Top Items:
Los Angeles Times:
Accused Pelosi attacker David DePape spread QAnon, other far-right, bigoted conspiracies — In the months before police accused him of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, David DePape had been drifting further into the world of far-right conspiracies, antisemitism and hate …
Discussion:
Politico, Slate, New York Post, Bloomberg, Fox News, NBC News, Insider, CNN, The Guardian, Reuters, Forbes and Washington Post
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband follows years of GOP demonizing her — A man with right-wing views who broke into the House speaker's home yelled “Where is Nancy?” before assaulting Paul Pelosi with a hammer, police say. — In 2010, Republicans launched a “Fire Pelosi” project …
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Pelosi Attack Highlights Rising Fears of Political Violence — The assault of the House speaker's husband inside their home comes as threats against members of Congress have increased in recent years. — WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have watched warily in recent years as threats …
Discussion:
Associated Press, HuffPost, Washington Post, Axios, ABC7, ABC News, The Hill, CNN, Bloomberg, Roll Call, CBS News and Los Angeles Times
Tess Owen / VICE:
Man Accused of Attacking Nancy Pelosi's Husband Left Trail of Far-Right Hate — VICE News identified several blogs under the name of the suspect that espoused far-right conspiracy theories, racism, and sexism. — TO — KH — The man who allegedly broke into Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home …
Discussion:
New York Times, National Review and San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle:
What we know about David DePape, man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer — LIVE UPDATES: Suspect David DePape lived with group who believed 9/11 was ‘inside job’ — Law enforcement have identified David DePape, 42, as a suspect in the Friday morning home invasion violent attack on Paul Pelosi.
CNN:
Alleged Paul Pelosi attacker posted multiple conspiracy theories
Alleged Paul Pelosi attacker posted multiple conspiracy theories
Discussion:
Michael Shellenberger, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, San Francisco Police …, KTVU-TV, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, The Times of Israel, WFLA-TV, Insider, Fresno Bee, Fox News, NBC News, Daily Mail, Breitbart, Lucianne, Mercury News, The Guardian, The Daily Wire, The Daily Dot, Sacramento Bee, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Media Matters for America, The Mahablog, Balloon Juice, Raw Story and New Jersey Globe
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / MSNBC:
The attack on Paul Pelosi was shocking — and yet also predictable
The attack on Paul Pelosi was shocking — and yet also predictable
Discussion:
HuffPost, Axios, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Raw Story, New York Post, The Hill, Bloomberg, Steady, CNN, Breitbart, KTLA and RedState
Ron Kampeas / The Times of Israel:
Man accused of attacking Pelosi's husband had spread conspiracy theories about Jews
Man accused of attacking Pelosi's husband had spread conspiracy theories about Jews
Discussion:
HuffPost, NBC News, CBS News, ABC7, Rolling Stone and Los Angeles Times
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Musk's Twitter Roils With Hate Speech as Trolls Test New Limits — In the wake of Elon Musk buying Twitter Inc., a tide of slurs and racist memes swelled on the platform, sparking concern that the site is entering an era of hateful speech. — Twitter has long wrestled …
Discussion:
VICE, TheBlaze, Balloon Juice, Washington Post, Albuquerque Journal, The Federalist, Breitbart, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Mediaite, RedState, Rolling Stone, Occupy Democrats, NPR, The Daily Wire, The Times of Israel, The Daily Beast, The Wrap, NBC News, Metro.co.uk, New York Post, Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, Deadline, The Western Journal, Blogs of War, Gizmodo, New York Times, Politico, The Verge, Raw Story, The Hill, The Daily Caller and CNN, more at Techmeme »
RELATED:
CNBC:
GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover — General Motors is suspending its advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk's takeover of the social media platform. — “We are engaging with Twitter to understand the direction of the platform under their new ownership,” GM said.
