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12:25 PM ET, September 19, 2022

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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The smoking gun in Martha's Vineyard  —  Popular Information has obtained documentary evidence that migrants from Venezuela were provided with false information to convince them to board flights chartered by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).  The documents suggest that the flights …
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Damon Linker / Eyes on the Right:
Ron DeSantis, King of the Jerks  —  America will be in trouble as long as Republicans believe they benefit from driving our politics into the gutter  —  My “brand” as a writer is empathy and equanimity, even toward those with whom I have strong political disagreements.  Not that I always live up to those standards.
Rolling Stone:
Trump Fumes: DeSantis Stole My Plan for Shipping Migrants  —  Conservative pundits are fawning over DeSantis' cruel political stunt to fly immigrants to Massachusetts.  Trump thinks the “credit” should be his  —  IN RECENT DAYS, Donald Trump has privately voiced his anger over Florida Republican …
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
After Texas Sent Him to Washington, One Migrant Launches a New Life  —  Lever Alejos, who was delivered to the nation's capital courtesy of Gov. Greg Abbott, has found plenty of work.  ‘I feel fortunate the governor put me on a bus to Washington.’  —  When Lever Alejos of Venezuela arrived …
Mark Hemingway / The Federalist:
If Martha's Vineyard Tried To Prove It Cares About Immigrants, It Failed Miserably  —  When Republican governors send 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard, it's a humanitarian crisis.  When 51 migrants who were encouraged to cross the border by Democrats die in the back of a truck, well, that's a statistic.
USA Today:
Massachusetts seeks human trafficking probe targeting Florida Gov. DeSantis over migrants
Discussion: The Hill and NBC Boston
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
President Joe Biden: The 2022 60 Minutes Interview  —  Summer was going so well for the president; the White House threw a party last week with a concert by James Taylor.  Mr. Biden's streak began in June when he signed a bipartisan gun safety law.  Then, in August, over Republican objections …
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Politico:
Biden on ‘60 Minutes’: ‘The pandemic is over’  —  President Joe Biden said “the pandemic is over” in discussing Covid during an interview that aired on Sunday evening on CBS' “60 Minutes.”  —  “The pandemic is over,” the president told Scott Pelley as they talked last week at the Detroit Auto Show.
CBS News:
Biden tells 60 Minutes U.S. troops would defend Taiwan, but White House says this is not official U.S. policy
Kevin Tober / Newsbusters:
State-Run TV: 60 Minutes Drools Over Biden in Syrupy Interview
Discussion: New York Post, Power Line and CBS News
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Biden says U.S. troops would defend Taiwan in event of attack by China
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Trump's ‘Save America’ Scam  —  His PAC never launched a “legal defense fund,” despite deceitful ads that raked in millions.  —  (COMPOSITE / MIDJOURNEY)  —  In 2019, Donald Trump's charitable foundation was fined $2 million for misusing funds and ordered to shut down.  The foundation's misdeeds included:
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
We Have a Bill to Help Prevent Another Jan. 6 Attack  —  It's past time to reform the Electoral Count Act to make clear Congress can't overturn an election result.  —  WSJ Opinion: Inflation Reduction Act Not Working So Far  —  Skip Ad  —  in 15  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.
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Washington Post:
Why Elise Stefanik may be moving up by moving down
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations  —  Complaints about the U.S. military's influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies.  —  The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts …
David Byler / Washington Post:
This little-known election predictor should worry Democrats  —  As early voting begins around the country, every political data point would appear to marginally favor the Democrats.  Polls suggest they lead ever so slightly in key Senate races and in national House polls.
Yoav Gonen / All:
Most-Complained-About NYPD Cop Retires, Avoiding Penalties  —  Lt. Eric Dym faced discipline on 52 allegations, but he won't be terminated for misconduct.  Only one CCRB probe in the past decade has led to that outcome — for the officer who killed Eric Garner.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Proud Boys memo reveals meticulous planning for ‘street-level violence’  —  Document of 23 pages shows the lengths to which the far-right group goes to prepare for potentially violent encounters and exposes the militaristic structure and language it has adopted
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Family of American says he was freed by Taliban in swap  —  An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released, his family said Monday, as a Taliban drug lord jailed by the United States was also freed and returned to Kabul.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What two new polls tell us about the midterms  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HAPPENING NOW — The funeral of QUEEN ELIZABETH II is underway.  Watch live via BBC ... WaPo: World watches Britain lay its longest-reigning monarch to rest …
David Gilbert / VICE:
What Is This Eerie Salute People Are Doing at Trump Rallies Now?  —  The signal was immediately compared to the “Sieg Heil” salute.  —  David Gilbert  —  On Saturday night, as former President Donald Trump was wrapping up a political rally in Youngstown, Ohio, one section of the crowd …
Discussion: Raw Story, Rolling Stone and Mediaite
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump ally goes on trial for ‘espionage lite’ and obstruction  —  Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a former Donald Trump adviser whom authorities allege was involved in a two-year effort to try to influence the policy decisions of the Trump campaign and administration to benefit the United Arab Emirates.
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ABC News:
Tom Barrack case: Jury selection to begin in trial of former Trump fundraiser
Discussion: Reuters
Wall Street Journal:
The Real Midterm Election Stakes  —  Will voters put a check on the unrequited ambitions of the Democratic left?  —  WSJ Opinion: Inflation Reduction Act Not Working So Far  —  Skip Ad  —  in 15  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.
María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
GOP senator says he won't back Graham's proposed national abortion ban  —  Another Republican senator says he won't support the bill Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced that would ban most abortions nationwide after 15 weeks of pregnancy.  —  Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Youngkin to hold Arizona events supporting Lake  —  Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is expected to stump for Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake next month, escalating his midterm campaign efforts ahead of a prospective 2024 presidential bid.  —  Youngkin is embarking on the Arizona trip …
 
 
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Brock Wilson / CBC News:
'It's a slippery slope': How young men fall into online radicalization
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
VP Harris ramps up midterms travel to focus on young voters
Discussion: RedState and Fox News
Trafalgar Group:
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Discussion: Townhall
Glenn Gamboa / Associated Press:
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Discussion: Breitbart and Political Wire
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Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
John Durham's final act: exposing the FBI
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Lawyer Settles Secretary's ‘B*tch’ Discrimination Case
Discussion: Raw Story
Cheryl Teh / Insider:
Donald Trump is back at Mar-a-Lago and raging about FBI agents not taking off their shoes while searching his bedroom
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