In January, I began hearing similar stories from Democratic officials, activists, and donors who came away from interactions with Joe Biden disturbed by what they had seen. For @NYMag, I wrote about the conspiracy of silence to protect the president: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

NEW: Billionaire Elon Musk has created a PAC collecting voter data from those living in key states through an online "register to vote" form that does not directly register people to vote. All of this in an effort to help Donald Trump become president. cnb.cx/3A9hEMv

We found 144 articles focused on either or both Biden’s and Trump’s ages or mental acuities in the period studied, with 67% focused just on Biden’s age or mental acuity and only 7% on just Trump’s. mediamatters.org/washington-…

I’ve long said that we can learn more about our home by leaving it and looking at it from a distance — and since my student days, I’ve done just that for about three months every year. My mission: to equip and inspire Americans to venture beyond Orlando. And I’ve dedicated my life to teaching the value of thoughtful travel. What does that have to do with the 2024 US election? This election is deeper than right vs. left or Democrat vs. Republican. It’s a referendum on American democracy...with our Constitution on the chopping block. And I believe if everyone could travel before they vote, the political landscape of the USA would be vastly different. I see our world as a place filled with love, joy, and good people who share similar needs and concerns. I believe fear is for people who don’t get out much. The flip side of fear is understanding…and we gain understanding by traveling, whether that be a low-budget road trip south or north of the border or a month-long European vacation. Travelers learn that if a just and stable world is the goal, we need not walls but bridges. This upcoming Monday, Sept. 23, I’ll enjoy making my case in 75 minutes on a special edition of Monday Night Travel — “Rick Steves’ Travel as a Political Act” — before entertaining your questions live. I hope to see you there...and if you have friends who could use a little vicarious travel, please invite them to join you in registering for this virtual show at ricksteves.com/mnt. It’s free...fun...and extremely dangerous.

Trump: A tariff is a tax on a foreign country. A lot of people like to say it’s a tax on us. No… It’s is a tax that doesn’t affect our country.

New: From cutting children's disability benefits to allowing employers to pocket workers' tips, Trump tried to slash protections for the working poor in ways that have been forgotten by many. propub.li/3NPCggo

Trump Pulls Out of ABC Debate With Harris, Makes Pitch for Fox News variety.com/2024/tv/news/tru…

To everyone appalled by NYT's July 4 op-ed "Why I don't vote. And maybe you shouldn't either", note that 1) author Matthew Walther DID vote in both 2020 and 2022, and 2) he's an extremist Catholic graduate of Hillsdale College, part of the religious-right faction behind Jan 6. 1/

Arlington National Cemetery confirmed an incident took place between Trump campaign members and cemetery staff when former President Trump visited to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the Abbey Gate attack in Afghanistan. @GarrettHaake reports on what happened.

Trump pounds immigration message after Harris' border visit trib.al/gqyzCqf

Conspiracy theories have consequences

WATCH: Here’s the video of @VP starting her day in Wisconsin talking about my exchange with Speaker Johnson for @CitrusTVNews. 🚨

"Biden Campaign Ad Paints Trump as a Felon" It is amazing the lengths legacy media goes to soft- peddle basic facts about Trump. He IS a convicted felon & this new Biden ad clearly says that. The @nytimes headline and story about the ad should say it plainly, too. COME ON.

New: CBP has scanning equipment that could stop more fentanyl crossing the border, but it’s sitting in a warehouse because Congress won’t fund the installation nbcnews.com/politics/immigra… @strickdc @DidiMartinez5

Breaking: 3 weeks before early voting MAGA majority on Georgia state election board votes to require hand count of ballots, which will make counting longer, costlier & more inaccurate. Will be used as yet another pretext for GOP boards not to certify election if Harris wins

🚨JD Vance skipped 45 of the last 45 Senate votes. Imagine asking for a promotion when you’re not doing your job?

Trump issues statement from Gold Star families defending Arlington Cemetery visit and ripping Harris apnews.com/article/trump-har…

The New York Times website is leading with 3 stories on Biden's age and has zero stories on Trump's crackpot claim that the left is plotting to rename the state of Pennsylvania.

New: Five secretaries of state plan to send an open letter to Elon Musk, urging him to “immediately implement changes” to X’s AI chatbot Grok, after it shared with millions of users false information suggesting that Kamala Harris was not eligible to appear on the 2024 ballot

Jake Tapper is shocked by the poll showing 42% of Republican voters in Iowa are more likely to vote for a candidate who uses Nazi language about immigrants

NBC files Equal Time notice for Harris' "SNL" appearance after FCC chief slams network trib.al/xgHszah

From NPR’s ⁦@QuilLawrence:⁩ Arlington National Cemetery officials say Trump campaign staff verbally abused and pushed aside cemetery official who objected to filming and photography at gravesites More below and to follow on NPR

A PSA from James Spann:

Scott: We can't pass a bill that possibly would make it harder for Trump to do his job.

