memeorandum: Bulgarian TV host Victoria Marinova raped and killed (Committee to Protect Journalists)

7:25 PM ET, October 7, 2018

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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:

Brett Kavanaugh will bring change to the Supreme Court, but maybe not what you think — Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination will change the court, but the question is how and to what degree. — CONNECT — With Brett Kavanaugh as the newest associate justice of the Supreme Court, things are going to be different.

Discussion: NPR

Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Many women saw Kavanaugh as unfairly accused, could be ‘our husbands, our sons’: Trump counselor

Discussion: IJR, The Daily Caller and Breitbart

Emily Zanotti / Daily Wire: WATCH: Leftist Protesters FREAK OUT, Claw At Supreme Court Doors While Brett Kavanaugh Is Sworn In

Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Trump on why he mocked Christine Blasey Ford: ‘I had to even the playing field’

Discussion: ABC News, ThinkProgress, Breitbart, Politico and Axios

Alan Dershowitz / Fox News:
Kavanaugh and impeachment - Democrats, don't try to conduct a revenge inquisition

Discussion: Daily Wire and Raw Story

Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:

Why I'm Leaving the Republican Party — Unlike Senator Susan Collins, who took pages upon pages of text on national television to tell us something we already knew, I will cut right to the chase: I am out of the Republican Party. — I will also acknowledge right away what I assume …

Sophia A. Nelson / NBC News:
Sophia A. Nelson Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation is the ultimate affirmation of the patriarchy …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Bangor Daily News and National Review

Thaddeus G. McCotter / American Greatness: Kavanaugh and the Crux of a Cold Civil War

CBS News:

Senate races: GOP up in Texas, Tennessee; Dems up in Arizona, New Jersey — CBS News poll — The battle for Senate control finds Democrats trying to mount upset challenges in a string of typically Republican states, and this round of Battleground Tracker polls shows them having at best mixed results so far.

Discussion: Breitbart

David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner: Portrait of a female GOP voter who could hand the House majority to the Democrats

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Bulgarian TV host Victoria Marinova raped and killed — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Bulgarian authorities to conduct a rigorous, thorough investigation into the killing of Victoria Marinova, presenter and administrative director for local television channel TVN.

Discussion: Politico, more at Mediagazer »

Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:

Bulgarian Journalist Victoria Marinova Brutally Raped and Murdered — She is the fourth journalist murdered in Europe in the past 14 months. — ROME—The face of 30-year-old Bulgarian investigative journalist Victoria Marinova had been beaten with such brutal force that the popular television journalist was not recognizable.

Discussion: European Federation …, One America News Network and France 24

Martin Dimitrov Birn Sofia / Balkan Insight:

TV Host's Brutal Murder Shakes Bulgaria — Bulgarian police confirmed on Sunday that Victoria Marinova, TV host and administrative director of the local TVN, has been killed - after reportedly being raped and then strangled. — Victoria Marinova, the 30-year-old TV host and administrative director …

Discussion: The Guardian

New York Times:

Interpol Chief, Detained by China, Resigns Under ‘Supervision’ of Party Watchdog — In a stunning move that could set back the country's efforts to expand its global presence, the Chinese Communist Party announced late Sunday that the missing president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei …

Discussion: Daily Caller News Foundation

Associated Press:

Wife says Interpol officer sent knife image as danger signal — LYON, France (AP) — The wife of a leader of international police agency Interpol made an impassioned plea to the world Sunday for help bringing her missing husband to safety, saying he sent her an image of a knife before he disappeared …

Discussion: Reuters, HuffPost, CNN and ThinkProgress

Emily Tillett / CBS News:

McConnell: Senate won't be “intimidated” by “mob-like tactics” of anti-Kavanaugh protesters — Fresh off the successful confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the vote showed the Senate “will not be intimidated” by what he called the …

Discussion: Political Wire

Max Greenwood / The Hill:

Dems see blue ‘tsunami’ in House as Senate path narrows — Democrats have a better shot than ever at winning back the House majority with 30 days to go before the midterm elections, but have seen their chances of taking back the Senate erode amid the controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Splinter, Breitbart and Politico

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Susan Collins's Declaration of Cowardice

Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos

Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Defiant Republicans hope Kavanaugh fight will stoke their voters next month

Discussion: Politico, Axios and Fox News

Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed News:

Police Removed A Texas Yard Sign Showing A GOP Elephant With Its Trunk Up A Woman's Skirt — Police in Texas removed an anti-Republican political sign from a woman's yard Tuesday night last week, amid nationwide rancor over the Senate's vote on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Discussion: Hullabaloo and Law & Crime

Kristine Phillips / Washington Post: A Texas yard sign depicted a GOP elephant with its trunk up a girl's skirt. Police seized it.

Robin Wright / New Yorker:

Did the Saudis Murder Jamal Khashoggi? — The last time I spoke with Jamal Khashoggi, in August, he was worried about his life. The Saudi dissident, a fifty-nine-year-old former editor and government adviser, was convinced that the kingdom's new leadership wanted to kill him.

Jamal Khashoggi / Washington Post:
Read Jamal Khashoggi's columns for The Washington Post

Discussion: Al Jazeera English, Common Dreams, Amnesty International, Mondoweiss, The Week and Outside the Beltway, more at Mediagazer »

BBC:
Jamal Khashoggi: Turkey says journalist was murdered in Saudi consulate

Discussion: Al Jazeera English and Daily Caller News Foundation, more at Mediagazer »

Frank Bruni / New York Times:

Lindsey Graham Is the Saddest Story in Washington — His fight for Brett Kavanaugh completed his transformation into Donald Trump's slobbering manservant. — The battle over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court was an especially ugly episode of a reality-show presidency …

Discussion: Raw Story and ABC News

Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker: The Political Aftermath of the Senate's Final Kavanaugh Vote

Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Kavanaugh was the ‘slut whore drunk’ of the Ford story, Sen. Lindsey Graham says

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Politico:
McConnell calls for investigation into leak of Ford letter

Discussion: Law & Crime, The Daily Caller, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Townhall

New York Times:

Limo Crash Leaves 20 Dead in Upstate New York; Accident Toll Is One of the Worst in Memory — SCHOHARIE, N.Y. — It was an intersection of two highways, one a steep downhill road, that residents had long warned was notoriously dangerous. — On Saturday afternoon, their worst fears were realized …

Discussion: NPR, The Guardian and Splinter

Albany Times Union:

20 killed in Schoharie limousine crash — State Police confirm the number of dead as they work to notify relatives of the dead — SCHOHARIE - Twenty people died in Saturday's crash of a limousine in Schoharie County, a tragedy that unfolded outside a popular tourist stop that was filled …

Discussion: USA Today, New York Post, Breitbart, AOL and KFOR-TV

Wall Street Journal:

GOP Operative Secretly Raised at Least $100,000 in Search for Clinton Emails — Opposition researcher's efforts are of intense interest to investigators probing Russian election interference — WASHINGTON—A veteran Republican operative and opposition researcher solicited and raised …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Avi Selk / Washington Post:

The junk science Republicans used to undermine Ford and help save Kavanaugh — The politically convenient, scientifically baseless theory that sexual assault so traumatized Christine Blasey Ford she mixed up her attacker is now something like common wisdom for many Republicans.