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A List of Everything Trump Claims Is ‘Election Interference’ Portrait of Ed Kilgore By Ed Kilgore, political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/everything-trump-claims-is-election-interference.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part After the 2020 election, Donald Trump and his campaign spent a lot of time in courtrooms and on the airwaves seizing on every rumor or right-wing conspiracy theory about voter fraud to back up his claims he had a right to overturn a “stolen election.” The courts dismissed nearly all of his lawsuits, people laughed at his clownish lawyers, and ultimately his big bid on January 6 to seize the presidency failed. In his 2024 comeback bid, Trump hasn’t let go of any of those fatuous 2020 claims — and this time he’s dispensed with the toil and trouble of alleging tangible, verifiable violations of election or voting rules. Instead, Trump is relying on vast, sweeping claims of “elect...

Read the JD Vance Dossier We’re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document. Here’s why. Ken Klippenstein Sep 26, 2024 https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images We publish what others won’t. Subscribe to support our work and for updates on this breaking story. Type your email... Subscribe Behold the dossier. It reportedly comes from an alleged Iranian government hack of the Trump campaign, and since June, the news media has been sitting on it (and other documents), declining to publish in fear of finding itself at odds with the government’s campaign against “foreign malign influence.” I disagree. The dossier has been offered to me and I’ve decided to publish it because it’s of keen public interest in an election season. It’s a 271-page research paper the Trump campaign prepared to vet now vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verif...

Hypocrisy, Spinelessness, and the Triumph of Donald Trump 2KThe Atlantic by Mark Leibovich / Sep 9, 2024 at 5:33 AM//keep unread//hide Feedly AI found 1 Company (Fiserv) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/trump-gop-support-jd-vance-2024/679564/ See Insights Card Illustrations by Ben Hickey This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the summer of 2015, back when he was still talking to traitorous reporters like me, I spent extended stretches with Donald Trump. He was in the early phase of his first campaign for president, though he had quickly made himself the inescapable figure of that race—as he would in pretty much every Republican contest since. We would hop around his various clubs, buildings, holding rooms, limos, planes, golf carts, and mob scenes, Trump disgorging his usual bluster, slander, flattery, and obvious lies. The diatribes were exhausting and disjointed. But I was struck by one theme that Trump ke...

Full Transcript of Kamala Harris’s DNC Speech https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/read-kamala-harriss-speech-at-the-dnc-in-chicago.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Good evening. To my husband, Doug, thank you for being an incredible partner to me and father to Cole and Ella. And happy anniversary. I love you so very much. To Joe Biden — Mr. President. When I think about the path we have traveled together, I am filled with gratitude. Your record is extraordinary, as history will show. And your character is inspiring. Doug and I love you and Jill. And I am forever thankful to you both. And to Coach Tim Walz, you are going to be an incredible vice-president. And to the delegates and everyone who has put your faith in our campaign — your support is humbling. America, the path that led me here in recent weeks, was no doubt … unexpected. But I’m no stranger to unlikely journeys. My mother, Shyamala Harris, had one of her own. I miss h...

The Monumental Discovery That Changed How Humans See Themselves The unearthing of dinosaur bones transformed Victorian society—and long-held notions about our place in the world. The Atlantic by Brenda Wineapple / Aug 14, 2024 at 8:19 AM https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/08/discovery-fossils-dinosaurs-evolution-book-review/679454/ In his beguiling poem “Connoisseur of Chaos,” Wallace Stevens recalls a past era when religion was meant to explain everything, “when bishops’ books / Resolved the world.” But, as he reminds us, “we cannot go back to that.” There’s a kind of grace in the dynamic and even provisional nature of the world, he suggests. And in science, too, which seemed, particularly in the first half of the 19th century, to be on the brink of something wonderful—or terrifying, depending on your point of view. Two new books, Michael Taylor’s Impossible Monsters and Edward Dolnick’s Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, mark the end of the era that Stevens identified. The ...