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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
Kamala Harris is cutting off Trump's political oxygen  —  🚨 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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James Carville / New York Times:
Kamala Harris's Best Strategy to Defeat Trump  —  I hate to say it, but Donald Trump remains the singular most recognized name in the United States.  Since he moseyed down that golden escalator in 2015, he has dominated the American airwaves and algorithms.
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's hardline new quest to destroy Harris' momentum  —  Donald Trump is trying to crush Democratic nominee Kamala Harris' persona as a force of change and to destroy her personal credibility as a potential president as their still-fresh competition careens into the final nine weeks before Election Day.
Daniel Dale / CNN:   Trump is still telling lies he told eight years ago
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Harris to release new economic policy plans before debate
Discussion: The Hill, New York Post and emptywheel
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Biden and Harris rally in battleground Pennsylvania as Trump sits out Labor Day
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House and Senate Republicans are starting to panic about a huge money gap with Democrats  —  GOP leaders on Capitol Hill are privately — and publicly — warning donors they need more money.  —  Republicans are racing to plug a massive money hole — before it's too late.
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Harris to transfer nearly $25 million to help down-ballot Democratic candidates  —  The boost to House, Senate and state-level candidates follows a $540 million fundraising haul for the vice president over six weeks.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign and the Democratic National Committee plan …
Bryan Metzger / Business Insider:
Kamala Harris has raised so much money that she's giving $25 million of it to other campaigns
Discussion: The Hill and Foreign Policy
emptywheel:
All Trump's Recidivists  —  Donald Trump and Stephen “Discount Goebbels” Miller have a plan.  As the election draws near, they want to find every instance of an undocumented immigrant who commits a violent crime; that is and will continue to be their routine response when Trump's misogyny or his own crimes get coverage.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Murderer whose life sentence was commuted by Trump convicted of domestic violence  —  Davidson, who was convicted in the murder of a federal law enforcement officer in 1990, shared an attorney with Donald Trump Jr.  —  A drug kingpin convicted in the murder of a federal law enforcement officer …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:   Convicted murderer set free by Trump strangled his wife after release: report
Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
Former aide to New York's governor is charged with being an agent of the Chinese government  —  A former New York state government official who worked for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Gov. Kathy Hochul was charged Tuesday with acting as an undisclosed agent of the Chinese government …
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US Department of Justice:
Former High-Ranking New York State Government Employee Charged with Acting as an Undisclosed Agent of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York  —  Defendant Engaged in Political Activities …
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Former Aide to Hochul and Cuomo Is Charged as Chinese Agent
Discussion: The National Pulse
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Vance Championed 2017 Report on Families From Architects of Project 2025 … In his introduction to the 2017 Heritage Foundation report, JD Vance argued that economic struggles were inextricable from what he saw as cultural decay.Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
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Mike Allen / Axios:   JD Vance's “anytime, anywhere” media strategy
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance's Past Links to Project 2025 Architects Exposed
Discussion: The Nation
Washington Post:
House Democrats ask Trump if he illegally accepted $10 million from Egypt  —  A recent Washington Post article detailed a now-closed Justice Department investigation spurred by intelligence from 2016 indicating that the Egyptian president sought to give Donald Trump money.
Discussion: Alternet.org and PoliticusUSA
Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
Exclusive: John McCain's son decries Trump appearance at Arlington as a ‘violation’ that turned cemetery into campaign backdrop  —  Jimmy McCain will be interviewed on “The Lead with Jake Tapper” at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday.  —  CNN —  When former President Donald Trump held a campaign event …
Discussion: The Hill
Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:
Questions surrounding Trump's mental acuity are a real 2024 story  —  His speech is becoming harder and harder to understand.  —  The words below were taken verbatim from a campaign speech former President Donald Trump delivered in Potterville, Michigan, Thursday when he was attempting …
Discussion: Deadline, Raw Story and Newsweek
Rhian Lubin / The Independent:
Trump campaign ‘no longer thinks New Hampshire is winnable and is pulling back from state,’ leaked insider email claims  —  Trump volunteer Tom Mountain urged supporters to turn their attentions to Pennsylvania instead - because Trump is ‘sure to lose by an even higher margin’ in New Hampshire than he did in 2016 and 2020
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Justin Grimmer / Politico:
Don't Trust the Election Forecasts  —  The data doesn't support the obsession with presidential prognostications.  —  Even as Joe Biden's presidential candidacy teetered and polls showed him clearly losing to Donald Trump, the election forecasting site 538 was still estimating that Biden was likeliest to win.
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Unearthed video: JD Vance said childless elites make the U.S. “dangerous.”  It was too much for a Newsmax interviewer.  —  In a previously unreported interview, JD Vance ranted in 2021 that the country has become a “dangerous place to live” because of childless elites.
Discussion: The Guardian and Newsbusters
Robert Reich:
Six ways to rein in Musk  —  (And Musk's infantile response to my criticisms)  —  Today I want to tell you the dangers posed by an out-of-control Elon Musk (in part I), and six ways to rein him in (in part II).  I also provide some personal evidence of how bonkers he is (in my P.S. at the end of today's letter).
Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Trump praises men for ‘allowing’ their wives to attend MAGA rallies without them  —  Trump asks how their husbands ‘put up’ with them as his appeal with women voters begins to crash  —  Support truly  —  independent journalism  —  Our mission is to deliver unbiased …
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux / Washington Post:
A louder voice in fighting abortion bans: Men in red states  —  More men are speaking out in defense of reproductive rights because of harrowing experiences that wives or partners have suffered when a pregnancy went awry.  —  Thomas Stovall grew up in a strict Baptist family in Mississippi …
 
 
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Olena Harmash / Reuters:
Russian missile strike kills 41 people in Ukraine's Poltava, Zelenskiy says
Galit Altstein / Bloomberg:
Israel Finance Minister Commits to Cutbacks to Help Fund War
Discussion: Reuters and The Times of Israel
Andra Watkins / How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life:
Christian Nationalism: Men Work; Women Mother
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Stokes ‘Inside Job’ Conspiracy Theory Of Assassination Attempt
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Chronology of a Dozen Times Trump Pushed to Prosecute His Perceived Enemies
Nick Reisman / Politico:
New York Democrats fear abortion-rights amendment is faltering
ProPublica:
The Accelerationists' App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Trump and the GOP still have no way of winning in a post-Roe America
Discussion: NOTUS and Crooked Media
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Dems pummel Ex-Freedom Caucus chief on abortion
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Noor Al-Sibai / Futurism:
In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone's Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
Discussion: New York Post and Joe.My.God.
Tia Goldenberg / Associated Press:
Netanyahu pushes back against new pressure over Gaza and hostages: ‘No one will preach to me’
 

 
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ESPN's NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski is leaving after seven years to become general manager of the men's basketball program at his alma mater St. Bonaventure

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