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11:05 AM ET, September 24, 2024

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David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Trump Withdraws Support, GOP Pulls Funding From ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson  —  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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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Robinson ‘unacceptable for any elected position,’ Stein says  —  North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) criticized Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's fitness for office in an interview Monday.  —  “Mark Robinson has revealed himself to be absolutely unfit to be governor …
Al Weaver / The Hill:
North Carolina GOP senator signals he won't vote for Robinson after bombshell report
Discussion: New Republic
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Oops! Mark Robinson Decries ‘Lies’ About Porn Site Posts, Then Says They ‘Possibly Happened’
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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.
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Associated Press:
Trump listens during a farming event in rural Pennsylvania, then threatens John Deere with tariffs
Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Trump tells supporters to vote early even as he still criticizes the practice
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,” …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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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 …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's pitch to women is getting weirder and weirder  —  🚨 This special, five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.  🚨  —  🌀 Subscribe to Public Notice 🌀
Discussion: The Barbed Wire
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Edith M. Lederer / Associated Press:
Head of United Nations calls global situation ‘unsustainable’ as annual meeting of leaders opens  —  U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned world leaders Tuesday that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are creating an “unsustainable world” where a growing number of countries believe …
Discussion: Reuters and Los Angeles Times
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Biden Works Against the Clock as Violence Escalates in the Middle East
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Hill, NPR and Joe.My.God.
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Washington Post:
Why Mike Johnson won't get McCarthy'd
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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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge blocks employee abortion, IVF protections at thousands of Catholic employers nationwide  —  The group that brought the challenge to a new federal policy argues it cannot be forced to accommodate “immoral infertility ‘treatments.’”  —  A federal judge in North Dakota issued …
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).
Discussion: Common Dreams
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
Mike Johnson Privately Tells Republicans Trump Doesn't Want a Shutdown  —  The speaker briefed members on his private conversation with Trump and left them with some key impressions.  — Copy  —  House GOP leaders are all too aware that the upcoming vote on a stopgap government funding bill won't be kind of them.
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Top Economist in China Vanishes After Private WeChat Comments
Discussion: Business Insider
Laura Donnelly / Telegraph:
Pubs could be forced to shut early in new Labour nanny state blow
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
What Will Mitt Romney Do if Trump Wins?
Discussion: Deseret News and Raw Story
Eli Sanders / Alternet.org:
A Supreme Court justice warned this ruling would cause ‘large-scale disruption.’ It's already happening
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Semitic Revolution on the American Right
Discussion: Truthout and The Forward
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Harris won't say if she still backs decriminalizing prostitution
Lauren Kobley / KASW-TV:
Shots fired at Democratic Party campaign office in Tempe, no injuries
Discussion: KPNX and Fox News
 Earlier Items: 
Axios:
Scoop: Senate GOP privately predicts 52-seat majority
Discussion: Alternet.org
Ashleigh Jackson / The Hill:
If landline phones are dying out, how do political polls work today?
Discussion: New York Times
Alfred Ng / Politico:
How to surveil a federal regulator
Marin Scotten / Salon:
Jill Stein paid $100,000 to a Republican consulting firm led by a suspected January 6 rioter
Discussion: Alternet.org
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
California accuses ExxonMobil of lying about plastics being recyclable