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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and September 2023 news and viewsNote: Excerpts are from the authors' words except for subheads and occasional "Editor's notes" such as this.
Sept. 30
Top Stories
Washington Post, Retiring Milley warns of ‘wannabe dictator’ in apparent jab at Trump- Politico, Shutdown averted: Senate clears stopgap bill with hours to spare
- Palmer Report, Analysis: Senate Democrats move to keep Ukraine funding intact after budget agreement, Bill Palmer
- Washington Post, Senate poised to vote to avert shutdown after House passes short-term funding bill
- New York Times, Biden Issues a Blistering Attack on Trump
- Washington Post, Prosecutors cite Trump’s supposed gun purchase as possible crime
- Emptywheel, Analysis: DOJ's Theory of Trump's Mob, Emptywheel (Marcy Wheeler)
- Emptywheel, Analysis: The Timeline of the Hunter Biden Investigation Doesn't Support Attacks on Lesley Wolf, Emptywheel (Marcy Wheeler)
U.S. National Politics
World Crisis Radio, Weekly Strategic Commentary: MAGA faction sinks into abyss of collective insanity, with party extinction fast approaching! Webster G. Tarpley- Washington Post, Federal court halts grant program for Black female entrepreneurs
- New York Times, For Biden, Menendez’s Troubles May Clear Foreign Policy Roadblocks
Politico, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein has died at age 90- Politico, A look at the life of Dianne Feinstein
- Politico, Pressure is on Newsom to quickly appoint Feinstein’s temporary replacement
- New York Times, Who will replace Dianne Feinstein in the Senate?
- New York Times, Top Biden Aides Questioned in Inquiry Into Handling of Documents
More On Republican Threats To Shut U.S. Government
- New York Times, Right Wing Tanks Stopgap Bill in House, Pushing Toward a Shutdown
- New York Times, Where Would a Government Shutdown Immediately Be Most Felt?
- New York Times, How the Shutdown Holdouts Have Antagonized McCarthy Before
- New York Times, How Did the Government Get to a Shutdown, and What Will It Take to Reopen?
- New York Times, Where Would a Government Shutdown Immediately Be Most Felt?
- Politico, Rare Senate spat threatens farm bill push with House in shutdown chaos
High Tech v. Government Clashes
New York Times, Lina Khan vs. Jeff Bezos: This Is Big Tech’s Real Cage Match, David Streitfeld- Washington Post, U.S. Accuses Amazon of Illegally Protecting Monopoly in Online Retail
- New York Times, Opinion: Amazon Is the Apex Predator of Our Platform Era
Global Tensions, Human Rights
- New York Times, Police Investigate About 100 Suicides Linked to Canadian Man
- New York Times, Why Evergrande’s Problems Are Only Getting Worse
- New York Times, Slovakia’s Election Could Echo in Ukraine. Here’s What to Expect
- New York Times, How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Pushed Toward the Heart of U.K. Health Care
U.S. 2024 Presidential Race
- New York Times, Opinion: Trump’s G.O.P. Rivals Must Unite or Die. (They’ll Probably Still Die.), Ross Douthat
Washington Post, Va. Gov. Glenn Youngkin to woo national GOP megadonors at retreat- New York Times, G.O.P. Megadonor Network to Hear Pitches From DeSantis and Haley Camps
More On Trump Court Battles, Insurrection Plot Claims
New York Times, Prosecutors Reassert Need for Gag Order on Trump in Elections Case- Washington Post, Analysis: On Fox News, GOP impeachment leaders spread false claims with impunity, Philip Bump
U.S. Courts, Crime, Guns, Civil Rights, Immigration
Politico, IRS consultant charged in massive leak of taxpayer data- Washington Post, Former ABC News journalist gets 6-year sentence in child pornography case
- New York Times, The Great Read: The Lawyer Trying to Hold Gunmakers Responsible for Mass Shootings
- New York Times, Man Is Charged With Murder in Tupac Shakur Case
More On Ukraine-Russian War, Russian Leadership
- Washington Post, Ukraine hits Russia’s Kursk region repeatedly with airstrikes
More On Disasters, Climate Change, Environment, Transportation
- New York Times, An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa
- New York Times, Mosquitoes are a growing threat to public health, reversing years of progress
- New York Times, Insecticides can’t stop these mosquitoes. Now what?
