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5:35 AM ET, November 1, 2022

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Lora Kolodny / CNBC:

Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover — Tesla CEO Elon Musk, now sole director and CEO of Twitter, is asking employees of the social network to redesign their subscription and verification systems within one week. — Musk has authorized dozens …

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Bloomberg:

Twitter Limits Content-Enforcement Tools as US Election Looms — Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used for content moderation and other policy enforcement, curbing the staff's ability to clamp down on misinformation ahead of a major US election.

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Rebecca Kern / Politico:

Musk's Twitter: ‘This is exactly what many of us were worried about’ — A day after Elon Musk seemed to confirm critics' worst fears about his ownership of Twitter by tweeting out right-wing misinformation from his personal account, political leaders and operatives wrestled with a loaded question …

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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.

Axios:
Scoop: Musk team working to reboot Vine this year

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New York Times:

Republicans Continue to Spread Baseless Claims About Pelosi Attack — Some of the conspiracy theories have already seeped into the Republican mainstream. — Donald Trump Jr., the former president's son, continues to post jokes about it. — Dinesh D'Souza, the creator of a discredited film …

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Adam Wren / Politico:
Prominent conservatives share online disinformation about Paul Pelosi assault

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

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Slate:

The Supreme Court Has No Reason to End Affirmative Action. They're Doing It Anyway. — Oral arguments in a pair of much-anticipated cases about the future of affirmative action sprawled over almost six hours on Monday, yet the outcome was obvious within the first 30 minutes …

Scientific American:
Why Scientists Must Stand for Affirmative Action and against Scientific Racism

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Washington Post:
Supreme Court seems open to ending affirmative action in college admissions

Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:

Utah 2022: Senator Mike Lee Holds 10-Point Lead Over Evan McMullin — Home Polls Utah 2022: Senator Mike Lee Holds 10-Point Lead Over Evan McMullin — The latest Emerson College Polling survey of Utah voters finds Republican Mike Lee with 49% support in the race for US Senate …

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Cassidy Johncox / WDIV-TV: Poll: Where Michigan voters stand on Whitmer, Dixon 1 week before election

Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
New Mexico 2022: Lujan Grisham and Ronchetti in Dead Heat for Gubernatorial Election

Discussion: The Hill

Akela Lacy / The Intercept:

AIPAC's First Attack Ad in Midterms Hits Would-Be Squad Member Summer Lee … The flagship pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC is intervening in a race for a House seat that's growing uncomfortably close for Democrats in deep-blue Pittsburgh. And, with its super PAC's first attack ads of the 2022 general election …

Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Democrats rush aid to deep-blue seat in Upstate New York

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

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Jessica Huseman / Votebeat Texas:

Two leaders of True the Vote jailed by federal judge for contempt of court — Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were escorted away after refusing to disclose the name of a mystery man who supposedly helped them investigate election software company Konnech.

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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.

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

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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.

Washington Post:
Accused Pelosi attacker's history shows blurry lines of radicalization

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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.

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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.

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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 Lapin / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:

An evangelical GOP House candidate in Texas wrote a novel about Anne Frank finding Jesus — (JTA) — The Republican nominee for Congress in Texas' 7th district is a self-proclaimed history buff, but his take on Anne Frank is not one that most historians would endorse.

Discussion: Raw Story and No More Mister Nice Blog

New York Times:

After Defeat, Bolsonaro is Silent, and Brazil Braces for Turmoil — President Jair Bolsonaro has not yet recognized his election defeat after months of warning, without evidence, that opponents would rig the vote. — For months, President Jair Bolsonaro claimed the only way he would lose …

Discussion: Vox and DNyuz

Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:

Clinton wants Trump to pay her legal fees after tossed conspiracy lawsuit — Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is asking a federal court to order former President Trump to pay her legal fees over a suit he filed alleging she and others engaged in a conspiracy to undermine …

Discussion: New York Post, Law & Crime, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner and Washington Times

Paige Williams / New Yorker:

The Right-Wing Mothers Fuelling the School-Board Wars — Moms for Liberty claims that teachers are indoctrinating students with dangerous ideologies. But is the group's aim protecting kids—or scaring parents? … In August, 2020, Williamson County Schools, which serves …

Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:

Atlanta Preacher Gives Herschel Walker the Business in Fiery Sunday Sermon — POLITICAL BEHEMOTH — “Y'all ain't ready for me today.” That's how the raucous crowd listening to Atlanta-area pastor Jamal Bryant knew he was on one during his fiery sermon on Sunday, one in which he did not …

Discussion: HuffPost, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Hill

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: NDTV and New York Post

Maggie Astor / New York Times:

Live Updates: Midterm Races Enter the Final Stretch — Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times — Here's the latest from the campaign trail. — It's Halloween, which is good practice for eight days from now, when candidates and voters alike will be up late stress-eating snacks.

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New #Texas polling data just dropped courtesy of e University of Houston. Not good news for Beto. — Pot and gay rights, two of Beto's most vocal policy issues, are the two least important issues to Texas voters. — Remember: these polls never overestimate the popularity of Republicans.