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12:15 PM ET, October 29, 2024

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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.
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ABC News:
Trump claims to ABC's Scott he didn't hear comedian's Puerto Rico comment, doesn't denounce it  —  The former president denied knowing the comedian who made a slew of racist, sexist and vulgar comments at his rally at Madison Square Garden, ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott reports.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
That Revolting Rally Was a Sign of Weakness
Discussion: Alternet.org, The Hill and Steady
Politico:   Playbook: Trump faces a P.R. disaster
Bernd Debusmann Jr / BBC:
Puerto Ricans in must-win Pennsylvania say Trump rally joke won't be forgotten
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Trump's Shock Comic Was Set to Call Harris a ‘C*nt’
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Puerto Rico's G.O.P. Chairman Demands Apology From Trump for Comic's Remarks
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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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
The hard truth: Americans don't trust — or need — billionaires  —  Chris Geidner is the owner, publisher, editor, and author of Law Dork.  —  I am not a billionaire.  —  Jeff Bezos, a billionaire, is causing a stir over at The Washington Post, which he bought two years before Donald Trump began …
Discussion: CBS News, Forbes and The Wrap
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 …
Daniel S. Levine / People:
George W. Bush's Daughter Barbara Breaks Silence on Election to Campaign for Kamala Harris (Exclusive)  —  Barbara Pierce Bush tells PEOPLE she's “hopeful” that voters will back Harris on Nov. 5 to “move our country forward and protect women's rights”  —  Barbara Pierce Bush …
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
How to Prevent the Worst From Happening … Many republicans would say that it is one thing, and quite an awful thing, to withhold a vote from Donald Trump—but that voting for Kamala Harris, a “San Francisco Democrat,” is nothing short of a betrayal, an act of apostasy, impossible for any true conservative to justify.
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J. Michael Luttig / New York Times:
Trump Betrayed America.  My Fellow Republicans Must Put Country Above Party.  —  We Americans live in faith with our Constitution and with the past generations of Americans who swore to protect it and fought to defend it.  One week from today, we will decide whether Donald Trump is fit to be President of the United States again.
Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
Arab American voters make their choice — Harris, Trump or neither — in the election's final days
Discussion: New Republic
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CNN:
Steve Bannon is released from prison in time for the last-week push to Election Day
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Stephen Bannon, Released From Prison, Says He Is ‘Empowered’
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: New York Times and ABC News
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Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Elon Musk's America PAC uses crude, sexist attack against Harris in new ad
Discussion: Pharyngula
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Burning Ballots  —  It's not what we normally expect in American elections, but it was all too predictable in this election cycle.  —  This morning in Portland, Oregon, an incendiary device attached to the outside of a ballot drop box started a fire inside of it.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says he is ‘opposite of a Nazi’  —  Former President Trump at a Monday rally rejected the label used by Vice President Harris and some of his former aides that he is a fascist, describing himself as “the opposite of a Nazi.”  —  “You know, years ago, my father — I had a great father …
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump: 'I'm not a Nazi. I'm the opposite of 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
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles  —  An endorsement of democracy, solving problems, and Kamala Harris. … Donald Trump is a dangerous maniac who can barely complete a sentence, and it is lunacy to believe he can even recognize the existentially threatening …
Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
She Supports Trump's Anti-Immigration Policies.  Texas Incorrectly Flagged Her as a “Noncitizen” on Its Voting Rolls.  —  Mary Howard-Elley is the 10th U.S. citizen identified by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat whose registration was canceled after her citizenship was questioned.
Discussion: The Texas Tribune and Raw Story
New York Times:
Elon Musk Bought a Texas Compound for His 11 Kids and Their Mothers … On a quiet, leafy street of multimillion-dollar properties, one stands out: a 14,400-square-foot mansion that looks like a villa plucked from the hills of Tuscany and transplanted to Austin, Texas.
Discussion: Pharyngula and Eschaton
Wall Street Journal:
X Algorithm Feeds Users Political Content—Whether They Want It or Not  —  A WSJ experiment finds that accounts supporting Trump and Harris dominate feeds of new X users who wanted cooking and crafts  —  New X users with interests in topics such as crafts, sports and cooking are being blanketed …
Discussion: Twitchy
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Elon Musk's “illegal” past doesn't feel like hypocrisy to MAGA — Trump's hate rally in NYC shows why  —  Attacks on Puerto Ricans and other native-born citizens made it clear: this is about race, not immigration  —  Last week, the Washington Post reported that Tesla CEO …
emptywheel:
Secret Documents!  The Ten Month Privilege Fight Whingers Claim Didn't Happen  —  As always happens when people who don't bother to check the public record get afraid, folks are complaining about Merrick Garland again, both that they didn't notice the number of times Garland explained publicly …
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump Media shares halted repeatedly as DJT whipsaws in volatile trading … Trading of Trump Media shares was halted for volatility multiple times Tuesday morning as the company majority-owned by Donald Trump ricocheted in early trading.  —  The company, which trades as DJT on the Nasdaq …
Discussion: CNN, Variety and New Republic
Associated Press:
Biden administration awards $3bn to US ports for climate-friendly upgrades  —  Grants to be used to improve port infrastructure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at 55 sites across the country  —  Joe Biden's administration is awarding nearly $3bn to boost climate-friendly equipment …
Jack Holmes / Public Notice:
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Will Saletan / The Bulwark:
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