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Miles Taylor / Medium:
A Statement — Why I'm no longer “Anonymous” — More than two years ago, I published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times about Donald Trump's perilous presidency, while I was serving under him. He responded with a short but telling tweet: “TREASON?” — Trump sees personal criticism as subversive.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Miles Taylor, a Former Homeland Security Official, Reveals He Was ‘Anonymous’ — Mr. Taylor, whose criticisms of President Trump in a New York Times Op-Ed article and subsequent book, roiled Washington and infuriated Mr. Trump, resigned from the administration last year and endorsed Joe Biden this summer.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
“Anonymous” senior Trump official revealed as ex-DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor
“Anonymous” senior Trump official revealed as ex-DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor
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Joyce Vance / MSNBC:
The Supreme Court will not protect our voting rights. Here's who actually might. … As we make our way to the polls, either in-person or via mail, we need to remember that in addition to sending elected officials to Washington, D.C., we are voting for governors, state legislators, mayors and, in some states, judges.
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LGBTQ Nation and New York Times
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Axios:
Supreme Court won't expedite Pennsylvania GOP's request to block mail-in ballot extension — The Supreme Court voted 5-3 on Wednesday to deny a bid from Pennsylvania Republicans to expedite their request to shorten the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots.
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Washington Post, Associated Press, Politico, Reuters and The Hill
Dan Berman / CNN:
Vermont secretary of state formally asks Kavanaugh to correct opinion — Law professor cited by Kavanaugh responds — (CNN)Vermont's secretary of state formally asked Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to correct an opinion he wrote Monday that mistakenly said Vermont had made no changes …
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court (with Justice Barrett Not Participating) …
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court (with Justice Barrett Not Participating) …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Won't Expedite Attempt to Halt Extension of Pennsylvania's Deadline for Absentee Ballots
Supreme Court Won't Expedite Attempt to Halt Extension of Pennsylvania's Deadline for Absentee Ballots
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows N.C. to extend deadline for receiving mail-in ballots, a defeat for GOP in key battleground
Supreme Court allows N.C. to extend deadline for receiving mail-in ballots, a defeat for GOP in key battleground
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CNN:
Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country ‘back from the doctors’ — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising him on the unfolding …
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Biden's Path to 270 Widens, Trump's Path Narrows, as Texas Moves to Toss Up — Less than a week out from Election Day and President Donald Trump is playing catch-up. In 2016, he won 30 states (and Maine's 2nd Congressional District) and their 306 electoral votes.
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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
What To Make Of That New Wisconsin Poll That Has Biden Way Ahead
What To Make Of That New Wisconsin Poll That Has Biden Way Ahead
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John Keefe / New York Times:
Quiz: Can You Tell a ‘Trump’ Fridge From a ‘Biden’ Fridge?
Quiz: Can You Tell a ‘Trump’ Fridge From a ‘Biden’ Fridge?
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck in the cold for hours when buses can't reach Omaha rally — By the time President Trump finished speaking to thousands of supporters at Omaha's Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night and jetted away on Air Force One, the temperature had plunged to nearly freezing.
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Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Swing Toward The Democrats — But most voters still expect Trump to win — West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Georgia's electoral votes remains very close, but Joe Biden has gained ground on Donald Trump in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
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Political Wire, Politico, Daily Kos and New York Times
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Senate Committee Successfully Verifies All Bobulinski Materials Reviewed To Date — The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has successfully verified all materials reviewed so far from Hunter Biden's ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski, the Daily Caller has learned.
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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
MAGA scrambles to repair the Hunter Biden narrative
MAGA scrambles to repair the Hunter Biden narrative
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump's Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters' Lives — The president has continued to downplay he severity of the coronavirus and declare before largely maskless crowds that it is vanishing. The surge in new cases across the country suggests otherwise.
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal:
Hacker Releases Georgia County Election Data After Ransom Not Paid — County among entities whose ‘time to pay is over,’ according to review of hacker's website — A computer hacker who took over networks maintained by Hall County, Ga., escalated demands this week by publicly releasing …
Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
Millions of mail ballots not yet returned in key states — ATLANTA (AP) — Just days before the presidential election, millions of mail ballots have yet to be returned in key battleground states, and election officials warn that time is running out for voters who want to avoid a polling place on Election Day.
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Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Judge: Virginia can't count ballots with missing postmarks
Judge: Virginia can't count ballots with missing postmarks
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Michelle Ruiz / Vanity Fair:
AOC's Next Four Years — The history-making congresswoman addresses her biggest critics, the challenges that loom no matter who wins, and what she's taking on next. — Her Republican colleagues had, up until then, been civil. But one day in late July, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood …
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New York Post:
Twitter is running a blackmail operation — cooperate or no traffic for you — For all their talk of “neutral platforms,” the Big Shots at Big Tech — Twitter, Facebook and Google — are running a protection racket. They figure they can dictate what Americans get to see and read …
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Check Your Fact, The Daily Signal and The Western Journal
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here's the Woman Driving the Change.
Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here's the Woman Driving the Change.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Stench of Trump's Racism Will Cling to His Enablers Forever — A month ago, President Trump added to his rally speech a new riff about Ilhan Omar, expressing indignation that the Democratic member of Congress would dare to express opinions about American government.
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest, one of the biggest intact temperate rainforests — President Trump will open up all 16.7 million acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development, according to a notice posted Wednesday …
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Gizmodo, Occupy Democrats, Daily Kos, CNN, UPI and Political Wire
Politico:
Ratcliffe went off script with Iran remarks, officials say — Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe went off script when he alleged during a press conference last week that Iran was sending intimidating emails to Americans in order to “damage President Trump,” …
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Political Wire, Raw Story and electionlawblog.org
Detroit News:
Whitmer kidnap plotter also wanted to hang Trump, other politicians, FBI says — A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump and posted a hit list on Facebook targeting other elected leaders, including former President Barack Obama …
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Twitchy
Steven Overly / Politico:
Blackburn asks Google if employee who criticized her still has a job — Sen. Marsha Blackburn used a Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday to ask about the employment status of a Google engineer whose criticism of the Tennessee Republican has become fodder for right-wing media outlets over the past two years.
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Bloomberg:
FBI, DHS Warn Hospitals of ‘Credible Threat’ from Hackers — U.S. hospitals hit by coordinated ransomware attack, firm says — 'The most significant cyberthreat we've ever seen' in U.S. — Several U.S. federal agencies on Wednesday warned hospitals and cyber-researchers about a …
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New York Times:
Biden Holds 8-Point Lead in Michigan as He Tries to Reconstruct the ‘Blue Wall’ — The New York Times / Siena College poll — Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by eight points in Michigan, a battleground state that Mr. Trump flipped in 2016. — 2016 result — NYT/Siena — <1 Trump — 47.3-47.0
Wall Street Journal:
Russian in Cyprus Was Behind Key Parts of Discredited Dossier on Trump — A Wall Street Journal investigation points to the identity of ‘Source 3’ as a disgruntled PR executive with a ‘vast network’ of sources — in Washington and David Gauthier-Villars — In the nearly four years since …
Justice News:
Afghan National Arrested For 2008 Abduction Of American Journalist — Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge …
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Washington Post:
Trump's attacks on political adversaries are often followed by threats to their safety — The CIA's most endangered employee for much of the past year was not an operative on a mission abroad, but an analyst who faced a torrent of threats after filing a whistleblower report that led to the impeachment of President Trump.
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The Daily Beast:
Why Hasn't Trump Come to Lindsey Graham's Rescue? — Graham has been the president's loyal confidant and golf buddy during his White House tenure. Now, as Graham faces a tough challenge at home, Trump isn't coming to his aid. — BEAST INSIDE — At a rally a week before the toughest election …
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Raw Story
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
New challenge seeks to void thousands of Harris County drive-thru votes — A new challenge to Harris County's drive-thru voting sites, filed by two GOP candidates and a Republican member of the Texas House, asks the state Supreme Court to void ballots “illegally” cast by voters in cars.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden continues to hold nationwide advantage in final days of 2020 race — (CNN)With the race for the presidency approaching its end amid a raging pandemic, Democratic nominee Joe Biden maintains a substantial lead over President Donald Trump nationwide, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
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BuzzFeed News:
Herman Cain's Life And Death Were More Complicated Than That — You've heard the jokes about the most prominent Republican to die from the coronavirus. His family has seen them too. — Copy — On Father's Day earlier this year, Melanie Cain Gallo drove to her parents' house to drop off a gift for her dad, Herman Cain.
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Political Wire
Claudia Lauer / Associated Press:
Body cam, 911 tapes in Walter Wallace killing to be released — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The police commissioner in Philadelphia said Wednesday that her department will release 911 tapes and footage from police body cameras “in the near future” in the shooting death of a Black man following …
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New York Times, CNN and The Daily Caller
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida man charged after altering governor's voter registration — TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was briefly unable to vote this week because a 20-year-old Naples man altered the Republican governor's home address in the state's voter registration database.
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Politico:
U.S. to allow ‘Israel’ to be added to passports of Americans born in Jerusalem — The Trump administration is expected to soon announce that the U.S. passports of Americans born in Jerusalem can now mention Israel as the country of birth. — The decision, confirmed by a U.S. official Wednesday …
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