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8:35 PM ET, October 28, 2020

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Miles Taylor / Medium:
A Statement  —  Why I'm no longer “Anonymous”  —  More than two years ago, I published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times about Donald Trump's perilous presidency, while I was serving under him.  He responded with a short but telling tweet: “TREASON?”  —  Trump sees personal criticism as subversive.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Miles Taylor, a Former Homeland Security Official, Reveals He Was ‘Anonymous’  —  Mr. Taylor, whose criticisms of President Trump in a New York Times Op-Ed article and subsequent book, roiled Washington and infuriated Mr. Trump, resigned from the administration last year and endorsed Joe Biden this summer.
Joyce Vance / MSNBC:
The Supreme Court will not protect our voting rights.  Here's who actually might. … As we make our way to the polls, either in-person or via mail, we need to remember that in addition to sending elected officials to Washington, D.C., we are voting for governors, state legislators, mayors and, in some states, judges.
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and New York Times
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Axios:
Supreme Court won't expedite Pennsylvania GOP's request to block mail-in ballot extension  —  The Supreme Court voted 5-3 on Wednesday to deny a bid from Pennsylvania Republicans to expedite their request to shorten the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots.
Dan Berman / CNN:
Vermont secretary of state formally asks Kavanaugh to correct opinion  —  Law professor cited by Kavanaugh responds  —  (CNN)Vermont's secretary of state formally asked Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to correct an opinion he wrote Monday that mistakenly said Vermont had made no changes …
Discussion: Law & Crime and PRESS RUN
CNN:
Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country ‘back from the doctors’  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising him on the unfolding …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Biden's Path to 270 Widens, Trump's Path Narrows, as Texas Moves to Toss Up  —  Less than a week out from Election Day and President Donald Trump is playing catch-up.  In 2016, he won 30 states (and Maine's 2nd Congressional District) and their 306 electoral votes.
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump's Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters' Lives  —  The president has continued to downplay he severity of the coronavirus and declare before largely maskless crowds that it is vanishing.  The surge in new cases across the country suggests otherwise.
Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Swing Toward The Democrats  —  But most voters still expect Trump to win  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Georgia's electoral votes remains very close, but Joe Biden has gained ground on Donald Trump in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Senate Committee Successfully Verifies All Bobulinski Materials Reviewed To Date  —  The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has successfully verified all materials reviewed so far from Hunter Biden's ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski, the Daily Caller has learned.
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New York Times:
Days From Election, Police Killing of Black Man Roils Philadelphia  —  The shooting and its aftermath were guaranteed to ratchet up tensions in a country already on edge.  Debates about how to improve police accountability have been complicated by looting.  —  PHILADELPHIA — There is a grim familiarity to it all.
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck in the cold for hours when buses can't reach Omaha rally  —  By the time President Trump finished speaking to thousands of supporters at Omaha's Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night and jetted away on Air Force One, the temperature had plunged to nearly freezing.
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Aaron Sanderford / Omaha World-Herald:
Hundreds of people waited hours in the cold for buses after Trump rally in Omaha
Discussion: Gizmodo, Breitbart, Twitchy, The Hill and Axios
Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Judge: Virginia can't count ballots with missing postmarks  —  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge ruled Wednesday that Virginia elections officials cannot count absentee ballots with missing or illegible postmarks unless they can confirm the date of mailing through a barcode, granting an injunction requested by a conservative legal group.
Discussion: Breitbart
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Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
Millions of mail ballots not yet returned in key states
Discussion: Reuters
New York Post:
Twitter is running a blackmail operation — cooperate or no traffic for you  —  For all their talk of “neutral platforms,” the Big Shots at Big Tech — Twitter, Facebook and Google — are running a protection racket.  They figure they can dictate what Americans get to see and read …
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here's the Woman Driving the Change.
Michelle Ruiz / Vanity Fair:
AOC's Next Four Years  —  The history-making congresswoman addresses her biggest critics, the challenges that loom no matter who wins, and what she's taking on next.  —  Her Republican colleagues had, up until then, been civil.  But one day in late July, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood …
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal:
Hacker Releases Georgia County Election Data After Ransom Not Paid  —  County among entities whose ‘time to pay is over,’ according to review of hacker's website  —  A computer hacker who took over networks maintained by Hall County, Ga., escalated demands this week by publicly releasing …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Stench of Trump's Racism Will Cling to His Enablers Forever  —  A month ago, President Trump added to his rally speech a new riff about Ilhan Omar, expressing indignation that the Democratic member of Congress would dare to express opinions about American government.
