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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
How Dumb Do They Think You Are?  —  Ohio's Republican governor, Mike DeWine, comes to the defense of Springfield and its Haitian community in the New York Times today: … Happy Friday.  —  Uh, Gross  —Andrew Egger  —  When the rumor mill started churning yesterday that some major …
New York Times:
Trump Ignores Mark Robinson Controversy, Hoping Gubernatorial Candidate Will Drop Out  —  CNN's article scrambled G.O.P. plans for winning North Carolina.  People close to Donald Trump are holding out hope Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will decide to quit the governor's race.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / NOTUS:
Vivek Ramaswamy Waltzed Into Springfield's ‘Year of Hell’
New York Times:   Harris, With an Online Avalanche, Outspends Trump by Tens of Millions
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Democrats launch new ad push to tie Trump to Mark Robinson following reported porn website comments
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Nuzzi's RFK Relationship  —  “Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,” the spokesperson said. … “Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine's editors that she had engaged …
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Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
New Court Filings Place Matt Gaetz at a Party at the Center of the Sex Trafficking Scandal  —  This is the first public filing that cites sworn testimony alleging that Gaetz attended one of the long-rumored parties with a teenage girl.  — Copy  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Was at Sex and Drugs Party With High School Junior: Court Docs
Discussion: Alternet.org and Crooks and Liars
Evan Halper / Washington Post:
Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI  —  The owner of the shuttered Pennsylvania plant plans to bring it online by 2028, with the tech giant buying all the power it produces.  —  Pennsylvania's dormant Three Mile Island nuclear plant would be brought …
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It's Tapping Site of US Nuclear Meltdown  —  Constellation to invest $1.6 billion to restart dormant reactor as data-center power demand surges.  —  The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will invest $1.6 billion to revive it …
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots  —  Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.  —  ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board approved …
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump Electoral-Vote Heist Underway in Nebraska
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Trump says Jews would deserve much of the blame if he loses  —  In a speech Thursday billed as former President Donald Trump's answer to rising antisemitism, he said Jews would bear much of the responsibility if he loses the presidential election.  —  And in a second speech later in the evening …
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New York Times:
Trump Says That if He Loses, ‘the Jewish People Would Have a Lot to Do’ With It
Washington Post:
Trump says if he loses election, Jewish voters would have ‘a lot’ to do with it
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Trump says ‘Jewish people would have a lot to do’ with his loss ‘if that happens’
Politico:
House Republicans work to defuse Trump as they defy shutdown demands  —  GOP appropriators have been calling their presidential nominee, trying to convince him his calls to shut down the government over a voting bill are a bad idea.  —  House Republicans are typically hesitant to defy Donald Trump.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Mike Johnson bypassed a second time with rare maneuver
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Dawn Roberts / Des Moines Register:
I co-chaired Nikki Haley's Iowa campaign.  I am endorsing Kamala Harris.  —  I heard Harris articulate that she has always brought groups of diverse individuals and opinions together to solve problems.  That is a healthier and wiser way to lead.  —  I served as an Iowa state co-chair of the Nikki Haley for President campaign.
Burgess Everett / Semafor:
Republicans plan to push a potential Harris cabinet to the right  —  There's a real possibility that Kamala Harris wins the presidency and Democrats lose the Senate in November - in which case she'll almost surely run into trouble stocking a Cabinet and the courts.
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NBC News:
Harris could win the presidency but lose the Senate, giving Republicans a veto over her agenda and judges
Discussion: Raw Story
Josephine Rozzelle / CNBC:
Trump Media hits new 52-week low after DJT lockup restrictions expire … Shares of Trump Media sank more than 7% Friday morning, hitting a new 52-week low one day after “lockup” restrictions expired, which had previously prevented its majority shareholder, former President Donald Trump …
Kelly Rissman / The Independent:
Which Mexico are you?  New Mexico furious after Texas installs razor wire along its border  —  Texas' latest move is a ‘political stunt’ that will have 'will have no meaningful impact on our nation's broken immigration system,' New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Trump Lie Machine Is Broken  —  It shouldn't have taken a year, let alone nine, for political elites to stop getting snookered by Donald Trump.  —  I say that as someone with very low expectations.  Being an easy mark is part of the price of admission to the heights of American discourse.
Discussion: Progress Pond
Bruce Schreiner / Associated Press:
Kentucky sheriff charged in killing of judge at courthouse  —  A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder, police said.  The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines …
 
 
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
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Heather Hollingsworth / Associated Press:
White officer who fatally shot Black man shouldn't have been in his backyard, judge rules in suit
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Supreme Court declines to reinstate Jill Stein on Nevada's ballot
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
How they have failed us  —  It is as if the editorial department at The Washington Post woke …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Apocalypse delayed: Trump keeps promising a doom that never comes
Discussion: Townhall
The Atlantic:
Trump's Deranged Plan to Lower Food Prices by Raising Them
Discussion: Raw Story and Mercury News
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Jason Stanley on how authoritarians rewrite the past