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9:35 PM ET, October 30, 2018

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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him  —  A company that appears to be run by a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist offered to pay women to make false claims against Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the days leading up to the midterm elections—and the special counsel's office has asked the FBI to weigh in.
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NBC News:
Mueller refers sex assault scheme targeting him to FBI for investigation  —  “We immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” said Peter Carr, spokesperson for the special counsel.  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller last week asked the FBI to investigate a possible scam …
The Daily Beast:
Inside the Crazy Cabal Trying to Smear Robert Mueller  —  A Seth Rich conspiracy pusher and fringe online figures appear to be working behind the scenes.  —  One of the shadier characters in politics, along with a number of fringe internet figures, appears to be behind an attempt to pay women …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Update on Mueller Accusations  —  Earlier today we were given information on accusations against former FBI Director Robert Mueller.  —  We took the documents down and we are currently investigating these accusations.  —  There are also very serious allegations against Jacob Wohl.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Jay Willis / GQ:
MAGA Trolls' Efforts to Take Down Robert Mueller Flame Out in Hilarious and Spectacular Fashion  —  In news that will shock you, a plot involving Jacob Wohl has some holes.  Here's how it went down.  —  Politics in 2018 is a nightmarish hellscape that is largely devoid of heroes …
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Plot to Smear Mueller Unravels as F.B.I. Is Asked to Investigate  —  WASHINGTON — The office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has asked the F.B.I. to investigate what appears to be an effort to smear him, stemming from suspicious emails offering women money in exchange for fabricating sexual misconduct claims against him.
Aric Toler / bellingcat:
The Unintelligent Design of SureFire Intelligence  —  On October 30th, the far-right site Gateway Pundit published documents alleging that Robert Mueller, who is heading up the investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, sexually assaulted a woman in 2010.
Washington Post:
Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional  —  George T. Conway III is of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  Neal Katyal is a partner at Hogan Lovells and former acting U.S. solicitor general in the Obama administration.  —  Sometimes the Constitution's text …
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Axios:
Exclusive: Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order  —  President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an exclusive interview for …
Libby Watson / Splinter:
Jonathan Swan Is a Bootlicker  —  You might have woken up this morning, as I did, to the Axios headline: “Exclusive: Trump to terminate birthright citizenship.”  In your bleary-eyed, pre-java state, you would struggle toward the thought: What... the fuck?  Can he do that?
Dara Lind / Vox:
Birthright citizenship, explained
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Pittsburgh mayor: Our priority is funerals, not Trump's visit  —  The mayor of Pittsburgh suggested that President Trump choose a different time to visit the city rather than the day of the first of 11 funerals for the victims of Saturday's synagogue shooting.
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Washington Post:
Shooting victim's family, top officials shun Trump in Pittsburgh: ‘He was blaming the community’
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
‘Rabbi’ At Mike Pence Rally Thinks Jews Who Deny Christ Go To Hell
Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:   The Funeral of David and Cecil Rosenthal
New York Times:
Pittsburgh Unites in Grief, Even as It Splits Over Trump's Visit
Discussion: Althouse
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Top congressional leaders in both parties decline to join Trump in Pittsburgh
Discussion: Breitbart and The Root
Washington Post:
Zinke's own agency watchdog just referred him to the Justice Department  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has come under scrutiny on multiple fronts  —  The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General has referred one of its ongoing probes into the conduct of Secretary Ryan Zinke …
Discussion: Splinter, The Week and Axios
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Poll: Blackburn edges ahead of Bredesen in tight Tennessee Senate contest  —  Among likely voters, Blackburn leads 51 percent to 46 percent.  —  WASHINGTON — Republican Marsha Blackburn is now narrowly edging Democrat Phil Bredesen in Tennessee's closely-watched Senate race despite Bredesen's …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP Senate candidate Martha McSally: 'I'm getting my ass kicked' because of vote to repeal Obamacare
Discussion: Arizona Republic
New York Magazine:
12 Young People on Why They Probably Won't Vote  —  As told to , Rachel Bashein, Zak Cheney-Rice, Amelia Schonbek, and Emma Whitford  —  More than half of American adults plan to cast ballots in November, but only a third of people ages 18 to 29 say they will.  Here, 12 young adults on why they probably won't vote.
Washington Post:
Mueller probes Roger Stone's interactions with Trump campaign and timing of WikiLeaks release of Podesta emails  —  The special counsel investigation into President Trump's longtime ally Roger Stone is pressing witnesses about Stone's private interactions with senior campaign officials …
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
