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Debra J. Saunders / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
In exclusive interview, Trump slams Sisolak, defends indoor rally  —  President Donald Trump is interviewed by the Las Vegas Review-Journal outside a campaign rally at Xtreme Manufacturing in Henderson, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020.  (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Trump's Reckless, Atrocious, Deceitful Rally  —  The spittle was flying.  So were the lies.  —  President Trump attempted to hold an unmasked, indoor superspreader event in Henderson, Nevada on Sunday night, running afoul of Nevada regulations and his own administration's guidelines.
Discussion: Raw Story and ProFootballTalk
New York Times:
Life on Venus?  Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds  —  The detection of a gas in the planet's atmosphere could turn scientists' gaze to a planet long overlooked in the search for extraterrestrial life.  —  High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life.
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Alexander Vindman: Trump Is Putin's ‘Useful Idiot’  —  Shortly after midnight on June 17, 1972, an unusually attentive security guard named Frank Wills discovered an unlocked door in the garage of the Watergate office complex.  A piece of tape had been placed over the latch.
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
L.A. deputies tackled and arrested a reporter.  Her videos contradict their claims about the incident.  —  As Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies tackled Josie Huang to the street on Saturday night, the reporter for NPR affiliate KPCC screamed repeatedly she was a journalist.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Video catches Los Angeles sheriffs in lie about events outside hospital where ambushed cops were recovering  —  The LA County Sheriff's Department has been caught in a series of lies about their arrest of KPCC Josie Huang, who was reporting outside of St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood …
Discussion: Townhall, ABC7, Fox News and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:   ‘We Hope They Die’  —  Protesters cheer a shooting ambush of sheriff's deputies in L.A.
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Woodward: ‘The president of the U.S. possessed specific knowledge that could have saved lives’  —  WASHINGTON — Journalist Bob Woodward said Monday that he was shocked when he learned that President Donald Trump “possessed the specific knowledge that could have saved lives” in January.
Miriam Kramer / Axios:
Andrew Gillum says he is bisexual  —  Andrew Gillum, the former mayor of Tallahassee, Fla., came out as bisexual in an interview with Tamron Hall on Monday.  —  Driving the news: “I don't identify as gay.  I identify as bisexual.  I've never shared that publicly before,” Gillum …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Daily Beast
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Mikelle Street / Out Magazine:
Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum Comes Out As Bisexual
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and Raw Story
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything.  Then Its Own Scandal Hit.  —  Internal documents show how a source ended up in jail — and the fallout in the newsroom.  —  Where were you when you first heard about the Snowden leak?  —  The huge breach of the National Security Agency's …
New York Times:
Is the Mail Getting Slower?  We're Tracking It  —  In July and August, when a public outcry rose over late mail, there was indeed slower delivery from the United States Postal Service.  —  Since then, on-time delivery of the mail has improved slightly.  But for first-class mail …
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Politico:
‘Keep back!’:  How the Biden campaign obsesses over Covid  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden's chartered airplanes and SUVs are meticulously sprayed with disinfectant and scrubbed.  The microphones, lecterns and folders he uses are wiped down in the moments before his arrival.
Politico:
‘This is f—ing crazy’: Florida Latinos swamped by wild conspiracy theories  —  MIAMI — George Soros directs a “deep state” global conspiracy network.  A Joe Biden win would put America in control of “Jews and Blacks.”  The Democratic nominee has a pedophilia problem.
Discussion: Raw Story
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Biden Creates Legal War Room, Preparing for a Big Fight Over Voting  —  With two former solicitors general and hundreds of lawyers, the Biden campaign is bracing for an extended legal battle and hoping to maintain trust in the electoral process.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s campaign is establishing …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
How New York City's Police Unions Embraced Trump  —  The unions' leadership is mostly white, suburban and Republican, setting it apart from an increasingly diverse police force and the city itself.  —  New York City's largest police union had not endorsed a candidate for president in decades …
Discussion: Townhall and Fox News
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Karol Markowicz / New York Post:   I was pro-lockdown for NYC — but now there's no excuse for continuing it
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
The majority backs Whitmer's pandemic actions.  But it could only take 3% to stop her.  —  If I were governor, most things would still be shut down in Michigan, including outdoor dining, malls and gyms that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has allowed to open with restrictions.
