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emptywheel:
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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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 …
Discussion: ABC News, New York Magazine and CNN
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 …
Discussion: HuffPost
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.  — Vice President Harris is defining her positions on border security independent of President Biden.  — The Harris campaign is already running ads presenting the VP as a tough-on-crime prosecutor.
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 …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans can't replace their old man nominee, so they're pretending JD Vance is the GOP candidate
James Powel / USA Today:   Harris becomes betting favorite in presidential election odds after swing state barnstorm
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
EU 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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Popular Information:
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.
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Trump posts campaign ad on X ahead of Musk interview
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
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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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CNN:
Trump wants Justice Department to pay him $100 million for alleged damages from FBI's Mar-a-Lago search
Discussion: Forbes
NBC News:   Trump plans to file a $100 million lawsuit against the Justice Department over Mar-a-Lago search and ‘witch hunts’
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Reuters, Associated Press and CBS News
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Launches New Effort to Crack Down on Everyday Headaches and Hassles That Waste Americans' Time and Money
Discussion: Axios, UPI, GovExec.com, Forbes and PoliticusUSA
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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 …
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 …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
JD Vance's false claim that ‘green energy scam’ ships jobs to China  —  The GOP vice-presidential candidate knocks the Inflation Reduction Act, which was designed to combat China's green energy dominance.  —  “She cast the deciding vote for the so-called Inflation Reduction Act that sent a lot of our resources to China.”
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Financial Times:
Delays hit 40% of Biden's major IRA manufacturing projects
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The First Amendment is in grave danger if Trump wins
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Alaina Demopoulos / The Guardian:
My son was struggling - then he fell for Trump's toxic brand of ‘masculinity’. I'm heartbroken
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Vice President Kamala Harris's choice of Minnesota governor Tim Walz to be her running mate seems …
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Democrats continue to joke about false JD Vance rumor after years of criticizing Trump for spreading misinformation
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Walz's candidacy is making kindness great again
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Far-right rallies abandoned amid warnings of 10-year sentences
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Americans' refusal to keep paying higher prices may be dealing a final blow to US inflation spike
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