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7:50 PM ET, August 25, 2022

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New York Times:
Florida Pair Pleads Guilty in Theft of Biden's Daughter's Diary  —  Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander admitted to participating in a conspiracy that saw Ashley Biden's diary end up in the hands of the conservative group Project Veritas near the end of the 2020 campaign.
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Justice News:
Florida Residents Plead Guilty To Conspiracy To Commit Interstate Transportation Of Stolen Property  —  Pleas Follow Filing of Criminal Information Alleging Defendants Stole Property Belonging to Immediate Family Member of a Then-Former Government Official  —  Damian Williams …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Trump campaign rejected offer to buy Biden daughter's diary  —  Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign rejected an offer to buy President Biden's daughter's stolen diary, federal prosecutors say.  —  Why it matters: The revelation comes amid a criminal investigation into how the diary …
CNN:
Inside Trump's public bravado and private resistance over Mar-a-Lago documents  —  Not long after the National Archives acknowledged in February that it had retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Trump began fielding calls …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
WaPo editors: Biden's Academia bailout is “a regressive, expensive mistake”  —  Make no mistake about it — Joe Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan is a bailout of Academia, and it's as bad or worse as the Washington Post's editorial board declares.  Allahpundit mentioned it in his earlier round …
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Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Democrats' student loan backlash  —  Democrats running in battleground Senate and House races panned President Biden's student loan relief plan within hours of its release — a sign of fears that it could alienate swing voters in November. … But there's a risk it will give Republicans fuel …
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Some of Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Critics Went to College for Less Than $400 per Year
Catherine Dominguez / The Courier:
Ex-Texas anti-abortion group official charged with solicitation of a minor  —  Former Texas Right to Life Political Director Luke Bowen has been charged with online solicitation of a minor after an Aug. 3 sting operation by Montgomery County Internet Crimes Against Children.  —  Bowen is out on a $50,000 bond.
Discussion: Jezebel and Raw Story
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Jessica Valenti / All in Her Head:
Anti-Choice Leader Arrested for Solicitation of a Minor
Discussion: Living Blue In Texas and Daily Kos
Carter Sherman / VICE:   Top Staffer for Major Anti-Abortion Group Arrested for Soliciting a Minor
Conover Kennard / Crooks and Liars:
Political Director Of Texas Right To Life Arrested For Soliciting A Minor
Discussion: Current Revolt
NBC News:
Judge orders a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit be made public Friday  —  The document lays out the justification for DOJ's search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.  It's unclear how much will be redacted.  —  Parts of redacted Mar …
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NBC News:
In Arizona, Blake Masters backtracks on abortion, scrubs campaign website  —  Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters softened his tone and scrubbed his website's policy page of tough abortion restrictions Thursday, as his party reels from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Pennsylvania 2022: Fetterman Holds Four-Point Lead Over Oz for US Senate; Shapiro Leads Mastriano by Three  —  Home Polls Pennsylvania 2022: Fetterman Holds Four-Point Lead Over Oz for US Senate; Shapiro Leads Mastriano by Three  —  Majority of Voters Say Oz's NJ Residence Makes Them Less Likely to Vote for Him
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Chris Brennan / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A high school student pranked Doug Mastriano with a fake poll showing him beating Josh Shapiro
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getrevue.co:
Franklin & Marshall Poll Release: August 2022
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Geoff Dembicki / VICE:
How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis-Denial Empire  —  PragerU and the Daily Wire, two of the internet's biggest spreaders of climate crisis denial, got seed money from two ultra-religious fracking brothers from Texas.  —  GD
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Tina Nguyen / Puck:   The Chip & Joanna of MAGA America?
Richie McGinniss / Newsweek:
‘I Was in Kenosha Two Years Ago, Kyle Rittenhouse Is Not a Hero’  —  Before the shooting started, at 11:36 p.m. on August 25, 2020, I ran into Kyle Rittenhouse in front of a gas station and interviewed him for several minutes.  He was a 17-year-old kid with a semi-automatic rifle …
Discussion: Mediaite
David Corn / Mother Jones:
J.D. Vance Appeared With Podcaster Who Once Said “Feminists Need Rape”  —  Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.  —  J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for Senate in Ohio, is typically described as the bestselling author …
Charlie Gasparino / Fox Business:
Trump's social media app facing financial fallout  —  Truth Social's finances may be in significant disarray, sources say  —  Rove says Trump's demand for special review not ‘likely’ to happen  —  Former President Donald Trump's social media outfit, Truth Social, is locked in a bitter battle …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Tesla demands removal of video of cars hitting child-size mannequins  —  The move comes amid heightened sensitivity to criticism of the software that is under public and regulatory scrutiny  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla is demanding an advocacy group take down videos of its vehicles striking …
