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5:55 PM ET, October 14, 2024

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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Midnight In America  —  Three weeks and a day until election day, and this thing is tied, tied, tied.  Nate Silver's polling average has Kamala Harris up a tick under three points nationally—which might give Donald Trump the barest of edges at this moment in the Electoral College.
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump targets immigrants legally in US for deportation  —  🗳️ This special five-edition week of Public Notice is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already, please click the button below and sign up to support our independent journalism.  🗳️
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 13, 2024  —  “He is the most dangerous person ever.  I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he's a total fascist.  He is now the most dangerous person to this country...a fascist to the core.”
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
The Trump Voters Who Don't Believe Trump  —  When the former president endorses violence and proposes using the government to attack his enemies, many of his supporters assume it's just an act.  —  One of the more peculiar aspects of Donald J. Trump's political appeal is this …
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trump suggests using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day
CNN:
Suspect arrested after reports of threats toward FEMA operations in North Carolina  —  A North Carolina man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly threatening harm against FEMA employees responding to Hurricane Helene, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
NRA chief involved in gruesome cat killing as college fraternity member  —  Doug Hamlin pleaded no contest to animal cruelty over 1979 incident in which fraternity cat was tortured and killed  —  Douglas Hamlin, who was appointed to lead the NRA this summer in the wake of a long-running corruption scandal …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Daily News
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
New NRA Chief Once Tortured a Cat to Death  —  Doug Hamlin pleaded no contest to brutally murdering a pet cat with his fraternity brothers as a student at the University of Michigan  —  REPUBLICANS SPENT THE better part of September falsely smearing migrants as sadistic pet torturers in their bid to stoke fear about immigration.
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Grace Harrington / The Daily Beast:
Harris: Even Trump's Own Aides Think He's ‘Unfit and Unstable’
Annie Nova / CNBC:
Harris proposes 1 million forgivable loans to Black entrepreneurs, as Trump makes inroads
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
‘This Is Going To Be Too Close for Comfort’ … When Kamala Harris took over Joe Biden's ailing campaign …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
David Moye / HuffPost:
Geraldo Rivera Endorses Kamala Harris Over ‘Sore Loser’ Trump  —  “However you justify voting for Trump, adopting his big lie about the stolen election makes you a liar,” the veteran newsman said in a social media post Monday.  —  LOADING  —  Veteran newsman Gerald Rivera has finally broken away …
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Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:   Eric Holder Predicts Harris Will Get 5 Million More Votes Than Trump
Flynn Nicholls / Newsweek:
Swastika Flags Flown During Donald Trump Boat Parade in Florida  —  A boat bearing swastika symbols and Donald Trump  —  flags was hosed down after trying to join a Trump boat parade in Jupiter, Florida.  —  The boat was photographed attempting to take part in the parade on Sunday in the
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Sets an Interview With a Not-So-Friendly Outlet: Fox News.  —  The interview, to be conducted by the anchor Bret Baier in Pennsylvania, will air Wednesday at 6 p.m. Eastern.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to an interview with Fox News, the network said on Monday.
New York Times:
Another Trump Clemency Recipient Faces Domestic Violence-Related Charges  —  Philip Esformes is at least the seventh person to be charged with new crimes after receiving a second chance in the last days of the Trump administration.  —  A Florida man who received a commutation …
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Christopher F. Rufo / Christopher Rufo:
Kamala Harris's Plagiarism Problem  —  The vice president appears to have airlifted sections of her book, Smart on Crime.  —  Kamala Harris has become famous, in part, for her unique rhetorical style.  She switches freely between various accents and peppers her speeches with catchphrases …
María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
Michigan GOP candidate's ad aimed at Black voters has wrong election date  —  The Michigan Legislative Black Caucus accused Republican Tom Barrett's campaign of misleading Black voters with an ad carrying the wrong election date.  —  Tom Barrett, a Republican vying for a Michigan congressional seat …
Democracy Docket:
Right-Wing Group Dismisses Voter Challenge Lawsuits in Nevada Counties  —  The right-wing organization Citizen Outreach Foundation voluntarily dismissed three lawsuits it filed in Nevada that asked county election officials to process around 30,000 voter challenges weeks before the election.
Patrick Greenfield / The Guardian:
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year.  Is nature's carbon sink failing?  —  The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models - and could rapidly accelerate global heating  —  The age of extinction is supported by  —  It begins each day at nightfall.
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Internal polling memo has warning signs for Senate Republicans  —  Some races are tightening but other key pickup opportunities are moving in the wrong direction, according to a new round of polling from the Senate Leadership Fund.  —  The top GOP super PAC charged with flipping the Senate …
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Senate rankings: 5 seats most likely to flip
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Biden warned Iran that killing Trump would be an act of war: report  —  US spends millions to protect former Trump officials from Iran retaliation for Soleimani killing  —  President Biden reportedly instructed his National Security Council to make clear to Iran that any attempt …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Cruz calls out McConnell-aligned group for not spending ‘a penny’ in Texas  —  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) vented his frustration with the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), for not spending any money in his competitive reelection race …
Jared Gans / The Hill:
New Jersey rep goes silent for 8 seconds after question on mass deportations  —  Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) fell silent after being asked by a debate moderator and his Democratic opponent whether he supports enacting mass deportations of migrants, a policy that former President Trump has called for.
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Trump Campaign's Weird Hurricane Relief GoFundMe Raises Red Flags  —  Donald Trump's campaign has begun raising money for hurricane relief—but it's not exactly clear how that money will be used.  —  Two weeks ago, the Trump campaign created a GoFundMe “as an official response for MAGA supporters …
 
 
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USA Today:
Vance repeats claim that gangs have ‘taken over’ Aurora amid pushback from mayor, media
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Kash Patel: The Magical Rise of a Self-Described ‘Wizard’ in Trump World
Veronica Cardenas / The Hill:
The return of family separation: Trump wants to deport the parents of American-born kids
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump ground game undercut by slow internet that crashes app
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Inappropriate and unprofessional’: State Election Board chair wants his Republican peers to back down
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Karine Jean-Pierre blocks John Kirby at White House podium
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Texas county sidelines librarians, reclassifies book on abuse of Native Americans as “fiction”
Associated Press:
This could have been a year of a federal court reckoning for Trump. Judges had other ideas
Discussion: ProPublica
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
America's choice: Do voters want to live in reality, or a dangerous dream world?
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg warns newsroom decay is how ‘democracy decomposes’
Discussion: Instapundit
 

 
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Ismail Shakil / Reuters:
Canada's Competition Bureau sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, seeking Google to sell two of its ad tech tools and more

Michael Gennaro / Courthouse News Service:
The First Amendment Coalition sued the CA AG and SF City Attorney for allegedly punishing journalists who publish info related to sealed arrest records

Asif Shahzad / Reuters:
Pakistani TV host Matiullah Jan was picked up off the street and charged with terrorism after investigating claims of casualties in a protest march in Islamabad
 
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