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11:30 PM ET, October 29, 2020

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Greenwald:
My Resignation From The Intercept  —  The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.  —  Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept …
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Greenwald:
Emails With Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe Biden Article  —  Given The Intercept's vehement denials, readers are entitled to see for themselves what the truth is: transparency journalism with integrity requires.  —  Following are the communications I had over the last week …
The Intercept:
Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
NBC News:
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge  —  One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake “intelligence” document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
QU Poll:
Florida And Iowa Races Are Too Close To Call, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Biden Maintains His Lead In Pennsylvania, Has Narrow Lead In Ohio  —  IOWA SENATE: Ernst 48%, Greenfield 46%  —  Less than a week before Election Day 2020, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden …
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Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Biden Maintains Lead  —  Support falls for minimum wage and primary election ballot measures  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden holds a lead of 4 to 6 points over Donald Trump in Florida, based on different likely voter models in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: NY Post's ‘Smoking Gun’ Hunter Biden Email 100% Authentic, Forensic Analysis Concludes  —  An email Hunter Biden received in April 2015 from a Burisma executive discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden, which lies at the heart of a New York Post investigation …
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Amy Forliti / Associated Press:
Court: Late Minnesota absentee ballots must be separated  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that Minnesota's absentee ballots that come in after Election Day should be separated from the rest of the ballots, in case a future order makes those votes invalid.
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court issues flurry of last-minute election orders
Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal:
Walmart Pulls Guns, Ammo Displays in U.S. Stores, Citing Civil Unrest  —  Retailer says move is a safety precaution but customers can still purchase firearms and ammunition  —  Walmart Inc. has removed all guns and ammunition from the sales floors of its U.S. stores this week …
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Matthew Townsend / Bloomberg:   Walmart Pulls Guns Off Shelves as Precaution Ahead of Election
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Senate debate on WSB canceled after Perdue pulls out of Sunday showdown
Discussion: Axios and WSB-TV
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Heat at Trump rally sends a dozen attendees to the hospital … A crowded Trump rally in steamy Tampa, Florida, on Thursday resulted in 17 attendees needing medical attention, with a dozen being taken to the hospital, fire officials told NBC News.  —  Trump spoke for just under an hour …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Denialism, Dishonesty, Deflection: The Final Days of the Trump Campaign Have It All  —  The President is ending his reëlection bid with scandals that call into question the legitimacy of next week's vote.  —  No one wants to admit it, but in Washington, D.C., the election might as well be over …
Robert Snell / Detroit News:
FBI nabs accused neo-Nazis in extremism crackdown in Michigan  —  Detroit — Federal agents on Thursday arrested two men as part of a continuing crackdown on extremism in Michigan three weeks after the FBI said it thwarted a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Emails show how Pompeos mixed personal, official business  —  WASHINGTON — Less than three months after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was sworn in, his son, Nick, reached out to thank State Department officials for a private tour they had given him and his mother, Susan Pompeo, of the agency's in-house museum.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
UPS Finds Mystery Tucker Carlson Package  —  ‘URGENT INVESTIGATION’  —  A spokesman for UPS told The Daily Beast on Thursday that they had located a mysterious packaged that Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested had been deliberately misplaced or intercepted because it contained “damning” materials on the Biden family.
Zack Stanton / Politico:
‘People Are Going To Be Shocked’: Return of the ‘Shy’ Trump Voter?  —  In 2016, pollsters Arie Kapteyn and Robert Cahaly saw Trump coming.  In 2020, they see polls again underestimating his support.  —  Zack Stanton is digital editor of Politico Magazine.
Andrew Pantazi / Florida Times Union:
Duval County Canvassing Board chair resigns following Trump donation and sign controversy  —  UPDATE: Duval County Canvassing Board Chair Brent Shore has resigned from the board.  —  Chief Judge Mark Mahon said that although Shore resigned, “he indicated he has always conducted himself fairly and impartially.”
Discussion: The Hill
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Andrew Pantazi / Florida Times Union:
Duval County judge leading vote-counting board donated to Trump 12 times. That's not allowed.
Politico:
Exclusive: Warren will make case to be Biden's Treasury secretary  —  Warren's move could set up a marquee fight over what will be one of the most consequential Cabinet roles in a Biden administration.  —  While Elizabeth Warren has developed a relationship with Joe Biden …
Isaac Stone Fish / Foreign Policy:
Wilbur Ross Remained on Chinese Joint Venture Board While Running U.S.-China Trade War  —  Chinese documents show that the U.S. commerce secretary did not successfully step down from all his corporate commitments.  —  Wilbur Ross, an investor-turned-U.S. commerce secretary …
Discussion: Raw Story and Atlantic Council
BuzzFeed News:
Here Are Thousands Of Documents About Immigrants Who Have Died In ICE Custody  —  Since January 2017, at least four dozen people have died while being held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  —  Some were old, and some were young.  Some had been in the US for years before being detained …
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground state, the party's chairman told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Joe Biden / The Christian Post:
The greatest commandment has guided my politics … I will choose a different way.  My administration will lead a decisive public health response that ramps up free testing so we can trace this virus and curb its spread; eliminates all cost barriers to treatment for COVID-19 …
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR and The Hill
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Is Said to Quietly Quash Inquiry Into Tamir Rice Killing  —  Supervisors denied civil-rights prosecutors' request to use a grand jury for their investigation into the 2014 shooting of a Black boy by a Cleveland police officer, but did not tell his family.
