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8:40 PM ET, August 10, 2021

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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Andrew Cuomo's War Against a Federal Prosecutor  —  A call to the Obama White House that some legal experts say is impeachable fits a pattern of the Governor smearing those who scrutinize him.  —  In April, 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo placed a call to the White House and reached Valerie Jarrett …
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Live Updates: Governor Cuomo Says He Will Resign  —  Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he would step down in 14 days after an searing investigation found he had sexually harassed nearly a dozen women.  Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will become the first woman to serve as governor of New York.  —  Key Updates:
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Alec Baldwin responds to Cuomo resignation: ‘This is a tragic day’
New York Times:   'A Publisher's Worst Nightmare': How Cuomo's Book Became a Cautionary Tale
Politico:
Trump asked his AG about legal strategy to overturn election, Rosen tells senators  —  Donald Trump asked the country's top legal official in late December about a conspiratorial draft complaint aimed at overturning the 2020 election results, according to a previously unreported account …
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:   Senate Judiciary chairman wants to interview former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Chuck Grassley's bad defense of Trump's DOJ scheme
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
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Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Dominion Sues Newsmax, One America News Network, Others Over Election Claims  —  Voting-machine company seeks billions of dollars in damages, citing lost profit and other costs  —  WASHINGTON—One of the largest voting-machine companies in the U.S. on Tuesday sued two conservative media networks …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Biden celebrates, Cuomo abdicates
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Insider
Joe Hagan / Vanity Fair:
“All Roads Lead to Mar-a-Lago”: Inside the Fury and Fantasy of Donald Trump's Florida  —  It's late afternoon, and the palms of Fort Lauderdale are swaying as Roger Stone—dirty trickster, convicted felon—glides across the boulevard in short sleeves and a linen jacket, ready for his first cocktail of the day.
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Senate passes massive infrastructure package that is centerpiece of Biden agenda … WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping $550 billion infrastructure bill that would make a huge investment in the nation's roads, public transit, water and broadband.
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
House progressives won't vote for the infrastructure bill unless the Senate approves $3.5 trillion in other spending.
Michael Shellenberger:
Why I Am Not A Progressive  —  And Why, From Climate Change to Homelessness, Liberal People Are Giving Up  —  For all of my adult life I have identified as a progressive.  To me, being a progressive meant that I believed in empowerment.  In 2002, when I co-founded a labor-environmental coalition …
Discussion: HotAir
New York Times:
See the Data on Breakthrough Covid Hospitalizations and Deaths by State  —  Serious coronavirus infections among vaccinated people have been relatively rare since the start of the vaccination campaign, a New York Times analysis of data from 40 states and Washington, D.C., shows.
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Walker's wife voted in Georgia as couple lives in Texas, records show  —  Potential U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker and his wife live in Texas, but she voted in Georgia's election for president last fall.  —  The absentee ballot cast by Julie Blanchard raises questions about whether …
Jim Abbott / Daytona Beach News-Journal Online:
WNDB official: Radio host Marc Bernier hospitalized with COVID-19  —  Jim AbbottThe Daytona Beach News-Journal  —  DAYTONA BEACH — Longtime radio talk-show host Marc Bernier has been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a top official at WNDB (1150 AM, 93.5 FM).
Discussion: The Wrap and Crooks and Liars
Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
‘Reign of Terror’ Brilliantly Traces the Course From 9/11 to President Trump … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.  —  Spencer Ackerman's barnburner of a new book, “Reign of Terror,” reminded me of that moment in 2015 …
James Barragán / The Texas Tribune:
Gov. Greg Abbott, House Speaker Dade Phelan, ask Texas Supreme Court to overturn ruling blocking arrest of Democrats  —  The Democrats had left the state to block the passage of a Republican elections bill they say would restrict voting rights in the state.  —  Copy link
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Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
Legislation that would end quorum breaks advances in Texas Senate
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
U.S. government sends hundreds of ventilators to Florida as Covid surge continues  —  WASHINGTON — The federal government has sent hundreds of ventilators and other equipment to Florida this week to help the state respond to a record-breaking number of Covid hospitalizations.
Amanda Mull / The Atlantic:
The Vaccine Cards Are the Wrong Size  —  This spring, as New York City warmed up and the local vaccination rate surged, I met my best friend for our first restaurant meal together in months.  As soon as we sat down, she began rifling through her purse.  “I have something for you,” she told me.
Niara Savage / Atlanta Black Star:
‘It Was Just Disbelief’: Parent Files Complaint Against Atlanta Elementary School After Learning the Principal Segregated Students Based on Race  —  An Atlanta mom filed a federal complaint against her daughter's Atlanta elementary school after she learned that the school was separating students on the basis of race.
Discussion: Twitchy
Tami Luhby / CNN:
Inflation wiped out America's pay raises  —  New York (CNN Business)Companies big and small are raising wages to attract workers and hold onto employees as the economy revs back into gear.  —  But those fatter paychecks aren't going as far, thanks to rising inflation.
Discussion: Twitchy and Marginal REVOLUTION
Aaron Gordon / VICE:
‘Expert Mathematician’ on Election Fraud Actually a Swing Set Installer, Lawsuit Claims  —  A man posing as a math expert with evidence Trump won the election is actually a convicted drug dealer with no college degree who installs swing sets, according to a lawsuit.  —  Aaron Gordon
Max Boot / Washington Post:
America has a long history of vaccination mandates.  Why should the worst plague in a century be any different?  —  Coronavirus vaccination mandates are spreading.  So is resistance to them.  A number of red states, including Texas and Florida, not only refuse to mandate vaccinations …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
CNN:
Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week  —  (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week following another violation of the platform's rules, the company said Tuesday.  —  Greene tweeted on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration …
Justin Hendrix / Just Security:
GAO Faults DHS for Failing to Designate Jan. 6 as a Protected Event in Advance of Attack  —  Department erroneously considered activities at the Capitol “routine congressional business,” GAO report says  —  In the run up to Jan. 6, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
Davey Alba / New York Times:
Virus Misinformation Spikes as Delta Cases Surge  —  Researchers have recorded a new burst of false and misleading information about the coronavirus after a decline in the spring.  —  In late July, Andrew Torba, the chief executive of the alternative social network Gab …
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Deceptions and lies: What really happened in Afghanistan  —  Part one of an excerpt from “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War.”  Whitlock will discuss the book during a Washington Post Live event on Aug. 31.  —  The suicide bomber arrived at Bagram air base in a Toyota Corolla late in the morning on Feb. 27, 2007.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
A Misleading Narrative about the Unvaccinated  —  On the menu today: A new study finds that blacks and Hispanics remain less likely than their white counterparts to have received a vaccine, which complicates the convenient narrative that the COVID-19 pandemic continues because of stubborn …
 
 
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Cheap & Easy Sanctimony of Ben & Jerry
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
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New York Times:
Decline in Immigration Threatens Growth of Regions on the Rise
Sean Illing / Vox:
Marty Baron on truth, democracy, and the press in an age of distrust
Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
Delta Is Bad News for Kids
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
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Techno Fog / The Reactionary:
They Knew Everything and Did Nothing
David Gilbert / VICE:
These Women Helped Incite the Capitol Riot. Now They Want to Steal Georgia for Trump.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Tucker Carlson's Spying Allegations Being Investigated by National Security Agency Watchdog
Erin Banco / Politico:
'We're in trouble': Rural America can't escape Delta
Monica Buchanan Pitrelli / CNBC:
Vaccines are being required for travel — here's how unvaccinated people feel about that