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12:55 PM ET, October 21, 2016

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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
At charity roast, Donald Trump delivered what might as well be a campaign eulogy  —  NEW YORK — It was supposed to be his opening joke, but it landed with such heavy bitterness that it prompted scattered, uncomfortable laughter.  —  “A special hello to all of you in this room who have known and loved me for many, many years.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
No happy warriors to be found at Al Smith dinner
Discussion: ABC News, NPR and Hot Air
TIME:
The white-tie affair is an election-year tradition
Discussion: RedState and Shakesville
Associated Press:
Trump, Clinton Trade Caustic Barbs as Roast Turns Bitter
Dyn, Inc. Status:
DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS  —  Investigating - As of 15:52 UTC, we have begun monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure.  Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue.  —  Oct 21, 16:06 UTC  —  Monitoring - Services have been restored to normal as of 13:20 UTC.
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William Turton / Gizmodo:
This Is Probably Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today  —  Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning.  This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host.
Discussion: CNBC, NBC News, Engadget and Shakesville
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
GOP congressman on Clinton: 'A lady needs to be told when she's being nasty'  —  (CNN)Republican Rep. Brian Babin on Thursday defended Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton “a nasty woman” at the final presidential debate, saying “sometimes a lady needs to be told when she's being nasty.”
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Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
AJC poll: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are deadlocked in Georgia  —  Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are deadlocked in Georgia with less than three weeks until Election Day, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll.  —  The poll released Friday shows Trump leading Clinton …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
North Carolina slashed their early voting hours and now this is what the lines look like  —  The state could decide both the presidential election and control of the Senate.  —  Early voting kicked off on Thursday in the key swing state of North Carolina, and voters turned out to the polls in droves.
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CNN:
Early voting results promising for Clinton in battleground states
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Former Republican Party Chairman Says He Won't Vote For Trump  —  Steele at a debate last year.  —  Ethan Miller / Getty Images  —  Michael Steele, who led the Republican Party from 2009 to 2011, became the latest senior Republican figure to say he would not vote for Donald Trump.
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
Trump's incredible shrinking map  —  In June, POLITICO identified 11 key battleground states — totaling 146 electoral votes — that would effectively decide the presidential election in November.  A new examination of polling data and strategic campaign ad buys indicates that six of those 11 …
Discussion: Suffolk University
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump national political director ‘steps back’ from campaign  —  Jim Murphy, Donald Trump's national political director, is no longer playing an active role on the campaign, according to three sources briefed on the move - a troubling development for the Republican nominee coming just 19 days before the election.
David Brooks / New York Times:
How to Repair Moral Capital  —  Hillary Clinton, who has been in politics all her adult life, seems to have learned something from Michelle Obama, who has never run for public office.  Clinton gave three masterful answers in the debate Wednesday night that were tonally different from her normal clichés.
Nancy French / Washington Post:
What it's like to experience the 2016 election as both a conservative and a sex abuse survivor  —  “Should we pick him up?”  The preacher pointed to the side of the road to a hitchhiker.  —  “No!”  I shrieked, but the idea was intoxicating.  I'd lived in a one-festival town my whole life.
Discussion: Daily Wire
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Jake Tapper hammers Think Progress for publishing story it knew was false  —  One of the things that has become clear in the wake of Wikileaks dump of Podesta emails is that a lot of journalists have a very cozy—one could even say sycophantic— relationship with Democrats.
Discussion: RedState and RT
Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kansas House leader calls Hitler's words ‘profound’ in Facebook post … A Kansas House leader said Thursday that her intent was to criticize Planned Parenthood when she called Adolf Hitler's words profound in a Facebook post.  —  “Great quote from Hitler in the video,” Speaker Pro Tem Peggy Mast …
Bob Dylan Newsletter / The Official Bob Dylan Site:
The Lyrics: 1961-2012  —  A beautiful, comprehensive volume of Dylan's lyrics, from the beginning of his career through the present day—with the songwriter's edits to dozens of songs, appearing here for the first time.  —  Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time …
New York Daily News:
Who I'm voting for, and why: We are enduring a campaign of seemingly boundless cynicism  —  The case against Hillary Clinton could have been written before the recent WikiLeaks and FBI disclosures.  But these documents do provide hard textual backup.  —  The most sensational disclosure …
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
WikiLeaks poisons Hillary's relationship with left  —  LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump is pointing to a stream of hacked emails as proof that Hillary Clinton would be a compromised president, but a surprising number of progressives are drawing similar conclusions — albeit for totally different reasons.
Rachel Bishop / Mirror.co.uk:
Could mysterious hexagonal clouds in Bermuda Triangle caused by 170mph ‘air bombs’ be behind centuries of bizarre disappearances?  —  It is believed these deadly blasts of air that can flip over ships and bring planes crashing into the ocean could be behind the vanishing of at least 75 planes and hundreds of ships
Discussion: Daily Mail
Belinda Luscombe / TIME:
Gretchen Carlson's Next Fight  —  Belinda Luscombe is an editor-at-large of TIME  —  The former Fox News star is taking on sexual harassment.  And she likes to win.  —  When Gretchen Carlson was a cub reporter in Virginia in the early '90s, she was returning from a shoot in the TV production truck …
TIME:
Shailene Woodley: The Truth About My Arrest  —  Shailene Woodley is an actress.  —  'It took me, a white non-native woman being arrested... to bring this cause to many people's attention' … I was arrested on Oct. 10, on Indigenous Peoples' Day, a holiday where America is meant to celebrate the indigenous people of North America.
Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Amid ‘rigged’ election charges, Russia wants to monitor U.S. vote  —  Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump's take on rigged elections ‘horrifying.’ USA TODAY  —  In an apparent move to embarrass the United States over Donald Trump's claims of a “rigged” presidential election …
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Reuters
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The mechanics of Donald Trump's rejection of November's results just got a little more fleshed out  —  1. Reject polling as inaccurate.  The guy who spent five minutes in every speech from July 2015 to March 2016 talking about his poll numbers has recently begun disparaging what the same pollsters see now.
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
First Post-Debate Poll: Clinton Wins Third Debate, Keeps Trump at a Distance  —  Hillary Clinton maintains her lead over Donald Trump after completing her sweep Wednesday, with a healthy plurality of voters naming her the winner of the third and final presidential debate.
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Fact-Checking the Debate Fact-Checkers on Abortion  —  Yes, Hillary Clinton is a late-term-abortion radical.  —  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed Monday night about partial-birth and late-term abortion.  Judging by the media coverage of that exchange, there seems to be a fair amount of confusion about these subjects.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Reagan video proves Bill O'Reilly's historical fraud  —  In a recent chat with his colleague and debate-moderation conqueror Chris Wallace, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly spoke about his approach to writing his “Killing” series of books.  “What [co-author] Martin Dugard and I have crafted …
 
