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CNN:
Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term  —  Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
New hidden camera video reinforces Trump's Project 2025 problem  —  The former president knows that Project 2025 is unpopular.  But he can't distance himself from its contents or its authors.  —  When Donald Trump was president, Russell Vought joined the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Discussion: Rolling Stone, NOTUS and Raw Story
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Walz Says He'll Make Debate With JD Vance All About Project 2025
Lenny Bronner / Washington Post:
Harris has opened up a second path to victory, according to The Post's polling model  —  The Democratic nominee could win in the Rust Belt or the Sun Belt and get to the White House, while Donald Trump must win in both geographic regions to triumph.  —  A lot has changed in the presidential race …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Nicholas Liu / Salon:
Aides not telling Trump red states “looking worse than they should” to avoid upsetting him: report
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump's “election integrity” plan tests his campaign
AARP:
Harris and Trump Tied in Head-to-Head Ballot Among Michigan Voters
Discussion: The Hill
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Will Try to Drag Kamala Into the Mud With Him  —  It's his only play.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Mud Pit  —  One of the things we're hearing from Good Republicans is that Donald Trump is falling down on the job by indulging in his usual personal attacks and shenanigans.
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Top Trump advisers in turmoil after campaign's worst month of 2024  —  Senior aides see challenges from enemies real and perceived as the ex-president struggles against Harris  —  Donald Trump has privately expressed faith in his campaign leadership and no personnel changes are currently expected …
Politico:
Playbook: Look who's pushing for a Trump reset
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Townhall
Daily Mail:
Trump VP pick JD Vance is seen posing with three female classmates at boys' urinals in unearthed high school photo  — 18-year-old JD Vance was snapped posing with three girls in the boys' bathroom  — The photo appeared in the 2003 yearbook of Middletown High School in Ohio
Discussion: Raw Story
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Owen Lavine / The Daily Beast:
Unearthed Photo Shows Teen JD Vance Posing in Bathroom With Three Girls at Urinals
Discussion: Raw Story
Steven Walker / Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library  —  Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill.  —  A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library …
Discussion: USA Today and New Republic
New York Times:
Election Live Updates: Biden and Harris Reunite to Celebrate Deal on Drug Prices  —  Former President Donald J. Trump is delivering a news conference now, just hours after President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris made their first joint public appearance since Mr. Biden dropped out of the race.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign brings Corey Lewandowski back on board  —  The move is part of an expansion of the campaign's ranks  —  Donald Trump's campaign is expanding its ranks as he seeks to regain his footing in the presidential campaign, bringing on a handful of top allies — including former Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
Jessica Taylor / Cook Political Report:
Democrats Maintain Edge in New Senate Polls, As Nevada Moves Back to Lean Democrat  —  The 2024 election has already been historic in a number of ways, but November could mark another recent electoral oddity — a rise in ticket-splitting between presidential and Senate races.
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Bonchie / RedState:
Kamala Harris Finally Has a Policy Proposal, and It'd Make the Soviets Blush  —  A bit of breaking news came across the wire on Wednesday night.  You may want to sit down for this, but Kamala Harris finally has an official policy proposal.  Given that she's been in the race for nearly a month …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Harris to call for federal ban on price-gouging in Friday speech
US Department of Justice:
Man Arrested for Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida  —  Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen …
Discussion: IJR
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Associated Press:
White House says deals struck to cut prices of popular Medicare drugs that cost $50 billion yearly  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking a victory lap after federal officials inked deals with drug companies to lower the price for 10 of Medicare's most popular and costliest drugs …
Erica Orden / Politico:
Trump seeks to delay his hush money sentencing until after the election  —  His lawyers are seeking to have the conviction overturned on immunity grounds.  —  NEW YORK — Attorneys for Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing the former president's Manhattan criminal case to postpone his sentencing …
Washington Post:
Secret Service approves new plan for Trump to continue outdoor rallies  —  In a first for Trump's 2024 campaign, the agency will use bulletproof glass to shield the Republican nominee, as well as other technical security measures that have not normally been provided for presidential candidates.
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ABC News:   Secret Service prepares bulletproof glass for Trump rallies: Sources
Brad Dress / The Hill:
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Vance agrees to Oct. 1 debate with Walz
emptywheel:
The Saudi Payments to Trump Are More Important than the Suspected Egyptian One  —  As you know, I was calling on the press to focus on the suspected $10 million payment Egypt made to Trump since before it was cool — since even before the WaPo significantly advanced the story over a month later.
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
With JD Vance, Things Just Get Weirder And Weirder  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  Sign up for the email version.  —  What On Earth?  —  JD Vance is coming into focus as a living breathing embodiment of the caricature …
Cameron Joseph / Christian Science Monitor:
JD Vance: Amazon funded Black Lives Matter so riots would destroy rival retailers  —  Loading...  WASHINGTON  —  In 2021, J.D. Vance gave a speech to a conservative think tank on “woke capital” - and accused Amazon of funding Black Lives Matter in order to burn down the competition.
Lisa Song / ProPublica:
When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable?  When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Is there anything more pathetic than a used plastic bag?
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Musk's New AI Image Generator Immediately Used to Troll Him  —  OBVIOUSLY  —  Images flooded X showing Musk carrying out a school shooting with Mickey Mouse or being led on a leash by Donald Trump.  —  Elon Musk's AI chatbot launched a new image generation feature Wednesday …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Why Facebook blocked Popular Information's reporting on Laura Loomer  —  Yesterday, Popular Information published a detailed report on the close relationship between former President Donald Trump and Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist who says America should be a “white Judeo-Christian ethnostate.”
 
 
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Mike Spies / Rolling Stone:
How Second Amendment Radicals Are Attacking Laws Meant to Keep Firearms Out of the Wrong Hands
Discussion: Raw Story
George Monbiot / The Guardian:
‘Two-tier justice’ in Britain is real - but it's not what the right says it is
Geoff Dembicki / The Guardian:
Revealed: Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025
Discussion: Climate Desk
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Democrats Lean Into Liberty and the Language of Republicans
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
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