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Speaker Johnson plowing ahead with funding plan despite GOP opposition  —  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is plowing ahead with his plan to avert a government shutdown despite GOP opposition that is large enough to tank the effort, setting the stage for a potentially embarrassing vote …

The Tide May Be Turning for Telegram, TikTok and X  —  Three major events have shaken up the social-media world in the past two weeks.  First, French authorities detained Pavel Durov, the iconoclastic billionaire behind the online platform Telegram.  Then, a judge suspended the microblogging service X in Brazil.

GOP red states launch a war on voting rights  —  The hoopla over the looming debate in Philadelphia has been obscuring a ton of non-political news.  Stop me if you've seen these headlines in America before: A high school massacre.  A man with a troubled past nonetheless buys an AR-15 and go on a shooting spree.

‘The Apprentice’ Trailer Reveals New Footage of Damning, Scandalous Trump Film  —  This is the film Donald Trump doesn't want you to see.  Now we know why.  —  “The first rule is: attack, attack, attack.”  A kaleidoscopic trailer was released Tuesday of the new Donald Trump biopic/origin story …

Elon Musk's misleading election claims reach millions and alarm election officials  —  The X billionaire's false posts about noncitizen voting spur officials to fact-check him, lead to requests to purge voter rolls, and add to worries about threats, election officials say.

Donald Trump's unconventional ground game is making Republicans nervous  —  The News  —  Donald Trump's success — or failure — on Nov. 5 could very well come down to the campaign's ground game: And top members of the party are already whispering concerns, pointing fingers, and offering pushback as it relates to the effort.

‘Incredible’: Even CNN Notices that Harris Is the Extremist in 2024  —  Just who is the “extremist” in this presidential election?  The mainstream media keeps trying to cast Donald Trump in that role, but his policies are closer to the mainstream — and polling shows that voters know it.

Liz Cheney and the Problem of the Anti-Trump Republican  —  “We may have set a record for Republicans speaking at a Democratic convention,” Pete Buttigieg proudly proclaimed in an interview on the Colbert Show during last month's DNC.  Colbert had asked him whether he thought it was still possible …

The Video That Perfectly Captures the Utter Strangeness of RFK Jr.  —  What's he doing with that lizard?  —  Rfk jr. slid into my tiktok “for you” page this weekend.  I had never thought of him as being For Me, but TikTok knows all of us better than we know ourselves, so I kept watching.

White Stripes sue Donald Trump over the use of ‘Seven Nation Army’ riff in social media post  —  The White Stripes sued former President Donald Trump on Monday in a case that alleges he used their hit song “Seven Nation Army” without permission in a video posted to social media.