Joe Biden is bring economic strength and jobs to Wisconsin; opening A.I. Microsoft research center in Racine.
Donald Trump, we are talking about his mushroom pee-pee, a night with a porn star while his new wife and 4 month old are back in NY.
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[The Washington Post]: Company fined $650K for hiring children to clean meatpacking plants
A judge approved a consent order finding that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC sent teens to clean razor-edged machinery with dangerous chemicals. By María Luisa Paúl
Written like a ‘D-‘ Jr high school student’s, written-last-minute paper; rambling, run-on sentences, non sensical resolution to remove Speaker Mike Johnson.
I mean so embarrassingly badly written- what a waste of time!
Wow. [Gifted article, NYTimes]: R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain. By Susanne Craig
[The Washington Post]: Judge indefinitely delays Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida U.S. Judge Aileen M. Cannon said there are too many pre-trial issues to address to set a new trial date now By Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett
[NYTimes]: Susan Necheles, the defense lawyer, has lodged objection after objection. Objections are meant to either cut off testimony or have it stricken from the official record entirely. We can’t tell you exactly what her rate of success has been, but it’s way higher than normal. The judge is accepting her objections and disrupting Stormy Daniels’s testimony. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: Stormy Daniels says that during her dinner with Trump, she asked about his wife. He told her, she says, not to worry because the two did not “even sleep in the same room.” Trump and Melania were married in 2005, the year before this encounter. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: Stormy Daniels is now talking about meeting Trump for dinner. She says that when he first emerged from his hotel suite, he was wearing “silk or satin” pajamas, which Daniels compared to those often sported by Hugh Hefner. She asked him to change, and he returned in more standard dress clothes. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: It was clear this morning before the courtroom opened that today would be different. Many reporters anticipated that Stormy Daniels was likely the next witness, and the lines formed earlier. By Maggie Haberman
[NYTimes]: Live Updates: Stormy Daniels Is Expected to Testify in Trump’s Trial
Ms. Daniels, who received $130,000 in hush money to keep silent about her story of having had sex with Donald J. Trump, is at the center of the case against him.
Very, important read. [Gifted Article, The Atlantic]: Democracy Is Losing the Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. By Anne Applebaum.
"They do so with the goal of electing Trump, whose second presidency would damage the image of democracy around the world, as well as the stability of democracy in America, even further.
