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7:25 PM ET, September 1, 2020

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Washington Post:
Justice Department zeroing in on longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy  —  Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy in connection with efforts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests, according to people familiar with the matter …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Pelosi used shuttered San Francisco hair salon for blow-out, owner calls it ‘slap in the face’  —  ‘We have been shut down for so long,’ owner says  —  EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out …
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KTVU-TV:
Nancy Pelosi confirms she got hair done indoors in San Francisco  —  The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to M  —  SAN FRANCISCO - A trip to a San Francisco salon has turned into a controversy for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi whose office tells KTVU …
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ProPublica:
The Trump Administration Is Backing Out of a $647 Million Ventilator Deal After ProPublica Investigated the Price  —  The government overpaid by hundreds of millions for Philips ventilators, says a House investigation spurred by ProPublica reporting.  Now that deal is off and Congress …
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Isaac Arnsdorf / ProPublica:
Now in Government Food Aid Boxes: A Letter From Donald Trump
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Political Wire
Bloomberg:
Pharma Lobby Disputes Trump's Claim That Drug Companies Are Negotiating
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Trump's ‘plane loaded with thugs’ rumor matches months-old conspiracy theory  —  The conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump pushed on Monday that a plane “almost completely loaded with thugs” was set to disrupt protests was almost identical to a rumor that went viral on Facebook three months ago.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Biden Expected to Surpass $300 Million Raised in August, Shattering Record  —  The fund-raising total would exceed previous monthly hauls and is more than double what the former vice president raised in July.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to report a record-breaking haul of donations for August …
John Sipher / New York Times:
Trump Creates His Own ‘Deep State’  —  The director of national intelligence is ending oral briefings with Congress — a significant step toward eroding oversight and expanding executive overreach.  —  Mr. Sipher, a former chief of station for the C.I.A., worked for more than 27 years in Russia and other parts of Europe and Asia.
Discussion: Lawfare
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The Daily Beast:
Top White House Officials Want a Lid on Talk of Election Threats
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs  —  It's the campaign's latest foray into online organizing  —  Starting today, September 1st, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will be able to deck out their island homes with official Joe Biden yard signs as part …
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Trump campaign aide was paid $20,000 a month by Bannon nonprofit linked to alleged fraud  —  Trump campaign's shell game: No reported payments to campaign manager Bill Stepien or drama-prone aide Jason Miller  —  Senior Trump campaign official Jason Miller appears to have been paid about $20,000 …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire
Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
FEMA Says It Will Stop Paying For Cloth Face Masks For Schools  —  The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it is changing the policy on the personal protective equipment that it will pay for.  Federal officials announced the changes during a call on Tuesday with state and tribal emergency managers …
Discussion: Political Wire
Mackenzie Mays / Politico:
California lawmaker brings newborn to Assembly floor after being denied proxy vote  —  SACRAMENTO — While remote voting was allowed in the California State Senate on Monday, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, who gave birth in late July, said Assembly leadership denied her request to vote by proxy despite Covid-19 concerns.
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Politico:
A newborn baby and cursing lawmakers: California's legislative session ends in chaos
Discussion: Fox News
David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Trump has slipped among key groups that backed him in 2016  —  President Trump's support has eroded among key groups of voters who backed him in 2016 — a major reason why he continues to trail former Vice President Joe Biden and a prime motivator for the president's reelection strategy …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, The Hill and Mediaite
New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: As Trump Visits Kenosha, Hundreds Gather Where Jacob Blake Was Shot  —  The president offered a conspiracy theory about his Democratic challenger and made forgiving comments about the teenager charged in the killings of two protesters.
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USA Today:
Trump blames ‘anti-American riots’ for Kenosha damage, directs millions to local police and businesses
ABC News:
Senate GOP poised to offer slimmed down COVID-19 relief bill as Mnuchin takes the hot seat in the House  —  The bill is expected to be dismissed by Democrats as inadequate.  —  Capitol Hill — With the collapse of bipartisan coronavirus relief talks, Senate Republicans are looking to introduce …
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Bloomberg:
White House Says CDC Will Halt Evictions Using Quarantine Rules
Discussion: Axios and CNBC
Larry Flynt / The Daily Beast:
My Final Farewell to the Falwells  —  The Hustler publisher, who won a landmark First Amendment legal battle against Jerry Falwell Sr., writes about Jerry Falwell Jr.'s fall from grace—and the Trump of it all.  —  When I heard that Jerry Falwell Jr. had resigned the presidency of Liberty University …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump Needs His Own Sister Souljah Moment  —  The president must condemn those responsible for violence and disavow those who act in his name.  Easy, right?  —  I want to make a prediction about the election in November.  —  Here it is: If Joe Biden wins, it will be, in part …
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Jack Mirkinson / Discourse Blog:
What ‘Law and Order’ Really Means
The Daily Beast:
Trump White House Warns Colleges: Don't Send Your COVID-Infected Students Home!  —  In a call on Monday, top officials on the coronavirus task force made it clear that they realize sending students back to school has created a risk of cascading outbreaks.  —  Top White House officials rang …
Washington Post:
U.S. says it won't join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine  —  The Trump administration said it will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine, in part because the World Health Organization is involved …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Totally Real Source Reveals How Trump Discovered the Planeload of Looters  —  Last night, in an interview with Laura Ingraham, President Trump made an astonishing charge.  “We had people get on a plane from a certain city this weekend,” he said.  “And in the plane, it was almost completely loaded …
Discussion: Washington Post
Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
D.C. committee recommends stripping the names of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key and others from city government buildings  —  A committee reporting to D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser recommends renaming dozens of public schools, parks and government buildings in the nation's capital …
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns Trump will appear to win big on election night  —  A top Democratic data and analytics firm told “Axios on HBO” it's highly likely that President Trump will appear to have won — potentially in a landslide — on election night, even if he ultimately loses when all the votes are counted.
