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2:55 PM ET, August 9, 2021

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New York Times:
Roberta Kaplan, Who Aided Cuomo, Resigns from Time's Up  —  Ms. Kaplan, a prominent progressive lawyer, was involved in an effort to discredit a woman who had accused Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, a report said.  —  Roberta A. Kaplan, the chairwoman of Time's Up and co-founder …
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CBS News:
Cuomo accuser Brittany Commisso breaks her silence to detail groping allegations and says the governor is lying  —  In a damning report released last week by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is accused of sexually harassing 11 women.
Alison Turkos / Medium:
Enough is Enough: An Open Letter from Survivors to TIME'S UP  —  To the TIME'S UP Foundation Governing Board:  —  We write to you as a collective group of survivors and victims who believe TIME'S UP is failing the survivor community.  We believed in your mission and hoped that your investment …
Luis Ferré-Sadurní / New York Times:
Cuomo's Top Aide, Melissa DeRosa, Resigns as He Fights to Survive
Wall Street Journal:   New York Assembly Could Release Andrew Cuomo Impeachment Findings in August
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Andrew Freedman / Axios:
UN report: Effects of climate change even more severe than we thought  —  Global warming is happening so fast that scientists now say we'll cross a crucial temperature threshold as early as 2030 — up to a decade sooner than previously thought — according to a sweeping new UN-sponsored review of climate science published Monday.
Washington Post:
Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds … More than three decades ago, a collection of scientists sanctioned by the United Nations first warned that humans were fueling a dangerous greenhouse effect and that if the world didn't act collectively …
Discussion: CNN
Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
Playing Nice With the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Climate Denial … The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released the first, nearly 4,000-page installment of its Sixth Assessment Report.  The report, from a working group of over 200 scientists, distills the current consensus …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The perverse argument against the bipartisan infrastructure bill: It wants to address climate change
Discussion: HotAir
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon to require COVID vaccine for all troops by Sept. 15  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will require members of the U.S. military to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.  That deadline could be pushed up if the vaccine receives final FDA approval …
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Fox News:
Defense secretary to mandate COVID vaccine for US military by Sept. 15  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 9  —  The Pentagon is requiring members of the U.S. military to get vaccinated against coronavirus, a defense official has confirmed to Fox News.
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Townhall
The White House:   Statement by President Joe Biden on COVID-⁠19 Vaccines for Service Members
Washington Post:
Texas judge blocks arrest of Democratic legislators who fled the state to stop voting restrictions  —  Prolonging a showdown over proposed new voting restrictions, a Texas judge temporarily blocked the arrest of Democratic legislators who fled the state to stop the legislation …
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Washington Post:
‘Goldilocks virus’: Delta vanquishes all variant rivals as scientists race to understand its tricks  —  The variant battle in the United States is over.  Delta won.  —  Since late last year, the country has been overrun by a succession of coronavirus variants, each with its own suite …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and NBC News
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FiveThirtyEight:
What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State  —  An updating tracker of proposed congressional maps — and whether they might benefit Democrats or Republicans in the 2022 midterms and beyond.  —  National Overview  — STATES WITH PROPOSED MAPS  — National Overview  —  STATES TO WATCH
Discussion: Kansas Reflector
María Paúl / Washington Post:
Florida church reeling after six members die within 10 days amid spike in cases  —  For George L. Davis, a bishop at Impact Church in Jacksonville, getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was an act of faith.  He says that he believes in divine creation, and that the shot is a miracle …
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Politico:
Dems reveal $3.5T budget that sidesteps debt ceiling  —  Senate Democrats released a $3.5 trillion budget on Monday morning that doesn't tackle the imminent need to raise the debt ceiling, setting the stage for a dramatic standoff with Republicans this fall.
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Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Rachel Uchitel on the N.D.A. She Signed With Tiger Woods  —  For more than a decade, a sweeping nondisclosure agreement with Tiger Woods, brokered by Gloria Allred, has ruled her life.  Now she's ready to rip it up.  —  Rachel Uchitel was sitting at a table in her Upper East Side apartment not long ago …
Jennifer Senior / The Atlantic:
What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind  —  When Bobby McIlvaine died on September 11, 2001, his desk at home was a study in plate tectonics, coated in shifting piles of leather-bound diaries and yellow legal pads.  He'd kept the diaries since he was a teenager, and they were filled with the usual diary things …
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
I Stand By My Tweet  —  Caitlyn Jenner is a man.  Caitlyn Jenner did not run as an Olympian, Bruce Jenner did.  He ran, set records, won awards, and only late in life decided he was a she.  But he is not, even as he has altered his appearance, changed his name, and the world has retconned Caitlyn …
David Gilbert / VICE:
Anti-Vaxxers Got Fooled by Fake ‘Snitch on Your Unvaccinated Friends’ Site  —  A website purportedly offering money to people willing to snitch on their unvaccinated family, friends, and neighbors for breaching vaccine mandates has gone viral in anti-vaxxer circles.
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
House Progressives Should Help Biden by Ransoming the Infrastructure Bill It's AOC's time to shine.  —  The drama and attention surrounding the infrastructure bill has focused almost entirely on the Senate, which has seen an unusual, high-profile bipartisan coalition.
Lizzie Widdicombe / Vogue:
Press Secretary Jen Psaki is Good At Mending Fences.  Just Don't Call Her Nice.  —  It's a summer Friday.  President Biden is at his Delaware beach house, where he delivered a brief speech about that morning's encouraging jobs numbers.  Washington, D.C., is quiet—some might say eerily so.
Axios:
Scoop: Biden taps Russia hawk for key energy post  —  President Biden has appointed close former adviser Amos Hochstein as a State Department energy envoy charged with implementing a U.S.-Germany deal allowing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to be completed, sources familiar with the decision tell Axios.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Sails Away as Rudy Giuliani Drowns in Legal Bills  —  As Rudy Giuliani struggles with mounting legal bills, the former president's longtime friend can't even get a Retweet.  —  As Rudy Giuliani's legal bills have piled up in recent months—and as federal investigators intensify …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Lindsey Boylan / Medium:
It's not “our truth.”  It's the truth.  —  Finally, the world now believes what I have known …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Roselyn Romero / Associated Press:
Fake COVID-19 vaccination cards worry college officials
Discussion: The Journal News and KTAB
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
America's Inflation Debate Is Fundamentally Confused
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate votes to end debate on $1T infrastructure bill
KTAR.com:
Lawmaker Tony Navarrete accused of child sex crimes released on bond
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Carl Beijer:
DSA is disproportionately working class
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Judge rules Florida can't ban Norwegian Cruise Line ‘vaccine passport’
Kat Rosenfield / UnHerd:
How cancel culture hurts the Left
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP megadonors flock to Tim Scott, building 2024 buzz
Discussion: Raw Story
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
GOP Cash Machine's Behavior Is ‘Nothing Short of Scandalous’
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What Biden, Schumer, McConnell, Sinema and Portman learned from BIF