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He's nowhere near as effective as his many exiled predecessors.

The ever-booked Mckenna Grace (Faith, Y&R) and Lacey Chabert (Bianca, AMC) both have voice roles in the new Amazon series Batman: Caped Crusader.

I didn't see this up, so here's the very in-depth WSJ story on the prisoner swap. Non-paywalled.

I don't think he will win most of them, if any. And I still think Shapiro is a very solid choice and impressive voice with normie non-online voters, but I would still probably prefer one of the others. But we'll see.

Hilarious:

I've also been really offended with people posting Rumble links throughout the board because they apparently don't know how to use Google or link properly. I don't blame AMCOLTL for it because I suspect I know the source.

Lord. Not Natalia and Brenda in the same shot! Nothing personal, Eva.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a journalist, activist and filmmaker, was one of the men freed whose family was at the WH in those videos - his wife and two children speak to him in the clips. I'm not sure he was present in the video at the tarmac the other night but he has been released. He was a protege of the late Boris Nemtsov, and like Nemtsov Putin attempted to assassinate him - twice, with poison. I'd love to believe he's right.

@DRW50 even for the Times this is shameless tapdancing. I give this one the night to get quietly changed.

A good piece above. Meanwhile, back at Semafor the gossip train goes where it can: A moment of clarity with TomI(!!): The repeated rounds of deranged longtime right-wing operators, bigots and weirdos (Rove, Vivek, now this) all lining up to beg the Trump campaign on TV to stop talking about race and get serious for days, only to watch them continue to fúck up is absolutely hysterical to me.

They've got absolutely nothing. This is like he's riffing.

LMAO:

Fox is coping well:

I am so glad this story is back post-debate/switch.

One of the greater headlines of this cycle. She's breaking him.

Sam fans still pretend this wasn't true, which cracks me up. It was so obviously the Jason/Brenda storyboards. The relationship was identical early on.

In another sign of good tidings, Kyle Rittenhouse of all people abandoned Trump the other night, only to swiftly take it back when facing MAGA wrath:

A moment of clarity with Karl, who clearly learned a hard lesson from 2012:

If Rasmussen has her up this much, same story.

@DRW50 Harry Enten's HaterWatch '24 continues: Nate Silver is coping with the new swing results: I know what DRW will say, but there is no way Trump is up that far in PA. This is Nate skewing himself. If Trafalgar has him down, it's bad.

That was my favorite moment, next to the stuff in the Oval with the families and seeing him and Harris together on the tarmac awaiting the hostages. "There's no way out!" I do think Joe remains very effective and competent in office, and Kamala would be wise to keep him close for counsel especially for international diplomacy in times that hopefully will come. In terms of campaigning, energy and momentum though I think the switch has been a total reset, in a good way. I think it's clear Joe is still very effective at one thing (governing) and perhaps less so at the other at present (campaigning). It does seem like there is a considerable weight off him now, though. Whether we can chalk that all up to media disdain or vibes, it's what has happened. I think it's shameful what happened and how it was done, but I can't pretend I'm not glad we are where we are this week. And I don't blame Joe for this but I frankly don't think Biden's team under him was doing enough to work the refs or change the narrative before the switch. The media was profoundly contemptuous of Joe, but at the same time his team had often been stuck in a defensive crouch and hoping for 'the right people to get it' for months if not years re: messaging on what he'd done. We were not going to win this election on loyal inertia alone, or at least I didn't want to bet on it. A lot of the same comms people came over to Harris but were (as reported) schooled on how to reapproach things, and so the tone, the energy and the aggression is different, because the mentality and deference to the old ways - which no longer work in Washington - is not the same. Speaking of, Republican-leaning Amy Walter (who continues to speculate/hope that Trump can win if this election is about 'the issues', like immigration) reluctantly tweeted this data:

I would again recommend people who can handle horror check out Jill's starring role in the found footage flick The Taking of Deborah Logan - she's incredible in it opposite the great Anne Ramsay as her daughter. It's on Prime, Tubi, etc.