Judge removes Griffin from office for engaging in the January 6 insurrection  —  SANTA FE — A New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately, ruling that the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin's participation …

Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county's elections office before voting machine breach  —  A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county's election offices …

A Ruling Untethered to the Law  —  One of the most dispiriting aspects of the decision yesterday by Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon—which granted former President Donald Trump's request to appoint a special master to review the evidence seized from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI …

Jennifer Lawrence Talks Motherhood, Causeway, and the End of Roe v. Wade  —  Lawrence has no patience for the politically unengaged.  “You have to be political.  It's too dire.  Politics are killing people.”  Dior top, skirt, and belt.  Photographed by Tina Barney, Vogue, October 2022.

Politico's new German owner has a ‘contrarian’ plan for American media  —  Mathias Döpfner has global ambitions for what he calls a more ‘nonpartisan’ kind of journalism — even as his own politics are hard to pin down  —  BERLIN — Months after his company bought Politico …

Beneath campaign nastiness, legitimate concerns about Fetterman's health  —  Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman has not fully recovered from the serious stroke he suffered in May. His campaign has acknowledged his obvious struggles with “auditory processing” …

More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall  —  From the Carolinas to California, Montana to Florida, election denialism has spread across the country.  Candidates who support former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen …

Biden's Cabinet hasn't changed, a sharp break from Trump  —  When President Joe Biden met with senior members of his administration on Tuesday, the 24 officials sitting around the table were identical to the ones Biden gathered 17 months ago for his first Cabinet meeting.

Democrats Winning Over the “Meh” Voter  —  A big reason we pay so much attention to a president's job approval rating, even in a midterm election when the president isn't on the ballot, is the significant correlation between voter opinions of a president and their vote choice in an election.

Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit  —  The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims.  —  The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air.

Dr. Oz on Incest: More Than First Cousin?  ‘Not a Big Problem.’  —  It's incredible that this man really thought he should run for office after publicly weighing in on people “smashing” their cousins, among other things.  —  Alerts  —  The problem with being a celebrity before you enter politics …

A longtime conservative insider warns: The GOP can't be saved  —  With the midterm elections hurtling into their final stretch, a group of Never Trumpers is pumping millions of dollars into ads aimed at defeating Republican candidates aligned with Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election.

Rape, incest exceptions out of South Carolina abortion bill  —  Abortion South Carolina  —  A South Carolina Senate committee voted Tuesday to remove exceptions for rape and incest from a proposed abortion ban setting up a showdown among Republicans wary of passing such a restrictive bill.

Deal partner for Trump's Truth Social fails to get backing for SPAC extension: Reuters, citing sources  — The blank-check acquisition firm that agreed to merge with Donald Trump's social media company failed to secure enough shareholder support for a one-year extension to complete the deal …

Peter Thiel's Investment Firm Is Backing a Menstrual Cycle-Focused ‘Femtech’ Company  —  Evie Magazine is COVID-skeptical, transphobic, and obsessed with traditional womanhood.  Now, with Thiel Capital's help, they're launching a “wellness” company based on menstrual cycles.  —  Anna Merlan

San Francisco Braces for Epic Commercial Real Estate Crash  —  Imagine a slow-moving train coming towards you.  The lights are shining, the horn is blaring, but it's just far enough in the distance that the risk doesn't seem real just yet.  —  That's a fitting-enough analogy for the state …

The chips are down: Putin scrambles for high-tech parts as his arsenal goes up in smoke  —  It's the microchips that look set to get Vladimir Putin in the end.  Six months into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is being throttled by a severe technology deficit inflicted by sanctions.

The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit  —  Financial catastrophe is now only a few clicks away, a problem that is showing quiet signs of becoming a crisis.  “I can't just get rid of my phone,” one problem gambler says.  —  MS

To Support and Defend: Principles of Civilian Control and Best Practices of Civil-Military Relations  —  By OPEN LETTER  —  We are in an exceptionally challenging civil-military environment.  Many of the factors that shape civil-military relations have undergone extreme strain in recent years.

Big Tech's $95 Million Spending Spree Leaves Antitrust Bill on Brink of Defeat  —  A high-profile push by Congress to rein in the nation's biggest internet companies is at risk of failing with time running out to pass major legislation ahead of midterm elections.

Hurts So Good  —  Why are so many young women suffering from invisible illnesses?  Meet the girls in a world of pain.  —  In July 2019, Morgan Cooper was in a hospital bed when her gastroenterologist, psychiatrist, internist, a few nurses, and her mother marched into her room.

Pro-MAGA D.C. Cop Secretly Worked to Undermine Seth Rich Investigation  —  A hard-nosed federal prosecutor was determined to figure out who killed the 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer.  But someone with access to the case file had a different agenda