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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 🩴
Discussion: UnHerd and Washington Post
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Praises Authoritarian Viktor Orbán and Even Republicans Are Concerned
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
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 …
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.
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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
Discussion: Alternet.org and ComingSoon.net
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and NBC News
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.
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.
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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Fox News:
Abandon Biden campaign relaunches, targets Harris in key swing states
Discussion: RedState and Orlando Sentinel
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost and IJR
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.
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 …
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
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is hitting the road to promote her new memoir, ‘Lovely One’  —  Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is embarking on a high-profile, nationwide tour to promote her new memoir, “Lovely One.”  Jackson, 53, is using the book, publisher Random House says …
Discussion: CBS News
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and HuffPost
Variety:
George Clooney Says Biden Is ‘Most Selfless’ President Since George Washington for Dropping Out of Presidential Race Against Trump: ‘All the Credit Goes to Him’
Associated Press:
GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states, hoping to siphon off Harris votes
Discussion: Townhall
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The Economist:
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Anne Applebaum / Financial Times:
The kleptocrats aren't just stealing money. They're stealing democracy
John Davenport / Salon:
Tulsi Gabbard's journey to Donald Trump is an ominous sign of Putin's power
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