Top Items:
Reuters:
Trump objects to verifying list of property seized from Florida estate - court filing — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are resisting a federal judge's instruction to submit a sworn declaration on whether they believe the government's list of property taken from Trump's Florida estate is accurate.
Discussion:
Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, Daily Kos, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story and Bloomberg
RELATED:
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Tracker: Evidence of Trump's Knowledge and Involvement in Retaining Mar-a-Lago Documents — A central question in the Mar-a-Lago espionage and stolen documents investigation involves former President Donald Trump's knowledge and involvement in retaining government records.
Discussion:
CNBC and Newsbusters
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Judge says Trump can hold off on affirming accuracy of FBI's Mar-a-Lago inventory
Judge says Trump can hold off on affirming accuracy of FBI's Mar-a-Lago inventory
Discussion:
Bloomberg, Associated Press, Florida Politics, UPI, Raw Story and New York Times
Justin Fenton / The Baltimore Banner:
Johns Hopkins doctor and spouse, an Army doctor, indicted for trying to leak medical information to Russia — A Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist and her spouse, a doctor and major in the U.S. Army, were federally indicted for attempting to provide medical information about members of the military …
Discussion:
ZeroHedge, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, Washington Free Beacon, Boston.com, Louder With Crowder, Townhall, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire and twitchy.com
RELATED:
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
U.S. says ex-Army major and his wife tried to leak military health data to Russia — A former U.S. Army major and his anesthesiologist wife have been criminally charged for allegedly plotting to leak highly sensitive healthcare data about military patients to Russia, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday.
Discussion:
Daily Mail, The Guardian, Twitchy, Newsbusters and Political Wire
Seung Min Kim / Associated Press:
GOP states sue Biden administration over student loan plan — Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration in an effort to halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, accusing it of overstepping its executive powers.
Discussion:
BuzzFeed News, Bloomberg, The Hill, NBC News, Washington Free Beacon, Insider, Washington Post, AutoMarketplace.com NYC, New York Times, Florida Phoenix, Forbes, HotAir, The Western Journal, Default, The Daily Caller, National Review, Fortune, CBS News, Washington Examiner, Arkansas Advocate, New Republic, CNN, KNWA FOX24, Just The News, Fox Business, The National Interest, Washington Monthly and BRIGHT
RELATED:
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Biden administration scales back student debt relief for millions amid legal concerns — The Biden administration is curtailing its sweeping student debt relief program for several million Americans whose federal student loans are owned by private companies over concerns the industry would challenge it in court.
Discussion:
CNBC, NPR, Washington Post, Insider, Bloomberg, Courthouse News Service, WHNT-TV, Political Wire, Heartland Daily News and Banking and Beyond
Darragh Roche / Newsweek:
Prominent Republican Endorses Democrat Against Trump Candidate in Oklahoma — A prominent Oklahoma Republican has formally endorsed a Democrat running for the state's open U.S. Senate seat against her GOP opponent backed by former President Donald Trump. — Kendra Horn, a former member …
Discussion:
Washington Post
RELATED:
James Pindell / The Boston Globe:
Maggie Hassan and Chris Sununu lead Senate and governor races, N.H. poll finds
Maggie Hassan and Chris Sununu lead Senate and governor races, N.H. poll finds
Discussion:
Meredith College, No More Mister Nice Blog, Axios, Fox News and The Hill
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
How Big Will the GOP House Majority Be After the Midterms?
How Big Will the GOP House Majority Be After the Midterms?
