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7:25 PM ET, October 8, 2024

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CNN:
‘That son of a bitch’: New Woodward book reveals candid behind-the-scenes conversations of Biden, Trump, Harris and Putin  —  Editor's Note: The story below contains explicit language  —  In his new book, legendary journalist Bob Woodward offers a remarkable look behind the scenes …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
With Book Release, Focus Turns Back to Relationship Between Trump and Putin  —  A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward reports that Donald J. Trump has secretly spoken as many as seven times with Vladimir V. Putin, even as the former president has resisted aid for Ukraine's war against Russia.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says  —  “War,” by Bob Woodward, traces how Trump and Biden responded to international crisis and concludes that Trump is worse than Nixon, the president exiled by the Watergate scandal.
Paige Oamek / New Republic:
Trump Lashes Out After Damning Report on His Close Ties to Putin  —  Donald Trump's campaign team is lashing out against a journalist following news that the former president secretly kept in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin after leaving the Oval Office.
emptywheel:
As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin  —  According to CNN, Bob Woodward's latest book reveals that Trump has spoken to Vladimir Putin as many as seven times since leaving the Presidency. … According to WaPo's version of the Woodward story …
Discussion: Mediaite
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Eleven years later, Trump may finally have the best friend he wanted
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Kamala Harris' Support Among Republicans Almost Doubles: NYT-Siena Poll  —  in November has nearly doubled over the past month according to a major new survey from  —  .  —  It found nine percent of likely voters who describe themselves as  —  plan to back the Democratic candidate in November …
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New York Times:
Poll Finds Harris Rising as She Challenges Trump on Change
Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
Kamala Harris makes the case in 60 Minutes interview for why she should be president
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
55/45 is a really close race  —  After a drought, we finally have enough interesting polling …
Discussion: The Hill
Erin Doherty / Axios:
Harris: “Not a thing” she'd have done differently than Biden
CNBC:   Harris seeks to convert economic tailwinds into votes as election enters homestretch
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Cesar's Conspicuous Call  —  Questions are mounting over why NBCU has opted to shelve the well-reviewed documentary from an Oscar-winning filmmaker until after the election.  —  NBCU News Group boss Cesar Conde is — yet again — facing questions about an eyebrow-raising editorial decision that was made within his palace's walls.
Discussion: Newsbusters
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Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:   MSNBC delays documentary over fears it could ‘offend Donald Trump’: report
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
NBC Set Post-Election MSNBC Premiere of Errol Morris Doc ‘Separated’ to Avoid Offending Trump | Report
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
‘Eternally sorry’: Journalist confesses his biggest error in covering ‘buffoon’ Trump  —  Former President Donald Trump's behavior has been enabled by a mainstream press that “never took him seriously,” Lucian Truscott wrote for Salon on Tuesday in a damning indictment of the media's enabling …
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Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon:   The problem with reporting on Donald Trump is the press never took him seriously
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
FBI probe of Kavanaugh constrained by Trump White House, report finds  —  A Democratic senator's report finds new evidence of the White House controlling an FBI investigation into sexual assault claims against the Supreme Court nominee.  —  In September 2018, as allegations of sexual misconduct …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People's Twitter Accounts To Promote Donald Trump  —  from the every-accusation-a-projection dept  —  How quickly do you think we'd be having Congressional hearings about “election interference” if Mark Zuckerberg so much as posted a “Harris/Walz” lawn sign in front of his house?
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Axios:
FEMA administrator issues dire warning on hurricane disinformation
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Trump Gets Unhinged, Even for Him, Over Kamala Harris ‘60 Minutes’ Interview  —  CLUCK CLUCK  —  The former president claimed the vice president's sitdown with “60 Minutes”—something he bailed on after agreeing to—was “the WORST Interview.”  —  Donald Trump—who agreed to an interview …
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CBS News:
How 60 Minutes found out Donald Trump would not participate in an election special
Deepa Shivaram / NPR:
Harris proposes Medicare cover home care costs to help the ‘sandwich generation’  —  Vice President Harris on Tuesday laid out a proposal to expand Medicare coverage to help cover the costs of home health care aides for seniors.  —  Harris announced the plan — squarely aimed at …
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Will Propose Major Initiative To Help Millions Of Seniors — And Their Caregivers
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Oklahoma shifts Bible rules after accusations of pro-Trump bias, but will schools comply?  —  Oklahoma is shifting its requirements for which Bibles will be put in classrooms in the face of criticism that it was essentially feeding the contract to former President Trump …
Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
The Cataclysmic Post-Election Scenario No One's Bracing For  —  At the start of the 118th Congress in January 2023, I sat in the press gallery of the House chamber and watched Republicans fail to elect a speaker, as Kevin McCarthy didn't have the votes.  What is traditionally accomplished …
Discussion: Associated Press
Pluralistic:
Google's new phones can't stop phoning home (permalink)  —  One of the most brazen lies of Big Tech is that people like commercial surveillance, a fact you can verify for yourself by simply observing how many people end up using products that spy on them.  If they didn't like spying, they wouldn't opt into being spied on.
Discussion: The Register
Christopher Steele / Newsweek:
I'm Behind the Trump-Russia Dossier.  We Gave the FBI More Than People Know  —  My wife Katherine called me up to the bedroom and told me that BuzzFeed had published our memos: The so-called “dossier” on  —  .  —  It was the night of January 10, 2017.  The publication of the news story …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Associated Press:
A former aide to New York Mayor Eric Adams is charged with destroying evidence as top deputy quits  —  A former New York City official was charged Tuesday with witness tampering and destroying evidence in a federal investigation that led to Mayor Eric Adams' bribery indictment.
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Alex Nguyen / Mother Jones:
Report: Mark Robinson Skips Vote on Hurricane Helene Support—Again  —  The North Carolina lieutenant governor is failing to take the responsibility required of his position.  —  It appears as though Mark Robinson is hellbent on his apparent refusal to take emergency action in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Discussion: Climate Desk and Alternet.org
emptywheel:
Disaster Disinformation Is This Year's John Podesta Emails  —  I've already focused on these three paragraphs, but want to return to them.  They're from NYT's article anticipating how the apparently tied race will roll out in the next 30 (now 28) days.
 
 
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Azeen Ghorayshi / New York Times:
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Inside a Harris Ad in Which Ex-Trump Aides Blast Him as Unfit for Office
Discussion: Vanity Fair
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Trump and Republicans Bet Big on Anti-Trans Ads Across the Country
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Doug Emhoff was a foul-mouthed ‘a**hole’ and ‘misogynist’ who hired a ‘trophy secretary’ because she was ‘pretty’ and 'retaliated against women who didn't flirt …
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Citing omelets and chili, justices seem likely to uphold ghost gun rules
Kathryn Wilkens / Mediaite:
CNN's Chris Wallace on Why He Left Fox News: I Have A Problem With ‘Conspiracy and Lies’
Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost and Associated Press
Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
Buttigieg Rips Trump's Dangerous Hurricane Lies to Shreds
Discussion: New Republic, Daily Kos and CBS News
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Trump's Tech Bro Fanboys Wanted Him Jailed After Jan. 6th
Discussion: Mediaite
 

 
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