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8:55 PM ET, October 25, 2022

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Politico:
House progressives retract Russia-diplomacy letter amid Dem firestorm  —  House progressives on Tuesday retracted a letter calling on President Joe Biden to engage in direct diplomacy with Russia, less than 24 hours after it sparked intense backlash from other Democrats.
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HuffPost:
How A Progressive Bid To Shape Ukraine Policy Imploded  —  The kerfuffle over a now-withdrawn letter from 30 House Democrats shows how the left is still struggling to communicate effectively on foreign policy.  —  A group of progressive lawmakers withdrew a high-profile letter intended …
Washington Post:
Liberal Democrats withdraw letter to Biden that urged him to rethink Ukraine strategy  —  The Congressional Progressive Caucus has withdrawn a letter, signed by 30 House liberals and sent to the White House Monday, that urged President Biden to negotiate directly with Russia to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
House Overview: 10 Rating Changes as Democrats' Blue State Problems Grow  —  Two weeks out, Republicans have the momentum in the race for House control.  Last week, the GOP regained the lead in FiveThirtyEight's generic ballot average for the first time since August amid worsening economic news.
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Democrats, on Defense in Blue States, Brace for a Red Wave in the House  —  “Reality is setting in”: With two weeks to go, Republicans are competing in Democratic bastions like New York, California, Oregon and even Rhode Island.  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Republicans are pressing their advantage deep …
Beau Branton / Democracy Corps:   Home → National Surveys → Democrats Must Still Close On The Cost-Of-Living
Lisette Voytko / Forbes:
Billionaire No More: Kanye West's Antisemitism Obliterates His Net Worth As Adidas Cuts Ties  —  The superstar rapper no longer has a place on the Forbes Billionaires' list now that his lucrative deal with Adidas is over.  —  Just days ago, the rapper-cum-fashion entrepreneur Kanye West challenged Adidas …
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Bloomberg:
Adidas Finally Ends Ye Partnership After String of Controversies  —  Adidas AG is ending its partnership with Ye following a rash of offensive behavior from the rapper and designer that turned a once-thriving shoe brand into a lightning rod for criticism.  —  The German sports company …
New York Times:
Adidas Ends Partnership with Kanye West
CNN:
DOJ overcomes Trump's privilege wall in Jan. 6 investigation, pushing deeper into former President's inner circle  —  The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to force the top two lawyers from Donald Trump's White House counsel's office to testify about their conversations with the former President …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Bulwark
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Biden Debt-Ceiling Gaffe Could Destroy His Presidency … Last week, a reporter asked President Biden if he would support a repeal of the debt ceiling.  “A permanent repeal of the debt ceiling? ...  Just say we don't have a debt limit?” he asked with a laugh, as if the notion were fantastical.
Michael Stratford / Politico:
The student debt relief whiplash  —  FINAL EXAM — Heading into the two-week homestretch of the midterm election, President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan is rippling across the campaign trail.  It's not exactly getting the attention of top-tier issues like the economy …
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The Desecrations of Michael Flynn  —  A prayer at a “ReAwaken America” event in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a few days ago, at which Michael Flynn appeared, captured the sensibilities of this moment: “Father God, we come to you in the name of Jesus.  We're asking you to open the eyes …
Discussion: Washington Post
Miami Herald:
‘My son has never voted’: Mom rejects Rubio's claim that politics motivated Hialeah attack  —  Diana Rosa Lopez isn't sure exactly what started the fight between her son and an ex-white supremacist canvassing for Sen. Marco Rubio outside her home in Hialeah Sunday.
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HuffPost:
Florida GOP Paid Thousands To Far-Right Charlottesville Attendee
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Daily Dot
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Scoop: National Republicans jump back into New Hampshire Senate race  —  The National Republican Senatorial Committee is recommitting resources into the New Hampshire Senate race, according to an NRSC official, just days after the Senate GOP's top super PAC cancelled its spending on behalf of nominee Don Bolduc.
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Exclusive: Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show  —  “Is Twitter dying?” billionaire Elon Musk mused in April, five days before offering to buy the social media platform.  —  The reality, according to internal Twitter (TWTR.N) research seen by Reuters …
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
The non-Trump 2024 field starts to make their moves  —  Republicans with an eye on the presidency are sending not-so-subtle signals about their plans for the 2024 cycle — and they're not all waiting for Donald Trump to make up his mind.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is building out a national donor network.
