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5:10 PM ET, October 28, 2019

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Washington Post:
‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump  —  Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case …
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Washington Post:
Sen. Johnson, ally of Trump and Ukraine, surfaces in crucial episodes in the saga  —  Sen. Ron Johnson met in July with a former Ukrainian diplomat who has circulated unproven claims that Ukrainian officials assisted Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, a previously unreported contact …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Shifting Course, Democrats Plan First Floor Vote on Impeachment Inquiry  —  House Democrats, who have said they do not need a formal floor vote to authorize the impeachment inquiry, are planning to hold one this week, to lay out rules for the investigation.  —  Breaking News Update …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Live updates: House will vote on impeachment procedures Thursday to ‘ensure transparency,’ Democrats say
Discussion: Axios
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House to vote this week on impeachment inquiry procedures
New York Times:
Moving Closer to Trump, Impeachment Inquiry Faces Critical Test
Discussion: CBS News
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What the booing of Trump says about his presidency
Discussion: Right Wing Watch and HuffPost
The Charlotte Observer:
Former US Senator Kay Hagan dead at 66 after three-year battle with encephalitis  —  Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a one-time Capitol Hill intern who went on to become North Carolina's first Democratic female U.S. senator, died Monday at her Greensboro home.  She was 66.
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Garrett Ross / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: What Trump wants from the GOP
Brian Murphy / Raleigh News & Observer:   Democrats file lawsuit to restore last Saturday early voting in North Carolina
Russ Read / Washington Examiner:
‘Special breed of courageous’: Delta Force operator hails valor of military dog wounded in Baghdadi raid  —  Though no U.S. forces were killed in the Saturday evening raid that led to the death of an ISIS leader, one military working dog suffered severe injuries in the line of duty.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Baghdadi's death could have been Trump's finest hour.  He messed it up anyway.  —  President Trump has a preternatural ability to turn any occasion, no matter how solemn or important, into a ridiculous, risible spectacle.  He did it again Sunday in announcing the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
The Real Reasons Why Legacy Media Are Freaking Out Over Trump's Successful Baghdadi Mission
Discussion: HuffPost, Althouse and New York Times
New York Times:
Watching the Raid Was Like a Movie, the President Said. Except There Was No Live Audio.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads  —  In an open letter, the social network's employees said letting politicians post false claims in ads was “a threat” to the company.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The letter was aimed at Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and his top lieutenants.
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New York Times:
Read the Letter Facebook Employees Sent to Mark Zuckerberg About Political Ads  —  Hundreds of Facebook employees recently signed a letter to Mr. Zuckerberg and other leaders of the social network, decrying the company's decision to let politicians post any claims they wanted — even false ones — in ads on the site.
Slate:
I Don't Understand Jokes or Context  —  Washington Nationals fans chanted “lock him up” when Donald Trump appeared at Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday Night.  —  As a prominent media figure—like MSNBC host Joe Scarborough and author-pundit Ron Fournier—I find this alarming and offensive.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
‘Lock him up’ chant highlights the debate we need about Trump's lawlessness  —  What do we do when the White House's explicit position is that the president may abuse his powers in any way he sees fit, and that no form of accountability of any kind constraining his conduct is legitimate?
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Greg Walden to retire in latest sign of GOP doubts about retaking House  —  Rep. Greg Walden, the top Republican on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, will retire at the end of this Congress — the latest sign that Republicans see a struggle to retake the House in 2020.
NBC News:
White House told in May of Ukraine President Zelenskiy's concerns about Giuliani, Sondland  —  The White House was alerted earlier than previously reported that Giuliani's pressure campaign was rattling the new Ukrainian president, say two sources.  —  KYIV — The White House was alerted …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Wants Impeachment Defense Based on Substance, Not Process
Discussion: Mother Jones
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump team's search for impeachment strategist narrows to one candidate  —  The White House is moving closer to hiring a communications specialist this week to bolster its impeachment strategy and messaging, with former top Treasury aide Tony Sayegh now as the leading contender.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump in Chicago, lashes out at police chief
Discussion: Washington Post and Breitbart
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
G/O Media Tells Deadspin Staff in Leaked Memo: Stick to Sports  —  Sports—and sports alone—must be “the sole focus” of the website, new management said Monday in a memo obtained by The Daily Beast.  —  Deadspin's new bosses have issued an order to the website: Do not cover anything other than sports.
Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
What's Left of Condé Nast Two years after Si Newhouse died (and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour and a new CEO map out the future they can afford.  —  “It's dreadful,” Anna Wintour said in early October, looking out the south-facing windows of her 25th-floor office in One World Trade Center …
Bloomberg:
Trump Explored Cutting Grants for Schools Tied to Erdogan Foe  — One of Trump's earliest attempts to appeal to Turkish leader  — Giuliani sought Gulen extradition, was on call about schools  —  Early in his presidency, Donald Trump's White House explored whether the U.S …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Diana Falzone / Vanity Fair:
AFTER CATCH AND KILL FALLOUT, FORMER FOX NEWS STAFFERS DEMAND TO BE RELEASED FROM THEIR NDAS  —  NBC News, attempting to do damage control, says it will release former employees from nondisclosure agreements if they want to speak up about sexual misconduct at the network.
Discussion: The Wrap
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Don't die on that Katie Hill, she's just another #MeToo story  —  Despite its tabloid treatment, the story of Katie Hill is a tragedy.  But make no mistake, she's still a villain.  —  The Democratic congresswoman from California, who announced her resignation yesterday, is no ordinary victim of slut-shaming.
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Jessica Valenti / gen.medium.com:
Katie Hill Was Brought Down by the Same Forces That Enable Weinstein
Judd at Popular Information / Popular Information:
Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules  —  The Daily Wire, the right-wing website founded by pundit Ben Shapiro, is a cesspool of misogyny, bigotry, and misinformation.  Its toxic content is also fantastically successful on Facebook, with each story reaching more people than any other major media outlet.
Jake Gibson / Fox News:
Barr defends Durham probe, rips Comey FBI for ‘failure of leadership’  —  EXCLUSIVE — Attorney General Bill Barr, in an interview with Fox News, defended the independence and integrity of the politically contentious probe being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham into the handling of the Russia investigation …
The Daily Beast:
Ukrainian Oligarch Seethed About ‘Overlord’ Biden for Years  —  Dmytro Firtash's lawyers say his team had to investigate Joe Biden to defend their client.  One expert says Biden pushed reforms that cost the oligarch up to $400 million per year.  —  Indicted Ukrainian gas oligarch Dmytro Firtash spent …
Discussion: Raw Story
BuzzFeed News:
Google Misled Employees About A New Staffer's Family Separation Background At DHS  —  Google executives misled their own employees last week when they said a former top Department of Homeland Security official who had recently joined the company was “not involved in the family separation policy …
 
 
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Sarah McCammon / NPR:
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Bpoholchuk / The Office of Governor Larry Hogan:
Governor Hogan Orders Special Election for Maryland's 7th Congressional District
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
The Boston Globe:
Local elections hinge on housing this fall
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
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Discussion: The Hill
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
We need more of the Joe Biden we saw on ‘60 Minutes’
Discussion: Political Wire and CBS News
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
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Discussion: National Review
Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Past leader of anti-immigration group resigns from Trump administration
Discussion: ABC News
 Earlier Items: 
Jacob Silverman / The Baffler:
All Right Already  —  By now, we know where Facebook's allegiances lie
Discussion: Townhall
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Should Trump get a third term if he's impeached and acquitted? Hmmmmm ...
USA Today:
Mitt Romney: a solitary GOP voice battling Trump for the soul of the Republican Party
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Re-election runway: What U.S. airports can tell us about Trump's 2020 chances
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio's used his NYPD security detail to take his son to Yale: sources