Jennifer Haberkorn / Los Angeles Times:
Progressives fret Feinstein won't be tough enough in handling Biden judicial nominees  —  Progressives hoping for a Democratic White House and Senate next year are already voicing worries that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who would be next in line to lead the Judiciary Committee …
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
FBI raids home of conservative conspiracy theorist Jack Burkman  —  Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the home of lobbyist, conspiracy theorist and right-wing operative Jack Burkman early Monday morning.  —  Burkman confirmed the raid and said he was not arrested.
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Trump Says He Will ‘Negotiate’ Third Term Because He's ‘Entitled’ To It  —  President Trump said Saturday that he plans to “negotiate” to run again in 2024 if he wins reelection in November, his latest in a series of comments that have alarmed critics who say he has little regard for constitutional boundaries.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Goodbye, readers, and good luck — you'll need it  —  It's time to quit.  Since coming to Washington in 1969 as a young reporter, I have written, by my crude calculation, about 2 million words, most of them columns for The Post, Newsweek and the National Journal.
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
The Founders of The Environmental Movement Have a Message: Don't Vote For The Green Party  —  They spearheaded the breakthroughs in the '70s; saw the damage of the '80s; witnessed Nader's role in '00 and Jill Stein's in '16.  Now, they have thoughts to share.
Discussion: The Hill, Axios and POLITICUSUSA
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
The Arizona GOP and chair Kelli Ward are boosting a self-described QAnon follower's congressional campaign  —  Kelli Ward interviewed QAnon congressional candidate Daniel Wood and told him, “You are a man after my own heart”  —  The Arizona Republican Party recently ran …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
7 ways Trump and his cabal are using government to corrupt the election  —  At a packed indoor rally in Nevada on Sunday night punctuated by spittle-spraying cheers and jeers, President Trump ran through his greatest hits: He absurdly treated the coronavirus as largely defeated.
Discussion: ABC News and Common Dreams
Ezra Klein / Vox:
There are no good choices  —  Land of the free, home of the failed.  Gary Hershorn/Corbis via Getty Images  —  In shifting so much responsibility to individual people, America's government has revealed the limits of individualism.  —  Where I live, the sky is choking.  Wednesday was the worst.
Discussion: Twitchy
New York Daily News:
Retire this man: After promising to protect the retirement programs, Trump has made mischief with Social Security and Medicare  —  Distinguishing himself from his Republican primary rivals, candidate Donald Trump in 2016 promised he wouldn't cut a penny from Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
The Federalist:
Michelle Obama Is Complicit In Netflix Child Porn Film ‘Cuties’  —  No one should doubt the considerable power former first lady Michelle Obama wields within Netflix or the unrivaled cultural influence she has to speak out in defense of preserving girlhood and innocence.
Argus Leader:
Noem: Attorney General involved in fatal crash Saturday night  —  Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was involved in a fatal crash Saturday night, Gov. Kristi Noem said in an unscheduled press conference Sunday evening.  —  The crash occurred at around 10:30 p.m. on Highway 14 in Hyde County just west of Highmore, Noem said.
Geir Moulson / Associated Press:
Russian opposition leader Navalny able to leave hospital bed  —  Doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say his condition has improved, and he is off a ventilator and able to leave his bed briefly at the Charite hospital in Berlin  —  BERLIN — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny …
 
 
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
11 ways to fix America's fundamentally broken democracy
Gary Anderson / Washington Times:
Will Antifa and Black Lives Matter cancel the Biden-Harris ticket?
Discussion: Associated Press
Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:
California, 19 other states, sue Trump administration for weakening methane rules
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Florida, But Were Afraid To Ask - The 2020 Version
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
CDC: Kids can spread coronavirus to their households
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Breaking Points  —  What led Trump's most prominent former supporters to give up on him.
Discussion: Raw Story
Georgi Boorman / The Federalist:
Fauci Spills The Beans: A Vaccine Won't End COVID-19 Restrictions
Amy Harder / Axios:
Why Biden and the Democrats went big on climate change