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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden defies expectations.  Again.  —  The Senate on Tuesday passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal with 19 Republican votes.  Had someone polled the White House press corps a month ago, few would have expected any bipartisan deal possible.  —  Journalists at mainstream media outlets are creatures of habit laced with cynicism.
Discussion: Breitbart, ABC News and NPR
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP prays Sinema and Manchin pare back Dems' big spending bill  —  Senate Republicans can't stop Democrats from spending as much as $3.5 trillion more on social priorities like climate change in the coming months.  Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema can, though, and the GOP lobbying effort is already underway.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
How Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans learned to stop worrying about a Biden victory and love the infrastructure bill  —  What happened Tuesday in the Senate might seem like nothing short of a political miracle: Nineteen Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
McConnell Credits Biden for Infrastructure Breakthrough, Dismisses Trump Criticism  —  But the Senate GOP leader doesn't anticipate many more opportunities for bipartisan deals  —  WASHINGTON—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell credited President Biden with helping to get the roughly …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin just threatened to derail Biden's big win.  Please proceed, Senator.  —  Barely hours after Senate Democrats passed their $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget resolution, Sen. Joe Manchin III issued a statement that unleashed waves of dread across Twitter.
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan, Advancing Sweeping Safety Net Expansion  —  The blueprint, which would expand Medicaid, provide free preschool and community college, and fund climate change programs, passed along party lines and faces an arduous path ahead.
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
Rick Klein / ABC News:
Democrats bet House on next spending package
Kylee Zempel / The Federalist:
How Many Other Andrew Cuomos Are Elites Covering For?  —  The media played cheerleader instead of investigator, enabling a powerful man to exploit women and elderly people for personal pleasure and political points.  Who else are they covering for?  —  All eyes were on Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Chris Cuomo apparently lied to his viewers. Again.
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Andrew Cuomo Was a Petty, Corrupt Bully
Discussion: National Review and New Republic
USA Today:
Andrew Cuomo is resigning, but the investigations into his conduct will continue
Discussion: CBS News and abc7NY
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
On CNN, covering one Cuomo while another is on vacation.
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
YouTube suspends Sen. Rand Paul over a video falsely claiming masks are ineffective  —  WASHINGTON — YouTube suspended Sen. Rand Paul's account on Tuesday for posting a video claiming cloth face masks are ineffective against the coronavirus.  —  “A badge of honor ... leftwing cretins …
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Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Republicans are seizing on backlash to new mask and vaccine mandates
Discussion: Washington Post
Axios:
Inside the Biden administration as Afghanistan collapses  —  The Taliban has stunned even some seasoned military and national security officials in the U.S. government with the speed of its conquests over the past week, sources with direct knowledge of the developments tell Axios.
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Washington Post:
U.S. officials warn collapse of Afghan capital could come sooner than expected  —  The Biden administration is preparing for Afghanistan's capital to fall far sooner than feared only weeks ago, as a rapid disintegration of security has prompted the revision of an already stark intelligence …
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Florida to receive hundreds of ventilators from U.S. government to help state's record hospitalizations  —  The federal government is sending hundreds of ventilators and other equipment to Florida — a response to the record number of coronavirus hospitalizations in a state that has become the epicenter of the U.S. pandemic.
Discussion: CNN, The Hill, Raw Story and NBC News
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Nathaniel Rodriguez / WFLA-TV:   White House plans to fund Florida schools who defy DeSantis' order against mask mandates
Jim Abbott / Daytona Beach News-Journal Online:
WNDB official: Radio host Marc Bernier hospitalized with COVID-19
ProPublica:
Secret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump's “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut”  —  The Secret IRS Files … In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen. Ron Johnson stunned his colleagues by announcing he would vote “no.”
Discussion: Bloomberg
CNN:
Federal prosecutors came to suspect Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg lied, and considered charging him with perjury  —  New York (CNN)New York federal prosecutors came to suspect the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, lied in testimony during their investigation …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Anya van Wagtendonk / Axios:
Wyoming GOP leaders will no longer recognize Liz Cheney over Trump vote  —  Two Wyoming Republican leaders voted to no longer recognize Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) as a member of their party, six months after she voted to impeach former President Trump, per the Casper Star-Tribune.
Discussion: Trending Politics
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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Republicans in 2 Wyoming counties vote to stop recognizing Cheney as party member
Discussion: UPI, The Hill, IJR, Political Wire and Raw Story
Tom Lawrence / The Daily Beast:
‘No One I Know Is Vaccinated’: Sturgis Rally Bikers Are Coming for America  —  SUM OF ALL FEARS  —  Thousands of unvaccinated, unmasked people traveling across the country.  An ultra-contagious new variant.  Overloaded hospitals.  If you thought it could get no worse, think again.
Discussion: Raw Story
Natasha Anderson / Daily Mail:
Black mother condemns her daughter's black Atlanta elementary school principal for SEGREGATING classes by race to give African-American kids ‘the services that they need’  — A mother has filed a federal discrimination complaint against Mary Lin Elementary School after the principal allegedly segregated classes by race
Discussion: The Federalist and BizPac Review
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Massachusetts Start-Up Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion  —  The company, founded by scientists at M.I.T., has been testing an extremely powerful magnet necessary to generate immense heat.  —  A start-up founded by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology …
Washington Examiner:
It's the end of the world as the IPCC knows it, and we feel fine  —  In response to the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on global warming, the Western world's newspapers seemed to be competing to publish the most apocalyptic headlines possible.
Discussion: New York Post
Joshua Miller Globe / The Boston Globe:
Scott Brown resigns as head of New England Law Boston after less than a year, says he will get back into the political arena  —  Former US senator Scott Brown, who has led New England Law Boston since January, announced his resignation from the law school Wednesday and said he would re-engage in the political arena.
Robert Siegel / NPR:
Neal Conan, Longtime Host Of NPR's ‘Talk Of The Nation,’ Dies At 71  —  Neal Conan, who spent 36 years with National Public Radio and 11 years as the host of the network's Talk of the Nation died Tuesday in Hawaii of glioblastoma at the age of 71.  —  I met Neal almost 50 years ago …
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
The Colorado Rockies fabricated a narrative, and the media dutifully parroted it  —  As usual, many media outlets and “journalists” jumped on the false narrative that a Colorado Rockies fan was loudly shouting the N-word at a game.  Their eagerness to smear a random man as a racist based on unclear audio should not be forgotten.
Discussion: USA Today, Reason and National Review
Joshua Fechter / The Texas Tribune:
“I am frightened by what is coming:” Texas hospitals could soon be overwhelmed by COVID-19 caseload, officials say  —  The number of COVID-19 patients in Texas hospitals is rising too fast for hospitals to keep up with, hospital leaders told state lawmakers Tuesday.  —  Copy link
 
