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#10 Harris Told ACLU in 2019 She Supports Cuts to Ice Funding and Providing Gender Transition Surgery to Detained Migrants - Andrew Kaczynski for CNN, Donald Trump Jr., and Robby Starbuck on X
As Kamala Harris pivots to the political center in her campaign for president, a 2019 questionnaire from a leading civil rights organization spotlights her past support for left-wing causes such as taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners. In an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire then-Sen. Harris filled out as a candidate for president in 2020, she also expressed support for decriminalizing federal drug possession for personal use, and for sweeping reductions to Immigration and Custom Enforcement operations, including drastic cuts in ICE funding and an open-ended pledge to “end” immigration detention. The questionnaire has received scant media attention, and a spokesperson for the ACLU claimed it had remained live from 2019...
#9 Here Are the Rules for Tonight’s Presidential Debate Between Trump and Harris - Kathryn Watson for CNN, Breanna Morello, Tulsi Gabbard, and Vivek Ramaswamy on X
ormer President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet for their first debate on Tuesday at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center in a showdown that could define the rest of the presidential campaign. The debate, which begins at 9 p.m. ET, is being hosted by ABC News. There will be no live audience and no opening statements, according to rules the network released last week. The two candidates will have under two minutes to deliver closing statements. Harris and Trump won't be able to ask questions of each other. Only the moderators — ABC's David Muir and Linsey Davis — are permitted to ask questions...
#8 GOP Rebellion Puts Mike Johnson’s Spending Plan on Notice - Hans Nichols and Justin Green for Axios, Mike Lee, and Tim Burchett/Thomas Massie on X
House Speaker Mike Johnson is on notice he might have to abort his government funding plan. Why it matters: Johnson has the most at stake if he quickly folds ahead of the Oct. 1 government funding deadline, so he's girding for a tough fight. At least five GOP lawmakers have indicated they are opposed to Johnson's six-month spending plan."I've made it clear to [leadership] that I'll be a 'no' on the CR," said Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) "No one should worry — I believe we can get this job done," Johnson toldAxios' Juliegrace Brufke shortly after arriving at the Capitol today. But going into Tuesday, Johnson is on course to lose on both GOP priorities for a funding stopgap. Democratic leaders are in no mood to help...
#7 Melania Trump Demands Answers to the Mystery Behind Donald’s Assassination Attempt: ‘There Is Definitely More to This Story' - Emily Goodin for Daily Mail, Benny Johnson, and Ian Miles Cheong on X
Melania Trump released a new video on Tuesday, questioning law enforcement's role in the assassination attempt on her husband Donald Trump. She indicated the full story wasn't being told and hinted at a conspiracy, saying there's 'more to the story' and 'we need to uncover the truth.' 'The attempt to end my husband's life was a horrible, distressing experience,' she said in the 10-second video posted to her social media accounts...
#6 MPs Want to Haul Elon Musk Before Parliament After Brazen UK Riot Posts Stoke Tensions - Sophie Huskisson for The Mirror, Doge Designer, and Mario Nawfal on X
Elon Musk has been branded “deeply irresponsible” for stoking tensions in the UK on his social media site X/ Twitter. The multi-billionaire, who bought the tech firm in 2022, clashed with Prime Minister Keir Starmer in a war of words over riots across our country. Mr. Musk published a stream of posts on the crisis, sharing videos from right-wing influencers and memes about the UK to his 193 million followers...
#5 House Pols Demand Harris-Biden Admin Explain ‘Lapses in Vetting’ That Allowed a Communist Cuban Official to Migrate to the US - Victor Nava for The New York Post, and Alberto de la Cruz on X
Several House Republican lawmakers demanded answers from the Harris-Biden administration on Monday as to why a former top Cuban Communist Party official was issued an immigrant visa, allowing him to legally migrate to the US. Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Carlos Giménez (R-Fla.), María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) slammed the “lapses in vetting” that allowed Manuel Menendez Castellanos to fly into Miami via a US-run visa parole program for Cubans, in letters sent to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
#4 Maryland Bill Aims To Protect Farms From Eminent Domain Threat For New AI Data Center Power Lines - Tyler Durden ZeroHedge, Gary Wentworth on X
Powering up America by upgrading power grids for artificial intelligence data centers, onshoring manufacturing trends, and electrifying the broader economy will require thousands of miles of new transmission lines nationwide. Existing transmission lines will be upgraded, but new lines will also be needed, resulting in the seizure of private property through eminent domain. Several state lawmakers in Maryland plan to introduce new legislation that will address developer Public Service Enterprise Group, or PSEG, which is seeking to build 70 miles of new high-voltage power lines that zigzag through Baltimore, Carroll, and Frederick Counties in a project called the "Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project." The upgraded transmission lines will increase power load capacity...
#3 ‘They’re Gonna Pay For It’: A Single Texas Billionaire May Be About To Force Greenpeace USA Into Bankruptcy - Nick Pope for The Daily Caller, WSJ Business News, and Sassychick on X
The Texas billionaire owner of a major pipeline company is on the precipice of potentially bankrupting Greenpeace USA, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Kelcy Warren’s company, Energy Transfer, is seeking legal recourse against Greenpeace’s American arm in court, alleging that several Greenpeace USA entities paid for attacks against the company’s Dakota Access Pipeline and proliferated misinformation about the firm and its project in 2016, according to the WSJ. At the time, the project was a flashpoint in the environmental movement’s crusade against major fossil fuel infrastructure developments, and it was ultimately completed in 2017.
#2 Old-Fashioned Blimp to Keep a Watchful Eye on Migrant Border Crossings in New Mexico - Perry Chiaramonte for The Sun, The NYSun and EMP Intelligence Net on X
Customs and Border Protection will launch a Goodyear-style blimp to provide surveillance from up to 15,000 feet in the sky for a bird’s eye view of a stretch of the southern border known as a high-traffic smuggling corridor. The bulbous airship, known as a Tethered Aerostat Radar System, was dropped off at the Border Patrol’s Santa Teresa Station in southern New Mexico and is due to be launched into the air within the next few days to provide round-the-clock surveillance, according to Border Report...
#1 Missouri Judge’s Ruling Throws Last-Minute Curveball in Abortion Ballot Fight - Nathaniel Weixel for The Hill, Life News, Jennifer Bukowsky, and Dr. Bob Onder on X
The fate of an abortion rights amendment in Missouri will be in the hands of the state supreme court Tuesday after a judge ruled late Friday that the amendment violated state law. The ruling from Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh was a last-minute curveball that has suddenly thrown into doubt the future of a push to expand abortion access in the deep-red state, as the amendment would undo the state’s near-total abortion ban...
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