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6:10 PM ET, October 6, 2017

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Rebecca Traister / thecut:

Why the Harvey Weinstein Sexual-Harassment Allegations Didn't Come Out Until Now — I have been having conversations about Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual harassment for more than 17 years. — The conversations started when I was a young editorial assistant at Talk, the magazine he financed …

Discussion: The Atlantic, Vox, The Daily Beast, Washington Free Beacon, neo-neocon, Jacobin, Variety, East Bay Times, Axios, twitchy.com, IndieWire, Bustle, New York Times and Instapundit, more at Mediagazer »

Daily Mail:

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary supporter Harvey Weinstein thinks a ‘right wing conspiracy out to get me’ is reason he has been revealed as serial sexual harasser — Harvey Weinstein believes the revelations of inappropriate sexual behaviour against him are part of a right-wing ‘conspiracy’ to take him down

Discussion: RedState, IJR, The Last Refuge, Daily Wire, twitchy.com, Los Angeles Times, Washington Free Beacon and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »

Bari Weiss / New York Times:

Will Liberals Give Weinstein the O'Reilly Treatment? — I'll never forget the one time I laid eyes on Harvey Weinstein outside the pages of Vanity Fair. It was at a movie premiere in Manhattan in 2014. My sister and I got up before the film started for a pre-emptive bathroom run.

Discussion: Washington Post, Variety, thecut, The Federalist and Washington Free Beacon, more at Mediagazer »

Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:

Late-Night Comedy Shows Avoid Harvey Weinstein Allegations... for Now … “Experts say it's unlikely that any self-respecting network will ever hire him.” - Jimmy Fallon — “I mean, it is nice to know that while liberals and conservatives disagree on a lot of things …

Ezra Klein / Vox:
Harvey Weinstein, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the era of unleashing

Discussion: Slate, Towleroad and The Guardian

Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Harvey Weinstein and that ‘different time’ when hostile workplaces were totally okay

Discussion: The Atlantic, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Mediaite, Taylor Marsh, NPR, The Last Tradition, IJR, IndieWire and Hollywood Reporter

Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Lisa Bloom, Harvey Weinstein's Adviser, Criticizes His Behavior Toward Women

BuzzFeed:

Jeff Sessions Just Issued New Guidance On Protecting “Religious Liberty” — The attorney general issued the guidance Friday. Critics have feared the policy may provide a loophole for discrimination. — Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed federal agencies and attorneys on Friday …

Discussion: Human Rights Campaign, The Daily Signal, Media Matters for America, Daily Kos, Common Dreams, Towleroad and Mashable

Washington Post:

Civil liberties groups decry Sessions's guidance on religious freedom — Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued sweeping guidance to executive branch agencies Friday on the Justice Department's interpretation of how the government should respect religious freedom, triggering an immediate backlash …

Discussion: The Atlantic, Hit & Run, Right Wing Watch, Washington Free Beacon, FiveThirtyEight, New York Times and LifeNews.com

Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump just officially made it easier for employers to stop covering birth control

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Politico, NPR, BuzzFeed, The Daily Signal, Federal Register, The Root, ABC News, Axios, Common Dreams, The Atlantic, Lawyers, Guns & Money and CNBC

Washington Post:
Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate

Discussion: CNN, Romper, IJR, LifeNews.com, Hit & Run, Townhall.com, Conservative News Today, Business Insider, AOL, Refinery29, Mashable, Common Dreams and New York Times

ACLU:
ACLU Filing Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Contraceptive Coverage Rule

Discussion: Mother Jones, BuzzFeed, NWLC, BostonGlobe.com and Politicus USA

Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Courts Thwart Administration's Effort to Rescind Obama-Era Environmental Regulations

Discussion: Federal Register

Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:

Watch: Sarah Huckabee Sanders callously laughs at women who will lose their birth control — Donald Trump has utterly failed to deliver on his threat to repeal Obamacare and harm the millions of men and women who have health care because of it. So he's going to punish women directly instead.

Chris Cillizza / CNN:

Donald Trump is treating a potential war like a reality show cliffhanger — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump hosted his top military brass and their spouses for dinner at the White House on Thursday night. The group posed for a photo. Then this exchange with reporters happened:

Discussion: Vox, The Daily Caller, The Root and WTVR-TV

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: 'You'll find out' what ‘calm before the storm’ means

Discussion: Politico

NBC News:

Investigators Probing Whether Others Were in Las Vegas Gunman's Suite — Investigators are trying to determine whether someone else was in the Las Vegas gunman's hotel room when he was registered there, senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation told NBC News.

