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5:35 PM ET, August 30, 2022

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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Woke Up and Went on a 60-Post, QAnon-Fueled Social Media Spree  —  You can take the man off of Twitter, but you can't take the urge to post out of the man  —  FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD Trump spent Tuesday morning feverishly sharing content from supporters on his social media platform Truth Social …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Truth Social's Google Play Store holdup  —  Google hasn't yet approved Truth Social's Android app for distribution via its Play Store because of insufficient content moderation, a Google spokesperson tells Axios. … - “Last week Truth Social wrote back acknowledging our feedback …
Insider:
Trump posts dozens of memes attacking Biden, the FBI, and others as the former president's allies beg him to keep quiet  — Since the Mar-a-Lago raid in early August, Trump has taken to social media to lash out.  — He has routinely promoted or commented on posts and memes that bashes Biden, Democrats, or the FBI.
NBC News:
Trump shares barrage of QAnon content and other conspiracy theories on his social media platform
Discussion: Mediaite, MSNBC and HuffPost
Jack Stebbins / CNBC:
Trump's Truth Social barred from Google Play store over content moderation concerns
Discussion: TheBlaze, Bloomberg and The Federalist
Marilyn Berger / New York Times:
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91  —  Adopting principles of glasnost and perestroika, he weighed the legacy of seven decades of Communist rule and set a new course, presiding over the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.
Discussion: TMZ.com and The National Interest
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David E. Hoffman / Washington Post:
Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91  —  He embarked on a path of radical reform that propelled the communist country toward collapse  —  Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who embarked on a path of radical reform that brought about the end of the Cold War …
Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies
Discussion: RedState and The Sun
New York Times:
Frustrations Mount at Washington Post as Its Business Struggles  —  With digital subscriptions and digital advertising revenue stagnating, the company is on pace to lose money this year.  —  In the years after Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, business boomed.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Georgia 2022: Walker Holds Two-Point Lead Over Warnock in Tight Senate Race; Kemp Leads Abrams by Four  —  Home Polls Georgia 2022: Walker Holds Two-Point Lead Over Warnock in Tight Senate Race; Kemp Leads Abrams by Four  —  The latest Emerson College Polling survey of the Georgia general …
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Trump hires former Florida solicitor general in criminal probe of Mar-a-Lago documents  —  Chris Kise, Florida's former solicitor general who served on Gov. Ron DeSantis's transition team, inked a contract to represent Donald Trump in the criminal case that resulted in the FBI search …
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Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Bolsters Florida Legal Team
Discussion: Bloomberg
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Is Sedition Now A Policy of the GOP?  —  It's not just mean tweets.  —  1. Hard Truths  —  The former president of the United States has made a new pronouncement.  He now demands that the federal government either:  — Declare him the winner of the 2020 election and install him as president.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Do Republicans agree with Trump's demand for a do-over election?  —  Donald Trump believes he should either be handed the presidency now or there should be a do-over election “immediately.”  Do Republicans agree?  —  By all appearances, Donald Trump is looking ahead to 2024 and gearing …
Politico:
'There's enormous frustration': Trump forces Republicans off-script... again  —  The investigation into Donald Trump's handling of classified national security records is forcing Republicans into a strained defense during a pre-midterm sprint in which they'd much rather be talking about Joe Biden.
Andy Greene / Rolling Stone:
The Monkees' Micky Dolenz Would Like a Word With the FBI  —  The group's last surviving member is suing the FBI after they failed to hand over band's J. Edgar Hoover-era FBI file  —  WHEN THE MONKEES launched their inaugural tour in 1967, they played to throngs of screaming teenagers - and at least one FBI informant.
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Ukraine lures Russian missiles with decoys of U.S. rocket system  —  KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine may be outgunned but in the latest sign it is not yet outfoxed, a fleet of decoys resembling advanced U.S. rocket systems has tricked Russian forces into wasting expensive long-range cruise missiles on dummy targets …
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Can Thiel and McConnell Strike a Deal?  —  As Republicans unexpectedly labor to retake the Senate, the standoff between Thiel, the consummate contrarian, and McConnell, the consummate pragmatist, has suddenly become one of the most important relationships in the G.O.P. financial universe.
