Harris paints Trump as threat, draws contrast with Biden in testy Fox News interview  —  Trump is “unfit to serve,” Harris said.  —  Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris attends a rally in Bucks County, Pa., Oct. 16, 2024.

Fox News did not disclose its all-women town hall with Trump was packed with his supporters  —  New York CNN —  Fox News hosted an all-women town hall with former President Donald Trump, billed as an opportunity for female voters to ask the Republican candidate questions that matter to them.

Playbook: Kamala Harris goes Baier hunting  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  MALE CALL — “Both Parties Are Getting Men Wrong,” by Richard V. Reeves for POLITICO Mag: “There is a real political opportunity right now for a party to craft …

Asked if He Thinks Trump Lost in 2020, Vance Finally Gives an Answer: No  —  Senator JD Vance, former President Donald J. Trump's running mate, had spent weeks dodging questions about Mr. Trump's false claims he won the 2020 election.  —  Senator JD Vance of Ohio has been dogged by questions …

New Georgia election rules passed by Trump-backed board are unconstitutional, judge rules  —  A judge in Georgia has struck down a slate of controversial new election rules passed by Donald Trump allies, including two that Democrats say would inject post-election “chaos” into the critical battleground state.

Maddow's bombshell reporting: Trump trying to pay Stormy Daniels to be quiet again  —  Rachel Maddow breaks down her bombshell reporting on how Trump is once again trying to pay Stormy Daniels to be quiet.

Why Elon Musk's events in Pennsylvania likely violate federal law  —  This week, we learned that Elon Musk has donated tens of millions of dollars to help former President Donald Trump return to the White House.  But he's not stopping there.  Yesterday, Musk announced that he is holding …

Audience laughs at Donald Trump as he tries to explain why he can't speak coherently anymore  —  GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has shown an inability to answer direct questions over the course of his 2024 campaign, often jumping from one subject to another - and to another and another and another …

Jack Smith Takes Up the Aid and Abet Theory Endorsed by Judge Amit Mehta in 2022  —  Back in February 2022, 32 months ago, think I was the only one who made much of Judge Amit Mehta's ruling that Trump might plausibly be on the hook for abetting the assaults of cops at the Capitol on January 6.

Pro-Trump dark money network tied to Elon Musk behind fake pro-Harris campaign scheme  —  An initiative called Progress 2028 that purports to be Kamala Harris' liberal counter to the conservative Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 is actually run by a dark money network supporting former President Donald Trump.

How Russian propaganda reaches and influences the U.S.  —  The fake whistleblower videos started popping up last fall, the work of a small but prolific Russian group that researchers call Storm-1516.  —  Much remains unknown about Storm-1516 — one prong of Russia's propaganda operation …

GOP Senate candidate: Department of Education only created to help ‘little Black girls’  —  The Montana U.S. Senate race took a turn when controversial businessman Tim Sheehy said that the U.S. should eliminate the Department of Education because it was turning children into slaves.

Biden administration forgives $4.5 billion in student debt for over 60,000 public service workers … The Biden administration announced on Thursday that it was forgiving another $4.5 billion in student debt for over 60,000 borrowers.  —  The latest round of relief is a result of the U.S. Department …

I'm an Undecided Hobbit, Torn Between a Dark Lord Who Promises an Age of Chaos and an Elf Queen Whom I Just Wish I Knew More About  —  I'm a well-informed Hobbit—a Boffin from Overhill, thank you very much—who is in a kerfuffle about whom to throw my Hobbit-sized support behind.

Elon Musk has given $75 million, so far, to put Donald Trump back in the White House  —  Elon Musk is now a Republican mega-donor.  —  Musk, estimated to be the world's richest person, was the sole donor to the political action committee he created, America PAC, a group that spent …

You should be using an RSS reader (permalink)  —  No matter how hard we all wish it were otherwise, the sad fact is that there aren't really individual solutions to systemic problems.  For example: your personal diligence in recycling will have no meaningful impact on the climate emergency.

Trump Super-PAC Sent Out Bogus Medicare Cancellation Notice to Scare Voters About Kamala Harris  —  In Arizona, older people recently received a mailer declaring Medicare had been cancelled.  It had a big red stamp that proclaimed, “Medicare Cancellation Notice.”

Kamala Harris's ‘Agenda for Black Men’ Will Be Open to All, Campaign Says  —  Vice President Kamala Harris's “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men” aims to shore up support from a pillar of the Democratic base, with a key section promising “1 million loans that are fully forgivable to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business.”