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    Republican city official in Philadelphia calls Trump’s post on Truth Social “disinformation.”

    In a post on X, City Commissioner Seth Bluestein rejects Donald Trump’s claim that there is “cheating” in Philadelphia, saying there is “absolutely no truth to this allegation.” In a follow-up post he said Philadelphia officials “have been in regular contact with the RNC” as part of monitoring potential irregularities.

    The Verge’s Lauren Feiner previously interviewed Bluestein, a Republican, about how Philadelphia officials prepared for the election while braced for an onslaught of misinformation.

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    Take it with a grain of salt.

    Elon Musk, a man who had to be sued in the Delaware Court of Chancery to buy Twitter after signing a deal to buy Twitter, is now promising that his super PAC will remain active in American politics after this election. The New York Times reports:

    Elon Musk just confirmed on X Spaces for the first time that he is going to keep being a big player in American politics after today, saying his super PAC would “weigh in heavily” in the next midterms and judicial elections. “America PAC is going to keep going after this election — and preparing for the midterms and any intermediate elections, as well as looking at elections at the district attorney and sort of judicial levels.”

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    Voting hours are extended in Fulton County, Georgia, where fake bomb threats prompted evacuation.

    Five polling locations in Fulton County will have their hours extended, per a judicial order.

    Earlier today the FBI issued a statement that “polling locations in several states” had received bomb threats, “many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains.”

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    He’s still got it!

    An hour ago, with neither reason or justification, Trump claimed there was “cheating” in Philadelphia. Apparently unwilling to settle for merely undermining faith in the electoral process, the former president is now saying on Truth Social that “Heavy Law Enforcement” is in Philadelphia and Detroit.

    No, I don’t know what he’s talking about either.

    Trump on Truth Social, posting: “Philadelphia and Detroit! Heavy Law Enforcement is there!!!”
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    Very cool and very normal!

    Former president Donald Trump is already alleging election irregularities in Pennsylvania, a swing state where he previously disputed election results in 2020. On Truth Social, he claims that “Law Enforcement coming!!!” — something he does not at present have authority over.

    On X, Philadelphia City Commission Seth Bluestein says there is “absolutely no truth to this allegation.”

    Trump’s unwillingness to accept valid election results definitely did not result in anything weird or bad in early January 2021.

    Trump’s takeover of the entire legal system hinges on this election

    Conservative courts are strangling the functions of government. Another round of Trump judges will finish us.

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    Here’s a “grim bit of trivia” about the FTC’s click-to-cancel rule:

    One of the lawyers suing to block the immensely popular new Federal Trade Commission regulation happens to be the wife of one of the judges sitting on that appeals court. Don’t worry though:

    Federal law mandates that judges recuse from cases in which their spouse represents a party, so even if [James] Ho, one of the Fifth Circuit’s thirstiest culture warriors, were assigned to the panel, her involvement is less a five-alarm legal ethics fire than a grim bit of trivia about just how tight-knit the conservative legal movement can be.

    (Relatedly, last year, Ian Millhiser at Vox called James Ho “the edgelord of the federal judiciary,” describing him as “a Breitbart comments forum come to life.”)

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    Democracy dies in darkness?

    The Washington Post is not endorsing a presidential candidate this year, for the first time since 1988. The editorial is bylined by publisher and CEO Will Lewis.

    Sources told NPR that the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, hired Lewis last year “in part for his ability to get along with powerful conservative figures, including [Rupert] Murdoch.” According to Columbia Journalism Review, a draft endorsing Harris had already been approved by an editor a week before it was suddenly killed.

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    How many people are donating to Trump in your neighborhood?

    Or Harris, for that matter. It’s not easy to make campaign finance data interesting, but The Washington Post has created this very cool interactive map showing the number of donors and total amount raised for either candidate by zip code.