Reade Pickert / Bloomberg:
US Corporate Profits Soar, Taking Margins to Widest Since 1950  —  A measure of US profit margins has reached its widest since 1950, suggesting that the prices charged by businesses are outpacing their increased costs for production and labor.  —  After-tax profits as a share of gross value added …
Josh Campbell / CNN:
Person detained after jumping fence of Chicago FBI office and throwing rocks  —  A person accused of jumping the fence and throwing rocks at the FBI field office in Chicago has been taken to a hospital for evaluation, a spokesperson for the Homeland Security agency that protects federal buildings told CNN Thursday.
Discussion: ABC7, MyNorthwest.com and Raw Story
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Biden's Job Rating Rises to 44%, Highest in a Year  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — After hitting a record low in July, President Joe Biden's job approval rating is up six percentage points to 44%, his highest in a year.  While this uptick represents a significant improvement on the heels …
Douglas Blair / The Daily Signal:
DC Mayor Says No Virtual Learning, Giving Unvaccinated Black Teens Zero Alternative Options  —  The District of Columbia does not appear to have a contingency plan for unvaccinated students, who are banned from attending schools in person this fall after the first twenty days …
Greg Minchak / The Lincoln Project:
BACK INTO THE MATRIX  —  There is a moment in the 1999 film The Matrix when Joe Pantoliano's character Cypher Reagan asks to be reinserted into the simulation that consumed almost all human life on Earth.  “Ignorance is bliss...re-insert me into the Matrix.  I'll get you what you want.”
Anthony Effinger / Willamette Week:
Polling Shows Portlanders Are Scared of Downtown—and of Their Own Neighborhoods  —  On the bright side: 57% are still willing to visit the central business district.  —  Expand  —  It's no secret downtown Portland is a shadow of its former self.  —  Cellphone data tells the tale.
Discussion: HotAir
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Sean Hannity and Other Fox Stars Face Depositions in Defamation Suit  —  The depositions are one of the clearest indications yet of how aggressively Dominion Voting Systems is moving forward with its suit against the media company.  —  Some of the biggest names at Fox News have been questioned …
Jana Katsuyama / KTVU-TV:
Castro shops won't pay taxes unless San Francisco addresses crime and homelessness  —  Castro merchants say they won't pay taxes unless SF addresses crime and homelessness  —  Castro merchants say they won't pay taxes unless SF addresses crime and homelessness.
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
‘A Wrong Never Righted’: Court Upholds Mississippi's 1890 Jim Crow Voting Law  —  The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted to uphold a Jim Crow law that Mississippi's white-supremacist leaders adopted in 1890 in an attempt to disenfranchise Black residents for life.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mississippi Today
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
An expert on the right urgently warns: Beware of another Oklahoma City  —  Consider the events of this month alone: Members of a militia in Michigan were convicted of a plot to kidnap the state's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer.  We've seen numerous threats and attempts at violent attacks against the FBI.
Fraser Nelson / Spectator:
The lockdown files: Rishi Sunak on what we weren't told  —  When Britain was being locked down, the country was assured that all risks had been properly and robustly considered.  Yes, schools would close and education would suffer.  Normal healthcare would take a hit and people would die as a result.
Amani Orr / New York Magazine:
Intelligencer and New York Magazine Announce New Staff and Contributors  —  Intelligencer editor Jebediah Reed and New York editor-in-chief David Haskell today announced that Simon van Zuylen-Wood has joined as a features writer.  Ankush Khardori and John Herrman were also announced as contributing editors.
Washington Post:
Trump's secret papers and the ‘myth’ of presidential security clearance  —  Unlike U.S. intelligence officials, presidents are not ‘read in’ or ‘read out’ of classified matters, complicating any potential prosecution, experts say  —  Prosecutors scrutinizing Donald Trump for possible mishandling …
Discussion: MSNBC and Raw Story
 
 
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Moriah Balingit / Washington Post:
Kentucky's lone transgender athlete can't play on the team she helped start
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
With Primaries Over, GOP Candidate Tones Down Pro-Trump Rhetoric On Campaign Site
New York Times:
Austin Orders Overhaul to Better Protect Civilians During U.S. Combat Operations
Amir Tibon / Haaretz:
Netanyahu's Latest Iran Speech Deserves Gold Medal for Chutzpah
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Twitter labeled factual information about covid-19 as misinformation
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
N.Y. House race may not be settled as Niou weighs run against Goldman
Discussion: New York Magazine
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The gaping hole in our knowledge of the Trump documents
Discussion: Insider, Baltimore Sun and Mediaite
Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
How a far-right, Christian cellphone company ‘took over’ four Texas school boards
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Eight Sources Say Feds Are Not Done With Matt Gaetz
Politico:
How Trump has spent his days since the feds searched his home
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
 

 
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