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Chrissy Casilio, aka CrissyCaBoom, said much of her right wing rants on Twitter were the work of a savvy public relations specialist. Herself. Alan Pergament of The Buffalo News thinks not.

Bryon Brown’s administration has done Carl Paladino’s development company a favor.

State lawmakers say they want to reform campaign finance law. But only so much, reports Chris Bragg of The Buffalo News, who is off to a good start as the paper’s Albany correspondent.

State Republican leaders are upset with Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney  expected to bring charges against Donald Trump involving the alleged payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels. So much for being the party of law and order.

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Politico reports that the Federalist Society, the GOP’s farm team for federal judges, isn’t keen on democracy.

The Intercept tracks the many ways it has been reported that the Ronald Regan campaign undermined Jimmy Carter’s efforts to free American hostages held in Iran after the storming of the U.S. embassy.

We could be running out of fresh water sooner than later.

I usually catch Bruce Springsteen when he comes through town. I took a pass this time – tickets were kinda expensive. Reports are he’s as energetic as ever;  he played a seven song encore. Not too shabby for a guy 73 years old. Earlier in the set, he played one of my favorites.

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Republicans are scrambling to regain their footing after President Joe Biden dropped his re-election campaign and threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.

The 81-year-old president ended his campaign Sunday following weeks of mounting pressure from other Democrats over concerns about his age, and Barack Obama's former campaign manager David Plouffe told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Donald Trump and his GOP allies were left grasping at straws following the shakeup.

"I've been impressed by Kamala's interviews the last few weeks," Plouffe said. "She's a prosecutor, he's a criminal – I like the matchup.

"Listen, let's not forget, the biggest issue in this campaign was Joe Biden's age. If Donald Trump gets elected, he'll be older than Joe Biden [was] on Inauguration Day. This guy is showing serious signs of unfitness — yes, in terms of character and the positions he holds, but in terms of his decline. He is really, really having trouble reading the Teleprompter. Obviously, the [Republican National Convention] speech was bad in tone, but he couldn't follow instructions there. This should give us great pause."

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The former president had been counting on a rematch with his 2020 rival, and although his team has been preparing for the possibility that Biden would drop out, Plouffe made fun of Trump adviser Jason Miller for coming out of the chute by attacking Harris for supporting a ban on plastic straws for environmental reasons.

"I'm excited about this," Plouffe said. "I think the Trump campaign doesn't seem like they were as prepared for this switch as perhaps they might have been. They seem like they're kind of grasping. I guess they're talking about plastic straws and whatnot – not a compelling message."

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