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Greenwald:
My Resignation From The Intercept  —  The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.  —  Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept …
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Greenwald:
Emails With Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe Biden Article  —  Given The Intercept's vehement denials, readers are entitled to see for themselves what the truth is: transparency journalism with integrity requires.  —  Following are the communications I had over the last week …
NBC News:
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge  —  One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake “intelligence” document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
In Outrageous 2-1 Decision Ignoring Reliance Interests and Rejecting the Purcell Principle, 8th Circuit Panel Orders Segregation of Late Arriving Ballots in Minnesota, With Strong Hints Late Arriving Ballots Will Be Excluded from The Count  —  It is hard to know where to start with this opinion.
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
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Amy Forliti / Associated Press:
Court: Late Minnesota absentee ballots must be separated
QU Poll:
Florida And Iowa Races Are Too Close To Call, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Biden Maintains His Lead In Pennsylvania, Has Narrow Lead In Ohio  —  IOWA SENATE: Ernst 48%, Greenfield 46%  —  Less than a week before Election Day 2020, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden …
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Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Biden Maintains Lead  —  Support falls for minimum wage and primary election ballot measures  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden holds a lead of 4 to 6 points over Donald Trump in Florida, based on different likely voter models in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
Timothy Evans / HillReporter.com:
Miami GOP Mayor Caught Trying to Suppress Voting  —  With the coronavirus keeping seats empty in sports stadiums and arenas around the country, the owners of many of those venues have opened them up as polling locations for the Nov. 3 election to help keep voters socially distant as they cast their ballots.
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Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:   Miami-Dade covered up Mayor Gimenez's voter suppression until my lawsuit freed the evidence.
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: NY Post's ‘Smoking Gun’ Hunter Biden Email 100% Authentic, Forensic Analysis Concludes  —  An email Hunter Biden received in April 2015 from a Burisma executive discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden, which lies at the heart of a New York Post investigation …
Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal:
Walmart Pulls Guns, Ammo Displays in U.S. Stores, Citing Civil Unrest  —  Retailer says move is a safety precaution but customers can still purchase firearms and ammunition  —  Walmart Inc. has removed all guns and ammunition from the sales floors of its U.S. stores this week …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Senate debate on WSB canceled after Perdue pulls out of Sunday showdown
Discussion: WSB-TV and Axios
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Denialism, Dishonesty, Deflection: The Final Days of the Trump Campaign Have It All  —  The President is ending his reëlection bid with scandals that call into question the legitimacy of next week's vote.  —  No one wants to admit it, but in Washington, D.C., the election might as well be over …
Zack Stanton / Politico:
‘People Are Going To Be Shocked’: Return of the ‘Shy’ Trump Voter?  —  In 2016, pollsters Arie Kapteyn and Robert Cahaly saw Trump coming.  In 2020, they see polls again underestimating his support.  —  Zack Stanton is digital editor of Politico Magazine.
The Atlantic:
The Pandemic Is in Uncharted Territory  —  The fall surge is rewriting the coronavirus record books across America.  And the numbers are still climbing.  —  The COVID Tracking Project … The United States set a new record for reported cases this week, breaking 500,000 …
Discussion: CNN and The COVID Tracking Project
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Heat at Trump rally sends a dozen attendees to the hospital … A crowded Trump rally in steamy Tampa, Florida, on Thursday resulted in 17 attendees needing medical attention, with a dozen being taken to the hospital, fire officials told NBC News.  —  Trump spoke for just under an hour …
Politico:
Exclusive: Warren will make case to be Biden's Treasury secretary  —  Warren's move could set up a marquee fight over what will be one of the most consequential Cabinet roles in a Biden administration.  —  While Elizabeth Warren has developed a relationship with Joe Biden …
Isaac Stone Fish / Foreign Policy:
Wilbur Ross Remained on Chinese Joint Venture Board While Running U.S.-China Trade War  —  Chinese documents show that the U.S. commerce secretary did not successfully step down from all his corporate commitments.  —  Wilbur Ross, an investor-turned-U.S. commerce secretary …
Discussion: Raw Story and Atlantic Council
Carlos Sanchez / The Atlantic:
COVID-19 Is Killing My People—And No One Seems to Care … At half past one on the morning of July 1, my 60th birthday, I awoke shivering.  Since summertime chills are rare in South Texas, I immediately grew concerned.  As the director of public affairs for Hidalgo County …
Robert Snell / Detroit News:
FBI nabs accused neo-Nazis in extremism crackdown in Michigan  —  Detroit — Federal agents on Thursday arrested two men as part of a continuing crackdown on extremism in Michigan three weeks after the FBI said it thwarted a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Emails show how Pompeos mixed personal, official business  —  WASHINGTON — Less than three months after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was sworn in, his son, Nick, reached out to thank State Department officials for a private tour they had given him and his mother, Susan Pompeo, of the agency's in-house museum.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
UPS Finds Mystery Tucker Carlson Package  —  ‘URGENT INVESTIGATION’  —  A spokesman for UPS told The Daily Beast on Thursday that they had located a mysterious packaged that Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested had been deliberately misplaced or intercepted because it contained “damning” materials on the Biden family.
