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8:15 PM ET, October 14, 2024

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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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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump's former Joint Chiefs chair: Trump is ‘fascist to the core’  —  “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” retired Gen. Mark Milley said.  “Now I realize he's a total fascist.”  —  When Gen. Mark Milley retired last year, following more than four decades …
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
The Trump Voters Who Don't Believe Trump
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Biden warned Iran that killing Trump would be an act of war: report
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Harris campaign turns Trump's favorite weapon against him … - The campaign now uses those same tools to mock Trump and paint him in the opposite light. … - Another video, also posted Sunday, features one of Trump's rambling answers at an event, and the campaign labeled the former president “delulu” — Gen Z speak for “delusional.”
Discussion: The Daily Beast and National Zero
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Aaron Navarro / CBS News:
More than 230 doctors and health care providers call on Trump to release medical records  —  More than 230 doctors, nurses and health care professionals are calling on former President Donald Trump to release his medical records, arguing that he should be transparent about his health “given his advancing age.”
Grace Harrington / The Daily Beast:
Harris: Even Trump's Own Aides Think He's ‘Unfit and Unstable’
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.
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 …
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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
Discussion: Washington Post
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Harris launches ‘blue wall’ blitz through Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin  —  Vice President Harris is blitzing through the states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan this week, as polls tighten and Democratic nerves fray over the possibility they could again lose the “blue wall” to former President Trump.
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
It's Time to Stop Panicking About the Polls
Discussion: The Hill
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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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.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Business efforts to break the NLRB reach the Supreme Court  —  On Monday, a car supplier went to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to block a National Labor Relations Board proceeding against the company from beginning on Tuesday — the highest-profile action yet in a growing effort …
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
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
University town becomes latest stiffed by Trump over campaign rally fees: report  —  Former President Donald Trump has yet again skipped the bill for a campaign rally, leaving the town that hosted it to foot the cost — this time the college town of St. Cloud, Minnesota.
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: Mediaite and New Jersey Online
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 …
Taylor Ardrey / USA Today:
Video captures worker's reaction when former president arrives at McDonald's in Georgia  —  An employee was in for quite the surprise when a president dropped by a McDonald's in Georgia over the weekend, only it wasn't the president she was thinking of.  —  “You Joe?
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
'That's You': Tim Walz Sounds the Alarm on Trump Threatening to Sic the Military on ‘The Enemy From Within’  —  Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz warned a crowd of supporters that former President Donald Trump was talking about them when denouncing “the enemy from within.”
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.
 
 
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Johnson announces $27.5M third-quarter fundraising in record for Speaker
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
More Republicans expect election ‘fraud’ in minority areas than in White ones
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS News
Kate Selig / New York Times:
Meteorologists Face Harassment and Death Threats Amid Hurricane Disinformation
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Joe.My.God.
Patrick Greenfield / The Guardian:
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature's carbon sink failing?
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Kash Patel: The Magical Rise of a Self-Described ‘Wizard’ in Trump World
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
New Jersey rep goes silent for 8 seconds after question on mass deportations
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Annie Nova / CNBC:
Harris proposes 1 million forgivable loans to Black entrepreneurs, as Trump makes inroads
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump ground game undercut by slow internet that crashes app
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Inappropriate and unprofessional’: State Election Board chair wants his Republican peers to back down
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Karine Jean-Pierre blocks John Kirby at White House podium
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Breitbart
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Texas county sidelines librarians, reclassifies book on abuse of Native Americans as “fiction”
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg warns newsroom decay is how ‘democracy decomposes’
Discussion: Instapundit
 

 
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