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What We’re Reading: Crime & Embarrassment, PragerU Test, What Happened To Tucker? … And More

Crime Watch

I Live in DC. Crime Is Finally Down–Thanks to Trump – USA Today

Most Democrats Say Crime Major Problem In Large Cities, Oppose Sending National Guard: AP-NORC Poll – Just the News

DC’s Dem Mayor Admits That Trump’s Crime Crackdown ‘Has Worked’ – Washington Free Beacon

Pritzker’s Anti-Trump Rant Backfires After ANOTHER Deadly Chicago Weekend – Twitchy

Noem: Red States’ Cities Also to See Reinforcements – Newsmax

This Is Your Democratic Party

‘Form Of Idolatry’: Tennessee Dem Slams Americans Who Pray After School Tragedy – Fox News

Social Media Influencers Offered $8,000 Per Month to ‘Bolster Democratic Messaging’ – National Review

NY Mayoral Hopeful Urged Socialists Not To Compromise On ‘Seizing Production’ – Fox News

Gas Up

Trump’s Energy Agenda Delivers Lowest Holiday Gas Prices In Half Decade – Fox Business

California Gas Prices Jump, Bringing Extra Pain To The Pump For Labor Day Weekend – Los Angeles Times

NYT Lives Up To ‘World to End Tomorrow’ Joke*

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit – New York Times

Election Reform

Americans Overwhelmingly Back Voter ID As Trump Plans New Executive Action – Fox News

Trump Faces Hurdle to Ban Mail-In Ballots: The Republican Party – Newsmax

Misc

Here Is the PragerU Teacher Test that Had Leftists Freaking Out – Breitbart

John Kennedy Says ‘This Is What It Takes’ To Stop Gavin Newsom From Acting Like ‘A Princess’ – Daily Caller

NYT Executive Editor’s Apartment Building Vandalized With Red Paint – The Hill

What Happened To Tucker? – Legal Insurrection

Border Crackdown Has Cost Mexican Cartels Over $1 Billion  – Daily Signal

Brace For Another Huge Negative Payrolls Revision, Greenlighting A 50bps September Rate Cut – Zerohedge

‘Fascist’ Is the Dumbest Political Insult in the World Today – American Spectator

Humor

Newsom Announces He Is Anti-Crime Until Next Election – Babylon Bee

* The joke, which had variations to it, went something like this: Here’s how newspapers would cover news that the world will end tomorrow. Washington Post: “Republicans seize on end of world to attack Democrats”; USA Today: “World to end tomorrow, what we think about it”; Wall Street Journal: “World to end tomorrow, Dow futures down”; New York Times: “World to end tomorrow: Women and minorities hardest hit”

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