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11:45 PM ET, October 9, 2022

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Racist remarks in leaked audio of L.A. council members spark outrage, disgust — Behind closed doors, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez made openly racist remarks, derided some of her council colleagues and spoke in unusually crass terms about how the city should be carved up politically.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, KTLA, Breitbart, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Wire, New York Post, Power Line, ABC7, America First Report and NOQ Report

Jon Peltz / Knock LA:

Council President Martinez on DA Gascón: 'Fuck That Guy...He's with the Blacks.' — This is a developing story. It will be updated as appropriate. — Earlier this month, an anonymous Reddit account posted several shocking audio recordings. The recordings seem to contain the voices …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

David Mack / BuzzFeed News:

Twitter Has Locked Kanye's Account After He Posted An Antisemitic Tweet — Jewish groups condemned the rapper for his recent posts and statements. — After more than a week of disturbing behavior that has seen him condemned by many (and yet praised by House Republicans) …

Hanna Panreck / Fox News:

Ye locked out of Twitter due to ‘violation’ of policies — Ye has traded public barbs with fellow rappers on social media — Kanye West sets the record straight on his clothing line — Ye's Twitter account was locked on Sunday due to a violation of the social media platform's policies, according to the company.

Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg, Deadline, Billboard, TheBlaze, Gizmodo and Insider

Haaretz:
Kanye West Threatens to Go ‘Death Con 3 on Jewish People’

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Michael Starr / Jerusalem Post:
Kanye West warns Jews about ‘toying’ with him and those opposing ‘agenda’

Discussion: Mediaite, TechCrunch, ABC News, Deadline, Twitchy, Rolling Stone and Forbes

New York Post:

Two shot outside NY gov. hopeful Rep. Lee Zeldin's Long Island home while twin daughters inside — Two people were shot outside the Long Island home of GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin on Sunday while his teenage twin daughters were at home, he confirmed to The Post.

Discussion: National Review, CNN, RedState, Power Line, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Just The News

Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
NY Rep. Lee Zeldin says 2 people shot in front of his home

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Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:

Putin's Regime Faces the Fate of His Kerch Strait Bridge — The attack on the crucial link between Russia and Crimea matters less for its tactical significance and more for what it says about the course of the war. — On Saturday, the Ukrainians hit the Kerch Strait Bridge …

Reuters:
Putin accuses Ukraine of Crimea bridge blast, calls it terrorism

Paul Adams / BBC:
Crimean bridge: Excitement and fear in Ukraine after bridge blast

Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos, NPR, The Western Journal, New York Times, The Hill, The Times of Israel, Breitbart, The Sun, UPI, Wall Street Journal and CBS News

New York Times:

Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Struggles — Meta's push to develop virtual and augmented reality technology has had a bumpy year. — Last October, when Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, announced that the company would change its name …

Discussion: Althouse and ScreenRant

Adam B. Vary / Variety:

Nikki Finke, Deadline Founder and Iconoclastic Journalist, Dies at 68 … Nikki Finke, a tenacious journalist who revolutionized entertainment reporting with what became the Hollywood trade website Deadline, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Fla. after a prolonged illness. She was 68.

Discussion: The Hot Button, Deadline and New York Post

Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
Nikki Finke Dies: Deadline Founder & Longtime Entertainment Journalist Was 68

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Ralph Vartabedian / New York Times:

How California's Bullet Train Went Off the Rails — America's first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.

Discussion: Insider, Breitbart, National Review, Althouse and Power Line

G. Elliott Morris / Democracy:

The polling website where Republicans are winning in a landslide | #206 - October 9, 2022 — A math and history lesson on why “unskewing” the polls is so hard — Over the weekend, a new series of charts appeared on the webpages of RealClearPolitics.com, the right-leaning news aggregation website …

Discussion: Politico

Brad Dress / The Hill:

House Republican defends Tuberville over reparation remark — Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Sunday defended Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) after the senator said Democrats want reparations for minorities because their party is “pro-crime.” — Bacon told NBC's “Meet the Press” …

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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Alabama's Tommy Tuberville injects the ghost of Bull Connor into 2022 midterms

Discussion: al.com, RedState and PoliticusUSA

The Economist:

The war in Ukraine has battered the reputation of Russian spies — As they take greater risks, they are getting caught — Viktor muller ferreira was a young Brazilian with impressive credentials and a big break. Fresh from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington …

New York Post:

NYC feels unsafe ‘for the first time in my life,’ ex-Gov. Paterson says — Former Gov. David Paterson said Sunday that he has never felt less safe in the Big Apple — and warned local Democrats they could be in for an electoral “monsoon” if they don't get crime under control.

Josh Kraushaar / Axios:

Parties starving weak candidates in final midterm crunch — With 30 days until the midterms, party leaders are making ruthless calculations to cut funding for underachieving candidates in a push to sharpen their top targets. In other cases, party committees and super PACs aren't spending …

CBS News:

Ron Johnson and Mandela Barnes in tight Senate race in Wisconsin — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll — It seems like Wisconsin elections are always pretty close these days, and here are two more following that trend. The Senate race has incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson running …

Discussion: RedState, The Hill, Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate, Washington Times, The Daily Wire, Political Wire, Fox News, Breitbart and Wisconsin Examiner

Scott Wilson / Washington Post:

Abortion measure brings a hint of uncertainty to California's midterms — Proposition 1 would add the right to abortion to the state's constitution. Will it also impact tight congressional races? — SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — This is quintessential Southern California suburbia …

Kyle Morris / Fox News:

Jennifer-Ruth Green takes aim at political opposition after Politico publishes records of her sexual assault — Green tells Fox News Digital that Politico ran the information about her assault after she pleaded with them not to do so — Jennifer-Ruth Green, the Republican candidate …

Discussion: RedState, HotAir, Jennifer-Ruth Green … and NOQ Report