Discussion:
Associated Press, Plain Dealer, Politico and The Hill
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
What Joe Biden's memory lapse about the late Jackie Walorski really told us — Joe Biden says presidents have ‘a duty to care’ for all Americans. Donald Trump never saw it that way and blamed blue states when tragedy struck. — I shuddered when I learned that President Joe Biden had called …
Discussion:
The Western Journal, HotAir, The Daily Beast, Twitchy, Mediaite, New York Times, Townhall, The Wrap, RedState, RADAR, Breitbart, Commentary Magazine, FOX News Radio, IJR, NBC News, Fox News, Insider and Washington Times
RELATED:
Freddy Brewster / Los Angeles Times:
Why is the Senate race between J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan in red state Ohio so close? — Former President Trump won this state twice, each time by more than 8 percentage points. — Judging by that record, you might think that J.D. Vance, the Republican venture capitalist and author Trump endorsed …
Discussion:
Washington Free Beacon, Townhall, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Plain Dealer, Fox News, USA Today and The Hill
RELATED:
Bolts:
Your Guide to All 35 States Deciding Their Next Secretary of State
Your Guide to All 35 States Deciding Their Next Secretary of State
Discussion:
FiveThirtyEight
Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Conservative activists in Georgia wage campaign to purge voter rolls ahead of November's election
Conservative activists in Georgia wage campaign to purge voter rolls ahead of November's election
Discussion:
God's Politics with Jim Wallis, Raw Story, American Prospect and New York Times
The Times:
Labour surges to 33-point lead over Tories in YouGov poll … Labour has surged to a 33-point poll lead over the Conservatives after a week of market turmoil triggered by Liz Truss's tax-cutting budget. — The YouGov poll for The Times finds Tory support has fallen by seven points …
Discussion:
Politico, Bloomberg, Metro.co.uk, Guido Fawkes, Samizdata, RedState and YouGov
U.S. Department of Justice:
Russian Oligarch Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska And Associates Indicted For Sanctions Evasion And Obstruction Of Justice — New Jersey Resident Olga Shriki Arrested for Her Role in Facilitating Illicit Travel by Deripaska's Girlfriend and in Real Estate Transactions
Discussion:
The Hill, UPI, Just The News, Raw Story, emptywheel, Political Wire and Rolling Stone
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Belittled Jared Kushner In Front Of Aides With ‘Deliverance’ Jibe: Book — It was one of a series of disparaging comments the then-president made about his son-in-law, according to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. — Donald Trump openly mocked his son-in-law …
Zachary T. Sampson / Tampa Bay Times:
Section of Sanibel Causeway wiped out by Hurricane Ian — On the ground in southwest Florida, a Tampa Bay Times reporter and photographer bring eyewitness accounts. — Photojournalist Douglas R. Clifford and I left our hotel room in Fort Myers late Wednesday night and have been searching …
Kenneth L. Marcus / Jewish Journal:
Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones — https://jewishjournal.com/wp-content/ uploads/speaker/post-351854.mp3?cb= 1664388288.mp3 — If it wasn't so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim to a deeper moral shame.
Washington Post:
Trump's paid-speeches organizer is struggling financially — A company that puts on for-profit Trump rallies, including an upcoming Mar-a-Lago gala and multimillion-dollar fees for the former president, is having trouble paying its bills — A company that organized a lucrative series …
Discussion:
Raw Story, Balloon Juice and Political Wire
Reuters:
America's Throwaway Spies — The spy was minutes from leaving Iran when he was nabbed. — Gholamreza Hosseini was at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran in late 2010, preparing for a flight to Bangkok. There, the Iranian industrial engineer would meet his Central Intelligence Agency handlers.
Discussion:
The Guardian, more at Techmeme »
Politico:
Justices shield spouses' work from potential conflict of interest disclosures — A year after Amy Coney Barrett joined the Supreme Court, the boutique Indiana firm SouthBank Legal opened its first-ever Washington office in Penn Quarter, a move the firm hailed in a 2021 press release as an “important milestone.”
New York Times:
Trump Lawyer Boris Epshteyn Appears Before Atlanta Grand Jury — One of former President Donald J. Trump's most prominent lawyers, Mr. Epshteyn was involved in efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power despite his loss in 2020. — Boris Epshteyn, one of former President Donald J. Trump's most prominent lawyers …
Discussion:
CNN
Joey Garrison / USA Today:
Vice President Harris mistakenly touts US ‘alliance with the Republic of North Korea’ — WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris mistakenly touted the U.S. “alliance with the Republic of North Korea” in remarks Thursday from Korea's Demilitarized Zone that sought to reaffirm America's commitment to the security of its Asian allies.