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
‘Do Not Drink The Water’: Jackson Water System Failing For 180,000 People  —  Jackson's water system is failing and water across the city is entirely unsafe to drink, officials said at an emergency briefing Monday night.  State leadership have warned all residents of Mississippi's capital city …
Discussion: Common Dreams and TheBlaze
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Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Jackson, Mississippi, without reliable running water
Pippa Stevens / CNBC:
First Solar announces new U.S. panel factory following the Inflation Reduction Act  — First Solar, the largest solar panel manufacturer in the U.S., said Tuesday that it will build a new panel factory in the U.S.  — CEO Mark Widmar told CNBC the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and UPI
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Akiko Fujita / Yahoo Finance:   First Solar is investing $1.2 billion to expand U.S. factory footprint after IRA passage
Washington Post:
Fox News stars questioned by election tech company in defamation case  —  Dominion Voting Systems has deposed Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro and others in its $1.6 billion suit to try to prove the network knew wild election claims were false  —  Some of the biggest stars on Fox News …
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
U.S. Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Seventy-one percent of Americans now approve of labor unions.  Although statistically similar to last year's 68%, it is up from 64% before the pandemic and is the highest Gallup has recorded on this measure since 1965.
The Verge:
How Twitter's child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor  —  Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven't listened  —  In the spring of 2022, Twitter considered making a radical change to the platform.
CBS News:
Top-level FBI agent under fire for role in Hunter Biden investigation resigns  —  Timothy Thibault, a top-level FBI agent who had been under fire for his role in investigations regarding President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, resigned late last week and was walked out of the FBI, two U.S. officials confirmed.
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U.S. Navy Foils Iranian Attempt to Capture Unmanned Vessel in Arabian Gulf … The U.S. Navy prevented a support ship from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) from capturing an unmanned surface vessel operated by the U.S. 5th Fleet in the Arabian Gulf, Aug. 29-30.
Neal K. Katyal / New York Times:
Bill Barr Made the Decision to Clear Trump, and That Should Still Frighten Us  —  The memo released last week by the Justice Department closing the book on the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election is a frightening document.
Discussion: Raw Story
Chris Brennan / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
More Republicans back Josh Shapiro for Pennsylvania governor  —  The ranks of Republicans rejecting State Sen. Doug Mastriano, their party's nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, grew this week as a former national security Cabinet member and a former Trump administration lawyer endorsed …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
House conservatives prep plans to impeach Biden  —  Republicans hoping to seize control of the House in November are already setting their sights on what is, for many of them, a top priority next year: impeaching President Biden.  —  A number of rank-and-file conservatives …
Susan Dynarski / New York Times:
Why I Changed My Mind on Student Debt Forgiveness  —  As an economist who studies education, I long thought that forgiving student loans was a crude and inequitable tool for fixing student aid.  College graduates, after all, are the winners in our society.  College certainly changed my life …
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them  —  Computer eyes in the skies make real estate tax evasion in France much harder.  —  Using an artificial intelligence computer vision system developed by French IT firm Capgemini, the French tax office (often called “Le Fisc") …
Discussion: ZeroHedge, Bloomberg and The Verge
Texas Department of State Health Services:
Texas Confirms First Death of a Person with Monkeypox  —  News Release  —  The Texas Department of State Health Services has confirmed the first death of a person diagnosed with monkeypox in Texas.  The patient was an adult resident of Harris County who was severely immunocompromised.
Spencer Burt / KSTU:
Utah FBI employee charged with sexually abusing multiple children  —  TOOELE, Utah — A man who works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation was arrested last week and charged with molesting multiple children.  —  Robert Alexander Smith, 65, faces four 1st-degree felony counts …
 
 
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