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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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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
JD Vance's Blood-and-Soil Nationalism Finds Its Target — If Senator JD Vance of Ohio had a moral compass, a shred of decency or a belief in anything other than his own ambition and will-to-power, he would resign his Senate seat effective immediately, leave the presidential race and retire from public life …
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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 …
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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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
‘It just exploded’: Woman who sparked Trump's migrant pet-eating hoax comes forward
‘It just exploded’: Woman who sparked Trump's migrant pet-eating hoax comes forward
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The Guardian, New York Daily News, Mediaite, Alternet.org and The Hill
Griffin Eckstein / Salon:
Loomer threatens to sue Maher over Trump affair rumor — Laura Loomer hit back over Bill Maher's assertion that she was having an affair with Donald Trump — Laura Loomer is threatening to lawyer up after Bill Maher joked about a possible affair between the far-right troll and Donald Trump.
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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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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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Deirdre Bardolf / New York Post:
Swift endorsement turns more voters from Harris than it attracts: poll — It might not be such a “Love Story” after all. — Taylor Swift's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, may turn more voters away than it attracts.
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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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VINnews, Washington Examiner and The Post Millennial
Mary L Trump / The Good in Us:
Cheating as a Way of Life — What Donald keeps getting away with — Donald spent the weekend, as he often does, lying to the American people and ranting about all of the ways in which the debate was rigged against him—from the moderators giving Kamala Harris the questions ahead …
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Raw Story
Sejal Govindarao / Los Angeles Times:
Arizona's 1864 abortion ban is officially off the books — Arizona's Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions officially was repealed Saturday. — The Western swing state has been whipsawed over recent months, starting with the Arizona Supreme Court deciding in April to let the state enforce …
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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NBC News:
JD Vance says it would be ‘very hard’ for Trump to win without North Carolina — Recent polling has shown a razor-thin race in the Tar Heel State. — GREENVILLE, N.C. — Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, said on Saturday that it would be “very hard” for the Trump campaign to win in November if it does …
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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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Washington Examiner, News.Az, Bloomberg and FDD
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 …