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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
We're in the Universal Derp Implosion — Donald Trump is giving a raging, rambling speech with accusations against everyone and everything. But there's one thing he flagged that everyone needs to understand the details about. — Here's what he said ...
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The Week
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Very bad analysis of a 2008 email is Donald Trump's new excuse for why he's losing — Earlier Monday morning, Matt Drudge's Drudge Report (which has become a centralized resource of Donald Trump-friendly stories) highlighted a story at the blog ZeroHedge. A new email released by WikiLeaks …
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The Atlantic, Pew Research Center, Daily Kos, The Right Scoop, Daily Wire, Talking Points Memo, Liberty Unyielding and Israpundit
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New Podesta Email Exposes Dem Playbook For Rigging Polls Through “Oversamples”
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Sampling — For most of our national surveys of the general public …
Sampling — For most of our national surveys of the general public …
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Hot Air
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The GOP must do something about the conservative media industrial complex if it wants to survive — Standing before a Miami audience, sleeves rolled up, President Barack Obama was hard at work campaigning for Hillary Clinton. — But, as he sometimes does when he's riffing on the stump, the president took a detour in his speech.
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Washington Examiner, RedState and bradford-delong.com
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Fact-free conservative media is a symptom of GOP troubles, not a cause — My colleagues Oliver Darcy and Pamela Engel have written a good account of the Republican Party's captivity to its own disinformation complex of talk radio and conservative websites that push both extremism and false information.
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Trump on porn actress who accused him of misconduct: 'Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before' — (CNN)Donald Trump on Monday addressed the latest accusations of inappropriate sexual contact made against him, saying of the accuser, an adult film performer, “Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before.”
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Bruce Golding / New York Post:
Porn star launched sex shop one day before Trump allegations
Porn star launched sex shop one day before Trump allegations
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RedState, The Daily Caller, Independent Journal Review, BizPac Review, Breitbart and twitchy.com
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Trump's Campaign Is Launching a Nightly News Show on Facebook — Welcome to the Donald Trump show! — Tonight, the Trump campaign is kicking off a show that will air on the candidate's Facebook page every night at 6:30 pm ET via Facebook Live from the campaign war room at Trump Tower.
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New York Magazine, RedState, Media Matters for America, Donald J. Trump, Politicus USA and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »
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Obamacare's double-digit rate hike, explained in 400 words — Obamacare premiums are on track to rise faster than ever before in 2017. — The Obama administration released data Monday showing that premiums for mid-level plans will rise, on average, 22 percent between 2016 and 2017.
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twitchy.com
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Obama administration confirms double-digit premium hikes
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CNNMoney, Mercury News, NPR, Daily Wire, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, The Week and The Gateway Pundit
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Forget Trump and Clinton. ‘Black Jeopardy’ is SNL's best political sketch this year. — Just before midnight Saturday, Tom Hanks put on a denim shirt, a goatee and a red “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” hat, and in six minutes pulled off the best political sketch of the year …
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The French Revolution, Business Insider, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and NBC
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart coordinated with liberal activist and organizer who disrupted GOP primary campaign events — A liberal activist and organizer coordinated with reporters from the conservative news site Breitbart during the primaries to cover his disruptions of events for candidates such as Sen. Marco Rubio.
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RedState, Raw Story, The Right Scoop and The Resurgent
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders: If his staff's email were hacked, there would surely be some unkind things about Clinton — BURLINGTON, Vt. — The trove of hacked Democratic emails that have spilled into public view over recent months have included some unkind things about Bernie Sanders.
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RT, The Daily Beast, AOL, Mediaite, Politicus USA, The Week and Talking Points Memo
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Clinton's Specter of Illegitimacy
Clinton's Specter of Illegitimacy
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Power Line and Raw Story
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Republicans Threaten Lawsuits Over TV Ads Linking Them To Donald Trump — Saying a candidate supports Trump is basically defamation, they argue. — Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post — WASHINGTON Some Republicans are running so far away from their party's nominee …
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Talking Points Memo
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Steven DenBeste 1952(?)-2016 — Steven DenBeste has passed away. — I just received word from Steven's brother, graciously thanking me for making the welfare call to the police and confirming that what many of us feared had indeed come to pass. I did not inquire as to specifics …
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Patterico's Pontifications and Outside the Beltway
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Pro-Trump fundraisers agree to accept illicit foreign donation — Donald Trump's presidential campaign is facing a fundraising scandal after a Telegraph investigation exposed how key supporters were prepared to accept illicit donations from foreign backers.
