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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's weekend of radical flip-flopping — 🚨 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. — 🩴 Subscribe to Public Notice 🩴
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Praises Authoritarian Viktor Orbán and Even Republicans Are Concerned
Trump Praises Authoritarian Viktor Orbán and Even Republicans Are Concerned
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Trump Flips on Florida Abortion Measure Again
Trump Flips on Florida Abortion Measure Again
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HuffPost, Blue Virginia, Twitchy and USA Today
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Convicted fraudsters launch AI lobbying firm using fake names — Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are operating under the pseudonyms Jay Klein and Bill Sanders. — A Washington startup pitched as a service to integrate AI into lobbying is covertly run by a pair of well-known …
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Joe.My.God. and Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Where the race between Trump and Harris stands on Labor Day, according to our polling expert — A race that Kamala Harris leads nationally is the equivalent of a knife fight in a phone booth, and it's set to be decided in a smaller-than-usual number of states.
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ComingSoon.net
emptywheel:
The Soft Bigotry of No Expectations on Trump — WaPo has an editorial out, purporting to compare the policy platforms of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Its punchline is that Kamala can lift up politics by going deep on policy, something it admits Trump has not done.
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Lily Mae Lazarus / The Daily Beast:
Poking the Bear: How Kamala Harris Is Preparing for Trump Debate — PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT — Donald Trump, however, “does not need traditional debate prep,” his national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. — Journalist — Kamala Harris is reportedly focusing on ways …
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HuffPost, CBS News, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Washington Times and CNBC
Washington Post:
Trump eyes plan that may give Elon Musk role in auditing U.S. agencies — The GOP presidential nominee has discussed asking executives to comb through federal books. For Musk, the task could bring conflicts of interest. — Behind closed doors, former president Donald Trump and his advisers …
The Daily Beast:
Anthony Scaramucci Drops Bombshell Melania Claims — HATERS GONNA HATE — “I judge the hatred of Donald Trump by the Melania standard,” the former White House communications director said during a podcast appearance Saturday. — Journalist — Anthony Scaramucci has claimed …
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Mitchell Goodbar / Daily Mail:
Anthony Scaramucci makes bizarre claim about Melania as he continues bitter war against Donald Trump for firing him
Anthony Scaramucci makes bizarre claim about Melania as he continues bitter war against Donald Trump for firing him
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Alternet.org and ComingSoon.net
John Kenneth White / The Hill:
A Catholic's case for Kamala Harris — In the Gospel of Matthew, an exhausted Jesus was traveling from Galilee to Judea when a group of little children were brought to him for a blessing. When his disciples tried to shoo them away, Jesus rebuked them, saying: “Let the little children come …
Michael S. Roth / New York Times:
I'm a College President and I Hope My Campus Is Even More Political This Year — Last year was a tough one on college campuses, so over the summer a lot of people asked me if I was hoping things would be less political this fall. Actually, I'm hoping they will be more political.
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Washington Examiner and New Republic
Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
With his 1776 Commission on patriotism, Trump helped spark a culture war — Trump attempted to use federal power to define how America's history is taught — and promises to try again. — On a weekend day in the summer of 2020, President Donald Trump phoned his education secretary, Betsy DeVos, out of the blue.
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Trump says he had ‘every right’ to interfere in election — Former President Trump in an interview broadcast late Sunday argued he had “every right” to interfere with the 2020 election while repeating his claim the criminal election interference cases against him are politically motivated.
Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
Harris and Biden Will Make a Labor Day Pitch to Union Voters — The vice president will appear with the president in Pittsburgh at their first joint campaign event since she took over the top of the ticket. — President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will appear together on Monday …
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, RedState, Associated Press, Joe.My.God., Wisconsin Examiner and Boston Herald
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Molly Jong-Fast / MSNBC:
Republicans' misogynistic attacks on Kamala Harris aren't even the worst part — Increasingly gross remarks are part of a pattern of misogynistic Republicans' attacks against Harris and other women who displease them. — Fox News host Jesse Watters' gross commentary about Kamala Harris highlighted …
Katy Stech Ferek / Wall Street Journal:
Democrat Woos Dairy Farmers to Keep Crucial Senate Seat — Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin hits country roads and agricultural fairs, seeking to win over rural Trump supporters once more
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Washington Examiner
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
Musk's Twitter investors have lost billions in value — Elon Musk bought Twitter with a combination of his own money, bank loans and capital raised from friends and associates. Here's how far his investors are underwater. — When Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X, he didn't do it alone.
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NBC News:
White House official says Biden and Harris weren't invited to Arlington cemetery by families of service members killed during Afghanistan withdrawal — Biden and Harris' teams pushed back on claims from GOP Sen. Tom Cotton and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard that the president and vice president had been invited alongside Trump.
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