New: In a move that supporters of Florida's abortion amendment fear could be “political interference,” Ron DeSantis administration is examining tens of thousands of petitions for "suspected fraudsters." w/Lawrence Mower Romy Ellenbogen tampabay.com/news/florida-p…

Russian money was funneled to right-wing creators through pro-Trump media outlet, prosecutors say ⁦Brandy Zadrozny⁩ ⁦Lisa Rubin⁩ ⁦Ryan J. Reilly⁩ ⁦David Ingram⁩ nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

$400k/month no-questions-asked contracts, totally normal in the famously flush and well-paying journalism industry

As noted in the story, leaking personnel files has been a trend with DeSantis' administration. Also a trend: Refusing to release records requested by journalists and the public.

Trump’s own campaign could not find a single example of this “school secretly sends child for gender-affirming surgery without parental consent” thing having ever happened anywhere in the US. Experts say it has not and could not. It’s a lie. cnn.com/2024/09/04/pol…

“Florida GOP Chairman Evan Power has not responded to interview requests from the Orlando Sentinel.” “Rep. David Smith said he hasn’t ‘read anything’ about the indictment and doesn’t know Amesty well.”

Trump is now proposing two of the largest-ever federal arrests of people living in America, including U.S. citizens, if he's re-elected axios.com/newsletters/ax…

A remarkable look into how the "quality" British press gets made: A The Telegraph reporter just lifts an anecdote from that day's The New York Times — but he doesn't actually understand it, so he writes that an acting teacher who died in 1982 is somehow doing debate prep for Harris.

It has now been 24 hours since Tyreek Hill was stopped and handcuffed and the Miami-Dade Police is still refusing to release the body cam video. If Daniella Levine Cava and the Police Director claim to want transparency then they should release the video immediately CBS News Miami

Shouted at a pinned man, who is offering no resistance: “When we tell you to do something, you do it. ... You're a little f***ing confused. ... Stop crying."

It’s always instructive to see how people who don’t routinely encounter police terminology react to it. And a reminder not to uncritically repeat it.

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CNN Flash Poll: Debate watchers said, 63% to 37%, that Harris turned in a better performance onstage in Philadelphia. Prior to the debate, the same voters were evenly split on which candidate would perform more strongly. cnn.com/2024/09/11/pol…

NEW: Fraudulent petition signatures cited by the DeSantis administration to justify its probe of Amendment 4 had already been rejected by a local supervisor of elections. They were never counted toward the total that got the initiative on the ballot. axios.com/local/tampa-ba…

DeSantis administration cites rejected signatures to justify abortion amendment probe axios.com/local/tampa-ba…

Looks pretty tolerated at the moment semafor.com/article/09/11/…

Who Trump was traveling with this week. A sampling of Loomer’s tweets tonight. “Kamala Harris is of INDIAN heritage and she’s on a mission to REPLACE YOU AND YOUR VOTES with illegal invaders from every third world crevasse of the world.”