E News
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex
Politico:
Judge refuses to grant Sarah Palin a new trial in her libel suit against New York Times
Lydia Wheeler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Renovation Spree Is Spreading to More Washington Landmarks
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story