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Dodge, deny or fib: Candidates stay vague on 2024 plans
Discussion: HotAir
Joe Biden / CNN:
In 14 days, the American people face a choice  —  Editor's Note: Joe Biden is the President of the United States.  The views expressed here are his own.  Read more opinion on CNN.  —  CNN —  Over the past nearly two years, we have made enormous progress.
Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
You're Not Imagining It: There Are Fewer Polls This Cycle  —  And a larger share come from partisan sources.  —  By Geoffrey Skelley  —  Oct. 25, 2022, at 6:00 AM  —  “The polls are in crisis.  Polling is dead.”  We heard variations on this theme after somewhat larger-than-average polling errors …
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
New York Supreme Court reinstates all employees fired for being unvaccinated, orders backpay  —  State Supreme Court found that being vaccinated ‘does not’ stop the spread of COVID-19  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 25  —  The New York state Supreme Court has reinstated …
Steve Schmidt / The Warning:
The country is asleep to the threat it is facing  —  PBS Frontline's “Michael Flynn's Holy War” is an epic piece of TV journalism  —  The United States faces a grave threat from an extremist movement that was unleashed by Donald Trump and inflamed by his defeat.  It is a growing threat — not a diminishing one.
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
No, ‘Russiagate’ Wasn't the Hoax That Team Trump Claims It Was  —  It looks like John Durham's investigation is going out with a whimper.  —  The acquittal last week of think tank analyst Igor Danchenko is a fitting final chapter in the “Russiagate” saga, as John Durham's three-year-old probe judders to a halt.
Evan Pheiffer / New Lines Magazine:
How the Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan Endure  —  By a river in the hills near the Russian border, a 300-year-old community of multilingual Jews keeps 'Europe's last shtetl' alive  —  Deep in the Azerbaijani foothills of the southern Caucasus Mountains lives one of Europe's most interesting communities, the Red Village Mountain Jews.
Jon Wiener / The Nation:
Mike Davis: 1946-2022  —  A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist's eye and a historian's memory.  —  Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, died October 25 after a long struggle with esophageal cancer; he was 76.  He's best known for his 1990 book about Los Angeles, City of Quartz.
Stefanie Dazio / Associated Press:
LA police investigating if racist recording taped illegally  —  Los Angeles detectives are investigating whether a recording last year that captured city councilmembers' racist remarks was made illegally, the police chief said Tuesday.  Disclosure of the recording earlier this month unleashed …
Mike Ives / New York Times:
Penn State Cancels Event by Proud Boys Founder, Citing Threat of Violence  —  The university's president said that the event had been canceled in the interests of public safety, after a peaceful protest against it turned violent.  —  Pennsylvania State University canceled a planned comedy event …
CREW:
Secret Service received shooting threat against Chuck Schumer on January 6 … The Secret Service received notice of a shooting threat against then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as the Capitol was under attack on January 6, but did not pass it along to Capitol Police for more than an hour …
Discussion: Raw Story, PoliticusUSA and Jacobin
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
J.D. Vance Has a Burnt Monkey Testicle Problem  —  The GOP Ohio Senate nominee's investment in a biotech firm that does testing on live animals is raising questions about his true values  —  WHAT KIND OF man profits from scalded monkey junk?  —  On the campaign trail …
Washington Post:
Alaska GOP votes to censure McConnell over his support for Murkowski  —  The Alaska Republican Party voted Monday to censure Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), a gesture with no practical consequence but one that is intended to send a strong signal to conservative voters in the state …
Politico:
National Archives denies Trump referral to DOJ was connected to Dems  —  The National Archives is denying Republican accusations that its decision to refer Donald Trump's handling of classified records to the Justice Department had anything to do with an inquiry from a top House Democrat.
Discussion: The Status Kuo, Raw Story and The Hill
Lynne O'Donnell / Foreign Policy:
Russia's Recruiting Afghan Commandos  —  Abandoned special forces veterans are getting job offers for a very different kind of battlefield.  —  Members of Afghanistan's elite National Army Commando Corps, who were abandoned by the United States and Western allies when the country fell …
Washington Post:
Mercenary chief vented to Putin over Ukraine war bungling  —  Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Russian tycoon behind the mercenary group Wagner, personally told Putin that his military chiefs are mismanaging the war, U.S. officials said  —  The confidant who vented to Russian President Vladimir Putin recently …
Jacques Berlinerblau / MSNBC:
Trump's antisemitism has nothing to do with people being Jewish.  That doesn't make it less dangerous.  —  ADL's Greenblatt: Trump's social media attack on Jews ‘are dangerous comments at a dangerous time’  —  It's been quite a news cycle for headline-inducing antisemitic macro-aggressions.
 
 
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