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8:10 PM ET, October 31, 2022

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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.

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 …

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.

Discussion: Insider, Mediaite, Samizdata, The Daily Beast, Yahoo News, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Hill, HuffPost, Gizmodo, Rolling Stone, Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit and Morning Shots

New York Times:
Suspect in Attack on Pelosi Home Charged With Assault and Attempted Kidnapping

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, New York Post, CNBC, CNN, The Post Millennial, DNyuz, The Hill, Sacramento Bee, Al Jazeera, Metro.co.uk, The Daily Caller and Forbes

Rebecca Kern / Politico:
Musk's Twitter: ‘This is exactly what many of us were worried about’

Discussion: The Guardian, CNN, NPR, The Atlantic, Politico, KTLA and The Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »

Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
DA dismisses conspiracies in Pelosi attack, charges expected

Discussion: Washington Examiner, New York Post, Fox News, Associated Press, Raw Story, Just The News, CBS News, NBC Bay Area and DNyuz

Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: Attack on Paul Pelosi a ‘terrible thing’

Discussion: CNN, Fox News, Mediaite, Forbes, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, CD Media, New York Post, Washington Examiner, Lucianne, FOX8 WGHP and Insider

Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
The right-wing ecosystem that created the Paul Pelosi conspiracy theory

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, New Republic, The Western Journal, Mother Jones, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, PinkNews, Yahoo, VICE and CBS News

J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:
Paul Pelosi attacker wanted to break Nancy Pelosi's kneecaps to send message to Democrats: DOJ

Discussion: The Hill, RedState, The Guardian, Insider, Associated Press, Roll Call, Mercury News, Talking Points Memo, TMZ.com, KARK-TV, Fox News, Washington Times, New York Post, Michigan Advance, NewsNation, Raw Story and Los Angeles Times

Siva Vaidhyanathan / The Guardian:
Like Trump, Elon Musk reveals a vapid mind super-charged by wealth and ego

Discussion: New York Times, Associated Press, Insider and DNyuz

Washington Post:
Alleged Pelosi attacker now faces federal and state charges

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Examiner, Vanity Fair, Insider, National Review, CBS News and Political Wire

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 …

Discussion: The Post Millennial, RedState, National Review, The American Stoic's …, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Newsbusters, HotAir, Reason, Twitchy, Carrie's Gazebo, Ace of Spades HQ, Washington Examiner, Clandestine's Newsletter and Steve Bannon's War Room, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: HotAir, New York Post, National Review, DNyuz, Washington Times, Raw Story, CNBC, PoliticusUSA, WHTM-TV, The Forward, Bloomberg, Right Wing Watch, Outside the Beltway and Politico

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.

Discussion: Sabato's Crystal Ball, Breitbart, Mediaite, HotAir, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Hill, Washington Examiner, FiveThirtyEight and Political Wire

Tabitha Mueller / The Nevada Independent:
Poll: Sisolak, Cortez Masto narrowly lead GOP opponents in days ahead of election

Discussion: New York Times, The Hill and Political Wire

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Politico, HotAir, The Post Millennial, The Daily Caller, New York Post, DNyuz, The National Interest, The Western Journal, Insider, National Review, Breitbart, Mediaite, Washington Examiner and IJR

Associated Press:
AP source: Biden to float windfall tax on energy producers

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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Biden threatens oil companies with ‘higher tax’ if they don't increase production

Discussion: Bloomberg, National Review, Just The News, New York Post and One America News Network

Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:

Feds Hit Parler With Search Warrants for Enrique Tarrio and Other Proud Boys, New Court Filings Reveal — A new evidence list in the Proud Boys' seditious conspiracy case suggests a sweeping federal investigation into the far-right group. — A new evidence list in the Proud Boys January 6 trial shows …

Discussion: Raw Story and Rolling Stone

Charles Rabin / Miami Herald:
3 ex-Proud Boys hired as Miami-Dade poll workers. Insurrection indictment costs 1 the job

Discussion: Raw Story

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.

