A new Politico poll finds a significant minority of the population — 24% — believes that there are some instances where political violence is justified.
Trump Officials Blocked Nvidia’s Push to Export Chips
“Shortly before President Trump met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea, an urgent issue emerged. Trump wanted to discuss a request by Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang to allow sales of a new generation of artificial-intelligence chips to China,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Greenlighting the export of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips would be a seismic policy shift potentially giving China, the U.S.’s biggest geopolitical competitor, a technological accelerant. Huang—who speaks to Trump often—has lobbied relentlessly to maintain access to the Chinese market.”
“As they prepared to meet Xi, top officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Trump the sales would threaten national security, saying they would boost China’s AI data-center capabilities and backfire on the U.S.”
The GOP’s Biden Attack Boomerangs Back on Trump
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Jon Stewart Renews at the ‘Daily Show’ for Another Year
Paramount didn’t want to keep Stephen Colbert at CBS, but the company has signed Jon Stewart for another year of hosting “The Daily Show” once per week on Comedy Central, Variety reports.
25 Democrats to Watch
New York Magazine asked Democratic strategists to identify the party’s rising stars, beyond the most famous names.
They came up with a next-generation list of 25 Democrats to watch, from prominent members of Congress to attention-grabbing state representatives.
‘If It Was Anyone Else, We’d Arrest Him Tomorrow’
MSNBC runs an excerpt from Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department:
“Knowingly taking classified documents outside of a secure government facility was a crime, plain and simple, she explained. Trying to conceal them after receiving a May subpoena to return all classified records, as Trump had, made the crime far worse, she argued. But Olsen’s team knew that with Trump, all bets were off. The Justice Department would invariably treat the former president more gingerly.”
Gilded Rage
Just published: Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley by Jacob Silverman.
What happens if the world’s richest and most powerful men decide to dismantle democracy?
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Silverman, Jacob (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 389 Pages - 10/09/2025 (Publication Date) - Bloomsbury Continuum (Publisher)
Early Voting Sets Record in New York City
“In a record-setting early-voting period, more than 735,000 New Yorkers cast ballots in the race for the city’s next mayor, braving long, meandering lines outside polling stations,” the New York Times reports.
“More than a week of early voting ended with a surge, with about 151,000 people showing up on Sunday, the final day to vote before Election Day on Tuesday.”
The Shutdown Is Laying the Groundwork for Democrats
“Regardless of how the shutdown ends, Democrats have accomplished one major political goal: placing health care top of mind for this election and potentially the next,” MSNBC reports.
“Democrats have staked the shutdown fight on combating rising health care costs, demanding that Republicans work with them to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits that are set to expire at the end of the year. And as interested as Democrats are in solving the problem of rising Obamacare premiums, they know there’s a political benefit to this issue hanging over everyone’s head.”
A New GOP Civil War Takes Hold
“As Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) was laying into Tucker Carlson during a speech to fellow Jewish Republicans on Saturday, a group of students stood in front of the stage holding signs that read ‘TUCKER IS NOT MAGA.'” Punchbowl News reports.
“With the crowd cheering him on at the annual Republican Jewish Coalition summit, Fine called Carlson ‘the most dangerous antisemite in America’ and accused him of leading a ‘modern-day Hitler Youth.'”
“Fine is seen as a provocateur on Capitol Hill, often using incendiary rhetoric on a range of topics, including Gaza. But Fine was channeling the sentiments of an overwhelming majority of Hill Republicans after the Heritage Foundation stood by Carlson following his friendly interview with white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes.”
The Solution to the Third-Term Threat
Brian Kalt: “If a two-termer tried to run for vice president and the eligibility question ended up in court, this new succession statute would not settle the question, but it would send a powerful message about Congress’s understanding of these constitutional requirements. Moreover, to the extent that the courts left the eligibility question to Congress to resolve when its joint session counts electoral votes every four years on January 6, the statute would send a powerful message to those proceedings, too.”
“The people are the ultimate enforcers here. The more decisively political leaders from both parties reject the loophole interpretation, the less public support any two-termer would get for any constitutional shenanigans, and the higher the political cost would be to those who would aid and abet them. Such action is a worthy pursuit for a republic that hopes to endure.”
Sharice Davids May Run for Senate
Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS) “is inching toward a Senate run as Kansas’ Republican-controlled legislature debates drawing her out of a seat,” Politico reports.
“Kansas legislators are scheduled to meet in a special session later this week to take up redistricting. But a sufficient number of members of the Kansas State House of Representatives have yet to offer their support to the effort, some of them criticizing the precedent mid-decade redistricting would set.”
Trump Agrees to Fund Some Food Assistance
The Trump administration told a federal judge that it would tap billions of dollars in contingency funds to pay at least some SNAP benefits during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, CNBC reports.
Ohio Democrats Get a Better Map than Expected
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “Ohio surprisingly approved a new congressional map late last week in a bipartisan vote.”
“While the map does get better for Republicans, it’s not nearly as bad for Democrats as it could have been, and Democrats still have a path to come out of this election with as many seats as they currently hold in the state.”
“Reps. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and Greg Landsman (D-OH) see their districts get less Democratic, while Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-OH) sees her district get bluer.”
Jack Smith Shifts From Defense to Counterattack
New York Times: “Mr. Smith, the special counsel who twice indicted Mr. Trump, appears unintimidated by the president’s demand that Republican lawmakers investigate him and that the Justice Department put him in prison for as-yet unproved and unspecified crimes.”
“Quite the opposite, in fact. Mr. Smith, who spent more than two years aggressively collecting evidence to prove Mr. Trump mishandled classified documents and tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, appears eager to publicly challenge a foundational pillar of MAGA canon: that the president was a sinned-upon innocent who did nothing to deserve scrutiny, much less two prosecutions.”
“Mr. Smith has told people in his orbit that he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against Mr. Trump denied to him by the Supreme Court decision asserting broad presidential immunity from prosecution and adverse rulings from a Trump-appointed judge on the federal bench in Florida.”
Trump Lied 18 Times During ’60 Minutes’ Interview
“President Donald Trump littered his new ’60 Minutes’ interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked,” CNN reports.
“We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertions.”
Trump Says He Won’t Be ‘Extorted’ by Democrats
President Trump said that he “won’t be extorted” by Democrats who are demanding negotiations to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year for millions of Americans, the AP reports.
Echoing congressional Republicans, the president said he’ll negotiate only when the government is reopened.
Trial Begins for Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
“The trial of a man charged with assaulting a Customs and Border Protection agent by throwing a sandwich at his chest in protest began on Monday, several months after federal prosecutors failed to persuade a grand jury to approve a felony indictment against him over the incident,” the New York Times reports.
“The case stands out for its unusual facts and the Trump administration’s determination to prosecute the man, even on a lesser charge. But it is one of a number of unusually minor cases the government is bringing to federal court at Mr. Trump’s direction.”
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