 
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HuffPost:
After 8 Months, Cities And States Are Still Sitting On Rental Aid
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
How Facebook Failed to Stem Racist Abuse of England's Soccer Players
Michaeleen Doucleff / NPR:
The CDC Said The Delta Variant Is As Contagious As Chickenpox. That's Not Accurate
Discussion: Twitchy
YaleNews:
Donald Kagan, celebrated historian of the ancient world and revered teacher
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Biden nominates Elizabeth Prelogar to be solicitor general
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
‘The Rundown’: Gov. Cox gets letter demanding he change his ‘foul, dirty name’
 Earlier Items: 
The White House:
President Biden to Convene Leaders' Summit for Democracy
Discussion: Forbes
Glenn H. Reynolds / New York Post:
Mask bullies don't want to persuade you — but to humiliate and rule you
Discussion: Althouse
Timothy Noah / Washington Monthly:
Tax the Unvaxxed  —  People who refuse the Covid vaccine are imposing costs on society.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Poll: Majorities support vaccine, mask mandates — but not Republicans
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Watchdog to Scrutinize Fox News Host's Claim the N.S.A. Spied on Him
Dallas Morning News:
Texas House speaker signs warrants to arrest 52 wayward Democrats
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The con is winding down  —  Allow me to present to you the evidence that China stole the 2020 election.
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix will host NFL Christmas games, including Beyonce's Halftime show, for only three hours after streaming them live; replays will be available on NFL+

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

 
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