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American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show

American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show

The Washington Post reports: A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post. The documents show that John Mark Dougan, who also served in the U.S. Marines and has long claimed to…

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Tucker Carlson says Trump needs to give America ‘a vigorous spanking’

Tucker Carlson says Trump needs to give America ‘a vigorous spanking’

Bess Levin writes: Republicans have said a lot of weird, wildly disturbing things in their time, but perhaps nothing has come close to the creepiness that was on display on Wednesday night, when former Fox News host Tucker Carlson told a crowd of Donald Trump supporters that the ex-president needs to give America—which he likened to a “hormone-addled 15-year-old” girl—a “vigorous spanking.” Yes, at a campaign event in Georgia, Carlson opined that Americans under Democratic leadership have been allowed to…

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What will happen if Trump loses the election?

What will happen if Trump loses the election?

John Hendrickson writes: Tucker Carlson’s eyes narrowed as he conjured the image. A Donald Trump victory, he said at a campaign event in Gwinnett County, Georgia, last night, “will be a middle finger wagging in the face of the worst people in the English-speaking world.” Trump maintains that he’s running for president a third time to restore and unite the country. But many Democrats and even some Republicans have expressed profound concern for democracy and overall safety if the former…

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How Trump ally Elon Musk is using social media to prime voter mistrust ahead of 2024 election

How Trump ally Elon Musk is using social media to prime voter mistrust ahead of 2024 election

CBS News reports: Elon Musk has used the social media platform he owns to amass nearly 3.3 billion views on X by fueling doubts about election security issues since January this year — making the tech mogul one of the most viral voices on elections during the 2024 campaign, a CBS News investigation has found. Musk has frequently shared conspiratorial narratives that have been vexing to public officials who are trying to maintain Americans’ confidence in the election in the…

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Justice Department warns Elon Musk that his $1 million giveaway to registered voters may be illegal

Justice Department warns Elon Musk that his $1 million giveaway to registered voters may be illegal

CNN reports: The Justice Department warned Elon Musk’s America PAC in recent days that his $1 million sweepstakes to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law, people briefed on the matter told CNN. Musk, who has thrown his support behind former President Donald Trump and is spending millions of dollars supporting his candidacy, has publicized the $1 million prize by his political action committee aiming to increase voter registrations in hotly contested states. Musk’s initial promise to pay…

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John Kelly confirms Trump is a fascist yet stops short of endorsing Kamala Harris

John Kelly confirms Trump is a fascist yet stops short of endorsing Kamala Harris

The New York Times reports: Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors in the White House with President Donald J. Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff. With Election Day looming, Mr. Kelly — deeply bothered by Mr. Trump’s recent comments about employing the military against his domestic opponents — agreed to three on-the-record, recorded discussions with a reporter for The New York Times about the former president, providing…

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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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