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Trump Told Supporters to ‘Watch’ Voting. His Staff Is More Than Watching.
Danny Hakim and Stephanie Saul, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 44 minutes ago
The campaign’s focus on Election Day operations has intensified, with
aggressive plans for poll monitoring and other tactics that Democrats say
are efforts at vote suppression.
Trump has been quoted as refusing further debates.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/10/us/trump-vs-biden
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Trump’s Testimonial Is a Double-Edged Sword for Regeneron
Katie Thomas and Denise Grady, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
The president raised the drug’s company’s profile by calling its drug a
miraculous cure — but also sowed suspicion about whether the treatment
really works.
Trump has no credibility.
He has not allowed a test for Covid 19.
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Coronavirus Safety Runs Into a Stubborn Barrier: Masculinity
Daniel Victor, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
When political leaders suggest basic precautions appear unmanly, men are
less likely to follow health and safety advice, experts say.
Covid 19 can't hear threats and promises.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46776/gethsemane
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Trump, Lagging in Polls, Tries to Project Strength: This Week in the 2020 Race
Annie Karni and Astead W. Herndon, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago
President Trump returned to the White House this week after his
hospitalization for coronavirus. He is eager to get back on the campaign
trail as his support is falling far behind Joe Biden in national polls.
Hiding in the west wing does not display strength.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/
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Huge Absentee Vote in Key States Favors Democrats So Far
Reid J. Epstein, Nick Corasaniti and Stephanie Saul, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago
In Wisconsin, about 146,000 people voted by mail in the 2016 general
election. This fall, about 647,000 people have already voted absentee, many
in Democratic strongholds.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/10/us/trump-vs-biden
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Can Trump Really Speed Approval of Covid Treatments?
Robert P. Baird, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago
Emergency-use authorizations, a formerly obscure corner of regulatory law,
have become a centerpiece of the government’s response to the pandemic.
Trump blew his timing. The disease was known before he was ready to pull the rabbit out.
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Federal Judge Blocks Texas Governor’s Move to Limit Ballot Drop-Off Sites
Bryan Pietsch, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 9 hours ago
Gov. Greg Abbott had ordered that counties in the state be limited to one
site each.
Another scheme implodes.
Good reporting is the best detergent.
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Open Thread
Ian Welsh, Ian Welsh - 10 hours ago
Use the comments to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
Closing in November.
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Justice Dept. Suspends All Diversity and Inclusion Training for Staff
Katie Benner, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 10 hours ago
The move was the latest effort by the Trump administration to eliminate any
training that encourages workers to acknowledge that implicit racial and
gender biases exist in the workplace.
The racists and sexists own the judges.
10
Trump Raises Stimulus Offer to $1.8 Trillion
Emily Cochrane and Alan Rappeport, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 11 hours ago
After ending stimulus talks via Twitter on Tuesday, the president reversed
course, proposing a plan his own party may reject, and giving Democrats
fresh leverage to dictate the terms of a deal.
If a relief plan were to start now nothing but hope could be delivered before the election. A wish sandwich.
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Trump Claims in Interview That He Is ‘Medication Free’
Annie Karni, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 12 hours ago
The president said on Fox that he went to Walter Reed National Military
Medical Center last Friday because he “didn’t feel strong,” but he denied
that he had experienced any trouble breathing.
Two days of oxygen have been reported.
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Second Debate Canceled as Biden Condemns Trump for ‘Reckless’ Conduct
Michael M. Grynbaum and Shane Goldmacher, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago
President Trump has refused to participate in a virtual event, so next
week’s debate is off. Instead, there may be dueling town halls on the same
night, as the president ramps up plans for resuming his rallies.
"The second presidential debate was formally canceled late Friday after
President Trump refused to participate in a virtual event, the latest
sign of the upheaval that the coronavirus has wrought on the 2020
campaign."
An end.
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Election Less Than a Month Away, Trump Leans on Barr and Pompeo for a Lift
Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Katie Benner, Lara Jakes and Michael S. Schmidt, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago
The secretary of state said he would make Hillary Clinton’s emails public,
handing the president a weapon to attack his political foes as the attorney
general resisted his overtures to prosecute them.
Hillary Clinton is not running.
That race is scratched.
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White House Blocked C.D.C. From Requiring Masks on Public Transportation
Sheila Kaplan, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago
The order would have mandated that both passengers and employees wear face
coverings on planes, trains, buses and subways and in airports, stations
and depots.
This ploy did not work the first time.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/10/world/covid-coronavirus
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Trump Pushed False Claims of Voter Fraud as Justice Dept. Moved to Investigate Matter
Michael S. Schmidt, Katie Benner and Jim Rutenberg, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago
Former department officials from both parties have warned that under
Attorney General William P. Barr, the department is slipping into a
partisan morass it had long sought to avoid.
William Barr knows the quick sand is there.
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Democrats Zero In on President’s Fitness for Office as Election Looms
Catie Edmondson, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 18 hours ago
Pointing to President Trump as a cautionary tale, Democrats proposed naming
a group of outside experts to advise Congress on when to invoke the 25th
Amendment to forcibly revoke an impaired president’s powers.
"That dog won't hunt."
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Kamala Harris and the ‘Double Bind’ of Racism and Sexism
Maggie Astor, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 19 hours ago
Reactions to her debate performance show not only the bias that women and
people of color face, but the fact that for women of color, that bias is
more than the sum of its parts.
The two often share the same skull.
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Officials Demand Answers After ICE Agents Stopped a Black Jogger
Johnny Diaz and Christina Morales, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 19 hours ago
A video of the encounter showed at least three agents with police vests
questioning the jogger, Bena Apreala, in his Boston neighborhood.
I.C.E. should not exist.
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5 Were Cleared to Leave Guantánamo. Then Trump Was Elected.
Carol Rosenberg, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 20 hours ago
The president reversed Obama-era policies on detainees, leaving in limbo
five prisoners who had been judged eligible for transfer to other
countries. Their fate could rest on the 2020 election.
The military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is a war crime.
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Clash Over Municipal Loan Program Delays Stimulus Report
Alan Rappeport and Jeanna Smialek, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 21 hours ago
Political disagreements have prevented a congressional commission from
releasing a monthly report about how federal stimulus aid is being spent.
Republicans always plead innocent.
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