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2:00 PM ET, September 24, 2024

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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 …
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Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
‘Get them the hell out’: Trump continues attacks on legal immigrants in Ohio town
Discussion: HotAir and MSNBC
USA Today:
Kamala Harris holds small lead over Donald Trump in Michigan, exclusive poll finds
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Swing state voters back Trump over Harris on key global questions: poll
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Don't scoff at the Hitler comparisons. Trump's rhetoric is that bad.
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Republicans are more likely to believe false claims about immigrants
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 🌀
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Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:   Democrats — and Nikki Haley — knock GOP Senate hopeful over suburban women comments
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: 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 …
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 …
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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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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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.
Discussion: USA Today, Townhall and Twitchy
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.
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: Axios, 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
Discussion: RedState, WHTM-TV and Virginia Mercury
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
GOP presses ahead with holding Blinken in contempt over Afghanistan testimony  —  The Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday moved forward with holding Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of a subpoena to appear before the committee, drawing accusations …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CBS News
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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 …
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden's final UN address: ‘There is so much more I want to get done’  —  Biden huddles with world leaders as foreign policy crises escalate.  —  NEW YORK - President Joe Biden addressed the United Nations for the final time Tuesday, defending his record and urging an expansion of alliances …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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
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: Raw Story and Common Dreams
 
 
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Charlie Spiering / Daily Mail:
Kamala Harris said she ‘worked her a** off’ under ex-lover mayor Willie Brown... but new information about her time there reveals the truth
Discussion: RedState
John T. Seward / NOTUS:
The Pentagon's Quiet Attempt to Keep Out of the Trump Arlington Cemetery Controversy
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
The Trump Posts You Probably Aren't Seeing
Discussion: Raw Story and Fortune
Charlotte Clymer / Charlotte's Web Thoughts:
All That Matters is Stopping Trump
Peter Savodnik / The Free Press:
An ‘Innocent’ Man Is Scheduled to Die Today. Republicans Want to Save Him.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Kamala Harris Should Explain WHY She's The Underdog
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Wall Street Journal:
Top Economist in China Vanishes After Private WeChat Comments
Discussion: Breitbart and Business Insider
Laura Donnelly / Telegraph:
Pubs could be forced to shut early in new Labour nanny state blow
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The danger of a Trump campaign on a losing trajectory
Discussion: Raw Story
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Semitic Revolution on the American Right
Discussion: Truthout and The Forward
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge blocks employee abortion, IVF protections at thousands of Catholic employers nationwide
Discussion: Reuters
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
A Congressman Had an Affair. Then He Put His Lover on the Payroll.
 

 
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