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7:45 AM ET, October 29, 2024

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Jeff Bezos / Washington Post:
The hard truth: Americans don't trust the news media  —  A note from our owner.  —  Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post.  —  In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Over 200,000 subscribers flee ‘Washington Post’ after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement  —  The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos's decision …
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Trump's Shock Comic Was Set to Call Harris a ‘C*nt’  —  DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN WAS LEFT scrambling Sunday night after roast-comic Tony Hinchcliffe made insulting jokes about Hispanic and black people on stage at the ex-president's Madison Square Garden rally.
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Politico:
Trump's Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Pennsylvania  —  Evidence of the backlash was immediate on Monday.  —  Donald Trump has a serious Puerto Rico problem — in Pennsylvania.  —  Many Puerto Rican voters in the state are furious about racist and demeaning comments delivered at a Trump rally.
NBC News:
Trump rally comedian workshopped racist Puerto Rico line at NYC comedy club the night before  —  The comments have drawn intense anger and reignited the criticism over Trump's handling of Hurricane Maria's devastating aftermath in Puerto Rico.  —  The comedian who let loose a series of racist jokes …
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Archbishop of San Juan says Trump needs to ‘personally’ apologize  —  The Archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico is asking former President Donald Trump to personally apologize for vulgar comments made about Puerto Ricans during a rally in Madison Square Garden over the weekend.
Discussion: RNS, DNyuz and Rolling Stone
Politico:   Playbook: Trump faces a P.R. disaster
New York Times:
Harris Aides Hopeful That Casting Trump as a Fascist Could Shift Election
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Trump Spokesperson Puts Happy Face On Racist MSG Rally For ‘Fox And Friends’
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Tony Hinchcliffe defends his Puerto Rico jokes from Trump rally
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The most misogynistic ad in the history of politics  —  Elon Musk created America PAC to help Donald Trump win the presidential election.  Through the end of September, Musk spent $75 million to fund the PAC's activities.  More recently, Musk began giving away $1 million per day to registered voters …
Discussion: ABC News and New York Times
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Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Elon Musk's America PAC uses crude, sexist attack against Harris in new ad  —  Elon Musk's America PAC shared a video calling Kamala Harris “the c-word” on X, the social media platform also owned by the tech billionaire.  The narrator in the 34-second ad repeatedly calls Harris a “c-word” …
Discussion: Pharyngula
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Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
Harris will offer an alternative to Trump-era politics in closing argument speech
Anita Hill / New York Times:
The Smearing of Kamala Harris
Discussion: The Guardian and Breitbart
Associated Press:
Fires set in drop boxes destroy hundreds of ballots in Washington and damage 3 in Oregon  —  Incendiary devices were set off Monday at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland and another in nearby Vancouver, Washington — destroying hundreds of ballots in what one official called a …
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Allison Berry / KATU-TV:
Burning ballots pulled from inside smoking Vancouver ballot box; hundreds of ballots lost
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
NAACP poll: Trump's support among young Black men decreasing  —  A new NAACP survey found Republican Donald Trump's support among young Black men has dwindled with a little more than a week to go before Election Day.  The poll found Black men under 50 years old decreased their likelihood …
Discussion: NPR, DNyuz, New Jersey Online and The Hill
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump: 'I'm not a Nazi.  I'm the opposite of a Nazi'  —  “I'm not a Nazi.  I'm the opposite of a Nazi,” former President Donald Trump declared at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Monday night — instead placing blame on Democrats for comparing him to one.  He claimed that Harris' campaign painted him as a Nazi.
Georgina Rannard / BBC:
PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident  —  A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico.  —  Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in the southeastern state of Campeche.
Discussion: The Hill and LiveScience
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trump Wants You to Accept All of This as Normal  —  In the final week of this election season, the Republican Party is running two different campaigns.  One of them is an ugly and angry but conventional political enterprise.  Donald Trump and other Republicans make speeches …
Discussion: Vox and HuffPost
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
A new Supreme Court case could change the result of the presidential election  —  Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member.  —  On October 23, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that many voters who cast a mailed-in ballot improperly, thus rendering their vote …
CNN:
Steve Bannon is released from prison in time for the last-week push to Election Day  —  Steve Bannon was released from federal prison Tuesday, according to a source with knowledge, emerging just a week before Election Day to retake the helm of his weakened right-wing media platform.
Public Notice:
The obscene and absurd in MAGA Square Garden  —  My never-ending day with the Trump faithful in the heart of a city they insist has gone to Hell.  —  The Football Weekend … 🚨 Subscribe to Public Notice 🚨  —  NEW YORK — Close to two hours after his campaign said Donald Trump …
Jeff Wise / New York Magazine:
How Trump Goes to Prison  —  If he loses the race for the White House, the big house awaits.  —  Donald Trump is facing an extreme sliding-doors scenario on Election Day.  If he wins, he would have the power to single-handedly scuttle the federal criminal cases against him …
Discussion: DNyuz, NBC News and Slate
Ben Ashford / Daily Mail:
Kamala Harris' VP choice Tim Walz had secret fling with daughter of top Chinese Communist official during teaching stint in China  — Tim Walz had a romance with Jenna Wang, daughter of a CCP official in 1989  — She said her father Bin Hui would disown her for fraternizing with a westerner
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
This year's vote count will be faster, but it still might take time to know who won  —  Election officials in key battleground states should tally votes faster than 2020, but the biggest factor determining when we'll know the next president is out of their hands.
Discussion: New York Times and USA Today
 
 
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
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Erin Reed / Erin In The Morning:
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The Guardian:
Trump advisers propose bypassing FBI background checks for appointees
Discussion: The Atlantic and Above the Law
Amethyst Martinez / The Daily Beast:
Anna Kendrick Calls Out Director Who Shamed Her Publicly
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Comically Terrible Rollout of Latter-day Saints for Trump
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Susan Milligan / New Republic:
Trump's Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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