Rather sad fact: The deaths of NJ Congressmen Bill Pascrell and Donald Payne Jr. just a few months apart from one another marks the first time that multiple members of one state’s congressional delegation have died in the same year since Illinois in 1986.

House Dem Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar tells Melanie Zanona at #TribFest24 that Democratic lawmakers feared “the bottom could drop out” if Biden remained the nominee. “Our members were doing OK. They were out performing President Biden in polling. They were doing good. But it was tough.

Walz, in an interview with WCMU News today, was asked how a Harris-Walz administration would handle the Israel-Hamas war and if it would break with the Biden administration in any way. Here's his full answer:

Hunter Biden: "I will not subject my family to more pain, more invasions of privacy and needless embarrassment.  For all I have put them through over the years, I can spare them this, and so I have decided to plead guilty."

notable: no mention of Hamas or the hostages killed over the weekend

In Port a Prince Haiti, Secretary of State Antony Blinken makes clear he will not serve into a Harris administration if asked, saying that he "will relish spending a lot more time" with his kids after January 2025.

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News -- the father of Colt Gray has just been arrested in connection with the shooting at Apalachee High School. Per GBI, Colin Gray has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.

Baltimore market is getting Alsobrooks ads with Hogan repeatedly describing himself as a Republican, a conservative and indicating openness to supporting Trump

60-40 odds is not a "commanding" lead and you don't need a conspiracy theory to explain why the model shows Trump as moderately favored when the past few polls have given him a small lead in Pennsylvania.

New: When Harris ran in 2020, she said plastic straws should be banned. Today, her campaign told Axios that's no longer her position. "She doesn't support banning plastic straws," a campaign official told Axios. axios.com/2024/09/05/kam… Heres’s the 2019 clip:

Now getting Hogan ads with camera shots of him wearing mask and the January 6 attack on the Capitol that describe Hogan as standing up to Trump and for democracy

A prebuttal of this Harris campaign event on Sunday?

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abandons plan to seek votes in uncompetitive states and plans to seek to remove his name from more red state ballots, while still seeking ballot access in blue states. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Let's be clear on what's happening here: A masked person yells at a Jewish CNN journalist that she is taking "millions" from AIPAC, using the money to buy her house(!). This is antisemitic mad-libs, using Israel as a flimsy pretext to try and hound Jews out of the public square.

The Orioles are in sole possession of first place in the AL East

YouTube: “Following an indictment from the US Department of Justice and after careful review, we are terminating the Tenet Media channel and four channels operated by its owner Lauren Chen as part of our ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.”

The Garden of American Heroes was my favorite non-implemented Trump idea. We should do that one. slowboring.com/p/a-patriotic-…

These protesters target Dana at her home and this event because she’s Jewish. There is nothing about her coverage of the Israel-Hamas war that is different from most other news coverage, covering both Jewish/Israeli and Palestinian pain. This harassment is antisemitism.

The intel community assesses, per an ODNI official: -Russia: Still the preeminent foreign influence threat for this election -Iran: Making a greater effort than in past elections, with old tactics -China: Focused on down-ballot races, looking at candidates who threaten the PRC