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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 …
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Simon J. Levien / New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr. Piles On With Racist Comments About Haitians — After former President Donald J. Trump spread debunked claims that immigrants from Haiti were eating pets, his son cast more aspersions on Haitian immigrants. — Amid fallout from Donald J. Trump's debunked claim about immigrants …
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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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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 …
Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News:
‘It just exploded’: Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians
‘It just exploded’: Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians
Washington Post:
Trump's false claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets invokes racist trope
Trump's false claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets invokes racist trope
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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
'They've destroyed the place': Trump repeats racist, anti-immigrant lies
'They've destroyed the place': Trump repeats racist, anti-immigrant lies
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Isabel Fattal / The Atlantic:
The Springfield Effect — Trump and Vance's absurd statements are fueling real tensions and endangering Haitians in the city.
The Springfield Effect — Trump and Vance's absurd statements are fueling real tensions and endangering Haitians in the city.
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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.
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Axios:
Trump's swing-state plan targets “sometimes” voters … - Trump's team is outgunned in sheer resources: The campaign says it has about 27,000 top volunteers on the ground nationwide, and “hundreds of thousands” more in various roles in battleground states.
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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 …
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Harris and Trump place their chips on different states to win White House
Harris and Trump place their chips on different states to win White House
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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 …
Lily Mae Lazarus / The Daily Beast:
‘The Apprentice’ Producers Were Shocked by Trump's ‘Musty Carpet’ — CREATING DONALD TRUMP — “Our job was to make him look legitimate, to make him look like there was something behind it, even though we pretty much all knew that there wasn't,” one producer said. — Journalist
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New York Times:
How ‘The Apprentice’ Fueled Donald Trump's Rise to the Presidency … 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 …
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.
Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Alarm in UK and US over possible Iran-Russia nuclear deal — US president Joe Biden and British PM Keir Starmer fear secret arms link-up amid talks in Washington over Ukraine — Britain and the US have raised fears that Russia has shared nuclear secrets with Iran in return for Tehran supplying Moscow …
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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 …
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The Post Millennial and New York Daily News
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: After debate, Harris surges to 5-point lead over Trump among registered voters in head-to-head matchup — Harris's lead, her biggest yet, is similar among likely voters and when third-party candidates are included — A strong performance in Tuesday's debate …
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Washington Examiner and The Post Millennial