New in PN: "Harris is succeeding in accomplishing something none of Trump’s adversaries have: Turning off his political oxygen supply by refusing to engage with his manufactured spectacles or with the often substance-free issues that preoccupy the press" publicnotice.co/p/kamala-harri…

Wow: John McCain’s son is publicly speaking out about Trump’s appearance at Arlington, calling it a ‘violation’ that turned cemetery into campaign backdrop. In response, he is changing his voter registration to Democrat and endorsing Harris. cnn.com/2024/09/03/pol…

Recommend this whole post by davidrlurie on Public Notice. About how KH campaign has absorbed the reality of how the big-time press works now, and adjusted to it. publicnotice.co/p/kamala-harri…

How can the Washington Post not understand that far more people read the headlines than the stories? This fact-check headline spreads a pro-Trump lie and requires us to click on the story and read or skip 24 paragraphs to get to the bottom line: Three Pinocchios, mostly false.

Frances Tiafoe: “I’m the son of immigrant parents from Sierra Leone. When I was a kid, my dad got a construction job at College Park Tennis Club in 1999, a new tennis academy in the D.C. area. While my dad worked, I picked up the game during nights and weekends at the facility

Lively roundtable on media trends with Ashley Parker Alex Mahadevan Margaret Sullivan Sadé Muhammad and Kelsey Russell happening NOW. youtube.com/live/Tjld4frBx…

BREAKING: Liz Cheney just endorsed Vice President Harris. "I don't believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates' names — particularly in swing states." "Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting

A sign of how things are going after the Tenet indictment: prominent GOP attorney Harmeet Dhillon reminds everyone don’t talk to the cops without a lawyer.

Grifting for dark money is media’s most vibrant business model - see pink slime publications, PAC dark money in news, ‘influencers’ paid by god knows who. Now Russia and the right wing manosphere. It’s simultaneously unAmerican and yet somehow the most American thing ever …

Student-run, independent paper at University of Florida with another in a series of big scoops on former Sen. Ben Sasse’s spending as university president:

Yay, Jessie!

Last year, the student responsible for today’s shooting threatened to kill people at school. Because there wasn’t “probable cause,” the FBI made no arrests. Georgia doesn’t have a red flag law, so police also didn’t remove guns from the 13 year old’s home. wsbtv.com/news/local/bar…

my favorite new york social code is when a lone person needs to get a stroller up the subway stairs. nearly instantly, a stranger picks up the other end of the stroller, helps carry it up, then departs as quickly as they appeared. no words are exchanged. eye contact is minimal.

1) Yes, the column by Greg Sargent is very forceful and important. 2) Yes, Mike Barnicle had an important and on-point blast this morning about the incredible, irresponsible, and un-changing "normalization" by main outlets. 3) Yes, Trump's performance last night would lead to

News: Blaze Media has fired Lauren Chen, who was linked to Russian influence operation semafor.com/article/09/05/…

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It really is jarring to read Trump's comments as he actually delivers them vs. how they're eventually cleaned up in mainstream news outlets.

This was the topic of my The New Republic piece from yesterday newrepublic.com/article/185530…

Great points from Parker Molloy on the media's “sanewashing” of Trump’s statements newrepublic.com/article/185530…

NPR is reporting the identities of two Trump staffers involved in the recent altercation at Arlington National Cemetery via stephen fowler Quil Lawrence Tom Bowman