 
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Ralph Vartabedian / Associated Press:
State rail authority reduces size of future bullet train stations
Discussion: Mother Jones and KTLA
Tim Arango / New York Times:
ISIS Fighters in Iraq Attack Kirkuk, Diverting Attention From Mosul
Discussion: Hot Air
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The best conversation I've had about the election, with Molly Ball
Discussion: Mother Jones
Patrick J. Buchanan / WND:
An establishment in panic  —  Pat Buchanan: Ruling class fears …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
The White House:
Remarks by the President on the Affordable Care Act
Discussion: Hit & Run and Hot Air
Dana Bash / CNN:
First on CNN: GOP group runs first Senate ad calling for check and balance on White House
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Trump spent massive amounts in September just before donors grew jittery
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Why The RNC Wants Nothing To Do With Trump's Poll Watcher Call To Arms
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Paradise Afshar / WPLG-TV:
Miami passes resolution condemning hate speech, violence against Muslims
National Journal:
Donald Trump Leaves a Car Wreck Behind
Discussion: NBC News
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Most states have no laws about guns in polling places.  Some election officials think that could be a problem.
Bryan Schott / utahpolicy.com:
Trump Leads McMullin by One Point Among Likely Utah Voters
Discussion: Hot Air, WISH-TV, The Week and fox13now.com
Jamie Schram / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's security detail laughed when she broke her elbow
 

 
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