memeorandum: Trump's incredible shrinking map (Charlie Mahtesian/Politico)

6:10 PM ET, October 21, 2016

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DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS — Update - Our engineers continue to investigate and mitigate several attacks aimed against the Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. — Oct 21, 20:37 UTC — Update - Our engineers are continuing to investigate and mitigate several attacks aimed against the Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure.

William Turton / Gizmodo:

This Is Probably Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today — Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host.

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Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg:

Hacking Vendetta Seen in Attack on East Coast Web Host — Dyn had singled out BackConnect's questionable practices — Cybersecurity writer Brian Krebs also hit by DDoS attack — Hackers temporarily shut down access to websites for internet users along the U.S. East Coast Friday morning …

Discussion: Motherboard and Mediaite

William Turton / Gizmodo:
Today's Brutal DDoS Attack Is the Beginning of a Bleak Future

Discussion: Political Wire and The Atlantic

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Many sites including Twitter, Shopify and Spotify suffering outage

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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Internet traffic firm Dyn warns of new attack, earlier assault impacted many

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
DDoS on Dyn Impacts Twitter, Spotify, Reddit

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Reuters:
Cyber attacks disrupt PayPal, Twitter, other sites

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Verge and Gizmodo

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:

Trump uses out-of-context line to hit Michelle Obama … took a swipe at first lady Michelle Obama — by accusing her of disparaging Hillary Clinton — during the 2008 Democratic primaries between Clinton and then-Sen. Barack Obama — “We have a bunch of babies running our country, a bunch of losers.

Discussion: ABC News, ThinkProgress, Politico, Raw Story, Mediaite and Occupy Democrats

Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:

AJC poll: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are deadlocked in Georgia — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are deadlocked in Georgia with less than three weeks until Election Day, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll. — The poll released Friday shows Trump leading Clinton …

Discussion: USA Today, Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, Mediaite, RedState, The Resurgent, Politico and Washington Times

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's new justification for attacking the Clintons: Michelle Obama ‘started it!’

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Shareblue and The Week

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Why Hillary Wins — Hillary Clinton is a terrible candidate. Hey, that's what pundits have been saying ever since this endless campaign began. You have to go back to Al Gore in 2000 to find a politician who faced as much jeering from the news media, over everything from claims of dishonesty …

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Meredith Isaksen / New York Times:

Late-Term Abortion Was the Right Choice for Me — BERKELEY, Calif. — I was 21 weeks pregnant when a doctor told my husband and me that our second little boy was missing half his heart. It had stopped growing correctly around five weeks gestation, but the abnormality was not detectable until the 20-week anatomy scan.

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David Brooks / New York Times:
How to Repair Moral Capital

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Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:

Trump's incredible shrinking map — In June, POLITICO identified 11 key battleground states — totaling 146 electoral votes — that would effectively decide the presidential election in November. A new examination of polling data and strategic campaign ad buys indicates that six of those 11 …

Discussion: ABC News, CNN, New York Times, Mother Jones, Suffolk University, Independent Journal Review and Washington Post

CNN:
Early voting results promising for Clinton in battleground states

Discussion: Mediaite, Hot Air and Daily Kos

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
In several key states, the early vote has shifted heavily to the Democrats since 2012

Discussion: New York Magazine and Political Wire

Alice Miranda Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
North Carolina slashed their early voting hours and now this is what the lines look like

Discussion: WFAE, The Charlotte Observer, WSOC-TV, Daily Kos and The Last Refuge

David French / National Review:

The Price I've Paid for Opposing Donald Trump — Trump's alt-right trolls have subjected me and my family to an unending torrent of abuse that I wouldn't wish on anyone. — I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old daughter's face in a gas chamber.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and New York Magazine

Virgin:

Meeting Donald Trump — After my last trip to the US, I shared my views on the presidential election. Having just completed another visit to Boston, Dallas and Miami, I wanted to share a previous encounter I had with Donald Trump. — Image from Getty Images

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Joe Concha / The Hill:

Al Smith Dinner I attended was different than one I read about — The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner has always been the most underrated night of the campaign season. — Two presidential candidates. New York City. The Waldorf Astoria. Lots of jokes, and invariably very good ones at that.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, New York Magazine and Washington Post

James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Barack Obama is coming to a TV near you

Discussion: Daily Kos

Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump, Son of a Catholic Hater, Disgraces Al Smith Dinner

Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story, New York Times and Gothamist

Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:

GOP congressman on Clinton: 'A lady needs to be told when she's being nasty' — (CNN)Republican Rep. Brian Babin on Thursday defended Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton “a nasty woman” at the final presidential debate, saying “sometimes a lady needs to be told when she's being nasty.”

