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12:45 PM ET, October 12, 2023

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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden aides slam Trump for calling Hezbollah ‘very smart’  —  Aides to President Biden and his campaign blasted former President Trump on Thursday for remarks a night earlier in which Trump described Hezbollah as “very smart” amid unfolding violence in Israel.
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Criticizes Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Calls Hezbollah ‘Very Smart’  —  The former president admitted he could have been dishing classified information at a campaign event with a claim about the Israeli leader.  —  LOADING  —  Former President Donald Trump …
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
How to Make Trump Go “Crazy,” According to George Conway  —  Former Republican George Conway said Democrats need to wage a “psychological war” against Donald Trump until it makes him so “crazy” that he violates court orders.  —  “I think you have to wage psychological war on Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story and Kentucky Lantern
Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, facing censure motion, calls Hamas actions ‘war crimes’  —  U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, said Wednesday evening her critics are purposefully distorting her position to make it seem she is sympathetic to Hamas and its attacks on Israel, which she called “war crimes.”
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
How to think morally about the Israel-Hamas war
Discussion: Washington Post and WV MetroNews
Kayla Gallagher / The Messenger:
Blinken Says Number of Americans Killed in Israel Has Risen to 25
New York Times:
Israel-Hamas War: Israel's New Unity Government Pledges to ‘Crush’ Hamas
Punchbowl News:
10/12/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … But worse.  Maybe way worse. … Only the stakes this time are higher, the time frame is shorter, the opposition is larger and the House Republican Conference is angrier. … After winning the GOP speaker nomination on Wednesday — barely …
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Politico:
Playbook: Why you shouldn't write Scalise off just yet
Discussion: Puck
Politico:
Steve Scalise's celebration on pause
Washington Post:
U.S., Qatar agree to stop Iran from tapping $6 billion fund after Hamas attack  —  U.S. officials and the Qatari government have agreed to stop Iran from accessing a $6 billion account for humanitarian assistance in light of Hamas's attack on Israel, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told House Democrats …
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Bloomberg:
Saudi, Iranian Leaders Hold Rare Call to Discuss Israel-Hamas War
Washington Post:
Hamas took at least 64 captives into Gaza, visual evidence suggests  —  The presence of scores of captives in Gaza, a large majority of them civilians, increases the risks involved in a possible Israeli invasion  —  Palestinian fighters took at least 64 captives into the Gaza Strip during …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Israel-Hamas war live updates
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
North Carolina's cautionary tale for purple states  —  Republicans have made themselves so powerful, it doesn't matter if Dems win elections. … North Carolina Republicans are having a very good year, and now that they've locked down both the legislature and the judiciary …
Discussion: Truthout
David Weigel / Semafor:
Cenk Uygur running for president as Democrat  —  The News  —  Progressive pundit Cenk Uygur will challenge President Biden for the Democratic nomination, offering himself as an alternative to an incumbent who “is definitely going to lose” if he makes it to the general election.
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Zachary Leeman / The Messenger:
Kushner Says Schumer Told Mother's Friends He Was ‘Going to Jail’  —  Trump's son-in-law and former adviser said he spent millions in legal fees while facing accusations of campaign ties to Russia … Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump, says he had to calm …
Tesnim Zekeria / Popular Information:
Texas Republicans are fighting about whether it's OK to associate with white supremacists  —  Last week, Jonathan Stickland — president of the far-right Defend Texas Liberty PAC and a former state representative — met with notorious white supremacist Nick Fuentes and other right-wing extremists.
Discussion: KXAN-TV and The Texas Tribune
David Strom / HotAir:
Yale American Studies professor justifies Hamas attacks  —  Harvard, Yale, and all the “best” academic institutions have been fatally compromised for decades.  At some point, they went full anti-American, anti-Western, and radical revolutionary.  —  Every time you hear “decolonize,” …
Discussion: Chicago Boyz and Power Line
Chris Geidner / Slate:
Samuel Alito Really, Really, Really Wants to Save This Racial Gerrymander in South Carolina  —  On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, a challenge to South Carolina's congressional map based on the contention that it was an impermissible racial gerrymander.
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Politico:
Supreme Court likely to side with South Carolina GOP in racial gerrymandering case
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump tells court he had no duty to ‘support’ the Constitution as president  —  Former President Donald Trump is arguing to a judge in Colorado that he was not required to “support” the Constitution as president, reported Brandi Buchman from Law & Crime.  —  The argument came as he seeks …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Massacre in Israel and the Need for a Decent Left  —  On Tuesday evening, I was drinking on the porch of my friend and neighbor Misha Shulman, the Israel-born rabbi of a progressive New York synagogue called the New Shul.  All day, he'd been on the phone with congregants deeply distraught …
Calder McHugh / Politico:
It's Not Me, It's You: Cornel West's Messy Breakup  —  The presidential candidate's last-minute decision to ghost the Green Party is just the latest rift within the perennially squabbling American left.  —  Cornel West thinks the Greens can't take him where he wants to go.
Discussion: Althouse
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Tom Dannenbaum / Just Security:
The Siege of Gaza and the Starvation War Crime
Discussion: The Hill
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Trump Doral event with Eric Trump will feature a Hitler-promoting antisemite who killed someone
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Fetterman: America ‘not sending their best and brightest’ to Congress
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The New Republican Establishment  —  An alternative Trumpist governing elite gets closer to ruling the party.
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Lawyers Want Us to Believe Key Witness Knows Nothing
Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
We Don't Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right's Supreme Court Supermajority
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China Invited Pentagon Chief to Defense Forum, Reuters Says
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Dorany Pineda / Los Angeles Times:
How L.A.'s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices
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The Texas Tribune:
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