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9:05 AM ET, July 14, 2021

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Brett Kelman / The Tennessean:
Tennessee abandons vaccine outreach to minors — not just for COVID-19  —  The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach - not just for coronavirus, but all diseases - amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers, according to an internal report and agency emails obtained by the Tennessean.
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:   ‘Killing kids to own the libs’: Americans horrified after Tennessee shuts down all child vaccination programs
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, Prosecutors Say  —  Masih Alinejad spoke critically of her native country's autocracy.  Now an Iranian intelligence official and three others have been indicted in New York.  —  An Iranian American journalist living in Brooklyn …
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Deanna Paul / Wall Street Journal:
Iranian Intelligence Plotted to Kidnap U.S.-Based Activist, Prosecutors Say
Discussion: Bloomberg
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Ken Starr helped Jeffrey Epstein with ‘scorched-earth’ campaign, book claims  —  Book by Miami Herald journalist details extraordinary efforts by special prosecutor who hounded Bill Clinton to aid sex trafficker  —  Ken Starr, the lawyer who hounded Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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Judi Hershman:
Ken Starr, Brett Kavanaugh, Jeffrey Epstein and Me  —  As a former professional partisan, I never thought I'd look back decades to my political beginnings and find the map that points to our current moment, when there is serious doubt whether the democracy we took for granted at the time will continue to exist.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Ken Starr's Completely Inexcusable Career Has a New Chapter Titled ‘Jeffrey Epstein’  —  If there is a less excusable human being walking upright than Ken Starr, head huntsman of the Great Penis Chase of 1998, then I'm hard pressed to think of who it is.  Since his salacious moment in the national spotlight, Starr has presided over a
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
Inside the secret plan for the Texas Democratic exodus: A phone tree, a scramble to pack and a politically perilous trip  —  They activated the plan with a phone tree late Sunday: Pack your bags — and make sure they weigh no more than 45 pounds.  Be ready to leave Austin at noon tomorrow.
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The Texas Tribune:
Senate presses forward passing GOP voting and bail bills, as Texas House in chaos over Democrats' decampment  —  If the House Democrats who skipped town to block voting legislation don't return before the special session ends, the Senate bills will languish without becoming law.  —  Copy link
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The good and the bad in Biden's blistering attack on GOP voter suppression
John Nichols / The Nation:
Texas Democrats Have the Right Sense of Urgency for the Fight Against Jim Crow 2.0
Natalie Fertig / Politico:
Schumer launches long-shot bid for legal weed  —  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer released sweeping draft legislation Wednesday to legalize weed, officially kickstarting a difficult debate in his chamber that also makes a major splash for one of his campaign promises.
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire and Althouse
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NBC News:
Senate Democrats rolling out draft of bill to end federal marijuana ban
Discussion: The Hill, New York Times and HuffPost
Washington Post:
William Barr clashes with former Trump appointee from Pa. over handling of election-fraud claims  —  A war of words broke out Tuesday among former senior Justice Department officials over Pennsylvania politics and the aftermath of the 2020 election, fueled by former president Donald Trump's release …
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New York Times:   Attempt to Seize Post Reporters' Email Data Came Day Before Barr Left Office
Washington Post:
Trump Justice Dept. effort to learn source of leaks for Post stories came in Barr's final days as AG, court documents show
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
‘We are seeing people passing quicker than before’: What hospitals look like in US Covid hot spots  —  (CNN)Dr. Sergio Segarra says when Covid-19 patient numbers in the Miami hospital he works in dipped below 20 last month, he began feeling optimistic.  —  “I remember seeing articles …
Sarah Jackson / Insider:
Facebook staffers were told by execs to scrap any mention of Russia in a 2017 white paper on the platform's security concerns: ‘We started to feel like we were part of a cover-up’  — Facebook's 2017 white paper initially mentioned Russian election interference, a new book says.
Matt Johnson / WSB-TV:
‘He wished he had gotten the vaccine:’ Local man battling COVID-19 from ICU for months  —  GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Blake Bargatze, 24, was the only one in his family to not get vaccinated and now he remains in a hospital ICU more than three months after contracting COVID-19, according to his family.
Rebekah Riess / CNN:
Norwegian Cruise Line sues Florida surgeon general over vaccine passport ban  —  (CNN) — Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is suing Florida's surgeon general over the state's law that prohibits companies from requiring customers and employees to provide documentation of Covid-19 vaccination status.
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ABC News:
Norwegian Cruise Lines sues state of Florida over vaccine passport ban
David Frum / The Atlantic:
There's a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming  —  “I became worse.”  That's how double impeachment changed him, Donald Trump told a conservative audience in Dallas last weekend, without a trace of a smile.  This was not Trump the insult comic talking.  This was the deepest Trump self.
W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
Democrats face these major headwinds in 2022 elections  —  History and a handful of issues threaten the Democrats' narrow congressional majorities in next year's midterm elections.  —  Even though President Joe Biden's job approval ratings remain solid if unspectacular …
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
House GOP reelection committee smashes fundraising records, outpacing Democrats
Discussion: CNN and Washington Examiner
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance  —  Tucker Carlson huddled in a low-ceilinged dungeon that had served as a holding pen for Africans bound for enslavement in the United States.  It was a July day in 2003 in Ghana, and Carlson stood alongside some of America's most prominent civil rights leaders.
Hugo Gurdon / Washington Examiner:
Crime and Cuba backfire on Democrats  —  Two apparently unconnected issues that top the headline news endanger Democrats' election hopes.  I say “apparently” because although the events are taking place in different countries, both are tied indissolubly to the Left and to the party in power in Washington.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Sacha Baron Cohen, Showtime win dismissal of Roy Moore defamation lawsuit  —  British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen on Tuesday won the dismissal of a $95 million defamation lawsuit by Roy Moore, a former U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama who claimed he was tricked into being portrayed falsely …
Miami Herald:
DeSantis' anti-riot law didn't apply as Cuba protesters shut down a Miami-Dade road.  Hmmm . . .  Gov. DeSantis should have just laid it on the line when a reporter asked about the hundreds upon hundreds of Cuban-American demonstrators and their supporters who shut down a portion of the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade County.
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel, Joe.My.God. and TheGrio
Kenny Xu / HotAir:
Critical Race Theory has no idea what to do with Asian-Americans  —  However, with the emergence of several racial groups that have come to be just as successful as whites, critical race theorists have come up with the term, “white adjacency.”  Robin DiAngelo, author of the now-infamous book White Fragility …
Discussion: The Federalist and Newsweek
 
 
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
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Sha Hua / Wall Street Journal:
China Set to Launch the World's Largest Emissions-Trading Program
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Texas Democrat Hijacks Fox News Interview, Demands Host Admit Trump Lost in 2020: ‘Is This an Uncomfortable Question for You?’
Discussion: HuffPost and The Daily Caller
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Harris emerges as main GOP foil on campaign trail
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CBS News:
George W. Bush calls withdrawal of U.S. and other NATO troops from Afghanistan “a mistake”
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Nathan J. Brown / Middle East Institute:
Going back to school on Palestinian textbooks
Marina Villeneuve / Associated Press:
New York takes conservative approach counting virus deaths
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
For white evangelical Protestants, the degradation of democracy is not regrettable. It's desirable
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