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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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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Toyota to cease donations to election objectors
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Toyota to stop donating to GOP lawmakers who objected to certifying Biden's win
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and YouTube
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 …
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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 …
Mary Louise Kelly / NPR:
Fauci Says Current Vaccines Will Stand Up To The Delta Variant
Discussion: KOIN-TV
New York Post:
Don't buy the hysteria: The Delta variant is actually less dangerous
Discussion: Alternet.org
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 …
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
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.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It's Taking America With It
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: New Republic, Althouse and HotAir
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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.
Discussion: HuffPost, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and HotAir
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP and Fox News rush to turn vaccine door-knockers into terrifying straw men  —  It has been three days since President Biden announced an initiative to send people door-to-door trying to get more people vaccinated, and Republicans and their conservative media allies have wasted no time turning …
Discussion: Politico and Insider
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 …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas  —  The measure bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.  And it effectively deputizes ordinary citizens to sue people involved in the process.  —  People across the country may soon be able to sue abortion clinics …
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
Associated Press:
Amid growing frustration, White House pushes voting rights  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a call to “save American democracy,” the Biden administration on Thursday unveiled new efforts to help protect voting rights amid growing complaints from civil rights activists and other Democrats …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Democrats' New Voting-Rights Obstacle
Discussion: New York Magazine and Slate
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 …
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
Howard Husock / The Hill:
The Supreme Court donor ruling is a defeat for Kamala Harris  —  Many media pundits will reflexively view the recent Supreme Court decision to strike down the California rule mandating that nonprofit groups disclose their top donors as a victory for conservatives such as Charles Koch.
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.
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Trump Organization Indictment May Spell Trouble for Trump Spawn  —  The indictment against the Trump Organization named seven specific companies within the overall business.  Guess who's connected to those companies.  —  The indictment filed last week against the Trump Organization …
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Valerie Richardson / Washington Times:
Biden administration loses again on loan relief for non-White farmers only  —  Federal judge in Tennessee latest to block race-based loan forgiveness  —  The Biden administration was slammed Thursday with another court ruling against its pandemic-relief program to pay off the federal loans of all non-White farmers.
Saeed Shah / Wall Street Journal:
Pakistan, After Rooting for Afghanistan's Taliban, Faces a Blowback  —  Islamabad wants a negotiated agreement, fears that outright Taliban takeover would galvanize Pakistani jihadists  —  ISLAMABAD—For two decades, a large part of the Pakistani security establishment rooted for the Taliban in the Afghan war.
Discussion: Washington Post
Politico:
Democrats wrestle over control of the infrastructure throttle  —  Democrats are hurtling toward their most consequential stretch of legislating since the passage of Obamacare, with major decisions left unmade as they wrangle over the size and scope of President Joe Biden's sweeping domestic agenda.
Discussion: Political Wire
spectatorworld.com:
What does Vladimir Putin have on Joe Biden?  —  Biden is refusing to act as Russian attacks become more ambitious and more aggressive  —  In May 2017, TIME magazine published a cover showing the White House being infected and taken over by Russian onion domes.
Discussion: NPR
 
 
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Reuters:
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Discussion: Raw Story
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
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