memeorandum: The seeds of Biden's democracy speech sprouted long before the Mar-a-Lago search (Politico)

9:15 AM ET, September 4, 2022

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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.

Discussion: RedState and National Memo

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 …

Discussion: Raw Story, more at Techmeme »

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.

Matthew Prince / The Cloudflare Blog:

Blocking Kiwifarms — Loading... We have blocked Kiwifarms. Visitors to any of the Kiwifarms sites that use any of Cloudflare's services will see a Cloudflare block page and a link to this post. Kiwifarms may move their sites to other providers and, in doing so, come back online …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Protocol, Ace of Spades HQ and NBC News, more at Techmeme »

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 …

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.”

Discussion: Insider and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Joe Conason / National Memo:
How Many Of ‘Her Emails’ Were Classified? Actually, Zero

Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo

CNBC:
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he was stating the obvious with Trump riots claim

Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire

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.

Discussion: Althouse, National Memo, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, RedState, PoliticusUSA, Twitchy, Raw Story, BizPac Review and Washington Post

emptywheel:

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, not just those that had come from the White House and not just those that were in Florida.

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.

Fatima Bhutto / New York Times:

What Is Owed to Pakistan, Now One-Third Underwater — We heard the story all the time, told as a warning: When man first set foot on Earth, all the winged animals flew high into the sky and the fish dived deeper into the sea, scattering in fear, because they knew the destroyer of the world had arrived.

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 …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

iaea.org:

IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine — Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has once again lost the connection to its last remaining main external power line, but the facility is continuing to supply electricity to the grid through a reserve line …

Discussion: Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Cyprus Mail, New York Times, New York Post, Politico and The Hill

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 …

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.