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Twitter, cut in half — I. The Snap — The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday. — For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes of hearing something directly from their new owner. Instead, they had heard only from Elon Musk's intermediaries, and even then usually not directly.
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NBC News:
Days before the midterms, Twitter lays off employees who fight misinformation
Days before the midterms, Twitter lays off employees who fight misinformation
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The Post Millennial, Reuters, Stop Hate for Profit, NDTV, The Guardian, Insider, Mother Jones, One America News Network, Mashable, TechCrunch, Plain Dealer, New Republic and TheBlaze
The Verge:
Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted
Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted
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Jason Koebler / VICE:
Twitter Recommends Ye as Top Follow on ‘The Jews’ as Company Does Mass Layoffs
Twitter Recommends Ye as Top Follow on ‘The Jews’ as Company Does Mass Layoffs
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New York Times, Bloomberg, ABC7, DNyuz, Morning Martini and The Post Millennial, more at Mediagazer »
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Twitter's Advertisers Pull Back as Layoffs Sweep Through Company
Twitter's Advertisers Pull Back as Layoffs Sweep Through Company
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The Hill, CNN, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit, The Times of Israel, NDTV, The Guardian, RedState, Rolling Stone and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Trump, Biden and Obama Will Campaign in Pennsylvania in Midterm Finale — As the midterms come to a close, the establishment politics of the two most recent Democratic presidents will meet the disruptive force of the last Republican one, with control of Congress at stake.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
Why Republican Insiders Think the G.O.P. Is Poised for a Blowout — The consensus among pollsters and consultants is this Tuesday's election will be a “bloodbath” for the Democratic Party. — On Wednesday afternoon, I spoke with a leading Republican political consultant about the Senate campaign in Georgia.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and PoliticusUSA
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Biden on people calling him a socialist: ‘Give me a break, what idiots’ — President Biden on Saturday said people holding signs calling him a socialist were idiots, while warning that Republicans want to cut health care benefits for Americans three days before Election Day.
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Bloomberg, National Review and Chicago Sun-Times
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Pranks, Parties and Politics: Ron DeSantis's Year as a Schoolteacher — At a private school 20 years ago, the future Florida governor was a popular history teacher and coach. But some students were taken aback by his comments on the Civil War and abortion. — Reporting from Rome, Ga.
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Liz Cheney endorses Democrat Abigail Spanberger in high-stakes Va. race — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the GOP's most vocal critic against Trumpian politics' threats to democracy, has endorsed Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) over Spanberger's Republican challenger in one of Virginia's …
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CNN, The Hill and Blue Virginia
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Lawsuit seeks to block counting of military ballots in Wisconsin — MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin lawmaker who has been a frequent promoter of false election claims is suing to prevent the immediate counting of military ballots in her state after she received three ballots under fake names.
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Journal Sentinel, Associated Press and NBC News
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Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
What Twitter's Shake-Up Could Mean: Midterm Misinformation Run Amok
What Twitter's Shake-Up Could Mean: Midterm Misinformation Run Amok
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The Guardian, NPR and PolitiFact
Rachel Metz / CNN:
With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire — Will Twitter advertiser dollars affect Musk's promise to Trump? — Inside Musk's Twitter, Musk echoes Donald Trump, and an antitrust earthquake — The dangers of TikTok as a news source, MrBeast's billions, and mortgage rates top 7%
Washington Post:
Boris Epshteyn's loyalty to Trump pays off as investigations deepen — Pugilistic adviser has clashed with other lawyers for Donald Trump on whether to be confrontational or conciliatory — Few people speak to former president Donald Trump more these days than Boris Epshteyn.