- New York Times, Battling a Water Crisis: Bottles, Barges and Maybe a Quarter-Billion-Dollar Pipe
- New York Times, Blast Kills at Least 52 at a Religious Gathering in Pakistan
- New York Times, With Climate Change, Smaller Storms Are Growing More Fearsome, More Often
U.S. Economy, Jobs, Strikes, Crypto Currency
- New York Times, U.A.W. Will Expand Strikes at Ford and General Motors
New York Times, Inflation Measure Favored by the Fed Cooled in August- White House Chronicle, Opinion: The Folly of Biden on the Picket Line, Llewellyn King
- Politico, Biden joins striking auto workers on picket line
- New York Times, Opinion: Amazon Is the Apex Predator of Our Platform Era
U.S. Military, Security, Intelligence, Foreign Policy
- New York Times, Navy Will Start Testing SEALs for Illicit Drug Use
U.S. Abortion, Family Planning, #MeToo
- New York Times, New Border Crossing: Americans Turn to Mexico for Abortions
- Washington Post, JPMorgan agrees to $75 million settlement over ties to Jeffrey Epstein
- New York Times, Mother Who Gave Abortion Pills to Teen Daughter Gets 2 Years in Prison
Pandemics, Public Health, Privacy
New York Times, As Covid Infections Rise, Nursing Homes Are Still Waiting for Vaccines- Politico, Biden receives updated Covid shot amid rocky rollout, vaccine polarization
- Washington Post, Anyone 6 months or older should get updated coronavirus shot, CDC recommends
- Washington Post, DeSantis discourages latest covid boosters, contradicting federal guidance
More On U.S. Media, High Tech, Sports, Education, Arts, Sports, Culture
- New York Times, Book Bans Are Rising Sharply in Public Libraries
- Washington Post, Former ABC News journalist gets 6-year sentence in child pornography case
Top Stories
President Biden congratulates outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley during the ceremony on Friday (AP photo by Alex Brandon).
Washington Post, Retiring Milley warns of ‘wannabe dictator’ in apparent jab at Trump, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Sept. 30, 2023 (print ed.). The outspoken general, who is retiring over than 40 years in the military, makes way for Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Joint Chiefs chairman who clashed with President Donald Trump but found new footing under President Biden, reiterated in his retirement speech Friday that the U.S. military is loyal to the Constitution above anything or anyone else.“We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, to a tyrant or dictator or wannabe dictator,” Milley said in an apparent reference to Trump. He added that troops did not risk their lives to watch “this great experiment in democracy perish.”
Milley stepped aside Friday as his successor, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., was sworn in to the top military post in front of military personnel at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia on a day filled with ceremonial traditions. That included Milley inspecting the units lined up in a large field at the base, some in Revolutionary War uniforms, a military band playing the national anthem and the presentation of a retirement certificate. Brown will officially take over the post this weekend.
Biden, alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Vice President Harris, praised the general for providing advice that was steady and to the point. Biden also commended him for prioritizing American democracy above all. “When it comes to the Constitution, that is and always has been Mark’s North Star,” Biden said.
Milley’s sometimes-tumultuous four-year tenure as chairman capped a career that spanned more than four decades. His was one of the most consequential and polarizing tenures of any military leader in recent memory. Milley was atop the Pentagon during the Trump administration’s chaotic final months, the Biden administration’s frantic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the ongoing effort to aid Ukraine as the Russian invasion draws close to the two-year mark.
To his frustrated critics, Milley often voiced his opinion on hot-button issues, notably defending a policy, implemented after the U.S. Capitol attack in 2021, that mandated military personnel to study domestic extremism. In one viral moment stemming from Republican attacks, he told members of Congress, “I want to understand White rage, and I’m White.”
Supporters lauded Milley for standing up to what they viewed as Trump’s dangerous ambitions. After the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, when Trump called for clearing demonstrators out of Lafayette Square near the White House, Milley initially walked alongside the president and other top administration officials as they marched to a church for a photo opportunity.
New York Times, Biden Issues a Blistering Attack on Trump, Peter Baker, Sept. 29, 2023 (print ed., Details below). During an appearance in Arizona, President Biden portrayed former President Donald J. Trump as a budding autocrat with no fidelity to the tenets of American democracy.Politico, Shutdown averted: Senate clears stopgap bill with hours to spare, Ursula Perano, Sept. 30, 2023. The legislation, which effectively punts the deadline for Congress' various spending fights to Nov. 17, now heads to the president's desk.
The Senate cleared a stopgap funding bill Saturday night, sending it to ...
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