- House GOP's 11th Hour Debt Limit Plan Immediately Crashes—At one point, they actually considered taking the ball home.
- Boehner Puts Off Vote as G.O.P. Balks—"As House Republicans postponed a vote on a proposal to reopen the government and raise the debt limit, chances increased that Congress would not reach a resolution before the Treasury exhausted its borrowing authority." NYT
- GOP's absurd final whimper: It's all over but the crying—"In the midst of this huge crisis, House Republicans waste everyone's time -- and see their plan Z go up in flames." Salon
- Senate leaders finalizing deal—Can they do it? Things are (finally) optimistic. Politico
- Signs Indicate That Obama’s Debt Ceiling Gamble May Be Paying Off—"The issue still has risk, but House Republicans have been beating a steady retreat on the debt ceiling issue." NYT
- Obama, Biden To Meet With Jack Lew Wednesday
- What Barack Obama, Republicans get with a deal Politico
- Is This the Debt Limit's Darkest Hour?—"Maybe. But as bad as it seems, Congress will still probably strike a deal."
- The Debt Ceiling Explained in 10 Short Sentences
- I Went Deep Into The Land Of The Debt Ceiling Deniers — Here's What I Found
- Boehner's Last Stand—"House Republicans don't care what they win in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, as long as they win something." NYT
- Boehner sees his control of House Republicans slip away WaPo
- With G.O.P. Badly Divided, Boehner Is Left 'Herding Cats' NYT
- Democratic Rep Says He's Unsure If Boehner Or Heritage Is Calling The Shots In The GOP
- McCain: 'Republicans Have To Understand We Have Lost This Battle'
- Wall Street Journal To GOP: 'It's Time To Wrap Up This Comedy Of Political Errors'
- Peter King On GOP: 'This Party Is Going Nuts'
- Senate GOP staffers post shutdown top 10
- Republicans are delusional about US spending and deficits—"The story of out-of-control debts and deficits is just plain wrong. US deficits have fallen in the past four years."
- How the shutdown derailed the Republican rebranding campaign
- For Many Hard-Liners, Debt Default Is the Goal—"Far from seeing it as potentially catastrophic, many on the right consider a default on the federal debt inevitable and salutary as a step toward smaller government, and have been saying so for years, an economist writes." NYT
- Poll: Huge Majority Of Tea Partiers Think Debt Limit Is No Big Deal—Crazy, stupid and dangerous. Calling them Tea-tards is an insult to the mentally challenged.
- Ghosts of the Confederacy Out in Force as Fringe Rules GOP—"Republicans have let their Tea Party minority take over, and now they're suffering the consequences—ugly racism and confederate flag-waving that may damage the party further after the shutdown and debt debacle is over, says Eleanor Clift."
- Pre-Christmas Shutdown Over Contraception?
- The Borowitz Report: Rand Paul Proposes Reopening Just Enough of Government to Hold New Hearings on Benghazi
- Republican Debt Crises Have Killed 900,000 Jobs: Study
- North Carolina is first state to cut welfare amid federal shutdown
- Veterans rally against shutdown, detail hardships if benefits are late
- Paul Rolly: Chaffetz gets schooled in viral video; Veterans scold Lee
- Park ranger: Stop blaming us for the government's mess!—"Closing national parks is against our nature." Salon
- Koch Brothers Puppet Group "Bribing" College Kids Not To Enroll In #Obamacare
- House insists on the dumbest Obamacare reform possible—"Our view: Denying employer subsidized insurance to Congress and the White House [Politico] would only prove that the GOP's attack on the Affordable Care Act was about politics, not policy."
- MSNBC's Thomas Roberts To GOP Rep.: ‘Do You Hate Obamacare More Than You Love Your Country?
- College Student Sues Alaska Over Climate Change
- Alaska sinks as climate change thaws permafrost—"You can see and hear the ice melting."
- Climate change to drive annual temps to new highs within a generation, study says
- Climate change is real and denial is not about the science
- Al Gore's solution to climate change: impose a carbon tax and publicly shame deniers
- Climate deniers meet Joe Camel—"Don't listen to the climate change smoke machine."
- Prince William FOIA case on global warming headed for Virginia Supreme Court WaPo
- What the Scopes Trial Teaches Us About Climate-Change Denial—"The Tennessee courtroom battle showed what can happen when big business joins forces with religious faith."
- The L.A. Times won't publish climate deniers Politico
- Ex-congressman Lincoln Davis says climate change is threat to farms—"I think it's really occurring. It took me a long time to reach that level. For a long time I denied it."
- 'Fracking By The Numbers' Report Urges U.S. To Ban 'Environmental Nightmare'
- Radioactive Wastewater From Fracking Is Found in a Pennsylvania Stream
- California's Big Fracking Mess—"The Golden State is an environmental leader, but when it comes to this controversial drilling technology, it's just getting started."
- Under Pressure From Persistent Activists, Council Passes Permanent Ban on Fracking in New Brunswick
- France cements fracking ban—"A law prohibiting fracking for shale gas has been upheld by France's constitutional court, citing environmental protection."
- ND Pipeline Breaks, Spews 20,600 Barrels of Oil—Why did it take North Dakota 11 days to fess up?
- BP oil spill: Ex-Halliburton manager pleads guilty to destroying evidence—"Anthony Badalamenti faces a maximum sentence of a year in prison and a $100,000 fine after his guilty plea in US district court."
- Chevron goes to trial in New York over $18 billion Ecuador award
- Supreme Court will review EPA's authority to regulate power-plant and factory emissions WaPo
- Plummeting morale at Fukushima Daiichi as nuclear cleanup takes its toll—"Staff on the frontline of operation plagued by health problems and fearful about the future, insiders say."
- Tanzania: Harsher Penalty Awaits Poachers—"Poachers must be harshly punished because they are merciless people who wantonly kill our wildlife and sometimes game wardens."
- Ocean warming and acidification deliver double blow to coral reefs—Its health is "declining fast."
- Sudden disappearance of sardines has serious economic and ecological effects on the B.C. coast
- 625 wolves left in Montana, over 6000 permits to hunt them issued
- Moose Die-Off Alarms Scientists—"Populations across the continent are experiencing a sharp decline, and the exact cause is a mystery. But there is a common thread among possible factors: climate change." NYT
- Patrick Leahy At NSA Hearing: 'We Get More In The Newspapers Than In Classified Briefings'
- FISA Court: We Approve 99 Percent Of Wiretap Applications
- Snapchat admits to handing unopened 'snaps' to US law enforcement—"The director of operations says the company has complied with search warrants under the ECPA about a dozen times since May."
- Aaron Swartz's unfinished whistleblowing platform finally launches—"SecureDrop was heavily audited by Bruce Schneier, Jacob Appelbaum, and others."
- A World Without Privacy—"Will Dave Eggers's new novel 'The Circle' end up being prophetic? The book is a warning about how we are well on our way to losing the last shred of privacy we have." NYT
- Lavabit gets new crypto key, gives users 72 hours to recover e-mails—Until 19 October.
- Lavabit's Legal Fight: Should The Feds Have The Right To Break The Internet's Security System?
- Glenn Greenwald leaving the Guardian to start a new venture—"The reporter who broke the NSA story is going to start a general news site." Salon
- Think That Pat-Down At The Airport Was Random? You May Have Googled One Of These Arbitrary 6 Words.
- Eric Schmidt's Face Shows Up All Over Google+ In Protest Of New Ads
