James Downie

NBC: "DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret." The payments were made shortly after the Miami Herald began publishing @jkbjournalist.bsky.social's investigative series: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Bloomberg: "US factory activity shrank in August for a sixth straight month, driven by a pullback in production that shows manufacturing remains bogged down by higher import duties." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CBS/YouGov poll: – 57% oppose deploying the National Guard to DC – 58% oppose deployments to other cities – Just 36% on independents support deployments Pundits who are imagining a hypothetical voter should stop claiming that voter would support these deployments: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-n...

Absolutely right sir. You should make that statement every day through the midterms.

It's *very* early, but at this moment, Ossoff is the only potential candidate who has the appeal to multiple ideological factions that Obama did going into the 2008 primary.

Notably, unlike the ABC report, the Times does not report this fund as an alternative to the $10 billion from the IRS. So Trump could try for both.

I think any story about Third Way needs to start with the fact that their original pitch for this presidential cycle was "Democrats need to be more like Keir Starmer."

"Farmers like Sparrow have been among the most reliable Republican voters in the country. That may be changing. Sparrow, a self-described “hardcore Republican,” said economic headwinds facing U.S. farmers have convinced him and many of his fellow farmers to skip the polls altogether this November."