Biden Laughs As Reporters Scream About George Clooney For Solid Minute After World Leader Meeting mediaite.com/a/vefsn via @mediaite

Things are very heated at The White House Briefing

.@realDonaldTrump serves up french fries behind the counter during a visit to McDonalds in Feasterville-Trevose, PA.

Sen. Tom Cotton: Americans won't want Harris to lead when they "get a better look at her and her radical positions" cbsn.ws/4c7v9K0

Trump rolled out Birtherism 2.0 today and it did not go well

Just published: Mrs. Alito's conflict with her neighbors in Virginia escalated so much that the neighbors called the police. But that final incident, which Justice Alito said helped spur his wife to raise the upside-down flag, happened a month after the flag was up. nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/ju…

This is a very big deal⤵️ A Musk election interference effort that tricks people in swing states into thinking they've registered to vote. Read/ share.

News outlets were leaked insider material from the Trump campaign. They chose not to print it apnews.com/article/trump-van…

BREAKING: Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, a UN report says. apnews.com/article/iaea-iran…

Kroger's profit was up 35.6% from '22 to '23. Publix was up 49% from '22 to '23. That's why Food prices are so high.

Trump has done all of *eight* events since he debated Biden. That's less than one and a half events a week for the past six weeks and yet no one in the media is asking why he's basically not even running for President. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…

Remarkable epilogue to Bob Woodward's WAR, out today: He says "many of the news-making scenes in my prior books are stories of failures, mismanagement, dishonesty and the corruption of executive power," but in the Biden White House he found "steady and purposeful leadership."

After spending the past month attacking Biden’s mental acuity, McCarthy warns against lowering expectations: I remember talking to him coming back from a g7 meeting. He could tell me all the different meetings he had. He was fully engaged…

Please explain to me how a TikTok user is doing better investigating than every mainstream news outlet that reported on this lady’s speech? She’s a fraud.

POLL: 58% of voters say Trump is too old to be president.

Cory Booker knocks down the idea that Harris hasn't been specific on policy, "I don't understand where this so-called vagary comes from. She released a pretty specific detailed plan on a lot of her economic agenda." *This criticism comes from the media echoing Trump's campaign.

I’ve hesitated to say this at the risk of sounding hyperbolic, but with last week’s big GDP revisions, there is no denying it: This is among the best performing economies in my 35+ years as an economist. Economic growth is rip-roaring, with real GDP up 3% over the past year. Unemployment is low at near 4%, consistent with full employment. Inflation is fast closing in on Fed’s 2% target - grocery prices, rents and gas prices are flat to down over the past more than a year. Households’ financial obligations are light, and set to get lighter with the Fed cutting rates. House prices have never been higher, and most homeowners have more equity in their homes than ever. Corporate profits are robust, and the stock market is hitting a record high on a seemingly daily basis. Of course there are blemishes, as lower-income households are struggling financially, there is a severe shortage of affordable homes, and the government is running large budget deficits. And things could change quickly. There are plenty of threats. But in my time as an economist, the economy has rarely looked better.

“Evan is free and on his way home.” @WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was released in a multilateral prisoner exchange in Ankara, Turkey, earlier today after 491 days of wrongful detention in Russia. Read the full statement from Almar Latour, Publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of Dow Jones, and Emma Tucker, Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal: bit.ly/4cbFzrQ #IStandWithEvan

If age is going to be a big issue this campaign — and all indications are that it is and hurts Biden — then Trump’s inability to stay awake during his criminal trial should be a very big deal publicnotice.co/p/trump-cour…

Elon Musk: Former undocumented worker Great reporting from my great Washington Post colleagues, @mariasacchetti, @faizsays and @NickMiroff

and he's done. hopefully that was the last Trump rally ever. here's how it ended.

SCOOP: We got a recording of an RNC training session in which an election-integrity director downplays the threat of noncitizen voting and touts protections to stop such votes. The video contradicts Trump's baseless claims of widespread noncitizen voting. propublica.org/article/trump…

With war raging in Israel, the @WhiteHouse called a lid for @JoeBiden at 11:46am.

Trump: “Get out and vote just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years it will be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore...In four years you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good your not gonna have to vote.”

The chyron juxtaposed with the stock ticker in the corner is *chef's kiss*

Keep up the pressure. It's working. CBS is now "leaving open the possibility" moderators may fact check ALL DAY: Remind 'em of the code of journalistic ethics. That they're enabling fascism/Putinism if they don't fact check. That it's easy to switch from CBS to ABC News

New: The unhinged MAGA “meme team” apparently behind Trump's “unified Reich” video: “I hope everything goes back to the 1950s” mediamatters.org/donald-trum…