As special counsel closes in, Roger Stone suits up for legal battle
TMZ.com:
Kanye West Breaks From Politics and Says 'I've Been Used'  —  4:15 PM PT — Kanye contacted us to make it clear he did not mention Donald Trump in his tweets, and he's getting out of politics altogether.  —  As for being “used” ... he says he was specifically referencing Blexit, and that's it.
Discussion: Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Land O'Lakes, Purina Pull Support for Iowa Congressman Steve King Over Racial Remarks  —  Dairy giant Land O'Lakes announced on Tuesday that it will no longer make financial contributions to Representative Steve King of Iowa after a gun-fueled massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue brought …
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Des Moines Register:
Land O'Lakes ag co-op, facing boycott threats, pulls support for U.S. Rep. Steve King
Yahoo:
Justice Kavanaugh declines more than $600,000 raised in GoFundMe campaign  —  Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh declined more than $600,000 that was donated to aid his family during the firestorm over sexual misconduct allegations that plagued his confirmation.
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Bloomberg:   Republicans Fear Some Voters Are Losing Enthusiasm With a Week Until the Midterms
CNN:
The radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist  —  Woman warned Twitter about bomb suspect  —  New York (CNN)Cesar Sayoc's social media accounts read like a blueprint for the radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist.  —  A CNN KFile analysis of thousands of tweets sent …
Discussion: The Week and New York Times
Boston Herald:
James ‘Whitey’ Bulger dead, had been moved to W. Va.  —  Loved ones of victims tell Herald he had it coming  —  Gangland serial slayer James “Whitey” Bulger was killed shortly after being moved to a high-security federal prison in West Virginia, the Herald has confirmed.
Discussion: Townhall
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Jeffrey Young / HuffPost:
Believe Republicans When They Say They're Coming After Your Health Care  —  It's not just the lies about pre-existing conditions.  The GOP still wants to go after Obamacare, Medicaid and Medicare.  —  Republicans have been very busy lying about health care: lying about their policy agenda …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Sophie Novack / The Texas Observer:   We Support Pre-Existing Condition Protections, Say Republicans Who've Repeatedly Tried to Eliminate Them
VICE News US:
We posed as 100 senators to run ads on Facebook.  Facebook approved all of them.  —  One of Facebook's major efforts to add transparency to political advertisements is a required “Paid for by” disclosure at the top of each ad supposedly telling users who is paying for political ads that show up in their news feeds.
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
In North Dakota, Native Americans Try to Turn an ID Law to Their Advantage  —  FORT YATES, N.D. — Nobody in the squat yellow house serving as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's get-out-the-vote headquarters knew its address.  —  It was on Red Tail Hawk Avenue; they knew that much.
Discussion: HuffPost
WAGA-TV:
New FOX 5 Poll: Abrams edging Kemp in dead heat  —  ATLANTA - A new poll conducted for FOX 5 Atlanta shows Stacey Abrams with a slight lead over Brian Kemp in a statistical dead heat in the race for Georgia Governor.  —  The new Opinion Savvy poll for FOX 5 shows Democrat Abrams at 48.1% and Republican Kemp at 47.2%.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Molly Jong-Fast / The Forward:
Trump Is Using Ivanka As A Prop To Whitewash Anti-Semitism  —  Something you hear a lot from the right when you bring up the President's penchant for inflammatory language that ignites neo-Nazis is that the president can't possibly be anti-Semitic because he has a Jewish daughter.
Mairead McArdle / National Review:
Don Lemon: 'I Don't See Democrats Killing People' Over Politics  —  CNN anchor Don Lemon said on his show Monday that he sees only “right-wingers,” not Democrats, committing murders over their political beliefs.  —  Conservative commentator Mike Shields argued on Lemon's show,"CNN Tonight …
 
 
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Roxane Gay / New York Times:
You're Disillusioned. That's Fine. Vote Anyway.
Arek Sarkissian / Politico:
Latest documents claim Gillum paid for fundraising trip with official office account
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
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Jeff Weiss / Washington Post:
Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That's not a compliment.
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
How Democrats Can Reverse Years of Voter Suppression
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Chinese Intelligence Officers and Their Recruited Hackers and Insiders Conspired to Steal …
Discussion: Sputnik International
Foreign Policy:
Inside Trump's Plan to Scale Back U.N. Resolutions on Sexual Health, Violence Against Women
Chris Good / ABC News:
Fewer than half of US states have undergone federal election security reviews ahead of midterms
Discussion: Axios
Kathy Gannon / Military Times:
5 freed from Gitmo in exchange for Bergdahl join insurgents in Qatar, Taliban says
 

 
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Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT and more via Reddit's Data API, bring new AI tools to Reddit, and make OpenAI a Reddit ad partner

Mia Sato / The Verge:
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Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman:
The California Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill imposing fees on Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to pay for local news through employment tax credits
 
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