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Oren Dorell / USA Today:

Amid ‘rigged’ election charges, Russia wants to monitor U.S. vote — Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump's take on rigged elections ‘horrifying.’ USA TODAY — In an apparent move to embarrass the United States over Donald Trump's claims of a “rigged” presidential election …

Discussion: RT, Reuters, AOL, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Free Beacon, Salon and Politico

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Employees Pushed to Remove Trump's Posts as Hate Speech — Ruling by CEO Mark Zuckerberg to keep presidential candidate's posts spurred heated internal debates — Some of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's posts on Facebook have set off an intense debate inside …

Discussion: CNBC, New York Magazine, Gizmodo, Washington Times, AOL, Political Wire, The Week, Forbes and The Atlantic, more at Mediagazer »

Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:

Trump: I'll have ‘lots of options’ to go after Clinton when I win — Donald Trump will have “lots of options” to go after Hillary Clinton if he's elected president, he told supporters Friday. — At a rally in Fletcher, North Carolina, Trump again dubbed his opponent “the most corrupt politician ever …

Discussion: New York Magazine and Political Wire

Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:

Bayh didn't stay overnight in Indiana condo once in 2010 — INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Evan Bayh says that his Indianapolis condominium has long been his home, and that he has spent “lots and lots” of time there since deciding to run for his old Senate seat. But a copy of his schedule shows Bayh …

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, Political Wire and Evan Bayh for Senate

Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:

Oprah: 'You don't have to like her' — Oprah Winfrey's message for undecided voters is simple: There's only one choice, and you don't have to like her. — The former talk show host and media mogul, who endorsed Hillary Clinton in June, said she has been largely silent in this election …

Discussion: Mashable and The Week

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

Former Republican Party Chairman Says He Won't Vote For Trump — Steele at a debate last year. — Ethan Miller / Getty Images — Michael Steele, who led the Republican Party from 2009 to 2011, became the latest senior Republican figure to say he would not vote for Donald Trump.

Discussion: Politico, Towleroad, Guardian, Occupy Democrats, Mediaite, The Week, Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo and Shakesville

Jason Newman / Rolling Stone:

Michael Moore to Donald Trump Voters: 'You're Legal Terrorists' — ‘TrumpLand’ director on why society should treat the GOP candidate like a pedophile and how “white privilege is on the ballot” — All Stories — Earlier this week, veteran documentarian Michael Moore delivered his own October Surprise.

Discussion: Raw Story, AOL and Mediaite

Belinda Luscombe / TIME:

Gretchen Carlson's Next Fight — Belinda Luscombe is an editor-at-large of TIME — The former Fox News star is taking on sexual harassment. And she likes to win. — When Gretchen Carlson was a cub reporter in Virginia in the early '90s, she was returning from a shoot in the TV production truck …

Discussion: Refinery29, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, TVNewser and The Week

MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:

Biden Says He Wishes He Could Take Trump ‘Behind the Gym’ Over Groping Comments — Vice President Joe Biden took GOP candidate Donald Trump to task over comments he made bragging about his ability to grope women, saying he wished he were in high school so “I could take him behind the gym.”

Discussion: Political Wire

Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:

Bridget Kelly: Christie Knew About GWB Lane Closures A Month Ahead Of Time — In bombshell testimony Friday, Bridget Anne Kelly said that she told New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) that access lanes to the George Washington Bridge would be closed for a traffic study a month before the plan actually was carried out in September 2013.

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Nancy French / Washington Post:

What it's like to experience the 2016 election as both a conservative and a sex abuse survivor — “Should we pick him up?” The preacher pointed to the side of the road to a hitchhiker. — “No!” I shrieked, but the idea was intoxicating. I'd lived in a one-festival town my whole life.

Discussion: Daily Wire

Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:

Salma Hayek: I Denied Trump A Date, So He Planted A National Enquirer Story About My Height — On a Spanish-language radio show, the Clinton-supporting actor said Trump befriended her boyfriend to get her number, but when she denied his offer to go on a date, he had a story planted …

Discussion: New York Magazine

The Independent:

A woman was arrested on Monday after allegedly smearing peanut butter on 30 cars parked outside what she believed was a pro-Donald Trump rally. — Christina Ferguson was arrested in Amherst Junction, Wisconsin after interrupting what turned out to be a meeting of a local environmental organisation, Tomorrow River Conservation Club.

Discussion: AOL, New York Magazine and Front Page Magazine