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6:40 PM ET, October 19, 2024

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Elon Musk's Fake Sites and Fake Texts Impersonating the Harris Campaign  —  There's deeply cynical and then there's things which might be illegal.  In the first category we have an Elon Musk-funded PAC microtargeting Jewish and Arab communities with diametrically opposed ads about Kamala Harris's support for Israel or Palestine.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Wrap
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Exclusive: Trump ground game in key states flagged as potentially fake  —  Data suggests canvassers linked to Elon Musk's America Pac falsely claimed to have visited homes of potential voters  —  Donald Trump's campaign may be failing to reach thousands of voters they hope to turn out in Arizona and Nevada …
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
How Trump's Cockiness Could Cost Him Votes  —  The GOP loves to pretend they are winning, but Trump has a different challenge  —  It's that time of the year again — Republicans are declaring with certainty that they will win the election while Democrats anxiously wait for the sky to crash down on their heads.
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MSNBC:
Ted Cruz really could lose
Discussion: Vox
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Pro-Iranian account leaks alleged U.S. intel on Israel's attack plans … - The leak could be an attempt to disrupt the Israeli operation.  — The Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the leaked documents, but did not dispute their authenticity.
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CNN:
Leaked documents show US intelligence on Israel's plans to attack Iran, sources say  —  The US is investigating a leak of highly classified US intelligence about Israel's plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.  One of the people familiar confirmed the documents' authenticity.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and RedState
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
What Elon Musk Really Wants  —  The Tesla and X mogul has long dreamed of redesigning the world in his own extreme image.  Trump may be his Trojan horse.  —  In Elon Musk's vision of human history, Donald Trump is the singularity.  If Musk can propel Trump back to the White House …
Olivia Herken / The Wisconsin Independent:
Western Wisconsin farmers say Van Orden behavior derailed meeting on agricultural policy … Two farmers from western Wisconsin are speaking out after a meeting last month on agricultural policy with Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden was derailed by the congressman when he and his staff interrupted …
Efrén Pérez / The Hill:
Here's why some Latinos are genuinely embracing the Republican Party  —  With the presidential election less than one month away, many people are still trying to make sense of why some Latinos support Donald Trump and the Republican Party, who display clear nativist stances.
Gloria Oladipo / The Guardian:
Montana park ranger says Senate candidate Tim Sheehy lied about combat wound  —  Sheehy has claimed that he was wounded in Afghanistan, but ranger says he investigated accidental shooting in park in 2015  —  A former Montana park ranger has now publicly accused Tim Sheehy …
Jennifer Taylor-Skinner / HuffPost:
JD Vance's Most Recent Comment About His Wife Having Three Kids Is Going Viral Because People Think It's Really, Really Creepy  —  “I've never heard a man refer to his kids as my wife's children.  That's insane.”  —  Michaela Bramwell— BuzzFeed  —  JD Vance is on my timeline yet again …
Discussion: The Bulwark
Chang Dong-woo / Yonhap News Agency:
(5th LD) N. Korea decides to send around 10,000 soldiers to support Russia in Ukraine war: Seoul  —  (ATTN: UPDATES with response from NATO chief in paras 17-18)  —  South Korea's spy agency on Friday confirmed that North Korea has decided to send around 10,000 troops to support Russia …
Torsten Bell / The Guardian:
Here's why sex discrimination at work doesn't go away until women are in charge  —  New research reveals men pay little heed to women in mixed-sex teams  —  Single-sex teams are something for the football pitch, not the workplace.  It's not the 1950s.  Many studies show the benefits of mixed teams …
CNN:
Here's how Trump, Harris and their allies have altered their ad spending strategies in October  —  In the first two weeks of October, Donald Trump and his allies directed about a third of all their spending on broadcast TV advertisements to ads about transgender health care …
Discussion: The Independent
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Obama: ‘You would be worried if your grandpa was acting’ like Trump  —  Former President Obama took a swipe at former President Trump's competence Friday, mocking the GOP nominee for his recent rhetoric.  —  “He called himself ‘the father IVF,’” Obama said during a rally in battleground Arizona.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
America's gullibility crisis … In the last few weeks alone:  — MAGA influencers breathlessly spread the false claim that Vice President Kamala Harris used a teleprompter during her Univision town hall, which the X algorithm then promoted in its trending topics as fact.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
North Carolina Officials Report Record Turnout for First Day of Early Voting  —  The more than 353,000 ballots cast signaled enthusiasm in the battleground state, but the significance of the high turnout was unclear.  —  More than 353,000 ballots were cast in North Carolina on Thursday …
Darren Samuelsohn / USA Today:
Microphone malfunction: Trump waits on stage for 18 minutes during ‘technical difficulties’  —  Donald Trump's rally in Detroit hit a snag on Friday night when the audio stopped working and the Republican presidential nominee passed the time walking around on the stage for about 18 minutes waiting for a fix.
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Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Trump's Detroit rally beset by audio problems
Discussion: The Hill and MPR News
 
 
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Mark Thiessen / Associated Press:
The last in-person vote in the US will be cast on the desolate tundra of Alaska's Aleutian Islands
Discussion: RedState and Associated Press
emptywheel:
Trump's GOP Is Running on a Platform of Freeing Seditionists and Cop Assailants
Jesse Arm / Manhattan Institute:
Polling a People: Survey Analysis of the Political and Policy Preferences of 2024's Jewish Electorate
Discussion: IJR and New York Post
Politico:
Trump considers bucking presidential transition system
Discussion: Raw Story
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
It Was Gross to Watch Trump Yuck It Up with Cardinal Dolan at the Al Smith Dinner
Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian:
A week before the election, Trump will hold his most unsettling spectacle yet
Discussion: Alternet.org
Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica:
The Ghosts of John Tanton
Kate S. Petersen / USA Today:
Trump's campaign leans on climate change denial: Six misleading claims debunked
 Earlier Items: 
Politico:
Secretary of State Pete Buttigieg? Here's who could be in Harris' Cabinet.
Discussion: Twitchy and Boston Herald
Politico:
Defense Secretary Tom Cotton? Here's who could be in Trump's Cabinet.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo / The Hill:
3 ways you can push back against election misinformation
The Hill:
Democrats eye voting rights bill as first priority in House majority
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
Trump Thinks the Border Got Him Elected in 2016. He's Convinced It Will Do So Again.
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Harris and Liz Cheney Will Team Up for a Pitch to Blue-Wall Suburbs
Sarah Polus / The Hill:
Cher endorses Harris, Walz: ‘She is fighting for all of us’
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Rolling Stone and Forbes
 

 
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Sheldon Reback / CoinDesk:
US and Japanese law enforcement say North Korean hackers were responsible for stealing 4,502.9 bitcoin, worth $308M, from Japanese exchange DMM in May 2024

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Donald Trump announces Scott Kupor, a managing partner at a16z, will serve as director of OPM, and Michael Kratsios will serve as the White House OSTP director

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