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10:40 PM ET, October 29, 2021

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Emily / The Lincoln Project:
Statement from the Lincoln Project  —  October 29, 2021 — Today, The Lincoln Project released the following statement:  —  “Glenn Younkin has said: ‘President Trump represents so much of why I am running.’ Youngkin proves it every day by trying to divide Virginians using racial code words …
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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Lincoln Project Posed as Charlottesville White Supremacists at GOP Event  —  Five people dressed like the white supremacists who caused the violent “Unite the Right” riots in Charlottesville four years ago showed up outside of Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin's event in the town on Friday.
Washington Post:
Virginia governor's race a toss-up as Election Day nears, Post-Schar School poll finds  —  RICHMOND — Virginia's race for governor is a toss-up as Tuesday's election draws near, with 49 percent of likely voters favoring Democrat Terry McAuliffe and 48 percent favoring Republican Glenn Youngkin …
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
McAuliffe spokesperson, who also worked for Harris and Biden campaigns, accused of racist tweets  —  The tweets have since been deleted  —  Glenn Youngkin holds a Fauquier ‘Get Out the Vote’ rally  —  A spokesperson for Terry McAuliffe's campaign is being accused of posting racist tweets in 2012.
Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
Virginia AG presses GOP senator for proof of claims of fraud in statewide elections
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How scary are the new Virginia polls for Democrats?
Discussion: RedState, Joe.My.God., Politico and Townhall
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Florida Bars State Professors From Testifying in Voting Rights Case  —  After being hired as expert witnesses for groups opposing a restrictive voting law, three University of Florida academics were told they could not participate in the lawsuit against the state.
Discussion: Raw Story
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't block vaccine mandate for Maine health-care workers with religious objections  —  The Supreme Court Friday turned down a request from a group of Maine health-care workers to block a state coronavirus vaccination mandate that does not contain an exception for religious objectors.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Won't Block Maine's Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers  —  A state regulation that does not allow exemptions on religious grounds was challenged by workers who said taking a coronavirus vaccine was at odds with their faith.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday refused …
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller, CNBC and Mediaite
Allahpundit / HotAir:   SCOTUS won't block Maine's vaccine mandate for health-care workers
Politico:
Jayapal warned Klain not to push an infrastructure vote.  Then chaos ensued.  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought President Joe Biden in this week to finally close the deal on Democrats' domestic agenda.  Rep. Pramila Jayapal had other plans.  —  As Biden prepared for the high-stakes meeting …
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Tyler Hayden / The Santa Barbara Independent:
Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm  —  A consulting architect on UCSB's Design Review Committee has quit his post in protest over the university's proposed Munger Hall project, calling the massive, mostly-windowless dormitory plan “unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent, and a human being.”
US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use in Children 5 through 11 Years of Age  —  For Immediate Release:  —  Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 to include children 5 through 11 years of age.
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David Covucci / The Daily Dot:
Fox News wants to make it ‘clear’ it isn't airing Tucker Carlson's Capitol riot documentary  —  Yesterday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson unveiled a dramatic trailer for his new special, one which will reveal the “true story” behind the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.  —  In it, he drops real truths like …
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New York Times:
Trump's $300 Million SPAC Deal May Have Skirted Securities Laws  —  The former president began discussing a deal with a ‘blank check’ company early this year.  Investors weren't told.  —  Just days after Donald J. Trump left the White House, two former contestants on his reality show, “The Apprentice,” approached him with a pitch.
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
The country needs a dose of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to battle COVID-19  —  Florida has the lowest COVID-19 case rate in the country.  They did it without vaccine mandates, without mask mandates in school and with no restrictions on businesses.  Life simply went on.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and alicublog
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Conservatives Are Giving Ron DeSantis the Trump Treatment Defend the imaginary version, ignore the real thing.
Discussion: HotAir
Ross Barkan / New York Magazine:
What Happened to Matt Taibbi?  The former darling of the liberal media is now one of its loudest critics.  He says he hasn't changed.  —  Obviously, I'm anxious about why I'm being profiled," Matt Taibbi said at the end of our phone call this summer, which had already lasted an hour and a half.
Kiran Stacey / Financial Times:
US intelligence report sheds new light on Wuhan lab accident theory  —  Declassified report reignites debate over whether China bears responsibility for pandemic's origins  —  A US intelligence agency has spelt out for the first time how and why it thinks the virus that causes Covid-19 …
Jen Monroe / Arc Digital:
Loudoun County Sexual Assault Story Shows Danger of Media Bias  —  A right-wing outlet let ideology motivate their reporting, while the mainstream media couldn't be bothered to report on it in the first place  —  A sexual assault case in Loudoun County, Virginia involving …
Jon Brown / Fox News:
Biden admin says it will not halt firing employees seeking vax exemptions before a DC court ruling  —  The attorney for the plaintiffs said the Biden administration has shown ‘an unprecedented, cavalier attitude toward the rule of law’  —  A Washington, D.C., district court judge issued …
Discussion: Page Array
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Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
DeSantis decries ‘corporate wokeness’ in business speech  —  After months of getting the cold shoulder from large corporations who refused to endorse his COVID-19 policies, Gov. Ron DeSantis had harsh things to say Thursday at the annual meeting of the Florida Chamber of Commerce …
Discussion: Raw Story
The White House:
United States-France Joint Statement  —  Today, the President of the United States and the President of the French Republic met in Rome on the margins of the G20 Summit to reaffirm their commitment to closer bilateral and transatlantic cooperation in the pursuit of peace, security, and prosperity around the globe.
Shannon Thaler / Daily Mail:
‘We got to take white people out’: Rutgers University professor, 41, calls white people ‘villains’, says ‘Critical Race Theory is just the proper teaching of American history’ and praises dwindling white birth rates in online discussion  — Brittney Cooper, 41, said that whiteness 'totally skews …
Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
The Fight Between Texas and Wall Street Is About to Get Bigger  — Gun and oil laws have put some bank deals on hold during boom  — ‘This is much bigger than the municipal bond business’  —  Outside San Antonio this month, a veteran of Texas politics got so upset about Wall Street's retreat …
Discussion: Raw Story
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop:
Michigan police execute warrant looking for missing election equipment  —  The Michigan State Police launched a criminal investigation this week after a piece of election equipment went missing.  —  The inquiry comes after a local official—who has publicly questioned the validity and security …
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Former Congress members file brief opposing Trump's attempt to shield Jan. 6 records  —  A bipartisan group of 66 former members of Congress filed a brief Thursday night urging the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a lawsuit from former president Donald Trump that seeks …
Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
Pizza Story  —  Analogies Are Hard  —  I wanted a pizza.  A large pizza with mushrooms.  Or, actually, someone promised to get me a pizza.  Actually, right, someone said they'd get pizza for me and everyone else in the building.  They brought the pizza up to begin with …
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Biden's vaccine mandates might just backfire  —  President Biden's job approval ratings have been sinking for months as voters increasingly see him as out of touch with their priorities and values.  The coming clash over vaccine mandates might be another area where the president has misread the public temperament.
Discussion: New York Daily News
New York Times:
Case Against Cuomo ‘Very Solid,’ Sheriff Says of Move to File Complaint  —  The district attorney has not committed to prosecuting the former governor, and experts called the sheriff's decision to proceed independently unusual.  —  The accumulating of evidence began more than two months ago …
Discussion: Fox News
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
COVID-19 Vaccine Now Required for 36% of U.S. Workers  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The latest Gallup COVID-19 tracking survey finds 36% of U.S. employees saying their employer is requiring all its workers without a medical exemption to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
 
