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In Which Ian Miles Cheong Understands Trump's Campaign Better than NYT — The second I saw video of Vice President Harris rolling up to a hangar at Detroit's airport on Air Force Two, then alighting with Tim Walz in front of cheering crowds, I knew it would break Donald Trump's brain.
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Trump Can't Deal With Harris's Success — Kamala Harris has had as good a three-week stretch as any presidential candidate in modern American history. — When Joe Biden dropped out on July 21, less than a month after his catastrophic debate performance against Donald Trump …
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Jeet Heer / The Nation:
Why Donald Trump Can't Let Go of Joe Biden — The former president is caught in a nostalgia trap of his own making. — Pocket — With remarkable speed, the Democratic Party has embraced Kamala Harris as their presumptive nominee and moved on from Joe Biden, the party's standard-bearer since 2020 …
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Charlotte Alter / TIME:
The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris — The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert. The light-up bracelets evoked the Eras Tour. And the exuberant crowd—more than 14,000 strong, lining up in the rain—resembled the early days of Barack Obama. Inside a Philadelphia arena on Aug. 6 …
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John L. Dorman / Business Insider:
Kamala Harris is going on the offensive on border security. It could keep Arizona blue and cut off Trump's path to victory.
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans can't replace their old man nominee, so they're pretending JD Vance is the GOP candidate
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Seb Starcevic / Politico:
EU's Breton warns Musk on hate speech ahead of Trump interview; receives profane response — The European Union's digital enforcer wrote an open letter to tech mogul Elon Musk on Monday ahead of a planned interview with former United States President Donald Trump to remind him of the EU's rules on promoting hate speech.
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The most expensive political ad of all time — In 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, one of the world's largest social networks, for $44 billion. From a financial perspective, it has not worked out well. Over the last two years, the value of Twitter — which Musk renamed X — has plunged.
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emptywheel:
Elon Musk's Machine for Political Violence — Last October, I wrote a post called “Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism,” describing how Twitter had twice served Donald Trump's electoral ambitions. — In 2016, trolls — including Don Jr — workshopped memes on a DM list and then used their reach to pressure MSM to adopt their narratives.
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Trump posts campaign ad on X ahead of Musk interview
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Desperate Trump Returns to X as Poll Numbers Keep Tanking
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Donald Trump Is Freaked Out in Ways He Never Imagined Were Possible — The Harris-Walz campaign proved two important things last week. First, it proved that sometimes all you really have to do is answer attacks—the mere fact of answering them deflates their momentum.
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Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Desperate times: Trumpers launch Swiftboating 2.0
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Amanda Seitz / Associated Press:
Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, being turned away from ERs despite federal law — WASHINGTON (AP) — Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn't know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. — Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump to sue DOJ for $100M over Mar-a-Lago raid, alleging ‘political persecution’ — Trump attorney says ‘unconstitutional’ raid should never have been approved by Garland, Wray — Join Fox News for access to this content — EXCLUSIVE: Former President Donald Trump is set to sue …
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Dani Blum / New York Times:
Should You Get Another Covid Shot Now? — The virus is spreading, but new vaccines coming this fall could offer better protection. We asked experts about the right time for a booster. — Patients keep asking Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California …
Silver Bulletin:
Silver Bulletin 2024 presidential election forecast — All the numbers for Trump vs. Harris. — ∙ Paid … Let's cut to the chase: So, who's gonna win the election? — Well, honestly, we don't know — but we can give you our best probabilistic guess.
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David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Second Photo Alleged to Show JD Vance in Drag Posted Online — OMG! — The Vance campaign has not denied that the man in drag in a viral photo was Donald Trump's 2024 presidential election running mate. — A second image of JD Vance allegedly dressed as a woman in a blonde wig has been posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.
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Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Canceling subscriptions should be as easy as signing up, newly proposed federal rule says — The new regulations were rolled out Monday but will be on varying timelines. — President Joe Biden speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, on Aug. 2 …
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Josephine Rozzelle / CNBC:
White House launches broad new regulatory effort, as Harris prepares to unveil economic plan
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Kadia Goba / Semafor:
Poll: Democratic attacks on JD Vance are working — The Scoop — New polling shared exclusively with Semafor shows Democrats' attacks on JD Vance's views on abortion, divorce and “childless cat ladies” are sticking with voters. — A pair of surveys by Blueprint, the centrist Democratic pollster backed …
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Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
House GOP Hardliners Threaten Government Shutdown Over Baseless Illegal Voters Bill — A right-wing group known as the Freedom Caucus says Republicans should insist on the bill when Congress returns in September. — LOADING — A group of hardline House Republican conservatives …
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Tom Perkins / The Guardian:
US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court's Chevron ruling — EPA says Tucson's drinking water is contaminated but air force claims agency lacks authority to order cleanup — The US air force is refusing to comply with an order to clean drinking water it polluted in Tucson …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Betsy DeVos would consider working with Trump again — under one condition — Donald Trump's former education secretary Betsy DeVos has changed her mind on serving in his administration if he wins re-election. — DeVos resigned on Jan. 7, 2021, following the U.S. Capitol riot, which she called …
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
Early numbers show violent crime dropping sharply … - It also gives Vice President Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor in San Francisco and California attorney general, a potent defense against attacks from the right on crime. … - 54 of the 69 major cities in the report saw drops in violent crime …
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