This is wild: ProPublica just did a critical story on Paul Newby, the Republican Chief Justice of NC's State Supreme Court. Matt Mercer, the NCGOP comms guy, demanded they drop the story, and threatened ProPublica that they would get Trump to retaliate if it was published.

Huge new precedent set here - future Dem admins will now be able to freeze out GOP members from classified briefings

MORE — I’m told WH is blaming GOP Sen. Todd Young for this because he provided the list of other R senators who were on the fence about the war powers resolution But the list was actually expanded beyond what Young sent, to include Intel Chair Cotton & SFRC Chair Risch & others

Judge suggests she may intervene in shutdown SNAP case US District Judge Indira Talwani: “Congress has put money in an emergency fund for an emergency and it’s hard for me to understand how this isn’t an emergency when there’s no money” cnn.com/webview/politi…

Dem Rep. Sara Jacobs after today's briefing from Pentagon officials on boat strikes, via Annie Grayer: “They said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes,” Jacobs said, adding that was in part why admin "could not actually

Trump's standard process: 1) Create a crisis where one didn't exist before 2) Negotiate a solution to the crisis with great fanfare 3) Hope no one notices that steps 1 and 2 leave us in a worse position than we were in before the invented crisis

Just a casual threat to sic the federal government on a media outlet.

King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of titles and evicts him from royal residence, palace says apnews.com/article/king-c…

This really doesn’t clarify anything.

A Bowdoin College grad is about to maybe become the next mayor of New York, but you wouldn't know it from the college itself, which has made no mention of Zohran Mamdani's campaign on its website, frustrating some alumni. As one quipped, the NYT wrote about Mamdani ties to

A watershed moment… The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to

This is interesting bc: 1) Carl Nichols presided over dozens of Jan6 trials and he knows it's not a myth 2) He's also the most likely Trump DC judge to get promoted to Circuit

BREAKING: The FAA warned there would be NO CONTROLLERS WORKING tonight—and is now leaning on air traffic control *supervisors* to keep flights flowing into Orlando International Airport—a source familiar tells me.

“Do something, Democrats.” Democrats control zero branches of government, as evidenced by the government shutdown where they’re trying to address the Obamacare rates and Republicans won’t even discuss the issue.

There it is — Trump calls for Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster.

Trump just called to end the filibuster Last week Senator Joe Manchin told The Wall Street Journal that at least 15 GOP senators gave him their word to protect the 60-vote rule. He made calls to remind them of the promise. ‘I’m praying to God they keep it,’ he said. wsj.com/politics/polic… via The Wall Street Journal

NEW from me: Obama used to be confident America would survive Trump. He’s not so sure anymore. “The harm is so profound that this calls for both a different approach generally, and a different involvement specifically by President Obama,” Eric Holder said cnn.com/2025/10/31/pol…

That’s a very useful statement to have on record from STRATCOM.

Taiwan’s Kuo Min Tang — which controls nearly half of the island’s parliament seats — now adopts the Putin view of the war in Ukraine. A notable data point for Western policy makers.

USDA Sec Rollins will not commit to releasing SNAP funds if ordered to do so by Boston judge overseeing case Ellis Kim asks if she will agree to release funds if ordered to do so by Boston judge. Rollins: “We're looking at all the options.”