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12:45 AM ET, September 16, 2022

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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Ron DeSantis Has Learned Trump's Most Important Insight  —  For Christian nationalists, the cruelty is the point.  —  Tonight on the TNB livestream I'm going to spend the entire show talking about Ukraine and Russia with Cathy Young and Eric Edelman.  —  Not going to lie: This isn't going to be the sexiest conversation ever.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
DeSantis Tries to Prove Liberals Hate Immigrants As Much As He Does, Fails … Sunday night, I sat in the ballroom of a Miami resort and watched Florida governor Ron DeSantis tell the crowd about how Texas governor Greg Abbott had been sending busloads of illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C. His envy was undisguised.
Washington Post:
DeSantis gave GOP donors a glimpse of plans for migrant flights  —  The Florida governor told applauding supporters that he might send immigrants “to Chicago, Hollywood, Martha's Vineyard.  Who knows?”  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told the Republican Party's top donors last weekend …
New York Times:
DeSantis and Abbott Intensify Fight Over Immigration  —  Decisions to bus migrants to the vice president's residence and to fly others to Martha's Vineyard were the latest attempts to provoke outrage over record arrivals at the border.  —  EDGARTOWN, Mass. — Immigration lawyers rushed onto ferries …
Washington Post:
Video appears to show Marjorie Taylor Greene kicking a Gen Z activist  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) appeared to kick an unarmed demonstrator during a confrontation outside the Capitol on Thursday afternoon.  —  Videos posted to Twitter by Greene and the Gen Z activist group Voters …
Eve Zuckoff / NPR:
Florida flies dozens of migrants to Martha's Vineyard  —  MARTHA'S VINEYARD, Mass. — About 50 migrants arrived by plane in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Wednesday on a flight paid for by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and that originated in San Antonio, Texas.  —  The migrants touched down at about 3:15 p.m. local time.
Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
DeSantis criticizes Democrats after sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard: ‘Their virtue signaling is a fraud’
Politico:
Judge appoints special master, rejects DOJ bid to delay Mar-a-Lago ruling  —  U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday rejected a Justice Department demand to let federal prosecutors continue their review of records marked classified that were recovered from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
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Washington Post:
Dearie named special master to review Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
New Trump Attorney Negotiated $3 Million Advance Payment for Work  —  Chris Kise sought the arrangement based on unprecedented investigation, Trump's reputation for not paying legal fees  —  The Florida lawyer brought on to defend former President Donald Trump against potential government prosecution …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump's Save America paid $3 million to cover top lawyer's legal work
Discussion: CNN, HuffPost and Raw Story
Washington Post:
The Justice Dept.'s Jan. 6 investigation is looking at ... everything
Washington Post:
The letters left behind by demoralized Russian soldiers as they fled  —  IZYUM, Ukraine — About 10 days before Ukrainian forces retook the city of Izyum last weekend, Russian troops stationed here were so demoralized that they drafted letters begging their superiors to dismiss them from their roles.
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Friction between White House and senior Homeland Security officials mounts as migrant border crossings soar  —  Friction between the Biden White House and senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security over how to handle immigration is mounting, according to internal documents …
Discussion: New York Post, ABC News and The Hill
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden condemns Republicans for using migrants as ‘props’
Discussion: RedState
Kelly Hooper / Politico:
White House says Republican governors shipping migrants to other states is ‘reckless,’ ‘shameful’
NBC News:
FBI charges Massachusetts woman with Boston Children's Hospital bomb threat  —  The FBI said Thursday an arrest has been made in connection with a bomb threat against Boston Children's Hospital last month.  —  Catherine Leavy of Westfield, Massachusetts, was arrested without incident …
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Justice News:
California Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Merriam-Webster with Anti-LGBTQ Violence
Discussion: Law & Crime
New York Times:
Here's what Putin is hoping for from Xi. … Putin acknowledges China may have ‘questions and concerns’ about the war.  —  President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday that Moscow understood that China had “questions and concerns” about the war in Ukraine — a notable, if cryptic …
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ABC News:
Biden to meet with Griner, Whelan families
Washington Post:
Georgia 2020 election inquiry may lead to prison sentences, prosecutor says  —  Fulton County district attorney says her team has received allegations that serious crimes were committed  —  ATLANTA — The prosecutor investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to challenge …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Insider, Forbes and Raw Story
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
A conservative think tank turns away from Reagan and toward Trump  —  In the battle for the soul of GOP foreign policy between establishment Republicans and Trump-style national conservatives, the former still hold the levers of official power but the latter are gaining ground.
