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9:00 AM ET, September 28, 2022

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New York Times:
Roger Stone Promoted Violence, Then Sought Pardon After Jan. 6, Evidence Shows  —  WASHINGTON — Shortly after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, as authorities began arresting people across the country in connection with the violence, the political operative Roger J. Stone Jr. started texting …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
‘Afraid of losing their power’: Judge decries GOP leaders who back Trump election claims  —  A federal judge delivered a blistering rebuke of Republican Party leaders Tuesday for what she said was a cynical attempt to stoke false claims of election fraud of the kind that fueled the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump weighed bombing drug labs in Mexico, according to new book  —  The 607-page ‘Confidence Man,’ from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, details unusual and erratic interactions between Trump and world leaders, members of Congress and his own aides  —  As president, Donald Trump …
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Rolling Stone:
Trump Saw Staffers of Color at White House, Assumed They Were Waiters, Book Says  —  When Democratic leaders brought a racially diverse group of staffers to a meeting, the former president assumed they were there to serve food  —  IT WAS JANUARY of 2017, and a newly inaugurated President Donald Trump held …
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Haberman's New Book Details Trump's Transphobic and Anti-Gay Behavior  —  Maggie Haberman lays out a number of scenes that stunned Trump aides and showed off the former president's transphobia and homophobia, including his penchant for hate words. … When Donald Trump was preparing …
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Biden's delicate midterm dance  —  The storm bearing down on Florida forced President Joe Biden to scrap plans to deliver a politically-charged speech in the state.  But he campaigned anyway, from behind a podium in the Rose Garden.  —  Biden criticized Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) …
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Biden Says Social Security Is on ‘Chopping Block’ if Republicans Win Congress  —  The fate of America's social safety net programs has re-emerged as a campaign issue ahead of November's midterm elections.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden warned on Tuesday that Republicans posed a threat …
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Biden's $420B student loan boondoggle is blatantly illegal — but progressives don't care
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Russia:
Security Alert for U.S. Citizens in Russia  —  Event: On September 21, the Russian government began a mobilization of its citizens to the armed forces in support of its invasion of Ukraine.  Russia may refuse to acknowledge dual nationals' U.S. citizenship, deny their access to U.S. consular assistance …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
US embassy in Russia tells Americans to leave the country  —  The U.S. embassy in Russia is urging Americans in the country to leave and warning U.S. citizens to not travel to Russia after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a call-up of 300,000 reservists to aid depleted forces in Ukraine.
Discussion: Euractiv
Christopher Cann / Tallahassee Democrat:
Gadsden County commissioner appointed by Gov. DeSantis resigns after KKK costume photo emerges  —  Jeffery Moore, a Havana resident and former Department of Revenue employee, abruptly resigned from the post in Florida's only predominantly Black county after the photo began circulating.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
McConnell Endorses Electoral Count Overhaul, Lifting Chances of Enactment  —  The Republican leader's backing enhanced prospects for legislation drafted to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6 assault, when rioters tried to pressure the vice president to overturn the election.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
McConnell, Schumer back bill to prevent efforts to subvert presidential election results
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Manchin permitting reform cut from spending bill
New York Times:
C.I.A. warned European governments of potential attacks on undersea pipelines.  —  The C.I.A. issued a vague warning in June to a number of European nations, including Germany, that the two Nord Stream gas pipelines that carry natural gas from Russia could be targeted in forthcoming attacks …
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Hurricane Ian gets nasty quickly, turbocharged by warm water  —  Hurricane Ian is quickly gaining monstrous strength as it moves over oceans partly heated up by climate change, just like 30 other Atlantic tropical storms since 2017 that became much more powerful in less than a day.
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Orlando Sentinel:
Hurricane Ian forecast to strike Florida as Category 4 storm; Orlando area under hurricane warning
New York Times:
As Russians Flee, Some Find Draft Notices Waiting at the Border  —  The Kremlin dispatched federal security forces to frontier border crossings packed with Russian men trying to escape the draft by entering countries like Georgia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.  —  KYIV, Ukraine …