Discussion: Raw Story, TheBlaze, Instapundit, Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, The Week, AOL, IJR, Daily Wire, Business Insider and Axios

CNN:
Las Vegas shooter took 20 cruises, some to foreign ports

Discussion: Geller Report, The Daily Caller and Daily Wire

Euan McKirdy / CNN:
Official: Las Vegas shooter tried to buy tracer rounds before massacre

Discussion: WTVR-TV, New York Times, Q13 FOX News, Conservative News Today, FOX6Now.com and Townhall.com

Stephen Young / Dallas Observer:

Meet the Dallas Bartender Who Kicked Milo Yiannopoulos and Some Neo-Nazis Out of Her Bar … One night last spring, infamous right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Dallas' homegrown white nationalist, Richard Spencer, walked into a karaoke bar on Abrams Road in Lake Highlands.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Splinter, IndieWire, New York Magazine, Mashable, Business Insider, Right Wing Watch, IJR, ThinkProgress, Media Matters for America, Vox, The FADER, AOL and Little Green Footballs, more at Mediagazer »

Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:
Bannon and Breitbart's Nazi Ties

Discussion: Washington Post, Dispatches From the …, Reveal and New York Magazine

Mike Allen / Axios:

Scoop: CIA director Pompeo considered to replace Tillerson — Trump advisers and allies are floating the idea of replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, age 53 — someone who's already around the table in the Situation Room, and could make the switch without chaos.

Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Examiner, The Resurgent, Breitbart, Above the Law, AOL, Mediaite, Business Insider, BillMoyers.com, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, RedState, Shakesville, Joe.My.God., IJR, Daily Kos and Politico

Foreign Policy:

The FBI's New U.S. Terrorist Threat: ‘Black Identity Extremists’ — Law enforcement calls it a violent movement. Critics call it racist. — As white supremacists prepared to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, the FBI warned about a new movement that was violent, growing, and racially motivated.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Virginia Department …, Splinter, Raw Story, The Root and The Daily Caller

Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:

Roy Moore in 2009: ‘Only thing I know that the Islamic faith has done in this country is 9/11’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Republican nominee for US Senate in Alabama Roy Moore said in a 2009 speech that the only thing that Muslims had done in the United States was the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Discussion: Political Wire and American Thinker

Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The Democrats' Gerrymandering Obsession

Discussion: Liberal Values

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats look to wreak havoc in GOP primaries

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money

Ken Dilanian / NBC News:

Trump Dossier Author Is in Talks With Senate Intel Committee — WASHINGTON — Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence operative who authored a 35-page dossier alleging that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, has been in talks with the Senate Intelligence Committee about speaking …

Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Senate ‘Russia Probe’ Is Not Investigating Russia

Discussion: Raw Story, Business Insider and CNN

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

AIM will shut down after 20 years — It's a sad moment: AIM, AOL's long-running instant messenger service that was core to many people's first social experiences on the internet, will shut down once and for all on December 15th. AOL announced the shutdown today, acknowledging that people …

Discussion: TechCrunch, thecut, Boing Boing, The Week and The FADER, more at Techmeme »

Michael Albers / AOL INSTANT MESSENGER:
One Last Away Message

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Q13 FOX News, WPRI-TV, Engadget, The Verge and Romper

BuzzFeed:

US Intelligence Unit Accused Of Illegally Spying On Americans' Financial Records — The Treasury Department's Office of Intelligence and Analysis has been illegally rifling through and filing away the private financial records of US citizens, Treasury employees alleged.

Discussion: Hit & Run and The Week

Brady Dennis / Washington Post:

EPA inspector general now investigating Pruitt's use of military, private flights — The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general on Friday acknowledged plans to expand its inquiry into Administrator Scott Pruitt's travel habits, marking the latest Trump Cabinet member to face scrutiny …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Nearly six dozen charter and military flights by Cabinet members, mapped

Discussion: Raw Story and Mother Jones

Steve Benen / MSNBC:

U.S. lost jobs last month for the first time in 7 years — Every sitting president gets a sneak peek at U.S. job numbers the day before the official report is released. It's just a perk of the job. So when Donald Trump started tweeting yesterday about how impressed he was with the stock market …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Media Matters for America, Daily Kos and Politicus USA

Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Economy lost 33,000 jobs in September

Discussion: New York Times, Innovation districts …, ABC News, Mother Jones, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bloomberg, Outside the Beltway, The Atlantic, The Daily Caller and The Guardian

Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:

Rex Tillerson at the Breaking Point — Will Donald Trump let the Secretary of State do his job? — One afternoon in late September, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called a meeting of the six countries that came together in 2015 to limit Iran's nuclear-weapons program.

Associated Press:

AP-NORC Poll: Just 24 percent say US heading right direction — https://apnews.com/f7d770542f334a218398 b2f9b2ae1102 — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — Just 24 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction after a tumultuous stretch for President Donald Trump …

Discussion: The Guardian

Karen Berkowitz / Chicago Tribune:

Highland Park deli co-owner to leave family business after Vegas shooting tweet sparks outrage — Max's Deli in Highland Park has ousted co-owner Greg Morelli over a controversial tweet that was posted Monday after the mass shootings in Las Vegas. — Deli co-owner Joey Morelli released …

Discussion: Chicagoist, Raw Story and IJR

Tyisha Fernandes / WSB-TV:

Students given homework assignment to create mascot for Nazi party — GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Parents are concerned after they say middle school students were asked to create a mascot for the Nazi party as part of a homework assignment. — The assignment was given to sixth grade students at Shiloh Middle School in Snellville.

Discussion: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boing Boing, Raw Story and The Root