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Anna Merlan / Mother Jones:
Tenet Media Shutters After Being Accused of Taking $10 Million in Covert Kremlin Funding — Nothing to see here! — A contributor for Tenet Media announced on Twitter Thursday night that the company has abruptly shuttered, one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment …
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Will Sommer / Washington Post:
Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia
Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia
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Mock Paper Scissors, Daily Caller News Foundation, Forbes, Joe.My.God., USA Today, Chicago Sun Times and Crikey, more at Mediagazer »
Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
Stop letting right wing influencers cosplay as ‘independent’ media
Stop letting right wing influencers cosplay as ‘independent’ media
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Associated Press:
“This is not normal. … There are no broadcast television cameras inside the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue. But the real story of Jan. 6 is found in the mounds of evidence and testimony judges and juries have seen and heard behind the doors of the courthouse …
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Politico:
Trump's federal election prosecution isn't going to trial anytime soon. But it could still produce damaging revelations before Nov. 5.
Trump's federal election prosecution isn't going to trial anytime soon. But it could still produce damaging revelations before Nov. 5.
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Why Trump and Putin Now Need Each Other—Desperately
Why Trump and Putin Now Need Each Other—Desperately
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New York Times:
Judge Delays Trump's Sentencing Until Nov. 26, After Election Day — The decision by Justice Juan M. Merchan means voters will be left in the dark about whether the former president will face time behind bars. — The judge overseeing Donald J. Trump's criminal case in Manhattan postponed …
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Harris raised $361 million in August from nearly 3 million donors, campaign says
Harris raised $361 million in August from nearly 3 million donors, campaign says
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Megan Cassella / CNBC:
Eighty-eight corporate leaders endorse Harris in new letter, including CEOs of Yelp, Box — @IN/MEGAN-CASSELLA-BA02A160/ @MMCASSELLA — Eighty-eight corporate leaders signed a new letter Friday endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president. — Signers include former 21st …
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Jasper Goodman / Politico:
‘A huge mistake’: Trump's crypto allies cringe over family's startup — The crypto venture is attracting what appear to be hacks and attempted scams ahead of its launch. — Donald Trump's sons want to turn their father's growing bromance with the cryptocurrency industry into the new family business.
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Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Donald Trump's incoherence makes the media's double standard hard to hide — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris curiously don't get the same coverage — It seems like only yesterday that the elite media were extremely concerned that President Joe Biden had mistakenly referred to the president of Egypt as the president of Mexico.
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Will Doran / WRAL-TV:
Start of mail-in voting delayed in NC, as RFK Jr.'s lawsuit leads to court-ordered pause — Kennedy lost in trial Thursday, but the North Carolina Court of Appeals wants time to consider his argument to have his name taken off the ballot. — Posted 2024-09-06T15:29:29+00:00 - Updated 2024-09-06T16:28:13+00:00
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CNN:
The father of the Georgia school shooting suspect has been arrested and charged, authorities say — The father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting that left four people dead, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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Associated Press:
Teen charged in Georgia school shooting and his father to stay in custody after hearings
Teen charged in Georgia school shooting and his father to stay in custody after hearings
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NPR:
Trump deputy campaign manager identified in Arlington National Cemetery dustup — One of two staffers involved in the altercation at Arlington National Cemetery is a deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump's reelection bid, NPR has learned. The former president insisted this week the incident …
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Cook Political Report shifts 6 House races toward Dems, 2 toward GOP — The nonpartisan group Cook Political Report has shifted half a dozen House races toward Democrats and two toward Republicans, as Democrats see their fundraising advantage and enthusiasm rise after Vice President Harris …
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Washington Examiner, Cook Political Report and Forbes
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security — School shootings are a “fact of life,” so the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said Thursday.
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Griffin Eckstein / Salon:
JD Vance says school shootings are a “fact of life”
JD Vance says school shootings are a “fact of life”
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Nick Schager / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Rapes and Pillages His Way Through the Scathing ‘The Apprentice’ — “The Apprentice” is the movie Donald Trump doesn't want you to see—and for good reason. A sneak preview at TIFF revealed a damning film about the making of a monster. — Donald Trump doesn't want Americans …
Nick Arama / RedState:
YIKES: Tim Walz's Remarks About Gaza Just Revealed Why They Don't Want Him Answering Questions — I wrote earlier about Joe Biden's cluelessness when it comes to what's going on with Gaza, Hamas, and making deals with terrorists. — Biden keeps leaning on Israel, and that keeps emboldening Hamas.
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Rick Brewer / WCMU Public Radio:
LISTEN: WCMU's full-length interview with Tim Walz
LISTEN: WCMU's full-length interview with Tim Walz
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Washington Examiner, New York Post and Townhall
Axios:
How Harris dodges scrutiny — Why did President Biden's top advisers routinely leak word they found her performance as vice president disappointing or episodically problematic? — How did her views change in five years, from liberal to centrist on health care, immigration and energy?
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
World sees hottest summer recorded for second consecutive year — Summer temperatures broke records for the second consecutive year, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. — Newly released data found that 2023 experienced the hottest June and August on the books …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Tucker Carlson and the Heterodoxy-to-Holocaust Denial Pipeline — This week Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News star who now hosts one of America's top podcasts, had an apologist for Adolf Hitler on his show. Darryl Cooper, who runs a history podcast and newsletter called Martyr Made …
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump Can't Get Himself Out of the Abortion Straitjacket — Donald Trump is stuck. — He is a brutally transactional politician who represents a coalition of ideologues. His instinct is to promise the moon, and he'll say anything to get a vote — or just to get out of a room.
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The Atlantic:
The End of Democracy Has Already Begun — Undermine truth, spread falsehoods, and prepare the ground for worse. — The corruption of democracy begins with the corruption of thought—and with the deliberate undermining of reality. Stephen Richer, an election official in Arizona …
Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
The mainstream press is failing America - and people are understandably upset — The media is still pursuing the appearance of fairness by treating true and false, normal and outrageous, as equally valid — The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream US media …
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
Not even football stars are safe in blue state cities — The life of an NFL rookie is difficult. You must learn a new playbook, deal with multiple rookie chores, and try to avoid being shot when your new home is run by Democrats. — San Francisco 49ers first-round pick Ricky Pearsall found this out the hard way.
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Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Montana Senate Race Moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The Montana Senate race moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican. — We were very close to making this change in yesterday's more expansive Senate update, but we were waiting for some additional polling evidence to do it.
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Washington Post:
Kamala Harris ran her office like a prosecutor. Not everyone liked that. — After a difficult first year as vice president, Harris has grown into her role — and found staff who respond better to her style, allies say. — On the day after President Joe Biden decided to end his reelection bid in July …