BuzzFeed News:
Here Are Thousands Of Documents About Immigrants Who Have Died In ICE Custody  —  Since January 2017, at least four dozen people have died while being held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  —  Some were old, and some were young.  Some had been in the US for years before being detained …
Joe Biden / The Christian Post:
The greatest commandment has guided my politics … I will choose a different way.  My administration will lead a decisive public health response that ramps up free testing so we can trace this virus and curb its spread; eliminates all cost barriers to treatment for COVID-19 …
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR and The Hill
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Biden camp slams Facebook as thousands of ads remain blocked in final week  —  Biden's campaign said ads that had previously been approved by the tech giant have been erroneously removed.  —  Thousands of ads from Joe Biden's campaign have been blocked by Facebook, in an effort to limit …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Don't Sweat the Polls  —  Many Democrats are worried that pollsters are making the same mistakes they did four years ago, but this election is different.  —  Staff writer at The Atlantic  —  “I want to feel hopeful about Joe Biden's chances this year, but I just can't,” my neighbor confessed to me …
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground state, the party's chairman told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump's Voter-Suppression Strategy Is a Crisis (Even If It Backfires)  —  The president is trying to win reelection by disenfranchising as many Democrats as he can.  As of this writing, 78 million Americans have already voted, putting the U.S. on pace to witness its highest-turnout election in more than a century.
John A. Tatom / The Hill:
The ‘V’ continues: The labor market is rushing to a full recovery  —  Most news media reports suggest the recovery in the labor market is stalling out.  The Oct. 17 report on initial unemployment claims puts paid to the falsity of the suggestion.  The historic V-pattern of the recession …
New York Post:
State trooper dates Cuomo's daughter, gets transferred close to Canada  —  A state trooper assigned to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's security detail got hot and heavy with one of New York's first daughters — and was soon transferred to a post near the Canadian border, The Post has learned.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Is Said to Quietly Quash Inquiry Into Tamir Rice Killing  —  Supervisors denied civil-rights prosecutors' request to use a grand jury for their investigation into the 2014 shooting of a Black boy by a Cleveland police officer, but did not tell his family.
Discussion: The Hill and Law & Crime
Liz Ruskin / Alaska Public Media:
New Pebble tapes: 'You aren't held to your promises' in election season, mine exec says  —  The environmental group that captured executives of the Pebble Mine bragging about their sway over Alaska's senators and governor have released new footage from those secretly recorded sessions.
Paul Brandus / USA Today:
Americans say they're better off, but not due to Trump  —  And yet the same percentage — 56% — say Trump “does not deserve to be reelected, while 43% say he does,” Gallup says.  —  It's an extraordinary disconnect: Americans say they're better off, but they don't give the incumbent president credit.
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
EXCLUSIVE: Twitter Suspends U.S. Border Chief For Celebrating Wall's Protection From Illegal Aliens  —  Twitter suspended U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan for a post celebrating the success of the U.S. southern border wall keeping violent criminals from reaching American communities.
 
 
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A harsh new anti-Trump ad flips the script on his biggest issue
Ben Eisen / Wall Street Journal:
Dearth of Credit Starves Detroit's Housing Market
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
No Selfies or Hugs, but Biden Is Sneaking In Meet and Greets
NBC News:
More hospitals hit by ransomware as feds warn about cyberattacks
Discussion: UPI, more at Techmeme »
Mackenzie Mays / Politico:
Newsom: California taking precautions for ‘whatever may occur’ after polls close
Discussion: The Hill
Colleen Flaherty / Inside Higher Ed:
Even More White Lies  —  Furman professor resigns suddenly after an anonymous critic outs her as white …
Discussion: Power Line, Medium and The Daily Caller
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Chris Edwards / The Hill:
Biden's foolish capital gains tax increase
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
Melania's Plastic Camelot
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Leaked Chat Logs Reveal Boogaloo Fantasies of Killing Random Civilians
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Hixon / The Bulwark:
Me, Joe, and the Worst Phone Call in the World
Discussion: Bulwark+
Washington Post:
What happens to Fox News if Trump loses? Rupert Murdoch is prepared.