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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Biden German Shepherd has aggressive incident and is sent back to Delaware  —  Washington (CNN)The two German Shepherds belonging to President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were returned to the Biden family home in Delaware last week after aggressive behavior at the White House involving Major Biden …
New York Times:
Inside the Lincoln Project's Secrets, Side Deals and Scandals  —  A civil war broke out in the group as it antagonized Donald Trump, with leaders splintering over financial arrangements and revelations of online harassment by a top official.  —  A few days before the presidential election …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC brushes back Trump team on ‘cease-and-desist’ demand  —  The Republican National Committee is denying a cease-and-desist demand from Donald Trump's attorneys, who asked the party organization to stop using the former president's name and likeness in fundraising appeals.
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Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Trump vows ‘No more money for RINOS,’ instead encouraging donations to his PAC
Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
How two Black women took down whatever fantasies remained about the British monarchy  —  There was a lot of anticipation ahead of Oprah Winfrey's interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.  Even Buckingham Palace tried to play offense before it aired on Sunday when it announced …
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Brendan O'Neill / spiked:
The unbearable victim complex of Meghan Markle  —  The Oprah interview was an emotionally manipulative performance designed to consolidate Harry and Meghan's power.  —  Well that was explosive.  Even more than had been expected.  In their two-hour sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, Harry and Meghan drove a long knife into the monarchy.
Anna Pasternak / Telegraph:   What Meghan can learn from Mrs Simpson's ‘tell-all’ TV interview
Piers Morgan / Daily Mail:
Meghan and Harry's nauseating two-hour Oprah whine-athon was a disgraceful diatribe of cynical race-baiting propaganda designed to damage the Queen …
The Intercept:
Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every Seat … Not long after Judith Whitmer won her election on Saturday to become chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, she got an email from the party's executive director, Alana Mounce.
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
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Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:   Say goodbye to the most effective Democratic Party in the country
Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
Gov. Kim Reynolds signs law shortening Iowa's early and Election Day voting  —  Four months after Iowans voted in record numbers, Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed legislation cutting the state's early voting period and closing the polls an hour earlier on Election Day.
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Senate votes to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Rare trial of U.S. journalist arrested on the job begins in Iowa  —  Prosecutors in Iowa began their case Monday against a Des Moines Register reporter arrested during racial justice protests last summer, in a rare trial of a U.S. journalist charged with a crime while reporting.
Tax Policy Center:
T21-0039 - Major Individual Income Tax Provisions in H.R.1319, The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 as Passed by the Senate, by Expanded Cash Income Percentile, 2021  —  Table shows the effect on the distribution of federal taxes, by expanded cash income percentile, relative to current law …
Discussion: Insider and POLITICUSUSA
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Howard Gleckman / TaxVox:
Pandemic Bill Would Cut Taxes by An Average of $3,000, With Most Relief Going to Low- And Middle-Income Households
Discussion: The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Team Biden offers alternative reality on border crisis with no plan to fix it  —  Crisis at the border?  What crisis?  —  That's the communications strategy of the Biden administration in somehow denying the existence an out-of-control surge at the border it is responsible for creating.
Discussion: The Western Journal and Breitbart
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ProPublica:
REPUBLISH  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: How Blunt's retirement will reverberate in 2022  —  Sen. ROY BLUNT'S (R-Mo.) announcement this morning that he won't seek a third term next year marks yet another blow to the governing wing of the GOP.  —  Blunt joins four other Republican incumbents heading for the exits …
Kara Scannell / CNN:
NYC prosecutors' probe into Trump finances expands to include millions loaned for Chicago skyscraper  —  Five elected investigators are turning their attention to Trump  —  (CNN)The Manhattan district attorney's office subpoenaed documents from an investment company that loaned …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Pepe Le Pew Won't Be Appearing In Warner Bros' ‘Space Jam’ Sequel  —  EXCLUSIVE: He starred in the first Warner Bros. Space Jam movie back in 1996, however, Pepe Le Pew will not be showing up at all in the upcoming theatrical sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy on July 16.
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Tejal Rao / New York Times:
The Best Bagels Are in California (Sorry, New York)  —  West Coast bakers are driving a great bagel boom, producing some of the most delicious versions around and finding ways to expand during the pandemic.  —  BERKELEY, Calif. — The bagels at Boichik Bagels have the look of Labrador puppies curled …
Hannah Morse / Palm Beach Post:
After 2020 fraud claims, Donald Trump requests mail ballot  —  Former President Donald Trump is set to fulfill his civic duty as a private citizen and vote in the town of Palm Beach's municipal election.  —  Despite his false claims about mail voting during the 2020 election cycle …
National Review:
H.R. 1 Is a Partisan Assault on American Democracy  —  Late Wednesday night, the House passed H.R. 1, the “For the People Act.”  It passed by ten votes, with every Republican voting against it, as well as Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, who fears that the bill will abolish majority-black districts like his in the Deep South.
