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Michaeleen Doucleff / NPR:
The Delta Variant Isn't Just Hyper-Contagious.  It Also Grows More Rapidly Inside You  —  After months of data collection, scientists agree: The delta variant is the most contagious version of the coronavirus worldwide.  It spreads about 225% faster than the original version of the virus …
Discussion: Florida Politics
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Reuters:
Pfizer to ask FDA to authorize booster dose of COVID vaccine as Delta variant spreads  —  Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) plans to ask U.S. regulators to authorize a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine within the next month, the drugmaker's top scientist said on Thursday, based on evidence of greater risk …
Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press:
Pfizer to seek OK for 3rd vaccine dose; shots still protect  —  Pfizer is about to seek U.S. authorization for a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, saying Thursday that another shot within 12 months could dramatically boost immunity and maybe help ward off the latest worrisome coronavirus mutant.
Mary Louise Kelly / NPR:
Fauci Says Current Vaccines Will Stand Up To The Delta Variant
Discussion: KOIN-TV
Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Lincoln Project scores a win against the ‘Sedition Caucus’ after latest ad targeting Toyota  —  This Thursday, the anti-Trump conservative PAC Lincoln Project released a new ad targeting Toyota for being part of a string of corporations “lavishing massive campaign donations on Republicans …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Toyota to stop donating to GOP lawmakers who objected to certifying Biden's win  —  Toyota announced Thursday that its political action committee would no longer make donations to Republican members of Congress who objected to certifying the presidential election results in January …
Discussion: YouTube
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Toyota to cease donations to election objectors
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
‘Call out Fox News!’  Mitch McConnell shredded after saying he's ‘perplexed’ about why GOP voters refuse vaccines  —  The politicization of coronavirus vaccines in America has created a correlation between vaccination rates and whether or not a state voted for Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:   Toyota reverses course, says it will stop donating to Republican objectors
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Toyota halting contributions to U.S. lawmakers who opposed Biden certification
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Toyota says it will stop donating to Republicans who contested the election results.
Discussion: Boing Boing
New York Times:
Scripps Spelling Bee 2021: Live Updates  —  Zaila Avant-garde spells her way to victory!  —  The last few words were rattled off fast between the two final finalists, Chaitra Thummala and Zaila Avant-garde.  —  First was fewtrils (things of little value), which Chaitra got right.
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Washington Post:
U.S. citizen among suspects arrested in assassination of Haitian president, senior official says
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
Unvaccinated hospitalized patients say they regret not getting the shot … To describe Dr. Ryan Dare as frustrated would be a gross understatement.  —  Dare and his colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock are dealing with a surge in extremely ill Covid-19 patients …
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
J.D. Vance is scaring America's elite.  Good.  —  Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance is being attacked by critics on the left and right for his populist economics and his changed views on former president Donald Trump.  That's a good sign that Vance's message is getting through and that he can win.
Discussion: Althouse, HotAir, Yahoo News and TIME
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Tom Cotton's slimy attack on a ‘critical race theory’ professor is full of holes  —  Sen. Tom Cotton is calling for the firing of a U.S. Air Force Academy professor after she admitted to discussing critical race theory with cadets.  But even a cursory look at the Arkansas Republican's slimy argument shows …
Wall Street Journal:
‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master's Degrees That Don't Pay Off  —  Columbia and other top universities push master's programs that fail to generate enough income for graduates to keep up with six-figure federal loans  —  Recent film program graduates of Columbia University …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The rapid decline of White evangelical America?  —  New data suggests a bigger decrease than previously understood — including in the GOP.  —  If there was an epitome of Donald Trump's hostile and often puzzling takeover of the Republican Party, it might have been his alliance with evangelical Christians.
Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity says “it's inevitable” that “America's streets will run with blood”  —  Tucker Carlson calls jailed insurrectionists “political prisoners”  —  Tucker Carlson compares vaccine requirements to forced sterilization  —  Fox host Mark Levin on Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “She's an enemy.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Mica Soellner / Washington Times:
Va. GOP demands ethics probe of polisci heavyweight Larry Sabato's ‘bitter partisanship’ on Twitter  —  The Virginia Republican Party on Thursday demanded an ethics investigation into the University of Virginia's top elections forecaster, Larry Sabato, over his tweets that they say display “bitter partisanship” in favor of Democrats.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Disgraced Trump foe Michael Avenatti weeps as he is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for Nike extortion scheme  — Michael Avenatti, the brash attorney who became a leading foe of then-President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison for a brazen botched scheme …
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Wall Street Journal:
Michael Avenatti Sentenced to 2 1/2 Years for Trying to Extort Nike
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson's Extremely Mad That Journalists FOIA'd His FOIA Request to NSA  —  The idea that reporters would use basic journalistic tools to verify his claims about the NSA set Carlson off on Thursday night—and he took specific aim at Ken Klippenstein.  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson …
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Supreme Court's Latest Voting Rights Opinion Is Even Worse Than It Seems  —  It's been almost a week since the Supreme Court issued its most significant ruling on voting rights in nearly a decade, and each time I read Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the angrier I become.
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Associated Press:
Amid growing frustration, White House pushes voting rights
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“There's Going to Be a Blowup”: Trump and DeSantis Are on a Collision Course  —  In public it's all smiles, but behind the scenes, Republicans are already preparing themselves for a showdown between former president Donald Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis.
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
SFGATE:
Too hot to hike?  Yosemite to hit 111 degrees this weekend.  —  The mercury in Yosemite hit 103 degrees Thursday at 2 p.m., and it's still rising.  The national park is forecast to hit 106 degrees today at the start of a heat wave that will broil the U.S. West Coast through Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
Donald J. Trump / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Suing Big Tech  —  If Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can censor me, they can censor you—and believe me, they are.  —  One of the gravest threats to our democracy today is a powerful group of Big Tech corporations that have teamed up with government to censor the free speech of the American people.
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Inside Donald Trump's Last Days in the White House and Plans for a Comeback  —  The president's effort to overturn the election alienated much of his inner circle—but solidified his dominance of the GOP.  Now he's planning his return.  —  On the morning of Nov. 7, 2020 …
Dan Egan / New York Times:
The climate crisis haunts Chicago's future.  A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake  —  Chicago has a weakness at its very foundations.  The towering skyscrapers and temples of commerce were built upon a swamp.  —  Chicago has a weakness at its very foundations.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani's Legal Fund Was a Bust.  Now, Its Donation Page Has Disappeared.  —  The Fundly account raised $9,798 before the page disappeared—far short from its goal of raising $5 million in two months.  —  After raising a paltry sum of money from supporters and attracting little interest …
Discussion: Raw Story
Noah Millman / HotAir:
Europe is becoming a right-wing continent  —  In Europe today, the most viable traditional parties are often mainstream right-wing parties that have sought to coopt the nationalist right's issues — most notably Boris Johnson's Tory Party, which eclipsed UKIP by adopting Brexit for itself …
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE U.S. set to add more Chinese companies to blacklist over Xinjiang  —  The Biden administration is set as early as Friday to add at least 10 more Chinese companies and other entities to its economic blacklist over alleged human rights abuses and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang, two sources told Reuters.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Euractiv
The Seattle Times:
Two Seattle officers trespassed on U.S. Capitol grounds during riot and should be fired, investigation finds  —  Two of the six off-duty Seattle police officers who attended a pro-Trump rally that led to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol in January trespassed onto restricted grounds and stood …
 
 
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
The Next City Council Will Look More Like New York
Discussion: CBS New York
Michael Watson / Washington Examiner:
Don't let billionaires export New York's failed election system
Alexander Sammon / American Prospect:
Biden's Back on the Day One Agenda  —  Executive actions on right to repair …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Fund the (tax) police
Discussion: Common Dreams
Wall Street Journal:
Coal Shows Its Staying Power as Economies Bounce Back
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 Earlier Items: 
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP candidate says he hides his abortion positions from voters
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Hill and HuffPost
Insider:
Trump erupted at his impeachment lawyer's typos, asking 'What is f—ing wrong with these people? They can't hit spell-check?' new book says
Discussion: Raw Story
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden puts faith behind Afghan troops while defending U.S. withdrawal
Conrad Black / The Hill:
The steady erosion of Trump-hate is a growing problem for Team Biden
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Four States Start Inquiries Into Recurring Donation Tactics of Both Parties
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Live free and die: Inside the bizarre political philosophy of America's unvaccinated
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Deal of the art: White House grapples with ethics of Hunter Biden's pricey paintings