Points on the board for the American University alumni community, notable upgrade from our last major alum, the Russian spy Maria Butina.

I think the moderators would not have had to fact check Trump on eating pets if Trump’s campaign had not repeatedly said it earlier this week and then he also said it onstage

they should do a reality show with donald trump where he’s the boss and people get to work for him. and if he doesn’t like how they’re doing, he can fire them.

David Muir has twice tried to go to Afghanistan (arguably a Trump advantage) and Trump has interrupted to argue about Putin, NATO, Ukraine.

Harris campaign appears to weigh in on photos of my recent trip to Norway

Fox News said tonight that it sent letters to both campaigns asking to host a debate. Obviously Fox has been a nonstarter for Dems, but if it’s the only network where Trump would agree to another debate, would Harris believe it’s worth the risk given her performance tonight?

While it was a big part of the first debate, one topic that didn’t get mentioned at all in this debate was the number of golf club championships both candidate have won. So it remains unclear which candidate has the superior record in terms of golf.

If you went on a Eurotrip this summer, chances are you got your recs not from websites or TikTok, but a friend of a friend's coveted Google doc — a fun one for Thrillist ! thrillist.com/travel/nation/…

This is the Rosetta Stone to Balloon Mindstate: Pundits (not voters) decide the outcome of the election; because of this, any acknowledgement by the media that the race is competitive is effectively (and maybe intentionally) helping Trump. It's very, very stupid, but there it is.

the people actually trying to win the campaign on the democratic side are deeply engaged with understanding these undecided voters and trying to speak to them, and it's actually not harmful to the public to write articles about how they feel and what they think

i like that for the image choice they went with a photo where they made him look like the divorce lawyer

Still waiting for ABC News/Nielsen to put out official release, but updated finals show the debate did a lot better than those early numbers: 67.1 million. Big number, esp. for 2024-- but still below HRC/Trump I (84M) or Trump/Biden (73.1M)

unclear if there’s some tweaking going on or if it’s just a consequence of election intensity, but twitter has felt particularly rough again recently. no one to blame but myself at this point for still being here!

New: In an Aug. 28 letter obtained by Axios, the WH News Photographers Association said Harris' team was engaging in an "unprecedented reduction in access.” The VP’s team didn’t respond until last night after we asked about the letter W/ Sara Fischer axios.com/2024/09/12/har…

Former President Trump says on his social-media platform that "THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!"

it just depended on when you looked at the times homepage. at some points, it featured articles about trump focusing on how poorly he did. at other points, you got articles about harris' successful debate strategy.

Inbox: Kamala Harris is sitting for a solo TV interview but keeping it to local news. She’s participating in a taped interview with Brian Taff for Action News 6 ABC, a local station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The interview will air on the station's 6pm broadcast.

people are mad that trump is traveling with laura loomer but what if he's just driving her around because she's still banned from uber and lyft for tweeting "I never want to support another Islamic immigrant driver" businessinsider.com/uber-bans-laur…

In a note to staff, WaPo CEO Will Lewis said this week the paper “achieved our largest number of users and page views” of the year.

This is 100% true - Brooklyn is terrible, and no one should move here!