Discussion: ProPublica and National Review
Politico:
Ratcliffe went off script with Iran remarks, officials say  —  Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe went off script when he alleged during a press conference last week that Iran was sending intimidating emails to Americans in order to “damage President Trump,” …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest, one of the biggest intact temperate rainforests  —  President Trump will open up all 16.7 million acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development, according to a notice posted Wednesday …
Steven Overly / Politico:
Blackburn asks Google if employee who criticized her still has a job  —  Sen. Marsha Blackburn used a Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday to ask about the employment status of a Google engineer whose criticism of the Tennessee Republican has become fodder for right-wing media outlets over the past two years.
Detroit News:
Whitmer kidnap plotter also wanted to hang Trump, other politicians, FBI says  —  A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump and posted a hit list on Facebook targeting other elected leaders, including former President Barack Obama …
Discussion: Twitchy
Bloomberg:
FBI, DHS Warn Hospitals of ‘Credible Threat’ from Hackers  — U.S. hospitals hit by coordinated ransomware attack, firm says  — 'The most significant cyberthreat we've ever seen' in U.S.  —  Several U.S. federal agencies on Wednesday warned hospitals and cyber-researchers about a …
Justice News:
Afghan National Arrested For 2008 Abduction Of American Journalist  —  Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge …
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Russian in Cyprus Was Behind Key Parts of Discredited Dossier on Trump  —  A Wall Street Journal investigation points to the identity of ‘Source 3’ as a disgruntled PR executive with a ‘vast network’ of sources  —  in Washington and David Gauthier-Villars  —  In the nearly four years since …
New York Times:
Biden Holds 8-Point Lead in Michigan as He Tries to Reconstruct the ‘Blue Wall’  —  The New York Times / Siena College poll  —  Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by eight points in Michigan, a battleground state that Mr. Trump flipped in 2016.  —  2016 result  —  NYT/Siena  —  <1 Trump  —  47.3-47.0
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
New challenge seeks to void thousands of Harris County drive-thru votes  —  A new challenge to Harris County's drive-thru voting sites, filed by two GOP candidates and a Republican member of the Texas House, asks the state Supreme Court to void ballots “illegally” cast by voters in cars.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden continues to hold nationwide advantage in final days of 2020 race  —  (CNN)With the race for the presidency approaching its end amid a raging pandemic, Democratic nominee Joe Biden maintains a substantial lead over President Donald Trump nationwide, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
Washington Post:
Trump's attacks on political adversaries are often followed by threats to their safety  —  The CIA's most endangered employee for much of the past year was not an operative on a mission abroad, but an analyst who faced a torrent of threats after filing a whistleblower report that led to the impeachment of President Trump.
Discussion: The Hill
The Daily Beast:
Why Hasn't Trump Come to Lindsey Graham's Rescue?  —  Graham has been the president's loyal confidant and golf buddy during his White House tenure.  Now, as Graham faces a tough challenge at home, Trump isn't coming to his aid.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  At a rally a week before the toughest election …
Discussion: Raw Story
BuzzFeed News:
Herman Cain's Life And Death Were More Complicated Than That  —  You've heard the jokes about the most prominent Republican to die from the coronavirus.  His family has seen them too.  —  Copy  —  On Father's Day earlier this year, Melanie Cain Gallo drove to her parents' house to drop off a gift for her dad, Herman Cain.
Discussion: Political Wire
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida man charged after altering governor's voter registration  —  TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was briefly unable to vote this week because a 20-year-old Naples man altered the Republican governor's home address in the state's voter registration database.
 
 
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Vaccine is imminent, but virus fight has long way to go: Fauci
Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart and Forbes
Cassidy Alexander / The Daytona Beach News-Journal:
VIDEO: Anti-mask moms kicked out of meeting where Volusia School Board voted yes on masks
Discussion: The Hill and CBS Miami
Paulina Villegas / Washington Post:
How much bias is too much to become a police officer? Experts fear new law might backfire.
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden's Caution: Wise Campaign Tactic or Misguided Gamble?
Discussion: Associated Press
 Earlier Items: 
ABC News:
3 men facing firearms charges had extremist ties, possible list of targets: Official
Discussion: The Hill and Task & Purpose
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
To win, Trump needs to win states where he hasn't led polling averages in months
Brittany Gibson / American Prospect:
Wealthy Congressman Repeatedly Squeezes Small-Business Tenants
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian:
Trump aide Stephen Miller preparing second-term immigration blitz
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Mnuchin's awkward encounter with former Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin's daughter