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2:25 PM ET, November 22, 2023

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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Have You Listened Lately to What Trump Is Saying?  —  He is becoming frighteningly clear about what he wants.  —  In 2019, Kennedy Ndahiro, the editor of the Rwandan daily newspaper The New Times, explained to readers of The Atlantic how years of cultivated had hatred led to death on a horrifying scale.
Discussion: Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Why Trump Represents a ‘Trifecta of Danger’  —  Brian Klaas, a political scientist at University College London, captures the remarkable nature of the 2024 presidential election in an Oct. 1 essay, “The Case for Amplifying Trump's Insanity.”  —  Klaas argues that the presidential contest now pits
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
‘Openly authoritarian campaign’: Trump's threats of revenge fuel alarm
Discussion: Lucid and Raw Story
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Dean Phillips hits Biden over handling of Hamas hostages: ‘Absurd, shocking and dismaying’  —  Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) bashed President Biden Tuesday for the recently negotiated hostage deal between the militant group Hamas and Israel.  —  “No, because we have nine Americans held hostage right …
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The Times of Israel:
Cabinet okays deal for release of 50 Israeli hostages in exchange for 4-day Gaza truce
Sheila Brummer / Iowa Public Radio:
Woodbury County supervisor's wife found guilty of 52 counts of voter fraud  —  Prosecutors say Kim Phuong Taylor wanted her husband to win elections in 2020 “by any means necessary.”  —  A jury spent about five hours deliberating before convicting Kim Phuong Taylor on 52 counts of voter fraud in federal court Tuesday in Sioux City.
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
GOP official's wife convicted in months-long 2020 voter-fraud scheme  —  As Tam and Thien Doan tried to file for absentee ballots in Iowa in 2020, they were surprised to find out that votes had already been cast in their names.  The siblings, both Democrats, were even more astonished to learn …
Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls closed after explosion of vehicle reportedly entering U.S. from Canada  —  “I've been briefed on the incident on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls and we are closely monitoring the situation.”  Gov. Kathy Hochul said.  —  The FBI is investigating …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP rallies around Musk after his self-inflicted antisemitism mess  —  Elon Musk's new lawsuit against Media Matters, which X Corp. filed late Monday, has been dismissed by legal experts as a frivolous effort to bully a prominent critic into silence.  But some Republicans apparently …
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
The Red State Brain Drain Isn't Coming.  It's Happening Right Now.  —  On Memorial Day weekend in 2022, Kate Arnold and her wife, Caroline Flint, flew from Oklahoma City to Cabo San Lucas for a little R&R. They had five kids, the youngest of them five-year-old twin girls, and demanding jobs as obstetrician-gynecologists.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
November 2023 National Poll: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden  —  A new Emerson College Polling national survey of registered voters finds former President Donald Trump with a four-point lead over President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, 47% to 43%, within the poll's margin of error.
Mark Scheer / Niagara Gazette:
Witnesses saw smoke, fire from vehicle at Rainbow Bridge  —  The Rainbow Bridge has been closed to all traffic amid reports of a vehicle explosion just outside the border inspections plaza on the American side.  —  Traveling down Niagara Street, the car sped onto the bridge plaza …
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Spyglass Says Melissa Barrera Was Fired From ‘Scream’ Due to Rhetoric That ‘Flagrantly Crosses the Line Into Hate Speech’ (EXCLUSIVE) … But now the production banner behind the hit horror franchise's revival is pushing back on a narrative that has quickly coalesced around the decision …
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New York Times:
How Many Abortions Did the Post-Roe Bans Prevent?  —  The first estimate of births since Dobbs found that almost a quarter of women who would have gotten abortions carried their pregnancies to term.  —  The first data on births since Roe v. Wade was overturned shows how much abortion bans …
Discussion: National Review
Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Biden admin quietly developing settlement with groups seeking to tear down key power source  —  ‘Congress alone has the authority’ to breach federal dams, lawmakers write in letter to White House  —  The Biden administration is quietly discussing a potentially far-reaching settlement …
Politico:
Donor allegedly offered $20M to recruit a Tlaib primary challenger  —  The lucrative proposal to Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Hill Harper arrived on Oct. 16, according to a source with direct knowledge — and got rejected.  —  A Michigan businessman called Democratic Senate candidate Hill Harper …
Discussion: Political Wire
Sara Nathan / Page Six:
Susan Sarandon dumped by Hollywood agency UTA over anti-Jewish rant  —  Oscar winner Susan Sarandon has been dropped by top Hollywood agency UTA after saying frightened Jews are “getting a taste of how it feels to be Muslim in America,” Page Six can reveal.  —  The 77-year-old actress …
Bernie Sanders / New York Times:
Justice for the Palestinians and Security for Israel  —  There have been five wars in the last 15 years between Israel and Hamas.  How do we end the current one and prevent a sixth from happening, sooner or later?  How do we balance our desire to stop the fighting with the need to address the roots of the conflict?
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil  —  Washington warned India over concerns of government involvement in assassination conspiracy  —  US authorities thwarted a conspiracy to assassinate a Sikh separatist on American soil and issued a warning to India's government …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lee get Jan. 6 footage — but trying to blame the FBI could backfire  —  No surprise from a guy who took the lead defending Donald Trump's attempted coup, but the newly appointed Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., moved quickly to abuse his power …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Record percentage says they or someone in household owns a gun: Survey  —  More than half of American voters, a record-high number, say they or someone in their household owns a gun, a new NBC News poll found.  —  According to the survey, which has polled voters since 1999 …
Discussion: The Messenger
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Abortion rights groups seek ballot measures in 9 more states in 2024  —  Despite an unbroken winning streak since Roe v. Wade was overturned, some of the efforts to enshrine abortion rights in state constitutions face substantial challenges.  —  Seeking to extend their unbroken winning streak …
Craig Simpson / Telegraph:
Roman emperor was trans, says museum  —  Elagabalus will be referred to as she after claims in classical texts that the emperor asked to be called ‘lady’  —  A Roman emperor has been declared transgender by a UK museum, The Telegraph can reveal.  —  The North Hertfordshire Museum has said it will be …
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Luke Funk / The Messenger:
UK Museum Determines Roman Emperor Was Trans, Changes Pronouns to She/Her
Discussion: Washington Examiner, BBC and TIME
 
 
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