memeorandum: Team Trump Revives Attack Ads Against DeSantis in Iowa (New York Times)

11:45 AM ET, October 28, 2023

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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:

Mike Johnson's Wife Runs Counseling Service That Compares Being Gay To Bestiality, Incest — The newly elected Republican House speaker and his wife, Kelly, have long intertwined their political and business lives. — LOADING — The wife of newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Raw Story, Political Wire, ABC News and Daily Kos

New York Times:

For Mike Johnson, Religion Is at the Forefront of Politics and Policy — The new House speaker has put his faith at the center of his political career, and aligned himself with a newer cohort of conservative Christianity that some describe as Christian nationalism.

Discussion: Associated Press, Political Wire, Raw Story, The Dispatch and Fox News

TIME:

The Christian Nationalism of Speaker Mike Johnson … In his first day as the new Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson (R-LA) wasted no time in using sweeping religious rhetoric to magnify this political moment. While addressing his colleagues he shared how, “I don't believe there are any coincidences.

Discussion: Newsbusters, The American Conservative, Insider, Right Wing Watch and Politico

Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Nine Takeaways From Mike Johnson's First Interview as Speaker

Discussion: Newsweek, Insider, Washington Post, alicublog, Political Wire, Breitbart, The Guardian, The Federalist, Fox News, CBS News, Advocate, The Messenger, Daily Kos, BizPac Review, IJR and Blaze Media

Stephen King / New York Times:

Stephen King on Mass Shootings: We're Out of Things to Say — There is no solution to the gun problem, and little more to write, because Americans are addicted to firearms. — Representative Jared Golden, from Maine's Second Congressional District, has reversed course …

Discussion: BizPac Review, Vanity Fair, The Messenger, Crooks and Liars and Mediaite

Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
After Shooting, Maine Senators in the Spotlight on Guns

Discussion: WMTW-TV, Fox News, Vanity Fair, Washington Examiner, Politico, HuffPost, NBC News and Washington Post

Eli Okun / Politico:

Playbook PM: Will Dean Phillips stop Trump or help him? — THE TALENTED MR. SANTOS — Rep. GEORGE SANTOS (R-N.Y.) today pleaded not guilty to 10 new federal counts against him, maintaining his innocence in the face of prosecutors' superseding indictment. His trial on charges of fraud …

Discussion: The Messenger, Outside the Beltway, Breitbart, Bloomberg, Fox News, The Atlantic and Semafor

Ken Kolker / WOOD-TV:

State rep. pays tribute to men acquitted in governor kidnap plot — ALLEGAN, Mich. (WOOD) — A West Michigan state legislator paid tribute Friday to two men acquitted in the failed plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, with Rep. Rachelle Smit saying she was doing so on behalf of the state.

Discussion: The Messenger

The Hill:

Chemical crisis: The unseen toxic threat contaminating wildlife worldwide — An unseen but growing chemical contamination crisis is threatening wildlife across all seven continents, exacerbating a host of environmental threats they're already facing. — Plastic pollution in the oceans …

Discussion: ScienceDirect.com

Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:

Democrat lawmaker launches presidential campaign against Biden, blasts border policies: ‘Not secure’ … CONCORD, N.H. - As he formally launched a long-shot Democratic primary challenge against President Biden on Friday, Rep. Dean Phillips criticized the president's border policies.

Discussion: The Hill, BizPac Review, Newsbusters, RedState, The Daily Beast, New York Post, Washington Examiner, Algemeiner.com and USA Today

NBC News:
Full Phillips: ‘If this election was held today, President Biden would lose’

Discussion: NPR and CBS News

Michael Riley / Bloomberg:

US Freezes Gun Exports, Reviews Backing of Firearm Industry — Commerce wants to ensure it's not undermining policy interests — Action follows Bloomberg investigation documenting federal aid — The Commerce Department is halting exports of most US-made firearms for 90 days …

Washington Post:

Faced with abortion bans, doctors beg hospitals for help with key decisions — Vague state laws, and a lack of guidance on how to interpret them, have led to some patients being denied care until they are critically ill — Amelia Huntsberger pulled up a list of the top administrators …

Discussion: Political Wire

New York Times:

Team Trump Revives Attack Ads Against DeSantis in Iowa — A super PAC supporting Trump is shifting its strategy again, with less than three months before the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses. — The super PAC supporting Donald J. Trump will begin airing an attack against Ron DeSantis in Iowa …

Discussion: Florida Politics, Orlando Sentinel and The Daily Caller

New York Times:

Gaza's Tunnels Loom Large for Israel's Ground Forces — Hamas is believed to hide weapons, fighters and even command centers in miles of subterranean pathways and chambers. — Just after midnight on Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces announced that they had struck a tunnel that allowed Hamas to “infiltrate Israel through the sea.”

Discussion: Associated Press, NBC New York, The Guardian, Middle East Monitor, The New Arab, Political Wire, SpyTalk and Algemeiner.com

Laura Italiano / Insider:

Ivanka Trump to testify Friday in the NY civil fraud trial - here's how she can hurt her father and brothers — On Friday, Trump's NY fraud-trial judge ruled Ivanka Trump must testify next week. — She had tried to quash her subpoena, saying it was overly broad and improperly served.

Discussion: USA Today, Raw Story, BizPac Review, New Republic, The Blast, WFLA-TV, New York Post, abc7NY, Bloomberg, Law & Crime and Forbes

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

The Aftermath of a Massacre Is Always the Time to Push for Gun Legislation — Axios: … Since no other civilized country on the planet has massacres like this, Johnson is implicitly arguing that the problem isn't the human heart, but the American heart. — Or, maybe the problem is the fact …

Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
White House hits Johnson over claiming gun violence was a matter of the ‘heart’

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Forbes, The Messenger, The Hill, Daily Kos, HuffPost and NBC News

Politico:

Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape — The White House is poised to make an all-hands effort to impose national rules on a fast-moving technology, according to a draft executive order — President Joe Biden will deploy numerous federal agencies to monitor the risks …

Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg and The Post Millennial, more at Techmeme »

CNN:

Gun Maine suspect used to kill 18 people was bought legally just days before psychiatric evaluation, sources say — The gun investigators believe Robert Card used to kill 18 people and wound more than a dozen others was purchased legally just days before he was hospitalized and ordered …

Washington Post:

Israel-Gaza war live updates — Israel says it is expanding ground operations in Gaza amid internet outage, heavy bombardment — Israel is expanding its ground operations in the Gaza Strip after hours of intense airstrikes, Daniel Hagari, Israel Defense Forces spokesman, told reporters Friday.