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9:35 PM ET, September 28, 2020

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Daniel Shaviro / Just Security:

Ten Quick Takeaways from the New York Times' Bombshell Article on Trump's Tax Returns — Sunday night's New York Times article on Donald Trump's taxes has a great deal of content that will take time (and additional supporting detail) to digest fully. What's more, this article is apparently …

Discussion: Vox, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, Slate, DCReport.org, New York Magazine and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:

2020 Election Live Updates: Report on Trump's $750 Income Tax Payments Reverberates on Eve of Debate — Republicans mostly greeted revelations about Mr. Trump's tax avoidance with silence, but he will inevitably face questions about it when he debates Joe Biden. New polls showed Mr. Biden leading in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Discussion: CNN, Fox News, Political Wire, New Republic, Daily Kos, Forbes, The Daily Caller, OpsLens and The White House

Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:

Trump's millions from Turkey and the Philippines are corrupt — When President Trump speaks glowingly of brutal strongmen atop the governments in Turkey and the Philippines, remember that he's making millions of dollars in these countries with the tacit approval of these authoritarian governments.

Discussion: Vox, Vanity Fair, The Guardian and IJR

Dylan Matthews / Vox:

Here's how much you had to make in 2017 to pay more income tax than Donald Trump — Trump hawks his book How to Get Rich in 2004. Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images — A single adult without kids making $18,000 would have paid more. — On Sunday night, the New York Times revealed …

Discussion: NBC News, New York Times, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Daily Kos, The Atlantic, Redstate, The Hill, Amsterdam News, Channel 4 News and Vanity Fair

Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:

CNN Anchor Shuts Down Trump Spox for Attacking NYT Reporters on Tax Story — “It's not okay to accuse them, with no facts, of coordinating with the Democratic Party. Please stop doing that or this interview will end,” Harlow exclaimed. — CNN anchor Poppy Harlow finally hit her limit …

Discussion: ABC News, CNN, Townhall and Talking Points Memo

Jonathan Allen / NBC News:

Trump tax records show duplicity. That's devastating for his campaign. … WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told the tax man he was the country's biggest loser, according to Internal Revenue Service filings obtained by The New York Times, and that will make it harder for him to win re-election.

Discussion: CNN, The Hill, Reuters, One America News Network, Newsbusters, The Daily Beast, Raw Story, The Guardian, CNBC, POLITICUSUSA and Talking Points Memo

Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Taxes Show He's a National Security Threat

Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
How Trump's taxes compare to those of other presidents

Discussion: Bloomberg, Redstate, New York Post, NPR, The Hill, Chicago Sun-Times and Common Dreams

David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Just Lost Control of the Game

Discussion: Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Big Picture, Reason, Occupy Democrats, Jacobin and One America News Network

Ryan Ellis / The Federalist:
New York Times' Trump Tax Return ‘Bombshell’ Is A Joke

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times, Power Line, New Republic, The Independent, Raw Story, Breitbart, One America News Network, Newsbusters, The Hill, Common Dreams, Townhall, MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, FOX News Radio and TMZ.com

Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Yes, Donald Trump Is Still A Billionaire. That Makes His $750 Tax Payment Even More Scandalous

Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump's taxes show why he is desperate to stay in office

Discussion: Chicago Sun-Times, Fox News, New Yorker, NBC News, Raw Story, Reuters, CANNONFIRE and The Nation

New York Times:

Supreme Court Vacancy Hasn't Boosted Trump in Pennsylvania, Poll Shows — President Trump had counted on his court nomination over the weekend to shift the election dynamic away from his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But it has not reset the race in the key battleground state.

Discussion: ABC News, Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, The Hill, Associated Press, Occupy Democrats, POLITICUSUSA, Siena College Research …, Bloomberg and Reuters, more at Mediagazer »

Matthew Segal / The Appeal:
Yes, Pack The Court - Pack It With Public Interest Lawyers

Discussion: The Sun and Washington Post

Nate Cohn / New York Times:
If Race Comes Down to Omaha, Poll Shows Biden Has an Edge

Discussion: Fox News

Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Pennsylvania GOP asks Supreme Court to halt mail-in ballot extension

Discussion: ABC News, Politico, The Hill, CNN, The Gateway Pundit, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and One America News Network

Marc Levy / Associated Press:
Republicans ask U.S. Supreme Court to put hold on ruling extending Pennsylvania mail-ballot deadline

Discussion: Politico, Political Wire, ABC News, Fox News, Breitbart, Law & Crime, Morning Consult and Associated Press

Greg Sargent / Washington Post: How the ‘minority rule’ problem could get much worse

Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Amy Coney Barrett: A Dream For The Right, Nightmare For The Left

Discussion: The American Independent, Washington Post, Politico and Law & Crime

Mario Ariza / Sun-Sentinel:

Ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale was drunk and agitated in standoff, police say. Then his cop friend showed up. — FORT LAUDERDALE — Bradley Parscale, former campaign manager to president Donald Trump, was in the middle of an armed standoff with police at his Fort Lauderdale home …

Discussion: BuzzFeed News, New York Post, The Daily Dot, Gizmodo, Raw Story, OpsLens, The Daily Beast and CNN

Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
Police documents show Brad Parscale beat his wife and threatened her with a gun

Discussion: WPLG-TV, Reuters, Big League Politics and New York Post

Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

Coronavirus Deaths Pass One Million Worldwide — Over the past 10 months, the virus has taken more lives than H.I.V., malaria, influenza and cholera. And as it sows destruction in daily life around the globe, it is still growing quickly. — More than H.I.V. More than dysentery.

