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Joe Manchin / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Why I'm voting against the For the People Act — THE MOUNTAIN STATE'S TRUSTED NEWS SOURCE. — The right to vote is fundamental to our American democracy and protecting that right should not be about party or politics. Least of all, protecting this right, which is a value I share, should never be done in a partisan manner.
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
'You're doing it exactly the wrong way': Chris Wallace shreds Joe Manchin for enabling GOP ‘obstruction’ — Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday challenged Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who is refusing to support filibuster reform to pass a voting rights bill and other progressive initiatives.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
House progressives push Biden to go bold without Joe Manchin — House progressives are getting fed up with efforts to accommodate Republican senators — and Joe Manchin. Look for them to start demanding swift action — and threatening payback. — Why it matters: The White House …
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TheGrio, Townhall, RedState, Washington Post, The Atlantic, National Review and Talking Points Memo
Fox Business:
Bipartisan lawmakers prep $878B infrastructure plan as White House-GOP negotiations drag — GOP's offer to the White House, which is looking bleak, was a $1.1 trillion offer over eight years — A group of bipartisan, bicameral lawmakers are preparing to reveal a roughly $878 billion infrastructure proposal …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Manchin Vows to Block Democratic Voting Rights Bill and Preserve Filibuster
Manchin Vows to Block Democratic Voting Rights Bill and Preserve Filibuster
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Washington Times, Outside the Beltway, Election Law Blog, Mediaite and HotAir
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Manchin says he won't vote for Democrats' sweeping election reform bill
Manchin says he won't vote for Democrats' sweeping election reform bill
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CNN, USA Today, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, CBS News, Washington Examiner and Slate
Madison Dapcevich / Snopes.com:
No, Trump Did Not Wear His Pants Backwards at Rally — Former U.S. President Donald Trump wore his pants backwards during the June 2021 North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greenville, North Carolina. — Rating — False — In early June 201, a video of former U.S. President …
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Breitbart, Occupy Democrats and Metro.co.uk
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump adviser Lewandowski: he ‘lost the election’ and will not be reinstated — Former campaign manager speaks to Fox News Sunday — The morning after Donald Trump returned to frontline politics with a speech in North Carolina, a close adviser poured cold water on his reported belief …
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Washington Post:
Republican leaders say they want to focus on the future, but Trump is far from done with the past
Republican leaders say they want to focus on the future, but Trump is far from done with the past
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The GOP superspreaders of Trump's contagion
The GOP superspreaders of Trump's contagion
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Slate, Politico and Washington Examiner
CNN:
Kemp booed and Raffensperger censured at Georgia GOP convention
Kemp booed and Raffensperger censured at Georgia GOP convention
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The Western Journal, HotAir, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Daily Kos
Ryan Taylor / Rev:
Donald Trump Speech Transcript at North Carolina GOP Convention Dinner June 5
Donald Trump Speech Transcript at North Carolina GOP Convention Dinner June 5
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IJR, Washington Examiner, Althouse and ABC News
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis — An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important. — It was supposed to be the celebration …
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Rep. Mo Brooks served with lawsuit related to his role in Capitol insurrection — (CNN)Alabama GOP Rep. Mo Brooks was served with a lawsuit filed by California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell seeking to hold him partially accountable for the January 6 insurrection, according to a tweet from Brooks and an attorney for Swalwell.
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Sam Sokol / Haaretz:
Netanyahu Slams ‘Biggest Election Fraud in History of Country’ at Likud Meeting — Although the prime minister condemned the rising incitement, he told Likud members ‘to lay into’ right-wing politicians who ‘teamed up with the left’ and claimed the right was being unfairly censored
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POLITICUSUSA and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Fox News declines to air ad about Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — Fox News declined to broadcast an ad Sunday about the violence that law-enforcement members faced as they tried to stop the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to the creators of the political commercial.
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Insider and News Corpse
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Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
Something appears to be ‘simply, simply wrong’ at the Biden Justice Department — Fred Ryan is publisher of The Post. — During the final days of the Trump administration, the attorney general used extraordinary measures to obtain subpoenas to secretly seize records of reporters at three leading U.S. news organizations.
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Matthew Futterman / New York Times:
Martina Navratilova Has Plenty to Say — One of the most dominant players in tennis history, Navratilova was a cultural pioneer when the world wasn't prepared for an outspoken lesbian. Finally, the world is catching up, and she's still here. — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak — The Covid-19 pathogen has a genetic footprint that has never been observed in a natural coronavirus. — The possibility that the pandemic began with an escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is attracting fresh attention.
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New York Post
Peggy Fletcher Stack / Salt Lake Tribune:
QAnon? The ‘big lie’? What might it take to get Latter-day Saints to stop believing in them? — It wouldn't be easy for church leaders to sway those opinions, experts say, because allegiance to conspiracy theories bumps into partisan politics and agenda-driven sources. — (Matt Rourke |
Charlie Sykes / MSNBC:
Trump's August election reinstatement theory is even worse than it looks — I'm afraid this is even worse than it looks. — The National Review is now confirming that Donald J. Trump, the former president of the United States (and probable Republican nominee in 2024) …
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Washington Examiner, The Atlantic, Salon, RedState, The Hill, CBS News, The Guardian and Raw Story
Stars & Stripes:
David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies at 98 — BERLIN — David Dushman, the last surviving Allied soldier involved in the liberation of Auschwitz, has died. He was 98. — The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria said Sunday that Dushman had died at a Munich hospital on Saturday.
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New York Post and Associated Press
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Democratic Report Raises 2022 Alarms on Messaging and Voter Outreach — A new report, in perhaps the most thorough soul-searching done by either party this year, points to an urgent need for the party to present a positive economic agenda and rebut Republican misinformation.
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
White House briefing room to return to full capacity — The White House press briefing room will return to 100 percent capacity on Monday. — “Since the onset of the pandemic, our priority has been to keep journalists safe, while ensuring that the critical work of informing the public …
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