Discussion: The Hill and Law & Crime
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
EXCLUSIVE: Twitter Suspends U.S. Border Chief For Celebrating Wall's Protection From Illegal Aliens  —  Twitter suspended U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan for a post celebrating the success of the U.S. southern border wall keeping violent criminals from reaching American communities.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump's Voter-Suppression Strategy Is a Crisis (Even If It Backfires)  —  The president is trying to win reelection by disenfranchising as many Democrats as he can.  As of this writing, 78 million Americans have already voted, putting the U.S. on pace to witness its highest-turnout election in more than a century.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Biden camp slams Facebook as thousands of ads remain blocked in final week  —  Biden's campaign said ads that had previously been approved by the tech giant have been erroneously removed.  —  Thousands of ads from Joe Biden's campaign have been blocked by Facebook, in an effort to limit …
New York Post:
State trooper dates Cuomo's daughter, gets transferred close to Canada  —  A state trooper assigned to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's security detail got hot and heavy with one of New York's first daughters — and was soon transferred to a post near the Canadian border, The Post has learned.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
John A. Tatom / The Hill:
The ‘V’ continues: The labor market is rushing to a full recovery  —  Most news media reports suggest the recovery in the labor market is stalling out.  The Oct. 17 report on initial unemployment claims puts paid to the falsity of the suggestion.  The historic V-pattern of the recession …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Potentially thousands of requested mail ballots lost in Butler County, official says  —  HARRISBURG — Potentially thousands of mail ballots requested by Butler County voters appear to be lost, a county official said Wednesday, and the U.S. Postal Service has been asked to immediately investigate what happened to them.
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Jerry Falwell Jr. sues Liberty University  —  Former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. announced Thursday that he had filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming that it had “needlessly injured and damaged his reputation” after his resignation earlier this year.
Colleen Flaherty / Inside Higher Ed:
Even More White Lies  —  Furman professor resigns suddenly after an anonymous critic outs her as white, not Chicana, as she'd claimed.  —  Another week, another unmasking of a white professor allegedly posing as a person of color: this time it's Kelly Kean Sharp, a scholar of African American history …
Discussion: Power Line, Medium and The Daily Caller
The Economist:
Why it has to be Biden  —  Donald Trump has desecrated the values that make America a beacon to the world  —  THE COUNTRY that elected Donald Trump in 2016 was unhappy and divided.  The country he is asking to re-elect him is more unhappy and more divided.
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
Melania's Plastic Camelot  —  Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is one of those patriotic Americans who went to work in the Trump White House, only to come soaring back over the gates, rejected by the host organism.  Like many before her, she decided to write a book about her experiences, Melania and Me …
Ben Eisen / Wall Street Journal:
Dearth of Credit Starves Detroit's Housing Market  —  Lenders shun the city's low-priced properties, making it hard for Black residents to access homeownership.  The city of nearly 700,000 saw barely 1,700 mortgages made last year.  —  TEXT  —  562 RESPONSES
 
 
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Liz Ruskin / Alaska Public Media:
New Pebble tapes: 'You aren't held to your promises' in election season, mine exec says
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
No Selfies or Hugs, but Biden Is Sneaking In Meet and Greets
Paul Brandus / USA Today:
Americans say they're better off, but not due to Trump
Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:
Miami-Dade covered up Mayor Gimenez's voter suppression until my lawsuit freed the evidence.
Mackenzie Mays / Politico:
Newsom: California taking precautions for ‘whatever may occur’ after polls close
Discussion: The Hill
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Dan Bongino Has No Idea Why Facebook Loves Him
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer calls Trump ‘a moron’ over coronavirus response
 Earlier Items: 
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
What happens if there is a tie in the Electoral College vote?
Discussion: ABC News
Chris Edwards / The Hill:
Biden's foolish capital gains tax increase
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Leaked Chat Logs Reveal Boogaloo Fantasies of Killing Random Civilians
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Hixon / The Bulwark:
Me, Joe, and the Worst Phone Call in the World
Discussion: Bulwark+
The Economist:
Battle-hymn of the Never Trumpers
Washington Post:
What happens to Fox News if Trump loses? Rupert Murdoch is prepared.