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Emily / The Lincoln Project:
Statement from the Lincoln Project — October 29, 2021 — Today, The Lincoln Project released the following statement: — “Glenn Younkin has said: ‘President Trump represents so much of why I am running.’ Youngkin proves it every day by trying to divide Virginians using racial code words …
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Washington Post:
Virginia governor's race a toss-up as Election Day nears, Post-Schar School poll finds — RICHMOND — Virginia's race for governor is a toss-up as Tuesday's election draws near, with 49 percent of likely voters favoring Democrat Terry McAuliffe and 48 percent favoring Republican Glenn Youngkin …
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Lincoln Project Posed as Charlottesville White Supremacists at GOP Event — Five people dressed like the white supremacists who caused the violent “Unite the Right” riots in Charlottesville four years ago showed up outside of Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin's event in the town on Friday.
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Madison McNamee / WVIR-TV:
Group with Tiki torches stand by Youngkin campaign bus during Charlottesville event — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A rare visit by Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin in Charlottesville is being overshadowed by an incident that occurred outside a campaign stop.
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Washington Post:
Oct. 20-26, 2021, Washington Post-Schar School Virginia poll
Oct. 20-26, 2021, Washington Post-Schar School Virginia poll
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Why a Changing Richmond and Its Suburbs Are Key to Virginia's Vote
Why a Changing Richmond and Its Suburbs Are Key to Virginia's Vote
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Associated Press, The Hill, Washington Post and WBUR
Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Dirty trick? McAuliffe campaign passes off tiki torch holders as genuine Youngkin supporters
Dirty trick? McAuliffe campaign passes off tiki torch holders as genuine Youngkin supporters
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Fox News, HotAir, RedState, Instapundit, The Federalist and Twitchy
Guy Benson / Townhall:
False Flag: Did Dems Pose As White Nationalists ‘Supporting’ Glenn Youngkin?
False Flag: Did Dems Pose As White Nationalists ‘Supporting’ Glenn Youngkin?
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Breitbart, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, IJR and NOQ Report
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How scary are the new Virginia polls for Democrats?
How scary are the new Virginia polls for Democrats?
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RedState, Joe.My.God., Politico and Townhall
Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
Virginia AG presses GOP senator for proof of claims of fraud in statewide elections
Virginia AG presses GOP senator for proof of claims of fraud in statewide elections
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Talking Points Memo, oag.state.va.us and Outside the Beltway
Tyler Hayden / The Santa Barbara Independent:
Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm — A consulting architect on UCSB's Design Review Committee has quit his post in protest over the university's proposed Munger Hall project, calling the massive, mostly-windowless dormitory plan “unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent, and a human being.”
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US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use in Children 5 through 11 Years of Age — For Immediate Release: — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 to include children 5 through 11 years of age.
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David Covucci / The Daily Dot:
Fox News wants to make it ‘clear’ it isn't airing Tucker Carlson's Capitol riot documentary — Yesterday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson unveiled a dramatic trailer for his new special, one which will reveal the “true story” behind the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. — In it, he drops real truths like …
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
How to Push Back on Fox — Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger aren't giving them a free pass. — The thing to understand about bullies is that they never expect people to push back. — Most people are conflict-averse, so usually, the bullies are free to take their shots and the people …
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Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
The country needs a dose of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to battle COVID-19 — Florida has the lowest COVID-19 case rate in the country. They did it without vaccine mandates, without mask mandates in school and with no restrictions on businesses. Life simply went on.
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Former Congress members file brief opposing Trump's attempt to shield Jan. 6 records — A bipartisan group of 66 former members of Congress filed a brief Thursday night urging the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a lawsuit from former president Donald Trump that seeks …
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Insider, The American Independent, ABC News and Raw Story
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Judge Refused To Let Two Capitol Rioters Appear By Video For Sentencing
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 committee set to interview rioter who breached the Capitol
Jan. 6 committee set to interview rioter who breached the Capitol
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Raw Story, Daily Kos, Alternet.org and The Hill
Politico:
Jayapal warned Klain not to push an infrastructure vote. Then chaos ensued. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought President Joe Biden in this week to finally close the deal on Democrats' domestic agenda. Rep. Pramila Jayapal had other plans. — As Biden prepared for the high-stakes meeting …
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New York Times:
Trump's $300 Million SPAC Deal May Have Skirted Securities Laws — The former president began discussing a deal with a ‘blank check’ company early this year. Investors weren't told. — Just days after Donald J. Trump left the White House, two former contestants on his reality show, “The Apprentice,” approached him with a pitch.
