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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
13 former Trump administration officials sign open letter backing up John Kelly's criticism of Trump — Kelly told the New York Times that Trump meets the definition of a fascist and also said he observed the former president on multiple occasions praising Adolf Hitler.
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Ex-Trump aides emerge to back Kelly's harsh warnings — The letter from former White House officials comes as Harris is leaning into her closing argument that Trump is a threat to democracy. — More than a dozen former Trump administration officials on Friday came out in support of former chief …
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Rolling Stone, The Hill, NBC News, The Guardian, Alternet.org, The Independent, Raw Story and New York Times
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Dems fear they're blowing it … Trump and allied committees raised about half Harris' total, $92 million, from Oct. 1 to 16, the N.Y. Times reports this morning (gift link). — And this is after Trump's cringy 40-minute onstage sway to '80s music, his threats to target …
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Joanne Haner / The Hill:
Half in new survey view Trump as fascist — Nearly half of Americans say they view former President Trump as a fascist, according to a recent survey. — The ABC News/Ipsos poll, released Friday, defined a fascist as “a political extremist who seeks to act as a dictator …
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Trump praises Hitler. ADL remains silent. — In a terrifying moment for American Jews, the org is nowhere to be found. … Did you know that two separate stories dropped this week in which former Trump officials said he praised and admired Hitler while in office during his first term?
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
The double standard for Harris and Trump has reached a breaking point — One candidate can rant about gibberish while the other has to be perfect. — Something is wrong with this split-screen picture. On one side, former president Donald Trump rants about mass deportations and claims to have stopped …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Conservatives Still Love Their Hitler-Loving Candidate
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Jordan King / Newsweek:
Donald Trump's McDonald's Shift Went Down Best With Gen Z
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Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk's Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin — Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters — Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts …
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emptywheel:
If Putin Is Running Musk, Trump Should Be Terrified — WSJ's report that Elon Musk has had a number of communications with Vladimir Putin and other top Russians is unsurprising. Musk has obvious buttons to press (not just his narcissism, but also his insecurity about trans women arising …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Don't Blame Kamala — At a rally in Michigan last night, JD Vance waved off John Kelly's warnings about Donald Trump's fascist tendencies and affinity for Hitler's generals, sneering at the decorated general and former Trump chief of staff as “a disgruntled ex-employee”: “I think everything that John Kelly said is not true.”
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New York Times:
Harris and Trump Deadlocked to the End, Final Times/Siena National Poll Finds — The electorate has rarely seemed so evenly divided. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll found Harris and Trump tied 48 to 48. — Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump are locked in a dead heat for the popular vote …
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Christian Paz / Vox:
Polls say voters back “mass deportation.” That's misleading. — This spring, an eye-opening poll from Axios suggested what once seemed unthinkable: Four in 10 Democrats were open to the idea of the US government deporting undocumented immigrants en masse.
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Jessica Piper / Politico:
Harris continued to heavily outraise and outspend Trump in early October
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
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Jessica Glenza / The Guardian:
Stacey Williams says Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein ‘coordinated’ groping incident — Former model said of incident at Trump Tower in 1993: ‘I was rolled in there like a piece of meat in some kind of twisted game’ — The former model Stacey Williams said she thought Donald Trump groped …
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Ingrid Vasquez / People:
Former Model Alleges Donald Trump Groped Her After Being Introduced to Him By Jeffrey Epstein in 1993
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CNN, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion and Global News
Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
30M early votes cast ahead of Election Day — More than 30 million early votes have been cast so far in the general election, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab. — Nearly 15 million of those ballots were cast in person, data from the lab showed.
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Bloomberg, Louisiana Illuminator and The National Pulse
Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian:
Tucker Carlson is fantasizing about Daddy Donald Trump spanking teenage girls — The former Fox host once said he hated the ex-president. Now his display of serious daddy issues is striking a terrifying chord — Welcome to another normal day in Magaland.
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Progressives warn Harris must change her closing message as the election looms — Progressive Democrats warn Kamala Harris risks losing the support of a small but significant portion of her political base unless she changes her campaign's closing message — and its messengers — immediately.
New York Post:
The Post endorses Donald Trump for president — the clear choice for a better future — Voters carry a heavy responsibility in this election — one of the most consequential in the history of this great nation. — The choice will have reverberations for decades, deciding …
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
Two More LA Times Editorial Writers Quit Over ‘Chickens—’ Owner's Block of Kamala Harris Endorsement | Exclusive — Karin Klein and Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Greene follow editorial editor Mariel Garza, who resigned Wednesday — The Los Angeles Times has lost two more longtime editorial writers …
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Wall Street Journal:
Playing the Führer Card — Senate Democrats associate with a man fellow Democrats claim is like Adolf Hitler. — Is Sen. Bob Casey a closet fan of Adolf Hitler? How about Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin? We ask because both Senate Democrats are running ads as part of their re-election campaigns …
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Washington Post:
How two pollsters — one Democrat, one Republican — see the polls — The Washington Post's essential guide to power and influence in D.C. — Sign upfor Early Brief newsletter — Good morning, Early Birds. Today marks one year since Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected speaker of the House.
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
233 Mental Health Professionals Spell Out Dangers Of Donald Trump In Chilling Letter — “We have a duty to warn the public about the grave danger posed by returning this man to power.” — LOADING — Conservative attorney George Conway's Anti-Psychopath PAC turned to clinical psychologists …
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Raw Story and The Guardian
KASW-TV:
Phoenix police ID suspect in arson of USPS mailbox that damaged ballots — PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A suspect has reportedly been taken into custody in connection with a fire in a United States Postal Service Collection Box in Phoenix overnight, which damaged over a dozen ballots inside.
Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
Trump calls in to Vance town hall on NewsNation, asks ‘How brilliant is Donald J. Trump?’ — Former President Trump phoned in to NewsNation's town hall featuring his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), on Thursday night to ask what he called “quite an interesting” question.
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Bluesky:
Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users — Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we've shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video. We're excited to announce that we've raised a $15 million Series …
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Tara Copp / Associated Press:
In rare move, Pentagon denies falsehood about troops allowed to use force during election — In a rare move, the Pentagon strongly pushed back Thursday against misinformation spread on social media that falsely suggests U.S. troops have been authorized to use force against American citizens during the election.
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
‘Big lie’ 2.0: How Trump's false claims about noncitizens voting laid the groundwork to undermine the election — In 2020, Donald Trump and his backers tossed out an array of false election interference allegations. Republicans now have a sharper focus. — The “big lie” of the 2024 election is being workshopped on Webex.
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Washington Post:
Satellite images show major expansion at Russian site with secret bioweapons past — New construction at a military research site near Moscow reveals a specialized laboratory complex designed to research and handle deadly pathogens, experts say. — Sorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Election Is Happening Too Soon — I had hoped this election would be a moment of national renewal. I had hoped that the Democrats could decisively defeat MAGA populism and send us down a new national path. — That's clearly not going to happen. No matter who wins this election …
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