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Tom Ley / Deadspin:
Cardinals Fans Get Ugly In Clash With Ferguson Protesters — This guy right here, the one with “I am Darren Wilson” taped onto the back of his Cardinals jersey—an homage to the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot an unarmed teenager named Mike Brown to death in August—was at the Cardinals game last night.
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Saeed Ahmed / CNN:
Federal judge rules that police in Ferguson violated the Constitution — Protesters march in Ferguson, Missouri, on Thursday, August 21. The St. Louis suburb has been in turmoil since a white police officer, Darren Wilson, fatally shot an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, on August 9.
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Mediaite, Americans Against the … and Hot Air
Tim Reid / Reuters:
Exclusive: Missouri police plan for possible riots if Brown cop not charged
Exclusive: Missouri police plan for possible riots if Brown cop not charged
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TMZ.com:
‘7TH HEAVEN’ DAD STEPHEN COLLINS — CONFESSES ON TAPE TO CHILD MOLESTATION — NYPD Investigating [AUDIO] — 10/7/2014 1:00 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF — EXCLUSIVE — Stephen Collins — who played the pastor/dad on “7th Heaven” — confessed to his estranged wife he was a child molester …
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Chris Hamby / BuzzFeed:
Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page In This Woman's Name — The Justice Department is claiming, in a little-noticed court filing, that a federal agent had the right to impersonate a young woman online by creating a Facebook page in her name without her knowledge.
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The Hill, Fox News, TPNN, Raw Story and New York Magazine
Brad Richardson / The Claremont Independent:
George Will Uninvited from Scripps College — A prominent conservative political pundit was uninvited from speaking at Scripps College, in a program designed to promote conservative views on campus, because of his conservative views. — Nationally syndicated columnist George Will was slated …
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Talking Points Memo, National Review, Hot Air, Booman Tribune and The Huffington Post
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Steven Dennis / Roll Call:
Ted Cruz Slams SCOTUS on Gay Marriage: ‘Tragic and Indefensible’ — While most Republicans shied away from commenting Monday on the Supreme Court's historic decision to let stand a slew of lower court rulings legalizing gay marriage, Sen. Ted Cruz torched the court's decision.
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Liberaland, LGBTQ Nation and Right Wing Watch
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David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed — U.S. officials leading the fight against history's worst outbreak of Ebola have said they know the ways the virus is spread and how to stop it. They say that unless an air traveler from disease-ravaged West Africa …
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Hot Air, Rush Limbaugh and Washington's Blog
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
‘A Terrible Slaughter Is Coming’ — The theme of the week in the Syria conflict—that airstrikes are of only limited use in the struggle to degrade and destroy the Islamic State terror group—is about to be underscored in terrible fashion in the besieged border town of Kobani …
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Reuters, Israel Matzav, Guardian, Hot Air and The Daily Beast
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Murray Weiss / DNAinfo.com New York:
VIDEO: NYPD Officer Hits Unarmed Teen in the Face With His Gun — BROOKLYN — Two NYPD officers are under criminal investigation after punching and bashing a 16-year-old suspect in the face with a gun despite the teen raising his hands to surrender, according to a video obtained by DNAinfo New York.
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Chad Livengood / The Detroit News:
Southeast Mich., women favoring Peters — Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters holds a 9-percentage point lead over Republican Terri Lynn Land in Michigan's hotly contested U.S. Senate race, according a new statewide poll conducted for The Detroit News and WDIV (Channel 4).
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
NRSC cuts Michigan TV
NRSC cuts Michigan TV
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
RNC Chairman Thinks Marriage Equality Is A Threat To Our Economy And National Security — Twenty-four hours after the Supreme Court announced it would not consider appeals of lower court rulings legalizing same-sex marriage in five states, effectively paving the way for couples to marry in Indiana …
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The New Civil Rights Movement, FOX6Now.com, Salt Lake Tribune, Daily Kos, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Ninth Circuit Rules For Marriage Equality In Nevada And Idaho
Ninth Circuit Rules For Marriage Equality In Nevada And Idaho
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Huge Increase In Voter Registrations In Ferguson Apparently Never Happened — Last week, numerous news outlets, national and local, reported on a huge increase in registered voters in Ferguson, Mo., following the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown. But it apparently didn't actually happen.
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Matt Fox / Daily Surge:
VIDEO: Lois Lerner Tries Barging Into Neighbor's Home To Evade Questions — Lois Lerner attempted to bust into a neighbor's home uninvited, in a desperate attempt to avoid answering questions about her involvement in the targeting of conservative groups. — Jason Mattera, author …
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, TPNN, Power Line, Hullabaloo and Clash Daily
Politico:
Republicans brace for 2016 free-for-all — The message from Republican officials has been crystal clear for two years: The 2016 Republican primary cannot be another prolonged pummeling of the eventual nominee. Only one person ultimately benefited from that last time — Barack Obama …
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his vorpal sword, Bloomberg View, Washington Monthly, Capitol Report, The PJ Tatler, Washington Post and Shakesville
Ben Lee / The Twitter Blog:
Taking the fight for #transparency to court — As part of our latest transparency report released in July, we described how we were being prohibited from reporting on the actual scope of surveillance of Twitter users by the U.S. government. Our ability to speak has been restricted by laws …
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
They Are Coming for Your Children — Teacup totalitarians target Connecticut home-schoolers — Home-schoolers represent the only authentically radical social movement in the United States (Occupy Wall Street was a fashion statement) and so they must be suppressed, as a malevolent committee …
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Washington Monthly, Hit & Run and City Journal
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Federal Court Strikes Down One Of The Most Aggressive Gerrymanders In The Country — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who has something to smile about right now. — CREDIT: AP Photo/Steve Helber — One of the most aggressive gerrymanders in the country is unconstitutional …
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David Dausey / Washington Post:
Epidemiologist: Stop the flights now — Infected men and women may not be contagious on the plane, but they could wreak havoc when they arrive. — The United States got its first scare from Ebola last week when Thomas Eric Duncan, a man sick with the virus, traveled from Liberia to Dallas.
Jennifer Lawrence / Vanity Fair:
Cover Exclusive: Jennifer Lawrence Calls Photo Hacking a “Sex Crime” — “I was just so afraid. I didn't know how this would affect my career.” — That's just the beginning of what Jennifer Lawrence has to say about her stolen-photos saga in the cover story of Vanity Fair's November issue …
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Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
Wal-Mart Cuts Health Benefits for Some Part-Timers — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation's largest private employer.
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RedState, The Daily Caller and Rush Limbaugh
Project Veritas Action:
Top Grimes Donor: “She's going to f**k 'em when she gets elected” — [Warning: Explicit Language] — Part Two of investigative report where chorus of campaign workers insist that Senate candidate Alison Grimes deceives voters about her energy policy — Investigators secretly record video …
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“The Lid”, The Gateway Pundit, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Washington Free Beacon
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Political Scientists: November Is Still A Slam-Dunk For The GOP — Amid the quibbling between Nate Silver and Sam Wang, academic political scientists have stepped in to release their own election forecast for November — and it doesn't look great for Democrats.
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Princeton Election Consortium, Outside the Beltway and Booman Tribune
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Facebook Readies App Allowing Anonymity — Facebook has long attempted to be the place where, above all else, you try to be yourself. — Soon, Facebook will allow you to be yourself, but under a different name. — The company is working on a stand-alone mobile application that allows users …
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Wall Street Journal, The Verge and Gigaom