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Thanksgiving Travel Looms as Shutdown Risk
“The Thanksgiving travel season could be put at risk by an extended government shutdown, Republican leaders warned Tuesday on Capitol Hill, ratcheting up warnings about flight cancellations and airport chaos…
Jon Ossoff Isn’t Budging on the Shutdown
Politico: “On paper, Jon Ossoff has plenty of reasons to break party ranks as the government shutdown drags into a third week: The 38-year-old Georgian is the most vulnerable Senate…
Another Bonus Quote of the Day
“This is no longer, the Department of Justice, it’s no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes…
The Kissinger Tapes
Coming soon: The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations by Tom Wells. Just like Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger secretly recorded each of his phone conversations and left a…
White House to Continue Firings as Shutdown Drags On
“The White House is pledging to fire more federal workers, the next salvo in President Donald Trump’s push to pressure Democrats to sign onto the GOP’s continuing resolution and end…
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
Anne Applebaum: “If we are no longer a country that aims to make the world better, but rather a country whose foreign policy is designed to build the wealth of…
France Contemplates the End of the Fifth Republic
The Telegraph: “France, to borrow the words of Alain Duhamel, the veteran political observer, ‘has gone beyond a political crisis.’” “It is now flirting with regime change.” “The tailor-made system…
Trump Rips Into Time Magazine
President Trump tore into Time over a cover the magazine posted on X featuring his face, complaining the image “disappeared” his hair with the use of a poor angle, The…
Man Pleads Guilty for Trying to Murder Governor
“A man who scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and used beer bottles filled with gasoline to ignite the occupied Pennsylvania governor’s mansion…
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal from Alex Jones
“The Supreme Court declined an appeal from Alex Jones on Tuesday, brushing aside the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s effort to overturn a $1.4 billion libel judgment a lower court ordered against…
Netanyahu Bids for Political Redemption
Financial Times: “Two years after Hamas’s devastating assault that triggered the Gaza war, and two weeks after Trump floated his plan to end the conflict, Netanyahu is seeking his most…
Fiscal Crises Loom Around the World
The Economist: “Government debt is one of humanity’s great inventions. It allows societies to store wealth, fight crises and build for the future. After Britain’s superior access to credit helped…
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I think the obvious answer, which has been stated 5 million times, is that they’re way out of touch with where ordinary people are… I was really surprised—and I didn’t…
Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
Just published: 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History–and How It Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin. “In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall…
The Pentagon Locks Out the News Media
The Pentagon has given beat reporters an ultimatum: agree to a set of restrictive new rules by tonight or lose their press credentials tomorrow. In a rare display of unity,…
Inside the Improbable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
New York Times: “The story of the man most likely to be the next mayor of New York City — and the promise and peril his ascent poses for the…
Trump Has Overwhelmed His Own Administration
Donald Trump’s second-term strategy was to overwhelm the system — to move so fast, on so many fronts, that no one could stop him. Democrats in Congress couldn’t keep up….
Quote of the Day
“There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women. So they always try to marginalize the strong Republican women that actually want to do…
Trump to Award Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk
“President Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, to the assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday,” the…
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
David Brooks: “For the United States, the question of the decade is: Why hasn’t a resistance movement materialized here? The second Trump administration has flouted court decisions in a third…
