Saturday, September 14, 2024

Weekend Links


Battleground Polls as of September 14 7:30 am PT:

National: Harris +2.7 (48.1 - 45.4)

Arizona: Trump +0.8

Georgia: Trump +0.7

Michigan: Harris +1.6

Nebraska d2: Harris +5.0

Nevada: Harris +0.1

North Carolina: Even 

Pennsylvania: Harris +0.7

Wisconsin: Harris +2.8

HEADLINES:

  • Bomb threats force second consecutive day of school closures in Springfield, Ohio (NBC)

  • Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up (Guardian)

  • Trump Claims Ignorance of Laura Loomer’s 9/11 Conspiracy Theories (NYT)

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene calls far-right activist Laura Loomer’s rhetoric ‘huge problem’ that ‘doesn’t represent MAGA’ (CNN)

  • Far-right activist Laura Loomer's access to Trump reveals a crisis in his campaign (NBC)

  • Young women are more liberal than they’ve been in decades, analysis finds (AP)

  • What if Trump Wins? (Rolling Stone)

  • The ‘feral 25-year-olds’ making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok (WP)

  • Pope Francis slams both US presidential candidates over what he calls anti-life policies (AP)

  • Democrats taunt ‘chicken’ Trump for refusing second debate with Harris (Guardian)

  • MAGA Scrambles to Excuse Trump Chickening Out of Second Debate (TNR)

  • 33,000 Boeing factory workers go on strike after rejecting contract offer (AP)

  • How Google altered a deal with publishers who couldn’t say no (Verge)

  • Tech companies don’t want to pay up for power-hungry data centers (WP)

  • Biden meets with British leader and brushes off Putin’s threats about weapons for Ukraine (AP)

  • Zelenskiy says 'victory plan' could push Russia to end war diplomatically (Reuters)

  • Afghan women defy Taliban and continue medical school in Scotland (WP)

  • ChatGPT maker says its new AI model can reason and think ‘much like a person’ (CNN)

  • Scientists Receive $10 Million Grant To Melt Stuff (The Onion)

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