Discussion: Political Wire

Dave Lawler / Axios:

Global coronavirus death toll crosses 1 million — The global toll of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 crossed 1 million on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins. — By the numbers: More than half of those deaths have come in four countries: the U.S. (204,762), Brazil (141,741), India (95,542) and Mexico (76,430).

Discussion: NPR

Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:
Global Coronavirus Deaths Surpass One Million

Discussion: Politico

Channel 4 News:

Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016 — Channel 4 News has exclusively obtained a vast cache of data used by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign on almost 200 million American voters. — It reveals that 3.5 million Black Americans …

Discussion: The Guardian, Bloomberg, myfox8.com, Common Dreams, Vanity Fair, Gizmodo, Variety, The Daily Dot, Mediaite and Raw Story, more at Techmeme »

DW.COM: US: Religious data platform ‘targets mentally ill, vulnerable people’

New York Times:

Behind the White House Effort to Pressure the C.D.C. on School Openings — Documents and interviews show how senior officials sought to play down the risks of sending children back to the classroom, alarming public health experts. — WASHINGTON — Top White House officials pressured …

Discussion: Political Wire

Washington Post:

Joe Biden for president — In order to expel the worst president of modern times, many voters might be willing to vote for almost anybody. — Fortunately, to oust President Trump in 2020, voters do not have to lower their standards. The Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Breitbart, IJR, CNN, National Review, Forbes, Mediaite, WTOP, The Daily Caller, The National Interest, Political Wire, The Hill and UnHerd

Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Cindy McCain Joins Biden Transition Team Advisory Board

Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite, Associated Press, IJR, Forbes and Axios

Monica Alba / NBC News:

Redfield voices alarm over influence of Trump's new coronavirus task force adviser — WASHINGTON — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, CNN, Deadline, Axios, Gizmodo, IJR, Common Dreams, Balloon Juice, Daily Kos, GovExec.com, NBC New York, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, The Hill, Mediaite, Raw Story and The Week

Brooke Singman / Fox News: Trump coronavirus adviser Atlas fires back against Redfield criticisms, says advice based on ‘current science’

Tessa Duvall / Courier-Journal:

TESSA DUVALL , DARCY COSTELLO | Louisville Courier Journal — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An unidentified grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case is asking the courts to release the grand jury transcript and records and for fellow jurors to be free to speak about the case, according to a new court filing.

Discussion: Associated Press and The Guardian

Emma Austin / Courier-Journal:
EMMA AUSTIN — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The sole Louisville police officer charged in connection …

Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Washington Post

Christina Johnsen / Polls:

Voters Split on Filling SCOTUS Seat — Some bothered by Trump position on transfer of power; — Few expect first debate will change their minds — West Long Branch, NJ - There has been a slight narrowing in the presidential race in the latest national Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.

Discussion: Politico, Breitbart, New York Times, The Week, National Review, Political Wire and Associated Press

Ryan Parry West / Daily Mail:

Former New Mexico Democratic Governor Bill Richardson is accused of raking in hundreds of thousands in bribes and kickbacks to fund debauched lifestyle including ‘sexual services and favors’ — Bill Richardson has been accused of running a scheme in which he raked in over $100k of dollars in bribes while in office

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Natasha Bertrand / Politico:

Trump sought deals with Moscow mayor — In a meandering press conference on Sunday, President Donald Trump repeatedly accused his Democratic opponent's son, Hunter Biden, of receiving millions of dollars from the wife of Moscow's late mayor Yury Luzhkov, asking why “nobody even has any question about it.”

Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story

Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Dot:

This voter fraud insider touted by Trump runs a non-existent organization — Project Veritas, the right-wing undercover operation headed up by James O'Keefe, released a 16-minute long video Monday depicting alleged “ballot harvesting” in Minnesota. — The video put out by the huckster …

Discussion: Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Times and American Greatness

Vanessa Handy / Washington Square News:

We're Resigning from WSN. Here's Why. — We, the undersigned WSN Fall 2020 Editorial Staff, have collectively decided to resign from Washington Square News, effective immediately. This was extensively deliberated in collaboration with 43 staff editors, and it was not a decision we enjoyed making.

Discussion: New York Post, more at Mediagazer »

Eric Lichtblau / TIME:

Exclusive: As States Prepared Mail-in Ballots, Postal Service Failed to Update at Least 1.8 Million Addresses — For three weeks in August, as election officials across the country were preparing to send out mail-in ballots to tens of millions of voters, the U.S. Postal Service stopped fully updating …

Discussion: Forbes and Law & Crime

Daily Mail:

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Throw him out of MY building.’ Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski tells how the rivalry between him and John Kelly exploded when the White House chief of staff threw him against a wall outside the Oval Office in new book — Corey Lewandowski and John Kelly nearly came …

Discussion: Amazon.com

Sam Mintz / Politico:

Thousands of aviation layoffs loom amid a dysfunctional Congress — Tens of thousands of airline workers will lose their jobs in a matter of days if Congress is unable to break through its gridlock, even though a majority of lawmakers support heading off the looming layoffs for an industry that's been decimated by the coronavirus.

Discussion: One America News Network

Steve Peoples / Associated Press:

Pandemic overwhelms Trump's message in critical N. Carolina — WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump is fighting to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, howling with unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and warning that violent mobs are infiltrating the suburbs.