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The Dispatch:
Partisanship Over Policy at the Heritage Foundation
Discussion: Morning Shots
CNN:
Mike Lindell's phone search reveals new details about scope of federal probe into efforts to subvert 2020 election results  —  The Justice Department is seeking information about at least seven people in connection with a breach of a Colorado county's voting system as part of efforts to subvert …
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Washington Post:
FBI seizes phone from election denier Douglas Frank, a Mike Lindell associate
Discussion: The Daily Beast and claytoonz
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Trump threatens ‘big problems’ for US if he's indicted in stolen documents scandal  —  Mr Trump warned that the US would have ‘big problems’ if he were to be charged with any crimes  —  Trump phones mother of shot Capitol rioter … Former president Donald Trump on Thursday hinted …
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Kyle Whitmire / al.com:
Alabama GOP chair refused to show license to vote.  That became a problem for poll workers.  —  This is an opinion column.  —  Clyde Martin is a retired TVA supervisor at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant who now rides motorcycles and does a little yoga.  He has a wife and a kid, but that only comes up when I ask him later.
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
There's Terrific News About the New Covid Boosters, but Few Are Hearing It  —  This column has been updated.  —  For the first time, the United States is rolling out Covid vaccines updated to match variants that are currently dominant, as well as the original strain.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Mercury News
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Blake Masters Wants to Fire All Generals and Replace Them With Conservatives  —  Masters explicitly called for a wholesale firing of the generals at least seven times between August 2021 and March 2022.  —  Cameron Joseph  —  WASHINGTON, US  —  Blake Masters, the Republican nominee …
Brian Flood / Fox News:
CNN shakeup: Don Lemon moved from primetime to mornings, struggling ‘New Day’ to be replaced  —  ‘New Day’ hosts John Berman and Brianna Keilar will be shuffled to new CNN roles  —  CNN's Don Lemon says Biden ‘telling the truth’ with ‘semi-fascism’ comments: ‘That is unifying’
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
CNN's Lemon-aid, rail strike averted, Trump speaks, and a new FBI scandal: Today's #TEMS
New York Times:
Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems  —  The company said on Thursday that it was looking into the scope of the apparent hack.  —  Uber's computer network was breached on Thursday, leading the company to take several of its internal communications and engineering systems offline as it investigated the extent of the hack.
Bloomberg:
Patagonia Billionaire Who Gave Up Company Skirts $700 Million Tax Hit  —  Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard described his decision to give away the outdoor apparel-maker as his last-ditch effort to do all he could to protect the planet.  —  The deal is structured in ways that also bring …
Discussion: USA Today, The Daily Wire and Fortune
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt gets jail term  —  A Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing an antisemitic “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt over a Nazi-themed shirt was sentenced on Thursday to 75 days of imprisonment.  —  Robert Keith Packer, 57 …
Discussion: New York Post
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Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times:
Who's doing the ‘quiet leaving’ from the Seattle public schools
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Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Senate doesn't have to release full CIA torture report, judge rules
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The Moscow Signals Declassified Microwave Diplomacy, 1967-1977
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Bolts:
Texas Students Are Again Battling the Closure of a Campus Polling Place
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate delays same-sex marriage vote until after midterms
Michael Colborne / The Guardian:
Putin is banking on his friends in the Balkans to help sustain his bloody war in Ukraine
Sam Adler-Bell / New York Magazine:
Why Can't the Left Take the W?  —  I have suggested — here and elsewhere — that leftists are gifted losers.
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