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State Senate to seek more election material from Maricopa County; door-to-door questioning recommended — Andrew Oxford Mary Jo PitzlArizona Republic — Senate President Karen Fann said the Legislature needs more materials and data from Maricopa County for an unprecedented and controversial review …
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The Daily Signal, Arizona Mirror and Mock Paper Scissors
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Court Denies Republican Request to Dismiss Arizona Audit Case — WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, the Arizona Superior Court in Maricopa County denied the state Senate's request to dismiss a case seeking records of the Republican-led ‘audit’ of the 2020 election.
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Arizona election audit reports ‘inconsistencies’; judge rules records must be public
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KTAR.com and Washington Examiner
Kira Davis / RedState:
Here's What the Arizona Audit Is Really All About
Here's What the Arizona Audit Is Really All About
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RealClearPolitics
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“You're Gonna Have a Fucking War”: Mark Milley's Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran — Inside the extraordinary final-days conflict between the former President and his chairman of the Joint Chiefs. — The last time that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff …
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Washington Examiner, U.S. Department of Defense, Raw Story, The Times of Israel and HotAir
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POLITICO Playbook: Caitlyn Jenner's reality TV campaign — DRIVING THE DAY — PARLIAMENTARY GAMES — A pair of stories up from CNN and POLITICO spotlight Democrats' upcoming gambit to back-door immigration reform through the reconciliation process — Senate parliamentarian be damned.
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NBC News, Ace of Spades HQ, Los Angeles Times, The Dispatch and Grist
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Ross Douthat's Populist Dream World
Ross Douthat's Populist Dream World
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Military Times, Salon and New Republic
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Kevin McCarthy Rolls Over for Donald Trump, Like a Dog — HEEL … The meeting itself, at Trump's golf course, of course, was a show of dominance from the party's real leader to its House “leader.” — So Kevin McCarthy met with Donald Trump ("Much to discuss!), and I'm struggling to come …
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Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Times
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Mark Meadows desperately begged ‘stable pony’ Ivanka to convince Trump to stop Jan. 6 insurrection: book
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Washington Post, Mercury News, Insider and Daily Kos
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Talking With Tucker Carlson, the Most Powerful Conservative in America — On a Thursday afternoon in June, five months after Inauguration Day, I asked Tucker Carlson whether Joe Biden was the legitimately elected President of the United States. — This was halfway through a meandering phone conversation …
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Poynter, Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, UPROXX, Raw Story, Insider, The Hill, Mediaite, TVNewser and Crooks and Liars, more at Mediagazer »
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MAGA World's ‘Freedom Phone’ Actually Budget Chinese Phone — MAGA Influencers are pushing a phone preloaded with apps like Parler and Rumble that appears to be a vastly more expensive version of a phone made in China. — The pro-Trump internet went wild on Wednesday for the Freedom Phone …
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Matt Gaetz hired legal firm used by Jeffrey Epstein and El Chapo, campaign report shows — Gaetz's campaign has spent $135,000 on legal expenses in the past year as his troubles have mounted. — Updated Just now — With his legal troubles still looming over him, U.S …
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Matt Gaetz's campaign paid $25,000 to lawyer who represented Jeffrey Epstein
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Robin Bravender / Insider:
Matt Gaetz's campaign paid $25K to a Manhattan criminal defense lawyer who represented Jeffrey Epstein, new records show
Matt Gaetz's campaign paid $25K to a Manhattan criminal defense lawyer who represented Jeffrey Epstein, new records show
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The Daily Beast and Raw Story
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L.A. County will require masks indoors amid alarming rise in coronavirus cases — Just a month ago, Los Angeles County and the rest of California celebrated a long-awaited reopening, marking the tremendous progress made in the battle against COVID-19 by lifting virtually all restrictions on businesses and other public spaces.
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KTLA, SacCounty News, ABC7, New York Magazine, HotAir, Politico, Townhall, Courthouse News Service, The Hill, Insider, Breitbart and Forbes
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The pandemic-fueled decline of cash — Cash is getting a bad reputation. It was already on the ropes but the pandemic accelerated a decline that's been underway. — Why it matters: Consumers used less cash in 2020. That along with a trend toward digital transactions in the smaller-dollar realm …
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'I'm Here, Mom!': FBI Arrests Man Who Wore Roman Gladiator Costume To Capitol Riot — Nathan Wayne Entrekin was talking to his mother during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. — Nathan Wayne Entrekin, a man who wore a Roman gladiator costume to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in support …
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The Daily Beast, Insider, Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
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'The screen door slams, Mary's dress...' waves? Sways? An investigation into The Boss' mystery verb — The internet doesn't seem to know the correct lyrics to Bruce Springsteen's “Thunder Road.” It's possible Springsteen doesn't know either. — The latest niche Twitter controversy began on July 3 …
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Gaslighting for critical race theory — The conclusion of George Orwell's essay “Politics and the English Language” includes these two sentences: “Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism.
