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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.

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    You can now watch talks from XOXO 2024.

    If you have FOMO about missing out on the very last XOXO festival, the official video recordings have begun rolling out one by one.

    Here’s my own talk, mostly about the harassment campaign that upended my life. I previously wrote about the experience as part of The Verge’s The Year Twitter Died package.

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    When is a retweet an official act?

    Earlier this summer, SCOTUS ruled that Trump is “absolutely immune” for any official acts on January 6. In an October Non-Surprise, prosecutors are arguing that Trump is being charged for unofficial acts.

    A partly-unsealed brief asserts, among other things, that Trump used his Twitter in a personal capacity while attempting to overturn the 2020 election, by tweeting and retweeting conspiracy theories and attacks on public officials. Although Trump sometimes tweeted about official White House business,

    ... he also regularly used the account to post on unambiguously private matters — for example, when he posted a picture of himself golfing with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, and re-tweeted a Trump Organization post about the Trump New York hotel being “named the # 1 ‘Best Hotel in the World!’”

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    “You can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater. That’s the test, that’s the Supreme Court test,” said Tim Walz in tonight’s debate.

    It is not the Supreme Court test. The SCOTUS case the quote is from was overturned in 1969, when the court replaced the “clear and present danger” test with the Brandenburg test.

    Perhaps most incredibly, Yale Law School graduate JD Vance followed up and uncritically repeated the “fire in a crowded theater” phrase.

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    Trump: “I got the oil business going like nobody’s done before.”

    Meanwhile, Trump claims that under a Harris presidency, “Oil will be dead. Fossil fuel will be dead. We’ll go back to windmills and we’ll go back to solar.”

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    Harris: “I will not ban fracking.”

    I will not ban fracking. I have not banned fracking as Vice President of the United States and in fact I was the tie breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act which opened new leases on fracking.

    Climate advocates previously hoped Harris would take a tougher stance against fracking. This statement in tonight’s debate repeats a promise she made in her CNN interview last month.

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    Harris wants to “win the race on AI and quantum computing.”

    In tonight’s debate, she describes her China policy as making sure the US “wins the competition for the 21st century” through investments in “American-based technology,” claiming that under Trump, American chips were sold to China and used to modernize its military.

    Trump counters, “They bought their chips from Taiwan. We hardly make chips anymore because of philosophies like they have.” He then winds himself up into a tirade on Marxism?

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    Who could have seen this coming?

    404 Media reached out to purported clients of Jacob Wohl’s AI lobbying firm. Six of them — including Microsoft, Palantir, and Pfizer — said they’d never heard of it. The other six didn’t respond.

    Wohl, who pleaded guilty to fraud in 2022, is perhaps best known for a series of “spectacularly failed smear attempts” directed at figures like Robert Mueller, Pete Buttigieg, and Elizabeth Warren.