- Senators Closer to a Deal on Debt Ceiling and Shutdown—"Leaders in the Senate were nearing an agreement on reopening the government and raising the debt limit, as President Obama warned that the country stood 'a good chance of defaulting.'" NYT
- Senate talks raise pressure on John Boehner—"Speaker John Boehner, who has wrestled with an unruly pack of conservatives for months, will soon be faced with an uncomfortable choice: Pass an emerging bipartisan Senate deal to lift the debt ceiling and fund the government, or don't — and risk massive political and economic consequences." Politico
- Critical caucus meetings for John Boehner, Mitch McConnell
- Cruz Won't Comment On Whether He'll Hold Up Senate Deal—Going underground to plan.
- This Is the Supreme Court's Shutdown—"While there's certainly plenty of finger pointing to go around, few of them have been pointed in the right direction. This isn't President Obama's shutdown or John Boehner's shutdown -- it's Citizens United's."
- Gerrymandering Denialists: Still Wrong, for New Reasons!
- Gerrymandering: the recipe for dysfunctional government?
- The real crisis? Gerrymandering
- The GOP Craziness You Missed over the Weekend—"Some in the Republican party have no idea that they've already lost."
- Poll: Republicans losing no-win game—"A new Post-ABC News poll finds nearly three quarters of Americans disapprove of the way Republicans in Congress are handling budget talks." WaPo
- Opinion: Independents desert GOP
- Operation: Blame the Liberals—"Tea Party conservatives occupy the National Mall to blame everybody else for the government shutdown."
- Chuck Todd Tears Into Ted Cruz: 'What Planet Are You Living On?!'
- Tea party wants to take America back -- to the 18th century—"Their ultimate destination appears to be the 1780s and our dysfunctional government under the Articles of Confederation."
- Here Are The Sleaziest Things Congress Has Done During The Shutdown
- South Dakota's cattle cataclysm: why isn't this horror news?—"Ranchers in South Dakota lost tens of thousands of cattle from a freak storm. Thanks to the shutdown, no one is paying attention."
- FDA Confirms All Routine Food Safety Inspections Suspended During The Shutdown
- 'Where Are the Riots?': China Watches the Shutdown—"For the Communist Party, the government shutdown has offered an opportune moment to propagandize. Microbloggers, meanwhile, are tutoring one another on the protections, and perils, of democracy."
- Five thoughts on the Obamacare disaster—"So far, the Affordable Care Act's launch has been a failure." WaPo
- Obamacare Website Could Take Up to 2 Months to Fix
- Obamacare's Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn't Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are—Single payer, please.
- The U.S. Has the Best Health Care System in the World—for Drug Companies
- Pharmaceutical firms paid to attend meetings of panel that advises FDA WaPo
- Insight: Big Pharma braces for retirement of favorite regulator
- Big pharma and big problems with painkillers
- Dylan Mohan Gray: International pharma lobby fears India's policies the most
- Jennifer Lawrence 'told to diet' to save career—"If anybody even tries to whisper the word 'diet, I'm like, 'You can go fuck yourself."
- Now OkCupid lets you filter out plus-size dates
- This Is the Average Man's Body
- 15 Years Later, Where Did All The Cigarette Money Go?
- French doctors praise EU protection of e-cigarettes
- No more lighters in Hyundai cars—Replaced with USB ports in cars to be sold South Korea.
- New book, "League of Denial," says NFL used its resources and power over two decades to deny football link to brain damage—Watch the documentary. Incidentally, the NFL tried to stop Bears' Brandon Marshall from wearing green shoes for Mental Health Awareness Week.
- PepsiCo to no longer call Naked juices 'natural'
- The Rise of Food Allergies and First World Problems—"All of a sudden, everyone's allergic to something. What happened?"
- He says his daughter might be alive if not for school-nurse cuts
- Southwest Florida man denied mammogram because of gender
- UN caused deadly cholera in Haiti, covered it up, lawsuit says
- Woman found dead in hospital stairwell believed to be missing patient
- China: Man Amputates His Own Leg With Saw—He gets his other leg cut off for free.
- Greenwald on Snowden Leaks: The Worst Is Yet to Come
- NSA Director Alexander Admits He Lied about Phone Surveillance Stopping 54 Terror Plots
- NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally—"The contact information is intercepted as it moves across global data links. Many lists belong to Americans." WaPo
- The NSA's problem? Too much data.—"The National Security Agency's Special Source Operations branch manages 'partnerships' in which U.S. and foreign telecommunications companies allow the NSA to use their facilities to intercept phone calls, e-mails and other data. This briefing describes problems with overcollection of data from e-mail address books and buddy lists, as well as NSA efforts to filter out what it does not need." WaPo
- How NSA breakthrough may allow tracking of "burner" cell phones
- Greenwald: The perfect epitaph for establishment journalism—"'If MI5 warns that this is not in the public interest who am I to disbelieve them?', says the former editor of The Independent." This was the same paper that tried to parade "leaked" documents from Snowden which were actually fed from the UK government.
- Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
- Privacy Fears Grow as Cities Increase Surveillance—"A program in Oakland, Calif., is one of the latest and most contentious examples of cities using big data technology, and federal dollars, for routine law enforcement." NYT
