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6:50 PM ET, August 24, 2024

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Chris McGreal / The Guardian:
Is Trump OK?  Unhinged reaction to rise of Harris worries supporters  —  Rambling speeches peppered with insults, narcissism and an obsession with crowd size have raised questions about the former president's fitness for office  —  Even some of Donald Trump's supporters are now asking …
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emptywheel:
A Manufactured Fight over Incumbency Hides Trump's Fascism  —  Thinking of Trump in terms of presidential administrations — reading this race as a fight over incumbency — is a category error that serves to hide the threat Trump poses to democracy.  —  Yet a slew of reviews of the DNC …
New York Times:
Trump's Carefully Scripted Week Kept Veering Off Script  —  Despite calls by his advisers to focus on the issues, former President Donald J. Trump has made it clear that he intends to keep running his campaign his way.  —  Donald J. Trump's political endurance this year has been attributed …
David Korzinski / angusreid.org:
DNC Bump?: Harris extends lead over Trump with base built on youth vote
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Trump Fumes When Fox News Asks About Harris's Momentum After DNC
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
DNC ratings thump Trump as 29 million TV viewers watch Harris' acceptance speech
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
GOP strategist cautions Trump on joining forces with RFK Jr: 'He's kind of a looney tune'  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Play Video  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00  —  Loaded: 0%  —  Stream Type LIVE  —  Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE  —  Playback Rate  —  Chapters
Discussion: Mediaite, Fox News and The Guardian
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Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
RFK Jr.'s out.  Does it change the race?  —  EXIT STAGE RIGHT — Some third-party presidential campaigns are noble endeavors driven by the loftiest of principles.  Others are vanity projects, exercises in cynicism that leave our politics slightly more soiled for the experience.
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
We removed RFK Jr. from our model.  But it didn't hurt Kamala.  —  Harris's convention bounce has offset any impact — so far.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Like everything else about his presidential campaign, Robert F. Kennedy's withdrawal from the presidential race was weird.
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Democratic convention energy, Harris hot streak making Republicans nervous  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Play Video  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00  —  Loaded: 0%  —  Stream Type LIVE  —  Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE  —  Playback Rate  —  Chapters  — Chapters
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he is suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump  —  The scion of one of the most famous Democratic families had attracted voters dismayed with a Trump-Biden rematch, but Biden's exit and Harris's nomination upended the race.  —  PHOENIX — Independent presidential …
Kurt Andersen / The Atlantic:
RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer
Discussion: Twitchy, ABC News and DNyuz
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
RFK Jr., environmental warrior, backs the ‘drill, baby, drill’ ticket
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Harris, Walz lean into erasing medical debt
Discussion: DNyuz
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
Foo Fighters Say Trump Didn't Have Permission to Use ‘My Hero’ at Arizona Rally  —  Band will take “appropriate action” as well as donate royalties from usage to Harris/Walz campaign
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Melinda Newman / Billboard:
Foo Fighters Did Not Allow Donald Trump to Use ‘My Hero’ at Rally, Will Donate Any Royalties to Harris Campaign
CNN:
Fauci recovering after hospitalization for West Nile virus  —  Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is recovering at home after being hospitalized with West Nile virus, a spokesperson said.  —  Fauci, a longtime public health official …
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Eliana Johnson / freebeacon.com:
For Tim Walz, a Pattern of Prevarications Stretches Back Almost Two Decades  —  When Tim Walz launched his 2006 campaign for Congress in rural Minnesota, he boasted in his public biography that in 1993, he “was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce …
Politico:
Are Republicans losing the culture wars?  —  School board candidates who ran on parental rights in classrooms are suffering defeats in states like Florida, once a leader in the “anti-woke” movement.  —  Republicans are confronting a decisive moment in the battle over public education: proving they can still win a culture war.
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Two versions of masculinity are on the 2024 ballot … - But now rather than an aging President Biden, he's running against the potential first woman president.  — Vice President Kamala Harris rarely mentions her gender, but the men at her side have embraced their second-fiddle roles in supporting a woman's rise to power.
Raw Story:
Kristi Noem rejects more than $70 million in federal funds  —  Governor Kristi Noem's administration recently turned down more than $70 million of federal funds from energy efficiency and environmental programs, according to her top budget official.  —  The Home Energy Rebates program …
Rachel Dobkin / Newsweek:
Kari Lake Trolled With Photo of Her Urged Off Stage at Trump Rally  —  U.S.  —  candidate  —  was trolled on Friday by her Democratic opponent, Representative  —  , with a photo of her being urged to get off the stage while speaking at a rally for former President  —  .
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Cronkite News
 
 
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Anne Bradbury / The Hill:
Voters deserve answers on Kamala Harris's true energy policy
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
Labor board confirms Amazon drivers are employees, in finding hailed by union
Discussion: NPR and Truthout
Jonathan Corum / New York Times:
Words Used at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions
Discussion: IJR and Diane Ravitch's blog
 Earlier Items: 
Jacob Rosenberg / Mother Jones:
Raphael Warnock Told the DNC to “Keep the Faith.” He Restored Mine in the Process.
Grateful Calvin / Twitchy:
Oh, the Irony: Kamala Claims to Have ‘Stood Strong Against Elder Abuse’ in DNC Acceptance Speech
Discussion: Townhall and RedState
Mark Antonio Wright / National Review:
Trump Is Behind Not Because the Press Is Hyping Kamala but Because He's Unpopular
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
‘Throwing money down a well’: McCarthy's revenge tour comes to an end
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
These Young Women Didn't Want to Vote for Biden. They're All In on Harris.
Discussion: ABC News
 

 
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Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Disney reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $22.6B, TV network revenue down 6% YoY to $2.5B, and a $321M DTC streaming profit, up from a $387M loss in Q4 2023

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google plans to stop showing political ads to users in the EU in 2025 due to uncertainties around new transparency rules coming into effect in October 2025
 
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