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New York Times:
Trump to Put Kennedy and Gabbard on his Transition Team  —  Mr. Kennedy and Ms. Gabbard, who had been progressive Democrats for many years, will join the former president's sons and Senator JD Vance, his running mate, as honorary co-chairs.  —  Donald J. Trump plans to name his former rival …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The thread connecting Robert Kennedy Jr., chemtrails and Project 2025  —  Robert Kennedy Jr.'s exotic beliefs are no barrier to his having authority in a Trump administration.  Nor will the Project 2025 authors'.  —  For Donald Trump, the benefit of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s endorsement was obvious.
Discussion: Alternet.org and New Republic
Erin Doherty / Axios:
RFK Jr. says he's been tapped for Trump's transition team
Politico:
Playbook: Inside Harris' big interview decision  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  ONE CEASE-FIRE DOWN — “Oasis reunites for tour and ends a 15-year hiatus during Gallagher brothers' feud,” by AP's Danica Kirka and Maria Sherman in London
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Sam Stein / The Bulwark:
Trump Camp Spends Tens of Thousands to Air Ads In and Around Mar-a-Lago  —  DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN is set to run cable news ads this week so they can be seen at the ex-president's Mar-a-Lago club and surrounding environs.  —  The South Florida expense is likely to have no impact on the course of the election.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Taunting Trump: Harris campaign's sneer tactics … Now he's the taunted.  — It's another dimension of Vice President Harris' “happy warrior” approach to a campaign that's sure to get uglier this fall. … - But Monday's widespread coverage of the backstage fight over the “muted mics” …
Discussion: The i Paper and Raw Story
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Robert Reich:
How will team Trump tell him he should be muted during his debate with Harris?
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The Conservatives Who Sold Their Souls for Trump  —  The rage and shame of the anti-anti-Trumpers is getting worse.  —  Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election “on character.”
Casey Newton / Platformer:
How Telegram played itself  —  By now you've surely heard that Telegram founder Pavel Durov is in French custody.  On Saturday, the Russia-born billionaire was arrested after landing in a private plane at Le Bourget airport outside Paris.  Durov is now being questioned as part …
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Politico:
The bewildering politics of Telegram  —  Here are two big reasons the controversial app just became a global flashpoint.  —  When Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested late Saturday at an airport outside Paris, accused of complicity in illegal online behavior and refusing to disclose information …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
MAGA attacks on Kamala Harris' stepdaughter threaten to backfire on Donald Trump  —  Ella Emhoff has triggered Trump's bitter bro fanbase — but his embrace of the incel vote could come back to haunt  —  MAGA thought leaders can't stop proving that they are weird, just as Vice President Kamala Harris …
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Burness / Bolts:
Nebraska Reverts to 19th-Century Voting Restrictions, Clouding Rights for Thousands  —  The Nebraska Voting Rights Restoration Coalition was ready for July 19.  A new state law, Legislative Bill 20, would take effect that day, instantly granting voting rights to some 7,000 people with past felony convictions.
Discussion: HuffPost
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Zuckerberg says Biden admin “pressured” Meta to censor Covid-19 content … - This included censoring “humor and satire,” he added, noting that officials “expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.”  — “I believe the government pressure was wrong …
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Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Mark Zuckerberg Says White House Was ‘Wrong’ to Pressure Facebook on Covid
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
How The Hell Was Trump Allowed To Use Arlington National Cemetery As A Campaign Prop?  —  This is an insult to the over 400 Medal of Honor awardees buried there.  —  Well, luckily for the former president*'s campaign, it wasn't raining on Monday, when he grotesquely used Arlington National Cemetery …
Axios:
Harris flip-flops on building the border wall … - Harris is embracing a more hawkish immigration policy as Donald Trump's campaign spends tens of millions of dollars attacking her about the border.  — But she still has significant differences with Trump on immigration …
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
Biden impeachment backlash builds within House GOP  —  House Republicans are furious about being forced into a last-minute Biden impeachment vote — which they say could hurt their campaigns, top GOP sources tell Axios. … But just one member can force a vote.
Discussion: Raw Story
Stephen Fowler / NPR:
RFK may be unable to withdraw his name from ballots in some swing states  —  After spending several months and millions of dollars overcoming onerous requirements to try to get on the ballot in all 50 states, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now facing new barriers to get off the ballot in some states.
Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
Trump lawyers accuse Fani Willis of playing ‘race card’  —  Former President Trump's legal team wants Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) taken off his Georgia election interference case, arguing in a new filing that the prosecutor, who is Black, has shown unfair “racial animus” toward Trump.
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Joshua Glanzer / Florida Atlantic University:
FAU/Mainstreet USA Poll: Harris Gains Momentum in Wake of DNC  —  The 2024 presidential election is just a few months away  —  A new poll from the Florida Atlantic University Political Communication and Public Opinion Research Lab ( PolCom Lab ) and Mainstreet Research USA reveals significant shifts …
Discussion: The Hill and Florida Politics
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Is So ‘Desperate’ They've Now Gone After Tim Walz's Dog  —  PAW PATROL  —  MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki noted an “important lesson” for Republicans after the conspiracy was quickly debunked.  —  Republicans spent Monday ginning up a quickly-disproven conspiracy about vice presidential …
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Judge blocks Biden administration from granting legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens  —  A federal judge in Texas on Monday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from granting legal status to unauthorized immigrants married to American citizens, granting a request from 16 Republican-led states who challenged the new policy.
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John Fritze / CNN:
The Supreme Court is sowing confusion over how it will handle election disputes this fall  —  The recent US Supreme Court decision changing voter registration rules in Arizona has voting rights advocates anxious about how the justices will approach emergency election appeals in the runup to the November election.
Astrid Galván / Axios:
First look: Latinos warned Project 2025 would hit them hard … - Yet “there's not enough information” about how it “has really, really troubling ideas on issues that really matter to the Latino community,” says Vanessa Cardenas, executive director of America's Voice, an immigrant rights organization.
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
Trump and Harris confront a trillion-dollar question over expiring tax cuts  —  With a huge swath of Trump's 2017 tax cuts set to expire at the end of next year, the presidential candidates are putting down markers on the issue.  —  The next president, be it Kamala Harris or Donald Trump …
Discussion: Denver Post and The Daily Caller
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
August 26, 2024  —  The point that is currently holding up plans for ABC's September 10 presidential debate is whether the candidates' microphones will be muted when it is the other's turn to speak.  Vice President Kamala Harris's team wants the mics “hot”; Trump's team wants them turned off.
Mariko Paulson / Penn Wharton Budget Model:
The 2024 Trump Campaign Policy Proposals: Budgetary, Economic and Distributional Effects … Key Points  — We project that conventionally estimated tax revenue falls by $5.8 trillion over the next 10 years, producing an equivalent amount of primary deficits.
Discussion: The Hill and DNyuz
 
 
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Halina Bennet / New York Times:
At Michigan, Activists Take Over and Shut Down Student Government
ABC News:
Like Trump, Vance to campaign behind bulletproof glass at Michigan rally
Discussion: Fox News
Washington Post:
Biden, Harris push scrutiny of police. Trump would halt such efforts.
Axios:
Study: Rural and suburban areas see higher rates of police shootings than cities
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Special counsel urges appeals court to reinstate classified documents case against Trump
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