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7:40 PM ET, July 11, 2013

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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Harry Reid escalates nuclear threat in a big way  —  An important moment on the Senate floor just now: Harry Reid said he would be filing cloture today on a whole bunch of executive nominations, and challenged Republicans to act on them — a major escalation of the threat to change the Senate rules …
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Mitch McConnell's problem: How can he threaten to obstruct the Senate even more?  —  There's a reason the Senate majority rarely goes through with filibuster reform: The minority can make the aftermath hellish.  —  Will Harry Reid actually change the rules?  (Michael Reynolds/EPA)
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Democrats Poised to Limit Filibusters, Angering G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON — A confrontation in the Senate between Republicans and Democrats over the confirmation of President Obama's cabinet nominees edged closer on Thursday toward a showdown over changing the rules on filibusters.
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Reid: McConnell Broke His Word On Filibuster, So The Nuclear Option Is On The Table
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Yahoo! News
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
McConnell: Reid will be ‘worst’ Senate leader in history if he goes nuclear
Discussion: CNN
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
House approves farm bill in big win for Boehner, GOP leaders  —  The House approved a stripped-down farm bill Thursday in a tight 216-208 vote, giving a huge boost to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other Republican leaders after the embarrassing failure of an earlier bill last month.
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Daily Kos
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Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:   Obama's Big Problem Is Obama
New York Times:
House Approves Farm Bill, Without Food Stamp Program
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
House Passes Farm Bill, Now Without Food Stamp Cuts
New York Times:
Republicans in House Resist Overhaul for Immigration  —  WASHINGTON — Meeting for the first time as a group to hash out their approach to immigration, House Republicans on Wednesday came down overwhelmingly against a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws …
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Pelosi Draws Her Bright Lines On Immigration Reform
Guardian:
Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages  —  • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism  —  • Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch  —  • Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
NME:
Jay-Z: ‘I get texts from President Obama, of course’  —  Rapper opens up his relationships with Rihanna, Jack White and daughter Blue Ivy  —  Jay-Z has opened up about his life in a new radio interview, revealing that he texts President Obama as well as discussing his relationships with Rihanna, Jack White and daughter Blue Ivy.
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CNN:
Jay-Z says he texts with Obama
Discussion: Politico
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: House to vote next week on delaying ObamaCare mandates
New York Times:
Sudden Improvements in Egypt Suggest a Campaign to Undermine Morsi  —  CAIRO — The streets seethe with protests and government ministers are on the run or in jail, but since the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi, life has somehow gotten better for many people across Egypt …
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Christians Targeted for Retribution in Egypt
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten's blog:
Getting the Muslim Brotherhood Wrong
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Post:
Spitzer a no-show in 2012 election vote after writing column about voting for Obama  —  Eliot Spitzer failed to vote in last year's presidential election — just four days after penning a column proclaiming “Why I Am Voting for Barack Obama,” The Post has learned.
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Gail Collins / New York Times:   New York Sizzles  —  Positive aspects of New York City's Weiner-Spitzer summer:
Fox News:
Prosecution paints Zimmerman as angry vigilante in closing arguments  —  A Florida prosecutor painted George Zimmerman as an angry vigilante who “tracked” Trayvon Martin through a gated community and provoked the confrontation that claimed the teenager's life in a scorching summation Thursday.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Power Line and The Week
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Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Ex-Sanford police chief: Zimmerman probe ‘taken away from us’
Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Rand Paul Stands By His ‘Southern Avenger’  —  WASHINGTON — In an interview with The Huffington Post, Sen. Rand Paul stoutly defended an aide who, as a radio shock jock in South Carolina, praised John Wilkes Booth, heaped scorn on Abraham Lincoln and wore a ski mask emblazoned with the stars and bars of the Confederate Battle Flag.
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Is Doubling Down on White Voters a Viable Strategy for the Republican Party?  —  Alan I. Abramowitz and Ruy Teixeira, Guest Columnists July 11th, 2013  —  Perhaps the key question in American presidential politics is how the growing and overwhelmingly Democratic nonwhite vote will affect future elections.
Samantha Maziarz Christmann / Buffalo News:
Wegmans cuts health benefits for part-time workers  —  Et tu, Wegmans?  —  The Rochester-based grocer that has been continually lauded for providing health insurance to its part-time workers will no longer offer that benefit.  —  Until recently, the company voluntarily offered health insurance …
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  July 11, 2013 - American Voters Say 2-1 Stay Out Of Syria, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Drop In Foreign Policy Approval Keeps Obama Score Low  —  American voters say 61 - 27 percent that it is not in the national interest to be involved in Syria and oppose 59 …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' Obamacare search-and-destroy mission
Sheelah Kolhatkar / Businessweek:
Hedge Funds Are for Suckers  —  At the height of the financial crisis in 2008, a group of famous hedge fund managers was made to stand before Congress like thieves in a stockade and defend their existence to an angry public.  The gilded five included George Soros, co-founder of the Quantum Fund …
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Sarah Palin  · 3,554,768 like this  —  Really, Mark?  Really?  —  Margaret Thatcher used to say, “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
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Mark Begich / CNN:
Palin fires back in war of words with Begich
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Robertson: ‘We Are Not Anti-Gay’ Since Gays Are Just Confused Straight People  —  Pat Robertson is disturbed that people, for whatever reason, might believe that he is somehow anti-gay.  After all, how could blaming gays for 9/11, warning that gay rights will destroy America, using anti-gay slurs …
Emily Swanson / The Huffington Post:
Abortion Poll Finds Support For 20-Week Ban  —  Most Americans would favor sweeping new national restrictions on abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll.  But the poll also shows many Americans remain conflicted in their views on abortion.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trapped: An air escape from Moscow unlikely for NSA leaker Snowden  —  WASHINGTON — Beginning a third week holed up in a Moscow airport's transit zone, Edward Snowden finds himself far enough away to evade U.S. authorities, but also too far from any of the sympathetic nations willing to shelter him.
 
 
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CNN:
John Kerry's wife to leave hospital
Discussion: The Hill
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
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New York Times:
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
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Cuccinelli distances himself from governor
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