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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.
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Trump Says He Will Sit For a Deposition For Social Media Lawsuit: ‘I Look Forward to It’
Trump Says He Will Sit For a Deposition For Social Media Lawsuit: ‘I Look Forward to It’
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POLITICUSUSA, Joe.My.God. and The Gateway Pundit
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's latest ridiculous lawsuit shows how small he has become
Trump's latest ridiculous lawsuit shows how small he has become
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MyNorthwest.com, Raw Story, NBC News, One America News Network, Vox, New York Times, Newsbusters, Fox News and YouTube, more at Mediagazer »
PRRI:
The 2020 Census of American Religion — THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE IN 2020 — The American Religious Landscape in 2020 — According to PRRI's 2020 American Values Atlas, seven in ten Americans (70%) identify as Christian, including more than four in ten who identify as white Christian …
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Boing Boing and Blue Virginia
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Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:
Survey: White mainline Protestants outnumber white evangelicals, while ‘nones’ shrink — Hundreds gathered at Times Square for an interfaith Shabbat lighting ceremony in late 2017 to celebrate religious diversity. Photo courtesy of Abe's Eats — (RNS) — White Christian decline has slowed.
CNN:
Five undervaccinated clusters put the entire United States at risk — (CNN)A new data analysis identifies clusters of unvaccinated people, most of them in the southern United States, that are vulnerable to surges in Covid-19 cases and could become breeding grounds for even more deadly Covid-19 variants.
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Washington Examiner and Deseret News
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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 …
Alexis Nowicki / Slate:
I've Always Suspected “Cat Person” Was Based on My Life. Now I Know It Was.
— Kristen Roupenian's viral story draws specific details from my own life. I've spent the years since it published wondering: How did she know? — One night in December of 2017, I saw Call Me by Your Name …
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Naming the Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Unarmed Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt — At top, pistol drawn in the House chamber, a plainclothes black officer who fits the description of Michael L. Byrd. His name was apparently divulged at a hearing as the cop who shot Ashli Babbitt.
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Forbes, The American Independent, Townhall, Insider, The Gateway Pundit and BizPac Review
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New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg's Partnership Did Not Survive Trump — The company they built is wildly successful. But her Washington wisdom didn't hold up, and neither did their close working relationship. — Sheryl Sandberg knew she'd be asked about the attacks on the Capitol.
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Insider, more at Techmeme »
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Deal of the art: White House grapples with ethics of Hunter Biden's pricey paintings — White House officials have helped craft an agreement under which purchases of Hunter Biden's artwork — which could be listed at prices as high as $500,000 — will be kept confidential from even the artist himself …
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Insider, Washington Free Beacon, HotAir, CNBC, Fox News, National Review, The Hill, New York Post and Twitchy
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Gettr by the Pu$$y — [Note: This article includes sexually explicit language and a gross screenshot from Gettr users.] — Ahhh, internet forum moderation policy debates. — Right-wing politicians and pundits will have you believe that their victimization at the hands of overzealous online censors …
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Salon
Washington Post:
U.S. citizen among suspects arrested in assassination of Haitian president, senior official says — PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A U.S. citizen of Haitian descent has been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, a senior official here said Thursday.
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USA Today, Associated Press and NPR
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Joshua Goodman / Associated Press:
Biden with few options to stabilize Haiti in wake of slaying
Biden with few options to stabilize Haiti in wake of slaying
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Political Wire
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Harris to announce $25 million DNC investment to aid voting access … WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris will announce Thursday a $25 million investment by the Democratic National Committee to support efforts to protect voting access ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
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Los Angeles Times
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Kamala Harris to announce DNC investing additional $25 million in voting rights initiative
Kamala Harris to announce DNC investing additional $25 million in voting rights initiative
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CNBC, CBS News and One America News Network
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 …
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Los Angeles Times, How To Live BULLSHIT-FREE and Raw Story
NBC News:
Collapsed Florida tower could have been repaired faster under repealed law, experts say … SURFSIDE, Fla. — Late last year, after years of delays and disputes, the Champlain Towers South Condominium Association began a desperate search for $16.2 million to fix major structural damage …
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CNBC and The Guardian
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Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
DeSantis: Surfside condo ‘had problems from the start,’ won't commit to statewide review
DeSantis: Surfside condo ‘had problems from the start,’ won't commit to statewide review
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The Hill, Joe.My.God., Alternet.org and The Daily Caller
Sion Bell / American Prospect:
One Weird Trick to Force Billionaires to Pay Taxes — The ‘economic substance doctrine’ could be employed by the IRS to crack down on tax avoidance. — Peter Thiel speaks during an American Technology Council roundtable in the State Dining Room of the White House, June 19, 2017, in Washington.