 
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
An Embarrassment for Biden  —  Failure to pass the spending bills is still very much an option.
Discussion: HotAir
Myles Miller / NBC New York:
6 Firefighters Suspended for Taking Truck to Threaten NY Senate Staff Over Vaccine Mandate
Discussion: New York Post and Insider
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Congress Decides to Learn Almost Nothing From the Pandemic
Discussion: Vox
Leighton Woodhouse / KERFUFFLE:
Fauci Funded Yet Another Cruel Beagle Experiment
Keith Spera / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Dave Chappelle, Joe Rogan defend themselves at sold-out N.O. show: ‘These are just jokes’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Diving into ‘woke racism’ with John McWhorter
Discussion: HotAir
 Earlier Items: 
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Inflation notches a fresh 30-year high as measured by the Fed's favorite gauge
Discussion: Reuters and IJR
Wall Street Journal:
How to Fix Social Media
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Judge Refused To Let Two Capitol Rioters Appear By Video For Sentencing
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
NAACP tells athletes not to sign with Texas teams: “Texas isn't safe for anyone.”
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Letitia James Is Running for Governor of New York
Suzi Ring / Bloomberg:
Vaccinated People Also Spread the Delta Variant, Yearlong Study Shows
Joseph Tanfani / Reuters:
Trump's real-estate empire pays the price for poisonous politics
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
 

 
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