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8:10 PM ET, October 28, 2024

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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 …
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Monika Bauerlein / Mother Jones:
Billionaire-Owned News Is Not Our Only Option
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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Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Harris cuts ad featuring MSG Trump rally Puerto Rico ‘garbage’ joke  —  Vice President Harris's campaign wasted no time making hay of the backlash against a crude comedy set at former President Trump's Madison Square Garden (MSG) rally on Sunday.  —  The Harris campaign on Monday cut …
Discussion: CNN, Daily Mail and BizPac Review
Adam Wren / Politico:
Who won the day?  Harris  —  If Donald Trump loses on Nov. 5, the racist carnival he curated …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's hostility to Puerto Rico reemerges at the worst possible time
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Tony Hinchcliffe defends his Puerto Rico jokes from Trump rally
Monica Alba / NBC News:
Harris' campaign launches new ad seizing on Trump ally's racist comments
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trump Wants You to Accept All of This as Normal  —  The former president is psychologically preparing Americans for an assault on the electoral system.  —  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.
Discussion: HuffPost
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
This Is Trump's Message  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  We might as well start with the lowlight of last night's Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden.  That would be Tony Hinchcliffe, a podcaster who's part of Joe Rogan's circle …
Tomás Mier / Rolling Stone:
Ana Navarro and ‘View’ Hosts Slam ‘Vile,’ Racist Jokes Made at Trump Rally  —  A “comedian” joked that Puerto Rica was a “floating island of garbage” while opening for Trump at Madison Square Garden … During Monday's episode of The View, the two Latina hosts slammed Tony Hinchcliffe's jokes …
Susan Milligan / New Republic:
Trump's Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women  —  Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday was alarming for many reasons, not least for its overt fascism and racism, but it was also, as The New York Times accurately reported, a “carnival” of “misogyny”—one directed at Kamala Harris in particular.
Nicole Narea / Vox:
MAGA's closing argument: Racist attacks on a critical bloc of swing-state voters
Andrew Howard / Politico:
Fallout spreads from racist rhetoric at Trump's MSG rally
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 27, 2024  —  I stand corrected.  I thought this year's October surprise was the reality …
Discussion: CNN
Politico:
Playbook: Trump closes with cringe
Discussion: The Hill and New Republic
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Racist NYC Rally Was Vile. It Was Also Political Suicide
Associated Press:
Police say fires set at ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington are connected; ‘suspect vehicle’ ID'd  —  Police say they have identified a “suspect vehicle” connected to incendiary devices that set fires in ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state early Monday.
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Allison Berry / KATU-TV:
Burning ballots pulled from inside smoking Vancouver ballot box; hundreds of ballots lost  —  VANCOUVER, Wash. — KATU was on the scene at Fisher's Landing Transit Center in Vancouver early Monday morning, where heavy smoke was seen coming from inside a dropoff ballot box.
Julia Silverman / Oregonian:
2 ballot drop boxes set on fire in Portland area; hundreds of ballots destroyed  —  Police in Vancouver and Portland are investigating two Monday morning fires intentionally set at ballot boxes.Elections officials in Multnomah County said only three ballots were destroyed at the ballot box …
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 …
Discussion: CBS News, Bloomberg, HuffPost and Forbes
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
GOP asks Supreme Court to reject provisional ballots from Pa. voters who botch mail ones
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Republicans ask US Supreme Court to block counting of some provisional ballots in Pennsylvania
Democracy Docket:
Trump, RNC Lose Bid To Disqualify Non-Postmarked Nevada Ballots Received After Election Day
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Hints at ‘Little Secret’ With House Republicans, Setting Off a Panic  —  The former president seemed to delight in fueling speculation about what he is cooking up with House Republicans, prompting Democrats to worry about election fraud.  Speaker Mike Johnson refused to explain.
Discussion: USA Today and Axios
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New York Times:
Republicans Cling to Slim Leads in Nebraska and Texas Senate Races  —  In Nebraska, Dan Osborn, an independent, is in a tight race with Senator Deb Fischer, and in Texas, Representative Colin Allred is four percentage points behind Senator Ted Cruz.  —  Dan Osborn, a union leader …
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ProPublica:
“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader's Plans for a New Trump Agenda  —  Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought's “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.  —  Co-published with Documented  —  Reporting Highlights
Discussion: Raw Story and New Republic
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.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Comically Terrible Rollout of Latter-day Saints for Trump  —  One of the more puzzling, albeit obscure, subplots in the final weeks of this campaign season has been Donald Trump's thunderingly incompetent effort to court Mormon voters.  —  Earlier this month, the former president's …
Discussion: The Bulwark and Raw Story
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Swing state paper publishes blistering takedown of a key component of Trump's agenda  —  Former President Donald Trump's plans would bring about economic ruin and hardship for millions of Americans, wrote Peter Harrell of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
 
 
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The F-Word  —  A few months after Charlottesville, I got into a lengthy debate with an editor …
Fox News:
Leaked video exposes Dem staffer admitting ‘quiet part out loud’ in fiery tirade: ‘Open the f—ing border’
Discussion: freebeacon.com
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'Bob's Burgers' actor sentenced to 1 year in prison for Jan. 6 role
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp won't attend Trump's rally in Atlanta tonight
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Molly Olmstead / Slate:
There's an Alarming Theme Emerging Among Leading Trump Election Conspiracy Theorists
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Scott Perry's ex-GOP colleagues endorse his Dem rival
Discussion: Mediaite
Ivana Saric / Axios:
What Elon Musk's conversations with Putin could mean for the U.S. government
Discussion: The Atlantic
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Bloomberg, After Months of Pressure, Donates $50 Million to Help Harris
Discussion: Business Insider and Forbes
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
Trump Executed Their Loved Ones. They Fear He'll Have The Chance To Kill Others.
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Philly DA sues to halt Elon Musk's $1 million voter giveaway in Pennsylvania
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Trump Campaign Worker Blows Whistle on ‘Grift’ and Bugging Plot
 

 
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