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10:40 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.
Discussion: Mediaite and Popular Information
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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
Vivian Jones / The Tennessean:
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, head of GOP governors, pulls endorsement of Mark Robinson
Discussion: USA Today and FOX8 WGHP
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: Fox News
Associated Press:
Trump listens during a farming event in rural Pennsylvania, then threatens John Deere with tariffs
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 …
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.
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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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 …
Discussion: Fox News, Washington Post and Raw Story
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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 …
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
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Semitic Revolution on the American Right  —  How Jews became collateral damage in a Republican power struggle  —  the new york times once dubbed the Princeton professor Robert George, who has guided Republican elites for decades, “the reigning brain of the Christian right.”
Discussion: Truthout and The Forward
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
Nick Arama / RedState:
New Kamala Ads Are So Cringe, Some Think They're Actually for Trump  —  Kamala Harris surely is wracking up some endorsements.  —  Except they're the kind of endorsements that aren't exactly going to make more people vote for you, including Liz and Dick Cheney, as well as Vladimir Putin and the IRS Agents Union.
The Verge:
X will let people you've blocked see your posts … X will now make your posts visible to users you've blocked.  In a reply on Monday, X owner Elon Musk said the “block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, public post.”
Laura Donnelly / Telegraph:
Pubs could be forced to shut early in new Labour nanny state blow  —  Crackdown on drinking under consideration as ‘fun police’ Government sets out plan to improve health and tackle anti-social behaviour  —  Pubs could be forced to close their doors early under “nanny state” measures to target harmful drinking.
 
 
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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
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Harris won't say if she still backs decriminalizing prostitution
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Biden Works Against the Clock as Violence Escalates in the Middle East
Lauren Kobley / KASW-TV:
Shots fired at Democratic Party campaign office in Tempe, no injuries
Discussion: KPNX and Fox News
Axios:
Scoop: Senate GOP privately predicts 52-seat majority
Discussion: Alternet.org
 Earlier Items: 
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
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The place crime obviously spiked since 2020? Trump's imagination.
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
California accuses ExxonMobil of lying about plastics being recyclable
Aaron Sanderford / Nebraska Examiner:
State Sen. Mike McDonnell deflates GOP hopes for Nebraska winner-take-all in 2024
 

 
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