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Kate Conger / New York Times:
Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for Posting Coronavirus Misinformation — The Republican lawmaker from Georgia cannot tweet for 12 hours, after the White House criticized social media sites for amplifying vaccine lies. — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter said on Monday …
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Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
White House Dispute Exposes Facebook Blind Spot on Misinformation — The company doesn't know some specifics about how falsehoods about Covid-19 and vaccines for the virus spread on its social network. — SAN FRANCISCO — At the start of the pandemic, a group of data scientists at Facebook held …
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Samuel Chamberlain / New York Post:
Twitter suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over ‘misleading’ COVID info
Twitter suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over ‘misleading’ COVID info
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Infrastructure deal in precarious state as endgame nears — President Biden on Monday took a subtle yet unmistakable dig at Republicans who have backed away from a major funding component in a bipartisan infrastructure package that is now starting to fray, saying pointedly that …
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Senior House Dem trashes Senate's bipartisan infrastructure talks — A top House Democrat scorched the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure negotiations during a private call Monday, saying he hopes the talks fail 48 hours before a high-profile test vote in the upper chamber.
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Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Graham says adding amnesty to infrastructure bill could be ‘dumbest idea’ in history of the Senate, WH
Graham says adding amnesty to infrastructure bill could be ‘dumbest idea’ in history of the Senate, WH
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Jacob Fischler / Daily Montanan:
Senate schedules Thursday vote for Stone-Manning
Senate schedules Thursday vote for Stone-Manning
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Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Most unvaccinated Americans won't get the shot for any reason — Many won't budge even if their own doctor gives the shot, a celebrity endorses it or they get paid time off.
Washington Post:
Indicted Trump Organization executive may have defended his Mercedes perks in custody, court documents show — NEW YORK — Indicted Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg may have offered an unprompted early defense to investigators on the day he was charged in a 15-year tax avoidance …
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Politico:
McCarthy makes his 5 GOP picks for Jan. 6 select committee — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has chosen his five GOP appointees for the Democrat-led select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. — While the California Republican took his time deciding between naming …
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Progressive Group Launches 6-Figure Super PAC To Boost Nina Turner — The Working Families Party plans to spend at least $150,000 in the hotly contested Ohio congressional race. — The Working Families Party, a progressive group, plans to spend at least $150,000 in support …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
A House Race in Cleveland Captures the Democrats' Generational Divide
Orlando Sentinel:
We're begging you, Gov. DeSantis, stop messing in Texas and save Florida from COVID — That's what DeSantis told the conservative TPUSA crowd on Sunday. — We agree. Completely. — Please, governor, we're begging you, handle the COVID problem. Be a leader.
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Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream:
Ben & Jerry's Will End Sales of Our Ice Cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory — We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry's ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). We also hear and recognize the concerns shared with us by our fans and trusted partners.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Let's get more people vaccinated — It all starts with actually approving the vaccine.... One great piece of news about life in the United States of America in July of 2021 is that widely available mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna are highly effective against the SARS-Cov-2 virus.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox has quietly implemented its own version of a vaccine passport while its top personalities attack them — New York (CNN Business)Tucker Carlson has called the idea of vaccine passports the medical equivalent of “Jim Crow” laws. And other Fox News personalities have spent months …
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Kylee Zempel / The Federalist:
Democrats' Definition Of ‘Misinformation’ Is Whatever Hurts Them Politically Today — The Biden administration's gross collusion with Big Tech to censor opposing viewpoints is not only blatant tyranny but also obvious hypocrisy. — Facebook is killing people, misinformation is rampant …
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John DiStaso / WMUR:
Young conservative Republican Karoline Leavitt becomes candidate for 1st District U.S. House seat — NH native, former Trump White House staffer, says ‘radical’ Democrats, including Pappas, have ‘dismantled progress’ made under 45th president — Hide Transcript Show Transcript
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Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Texas Senate Bill Drops Teaching Requirement That Ku Klux Klan Is ‘Morally Wrong’ — Eliminated requirements also include the writings of Martin Luther King Jr., United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez and suffragist Susan B. Anthony. — In a new political low in Texas …
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Jennifer Mercieca / The Conversation:
We are all propagandists now — The U.S. is in an information war with itself. The public sphere, where Americans discuss public issues, is broken. There's little discussion - and lots of fighting. — One reason why: Persuasion is difficult, slow and time-consuming …
Henry Fountain / New York Times:
How Bad Is the Bootleg Fire? It's Generating Its Own Weather. — Unpredictable winds, fire clouds that spawn lightning, and flames that leap over firebreaks are confounding efforts to fight the blaze, which is sweeping through southern Oregon. — A towering cloud of hot air …
NBC News:
As many as 200 Americans have now reported possible symptoms of ‘Havana Syndrome,’ officials say — WASHINGTON — As many as 200 Americans have come forward to describe possible symptoms of directed energy attacks, part of a wave of fresh reports that includes newly identified incidents around the world, Western officials say.
Lance Morrow / Wall Street Journal:
The Hedgehogs of Critical Race Theory — They start with important truths—slavery was wicked—and get carried away into monomania. — The political philosopher Isaiah Berlin turned an obscure fragment by the ancient Greek poet Archilochus ("The fox knows many things …
BBC:
Pedro Castillo declared president-elect of Peru — Pedro Castillo has been declared president-elect of Peru, weeks after winning the popular vote in a tightly-contested run-off election. — The country's election authority announced its verdict after reviewing claims of electoral fraud by his right-wing rival, Keiko Fujimori.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Department seeks 50-year bar to release of grand jury material — The Justice Department is pushing for rule changes that would put a 50-year delay on when courts can consider releasing material from federal grand juries, according to documents and interviews, and would separately allow gag orders …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans Have Their Own Private Autocracy — I'm a huge believer in the usefulness of social science, especially studies that use comparisons across time and space to shed light on our current situation. So when the political scientist Henry Farrell suggested that I look at his field's literature …
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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Buffalo Bill Center of the West trustee resigns after racist newsletter comes to light — A longtime member of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West board of trustees resigned Monday after it was recently revealed that he runs a racist newsletter. — Henry “Rip” McIntosh had been a trustee at the museum since September 2012.
Joe Kaufman / Front Page Magazine:
Florida Young Democrats Taken Over by Islamists — The maniacs are running the asylum, targeting Jews, homosexuals and Israel. … For the past two months, a group of young and angry Israel bashers, led by Central Florida anti-Semite activist Rasha Mubarak and under the banner 'Florida Palestine Network …
Rian Malan / New York Post:
How ‘equity’ ideology plunged South Africa into inequality and chaos — Van Wyksdorp, South Africa - As South Africa erupted into chaos, my thoughts turned to the United States — a great country brought low by the same toxic and demented racial politics that set afire my homeland last week.
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
“The Forever War Doesn't End With Afghanistan”: Joining the Substack Parade, Spencer Ackerman Wants to Reimagine National Security Coverage — The veteran journalist is launching “Forever Wars,” a newsletter (with an editor!) that will combine original reporting, history …