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1:55 PM ET, September 14, 2024

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Stephen Starr / The Guardian:
Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town.  Then neo-Nazis turned up  —  Springfield's immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumors  —  While Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio …
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Russell Moore / The Atlantic:
Trump's Lie Is Another Test for Christian America  —  If we're willing to see children terrorized because of a false rumor about Haitian immigrants, we should ask who abducted our conscience, not someone's pet.  —  The accusation that Haitian immigrants in a small Ohio city are abducting …
Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News:
‘It just exploded’: Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians  —  The woman behind an early Facebook post that helped spark baseless rumors about Haitians eating pets told NBC News that she feels for the immigrant community.
Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
Trump's Vile Lie About Haitians Is the Latest in a Long and Grim Tradition  —  When my family moved back to the United States from East Africa in the mid-1980s, one might have thought it was a peak time of compassion for people suffering in faraway places.  A glittering group of music superstars …
Washington Post:
Trump's false claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets invokes racist trope  —  The baseless assertion that immigrants in Ohio are eating people's pets mirrors claims that have been used against migrants since the 1800s, scholars and historians say.  —  For days, Donald Trump and his allies …
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
'They've destroyed the place': Trump repeats racist, anti-immigrant lies
Isabel Fattal / The Atlantic:
The Springfield Effect  —  Trump and Vance's absurd statements are fueling real tensions and endangering Haitians in the city.
Elie Mystal / The Nation:   White People Have Never Forgiven Haitians for Claiming Their Freedom
emptywheel:
The Laura Loomer Problem Is the Same as the Vladimir Putin Problem  —  At about the same time that several of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters were warning that Laura Loomer's access to the former President threatens his presidential bid, Tim Walz was in Grand Rapids mocking how easy it is to manipulate Donald Trump.
Matt Shuham / HuffPost:
Inside Team Trump's Plans For Mass Deportation Camps  —  A key Trump White House adviser said the operation would be “greater than any national infrastructure project we've done to date” as a country.  —  Five years ago, Kris Kobach, Kansas' former secretary of state, announced on Fox Business Network that …
Discussion: New York Daily News
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Stephen Fry: Musk and Zuckerberg have ‘polluted culture’  —  Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and X owner Elon Musk are “the worst polluters in human history”, Stephen Fry has said.  —  The actor and comedian made the claim during a lecture at Kings College, London.
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Harris and Trump place their chips on different states to win White House  —  A compressed battleground map has given each campaign a defensive electoral college wall, and they overlap in the crucial state of Pennsylvania.  —  Democrats have spent the last year eyeing a familiar trio …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Politico
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Harris pledges to rein in degree requirements for federal jobs
Discussion: Reuters
New York Times:
The Star-Making Machine That Created ‘Donald Trump’ … Donald Trump had mostly luck to credit for being discovered, at age 57, by Mark Burnett, then the hottest name in the hottest new television genre.Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times  —  Late in the summer of 2003 …
Rachel Leingang / The Guardian:
I read the full 900-page Project 2025 manifesto - here's why it matters  —  Heritage Foundation blueprint describes an America poisoned by ‘wokeness’ and overtaken by lawlessness that only conservatives can save  —  I printed out all 900-plus pages of Project 2025 in February on my home printer …
Sophia Vento / The Hill:
Republicans sued three battleground states this week.  Here's what you need to know  —  Republicans are reprising efforts to legally challenge election law in three key battleground states that could help decide who wins in November.  —  Michigan, North Carolina and Nevada are targets of the blitz …
Discussion: GOP.com and The Federalist
The Hill:
GOP plays blame game after funding bill failure  —  The House GOP's inability to coalesce around a strategy to address a looming government funding deadline is sparking a blame game among Republicans, after opposition from multiple factions helped thwart Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) …
Discussion: Washington Times
Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP lawmaker's wife accuses him of an affair — and points the finger at the wrong woman  —  The House Homeland Security chair, who is seeking a divorce, acknowledged “a difficult time for my family.”  —  House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green engaged in an extramarital affair …
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Sarah Grace Taylor / Nashville Banner:   Rep. Mark Green Accused by Wife of Affair with Younger Woman
Monica Alba / NBC News:
Harris campaign targets Latinos in new ad blitz focused on boxing matches and baseball games  —  The Harris campaign is especially focused on reaching undecided Latino voters who may be persuaded by some of former President Donald Trump's economic message.  —  WASHINGTON — The Harris campaign …
Discussion: USA Today and NC Newsline
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Secret Service probe details failures before Trump rally shooting  —  An internal investigation has confirmed security breakdowns that paved the way for an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and revealed new failures.  —  A Secret Service investigation has confirmed security breakdowns …
 
 
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New York Times:
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Discussion: Raw Story
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The Atlantic:
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Mark Scolforo / Associated Press:
Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with flawed dates on envelopes can be thrown out, court rules
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Lynda Carter's Sister Is Running in a Key Arizona Race. Wonder Woman Is Sounding the Alarm.
Discussion: HuffPost and Digby's Hullabaloo
CNN:
Pope Francis criticizes Trump and Harris and says voters must choose between ‘lesser of two evils’
Los Angeles Times:
Trump says he would withhold California fire aid unless Newsom ‘signs those papers’
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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