Discussion: The Bulwark
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Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity lies about H.R. 1: “What are we going to have, 15-year-olds voting next?”
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Rep. Paul Gosar Tweets White Nationalist Group's Motto  —  After speaking at a white nationalist “America First” conference recently, the Arizona congressman appears to be doubling down on his support of the group.  —  Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) posted on Twitter the motto of a white nationalist group …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Will Stagnation Follow the Biden Boom?  —  The relief bill is done; infrastructure may be harder.  —  It's morning in America!  People are getting vaccinated at the rate of two million a day and rising, suggesting that the pandemic may be largely behind us in a few months …
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw Decided Pandemic Was Perfect Time to Buy and Not Disclose Stocks  —  “Members of Congress should not be actively trading securities in the middle of a crisis,” said Ben Edwards, a securities law expert at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue Staff Rail Against New Editor-in-Chief's Past Tweets Mocking Asians  —  The digital outlet's editorial staffers on Monday said they sent a letter to Condé Nast bosses expressing multiple concerns with their newly hired editor.  —  Staffers at Teen Vogue on Monday publicly blasted …
Thomas Catenacci / The Daily Caller:
Supreme Court Sides With Christian Student In College Free Speech Case  —  The Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision Monday that a Georgia college's speech code policy violated the First Amendment and that a student who was harmed by the policy can seek damages.
David Litt / The Atlantic:
We Already Got Rid of the Filibuster Once Before  —  Last week the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, a bill that would make voter registration automatic, end partisan gerrymandering, strengthen campaign-finance law, and bolster oversight of lobbyists.  It's the most sweeping package of democracy reforms in generations.
Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:
Cuomo Called Lawmakers in Scramble for Support After Resignation Demands  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo spent Sunday calling lawmakers to dissuade them from issuing statements calling for his resignation, even as more allegations of sexual harassment surfaced, several who heard from him told THE CITY.
Discussion: Politico, New York Times and CBS News
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NY State Attorney General:
Attorney General James Makes Appointments to Lead Investigation Into Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Governor Cuomo
Helen Warrell / Financial Times:
Johnson set to unnerve allies with ‘Global Britain’ defence review  —  Fears that cuts to army and shift from Europe to Asia risk spreading defence capabilities too thinly  —  Boris Johnson's eagerly awaited new security strategy risks creating tensions with the UK's closest allies if it spreads …
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Man Threatened to Lynch 2 Congressmen, U.S. Says  —  A judge on Monday ordered Kenneth R. Hubert of Missouri held in jail, saying his words rose to the level of posing danger.  —  A Missouri man who prosecutors say threatened to lynch a Black congressman the day after the Jan. 6 siege …
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Maggie Haberman on life after Trump and the one question she regrets not asking  —  Maggie Haberman had perhaps the hardest, and definitely the most scrutinized, job in journalism for the past four years.  She owned the Trump beat for The New York Times.  Haberman came to cover the White House …
New York Times:
Publisher Halts Promotion of Cuomo Book, Citing Nursing Homes Inquiry  —  “American Crisis” was supposed to be a triumphant account of New York's coronavirus fight.  But as scandals swirl, sales have dramatically slowed.  —  The publisher of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's book on his leadership during …
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Meet the GOP voters who could decide whether the U.S. reaches herd immunity  —  Almost one-third of Republicans tell pollsters they 'definitely won't' get vaccinated.  —  Margaret, an 80-year-old retiree who lives outside Tulsa, has spent the past year living in fear of the coronavirus.
 
 
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Biden's Pick for Justice Dept. No. 3 Wins Backing of Law Enforcement
Steve Beynon / Military.com:
Task Force Calls for Permanent National Guard Force to Protect DC
Discussion: Breitbart
Laura Reiley / Washington Post:
Relief bill is most significant legislation for Black farmers since Civil Rights Act, experts say
Trisha Thadani / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F's budget will be saved from painful cuts thanks to federal stimulus. What about in the next one?
Richard Zoglin / Washington Post:
Comedians are struggling to parody Biden. Let's hope this doesn't last.
Discussion: Twitchy
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Will Kyrsten Sinema Change Her Mind?
Discussion: CNN and Fox News
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Rick Perlstein / New Republic:
The John Birch Society Never Left
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP scam is getting worse — for Republican voters. A new study shows how.
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Iowa City Press-Citizen:
Iowa's Johnson County Democrats calls for replacing caucuses with a presidential primary
Discussion: The Hill
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Supreme Court rejects final Trump bid to nullify 2020 election results
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Fully vaccinated people can have small gatherings indoors with other vaccinated people but need to wear masks in public, the C.D.C. says.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Manchin's next power play
 

 
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