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6:50 PM ET, September 19, 2022

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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The smoking gun in Martha's Vineyard  —  Popular Information has obtained documentary evidence that migrants from Venezuela were provided with false information to convince them to board flights chartered by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).  The documents suggest that the flights …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The Progressive Delusion of Co-Ed Sports  —  What does “inclusivity” mean?  —  Preamble: There are important things happening in the world today, one of which is that the details of the DeSantis Martha's Vineyard stunt are becoming more clear and more disgusting.  Per Judd Legum:
Discussion: Breitbart
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
After Texas Sent Him to Washington, One Migrant Launches a New Life
Discussion: National Review
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Judge Vacates Murder Conviction of Adnan Syed of ‘Serial’  —  Mr. Syed, 41, had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his high school classmate Hae Min Lee.  The judge gave prosecutors 30 days to proceed with a new trial or drop the case.  —  Michael Levenson reported …
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Washington Post:
Adnan Syed, featured in ‘Serial’ podcast, will be released from prison  —  A judge on Monday vacated the conviction of Adnan Syed, whose murder case drew wide attention after it was featured on the true-crime podcast “Serial.”  —  The decision by Baltimore City Circuit Court Melissa M. Phinn comes …
Wall Street Journal:
We Have a Bill to Help Prevent Another Jan. 6 Attack  —  It's past time to reform the Electoral Count Act to make clear Congress can't overturn an election result.  —  WSJ Opinion: Inflation Reduction Act Not Working So Far  —  Skip Ad  —  in 15  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith / Bloomberg:
Liz Cheney Introduces Electoral Vote Bill to Avoid Repeat of Jan. 6
Discussion: Fox News
Politico:
House and Senate split over how to prevent the next Jan. 6
Discussion: Raw Story
David Byler / Washington Post:
This little-known election predictor should worry Democrats  —  As early voting begins around the country, every political data point would appear to marginally favor the Democrats.  Polls suggest they lead ever so slightly in key Senate races and in national House polls.
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Alex Samuels / FiveThirtyEight:
Could A Republican Win Colorado's Senate Seat?
Discussion: RedState, ABC News and Axios
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Prominent pro-Trump couple to fundraise for Senate candidates
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Nazi analogies are dangerous.  But they are increasingly relevant today.  —  For a long time, politicians, media and Jewish organizations agreed it was virtually never appropriate to analogize modern political movements to Nazis or compare today's human rights atrocities to the Holocaust.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Forward
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Frank Carone, Mayor Eric Adams's Chief of Staff, to Resign  —  Frank Carone, a Brooklyn power broker who has drawn scrutiny for his past business dealings, says he will lead the mayor's re-election campaign.  —  One of Mayor Eric Adams's closest advisers, who has helped formulate and work …
Discussion: New York Daily News
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations  —  Complaints about the U.S. military's influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies.  —  The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts …
Rachel Wolfe / Wall Street Journal:
High Food Prices Are Getting to People.  The Scene at One Grocery Store Shows Why.  —  Shoppers explain the stress they feel while buying groceries amid the highest food inflation in over 40 years  —  HOUMA, La.—To understand how people are navigating inflation these days, go to a grocery-store parking lot.
Discussion: NRCC
Stephanie Slade / Reason:
The Will to Power Was Front and Center at NatCon III  —  “Wokeism is not a fever that will pass but a cancer that must be eradicated,” declared a main-stage speaker at the third National Conservatism Conference ("NatCon III") last week.  “In this new reality, the only institution with the power …
Discussion: National Review
Yoav Gonen / All:
Most-Complained-About NYPD Cop Retires, Avoiding Penalties  —  Lt. Eric Dym faced discipline on 52 allegations, but he won't be terminated for misconduct.  Only one CCRB probe in the past decade has led to that outcome — for the officer who killed Eric Garner.
Discussion: Raw Story
Twitchy:
Greg Pollowitz, Twitchy's ‘rock’, has passed away after fight with leukemia  —  It is with the heaviest of hearts we announce the passing of Twitchy's Managing Editor, Greg Pollowitz.  —  Greg was our rock and always kept a steady head regardless of what the news (or Twitter) threw at us.
Chuck Todd / NBC News:
Remembering a pioneer in political journalism  —  Bob Balkin, one of the original editors of The Hotline, has died at age 60.  He helped change how campaigns are covered.  —  Bob Balkin, a pioneer of modern political journalism, died Sunday at age 60 following a battle with cancer.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Proud Boys memo reveals meticulous planning for ‘street-level violence’  —  Document of 23 pages shows the lengths to which the far-right group goes to prepare for potentially violent encounters and exposes the militaristic structure and language it has adopted
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
David Gilbert / VICE:
What Is This Eerie Salute People Are Doing at Trump Rallies Now?  —  The signal was immediately compared to the “Sieg Heil” salute.  —  David Gilbert  —  On Saturday night, as former President Donald Trump was wrapping up a political rally in Youngstown, Ohio, one section of the crowd …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Trump's ‘Save America’ Scam  —  His PAC never launched a “legal defense fund,” despite deceitful ads that raked in millions.  —  (COMPOSITE / MIDJOURNEY)  —  In 2019, Donald Trump's charitable foundation was fined $2 million for misusing funds and ordered to shut down.  The foundation's misdeeds included:
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Hemingway / The Federalist:
If Martha's Vineyard Tried To Prove It Cares About Immigrants, It Failed Miserably  —  When Republican governors send 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard, it's a humanitarian crisis.  When 51 migrants who were encouraged to cross the border by Democrats die in the back of a truck, well, that's a statistic.
Discussion: Twitchy, Townhall and New Republic
Brock Wilson / CBC News:
'It's a slippery slope': How young men fall into online radicalization  —  Reid Brown says YouTube started showing him problematic content when he was 13  —  Reid Brown remembers the first time he got sucked in by the algorithm — he was just 13, watching videos after school when YouTube started pushing him to controversial content.
Discussion: Twitchy
 
 
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Former senior Obama advisor guides lobbying and policy strategy of London cryptocurrency firm
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Jerome Powell's Inflation Whisperer: Paul Volcker
Discussion: Associated Press
Reem Nadeem / Pew Research Center:
Modest Declines in Positive Views of ‘Socialism’ and ‘Capitalism’ in U.S.
Alex Hemingway / Jacobin:
To Solve the Housing Crisis, We Have to Increase the Housing Supply
Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott widens lead on Beto O'Rourke in new poll
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Woke Gestapo at HBO Max Erase Cigarettes from Iconic Movie Posters
Discussion: Twitchy
Washington Free Beacon:
Fetterman Voted To Free Murderer Who Hacked Innocent Man to Death With Garden Shears
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Gustaf Kilander / The Independent:
Trump under fire for QAnon display at Ohio rally: ‘He has gone completely insane’
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Daily Kos and The Warning
 Earlier Items: 
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
Apple Flexes Muscle as Quiet Power Behind App Developer Group
Brianna Herlihy / Fox News:
Federal Court rules Big Tech has no ‘freewheeling First Amendment right to censor’
Discussion: Vox, The Federalist and New York Post
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Trump ally's trial on foreign agent charges kicks off with jury selection
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CNN
Associated Press:
Family of American says he was freed by Taliban in swap
Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Story So Far: Where 6 Investigations Into Donald Trump Stand
Discussion: Jacobin and Boston.com
 

 
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