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2:05 PM ET, October 24, 2022

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New York Times:
Their America Is Vanishing.  Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.  —  The white majority is fading, the economy is changing and there's a pervasive sense of loss in districts where Republicans fought the outcome of the 2020 election.  —  When Representative Troy Nehls of Texas voted …
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Nicholas Lemann / New Yorker:   The Democrats' Midterm Challenge
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Will ‘Democracy Die in Darkness’ After November?
David M. Drucker / Rolling Stone:
Republicans Are Having a Messy Breakup With Corporate America. They Feel Fine
Discussion: Roll Call, The Hill, Raw Story and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Math Scores Fell in Nearly Every State, and Reading Dipped on National Exam  —  The results, from what is known as the nation's report card, offer the most definitive picture yet of the pandemic's devastating impact on students.  —  U.S. students in most states and across almost …
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Ben Chapman / Wall Street Journal:
Math Scores Dropped in Every State During Pandemic, Report Card Shows
Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Polls show Democrats are ahead in races for governor in Michigan and Pennsylvania, with no clear leader in Wisconsin  —  The Wisconsin race for governor has no clear leader, while Democratic gubernatorial candidates hold the edge in Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in the three key states.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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CNN:
Clarence Thomas freezes order for Lindsey Graham to testify before Georgia grand jury investigating 2020 election  —  Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday agreed to temporarily freeze a lower court order requiring the testimony of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in front of an Atlanta-area special grand jury …
Discussion: Forbes, PoliticusUSA and Rolling Stone
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily blocks Sen. Graham's subpoena from Georgia grand jury  — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily blocked a subpoena issued by a Georgia grand jury seeking testimony from South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Tucker Carlson lashes out at GOP campaign chief in irate private call  —  An irate Tucker Carlson phoned Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), chairman of the House Republican campaign committee, with an ultimatum on Friday:  — Either reveal which staff member took a swipe at Carlson's son …
Sonya Hamasaki / CNN:
Los Angeles officials condemn demonstrators seen in photos showing support of Kanye West's antisemitic remarks  —  Los Angeles officials are condemning the display of banners from a freeway overpass this weekend by a group of demonstrators seen in bystander photos showing support …
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Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:
More antisemitic hate seen in L.A. after Kanye West's hateful rants
Wall Street Journal:
U.S.-Saudi Relations Buckle, Driven by Animosity Between Biden and Mohammed bin Salman  —  Lack of personal trust accelerates a yearslong split driven by geopolitical and economic forces  —  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—An unwritten pact binding the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has survived 15 presidents …
Discussion: Raw Story
Matthew A. Winkler / Bloomberg:
California Poised to Overtake Germany as World's No. 4 Economy  —  Gavin Newsom is as familiar as anyone with the media narrative of earthquakes, persistent wildfires, droughts, homelessness and companies fleeing California to Texas for a tax- and regulation-free lifestyle.  This is nothing new.
Discussion: Twitchy
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Ted Cruz Hid in Supply Closet During Jan. 6, New Book Reveals  —  Senator Ted Cruz has revealed he was in a “a supply closet with stacked chairs” during part of the January 6 storming of Congress.  —  On that day in 2021 hundreds of Donald Trump supporters broke into the Capitol Building …
Brad Raffensperger / Georgia Secretary of State:
Georgia Voters Shatter Second Presidential Turnout Record on Saturday  —  (Atlanta) - Georgia voters continued to hit record breaking turnout on the first mandatory Saturday of Early Voting.  As of Sunday morning, approximately 740K Georgia voters have cast their ballot during in-person Early Voting …
Suzanne Downing / Must Read Alaska:
Triangle: Palin joins Murkowski in Peltola love fest  —  The Murkowski-Palin-Peltola political love triangle is a curiosity in the “Only in Alaska” category: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, endorsed hardline Democrat Congresswoman Mary Peltola during Alaska Federation of Natives convention …
NBC News:
Florida's Hispanic voters back DeSantis over Crist, support Martha's Vineyard migrant flights  —  Florida's Hispanic voters back Gov. Ron DeSantis over Democrat Charlie Crist, and they even support the Republican's decision to fly migrants to Martha's Vineyard, according to a new Telemundo/LX News poll.
Politico:
Biden admin set to warn about threats to nation's election infrastructure  —  Top Biden national security officials are tracking multiple threats to the nation's election security infrastructure ahead of the midterms and are set to issue warnings, including in an internal intelligence bulletin this week …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Axios
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
The Trump Tapes: 20 interviews that show why he is an unparalleled danger … In more than 50 years of reporting, I have never disclosed the raw interviews or full transcripts of my work.  But after listening again to the 20 interviews I conducted with President Donald Trump during his last year …
New York Times:
Brazil's Polls Were Wrong.  Now the Right Wants to Criminalize Them.  —  President Jair Bolsonaro and conservative lawmakers in Brazil are trying to make it illegal to publish polls that later do not match the election results.  —  BRASÍLIA — In the first round of Brazil's closely watched elections …
The Daily Beast:
Florida Puts Raging MAGA Moms on Book-Banning Council  —  Florida's Education Department has quietly selected right-wingers for a book-banning council that'll re-train public school librarians. … In the name of “curriculum transparency,” Florida's Republican-controlled state government …
Discussion: Jezebel and Raw Story
Trudy Busch Valentine / Springfield News-Leader:
Missouri's extreme abortion ban is un-American  —  As a nurse, I have helped care for people during the most difficult moments of their lives, including women who had just lost pregnancies.  But no matter whose bedside I was at, I knew that every patient deserved the same fundamental thing …
GOV.UK:
Russian war in Ukraine: P3 statement  —  The Foreign Ministers of the UK, USA and France have issued a statement rejecting Russia's transparently false allegations about Ukraine.  —  We, the Foreign Ministers of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, reiterate our steadfast support …
 
 
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The effort to break America's elections
Discussion: Mediaite and ABC News
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Texas 2022: Abbott Holds Ten-Point Lead for Governor; Majority of Voters Support Migrant Busing
John Woodrow Cox / Washington Post:
An American Girl  —  At 10, Caitlyne Gonzales survived Uvalde's school shooting.
Maham Javaid / Washington Post:
A college wrestler fought a bear to save his teammate — and won
Discussion: Associated Press and New York Post
Jasmine Mithani / The 19th:
States passing abortion bans reflect what only a small minority of their constituents actually want
Discussion: LifeNews.com and Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Netanyahu poised for possible return to power, dividing Israel again
Discussion: Raw Story
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Lawsuit reveals vast censorship scheme by Big Tech and the federal government
Discussion: RedState
Kate Davidson / Politico:
The big recession risk that no one is talking about
Discussion: Based Politics
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Kari Ann Lake's Hijacking of Martin Luther King
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Politico
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Top Fox lawyer's “big screw up” could reveal Lachlan Murdoch's secrets
Max Zahn / ABC News:
Potential mass layoffs at Twitter could cripple content moderation, some experts say
 

 
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Financial Times:
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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