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11:45 AM ET, March 10, 2021

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Bari Weiss / City Journal:
The Miseducation of America's Elites  —  Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children's private schools, organize in secret.  —  Education  —  The Social Order  —  The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls.
NBC News:
Biden to announce deal for additional 100 million Johnson and Johnson Covid vaccine doses  —  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will announce plans Wednesday to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, giving the U.S. more than enough supply to vaccinate the entire U.S. population.
Discussion: Forbes and MSNBC
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
40 Republicans vote against Greene motion  —  Forty House Republicans on Wednesday voted against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest motion to adjourn, yet another sign her party is growing increasingly frustrated with the Georgia Republican's procedural delay tactics.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
For Schumer, a Dream Job Comes With Tall Orders
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:   More GOP Voters Heard ‘a Lot’ About Move to Pull Dr. Seuss Books Than COVID-19 Relief Bill Vote
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Piers Morgan's Meghan Markle Comments Being Investigated by U.K. Media Regulator Ofcom … U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation after more than 41,000 people wrote in to complain about ITV's “Good Morning Britain” host Piers Morgan's comments on Meghan Markle.
Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Manhattan Prosecutors Advance Probe Into Trump's Seven Springs Estate  —  Subpoenas center on Trump Organization's failed efforts to develop the 213-acre property into a luxury subdivision  —  Manhattan prosecutors are intensifying their investigation into Donald Trump's businesses …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Somebody's Taking a Huge Risk on Biden's Bill.  It's Not Biden.  —  Try to imagine we are living in the following hypothetical world: A popular Republican president quickly passes emergency legislation that has the support of two-thirds of the country, while Democrats in Congress refuse to vote for it.
Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News, Bloomberg and UPI
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Arrested journalist pleaded with officer: ‘This is my job’  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa journalist recounted getting pepper-sprayed and arrested while covering a protest for racial justice last year, testifying in her own defense Tuesday at her trial on charges stemming from the incident.
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William Morris / Des Moines Register:
‘This is my job!’: Register reporter Andrea Sahouri testifies in her own defense in her second day on trial
Discussion: FOREIGN PRESS USA and Techdirt
Washington Post:
Biden wants to sell the stimulus.  The White House is still figuring out how.  —  The Biden administration weighed putting the president's name on stimulus checks to make sure he got credit for helping the millions of Americans who will receive aid — but rejected the idea in recent days.
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New York Times:
Trump, Hungry for Power, Tries to Wrestle Away G.O.P. Fund-Raising  —  Angry at his critics in the party and seeking to keep his options for raising money open, the former president is trying to take charge of the online fund-raising juggernaut he helped create.
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CNN:
Trump requests mail-in ballot ahead of local Florida election despite baseless fraud claims
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and Forbes
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
For Creators, Everything is for Sale  —  Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money.  Yet fans still hold the power.  —  A rash of new start-ups are making it easier for digital creators to monetize every aspect of their life — down to what they eat, who they hang out with and who they respond to on TikTok.
CNN:
Biden and his Covid-relief bill prove popular in new CNN poll  —  (CNN)The economic relief bill moving rapidly through Congress is broadly popular, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.  —  The popularity of the bill comes as President Joe Biden's approval rating tilts positive around 50 days after he took the oath of office.
Biba Adams / Yahoo News:
Sen. Scott: ‘Woke supremacy is as bad as White supremacy’  —  The South Carolina Senator is falling in line with his Republican counterparts by taking aim at “cancel culture.”  —  Republican Senator Tim Scott told Fox News host Trey Gowdy that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy.
Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Who Ordered a Smear Campaign Against Andrew Cuomo's First Accuser?  —  In early December, Lindsey Boylan responded to a prompt on Twitter for people to share the worst job they'd ever had.  “Most toxic team environment?” she tweeted.  “Working for @NYGovCuomo.”
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Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
Cuomo faces new sexual harassment allegation, this time at Executive Mansion
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Biden Got the Vaccine Rollout Humming, With Trump's Help  —  Trump administration officials grumble that they laid the groundwork for surging vaccinations, but some hard work in the trenches has helped pick up the pace of production.  —  WASHINGTON — When President Biden pledged last week …
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Stacey Abrams Has a Plan to Dismantle the Filibuster and Protect Voting Rights  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.  —  As Republicans in the Georgia state legislature passed a series …
Bloomberg:
Wall Street A-Listers Fled to Florida.  Many Are Eyeing a Return  — USPS data shows few New Yorkers moved to Miami, Palm Beach  — New Jersey, California and Connecticut were most popular moves  —  The “Upper East Side” cocktail at Sant Ambroeus is just the same as in Manhattan …
Hadley Heath Manning / Washington Examiner:
The danger of reopening too slowly  —  Nearly one year into the World Health Organization's declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, Texas and Mississippi have announced that they will reopen completely and remove any state restrictions on businesses or mask-wearing.
Daniel Drezner / Washington Post:
What is the point of Josh Hawley?  —  What to make of media interest in the junior senator from Missouri.  —  Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything.
Discussion: TheBlaze
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Democrats Are Rapidly Evolving On The Filibuster  —  Key holdouts on nixing the 60-vote threshold include Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin.  But the party is definitely warming to an idea that is gaining momentum.  —  Democrats are quickly coming around to the idea of reforming the Senate's filibuster rules …
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Court Dismisses Trump Campaign's Defamation Suit Against New York Times  —  A New York State judge ruled that the opinion essay at the center of the suit was constitutionally protected speech.  —  A New York State court on Tuesday dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by the re-election campaign …
Kimberly Wilson / Essence:
Exclusive: Goldman Sachs Invests $10 Billion In New ‘One Million Black Women’ Initiative  —  In 1962, Malcolm X said, “The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.”  Now, almost 60 years later that statement unfortunately still rings true for millions of Black women across the country.
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Bill Baxley / Washington Post:
As a former Alabama attorney general, I do not say this lightly: An innocent man is on our death row  —  Opinion by Bill Baxley  —  Bill Baxley, attorney general of Alabama from 1971 to 1979, is a signatory to an amicus brief filed March 9 requesting the Jefferson County Circuit Court grant Toforest Johnson a new trial.
Ben White / Politico:
Biden's ‘Morning in America’ moment sparks a furious debate  —  Congress is set to approve the largest injection of federal cash into a growing economy in U.S. history.  The nearly $2 trillion stimulus package headed to President Joe Biden's desk Wednesday comes after lawmakers approved nearly $4 trillion …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
What has gotten into Ron Johnson?  —  What has gotten into Ron Johnson?  —  That is a question that mystifies some of those who counted themselves as enthusiastic supporters of Wisconsin's Republican senator back when he entered politics a little more than a decade ago.
Bob Smietana / Washington Post:
Bible teacher Beth Moore, Trump critic and advocate for sexual abuse victims, splits with Southern Baptist Convention  —  NASHVILLE (RNS) — For nearly three decades, Beth Moore has been the very model of a modern Southern Baptist.  —  She loves Jesus and the Bible and has dedicated her life …
Jaclyn Diaz / NPR:
Arkansas Passes Near-Total Abortion Ban As Lawmakers Push For Supreme Court Case  —  Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday signed into law one of the country's most restrictive abortion bans, a measure supporters hope will force the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit its 1973 decision sanctioning the procedure.
Associated Press:
US narrows in on organized extremists in Capitol siege probe  —  As members of the Oath Keepers paramilitary group shouldered their way through the mob and up the steps to the U.S. Capitol, their plans for Jan. 6 were clear, authorities say.  “Arrest this assembly, we have probable cause for acts of treason …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Democrats Are Anxious About 2022 — and 2024  —  The fretting starts with the party's declining share of the Hispanic vote, but it doesn't end there.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.
Discussion: Townhall
 