Discussion: Daily Mail, Bloomberg, The Hill, The Sun, The Liberty Loft, Reuters, Just The News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, TechCrunch, The Wrap, The Post Millennial, Lucianne and NDTV, more at Techmeme »

Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:

I Watched J.D. Vance Try to Charm Voters in Ohio. I Finally Get Why He's So Angry. — I watched the Hillbilly Elegy author campaign in Ohio. It has not gone according to plan. — A t — a pancake breakfast in the southwest Ohio city of Loveland in late September, I waited through 90 minutes of speeches for J.D. Vance.

Discussion: Breitbart, Lawyers, Guns & Money and New Statesman

Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Company Backed by J.D. Vance Gives Platform for Russian Propaganda

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Media Matters for America

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:

Republicans have made violence part of their brand — Political violence is not an unintended consequence of the MAGA movement. Much like Nike's swoosh, it is at the center of the movement's brand. — Remember this when considering the intruder who, hyped up on the conspiracy theories Republicans bandy …

Discussion: New York Times, Power Line and Raw Story

Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Paul Pelosi Almost Died, and Most Republicans Don't Have a Big Problem With That

Discussion: TheBlaze, Newsweek, Boing Boing, Fox News and The Wrap

Emily Oster / The Atlantic:

Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty — We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID. — In April 2020, with nothing else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I had made myself.

Discussion: HotAir, RedState, Big League Politics, The Post Millennial, Twitchy and The Daily Wire

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 …

Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Washington Examiner, Raw Story and The Torch Report

David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
GOP 2024 primary set to begin with conference featuring several contenders, but not Trump

Discussion: Raw Story

Axios:

Scoop: Musk team working to reboot Vine this year — Elon Musk has instructed Twitter engineers to work on a Vine reboot that could be ready by year end, multiple sources tell Axios. … - Twitter reportedly tried to sell Vine shortly after. … - One source says “it needs a lot of work.”

Discussion: The Daily Caller, DNyuz, The Verge, The Wrap, The Western Journal, BizPac Review, Hollywood Unlocked, TechCrunch, The A.V. Club, Consequence, Mashable and Bloomberg, more at Mediagazer »

Ally Mutnick / Politico:

Democrats rush aid to deep-blue seat in Upstate New York — House Democrats' top super PAC is making a last-minute buy to aid Rep. Joe Morelle, a New York Democrat in a deep-blue seat — the latest sign that the battle for the House is lurching toward the GOP.

Discussion: HotAir

Sam Metz / Associated Press:
Democrats and tech leaders spend big on independent in Utah

Discussion: Breitbart, City & State New York, Twitchy, Politico and The Guardian

Joshua Green / Washington Post:

Democrats Hate Him, But Elon Musk Might Be Their Savior — Elon Musk took control of Twitter on Friday, adding to the growing misery of Democrats heading into the midterm elections, not least because he's made clear he'll probably allow Donald Trump back onto the platform.

Discussion: New York Post

Lloyd Lee / Insider:

Ohio GOP congressman's niece was among the 154 people killed in a crush of people in South Korea on Halloween weekend — At least 154 people were killed after a crowd surge on Saturday in the Itaewon neighborhood of Seoul. — Most of the victims were in their 20s and 30s, The Associated Press reported.

Discussion: CNN, Associated Press, Cincinnati.com, Fox News, U.S. Representative …, The Korea Herald, The Hill and Just The News

New York Times:

Judge Blocks a Merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster — The government's case blocked the merger of two of the United States' largest publishers and reflected a more aggressive approach to curbing consolidation. It was closely watched by the publishing industry.

Discussion: LAW.com and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »

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.

Discussion: The Guardian, Mediaite, Raw Story, HuffPost, USA Today, The Hill and Washington Examiner

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 …