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New York Times, Political Wire, Hot Air, Politicus USA and Raw Story
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RJ poll shows Clinton adding to lead over Trump in Nevada — Hillary Clinton is pulling away from Donald Trump in Nevada with early voting underway, according to a poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. — Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has a 7-point lead …
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Politicus USA and Washington Post
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The Alt-Right Has Adopted An Old Nazi Term For Reporters — It's become a familiar routine by now: Trump supporters haranguing the press at rallies, booing them and screaming at them. — “Tell the truth!” and “CNN sucks!” have become staples at nearly every Trump rally.
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Washington Post, Damian J. Penny, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Sara Murray / CNN:
Anger unleashed: On the trail in Trump's America
Anger unleashed: On the trail in Trump's America
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Washington Post
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How the GOP's first female presidential campaign manager manages Donald Trump — Conway on Trump: ‘He delivers his own speeches’ — (CNN)Morning at the Conway household is like mornings in most homes with children. It's a scramble to get the kids fed, dressed and out the door on time for school …
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Harry Reid's Parting Shot: Dems Will Nuke The Filibuster For SCOTUS — Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he is confident that he has laid the groundwork for Democrats to nuke the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees if they win back the Senate in November.
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Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Daily Kos and American Prospect
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Clinton leads by 5 heading in to final two weeks — (CNN)Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 5 points as the presidential campaign heads into its final two weeks, with the Democratic nominee's support just shy of the 50% mark, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
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Latino USA, Business Insider, Politicus USA, Talking Points Memo, The Week and The New Civil Rights Movement
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Inside Donald Trump's One-Stop Parties: Attendees Recall Cocaine and Very Young Models — The morals of Donald J. Trump, as a longtime model lover and then a modeling agency owner, were forged in another era, one in which young girls were used as a sort of currency between men doing business with one another.
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Little Green Footballs
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Woman Groped At Protest Against Trump's Groping, Police Say — A man groped a female protestor at an event meant to highlight Trump's own inappropriate touching outside of Trump Tower ahead of the third presidential debate. — One woman who attended the “Pussy Power at Trump Tower” …
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DNAinfo New York and Liberty Unyielding
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Ex-CIA director calls Hannity a ‘true propagandist’ — A former director of the CIA under President George W. Bush writes that Fox News host Sean Hannity is a “true propagandist.” — Michael Hayden, who led the CIA under Bush from 2006 to 2009, told Brookings Institution senior fellow Benjamin Wittes …
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RedState, Media Matters for America, Mediaite and BizPac Review
Associated Press:
Tom Hayden, '60s Activist and Liberal Statesman, Dead at 76 — In one of the most dramatic personal transformations in American political history, Tom Hayden went from being a famed 1960s and 1970s student radical to a mainstream elected official and elder statesman of the country's left.
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Politico
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Despite plea for leniency, Kane gets 10 to 23 months in prison — Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was sentenced Monday to 10 to 23 months in prison for perjury, obstruction and other crimes. — KATHLEEN KANE — Jury convicts AG Kane, sentencing set for Oct. 24
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Washington Post and The First Street Journal
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Ceremony honoring police before HS game sends ‘frightening message,’ ACLU says — MIDDLETOWN — A ceremony honoring law enforcement, military and first responders before a high school football game Friday night drew criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey because of an underlying “frightening message.”
Warren Henry / The Federalist:
Liberals Adored Trump When He Was Winning The GOP Primary — Donald Trump's rise was fueled in part by progressives who cried wolf about Republicans for years. During the so-called “invisible primary” and early contests in 2016, several liberal pundits entertained the idea that Donald …
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Washington Post
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THIS IS BIG=> DONALD TRUMP Continues Lead in Florida Early Voting — Florida is a must-win state for Donald Trump to declare victory on election day and the good news is that he's off to a very good start. — In fact, his lead in early voting there is a first for Republicans.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Israpundit
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California Guard vets told to repay millions in enlistment bonuses — “Our military heroes should not shoulder the burden of military recruiters' faults,” Rep. McCarthy says — (CNN)Ten years after the Pentagon enticed soldiers to reenlist by offering hefty bonuses …
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Trolls for Trump — Meet Mike Cernovich, the meme mastermind of the alt-right. — In late August, Hillary Clinton announced that she would soon give a speech, in Reno, Nevada, linking Donald J. Trump to what has become known as the alt-right—a loose online affiliation of white nationalists …
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The Week, Mike Cernovich Presents … and Vox Popoli