 
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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Hawaii declares emergency due to floods, orders evacuations
Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller and CNN
John Murawski / RealClearInvestigations:
How California Is Embracing Mandatory Racial-Injustice Study for All of Its 1.7 Million High Schoolers
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Exclusive: Biden envoy says Iran elections not factor in timetable for nuclear talks
Jodie Wagner / Palm Beach Daily News:
Ted Cooney wins Group 1 Town Council seat
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Joel Kotkin / RealClearEnergy:
Climate Policy: Covid on Steroids?
Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
CDC, Dollar General exploring partnership to speed up COVID-19 vaccine rollout
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
House to take final vote on Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic plan
Michael Shepherd / Bangor Daily News:
Craig Hickman easily holds Augusta-area Maine Senate seat for Democrats
Wall Street Journal:
Latest Stimulus Package Could Jolt U.S. Growth, Revive Inflation in 2021
Discussion: The Week
Batya Ungar-Sargon / Persuasion:
The Warped Vision of “Anti-Racism”
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Allan McDonald Dies at 83; Tried to Stop the Challenger Launch
Alicia Robinson / Orange County Register:
Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley appears set to win OC District 2 supervisor seat
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The Biden administration confirms some but not all of Trump's Wuhan lab claims
Discussion: HotAir and Althouse
 

 
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

 
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