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6:15 PM ET, October 4, 2023

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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
There Are Tapes: GOP Rep. Has Recording of Kevin McCarthy ‘Belittling’ Him  —  LORDY  —  Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) told CNN on Wednesday morning that he recorded his Monday night call with Kevin McCarthy that featured the since-ousted Speaker of the House “belittling” the Tennessee lawmaker.
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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.
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 …
Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Trump is not ruling out being the new House speaker  —  Believe it or not, the House speaker doesn't actually have to be serving in the House.  —  Trump addresses calls for him to be the next House speaker  —  Does Donald Trump want to be speaker of the House?
Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP tensions explode after McCarthy bows out of speaker race  —  House Republicans were distraught, furious and concerned for the future of their party after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced he won't run for speaker again after being ousted on Tuesday.
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Nancy Pelosi evicted from her private office in the Capitol by interim 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
Discussion: Raw Story, New York Times and Advocate
CNN:
Scalise and Jordan launch bids for House speaker after McCarthy ouster
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Frog meets scorpion: House Republicans threaten to quit Problem Solvers Caucus after McCarthy ouster
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
McCarthy ouster exposes the Republican Party's destructive tendencies
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
John F. Harris / Politico:
The House GOP Is a Failed State
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
RNC chief on GOP infighting: 'I don't know how this helps us beat Joe Biden'
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’  —  Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani vehemently denied having a drinking problem Wednesday, following the Times report.  —  Former Trump lawyer and adviser Rudy Giuliani vehemently denied having a drinking problem Wednesday …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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
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
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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Siladitya Ray / Forbes:
Student Loans: Biden Announces Extra $9 Billion In Debt Relief For 125,000 Americans
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
 
 
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Imagine If Democrats Had Done It
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Kerry Breen / CBS News:
“Tennessee Three” Rep. Justin Jones sues House speaker, says he was unconstitutionally expelled
Discussion: Washington Post
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Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
More than 75,000 workers strike at hundreds of Kaiser Permanente health facilities across U.S.
 

 
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