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Documents detail plans to gut Twitter's workforce — Previously unreported details shed new light on Twitter's motivations for selling the company — and Elon Musk's plans to transform it — Twitter's workforce is likely to be hit with massive cuts in the coming months, no matter who owns the company …
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Bloomberg:
Twitter, Musk Talks Warm Up as Buyout Closing Deadline Nears — Advisers to Twitter Inc. and Elon Musk are hard at work trying to get the $44 billion deal closed by the end of the month, according to people familiar with the matter. — Both sides' bankers and lawyers are preparing paperwork …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump adviser Kash Patel has appeared before grand jury in Mar-a-Lago document probe — Kash Patel, a top adviser to former President Donald Trump who has been deeply involved in disputes over classified records Trump kept from his presidency, appeared recently …
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Raw Story, PoliticusUSA, Political Wire, Occupy Democrats and Mediaite
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CNN:
Loeffler, Cipollone testify to grand jury in Georgia — Prosecutors in Georgia have secured grand jury testimony from two prominent witnesses - former US Sen. Kelly Loeffler and former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone - in their investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in that state …
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NBC News, MyNorthwest.com, The Hill, Insider, Mediaite, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Politico:
Loeffler's texts post-2020 election go public, raising new investigative questions — A log of text messages sent and received by former Sen. Kelly Loeffler during the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is raising questions about potentially unauthorized access to investigative material relevant …
Logan Gay / WALV-TV:
Parents stunned by Zionsville school board candidate's comment on Nazis — Dr. Matt Keefer commented on a Facebook post that, “All Nazis weren't ‘bad’ as you specify. They did horrible things. They were in a group frenzy.” — ZIONSVILLE, Ind. — Hilary Heffernan is paying close attention to the school board race in Zionsville.
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KFTC-TV:
InsiderAdvantage/FOX 29 poll: Fetterman, Oz neck and neck as Shapiro's lead over Mastriano narrows — PHILADELPHIA - As Election Day nears, a new InsiderAdvantage/FOX 29 poll shows Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz has gained ground on Democratic nominee John Fetterman in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Rick Scott: Senate Republicans have path to 55-seat majority — GREENSBORO, N.C. — National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (Fla.) says Republicans will likely control 52 Senate seats next year and have a pathway to a 55-seat majority, given how recent polls show GOP candidates picking up momentum.
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Lauren Leone / WHEC.com:
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Race for NY governor tightens as midterm election approaches
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Race for NY governor tightens as midterm election approaches
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The growing warning signs for Democrats in 2022
The growing warning signs for Democrats in 2022
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Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens — The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users' devices without their knowledge or consent.
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Politico:
Parler was jubilant about Kanye West buying it. Then the problems started. — On the afternoon that Parler, a social media platform popular with conservatives, announced its acquisition by Ye, better known as Kanye West, the site emailed hundreds of VIP members to excitedly share the news.
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Kevin Spacey found not liable in sex abuse suit brought by Anthony Rapp — Spacey flatly denied Rapp's allegations, saying under oath that “they are not true.” His lawyers argued that Rapp “created a story” in large part because he was jealous of their client's success in the entertainment industry.
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Sonia Rao / Washington Post:
Kevin Spacey found not liable in Anthony Rapp sexual assault lawsuit
Kevin Spacey found not liable in Anthony Rapp sexual assault lawsuit
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Vanessa Romo / NPR:
A high school student's mural angers parents over what they say are hidden messages — School district officials and a high school student in Michigan have drawn the ire of parents who allege that a painted mural contains LGBTQ propaganda, a depiction of Satan and a message of witchcraft.
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Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy's ugly new Ukraine threats should prod Democrats to act — We learned this week that a Republican-controlled House could very well move to oppose continued U.S. military aid to Ukraine. In response, a few voices have arisen — including ones from inside the Biden administration …
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham must testify in 2020 election investigation, court rules — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) must appear before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible attempts by former president Donald Trump and his allies to disrupt the state's 2020 presidential election, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
The Times:
Liz Truss resigns as prime minister — follow latest … Liz Truss has announced she is resigning after 44 days in office, becoming the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. — She announced that she would stand down after losing the confidence of Tory MPs and cabinet ministers.
