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JD Vance outed as anonymous source behind story Trump used to justify banning Politico

Hoo boy. JD Vance, of all people, was the "anonymous" White House source behind at least one story that Donald Trump pointed to as evidence for why Politico deserved to lose its White House access.

According to The Washington Post, the Trump administration identified six Politico stories that it claimed had "threatened national security and/or spread falsehoods" to justify stripping the outlet of its credentials. In at least one of those stories, the source was actually Donald's own vice president, and his identity was withheld and referred to as a "senior administration official" at the explicit direction of the White House.

It's almost as if Trump makes rash decisions in a petulant rage, and his lackeys scramble for rationales after the fact. Almost.


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Fox News polling shifts FIFTEEN races in favor of Democrats in huge blow to Trump

Donald's go-to news network dropped an atom bomb of bad news on the MAGA cult leader this week, moving FIFTEEN House races closer to the Democratic column yesterday. SEVEN of those races are in Florida, where the GOP-dominated state legislature just gerrymandered maps to make them ostensibly more favorable to Trump.

Bring on the blue wave, people! We've got a country to get back on track.


Take Action: Tell Congress: Impeach and remove RFK Jr. now!


FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by RFK Jr. during Senate hearing

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Mary Peltola is on the verge of a historic win in deep-red Alaska


Mary Peltola for Senate: Beloved Alaskan Mary Peltola won Alaska’s ranked-choice primary by 8%, has a commanding lead in the polls, and just defeated her Republican opponent, Dan Sullivan, at the debate table. But the race isn't over yet, and there's still a lot of time between now and November for Republican dark-money PACs to unleash lies and smears against her. We've got to strike while the iron's hot. Will you chip in to help native Yup'ik fisherwoman Mary Peltola flip this critical red seat and make Trump a lame duck president?



Trump-appointed judge orders White House to unban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico

Welp, that didn't take long. US District Judge Timothy Kelly, whom Trump nominated in 2017, blocked the wannabe dictator's ban this morning and ordered the White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW, and Politico.

Kelly wrote the news outlets are "likely to succeed" in demonstrating that the Trump administration had not given the them "adequate due process" and issued a 14-day restraining order while the court reviews the case in full.

Better luck next ban, Donnie!


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White House rolls out new taxpayer-funded "love me" ad praising Trump


America's wannabe dictator rolled out a hyperbolic new television ad singing his praises, set to the titular refrain of the song "Love Me." It's standard MAGA propaganda, in other words — with a HUGE catch.

A disclaimer appears on screen halfway through the ad letting viewers know exactly who's footing the bill for the over-the-top slop: US taxpayers.

Another day, another grift. Ad infinitum, no pun intended.



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Trump rolls out the red carpet for Xi after years of slamming China over trade

Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet — literally — for Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife last night at Joint Base Andrews, despite spending the bulk of his second presidency agitating the leader of the world's second largest economy with a contentious trade war. Trump usually greets visiting world leaders at the White House, making yesterday's tarmac spectacle all the more peculiar.

He wasn't even up to the task of just standing there, either. In an instantly viral moment of aura-mogging, President Xi remained unfazed as Trump visibly grimaced and winced at the performative military flyover he definitely ordered himself.

The symbolism couldn't be any more heavy-handed.



Republican who backs Trump’s immigration crackdown begs for his relative to not be deported

A truly painful moment of "surely the leopards wouldn't eat MY face" for one card-carrying member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.



Republican who backs Trump’s immigration crackdown begs for his relative to not be deported

Former Maine Governor Paul LePage says his son’s father-in-law holds a valid work authorization permit and resides in the US legally

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Conservative host says private GOP midterm warning was so bad he almost kept it secret

Blaze Media show host Steve Deace took to nüTwitter yesterday to issue a terrifying warning...for Republicans. "Yesterday, Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a +15 district you're within the margin for error, if you're in a +10 district you're underwater, and that this might end being an even worse midterm environment than 2006,” wrote Deace.

If this is true, it would be an extinction-level event for the Republican Party. Let us remind you that in the 2006 midterm elections, Democrats won six Senate seats, 31 House seats, and six governorships, and did not lose a SINGLE incumbent. Let's get to work and make MAGA nothing than a traumatic memory.



MAGA podcast world dumping Trump in droves

Uh, it would appear the emperor also has no bros.



Trump's own Energy secretary throws cold water on his diesel ban proposal to bring down fuel costs at home


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Chris Wright said a US ban on ​diesel exports would not provide any substantive relief at the pump and could even end up driving gasoline and jet fuel prices higher, a stance that puts him squarely at odds with Donald Trump, who is scrambling for any way out of the fuel-price quagmire of his own making.

Diesel prices have reached record highs this year, thank in large part to Trump's catastrophic adventurism in Iran and Russia's years-long invasion of neighboring Ukraine — a war Donald vowed to end within 24 hours of returning to the presidency in January of 2025.



Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville sounds delusional "furry" alarm

The World's Dumbest American Senator™ has some incredibly important and definitely terrifying news for people who enjoy living in wildly irrational and unhinged fear: furries are taking over the airline industry!


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Hello, it’s Congresswoman Maxine Waters with an important message:

Donald Trump is a crazy, deranged, disturbed man. He has spent the past two years pushing the limits of his power, Constitution be damned.

That’s why I spoke out as the first Democrat in Congress to demand the 25th Amendment – because Donald Trump is unfit to hold office.

But with MAGA Republicans in control, our felon president will NEVER face checks and balances, let alone consequences for the terror he has wrought on our communities.

