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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How a Record Cash Haul Vanished for Senate Republicans — The campaign arm of Senate Republicans had collected $181.5 million by the end of July — but spent 95 percent of it. A big investment in digital, and hyperaggressive tactics, have not paid off. — It was early 2021, and Senator Rick Scott wanted to go big.
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RedState and Occupy Democrats
NBC News:
Internet services company Cloudflare blocks fringe web forum Kiwi Farms citing targeted threats — Internet hosting and security services provider Cloudflare said Saturday that it would block Kiwi Farms, a website associated with harassment campaigns against transgender people.
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The Cloudflare Blog, Protocol and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Under pressure, security firm Cloudflare drops Kiwi Farms website — SAN FRANCISCO — Reversing course under growing public pressure, major tech security company Cloudflare Inc. announced Saturday that it would stop protecting the Kiwi Farms website, best known as a place for stalkers to organize hacks …
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Occupy Democrats and Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Hats off to Hillary: Prosecuting Trump in the shadow of Clinton's emails — THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL — THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL — Hillary Clinton recently hawked a line of hats with a mocking logo — “But her emails.”
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Joe Conason / National Memo:
How Many Of ‘Her Emails’ Were Classified? Actually, Zero — Nearly every day fresh revelations emerge in the federal investigation of the national security and presidential records that Donald Trump purloined from the White House. So far, his alibis have been exposed one after another as empty …
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Politico:
The seeds of Biden's democracy speech sprouted long before the Mar-a-Lago search — President Joe Biden's speech warning about an assault against American democracy — by Donald Trump and his core followers — was an election-season call to arms unlike anything in modern American history.
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Breitbart, NewsNation and Just The News
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Jana Winter / Yahoo News:
Biden speech denouncing Trump, ‘MAGA ideology’ sparks threats, calls for violence
Biden speech denouncing Trump, ‘MAGA ideology’ sparks threats, calls for violence
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PoliticusUSA, BizPac Review, World Socialist Web Site and GOP.com
emptywheel:
THE FBI SEIZED NO BOXES WITH PRESS CLIPPINGS THAT POSTDATE NOVEMBER 2020 THE FBI SEIZED NO BOXES WITH PRESS CLIPPINGS THAT POSTDATE NOVEMBER 2020 — As I noted in this post, the government wrote their May 11 subpoena to cover all government records in Trump's possession …
Tom Bonier / New York Times:
Women Are So Fired Up to Vote, I've Never Seen Anything Like It — I've watched Americans in recent years acclimate to some very grim realities. Especially since the ascension of Donald Trump, numerous tragedies and extreme policies have been met with little political consequence …
New York Times:
What the F.B.I. Seized From Mar-a-Lago, Illustrated — A court filing unsealed on Friday included a detailed inventory of the material that the F.B.I. removed in its Aug. 8 search of former President Donald J. Trump's office and storage area at Mar-a-Lago, his residence and private club in Florida.
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has history of employing convicts — Powerful Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has welcomed at least three hard-core criminals on to his campaign and office staffs in recent years, shelling out over $100,000 in compensation to them, courtesy of taxpayers and campaign donors, records show.
Ronny Reyes / Daily Mail:
CNN staffers are ‘terrified’ that new boss Chris Licht is launching a purge of the woke after Brian Stelter and John Harwood were unceremoniously fired - as network tries to win back ‘most trusted name in news’ title — CNN staffers are afraid of a purge of woke talent following the firings …
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Outside the Beltway and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Emily Bobrow / Wall Street Journal:
Pastor Timothy Keller Speaks to the Head and the Heart — The founder of New York's Redeemer Presbyterian Church preaches conservative Christianity to a cosmopolitan flock … As a first-year student at Bucknell University in 1968, Rev. Timothy Keller began having doubts about his faith.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How Biden's democracy speech came together — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — Months ago, with the economy in flux, his legislative agenda adrift and his approval ratings mired in the 30s, President JOE BIDEN was ill-positioned …
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Raw Story, RedState, Breitbart, claytoonz, PoliticusUSA, New York Times and BizPac Review
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Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Biden's stark warning: The U.S. is threatened by its own citizens
Biden's stark warning: The U.S. is threatened by its own citizens
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Fox News, Curated News for You, Un-Woke in Indiana, BizPac Review, spiked, Steady, National Memo, The Hill, Twitchy, Jacobin and Moon of Alabama
Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Lee Zeldin trails Gov. Kathy Hochul by just 4 points, new poll finds — Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin is closing in on incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul in New York's tightening gubernatorial race, a poll released Saturday found. — The survey, conducted by the independent Trafalgar Group …
Catherine Lucey / Wall Street Journal:
Support for Legalized Abortion Grows Since Dobbs Ruling, WSJ Poll Shows — More than half of voters said the issue made them more likely to cast ballots in the midterm elections; majorities oppose 6-week and 15-week abortion bans — WASHINGTON—Voters have grown more supportive …
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PoliticusUSA, Fox News and Political Wire