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10:15 PM ET, October 30, 2018

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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him  —  A company that appears to be run by a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist offered to pay women to make false claims against Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the days leading up to the midterm elections—and the special counsel's office has asked the FBI to weigh in.
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The Daily Beast:
Inside the Crazy Cabal Trying to Smear Robert Mueller  —  A Seth Rich conspiracy pusher and fringe online figures appear to be working behind the scenes.  —  One of the shadier characters in politics, along with a number of fringe internet figures, appears to be behind an attempt to pay women …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Update on Mueller Accusations  —  Earlier today we were given information on accusations against former FBI Director Robert Mueller.  —  We took the documents down and we are currently investigating these accusations.  —  There are also very serious allegations against Jacob Wohl.
Jay Willis / GQ:
MAGA Trolls' Efforts to Take Down Robert Mueller Flame Out in Hilarious and Spectacular Fashion  —  In news that will shock you, a plot involving Jacob Wohl has some holes.  Here's how it went down.  —  Politics in 2018 is a nightmarish hellscape that is largely devoid of heroes …
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Plot to Smear Mueller Unravels as F.B.I. Is Asked to Investigate  —  WASHINGTON — The office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has asked the F.B.I. to investigate what appears to be an effort to smear him, stemming from suspicious emails offering women money in exchange for fabricating sexual misconduct claims against him.
Aric Toler / bellingcat:
The Unintelligent Design of SureFire Intelligence  —  On October 30th, the far-right site Gateway Pundit published documents alleging that Robert Mueller, who is heading up the investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, sexually assaulted a woman in 2010.
Washington Post:
Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional  —  George T. Conway III is of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  Neal Katyal is a partner at Hogan Lovells and former acting U.S. solicitor general in the Obama administration.  —  Sometimes the Constitution's text …
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Axios:
Exclusive: Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order  —  President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an exclusive interview for …
Libby Watson / Splinter:
Jonathan Swan Is a Bootlicker  —  You might have woken up this morning, as I did, to the Axios headline: “Exclusive: Trump to terminate birthright citizenship.”  In your bleary-eyed, pre-java state, you would struggle toward the thought: What... the fuck?  Can he do that?
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
How Trump's ‘birthright’ idea went from the fringe to the Oval Office
Discussion: Washington Post, Above the Law and IJR
Dara Lind / Vox:
Birthright citizenship, explained
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Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:   The Funeral of David and Cecil Rosenthal
Washington Post:
Shooting victim's family, top officials shun Trump in Pittsburgh: ‘He was blaming the community’
Daily Mail:
Bernice and Sylvan Simon, aged 84 and 86
Discussion: USA Today
New York Times:
Pittsburgh Unites in Grief, Even as It Splits Over Trump's Visit
Discussion: Althouse
Washington Post:
Zinke's own agency watchdog just referred him to the Justice Department  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has come under scrutiny on multiple fronts  —  The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General has referred one of its ongoing probes into the conduct of Secretary Ryan Zinke …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP Senate candidate Martha McSally: 'I'm getting my ass kicked' because of vote to repeal Obamacare  —  Republican Senate candidate Martha McSally (R-AZ) complained in a recent interview that she is getting her “ass kicked” because she voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health care reform law.
Discussion: Arizona Republic
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Standing ‘Against White Supremacy,’ G.O.P. Campaign Chief Rebukes Steve King  —  WASHINGTON — As Pittsburgh began burying the victims of Saturday's synagogue massacre, the head of the House Republican campaign arm all but jettisoned Representative Steve King of Iowa from the House Republican Conference …
Discussion: HuffPost, Mother Jones and Sludge
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Bloomberg:
Land O'Lakes, Purina Pull Support for Iowa Congressman Steve King Over Racial Remarks
New York Magazine:
12 Young People on Why They Probably Won't Vote  —  As told to , Rachel Bashein, Zak Cheney-Rice, Amelia Schonbek, and Emma Whitford  —  More than half of American adults plan to cast ballots in November, but only a third of people ages 18 to 29 say they will.  Here, 12 young adults on why they probably won't vote.
TMZ.com:
Kanye West Breaks From Politics and Says 'I've Been Used'  —  4:15 PM PT — Kanye contacted us to make it clear he did not mention Donald Trump in his tweets, and he's getting out of politics altogether.  —  As for being “used” ... he says he was specifically referencing Blexit, and that's it.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kevin Cullen / BostonGlobe.com:
Freddy Geas, suspected killer of Whitey Bulger, didn't like informants  —  When private investigator Ted McDonough heard that Freddy Geas was suspected by authorities of taking part in the murder of James “Whitey” Bulger, he knew immediately why Geas might have done it.
