November 10, 2025: Government MAY Re-Open Soon...Here's What Needs to Happen. Plus Trump's Tariff "Dividend," SNAP Fight Continues, SCOTUS Won't Reconsider Same-Sex Marriage, and More.

Episode Format:

1. Supreme Court Allows State Dept. to Continue Enforcing Passport Policy Prohibiting "X" Sex Marker (0:18)

2. Supreme Court Temporarily Pauses Lower Court Order Requiring Administration to Fully Fund November SNAP Benefits; Here's What It Means and Why Things Could Change Very Soon (9:53)

3. Government Gets Closer to Re-Opening, But Here's What Needs to Happen First (20:32)

4. Trump Proposes Tariff "Dividend." Here's What We Know (28:52)

5. Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Same-Sex Marriage (32:48)

6. Quick Hitters: Cornell Reaches $60M Settlement with Government, Supreme Court to Answer Mail-In Ballot Question, Trump Threatens BBC with $1 Billion Lawsuit (38:08)

7. Critical Thinking Segment (41:13)

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Supreme Court Allows State Dept. to Continue Enforcing Passport Policy Prohibiting "X" Sex Marker

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a319_i4dj.pdf 

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-administration-on-sex-designations-on-passports/ 

https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-nonbinary-passport-sex-marker-5040c6412e06a072889af30cfae97462 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/ 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-administration-new-passport-policy-x-marker/# 

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/x-marker-trans-nonbinary-travelers

Supreme Court Temporarily Pauses Lower Court Order Requiring Administration to Fully Fund November SNAP Benefits

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/110725zr_pnk0.pdf 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/politics/trump-administration-supreme-court-snap-benefits

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/trump-administration-urges-supreme-court-to-pause-ruling-on-november-snap-payments/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25A539/383956/20251107181404505_RI%20Council%20-%20Emergency%20Application.pdf

https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-4a6edf5a6dbdf18049f1585bf7b61687

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25A539/383957/20251107185141270_RI%20Council%20Letter%2011.7.25.pdf

Government Gets Closer to Re-Opening, But Here's What Needs to Happen First

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-new-offer-end-shutdown-republicans-reject-healthcare-rcna242643

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-dems-unveil-alternative-shutdown-plan-ask-1-year-extension-obamacare-subsidies

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-news/2025/11/democrats-consider-prolonging-the-shutdown-as-republicans-prepare-new-bills-without-health-care-fix/

https://san.com/cc/despite-working-saturday-senators-seem-no-closer-to-ending-shutdown/

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/07/senate-democrats-proposal-end-government-shutdown

​​https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5597463-thune-vote-government-shutdown/

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/10/congress/shutdown-house-return-asap-00644448

Trump Proposes Tariff "Dividend." Here's What We Know

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115519726463094783 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/2k-per-person-but-conditions-apply-what-trump-said-on-tariff-dividend/articleshow/125203420.cms 

https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/tariffs-101-what-are-they-and-how-do-they-work/ 

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/public-finance/explainer-how-do-tariffs-work-and-how-will-they 

https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs-october-17-2025 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-shift-acknowledges-americans-are-paying-something-tariffs-2025-11-06/ 

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/tariffs-are-a-particularly-bad-way-to-raise-revenue/ 

https://tcf.org/content/commentary/economists-agree-trump-is-wrong-on-tariffs/ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp3nj5nj3o 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bessent-says-trump-2-000-155720531.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9maW5hbmNlLnlhaG9vLmNvbS8_Z3VjY291bnRlcj0x&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACq_noNZN_GLMzFu5OPgJ6h90IhECiX8H0_gvXvM2pAcKYxX3d7v1kR57oG4Eq7Eu2WRbX0RaeSpSdGBRUCb_nexwWj24oOfOAwrdsc9dVyoo50A1wc-4PCln9owwe81pqXBnQZuyLP7giORriBe8Rlrr5nKQHG-nlZL3eyndH73

Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Same-Sex Marriage

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-case-on-constitutionality-of-same-sex-marriage/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/111025zor_bqmc.pdf

Quick Hitters

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/politics/cornell-trump-administration-deal-federal-funding

https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/watson-v-republican-national-committee/

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/justices-agree-to-decide-major-election-law-case/

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-threatens-bbc-with-legal-action/