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6:40 PM ET, September 30, 2024

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New York Times:
The Only Patriotic Choice for President  —  It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump.  He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest.
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Caroline Rose Giuliani / Vanity Fair:
Rudy Giuliani's Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me.  Please Don't Let Him Take Our Country Too  —  “Nothing I have experienced prepared me for the very public and relentless implosion of my father's life,” writes Caroline Giuliani, announcing her support for Kamala Harris.
Tara Suter / The Hill:   Rudy Giuliani's daughter says she's voting for Harris, ‘grieving the loss of my dad’ to Trump
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
The three phases of normalizing Trump's attack on Harris in Wisconsin  — The use of neutral language.  If you merely read about Donald Trump's deeply offensive rally this weekend in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, you probably thought it was about immigration.  And about Trump up to his usual tricks of disparaging his rivals.
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Oops, They Did It Again: The Mainstream Media Buries Trump's Outrage … It's a pretty sad commentary on the way our mainstream media cover Donald Trump that if you really want to know what Trump said at a given rally, you would be wasting your time going to The New York Times or The Washington Post …
Discussion: TIME, Raw Story and C-SPAN.org
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Taking a Dark Turn
Discussion: So What and Washington Post
Adam Wren / Politico:
Trump says ‘violent day’ of policing will end crime
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Hurricane Helene: Trump speaks in Georgia, bashes Harris for not traveling there … Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump traveled to hurricane-blasted Georgia to deliver remarks and help hand out supplies, one day after he leveraged the devastating storm as a political attack against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
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Rolling Stone:
Trump Says No One Could Have Predicted Hurricane at Peak of Hurricane Season
Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Asked Musk for Starlink in Helene-Hit Towns
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
The Coming Trump Revenge Tour  —  Trump has campaigned on a wave of retaliatory criminal prosecutions.  It's not the first time he's promised to lock up his rivals — but a second term would be different.  —  In the most volatile presidential campaign of the last 50 years …
Discussion: Raw Story and Twitchy
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Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
Supplies arrive by plane and mule to North Carolina as Helene death toll tops 100  —  Widespread devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene came into light Monday across the South, revealing a wasteland of splintered houses, crushed cargo containers and mud-covered highways in one of the worst storms in U.S. history.
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AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Trump: Nobody Could Have Predicted a Hurricane Would Hit Mid-Hurricane Season
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and RedState
CNN:
1 storm, more than 100 dead and a 500-mile path of destruction. Now comes the hard work of recovering from Helene
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
An Ohio Businessman Faces Death Threats for Praising His Haitian Workers  —  The lifelong Republican employs fewer Haitians than others in Springfield, but his life has been upended since Donald J. Trump spread falsehoods about immigrants in his hometown.  —  For Jamie McGregor …
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
‘Just Not Right’: A GOP Governor Confronts Trump's Lies
Discussion: Plain Dealer
Maya Prabhu / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge again strikes down Georgia abortion law, allowing abortions to resume … About the Author  —  Maya T. Prabhu is a government reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Born in Queens, New York, and raised in northern Virginia, Maya attended Spelman College and then the University of Maryland for a master's degree.
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Georgia judge strikes down state's six-week abortion ban  —  Georgia's “heartbeat” law banning abortion after six weeks is unconstitutional and can't be enforced, a Fulton County superior judge ruled Monday.  —  The ruling permanently enjoined the law and stated that abortions must …
New York Times:
How CBS Will Fact Check the Walz-Vance VP Debate  —  CBS is experimenting with a novel way to offer real-time fact-checking of the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday.  Just don't expect the moderators to frequently jump in.  —  The journalistic dilemma of how to fact-check national candidates …
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Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
Legacy Media Is Failing Us Hard
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Blake Jones / Politico:
California bans legacy admissions at all colleges  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a prohibition on the practice.  —  SACRAMENTO, California — It will soon be illegal for public and private universities in California to consider an applicant's relationship to alumni or donors when deciding whether to admit them.
Andre Byik / USA Today:
Video of Harris slurring words in Helene warning is edited |  Fact check  —  The claim: Video shows Kamala Harris slurred words in Helene remarks  —  A Sept. 27 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows Vice President Kamala Harris delivering a warning about Hurricane Helene and speaking in an unusually slow manner.
Courtney Cohn / Democracy Docket:
Arkansas Judge Mandates Early Voting in Majority Black City  —  Early voting will be held at Seventh Street Church of Christ in West Memphis, Arkansas after a judge granted part of a request from two voters.  The voters in the majority-Black city initially requested at least two early voting locations.
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Memoir contradicts Republican Senate candidate's ‘below the poverty line’ tale  —  Montana's Tim Sheehy claims he and wife lived in poverty but own book reveals he had $400,000 to build company  —  At a recent campaign event in Whitehall, Montana, the Republican US Senate candidate Tim Sheehy told voters …
David Zimmermann / National Review:
Hamas Commander Killed in Israeli Strike Led U.N. Refugee Agency Teachers' Union  —  A Hamas commander in Lebanon who was killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight was an accredited member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the embattled agency confirmed after his death.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Polls show big increase in Republicans planning to vote for abortion rights  —  In some states, that GOP number could even approach a majority.  —  The politics of abortion rights have shifted massively toward Democrats since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Discussion: Townhall
NBC News:
FBI to pay $22 million to settle claims of sexual discrimination at training academy  —  The payout to 34 women dismissed from the FBI's training academy in Quantico, Virginia, would rank among the biggest lawsuit settlements in the history of the bureau.  —  The FBI has agreed to pay …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Schumer dumping $1M in surprisingly competitive Maryland Senate race … - The Democratic PAC WinSenate has already spent some ad money on the race, but the new bookings for the first two weeks of October are a significant jump, according to AdImpact data.  — “[I]f Hogan's Washington GOP friends …
Discussion: HuffPost and Washington Post
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump, Magic Beans, and the $100,000 Watch  —  Trump's watch scheme is an arrangement specifically designed to defeat bribery laws.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Before we start: A reader with deep connections to Asheville sent me a note about a friend who is working to get meals to people from a food hub.
New York Times:
Where Americans Have Been Moving Into Disaster-Prone Areas … Note: Population changes shown on maps reflect domestic migration and do not include international migration or local births and deaths.  —  The country's vast population shift has left more people exposed to the risk …
 
 
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Scott Bland / NBC News:
Voters blame ‘extreme’ rhetoric for contributing to attempt on Trump's life
New York Times:
Trump's Volunteers: ‘Beautiful Ladies’ From a Secretive Evangelical Church
Discussion: Raw Story
Sharon Udasin / The Hill:
California faces ‘unprecedented’ local spread of dengue fever, possibly driven by climate change
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
J.D. Vance's Stolen Valor: ‘He Puts on Poverty Like You Put on Makeup’
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Politico:
Republicans are starting to raise alarms about Trump's ground game
Discussion: Raw Story
Noah Shachtman / New York Magazine:
The Secretive Alliance Between the New York Post and Eric Adams
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Pollsters: Don't be so sure Trump will outperform our surveys
Discussion: NOTUS
Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
Actor Zachary Levi cites RFK Jr.'s endorsement in call to support Trump
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Taking Trump's mass deportation vow seriously and literally