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Alternet.org
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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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Insider, The Atlantic, Raw Story and New Republic
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Nikki Haley to campaign in Virginia with GOP gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin — The trip will be Haley's first time stumping with a candidate this cycle. — Nikki Haley, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration, will hit the campaign trail next week …
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The Hill and Washington Times
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim — Tucker Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him, sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.
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Joseph Cox / VICE:
We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals — ‘Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one. — Joseph Cox — The sleek, black phone seems perfectly normal. — Unlocking the Google Pixel 4a with a PIN code reveals …
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Boing Boing
Maggie Fox / CNN:
Coronavirus almost certainly came from an animal, not a lab leak, top scientists argue — US intelligence working on report about Covid-19 origins — (CNN)The coronavirus pandemic almost certainly originated from an animal, probably at a wildlife market in China, and not from a laboratory leak …
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National Review, Bloomberg and Zenodo
David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump charged Secret Service nearly $10,200 in May for agents' rooms — Former president Donald Trump's golf club in Bedminster, N.J., charged the Secret Service nearly $10,200 for guest rooms used by his protective detail during Trump's first month at the club this summer, newly released spending records show.
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USA Today, Mediaite, Insider, The Moderate Voice, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Live free and die: Inside the bizarre political philosophy of America's unvaccinated — A couple of weeks ago, I drove two hours north to the hillside town of Olyphant, Pa., just outside Scranton, to meet with a Donald Trump superfan for a book project I've been working on.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Disgraced Trump foe Michael Avenatti faces sentencing for Nike extortion scheme — Michael Avenatti faces sentencing in New York for a scheme to extort athletic apparel giant Nike out of up to $25 million. — The attorney became a leading foe of then-President Donald Trump and Trump's …
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Wall Street Journal, WTOP and MyNorthwest.com
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
How May Edwards became the forgotten whistleblower — By the time Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards stood before Judge Gregory Woods in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan last month, she had lost her job, her car, her home and had spent nearly three years on supervised release, awaiting a likely prison sentence.
Julia Ioffe / Vanity Fair:
“These Bastards Will Never See Our Tears”: How Yulia Navalnaya Became Russia's Real First Lady — When the Kremlin tried to kill Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, his wife launched an epic battle to save his life—and became the face of the resistance to Vladimir Putin.
Ruy Teixeira / The Liberal Patriot:
Why Current Democratic Strategy Probably Won't Work — The Biden Boom Is Not Enough — The Democrats have a plan for 2022. It's called the Biden boom. Into that boom will be folded Democratic policy successes like the vaccine rollout, the American Rescue Plan and, possibly …
Ilana Kaplan / New York Times:
‘Legally Blonde’ Oral History: From Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic — Along the way, adult zingers were edited out, Jennifer Coolidge struggled with the “bend and snap” and the ending was changed at least three times. — In 2001, Reese Witherspoon was already on her way to becoming a household name.
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Insider
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Texas Is the Hardest State to Vote In. It Could Soon Get Much Harder. — 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. — Beto O'Rourke is once again crisscrossing the state of Texas …
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Houston Chronicle, CNN, CBS News and The Western Journal
Jessica Dickler / CNBC:
Inflation's silver lining: higher salaries — Although consumers may be paying more for everyday items, it's not all bad news. — As inflation takes hold, wages may increase, too. — These industries may face the most pressure from rising wages — As the economy picks up in the wake …
Dan Merica / CNN:
House candidates declare campaigns for districts that don't exist yet amid redistricting delays — (CNN)Loretta Smith and Wesley Hunt are members of different parties, separated by both distance and policy. — And yet, Smith, an Oregon Democrat, and Hunt, a Texas Republican …