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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump's Pitch to Women Is Creepy Abuser Logic
Donald Trump's Pitch to Women Is Creepy Abuser Logic
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Raw Story, New Republic, The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Beast, IJR and HuffPost
Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
‘Get them the hell out’: Trump continues attacks on legal immigrants in Ohio town
‘Get them the hell out’: Trump continues attacks on legal immigrants in Ohio town
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's pledge to deport legal immigrants is toxic in more ways than one
Trump's pledge to deport legal immigrants is toxic in more ways than one
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New Republic, New York Times and Trending Politics Conservative
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Don't scoff at the Hitler comparisons. Trump's rhetoric is that bad.
Don't scoff at the Hitler comparisons. Trump's rhetoric is that bad.
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Tells Women That They Won't ‘Be Thinking About Abortion’
Trump Tells Women That They Won't ‘Be Thinking About Abortion’
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Salon, Washington Examiner, Ms. Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God., Mediaite, Abortion, Every Day and The 19th
Marianne LeVine / Washington Post:
Trump in Pa.: Digressions, threats and vows to be ‘protector’ of women
Trump in Pa.: Digressions, threats and vows to be ‘protector’ of women
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, Alternet.org and Rolling Stone
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign is still being hacked — Email communications from individuals associated with the Trump campaign have been hacked by malign actors within the last ten days, Popular Information has confirmed. — On September 18, I was sent a message from “Robert,” …
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
Trump hack continued into last week — The News — The alleged Iranian hack of Donald Trump's orbit continued at least until mid-September and may be ongoing, a document the hackers shared with a progressive publication reveals. — Iranian authorities have denied any involvement …
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The Guardian, American Crisis and Digby's Hullabaloo
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Trump Avoids ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson As GOP Cuts His Cash — WHISTLE FOR IT! — The GOP is distancing itself from its controversial nominee for North Carolina governor. — Donald Trump and the Republican Party are ditching Mark Robinson, their scandal-plagued nominee in the North Carolina governor's race.
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CNN, Joe.My.God., New York Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Examiner, NC Newsline, Axios, Popular Information and Mediaite
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Robinson ‘unacceptable for any elected position,’ Stein says
Robinson ‘unacceptable for any elected position,’ Stein says
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Washington Examiner, FOX8 WGHP, Daily Kos, USA Today, New York Times and Associated Press
Alex Henderson / Alternet.org:
‘Disaster for Trump’: Republican Governors Association drops NC ad buys
‘Disaster for Trump’: Republican Governors Association drops NC ad buys
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Mediaite, The Hill and Joe.My.God.
The Guardian:
Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel — Revealed: former colleagues claim Kevin Roberts told them he killed a neighbor's pit bull around 2004 — The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase …
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Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, New Jersey Online, New Republic, The Bulwark, Joe.My.God., Mediaite, Alternet.org, LGBTQ Nation, Raw Story and Althouse
WPR:
Kamala Harris tells WPR she supports eliminating the filibuster to restore abortion rights — The presidential candidate appears on WPR's ‘Wisconsin Today’ shortly after her fourth campaign visit to the state — Vice President and Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris told WPR's …
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CNN, HuffPost, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Axios, The Hill, Scripps News, Deseret News, NPR and Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
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Megan Messerly / Politico:
Harris backs ending filibuster for abortion rights legislation — “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe, and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom,” the vice president said.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump campaign's ground game worries some Republicans — The Trump campaign is relying on a so far untested get-out-the-vote strategy ahead of November's election that some Republicans view as a high-risk, high-reward gambit. — The Trump campaign has worked alongside outside groups …
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The Nation and The Daily Caller
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Michael Lee / Fox News:
Early mail-in voting data signals good news for GOP, Trump: expert
Early mail-in voting data signals good news for GOP, Trump: expert
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RedState and Virginia Mercury
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: Harris courts rural Trump voters in Pennsylvania
Scoop: Harris courts rural Trump voters in Pennsylvania
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New York Times, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Raw Story, Daily Kos, RedState, New Jersey Online and Politico
Matt Egan / CNN:
Over 400 economists and ex-officials endorse Kamala Harris — New York CNN — More than 400 economists and former high-ranking US policymakers are endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and her vision for the American economy, according to a document announcing the endorsement seen by CNN.
