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3:35 PM 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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Washington Post:
Drug overdoses soared to a record 93,000 last year  —  Deaths from drug overdoses soared to more than 93,000 last year, a staggering record that reflects the coronavirus pandemic's toll on efforts to quell the crisis and the continued spread of the synthetic opioid fentanyl in the illegal narcotic supply …
Discussion: CNN, Washington Examiner, Slate and Twitchy
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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.
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NBC News:
Senate Democrats reveal $3.5 trillion plan to invest in health care, climate change and more … WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leaders announced an agreement Tuesday evening to advance a $3.5 trillion spending plan to finance a major expansion of the economic safety net.
Washington Post:
Senior Democrats prepare Medicare and climate initiatives as well as tax hikes on wealthy as details of $3.5 trillion budget deal emerge
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.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Inside Facebook's Data Wars  —  Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources.  —  One day in April, the people behind CrowdTangle, a data analytics tool owned by Facebook, learned that transparency had limits.
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vance  —  What do we call a man who turns on everything he once claimed to believe?  For a practitioner of petty and self-serving duplicity, we use “sellout” or “backstabber.”  (Sometimes we impugn the animal kingdom and call him a rat, a skunk, or a weasel.)
Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Bolsonaro in hospital as hiccups persist for more than 10 days  — President, 66, to be observed by doctors for next 48 hours  — Speculation grows over health of Brazil's far-right leader  —  The Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been admitted to hospital complaining of abdominal pain …
Discussion: CNN, Insider and The Uprising
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
George W. Bush says ending U.S. military mission in Afghanistan is a mistake  —  Former president George W. Bush said he believes the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is a mistake, in rare public remarks on the military intervention he launched nearly two decades ago.
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Detroit Free Press:
Michigan GOP executive who blamed Trump for election loss resigns leadership post  —  Dave Boucher Clara HendricksonDetroit Free Press  —  A Michigan Republican Party leader who faced grassroots pushback after saying the 2020 presidential election wasn't stolen and blaming ex-President Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Bridge Michigan
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 …
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
New Book Details Eric Trump ‘Flipped Out’ On Election Night  —  Donald Trump's son reportedly screamed at campaign aides as his father's lead against Joe Biden narrowed, according to Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker's new book.  —  Eric Trump “flipped out” on the night of the 2020 election …
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Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:   Top U.S. General Said Trump Preached ‘Gospel of the Führer’
Sam Ro / Axios:
Poll: 1.8 million Americans have turned down jobs due to unemployment benefits  —  About 1.8 million out-of-work Americans have turned down jobs because of the generosity of unemployment insurance benefits, according to Morning Consult poll results released Wednesday.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Norwegian Cruise Line sues Florida over prohibition on vaccine requirements.  —  The fight over requiring vaccinations for travel is heating up.  —  Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings sued Florida's surgeon general on Tuesday, accusing the state of preventing it from “safely and soundly” …
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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
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
More than 150 companies back update to Voting Rights Act  —  More than 150 companies, including PepsiCo, Amazon and Target, threw their support behind updating the Voting Rights Act in a letter released Wednesday.  —  The signatories, all U.S. employers, urged Congress to enact …
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Joseph Cox / VICE:
Inside the Industry That Unmasks People At Scale  —  Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous.  But there's an entire industry that links them to real people and their address.  —  Joseph Cox  —  Tech companies have repeatedly reassured the public that trackers used …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida Dems to Biden: Don't blow ‘golden opportunity’ on Cuba  —  MIAMI — Donald Trump and the GOP dominated Florida's elections last November in part due to the former president's hardline Latin America policy and rhetoric.  —  Now, in Cuba's historic uprisings, Florida Democrats …
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Associated Press:
Miami demonstrators block highway to support Cuban protests
Discussion: Insider and Sun-Sentinel
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Robin DiAngelo Wants White Progressives to Look Inward  —  The author of “White Fragility” discusses her new book, “Nice Racism.”  —  In 2018, Robin DiAngelo, an academic and anti-racism consultant, published the surprise best-seller “White Fragility.”  The book, which argues that white people tend …
AMAC:
Storm Clouds Brewing for Terry McAuliffe as Democrats Face Reckoning Nationally  —  There's no doubt about it - Terry McAuliffe is in trouble in Virginia.  After previously serving as governor from 2014 to 2018, McAuliffe presumably believed he could simply cruise back into the position he once won by nearly three points.
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:   Terry McAuliffe Fundraises for Virginia Dem Who Served Time for Underage Sex
Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
Can the Black Rifle Coffee Company Become the Starbucks of the Right?  —  The company doubled its sales last year by leaning into America's culture war.  It's also trying to distance itself from some of its new customers.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
The Daily Beast:
Inside Shepard Smith's Post-Fox News Crash on CNBC  —  The ex-Fox anchor's much-hyped new show has failed to bring in viewers and, per insiders, it has struggled with some internal turmoil, including “regular tantrums” from Smith.  —  Whether it's a poor time slot, behind-the-scenes squabbles …
Jake Zuckerman / Ohio Capital Journal:
She says vaccines make you magnetized.  This lawmaker invited her testimony, chair says.  —  After a discredited doctor's conspiracy theories involving COVID-19 vaccines, magnetics and 5G towers made a mockery of the Ohio House of Representatives, the Health chairman blamed the sponsor …
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Maria Rosa / Accountable.US:
AT&T Claims to Support Voter Access, But Its Texas PAC Gave $100K To Texas Governor Abbott The Same Day He Called For A Special Legislative Session To Pass A Major Voter Suppression Bill  —  Despite AT&T's recent public statements in support of voting rights, an Accountable.US review …
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.
Tahir Hamut Izgil / The Atlantic:
My Friends Were Sent to the Camps  —  If you took an Uber in Washington, D.C., a couple of years ago, there was a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets.  Tahir Hamut Izgil arrived with his family in the United States in 2017, fleeing the Chinese government's merciless persecution of his people.
Robin Bravender / Insider:
Ex-Kamala Harris staffers have bad memories of a toxic culture in her past offices and are texting each other about it  — Some former Harris staffers are feeling vindicated after reports of dysfunction in her office.  — They're texting one another and having flashbacks about their time working for her.
Discussion: Politico
Kyle Smith / National Review:
There Goes Biden's ‘Moderate’ Brand  —  President Biden's implicit promise to turn down the temperature and restore normal patterns of rhetoric to the presidency can no longer be taken seriously after yesterday's ridiculous episode of hyperventilation disguised as a speech.
 
 
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Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Nearly 190,000 border crossings seen in June, busts Biden's claim it's seasonal
Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
Family of five charged for allegedly storming the Capitol after tipster provides social media screenshots
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Appeals court deals another blow to landlords on eviction freeze
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Parts of the Amazon Go From Absorbing Carbon Dioxide to Emitting It
Discussion: Forbes
Megan Carpentier / Dame Magazine:
HEALTH THE “PRO-LIFE” PARTY'S LONG FIGHT AGAINST VACCINES
Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
Critical Race Theory Is a Hustle
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
The tedium of the Trump-books news cycle
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Emails Reveal Cops Fanned Flames as FBI Debunked Antifa Hoax
Discussion: Raw Story