Discussion:
The Guardian, Forbes, Variety, One America News Network, Axios, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, World Socialist Web Site, Washington Examiner, PBS NewsHour, Wired, Fortune, Slate, TechCrunch, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit, The Register, Page Six, Techdirt, The A.V. Club, Al Jazeera, TASS, The Hill, CNN and Just The News, more at Mediagazer »
Politico:
'I think it's an earthquake': The political world reckons with a Musk-owned Twitter
'I think it's an earthquake': The political world reckons with a Musk-owned Twitter
Discussion:
Platformer, Wired, New York Post, GETTR, HuffPost, The Intercept, TheBlaze, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, Axios, The Hollywood Reporter, Gizmodo, Fortune, Reuters, Hollywood Unlocked, Mediaite, IJR, The Verge, CBS News, New Republic, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, Observations In Blackness, Washington Times, The Hill, The Daily Wire, Bloomberg, ABC7, Insider, The Daily Caller, Associated Press, Albuquerque Journal, The Western Journal, Metro.co.uk, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Fox Business, One America News Network and The Japan News, more at Techmeme »
Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
It's 2024. Trump Backers Won't Certify the Election. What Next, Legally? — The question is most urgent in Arizona, where two of the former president's loyalists may well become governor and secretary of state. — It's a nightmare scenario for American democracy …
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, Washington Times, ABC News, Bloomberg and NBC News
RELATED:
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Governor's Races Enter Final Sprint on a Scrambled, Surprising Map
Governor's Races Enter Final Sprint on a Scrambled, Surprising Map
Discussion:
Washington Examiner
Herb Scribner / Axios:
U.S. faces “environment of fascism” ahead of 2022 midterms, AOC says — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said in an interview with MSNBC Friday that the United States is “facing an environment of fascism” similar to the days of Jim Crow in the leadup to the 2022 midterms.
RELATED:
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
American Jews start to think the unthinkable — On the holiest night of the Jewish year earlier this month, my rabbi looked up from his Kol Nidre sermon — a homily about protecting America's liberal democracy — and posed a question that wasn't in his prepared text: “How many people …
Discussion:
American Prospect and Associated Press
Evita Duffy / The Federalist:
John Fetterman's ‘Trump-Voting Republican’ Parents Are Card-Carrying Democrats — It appears Democrat Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's “Trump-voting Republican” parents are not Trump-voting Republicans, but card-carrying Democrats. In an apparent attempt to paint himself …
Discussion:
New York Post
RELATED:
CBS News:
Man convicted of 1983 murder cleared after spending nearly four decades in prison — A 69-year-old man who has spent nearly the last four decades in prison after being convicted of murder was freed on Friday, after new evidence exonerated him from the crime.
Benjamin Lindsay / The Wrap:
Penguin Random House Staffers, Others Call for Canceling of Amy Coney Barrett Memoir … Hundreds of Penguin Random House staffers and other literary professionals are calling on the publishing company to cut ties with Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and to cancel her upcoming book.
Discussion:
National Review, The American Conservative, Fox News, Mediaite and IJR, more at Mediagazer »
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
The British Barack Obama? — The unlikely rise of Rishi Sunak — and the American left's staggering silence. — In his inimitable way, Joe Biden this week celebrated the rather remarkable fact the the new Conservative prime minister in Britain is the grandson of Indian immigrants:
Discussion:
New York Times
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
U.S. Releases Guantánamo's Oldest Prisoner — Saifullah Paracha, 75, was accused of being a Qaeda sympathizer and was held for two decades. But he was never charged with a crime. — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The United States has released the U.S. military's oldest prisoner …
Discussion:
Associated Press, NPR, The Mourning and Al Jazeera
Sarah Mearhoff / VTDigger:
‘So blatantly illegal’: Liam Madden admits to funneling money through family to inflate campaign finance numbers — Liam Madden, the Republican nominee in the open race for Vermont's lone seat in the U.S. House, during a radio interview Thursday morning described in detail a self-funded scheme …
Wall Street Journal:
Iranian Drones in Ukraine Project Tehran's Power Beyond Mideast, Testing U.S., Europe — Wave of Russian attacks highlights how sanctions failed to stop Tehran from building a drone army that can arm proxies and friendly governments — Russia's expanding use of Iranian drones in Ukraine poses …
Discussion:
Washington Post, middleeastmonitor.com, Informed Comment, Washington Examiner and RedState
Jonathan M. Katz / The Racket:
James Bennet and the rewriting of 2020 — Sometimes, history changes unexpectedly toward the good. And then, powerful people with something to lose try to change it back. — Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple contributed to the latter yesterday when he published a column titled “James Bennet was right.”
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Singal-Minded, INDIGNITY, Breitbart, National Review, Mediaite and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years — Despite the discovery, the work, titled New York City I, will continue to be displayed the wrong way up to avoid damaging it — Mondrian painting wrong on the left and correct on the right — A painting by abstract Dutch …
Discussion:
The Times of Israel, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Gothamist, nltimes.nl and Boing Boing
Yahoo News:
As temperatures begin to fall, Russia steps up attacks on Ukraine's vulnerable power grid — KYIV — Large parts of the Ukrainian capital have been experiencing rolling blackouts in recent weeks, after increased Russian attacks over the past month that have destroyed an estimated 30% of Ukraine's power and heating generation capacity.
Discussion:
The Times of Israel and The Guardian
Articles and Investigations:
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab — The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic's onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal. Tracing the evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica give …
Discussion:
Marginal REVOLUTION, New York Post, The Honest Broker, HotAir, National Review, TheBlaze, The Daily Sceptic and RedState