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The improbable coalition that is Harris’s best hope

The improbable coalition that is Harris’s best hope

Ronald Brownstein writes: Big margins in the biggest places represent Kamala Harris’s best chance of overcoming Donald Trump’s persistent strength in the decisive swing states. Across those battlegrounds, Harris’s campaign is banking on strong showings both in major urban centers with large minority populations and in the white-collar inner suburbs growing around the cities. Despite widespread dissatisfaction with the economy under President Joe Biden, those are the places where she can find the highest concentrations of voters likely to reject…

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Project 2025 advocates accused of stirring unrest inside Trump camp

Project 2025 advocates accused of stirring unrest inside Trump camp

Politico reports: Howard Lutnick, the Wall Street CEO heading up Donald Trump’s transition operation, is facing accusations from some Trump insiders that he is improperly mixing his business interests with his duties standing up a potential administration. The alarm among Trump’s loyalists has been compounded by the belief that Lutnick has tried to sideline a host of aides and advisers who worked in the first Trump administration in hopes of instead filling the second administration with new people who could…

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Inside the siege of northern Gaza, where ‘death waits around every corner’

Inside the siege of northern Gaza, where ‘death waits around every corner’

+972 Magazine reports: For over two weeks, the Israeli military has been waging one the most brutal and destructive campaigns of the war in northern Gaza. Residents of Jabalia, Beit Lahiya, and Beit Hanoun are living through an unrelenting siege that has stripped them of food, water, and any illusion of safety. Survivors describe a nightmare beyond comprehension: airstrikes and shelling so incessant that their bodies haven’t stopped trembling. The Israeli military operation, which began during the early hours of…

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Iranian dissidents fear that Israeli attacks will strengthen the Islamic Republic

Iranian dissidents fear that Israeli attacks will strengthen the Islamic Republic

Arash Azizi writes: There is something ironic about the fact that, of all the countries in the Middle East, Iran is the one that now finds itself on the brink of war with Israel. Iran is not one of the 22 Arab states party to the decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict. Its population, unlike those of many Arab countries, harbors little anti-Israel sentiment. During the past year, mass rallies in support of the Palestinians have taken place in cities all over the…

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Trump: ‘I need the kind of generals that Hitler had’

Trump: ‘I need the kind of generals that Hitler had’

Vanessa Guillén deserved so much more in life than what was taken from her. She deserved so much more in death than Trump as her Commander-in-Chief: “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” [Trump] turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows: “Don’t pay it!” pic.twitter.com/Nfi3yC0DQY — Veterans For Responsible Leadership (@VetsForRL) October 22, 2024 Jeffrey Goldberg writes: In April 2020, Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old Army private, was bludgeoned to death by a fellow soldier at Fort…

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Some Trump voters in NC actually believe he ‘helped pull somebody out’ of the river

Some Trump voters in NC actually believe he ‘helped pull somebody out’ of the river

Politico reports: Early GOP concerns that depressed turnout in the red-leaning region could cost Trump in the southern battleground have largely been replaced by resolve to mobilize his supporters to the polls, according to interviews with more than a dozen Republican campaign officials, operatives and county party chairs working in the state. Trump and Republicans have seized on anger from residents on the ground that meaningful federal aid has not come as quickly as they would like, despite a number…

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Former GOP lawmakers, officials urge Garland to investigate Musk

Former GOP lawmakers, officials urge Garland to investigate Musk

The Washington Post reports: Former Republican lawmakers, advisers and Justice Department officials have called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate tech billionaire Elon Musk for awarding cash prizes to voters in swing states if they sign his political organization’s petition, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post and sent to Garland on Monday. The letter argues that the large prizes set up by Musk, a vocal supporter of Republican nominee Donald Trump, violate federal voting laws that…

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The MAGA legal networks that could topple Planned Parenthood and gut women’s healthcare

The MAGA legal networks that could topple Planned Parenthood and gut women’s healthcare

The Guardian reports: In the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency, a young lawyer with crisply shorn blond hair approached the podium at a gathering for Texas members of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group that wields immense power in the US judicial system. As vice-president of the group’s Fort Worth chapter, Matthew Kacsmaryk had the honor of presenting the first speaker. “We are blessed to have Judge Edith Jones,” Kacsmaryk announced. Jones, a longtime judge on the US…

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Republican lawsuits targeting overseas voters dismissed

Republican lawsuits targeting overseas voters dismissed

NPR reports: Two Republican legal challenges to the legitimacy of ballots cast by U.S. citizens living abroad, including U.S. military members, hit setbacks Monday. A Michigan state judge dismissed one of three lawsuits that GOP groups filed in swing states in recent weeks, while in a North Carolina-based case, a state judge rejected the Republican National Committee’s request for the court to order that returned ballots of some overseas voters be set aside and not counted until the voters’ eligibility…

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Giuliani ordered to turn over apartment and Benz to Georgia election workers

Giuliani ordered to turn over apartment and Benz to Georgia election workers

The Guardian reports: Rudy Giuliani must give control of his New York City apartment, a 1980s Mercedes-Benz once owned by Lauren Bacall, several luxury watches and many other assets to two Georgia election workers he defamed. Lewis Liman, a US district judge in New York, appointed Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss as recipients of the property and gave the former New York mayor and Trump confidante seven days to turn over the assets. A jury ruled that Giuliani…

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New research on political animosity reveals an ‘ominous’ trend

New research on political animosity reveals an ‘ominous’ trend

PsyPost reports: Usually, political tensions in the United States intensify as elections approach but return to pre-election levels once the elections pass. However, a new analysis of tens of thousands of interviews revealed that this did not happen after the 2022 elections. Individuals with more exposure to the campaign tended to be more polarized, and this sentiment endured after the elections. This trend held true for partisans on both sides of the political spectrum. The study, published in Science Advances,…

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Trump continues spreading lies about FEMA’s hurricane response during North Carolina visit

Trump continues spreading lies about FEMA’s hurricane response during North Carolina visit

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump used a Monday visit to North Carolina to repeat debunked lies about the federal response to Hurricane Helene. Speaking to reporters in a hard-hit community near Asheville, Trump kept repeating a false claim that was widely debunked when he made it earlier in October – his assertion that the Federal Emergency Management Agency took money that was supposed to go to disaster relief and instead spent it on migrants who entered the country illegally, leaving the…

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Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls

Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls

The Guardian reports: Key rightwing legal groups with ties to Donald Trump and his allies have banked millions of dollars from conservative foundations and filed multiple lawsuits challenging voting rules in swing states that are already sowing distrust of election processes and pushing dangerous conspiracy theories, election watchdogs warn. They also warn that the groups appear to be laying the groundwork for a concerted challenge to the result of November’s presidential election if Trump is defeated by Kamala Harris. America…

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Trump’s bro whispering could cost Democrats too many young men

Trump’s bro whispering could cost Democrats too many young men

John Della Volpe writes: Compared with when Mr. Trump ran in 2020, young male voters are now less likely to support government-backed climate change solutions (down 15 points, according to our poll) and affirmative action for qualified candidates (down eight points). They are more likely to question immigration policy (up 12 points), free trade (up 10 points) and whether government stimulus leads to economic growth (up seven points). They are also more likely to believe that religious values should play…

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