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1:40 PM ET, October 27, 2024

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Lily Mae Lazarus / The Daily Beast:
Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’  —  DIRTY DEAL  —  Robert Kagan tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trump's meeting with Blue Origin executives the day its founder Jeff Bezos killed his paper's Kamala Harris endorsement is proof of a backroom deal.  —  EXCLUSIVE
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New York Times:
Inside The Washington Post's Decision to Stop Presidential Endorsements  —  Post owner Jeff Bezos ended the decades-long practice, weeks after a discussion at a meeting in Miami.  The move has drawn criticism in and outside the newsroom.  —  A tropical storm was heading toward Florida's Gulf Coast …
John F. Harris / Politico:
Ben Bradlee's Posthumous Advice to Jeff Bezos: You Need to Sell The Washington Post.
Discussion: AMERICAN HERITAGE
Jack Queen / Reuters:
Republican battleground-state legal blitz falters ahead of election  —  Donald Trump's Republican allies have suffered a string of courtroom setbacks in battleground U.S. presidential election states as Election Day draws closer, losses which could boost voter turnout and speed certification of the eventual winner.
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Virginia doesn't care if its late voter-purge program cancels legal voter registrations  —  A federal judge stopped the program on Friday, but Virginia is asking the Fourth Circuit to let them keep it going — with a promise of a SCOTUS request if needed.  —  After a federal judge blocked …
Discussion: Reuters and Mother Jones
Aysha Bagchi / USA Today:
Trump-aligned group is already planning lawsuits over election results  —  A Trump-aligned group that has filed lawsuits in several swing states challenging voter registration lists is already planning to sue over this year's election results, one of the group's founders told USA TODAY.
Discussion: Raw Story
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Harris regains slight lead nationally yet Electoral College holds the cards: POLL  —  Harris has regained a slight lead with likely voters nationally, the poll finds.  —  Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at James R. Hallford Stadium, Oct. 24, 2024, in Clarkston, Ga.
Molly White / Citation Needed:
I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”  —  Listen to a voiceover of this post, subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later.  —  When a major legacy news publication does something controversial, I sometimes hear my name.
Associated Press:
Harris and Walz will visit all the battleground states in the campaign's closing stretch  —  Kamala Harris told a church congregation Sunday that the United States is “determined to turn the page on hatred and division.”  The vice president's visit to Philadelphia's Church of Christian Compassion …
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 26, 2024  —  Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II.  Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”
New York Times:
Donald Trump Will Never Be Done With New York  —  Sunday's rally at Madison Square Garden, the self-styled “world's most famous arena,” is a remarkable gambit, even by the former president's standards — and a show of force.  —  The seven-decade marriage between Donald J. Trump and New York City …
Discussion: CNN and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Why Is Trump Holding a Rally at Madison Square Garden?
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, L.A. Times show what life under a dictator is really like  —  Do not obey in advance.  Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.  In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
To understand the U.S. economic success is to love Harris's plan  —  Kamala Harris's economic proposals would build on the remarkable U.S. comeback since the pandemic.  —  Despite the compulsion of Republican MAGA voices to run down the country's economic strength, the U.S. recovery …
Discussion: Baltimore Sun
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos  —  It's part of the stock in trade of liberal American discourse: threatening or claiming to cancel a subscription to this or that once-revered journalistic institution in response to bad behavior, bad reporting …
Alex Lang / The Independent:
A growing number of Americans are concerned with Trump's age, but still not as many who worried about Biden  —  Voters did not have the same concerns about age for Kamala Harris  —  Your support helps us to tell the story  —  This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls.
CNN:
More than 1,000 faith leaders endorse Harris as vice president leans on her faith to turn out Black voters  —  More than a thousand religious leaders endorsed Kamala Harris on Sunday, bolstering the Democratic presidential nominee's push to emphasize how faith is informing her campaign ahead of next week's election.
Discussion: The Guardian
Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
Florida Democrat Blasts Republican Sen. Rick Scott Over State's Home Insurance Crisis  —  Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is hoping voters make the connection between Scott's eight years as governor and the escalating cost of home insurance.  —  LOADING  —  Wetter, more destructive hurricanes …
Donna Ladd / Mississippi Free Press:
Democracy |  As Fascism Looms, the Free Press Must Stand and Report in the Breach  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)  —  It was a cool, dark night in Berlin on May 10, 1933, as a mob of white Nazi college students pulled thousands of “subversive” …
Adam Wren / Politico:
Who won the day?  Harris  —  For at least a couple hours Friday, Kamala Harris assembled a rally star-studded enough to drown out the growing chorus of doubters in her own party.  Those in the crowd wore light-up bracelets flashing red, white and blue, and the screens above the stage read …
Discussion: Twitchy and Breitbart
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Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Put Pressure on Democrats in ‘Blue Wall’ Senate Races
Discussion: HuffPost and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
How a tech mogul backed by JD Vance now bolsters Trump's fortune
David Morgan / CBS News:
Kamala Harris says her first priority as president is to “stop this pain” resulting from abortion bans
Discussion: The Hill and Houston Public Media
Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Vance says Russian election interference is ‘bad’ but not worth a response
Discussion: CBS News
New York Times:
Voters Are Deeply Skeptical About the Health of American Democracy
Discussion: The Independent and The Hill
Adam Wren / Politico:
‘Frankenstein coalition’: Can Trump win Barstool and Bible-study Republicans?
Discussion: Raw Story
Jill Twiss / The Daily Beast:
I'm Voting Harris Not Because She Deserves it But Because I Do
Discussion: Breitbart
 Earlier Items: 
Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
America Is Having a Panic Attack Over the Election
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Tim Walz and AOC are going to play Madden together on Twitch
Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet.org:
Leading civil rights lawyer shows 20 ways Trump is copying Hitler's early rhetoric and policies
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Obeying in advance  —  Greetings from Oklahoma.  Here are a few thoughts from here on video …
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

 
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