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Explosive Interview Directly Implicates Trump in Tax Scheme — As investigators look into a scheme at the Trump Organization to avoid paying taxes on employee benefits, one witness has set the scene to show Trump was involved. — A witness in the New York investigation against the Trump Organization …
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Raw Story
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Floods in Germany and Other Parts of Western Europe Leave at Least 45 Dead — Strong rains caused rivers to burst their banks, overloaded sewage systems and washed away buildings in Germany and Belgium. Homes and streets in the Netherlands and Switzerland also flooded.
Senator Chuck Grassley:
Grassley And Johnson Request More Information From Justice Department About Special Counsel Mueller Team's Missing Phones — WASHINGTON - Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are asking the Justice Department for more information and records after learning that the department …
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Washington Examiner and The Federalist
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Fox News Guest Says Kamala Harris Slept Her Way to the Top: 'She Started Out Her Political Career as Willie Brown's Bratwurst Bun' — On Thursday, Jesse Kelly said on Fox News that “Kamala Harris will do anything to get ahead,” including sleeping around. — In the early 1990s …
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Windermere police officer arrested in Capitol riot along with ex-Apopka cop son — A Windermere Police Department officer resigned and was arrested Thursday on charges that he participated in the January riot at the U.S. Capitol — the first member of Central Florida law enforcement to face charges in the attempted insurrection.
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Raw Story and Florida Politics
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Biden's big bets on government grow: The Note — He needs people to see the federal government as a force for good. — If it's true that if you break it then you own it, does it necessarily follow that you own what you build? — President Joe Biden has cast his presidency in bold terms …
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Washington Examiner and Politico
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Sailor becomes first woman to complete Naval Special Warfare training — A sailor in the U.S. Navy made history this week by becoming the first woman to complete the service's rigorous, monthslong training for prospective Naval Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen.
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CBS News, Associated Press and Fox News
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Jeff Bezos Picks 18-Year-Old Dutch Student for Blue Origin Rocket Launch — Oliver Daemen will fly to the edge of space after another passenger who paid $28 million for the seat had a scheduling conflict. — Someone paid $28 million to not go to space with Jeff Bezos next week.
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CNBC, The Atlantic, UPROXX, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, KRDO, GeekWire and One America News Network
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Biden Admin to Border Agents: Prepare for the Flood — Docs say 1,200 migrant families expected to be processed each day — The Biden administration is telling immigration agents to prepare to process hundreds of thousands of migrant families and asylum claims as the White House moves …
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Washington Examiner and Politico
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Young Black Activists Helped Change The State Flag. They Intend To Change The State. — Maisie Brown has heard people argue that removing an emblem of the Confederacy from Mississippi's state flag meant little—that, in a state still rife with systemic racism, it was nothing more than a symbolic change with no substance.
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Another Mercenary Spyware Vendor Comes into Focus — Summary — Candiru is a secretive Israel-based company that sells spyware exclusively to governments. Reportedly, their spyware can infect and monitor iPhones, Androids, Macs, PCs, and cloud accounts.
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Microsoft On the Issues, Associated Press, Financial Times, Bloomberg and Washington Post, more at Techmeme »
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Jen Psaki Just Escalated the Conservative War with Big Tech — Whether or not she intended to, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has escalated the conservative war with Big Tech. — During the Thursday press briefing, Psaki said regarding COVID-19 messaging that “we're flagging problematic posts …
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Townhall and Patterico's Pontifications
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How Big Spending Got Its Groove Back — The way it was: Some years ago I attended a meeting in which President Barack Obama asked a group of economists for unconventional policy ideas. I distinctly remember him saying: “Don't tell me that I should spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure.
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Alabama military base is first in the U.S. to require vaccination proof amid rising covid-19 rates — An Alabama military base is taking increased actions to combat the ongoing prevalence of coronavirus infections, authorizing leaders to ask for proof of vaccination of service members not wearing a mask while on duty.
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Children's Health Defense, The Western Journal, New York Times and NOQ Report