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8:30 PM ET, October 4, 2023

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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Imagine If Democrats Had Done It  —  The Republican party is sustained by two fundamental asymmetries.  And there's no cure for either of them.  —  ∙ Paid  —  We did an emergency live show last night about the McCarthy ouster.  You can find it here.  (There won't be a Thursday night show this week.)
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why is protecting institutions largely the Democrats' responsibility?  —  The frustration that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had been trying to keep hidden for months (with varying degrees of success) seeped out on Tuesday evening.  At a news conference following his ouster as House speaker …
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Cut Off Their Own Heads
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Kevin McCarthy's embarrassing lesson: MAGA torches everything it touches — and will destroy itself
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Frog meets scorpion: House Republicans threaten to quit Problem Solvers Caucus after McCarthy ouster
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
RNC chief on GOP infighting: 'I don't know how this helps us beat Joe Biden'
CNN:
McCarthy behind move to kick Pelosi out of her office, sources say — so he can move into it  —  Kevin McCarthy was behind interim Speaker Patrick McHenry's move to kick former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer out of their office spaces, two Republican sources told CNN.
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
More Speaker Crisis Fallout: Pelosi Is Evicted From Bonus Office
Discussion: Puck, Townhall and The Messenger
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Nancy Pelosi evicted from her private office in the Capitol by interim House speaker
New York Times:
Inside the Menendez Indictment: A Mercedes and a Secretive Fatal Crash  —  A 2018 fatal car crash in Bogota, N.J., drew no media attention and resulted in no charges.  The driver was the soon-to-be wife of Senator Robert Menendez.  —  It was a cold evening in December 2018, and Nadine Arslanian …
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Matt Friedman / Politico:   Menendez's wife struck and killed a man while driving in 2018, reports indicate
Quinnipiac University Poll:
PA 2024 Elections: Casey Leads McCormick In U.S. Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Poll Finds; Race For The White House: Biden vs. Trump Matchup Barely Budges  —  mail_outline  —  Roughly two weeks after Republican David McCormick announced he would challenge incumbent Democratic …
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David Paleologos / USA Today:
Nikki Haley vaults to second place in New Hampshire in new GOP primary poll
New York Times:
Giuliani's Drinking, Long a Fraught Subject, Has Trump Prosecutors' Attention  —  The former mayor's drinking has become an investigative subplot in Donald Trump's federal case over 2020 election interference.  But long before that, friends had grown deeply concerned.
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Kelly Garrity / Politico:
Giuliani: ‘I have never had an alcohol problem’
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Officiant fires gun to welcome bride, shoots grandson — and wedding goes on  —  Michael Gardner wanted to start his nephew's wedding with a bang.  —  His plan involved shooting a blank from a revolver into the air to signal to the roughly 200 people gathered on Saturday that the outdoor ceremony …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court doubtful on Trump's lawsuit against Twitter  —  Trump's lawyers argue that Twitter violated his free speech rights when it suspended him in January 2021, but federal judges expressed skepticism.  —  A federal appeals court panel sounded skeptical Wednesday …
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Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Trump is not ruling out being the new House speaker
CNN:
Scalise and Jordan launch bids for House speaker after McCarthy ouster
NBC News:
Ron DeSantis' money problems deepen ahead of a key stretch in the GOP primary  —  The Florida governor's campaign spent more on the nominating fight than it raised in the third quarter, as it shifts staff from its headquarters in Tallahassee to Iowa.  —  Ron DeSantis has less money and more problems.
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New York Times:
DeSantis Gets a $15 Million Cash Infusion and Moves Staff Into Iowa
Associated Press:
Colorado high court to hear case against Christian baker who refused to make trans-themed cake  —  The baker previously won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court on a technicality in 2018, after refusing to make a gay couple's wedding cake.  —  On the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court victory …
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
‘Sabrina’ Star Julia Ormond Sues Harvey Weinstein for Sexual Assault  —  The lawsuit filed on Wednesday also names Disney and CAA for allegedly telling her to stay quiet about her 1995 assault.  —  An English actress has filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, claiming the disgraced movie mogul sexually assaulted her in 1995.
Melissa Colorado / NBC New York:
Brooklyn public policy advocate stabbed to death in front of girlfriend  —  A Brooklyn man described as a rising star in the world of public policy was stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend while sitting on a bus bench early Monday morning.  —  Ryan Carson, 32, was waiting for a bus …
William M. Arkin / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears  —  The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks …
Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
Exclusive: US will transfer weapons seized from Iran to Ukraine  —  The US will transfer thousands of seized Iranian weapons and rounds of ammunition to Ukraine, in a move that could help to alleviate some of the critical shortages facing the Ukrainian military as it awaits more money …
The White House:
President Biden Announces an Additional $9 Billion in Student Debt Relief for 125,000 Americans  —  President Biden has long believed that college should be a ticket to the middle class, not a burden that weighs on families.  That's why from day one, his Administration has taken unprecedented steps …
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emptywheel:
Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism: A Tale of Three Elections  —  Since the spring (when I first started writing this post), I've been trying to express what I think Elon Musk intended to do with his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, to turn it into a Machine for Fascism.
Davide Basso / Euractiv:
French government dissolves far-right Catholic association  —  Content-Type:  —  News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.  —  Languages: Français  —  The French government dissolved …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
POETRY SLAM: Ted Cruz Attacks Biden Court Pick For Writing Bad Poem 30 Years Ago  —  “Intimate knowing, the lovers kissed, familiar and ever-exciting,” the GOP senator read aloud from Mustafa Kasubhai's poem before accusing him of being Marxist.  —  LOADING
 
 
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From a Capitol Hill Basement, Bannon Stokes the Republican Party Meltdown
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
20 GOP senators led by Rick Scott vow to block bills not related to funding government
Kerry Breen / CBS News:
“Tennessee Three” Rep. Justin Jones sues House speaker, says he was unconstitutionally expelled
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