Ray Sanchez / CNN:
Boston gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger killed in West Virginia prison a day after transfer  —  (CNN)James “Whitey” Bulger, the notorious and much-feared former Boston mob boss, was killed Tuesday morning at the US Penitentiary Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, officials told CNN.
Discussion: RedState, TMZ.com and The Daily Caller
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Boston Herald:
James ‘Whitey’ Bulger dead, had been moved to W. Va.
Discussion: Townhall
Washington Post:
Mueller probes Roger Stone's interactions with Trump campaign and timing of WikiLeaks release of Podesta emails  —  The special counsel investigation into President Trump's longtime ally Roger Stone is pressing witnesses about Stone's private interactions with senior campaign officials …
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
As special counsel closes in, Roger Stone suits up for legal battle
Yahoo:
Justice Kavanaugh declines more than $600,000 raised in GoFundMe campaign  —  Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh declined more than $600,000 that was donated to aid his family during the firestorm over sexual misconduct allegations that plagued his confirmation.
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Bloomberg:   Republicans Fear Some Voters Are Losing Enthusiasm With a Week Until the Midterms
David Hudnall / Kansas City Pitch:
Steve Bannon draws crowd of tens to rally for Steve Watkins in Topeka  —  “Any honeybuns left over from the continental this morning?”  —  Sherman Smith Twitter  —  I highly recommend that you take a look at Topeka Capital-Journal managing editor Sherman Smith's Twitter thread about attending …
CNN:
The radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist  —  Woman warned Twitter about bomb suspect  —  New York (CNN)Cesar Sayoc's social media accounts read like a blueprint for the radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist.  —  A CNN KFile analysis of thousands of tweets sent …
Discussion: The Week and New York Times
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Rampant Bias and Misinformation at the Guardian  —  Since becoming President of Minnesota's public policy organization, Center of the American Experiment, at the beginning of 2016, I have gotten a new perspective on media bias and ineptitude.  I have always thought those problems were bad.
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
In North Dakota, Native Americans Try to Turn an ID Law to Their Advantage  —  FORT YATES, N.D. — Nobody in the squat yellow house serving as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's get-out-the-vote headquarters knew its address.  —  It was on Red Tail Hawk Avenue; they knew that much.
Discussion: HuffPost
VICE News US:
We posed as 100 senators to run ads on Facebook.  Facebook approved all of them.  —  One of Facebook's major efforts to add transparency to political advertisements is a required “Paid for by” disclosure at the top of each ad supposedly telling users who is paying for political ads that show up in their news feeds.
John Foley / Reuters:
Breakingviews - Exclusive: FedEx drops NRA deal by snail-mail  —  NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Mass shootings happen in an instant and grab headlines.  A business and investment shift away from the firearms industry is happening more subtly.  FedEx, the U.S. shipping group …
Mairead McArdle / National Review:
Don Lemon: 'I Don't See Democrats Killing People' Over Politics  —  CNN anchor Don Lemon said on his show Monday that he sees only “right-wingers,” not Democrats, committing murders over their political beliefs.  —  Conservative commentator Mike Shields argued on Lemon's show,"CNN Tonight …
WAGA-TV:
New FOX 5 Poll: Abrams edging Kemp in dead heat  —  ATLANTA - A new poll conducted for FOX 5 Atlanta shows Stacey Abrams with a slight lead over Brian Kemp in a statistical dead heat in the race for Georgia Governor.  —  The new Opinion Savvy poll for FOX 5 shows Democrat Abrams at 48.1% and Republican Kemp at 47.2%.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Kathy Gannon / Military Times:
5 freed from Gitmo in exchange for Bergdahl join insurgents in Qatar, Taliban says  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — Five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined …
Judy L. Thomas / Kansas City Star:
Daughter of Mo. candidate who espouses anti-Semitism has a message: don't vote for him  —  Emily West has a message for voters in Missouri House District 15.  —  Don't vote for her dad.  —  “I can't imagine him being in any level of government,” she told The Star on Monday.
Discussion: Raw Story, AOL and The Guardian
 
 
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Center for Public Integrity:
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Roxane Gay / New York Times:
You're Disillusioned. That's Fine. Vote Anyway.
Molly Jong-Fast / The Forward:
Trump Is Using Ivanka As A Prop To Whitewash Anti-Semitism
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
How Democrats Can Reverse Years of Voter Suppression
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Chinese Intelligence Officers and Their Recruited Hackers and Insiders Conspired to Steal …
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