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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification … Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.  —  The directive is to change Twitter Blue …
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Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
Elon Musk dissolves Twitter's board and makes himself ‘sole director’  —  Board had previously been made up of nine directors, including ousted chief executive Parag Agrawal  —  Twitter To Start Charging $20 a Month for Verification … Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter's board and made himself the “sole director” of the company.
Siva Vaidhyanathan / The Guardian:
Like Trump, Elon Musk reveals a vapid mind super-charged by wealth and ego  —  Musk, despite his wealth, good fortune and global influence, is not a serious person - but he is toying with dangerous ideas  —  t took less than 48 hours for Elon Musk to reveal just how dangerous his new toy can be to this world.
Washington Post:
Musk's inner circle worked through weekend to cement Twitter layoff plans  —  The first round of layoffs, led by his lawyer Alex Spiro, will target 25 percent of the workforce  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Members of billionaire Elon Musk's inner circle huddled with Twitter's remaining senior executives throughout …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The next big precedent SCOTUS is set to overturn
Discussion: American Errata
U.S. Department of Justice:
Man Charged with Assault and Attempted Kidnapping Following Breaking and Entering of Pelosi Residence  —  A California man was charged today with assault and attempted kidnapping in violation of federal law in connection with the break-in at the residence of Nancy and Paul Pelosi in San Francisco on Friday.
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Prominent conservatives share online disinformation about Paul Pelosi assault  —  Even as Republican leaders condemn the brutal assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, other GOP figures are broadcasting a much different message on social media — at turns downplaying, mocking and trading in disinformation about the attack.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: Attack on Paul Pelosi a ‘terrible thing’
New York Times:
Senate Control Hinges on Neck-and-Neck Races, Times/Siena Poll Finds  —  The contests are close in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania.  Many voters want Republicans to flip the Senate, but prefer the Democrat in their state.  —  Control of the Senate rests on a knife's edge …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Final AJC midterm poll: Kemp leads Abrams, deadlocked Senate race  —  Gov. Brian Kemp maintains a solid lead over Democrat Stacey Abrams in the latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll, while the race between U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker remains a neck-and-neck contest that could be headed toward a runoff.
The Intercept:
Leaked Documents Outline DHS's Plans to Police Disinformation  —  The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found.  Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents …
NBC News:
Biden lost temper with Zelenskyy in June phone call when Ukrainian leader asked for more aid  —  It's become routine since Russia invaded Ukraine: President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak by phone whenever the U.S. announces a new package of military assistance for Kyiv.
Washington Post:
Why Bolsonaro's stunning loss should give humans a glimmer of hope  —  One of the ugliest pathologies in global politics at the moment is the bizarre connection between climate denialism and right-wing authoritarianism.  With some exceptions, authoritarian politicians are the ones most prone …
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Jack Nicas / Reuters:
Lula's victory likely means big changes for Brazil, though his specific plans are vague.
Mike Allen / Axios:
First look: Mike Pence's new book reveals key moment before Jan. 6  —  In former Vice President Mike Pence's “So Help Me God” — out Nov. 15 — he describes a scene in November 2020, just after the election, when he and former President Trump met in the Oval Office to review legal challenges with the campaign's lawyers.
Nora Mishanec / San Francisco Chronicle:
Ex-girlfriend of suspect in Paul Pelosi attack says he struggled with mental illness, drugs, believed he was ‘Jesus for a year’  —  The imprisoned longtime partner of David DePape, the suspect in the attack on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, said Sunday that mental illness …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
The Michigan race testing the limits of a GOP wave  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — John Gibbs is a Harvard- and Stanford-educated computer scientist and Christian missionary.  He is also a pro-Trump conservative who years ago suggested that women should not have the right to vote …
Discussion: Raw Story and Reason
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Rolling Stone:
Dr. Oz's Campaign Is Stocked With Jan. 6ers
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Trump asks Supreme Court to stop IRS from turning over his tax returns to the House  —  Former President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to put on hold the release of his tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service to a Democratic-led House committee.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP bracing for Trump indictment soon after Election Day  —  Republican aides and strategists privately expect Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue an indictment of former President Trump within 60 to 90 days after Election Day, predicting the window for prosecuting Trump will close once …
Max Tani / Semafor:
ProPublica scrambles to check translation in COVID origin story  —  In the days after ProPublica published a searing expose based on a close reading of Communist Party memoranda in Mandarin, it called in at least two translators, according to three people familiar with the exchanges.
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Alex Burness / Bolts:
‘The Arpaio of the East’ Faces His First Opponent in 12 Years.  Is Anyone Watching?  —  The official line was that Mark Trafton's suicide came out of nowhere.  —  A guard found Trafton hanging in his cell just before 5 a.m. on May 3, 2019, inside the Ash Street Jail in New Bedford …
David Weigel / Semafor:
Happy Halloween, there's a candy-colored fentanyl scare on the campaign trail  —  MESA, Ariz. - It was the talk of Republican candidates over Halloween weekend: A rumor that their trick-or-treating kids might get candy-colored fentanyl from strangers.  —  “The cartels, they're dressing …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
In final debate, Kemp won't say whether he'd sign new abortion limits  —  Gov. Brian Kemp wouldn't say at Sunday's Channel 2 Action News debate whether he would sign new abortion limits into law if he's elected to a second term, weeks after he said at a previous showdown that he “would not” …
Associated Press:
AP source: Biden to float windfall tax on energy producers  —  President Joe Biden on Monday will raise the possibility of imposing a ‘windfall tax’ on energy companies, as his administration aims to combat high gas prices just days before the midterm elections.
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast:
‘Lady of the Dunes’: Handless Body Identified 48 Years After Cape Cod Slaying  —  An unidentifiable corpse was found in the sand dunes outside Provincetown on July 26, 1974.  Detectives were able to say her name for the first time on Monday.  —  Breaking News Intern
 
 
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U.S. Supreme Court conservatives lean against race-conscious student admissions
Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica:
A County Elections Director Stood Up to Locals Who Believe the Voting System Is Rigged. They Pushed Back Harder.
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
Curbing inflation comes first, but we can't stop there
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Crime Wave That Republicans Defend
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Ben Leonard / Politico:
FDA says providers offering medication abortion before pregnancy have gone rogue
Lawrence Mower / Tampa Bay Times:
After voter fraud arrests, Florida issues new forms that could bolster future cases
Discussion: Raw Story
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Republican donors are being forced into an agonizing choice between Trump and DeSantis
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Rich Lowry / National Review:
January 6 Did Not Attack Paul Pelosi
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Right-wing ‘zombie’ papers attack Illinois Democrats ahead of elections
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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Laxalt campaign paid thousands to political operative linked to Twitter account that denigrated Jews, women
Discussion: Axios
 

 
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