Discussion: The Guardian and Washington Post
Bloomberg:
Alzheimer's Progression Slowed by Drug in Major Trial  —  Shares of Eisai Co. and partner Biogen Inc. surged after they reported that a drug significantly slowed Alzheimer's disease, making it the first medicine to blunt progression of the most common dementia in a definitive, large-scale trial.
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
GOP Candidates Strip Abortion and Trump Connections From Their Campaign Websites  —  Republican candidates used to tout their pro-Trump, anti-abortion rights positions on their websites.  Now they've gone missing.  —  Right after Bo Hines won a crowded primary for Congress in North Carolina …
Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and CNN
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
What Country Is the Wall Street Journal Living In?  —  The paper's editorial board deludes itself with its endorsement of Kari Lake.  —  The headline of a Wall Street Journal editorial caught my eye: “Arizona's School Choice Election.”  Rubbing my eyes, I read it again.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Newest addition to Trump's legal team sidelined in Mar-a-Lago search case  —  The newest addition to former President Donald Trump's legal team, Chris Kise, has been sidelined from the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation less than a month after he was brought on to represent Trump in the matter …
PRRI:
Creating More Inclusive Public Spaces: Structural Racism, Confederate Memorials, and Building for the Future  —  STRUCTURAL RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION IN AMERICA  —  Structural Racism and Discrimination in America  —  Across the United States over the past decade, there have been heated discussions …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
Janan Ganesh / Financial Times:
Truss learns the hard way that Britain isn't America  —  Reaganism is a good idea, but Reaganism without the dollar isn't  —  Into Brideshead Revisited, near the middle, Evelyn Waugh crowbars a scene on a cruise ship for the express purpose of mocking Americans.  There is a character named “Senator Stuyvesant-Oglander”.
Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine's New Offensive Threatens Moscow's Control of Lands It Seeks to Annex  —  Wrecked Russian armor and corpses of Russian troops line the roads in northern Donetsk as Ukraine pushes deeper into Donbas  —  RUBTSY, Ukraine—The Ukrainian military offensive that ousted Russian troops …
ABC:
Solomon Islands refusing to sign 11-point declaration at historic Pacific-US meeting … Solomon Islands has signalled it won't sign on to an 11-point declaration between the United States and Pacific Island nations this week, dealing a blow to the White House ahead of a high-profile presidential summit …
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Silicon Valley's Wall Street Bets & the Phoenix Suns Sweepstakes  —  A phalanx of Silicon Valley super-personas have quietly flooded into an obscure regulatory battle to legalize a new type of political betting that makes PredictIt look quaint.  Plus, why Laurene Powell Jobs should buy the Phoenix Suns—and why Jeff Bezos shouldn't.
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
From American sectionalism grows American fascism  —  All fascisms are native-born.  —  Monday's post was about two definitions of “politics.”  The first was war by other means.  That's what the Republicans do.  The other was solving our collective problems.  That's what the Democrats do.
Andrew R. Arthur / CIS.org:
CBP Document Details Mass Release of Illegal Aliens under Biden  —  More than 1.3 million so far, plus hundreds of thousands of gotaways  —  While you must dig to find it, CBP discloses the number of illegal migrants it has apprehended and released at the Southwest border in FY 2022 on a webpage captioned …
Discussion: Breitbart
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
White House hosts conference on hunger with $8 billion in commitments  —  Administration officials say they have secured the money from public and private sources to help provide more food and better nutrition by 2030  —  President Biden on Wednesday is hosting the first White House summit …
Ariana Garcia / Chron:
Ted Cruz booed by Texas crowd for saying more police needed to make schools safer  —  Sen. Ted Cruz spoke out against the passage of gun reform measures during a panel at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Saturday and the audience was not having it.  The junior senator was met with boos …
 
 
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
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C Mandler / CBS News:
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Lake hits Arizona airwaves with multi-million dollar ad buy
Discussion: 12news.com and RedState
Nicholas Casey / New York Times:
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Biden has called three Florida mayors — but not DeSantis — to talk about Hurricane Ian
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Teresa S. Collett / americamagazine.org:
Rape and incest are deeply tragic. They do not justify killing a child.
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
No, Elon Musk's Starlink Probably Won't Fix Iranian Internet Censorship
Discussion: Techdirt
Allan Smith / NBC News:
In 2019, Doug Mastriano said women who violated proposed abortion ban should be charged with murder
 

 
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