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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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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 …
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 …
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
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.
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan, Advancing Sweeping Safety Net Expansion
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
Rick Klein / ABC News:
Democrats bet House on next spending package
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
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
Washington Post:
How Cuomo's flexing of political power became his undoing
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 …
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 and Sputnik News
Nathaniel Rodriguez / WFLA-TV:
White House plans to fund Florida schools who defy DeSantis' order against mask mandates  —  You have been added to Daily News Newsletter  —  WASHINGTON, D.C., (WFLA) — The White House announced Tuesday that it is planning to support schools who defy Gov. Ron DeSantis' executive order and enact mask mandates for student s.
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Jim Abbott / Daytona Beach News-Journal Online:
WNDB official: Radio host Marc Bernier hospitalized with COVID-19
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
Michaeleen Doucleff / NPR:
The CDC Said The Delta Variant Is As Contagious As Chickenpox.  That's Not Accurate  —  In a leaked report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a surprising claim about the delta variant of the coronavirus: It “is as transmissible as: - Chicken Pox,” the agency wrote …
Discussion: Twitchy
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
CNN:
Senate Republicans block effort by Democrats to advance voting and election bill  —  Dems race to revive election bill as DOJ targets GA law  —  (CNN)Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by Democrats to advance their signature voting and elections overhaul bill in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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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, Political Wire, IJR and Raw Story
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 …
YaleNews:
Donald Kagan, celebrated historian of the ancient world and revered teacher  —  Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with LinkedIn Share this with Email Print this  —  Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics and History, prominent for his scholarship …
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.
Discussion: Boston Herald
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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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.
Stephen Gutowski / The Reload:
Black ATF Agent Says Biden Nominee Falsely Accused Him of Cheating on Promotion Assessment  —  A black former ATF agent says President Joe Biden's director nominee claimed he must have cheated after performing well on a promotion assessment.  —  The agent said David Chipman baselessly alleged …
Discussion: Fox News
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 …
American Greatness:
How States Could Constitutionally Assume Abandoned Responsibilities of the National Government  —  The doctrine of protective resumption offers a way to safeguard the rights of citizenship when the issue is not how powers are being exercised but how they are not.
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Urge Businesses to Require Covid-19 Vaccine for Workers
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Yes, it's racist when a Black real estate agent and his clients get handcuffed for touring a home
Discussion: The Hill and WWMT-TV
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
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
The Colorado Rockies fabricated a narrative, and the media dutifully parroted it
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
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Biden nominates Elizabeth Prelogar to be solicitor general
 Earlier Items: 
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
‘The Rundown’: Gov. Cox gets letter demanding he change his ‘foul, dirty name’
The White House:
President Biden to Convene Leaders' Summit for Democracy
Discussion: Forbes
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, Washington Post and CNN
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Watchdog to Scrutinize Fox News Host's Claim the N.S.A. Spied on Him
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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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

 
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