It is up to us to elect a Democratic majority who will finally tell Donald Trump, “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.” We only have 41 days to put in the work necessary to win, so I’m coming to you directly for your support. Can you commit at least $10 to my campaign and Equality PAC right now, so we have the resources to elect Democrats nationwide and defeat the Trump Presidency!


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➡️ Now, the work falls to us to make sure Democrats win this fall and WIPE TRUMP’S ORANGE STAIN off of our nation.

We’ve all seen the lengths Trump will go to stop any attempt to rein in his unchecked power.

He has threatened to cancel our midterm elections, do away with vote‑by‑mail, and throw out ballots that don’t vote his way.

That’s why I urgently need the support of Democrats like you for the next 41 days.

Just 41 days to WIN: Will you stand with me against Donald Trump by making a split donation to my reelection campaign and Equality PAC today? Your impact will be felt greatly by our teams, who are working day and night to elect a Democratic majority and defeat Trump’s MAGA Movement.

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ELECTIONS: As November’s general election approaches, Gateway Cities are grappling with how to improve voter turnout rates that have remained stubbornly lower than the state average, Hallie Claflin reports.

GAS TAX: Gov. Maura Healey is calling on legislative Democrats to suspend the state’s 24-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax for two months — a move that House Speaker Ron Mariano has already said he doesn’t support. Sam Drysdale at State House News Service has details.

OPINION: Adopting all-party primaries — as proposed by Question 3 on the November ballot — would boost competition in Massachusetts elections, something that the state desperately needs in order to fuel a more responsive state government, writes Tanisha Sullivan, president of the NAACP New England Area Conference.

 
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The temperature is continuing to climb in the growing feud between the state’s largest drinking water provider and communities that surround its main water source.

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking approval from state officials for a high-stakes push to draw an additional 20 million gallons of water per day from the Quabbin Reservoir so that, the agency says, it can serve new communities in the eastern part of the state.

It would by far be the largest such request since the MWRA was formed in 1984 — three times as much as the next-highest approved plan to pull more water out of the state’s largest drinking water source in order to serve a new community.

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The proposal is further stoking tensions that are already playing out in a separate dispute between rural, financially strapped communities that surround the Quabbin Reservoir and the agency charged with providing clean drinking water to its customers mostly in Eastern Massachusetts. The focus of that dispute is the towns’ agreement not to develop land in the Quabbin watershed in exchange for payments in lieu of taxes from the state that grossly undervalue what the land would be worth if the municipalities were able to collect property tax revenue on it.

For the MWRA, a quasi-public agency that serves 61 municipalities mostly in and around Greater Boston, the new water withdrawal plan, which requires the green light from the state Water Resources Commission, makes sense all around.

As the state pursues more housing and as municipal water sources and private wells suffer from contamination and dwindling supplies due to a two-year drought that’s only now starting to subside, the MWRA believes it can be the answer, selling more high-quality water from a Quabbin Reservoir that can withstand greater withdrawals.

Those living near the Quabbin disagree — and are mobilizing to kill the proposal. They fear the precedent such a move would set, and it feeds their sense that the agency will only continue to take the water that they protect and send it east to support growth there while their towns in Central Massachusetts face an increasingly alarming budgetary crunch.

“We’re not giving up until there’s fairness,” state Sen. Jo Comerford, a Democrat who represents Quabbin-area towns, said in an interview. “This is not what fairness looks like. This would set a really dangerous precedent — that’s not hyperbolic — that an entity like the MWRA can get basically a lock on the water to use at its discretion without the transparent, accountable public oversight on this precious resource.”

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Worcester County reported a 67 percent voter turnout rate in 2024. What — if anything — does this tell us about overall health in Central Massachusetts?

On Tuesday, October 6, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Hallie Claflin will be in Worcester to discuss the connection between civic participation and wellbeing with Elana Brochin of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations and Jerren Chang of Partners in Democracy.

 
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AFFORDABILITY WOES: Heading into an election season in which “affordability” is the defining issue, a majority of Bay Staters agree that Massachusetts is a better place to live than most other states and, simultaneously, that it remains too expensive, according to newly released polling data. Chris Lisinski has more.

OPINION: The decision to bypass a traditional community engagement and outreach process represents a missed opportunity for a collaborative journey between the city of Boston and local residents that delivers a White Stadium molded by a shared sense of place and unified sense of purpose, writes Scott Farmelant, principal consultant and owner of Boston Strategic Communications.

UNEMPLOYMENT WOES: Problems within the state’s unemployment assistance system predated the upheaval that CommonWealth Beacon documented this year, according to a new report from Auditor Diana DiZoglio that warned of slow payments and long call center waits. Jordan Wolman reports on the new findings and the ongoing lack of any legislative response.

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WEATHER: Get up to speed on this weekend’s Nor’easter set to lash New England’s coast. (GBH News)

IMMIGRATION: Quiet anxiety is setting in in New Bedford after federal authorities ramped up immigrant detentions in the South Coast city. (The New Bedford Light)

HOUSING: Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville are holding the line on affordable housing requirements in the face of developer pressure and significant housing shortages. (The Boston Globe – paywall)

TECH: Amazon plans to start delivering some packages by drone in Massachusetts, the first program of its kind in New England. (WBUR)

RATS: Boston is playing host to the second-ever National Urban Rat Summit where experts trade tips on how to stop these pesky mammals. (The Boston Globe – paywall)

 
 
 
 
 

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