Discussion:
Fox News, Korea Joongang Daily, American Greatness, Associated Press, The Western Journal, The Daily Wire, Washington Times, New York Post, CBS News, IJR, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, RedState, The Post Millennial, Twitchy, Political Wire, Mediaite, Townhall, Just The News and Washington Examiner
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Two Migrants Shot Along Roadway in Rural Texas — A local jail warden in Hudspeth County is one of two men arrested in connection with the attack south of El Paso, a law enforcement official said. — HOUSTON — Two unauthorized migrants were shot, one of them fatally …
NATO:
Statement by the North Atlantic Council on the damage to gas pipelines — The NATO Invitees associate themselves with this Statement. — The damage to the Nordstream 1 and Nordstream 2 pipelines in international waters in the Baltic Sea is of deep concern.
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
YouTube Demonetizes TK Content — A brief note to subscribers about YouTube's decision to demonetize TK material, saying Matt Orfalea's factual video “isn't suitable for all advertisers” — Today we're releasing a video Matt Orfalea has been working on, showing years of audio and video clips …
Discussion:
The Federalist, Twitchy and Newsbusters
Jessica Taylor / Cook Political Report:
Four Governor Ratings Shift in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Oklahoma and Ohio — At the outset of this gubernatorial cycle, we fully expected perpetual swing states like Pennsylvania and Michigan to be in the Toss Up column all the way until Election Day. With Democrats facing national headwinds …
Discussion:
The Hill
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Remember the Time Trump Wanted the Navy to Hide the USS John McCain? — It's a thing that happened. — TNB tonight: Me. Tim-O. Turn up the dark, motherforker. — 1. He Is Who We Thought He Was — Before we get started: The damage from Hurricane Ian in Florida looks very bad.
Discussion:
Washington Post and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Manu Raju / CNN:
‘This is not the best job in the world’: Manchin says he hasn't made any decisions on running again — Sen. Joe Manchin has wielded his power more than any other senator in the 50-50 Senate - but whether he wants to do it for six more years is still a question.
Discussion:
Fox News
Warren Rojas / Insider:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein chides staffers as they race to prep her for stopgap government funding vote: 'I don't even know what that is' — Dianne Feinstein got angry with aides trying to debrief her about a pending vote on Thursday. — “I don't even know what that is,” …
Discussion:
Political Wire
Angelina Chapin / The Cut:
The Dads Who Got Woke After Roe Fell — John barely slept in the days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer. When he first saw the news, he immediately thought of his daughter, who had just turned 8, and how he'd do anything to protect her.
James Kirchick / The Atlantic:
How the Anti-war Camp Went Intellectually Bankrupt — In 1942, answering a pacifist opponent of British involvement in the Second World War, George Orwell replied that “pacifism is objectively pro-fascist.” There have of course been many times in human history when opposition to war …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Does Anyone Still Care about the Lincoln Project? — On the menu today: Was anyone asking for a five-part docuseries about the Lincoln Project? Whether you want one or not, Showtime unveiled the trailer yesterday. So fine, let's talk about the Lincoln Project — its scandals …
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
30 ex-FBI agents stand up to support whistleblower who exposed agency's political bias — MORE FROM: — Thirty former FBI agents, including a retired deputy assistant director, head of counterterrorism and five SWAT team members, have spoken out publicly in support of suspended FBI whistleblower Stephen Friend.
Discussion:
The Daily Caller and The Western Journal
Washington Post:
In a first, U.S. appoints a diplomat for plants and animals — Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202! Dino Grandoni, a national environment reporter for The Washington Post, wrote the top of today's newsletter. Below we have the latest on Hurricane Ian's devastating impact in Florida.
Discussion:
Washington Free Beacon, Insider, RedState, IJR, NewsNation, CBS News, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, The Hill, Forbes, twitchy.com, Townhall, Mercury News and FreightWaves