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
Ross Barkan / New York Magazine:
What Happened to Matt Taibbi? The former darling of the liberal media is now one of its loudest critics. He says he hasn't changed. — Obviously, I'm anxious about why I'm being profiled," Matt Taibbi said at the end of our phone call this summer, which had already lasted an hour and a half.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't block vaccine mandate for Maine health-care workers with religious objections — The Supreme Court Friday turned down a request from a group of Maine health-care workers to block a state coronavirus vaccination mandate that does not contain an exception for religious objectors.
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
SCOTUS won't block Maine's vaccine mandate for health-care workers
SCOTUS won't block Maine's vaccine mandate for health-care workers
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New York Times and Mediaite
Jon Brown / Fox News:
Biden admin says it will not halt firing employees seeking vax exemptions before a DC court ruling — The attorney for the plaintiffs said the Biden administration has shown ‘an unprecedented, cavalier attitude toward the rule of law’ — A Washington, D.C., district court judge issued …
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Jen Monroe / Arc Digital:
Loudoun County Sexual Assault Story Shows Danger of Media Bias — A right-wing outlet let ideology motivate their reporting, while the mainstream media couldn't be bothered to report on it in the first place — A sexual assault case in Loudoun County, Virginia involving …
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Townhall, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Twitchy, BizPac Review, The Triad and New York Times
Lori Aratani / Washington Post:
Flight attendant suffers broken bones in ‘one of the worst displays of unruly behavior’ in the skies — The incident prompted the pilots to divert the flight to Denver, where a passenger was detained — A flight attendant for American Airlines suffered broken bones in her face …
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Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
Pizza Story — Analogies Are Hard — I wanted a pizza. A large pizza with mushrooms. Or, actually, someone promised to get me a pizza. Actually, right, someone said they'd get pizza for me and everyone else in the building. They brought the pizza up to begin with …
CNN:
‘God love ya’: Warm relationship between the world's most powerful Catholics on display as Biden and Pope Francis meet — Rome (CNN)The world's most powerful Catholics — President Joe Biden and Pope Francis — held 90 minutes of talks Friday in a session that blended the official …
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Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
The Fight Between Texas and Wall Street Is About to Get Bigger — Gun and oil laws have put some bank deals on hold during boom — ‘This is much bigger than the municipal bond business’ — Outside San Antonio this month, a veteran of Texas politics got so upset about Wall Street's retreat …
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Shannon Thaler / Daily Mail:
‘We got to take white people out’: Rutgers University professor, 41, calls white people ‘villains’, says ‘Critical Race Theory is just the proper teaching of American history’ and praises dwindling white birth rates in online discussion — Brittney Cooper, 41, said that whiteness 'totally skews …
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Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Diving into ‘woke racism’ with John McWhorter — With help from Rishika Dugyala, Tyler Weyant and Teresa Wiltz — What up Recast family! It's the final weekend ahead of closely watched gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, Facebook goes meta and the president's signature …
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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Biden's vaccine mandates might just backfire — President Biden's job approval ratings have been sinking for months as voters increasingly see him as out of touch with their priorities and values. The coming clash over vaccine mandates might be another area where the president has misread the public temperament.
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
NAACP tells athletes not to sign with Texas teams: “Texas isn't safe for anyone.” — The NAACP called on members of professional sports leagues to not sign on with teams in Texas. It's a purely political move, calling out only one Texas politician - Governor Greg Abbott. Abbott is running for reelection.
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The White House:
United States-France Joint Statement — Today, the President of the United States and the President of the French Republic met in Rome on the margins of the G20 Summit to reaffirm their commitment to closer bilateral and transatlantic cooperation in the pursuit of peace, security, and prosperity around the globe.
Suzi Ring / Bloomberg:
Vaccinated People Also Spread the Delta Variant, Yearlong Study Shows — Study found similar peak viral load with or without shots — Immunized household contacts have a 25% chance of infection — People inoculated against Covid-19 are just as likely to spread the delta variant …
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John Solomon / Just The News:
Narrative of a perfect 2020 election eroding as Wisconsin becomes investigative ground zero — Evidence grows of election mismanagement, illegal acts and some fraud in several states. — Article — Cognitively impaired nursing home residents in Wisconsin and Michigan cynically exploited for votes.
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