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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Welcome to hell, Elon  —  You break it, you buy it.  —  Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous compromises that will ultimately destroy your reputation …
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CNBC:
GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover  — General Motors is suspending its advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk's takeover of the social media platform.  — “We are engaging with Twitter to understand the direction of the platform under their new ownership,” GM said.
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Racist tweets quickly surfaced after Musk closed Twitter deal  —  A wide range of anonymous Twitter accounts celebrated Musk's takeover and argued it meant the old rules against bigotry no longer applied  —  An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elon Musk's First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter's Strong Free Speech Stance  —  Last night, Elon Musk closed his on-again, off-again, on-again deal to buy Twitter, and his very first order of business was to fire a bunch of top executives.  This was not necessarily unexpected.
Politico:
'I think it's an earthquake': The political world reckons with a Musk-owned Twitter  —  America's political and media players woke up Friday to a new reality: One of the country's most outspoken, often divisive, business figures is now the moderator of its most obsessive political conversation.
Brooke Singman / Fox Business:
Trump to stay on his Truth Social amid Elon Musk Twitter takeover
CNN:
Alleged Paul Pelosi attacker posted multiple conspiracy theories  —  The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband early Friday posted memes and conspiracy theories on Facebook about Covid vaccines, the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol …
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Los Angeles Times:
Accused Pelosi attacker David DePape spread QAnon, other far-right, bigoted conspiracies  —  In the months before police accused him of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, David DePape had been drifting further into the world of far-right conspiracies, antisemitism and hate …
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg, NBC News, CNN and Fox News
San Francisco Chronicle:
What we know about David DePape, man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer  —  LIVE UPDATES: Suspect David DePape lived with group who believed 9/11 was ‘inside job’  —  Law enforcement have identified David DePape, 42, as a suspect in the Friday morning home invasion violent attack on Paul Pelosi.
Jessica McBride / Heavy.com:
David Depape, Paul Pelosi Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know  —  David Depape was identified as the suspect accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, with a hammer in the couple's home, leaving him with serious blunt-force trauma.  —  Police have confirmed the suspect's name.
Washington Post:
Assailant shouted ‘Where is Nancy?’ in break-in at speaker's home, attack on Paul Pelosi  —  The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was attacked during an early-morning break-in at the couple's San Francisco home by an assailant who was searching for the speaker and shouted …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Exclusive: Suspect in Paul Pelosi attack identified; reportedly asked ‘Where is Nancy?’
Politico:
Paul Pelosi told attacker he needed to use the bathroom, called 911 from there
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Spokesperson Statement on Violent Assault on Paul Pelosi
CNN:
First on CNN: Assailant tried to tie up Paul Pelosi in home attack, sources say
Wall Street Journal:
Paul Pelosi, Husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Attacked in San Francisco Home
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Spokesman: Speaker Pelosi's husband assaulted in break-in
Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
What We Know About the Attack on Nancy Pelosi's Husband
New York Post:
Pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees trick media outlets: ‘Rahul Ligma’  —  A pair of pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees tricked multiple media outlets Friday as the public anxiously awaited news on whether Elon Musk had begun axing staffers.
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Washington Post:
Top national security prosecutor joins Trump Mar-a-Lago investigation  —  National security law experts say prosecutors have amassed evidence that meets some key criteria for charging the former president  —  One of the Justice Department's most experienced national security prosecutors …
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ABC News:
Outspoken Trump ally Kash Patel goes mum as Mar-a-Lago probe progresses
Discussion: Raw Story
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson Show Notes:
Forget the Polls.  Here Are the Signs of the Red Wave.  —  The evidence that a wave is growing transcends the polling.  Take a moment and listen below.  But let me explain it to you in writing as well.  —  Assume the polls are wrong.  In fact, the polling bottom line numbers probably are.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Where Our Model Thinks The Polls Might Be Biased
Austin Ahlman / American Prospect:
Republicans' Secret Swing-Seat Weapon? Dozens of Rich Nominees.
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and New York Times
Articles and Investigations:
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab  —  The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic's onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal.  Tracing the evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica give …
Discussion: HotAir, National Review and TheBlaze
Justice News:
Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty To Making Threats To Kill United States Congressman  —  Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOSHUA HALL pled guilty to a Superseding Information charging him with making threats to kill a member of the United States Congress.
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Washington Post:
Republicans oppose Democrats' plan to fund Ukraine with seized Russian assets  —  A provision Democrats want in the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act would allow the Justice Department to transfer millions of dollars in yachts and other assets from Russian oligarchs
Discussion: Reason
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Federal Judge Allows Activists to Stake Out Ballot Boxes in Arizona  —  Judge Michael T. Liburdi said activists have a First Amendment right to gather around ballot boxes in the state.  Voting rights groups called the tactic voter intimidation.  —  A federal judge on Friday refused to ban …
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / MSNBC:
The attack on Paul Pelosi was shocking — and yet also predictable  —  “We fight like hell,” then-President Donald Trump told supporters Jan. 6, 2021.  “And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.”  —  Recent warnings of political violence during …
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years  —  Despite the discovery, the work, titled New York City I, will continue to be displayed the wrong way up to avoid damaging it  —  Mondrian painting wrong on the left and correct on the right  —  A painting by abstract Dutch …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Gothamist
Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone:
Kyrie Irving Boosts Antisemitic Movie Peddling ‘Jewish Slave Ships’  —  The video is based on a venomously antisemitic book which asserts that “many famous high-ranking Jews” have “admitted” to “worship[ing] Satan or Lucifer.”  —  HOURS BEFORE ANOTHER Brooklyn Nets loss on Thursday, noted …
 
 
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