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CNBC, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Joe.My.God. and NPR
USA Today:
Kamala Harris holds small lead over Donald Trump in Michigan, exclusive poll finds — Michael Collins Terry CollinsUSA TODAY — WASHINGTON - Vice President Kamala Harris has a small lead over former President Donald Trump in the key battleground state of Michigan, according to an exclusive new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll.
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Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Democrats — and Nikki Haley — knock GOP Senate hopeful over suburban women comments — Bernie Moreno, who is challenging Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), reportedly said that “a lot of suburban women” are only focused on abortion and that “it's a little crazy.”
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Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Teens Say Trump's Former Personal Aide and Project 2025 Higher-Up Made Them Uncomfortable in Chats — Two women tell WIRED that when they were 18-year-old college freshmen, John McEntee, a former Trump administration official and co-founder of a Peter Thiel-backed dating app …
Drew Magary / SFGATE:
The New York Times is washed — SFGATE columnist Drew Magary is done with caring about the Times, and you should be, too — We're just over a month away from the presidential election and, if you ask the New York Times, the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
2024 Election Environment Favorable to GOP — Party affiliation, GOP issue advantages, economic pessimism among key factors — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly all Gallup measures that have shown some relationship to past presidential election outcomes or that speak to current perceptions …
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Washington Times and The National Pulse
emptywheel:
The Habitual Lies on Which Trump Has Built His Attack on Rule on Law — Credit where it's due: WaPo has already published two stories this week that attempt to cover Trump like the conman he is, rather than the good faith politician he is often treated as. — Yesterday, Ashley Parker wrote …
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Joe.My.God., Fox News, Washington Post and Raw Story
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Son of Ryan Routh, accused in Trump assassination attempt, arrested for child pornography — Oran Routh had “hundreds” of files of child pornography, prosecutors said. — The Department of Justice seal is seen during a news conference at the DOJ office in Washington, May 16, 2023.
Brett Murphy / ProPublica:
Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Antony Blinken Rejected Them. — Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development …
Punchbowl News:
Trump MIA on NRCC fundraising — Vice President Kamala Harris recently transferred $10 million to the DCCC. How much has former President Donald Trump given the NRCC? Not one red cent. — Trump also has yet to appear at a major fundraising event for the NRCC, leaving a huge, eight-figure hole in the committee's budget.
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Washington Post
Mary B. McCord / Just Security:
Absolute Presidential Immunity and the Evasion of Checks and Balances: My Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee — The Supreme Court's immunity decision in Trump v. United States has rightly received strong criticism from legal analysts, including me (here, and here, for example).
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Raw Story and Common Dreams
John T. Seward / NOTUS:
The Pentagon's Quiet Attempt to Keep Out of the Trump Arlington Cemetery Controversy — Lawmakers are still waiting on the incident report. — Copy — Lawmakers are still waiting on the Pentagon for more details about what happened between Donald Trump's campaign …
Wall Street Journal:
Top Economist in China Vanishes After Private WeChat Comments — Government adviser is detained as Xi Jinping targets negative comments about Chinese economy
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Breitbart and Business Insider
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Kamala Harris Should Explain WHY She's The Underdog — She's running into antidemocratic headwinds and must foil Donald Trump's dirty tricks—more people should know that! — ∙ Paid — Over the weekend, I inserted myself into an argument between Greg Sargent and Rich Yeselson …
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The danger of a Trump campaign on a losing trajectory — Talk of Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield conceals Trump's tour of sundown towns in battleground states — Gore Vidal was correct when he damningly observed that the American people do not have a memory of the last week.
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Raw Story
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge blocks employee abortion, IVF protections at thousands of Catholic employers nationwide — A federal judge in North Dakota issued an injunction on Monday blocking the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from protecting any employees of any members …
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Reuters