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1:55 PM ET, November 5, 2022

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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
The Verge:
Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Twitter's Advertisers Pull Back as Layoffs Sweep Through Company
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Insider and HotAir
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 …
Discussion: 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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Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
What Twitter's Shake-Up Could Mean: Midterm Misinformation Run Amok
Discussion: 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%
Discussion: Mashable, Wired and Variety
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.
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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.
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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 …
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.
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
Discussion: RedState and Daily Kos
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.
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.
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.
 
 
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Jonathan M. Ladd / Mischiefs of Faction:
These Two Big Unknowns Make the 2022 Midterms Unusually Unpredictable
Discussion: Telling the Future and Raw Story
Jason Willick / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's Israeli victory shows how not to stop Trump
Patrick Gillespie / Bloomberg:
Argentina's Kirchner Stokes Speculation On Presidential Run
JSOnline:
Ron Johnson fought for a tax cut as his family was amassing luxury real estate around the country
Discussion: Associated Press
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Psaki, DOJ fight social-media speech suit subpoena
Alec Karam / The Daily Beast:
Nike Cuts Ties With Kyrie Irving Over ‘Hate Speech’
 Earlier Items: 
Laura Packard / Op-Eds:
Say Goodbye to Healthcare if Republicans Win
Associated Press:
Officials unveil plan to help voters who cast wrong ballots
Discussion: Fox News and NBC News
CNN:
House January 6 committee gives Trump more time to turn over subpoenaed documents
T. Keung Hui / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC Supreme Court orders state to increase funding for public schools in Leandro case
Discussion: Carolina Journal
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How to be a widow: A guide from a wife who doesn't know either
Washington Post:
Investigators search for pricey gifts to Trump from foreign leaders