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NYT: Trump Is Scrambling To Raise Campaign Money

The New York Times reports: As many as three nights a week, Donald J. Trump has been hosting private dinners at Mar-a-Lago, schmoozing with some of the Republican Party’s biggest financiers as he races to address a sizable cash shortfall against President Biden. Despite years of professing massive wealth and boasting of his desire to “drain the swamp,” the deeply …

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Noem: Native SD Tribes Are In Cahoots With Cartels

The Daily Beast reports: The head of a Native American tribe is demanding that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem apologize for her “malicious and defamatory” allegation that tribal leaders are in cahoots with drug cartels. “Her remarks were made from ignorance and with the intention to fuel a racially based and discriminatory narrative towards the Native people of South Dakota,” …

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Vaseline Woman Asks SCOTUS To Ban Voting Machines

Politico reports: Kari Lake hasn’t given up the election conspiracy theories. The Arizona MAGA darling is asking the Supreme Court to revive a lawsuit that seeks to ban electronic voting machines. That lawsuit was filed during Lake’s failed 2022 gubernatorial bid. Lake and Mark Finchem, a fellow election conspiracy theorist who lost the Arizona secretary of state race in the …

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Tuberville: “We Are Losing Our Kids To A Satanic Cult”

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Alabama Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville had a stark warning for the approximately 100 Utah GOP delegates who crowded into a Bluffdale warehouse to hear him speak on Friday afternoon: Malevolent supernatural forces are working to undermine America. “I’ve traveled all over the country — all 50 states — I’ve been in good places and …

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Ingraham Guest Attacks “Loathsome” Mike Pence

Media Matters has the transcript: NED RYUN (GUEST): So you want another second term of Biden? I mean, Laura, that was loathsome for Mike Pence to say that, and honestly, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, every last Republican should be endorsing Trump. If you care about this country, if you care about the Constitution, our country cannot survive another four years …

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Navarro Petitions SCOTUS To Keep Him Out Of Prison

The Washington Post reports: A senior aide to former president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to keep him out of prison while he appeals his conviction for refusing to testify before Congress about his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Peter Navarro, a 74-year-old economist, is required to report to a prison in Miami by …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Abortion organizations hosted at Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Guts” tour will no longer be distributing emergency contraceptives at the singer’s concerts. Organizers tell Variety that after widespread media attention, local abortion funds were told Thursday afternoon that they were no longer allowed to hand out free emergency birth control pills and other reproductive health resources at the concerts. The initiative …

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Panel: Cops Should Have Seized Mass Shooter’s Guns

The New York Times reports: A commission investigating the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, concluded on Friday that local law enforcement officers should have taken the gunman, Robert Card Jr., into custody and seized his weapons before he killed 18 people on Oct. 25. The decision to instead give Mr. Card’s family responsibility for removing his weapons was “an abdication …

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Feds Locate Person Behind Swatting Of Biden Officials

CBS News reports: Federal agents have located a person of interest in over 100 swatting calls, which included calls targeting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Security Agency Director Jen Easterly and other senior Biden administration officials, according to law enforcement officials. Officials say the person of interest lives in Serbia; charges have not yet been filed, but …

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Moms For Liberty To Oversee Book Bans In FL Schools

The Florida Times-Union reports: Some of Florida’s loudest advocates for public school book removals make up half of a state government-sponsored group to advise school districts on how to select titles and when to pull them off shelves. Moms for Liberty members made up three of six members of a Department of Education workgroup that met Thursday in Tallahassee to …

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