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Raw Story, Wall Street Journal and Reuters
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Polling Averages Can Be Useful, but What's Underneath Has Changed — This year, a wave of polls from Republican-leaning firms is driving the averages. — The polls show Republicans gaining heading into the final stretch. They've pulled ahead on the generic ballot in the race for the House …
Miami Herald:
Assailant encouraged GOP canvasser to ‘do your job’ — raising questions about Rubio's account — The man accused of a politically motivated attack on a Republican Party canvasser in Hialeah last month actually encouraged the canvasser to keep handing out fliers just moments before the fight started …
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Raw Story
Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida election crimes unit sends out last-minute felons-removal list, causes confusion — James Call John KennedyUSA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA — Lists containing the names of hundreds of voters have been sent to county elections supervisors around Florida by Gov. Ron DeSantis' new Office …
Jeff Coltin / City & State New York:
Is gender bias hurting Kathy Hochul? — The first woman governor of New York is trailing among men, and political consultants said this is a very familiar “likeability” issue. — Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Hillary Clinton campaigned this week in New York City.
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DNyuz
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: House Republicans cry politics over IRS outreach — House Republicans are threatening to investigate the Treasury Department, if they win back the majority, over the mid-October timing of 9 million letters the Internal Revenue Service sent out reminding Americans of their eligibility for certain tax credits.
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Washington Times and Political Wire
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Evictions are piling up across the U.S. as Covid-era protections end and rents climb — WASHINGTON — On a recent Friday morning, more than 100 renters facing eviction filed through Arizona Judge Anna Huberman's court in what's becoming a typical day for her, as a wave of evictions hits Phoenix …
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The Colorado Sun and MLive.com
Melissa Chan / NBC News:
Voters will have a say on abortion in 5 states with high-stakes ballot measures — Millions of voters will soon determine the fate of abortion access in a handful of states, including Michigan, which could become the first to make an abortion ban permanently unenforceable since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
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Deseret News
Politico:
Trump and DeSantis barrel toward 2024 — but keep their distance in Florida — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's two most powerful Republicans will be far apart on Sunday. And that's how they want it. — Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally Sunday in Miami as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …
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DNyuz, Raw Story, Bloomberg and South Dakota Searchlight
Craig Howie / Politico:
‘Offensive and disgusting’: Manchin unloads on Biden over coal comment — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Saturday slammed President Joe Biden for pledging to shut down America's coal plants in a speech in California. — “President Biden's comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality …
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Elon Musk embraces Twitter official who censored Hunter Biden laptop stories — Since taking over the company, Elon Musk has repeatedly praised Twitter's senior director of safety and integrity despite his involvement in suppressing stories on Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election.
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Metro.co.uk
U.S. Department of Justice:
Former CEOs of MoviePass and Parent Company Charged in Securities Fraud Scheme — An indictment was unsealed today in Miami charging two Florida men for their roles in a scheme to defraud investors of Helios & Matheson Analytics Inc. (HMNY), a publicly traded Florida- and New York-based company …
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Variety and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
Marisa Kabas / MSNBC:
Women under 25 could be the MVPs of the midterms — Thousands protest outside Supreme Court after abortion draft ruling leak — Polling for the upcoming midterm election has been teetering back and forth between which party will win the most seats, but the prevailing sentiment is that Democrats …
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
Democracy Is Not on the Ballot … Dear Reader (Including those of you who dropped your lattes), — You're all losing your frickin' minds. — Okay, maybe not you, specifically, but a lot of people are. — Look, I think my record over the last seven years or so of arguing that politics in general …
Dylan Byers / Puck:
Can Licht Make the Cuts? — A brutal $100 million financial engineering effort begins at CNN. — When Chris Licht became chairman and chief executive of CNN, back in May, his boss David Zaslav asked him to conduct a six-month review of the 4,500-person global news business.
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
How Zeldin's tough talk on crime in New York could lead to more of it — As a former New Yorker, I understand crime's hold over an electorate's emotions. In 1990, the city endured 2,245 homicides. One of the slayings took place at a phone booth a half block from the Jane Street apartment I would move into six months later.
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abc7NY, New York Times, City & State New York and National Review
Timmy Facciola / The Intercept:
GOP Candidate Playing Up Veteran Status Finds Loophole for His Claim … In the race for New York's 18th Congressional District, the only shared element in the political biographies of Democrat Pat Ryan and Republican Colin Schmitt may be their military service.