Jesmyn Ward / Vanity Fair:
Jesmyn Ward on Her Husband's Death and Grief During COVID-19  —  The acclaimed novelist lost her beloved husband—the father of her children—as COVID-19 swept across the country.  She writes through their story, and her grief.  —  My Beloved died in January.
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Trump is trying to grab some of Biden's most valuable supporters.  Here's why.  —  It's too soon to say whether last week's Republican convention made any dent in the polls.  But it did make clear President Donald Trump's chief line of attack going forward: after months …
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Joe Rogan debuts on Spotify with his most controversial episodes missing  —  Joe Rogan made his debut on Spotify on Tuesday, but apparently not all of his podcast episodes made the cut.  —  Dozens of past episodes with controversial guests are notably absent from the new Joe Rogan Experience channel …
Amy Fried / Bangor Daily News:
The lesson Susan Collins taught Donald Trump … After the completion of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, Susan Collins opined that surely Trump learned something from the ordeal.  Speaking to Norah O'Donnell of CBS News, Collins said, “I believe that the president has learned from this case.”
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump: I did not have ‘mini-strokes’  —  President Donald Trump denied Tuesday that he had a “series of mini-strokes” several months ago that resulted in him seeking treatment at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.  —  “It never ends!  Now they are trying to say that your favorite President …
Discussion: Axios, CNN, Washington Post, Forbes and Raw Story
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Cop Who Charged Black Senator With ‘Injuring’ Confederate Statues Nurtured A Long Grudge  —  Portsmouth Police Department Sgt. Kevin McGee was under investigation for authoring a heated letter blasting Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas (D) and others.  —  A Portsmouth, Virginia, police sergeant ― …
Discussion: Raw Story
Meduza.io:
Russian Darkweb shares personal data of nearly every voter in Michigan, plus a million more voters in four other states  —  Russian Internet users have shared the personal data of nearly every voter in Michigan (7.6 million of the state's 7.8 million voters), as well as the information …
Sam Baker / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: A harsh verdict for government's coronavirus response  —  Most Americans think the federal government is making the coronavirus pandemic worse, according to the latest installment of the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.  —  Why it matters: This is a pretty searing indictment …
David Siders / Politico:
An unlikely state tightens up  —  Minnesota, which once looked like a vanity project for Donald Trump, is suddenly emerging as a critical test of his effort to turn his campaign around.  —  Interviews with more than a dozen officials and strategists from both parties in recent days depict …
 
 
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Tony Baltimore School Buckles to Anti-Semitic Demands of Black Lives Matter Activists
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Oregon sheriffs reject feckless governor's call for assistance in Portland
Zachary A. Siegel / The Appeal:
Oregon Could Become the First State to Decriminalize Drugs in November
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
China is censoring Hollywood's imagination
Marc Lacey / Nieman Reports:
Journalists Need to Remember that Not All News Readers are White
Discussion: Vanity Fair
John McWhorter / The Atlantic:
Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom
 Earlier Items: 
David Reddish / Queerty:
Gay Trumper Richard Grenell lands new job...working for an anti-LGBTQ legal group
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Far-Right Columnist Pat Buchanan Declares Moderate Republicans ‘Lost the Battle’
Ben Jacobs / VICE:
Kanye West's Campaign Is Filled to the Brim With GOP Operatives
Dave Levinthal / Business Insider:
Legal insiders brace for a world where Trump loses in November and the ex-president faces down a slew of reinvigorated court fights
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Biden's GOP endorsements show the cracks in Trump's coalition
New York Times:
New York City Gambles Big on Reopening Schools: ‘We Are on a Tightrope’
Discussion: Political Wire