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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
Trump's carny act isn't working anymore  —  His Folgers Coffee™ Conference showed a candidate in decline.  —  🚨 This special five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers 🚨 If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.
Discussion: The Weekly Sift
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CNN:
Exclusive: Conservative Republican endorses Harris, calls Trump a threat to democracy  —  Retired federal appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative legal scholar put on the bench by President George H.W. Bush, is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump …
Discussion: HuffPost
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
How Democrats Reversed the Script on the GOP  —  Now it's Harris' party that's showing a sense of unity, purpose and relentless focus on winning.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris is discarding her now-inconvenient left-wing proposals from her 2020 primary bid and airing tough-on the-border ads?
Rolling Stone:
Trump Is Worried About the TV Ratings for Harris' DNC Speech  —  The former president has been telling allies his convention's TV ratings were “tremendous” and won't be topped by Harris this week … But as the 2024 Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago this week …
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
How Harris built her political network as vice president  —  Harris' travels didn't attract the same degree of fanfare or scrutiny before she became the Democratic presidential nominee.  But they put her in position when the moment came.  —  Before she became the Democratic nominee for president …
Washington Post:   ‘This was a coup.’ Trump primes supporters to challenge a Harris win.
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:   The election is extremely close
Tyler Austin Harper / The Atlantic:
The Populist Mantle Is Harris's for the Taking
Daniel Payne / Politico:
Harris isn't pushing Medicare for All anymore. Progressives say that's OK.
Discussion: The Federalist and New York Times
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Harris implies Trump a ‘coward’ during Pennsylvania campaign appearance
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Harris-Walz probes ignite House GOP divisions … - One House Republican, speaking on the condition of anonymity to critique their party's investigations, said the probes are “unnecessary.”  — “We have an election to win. … - Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) argued that investigating Harris and Walz is …
Discussion: The Hill
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
House GOP investigators accuse Biden of ‘impeachable conduct’ in long-awaited report  —  It's unlikely to change the fact that Republicans don't have the votes to impeach the president.  —  House Republican investigators accused President Joe Biden of engaging in “impeachable conduct” as part of a long-awaited report.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The Republican ‘impeachment probe’ ends the way it began: with nothing  —  What the probe reveals more than anything is the extent to which Republican House officials were willing to use their power to aid Donald Trump politically.  —  Congressional committees have sweeping power …
Beatrice Nolan / Business Insider:
Donald Trump shares seemingly fake pictures of Taylor Swift — and Swifties are furious  — Donald Trump appears to have shared AI-generated images of Taylor Swift and her fans.  — The images, which have telltale signs of AI use, show Swift and fans endorsing him in the election.
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Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Donald Trump Falsely Claims Taylor Swift Has Endorsed Him by Posting AI Images: ‘I Accept’  —  Donald Trump has posted a series of AI-generated images on his Truth Social account falsely claiming that Taylor Swift has endorsed him for president.  —  O n Sunday night, Trump shared several screenshots …
Ben Blanchet / HuffPost:
Trump Falls For AI-Generated Taylor Swift Fans In Kooky Endorsement Claim: ‘I Accept!’  —  The former president shared a number of fake “Swifties for Trump” pictures including one that's clearly labelled “satire.”  —  LOADING  —  Donald Trump had a “love story” for fake photos indicating …
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite, Raw Story and IJR
Peter Savodnik / The Free Press:
John Fetterman Has No Regrets  —  John Fetterman is skipping this week's Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and, to hear it from him, it has nothing—literally nothing—to do with him scotch-taping photos of the Israeli hostages to his Senate office walls.
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Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Fetterman spokeswoman reamed for reportedly contradicting boss on Israel: ‘Unparalleled hubris’
Discussion: The Free Press
TODAY.com:
Legendary TV talk show host Phil Donahue dies at 88  —  Donahue died on Sunday night following a long illness, his family said in a statement.  —  Longtime TV talk show host Phil Donahue died on Sunday night following a long illness, his family said.  He was 88.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Gouging out the truth  —  In a speech on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris fleshed out some of the economic policies she would pursue if she won the presidency in November.  Harris spoke briefly about her plans to crack down on price gouging in the grocery industry.
Discussion: Tangle and acecomments.mu.nu
Jeff Asher / Jeff-alytics:
Murder Is Likely Falling At The Fastest Pace Ever Recorded In 2024  —  Richards Heuer's Psychology of Intelligence Analysis was required reading when I was a baby analyst at CIA and I like to think that its teachings have permeated throughout my analysis and writing.
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
Democrats Taunt Trump At Trump Tower Chicago Ahead of Convention  —  The DNC is tagging Trump Tower amid reports former president plans to use his property during the Democratic convention … Party operatives, armed with a high-powered projector, booked themselves a room across the street …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Proposes Ban on Criticizing Pro-Trump Judges … Over the weekend, Donald Trump expressed in a speech his belief that public criticism of judges and Supreme Court justices who rule in Trump's favor should be illegal.  —  Trump took this position expressly, twice, in his speech, albeit in a stream-of-consciousness riff.
Jeremy Kohler / ProPublica:
Missouri Outlawed Abortion, and Now It's Funding an Anti-Abortion Group That Works in Other States  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week.
Discussion: Missouri Independent
Washington Post:
Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming's capital city  —  Victor Miller has skirted attempts by OpenAI and the state to shut down his campaign, believed to be the first U.S. effort of its kind.  —  Mayoral candidate Victor Miller, a bespectacled librarian with an AI obsession …
Discussion: The Guardian
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Governor Who Endorsed Trump to Heal American Politics  —  Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage.  —  On the evening last month when Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania, Spencer Cox was at home in the Utah governor's mansion.
Alana Goodman / freebeacon.com:
Walz Praised Chinese Communism as a System Where ‘Everyone Shares’  —  As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which “everyone shares” and gets free food and housing.
Pluralistic:
Corporate Bullshit (permalink)  —  Corporate Bullshit: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America is Nick Hanauer, Joan Walsh and Donald Cohen's 2023 book on the history of corporate apologetics; it's great:  —  https://thenewpress.com/books/ corporate-bullsht
 
 
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CNN:
Democrats to highlight threat to democracy they say Trump poses, giving speaking roles to January 6 committee lawmakers
Discussion: Off Message and Crooks and Liars
Associated Press:
Republicans are central in an effort to rescue Cornel West's ballot hopes in Arizona
David Strom / HotAir:
Is Kamala Drunk?  —  There is a lot of chatter on Twitter/X regarding Kamala Harris' bizarre word salads.
Discussion: Townhall
The Times of Israel:
Hamas claims Tel Aviv blast as attempted suicide bombing, vows to carry out more
Tressie McMillan Cottom / New York Times:
On Cat Ladies, Mama Bears and ‘Momala’
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Robert Reich:
We thank you, Joe  —  Tonight is for you  —  Tonight's opening of the Democratic National Convention …
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Russia Bans George and Amal Clooney's Foundation as ‘Undesirable’
Discussion: UPI, Raw Story and Politico
Rachel Maddow / New York Times:
What Worries Me Most About Election Night
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
3 Women With Harrowing Pregnancy Stories Will Speak at Convention
Politico:
Kamala Harris is making one big strategic break from Hillary Clinton
Discussion: New Republic
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads
 
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