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New York Times:
Conservatives Scramble to Replace Liz Truss as U.K. Leader
Conservatives Scramble to Replace Liz Truss as U.K. Leader
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Dominique Mosbergen / Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Vaccines Should Be Among Regular Immunizations, CDC Advisers Say — Shots would be part of agency's lists of recommended measles, tetanus and other inoculations — Covid Vaccines Could Mirror the Flu Shot Process. Here's What That Means — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
Daniel Smith, one of the last children of enslaved Americans, dies at 90 — He grew up hearing stories from his father, who was born into bondage during the Civil War. Decades later, he marched in Washington and Selma with fellow civil rights activists. — Growing up in the 1930s …
Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Saudis Sought Oil Production Cut So Deep It Surprised Even Russia … The Saudi-led oil cartel OPEC+'s announcement earlier this month that it was cutting 2 million barrels of oil per day — a move that would drive up the price of oil just a month before midterm elections — rankled Democrats in Washington.
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The Liberty Loft, Political Wire, Axios and The Hill
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Liz Truss's resignation is a warning for Republicans — The resignation of British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday morning puts an end to a month of economic and political turmoil. Republicans should take note of her mistakes if they want to avoid a similar debacle after the midterms and in 2024.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
Laura Wagner / Defector:
Semafor Is The Problem — All around the world, and especially in the United States, widening economic inequality, deep sociological divides, pathetic political systems, rapacious capitalism, and failing public institutions have stripped concepts like the common good, democracy, and progress of any broadly shared meaning.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
‘Gaffes’ aside, I once assumed GOP goodwill on race. I was wrong. — What does the return of unvarnished racism to the center of our political culture mean? — For decades, the Martinez model of scandal has been the (more or less) typical response to gaffe-revealed racism in both parties.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Newsmax Bans Lara Logan After She Goes Full QAnon, Spews Blood Libel on Network — “Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan,” the network said in a statement. “We have no plans to interview her again.” — Nearly a year after she was kicked …
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Washington Post:
Alleged voter intimidation at Arizona drop box puts officials on watch — Secretary of State Katie Hobbs referred to federal and state authorities a report from a voter claiming harassment — PHOENIX — The report landed in the Arizona secretary of state's online portal Monday night, around dinnertime.
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives — The conservative project has failed, and conservatives need to forge a new political identity that reflects our revolutionary moment. — Given the state of America in 2022, conservatives should stop calling themselves conservatives. — Why?
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Putin's war crimes victims are joining forces — and they want him behind bars — Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces have committed countless war crimes over the past decade in Syria. Now, he is putting the very same people, weapons and tactics implicated in those atrocities to fresh use in Ukraine.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jacobin and New York Times
Josh Barro / Very Serious:
What the US Can Learn from the Fall of Liz Truss — We're even less ready than Britain for a conversation about fiscal austerity. — Dear readers, — Liz Truss's term as UK prime minister and head of the Conservative Party did not outlast the head of lettuce.1 Her economic plan …
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The Guardian, The Atlantic and The Hill
Jim Small / Arizona Mirror:
The ‘most important person’ on Kari Lake's campaign mocked Native Americans in racist tweet — Kari Lake at a campaign event in Scottsdale on Oct. 19, 2022. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror — Kari Lake's campaign manager likened all Native Americans to bloodthirsty savages …
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New Republic
Adam Andrzejewski / OpenTheBooks Substack:
HISTORIC RELEASE: Dr. Anthony Fauci's Official Work Calendar (November 2019 - March 2020) — An hour-by-hour timeline of who Dr. Fauci was talking to, what he was doing, and where his meetings were in the months before and after the public disclosure of the pandemic.
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Unreported Truths
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
‘Bless His Heart’: Jeb Bush Responds to Trump's False Allegation About His Father's Handling of Government Documents — Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) shrugged off former President Donald Trump's suggestion that his father George H.W. Bush mishandled government documents upon leaving office.
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The Dispatch
Emily Jashinsky / The Federalist:
McCarthy In The Middle: How The Last ‘Young Gun’ Sought To Rebuild Conservative Trust As Pelosi Went Scorched Earth — Pelosi's band of Democrats burned down the House. But Kevin McCarthy is standing in the rubble, and he's making plans to rebuild. — It's mid-September and Kevin McCarthy has baseball on the brain.
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