Apparently the whole JD Vance "immigrants are eating cats" story was based on a single police report about a missing cat that turned up 2 days later

@Nzall lol

Guardian: Ex-Trump advisers help to grow pro-Russia website that spreads misinformation

Esquire: Trump’s Latest Grift Just Dropped: He’s Getting Into Crypto

> On the livestream, he did not address the project directly, leaving the details to the two entrepreneurs, Chase Herro and Zachary Folkman. Mr. Herro has described himself as “the dirtbag of the Internet,” while Mr. Folkman used to teach classes on how to seduce women.

> Chase Herro has sold a lot of things in his career. Weed. Weight-loss “colon cleanses.” A $149-a-month get-rich-quick class. Now he’s adding another line to his resume: the Trump family’s crypto guru....“You can literally sell s--- in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin, for a billion dollars if the story’s right, because people will buy it,”

HuffPost: 'Daily Show' Has Brutal Warning For 'F**king Dummies' Investing In Trump's New Scam

Bloomberg: Microsoft Executive Warns of Election Meddling in Final 48 Hours

Guardian: Republicans make new push for Nebraska to change its voting rules in Trump's favor

> The midwestern state is one of two in the nation, along with Maine, that allocates votes by congressional district. Nebraska is heavily Republican, but the district around its largest city Omaha leans Democratic and voted for Joe Biden in 2020.

> In certain scenarios, its electoral vote could decide the election, and in a letter to governor Jim Pillen and speaker of the Nebraska legislature John Arch, both Republicans, the state’s three representatives and two senators call on them to switch to a winner-take-all system for allocating the state’s votes.

NBC News: Lindsey Graham visits Nebraska on behalf of Trump campaign to push for electoral vote change

> One thing Donald Trump’s campaign may want to bear in mind: Democratic lawmakers in Maine, the other state that allocates its electoral votes by congressional district, have raised changing to a winner-take-all system if Nebraska does so, Maine Public reports. Maine is generally a blue state but one of its congressional districts leans Republican, meaning the change would effectively negate Nebraska’s shift, by giving all of Maine’s electoral votes to the Democrats.

USA Today: Senate panel approves civil, criminal contempt actions for Steward Health Care CEO

Daily Beast: Elon Musk Boosts a Bogus Bomb Claim and Election Baloney in Wild X Blitz

> Elon Musk amplified a flurry of false claims and misinformation Wednesday in a period of online activity which, even by his own standards, was fairly unhinged.

> The billionaire edgelord is no stranger to a reckless post, already attracting the ire of the White House this week over a tweet in which he wrote “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.” Musk deleted that post— which came just hours after the second apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump—while passing it off as a joke, though the Secret Service apparently didn’t see the funny side.

> But on Wednesday, Musk retweeted an X post to his nearly 200 million followers claiming there was a bomb threat in a car near a planned Trump rally on Long Island. The original poster deleted their tweet after the claim was shown to be wrong, while Musk’s own post about the matter—in which he’d written “wow” in response to the fake claim—remains live as of Thursday morning.

> The Tesla boss on Wednesday also reshared a post alleging that ABC News had “falsely claimed the Springfield City Manager refuted Trump’s debate statement” about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio. The person speaking in the post’s video, however, was not the city manager, CNN reports. It was actually Springfield resident making unproven claims based on comments that he had “heard.”

> The post’s creator atrributed the map to Nate Silver, the pollster founder of FiveThirtyEight who now publishes on his Substack blog Silver Bulletin. But the map wasn’t real, with the actual map shared on Silver’s blog showing that—in contradiction to the poster’s claims—the race remains, in Silver’s words, a “tossup.”

Guardian: Uncommitted movement declines to endorse Harris – but warns against Trump presidency

> “At this time, our movement opposes a Donald Trump presidency whose agenda includes plans to accelerate the killing in Gaza while intensifying the suppression of anti-war organizing,” said Alawieh. “And our movement is not recommending a third-party vote in the presidential election, especially as third-party votes in key swing states could help inadvertently deliver a Trump presidency, given our country’s broken electoral college system.”

> “We urge uncommitted voters to register anti-Trump votes and vote up and down the ballot. Our focus remains on building this anti-war coalition, both inside and outside the Democratic party,” said Layla Elabed, a leader of the Uncommitted National Movement and a Palestinian American.

‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum

he's cancelled events for the day and is rumored to be considering dropping out

CNN: ‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum

@BradC wait, now he is thinking about dropping out? Wow.

As if this was the first time some dirt got unearthed.

The worrying thing is that people knew dude was a Nazi sympathizer and yet GOP embraced him and he won the primary.

@User1865345 I see a mix of headlines, from "Robinson under pressure to withdraw" to "Robinson vows to continue", so I guess we'll see how it all shakes out