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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.
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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Trump Just Won't Stop Messing With Mitch McConnell  —  Trump won't stop picking fights with the Senate's most powerful Republican, and control of the Senate is at stake.  —  As the Senate closed in on passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill, President Trump couldn't resist taking one more poke …
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and TheGrio
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
McConnell Credits Biden for Infrastructure Breakthrough, Dismisses Trump Criticism
William A. Galston / Wall Street Journal:   Which Voters Made Joe Biden President?
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
How Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans learned to stop worrying about a Biden victory and love the infrastructure bill
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP prays Sinema and Manchin pare back Dems' big spending bill
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Federal judge says Trump's accountants must turn over tax records to House panel  —  A federal judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump's accountants must turn over two years' worth of his tax and financial records to a House committee investigating whether Trump and his businesses profited from his service in the White House.
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David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg:
Trump Accounting Firm Must Release Some Records to Congress
Discussion: CNN
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
House Democrats granted limited access to Trump financial records
Discussion: Roll Call and The Hill
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Jackie Salo / New York Post:
Italian Americans mad at Cuomo for dismissing creepy behavior as cultural
Discussion: Townhall and Page Six
Zephyr Teachout / The Nation:   The Real Question Is Why Andrew Cuomo Took So Long to Fall
The Atlantic:
Vaccine Refusers Risk Compassion Fatigue  —  On social media, I've been seeing sentiments that I never thought I'd see anyone express in a public forum. … These are harsh, angry feelings.  And some of the people giving voice to them are doctors.  —  I am an obstetrician in New York.
CNN:
Federal government sends ventilators to Florida as DeSantis says he's unaware of shipment  —  (CNN)The Biden administration sent hundreds of ventilators to Florida in recent days as the state responds to a dramatic new increase in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, an official from the Department …
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Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Youngkin repeatedly praised Florida's COVID response as cases surged
Discussion: New York Daily News
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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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
YouTube suspends Rand Paul for agreeing with Biden's former coronavirus adviser
Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Rand Paul suspended one week by YouTube over COVID-19 mask claims
NBC News:
FDA poised to OK 3rd vaccine dose for immunocompromised people  —  The Food and Drug Administration is poised to amend the emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer and the Moderna Covid-19 vaccines Thursday to allow people with compromised immune systems to get a third dose, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
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CNN:
FDA expected to authorize Covid-19 vaccine booster shots for immunocompromised people within the next 48 hours  —  Fauci: I believe FDA will approve vaccines ‘very soon’  —  (CNN)The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce within the next 48 hours that it is authorizing …
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.”
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Former U.S. attorney in Atlanta says Trump wanted to fire him for not backing election fraud claims.  —  Byung J. Pak, a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta, told congressional investigators on Wednesday that his abrupt resignation in January had been prompted by Justice Department officials' warning …
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 …
Discussion: Education Next
Christopher F. Rufo / New York Post:
Lie of credit — American Express tells its workers capitalism is racist  —  American Express, which made a $2.3 billion profit last quarter, invited the great-grandson of the Nation of Islam's founder to tell its employees that capitalism is evil.  —  It was part of the credit-card giant's …
Discussion: City Journal and National Review
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Michaeleen Doucleff / NPR:
The Delta Variant Isn't As Contagious As Chickenpox.  But It's Still Highly Contagious  —  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: RedState, Twitchy and Townhall
Politico:
Children's hospitals are swamped with Covid patients — and it may only get worse  —  The number of kids infected with Covid-19 is soaring as the highly contagious Delta variant spreads and schools reopen, pushing children's hospitals around the country to the brink.
Discussion: Forbes, Washington Post and The Hill
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: IJR, Insider and Raw Story
Carroll Times Herald:
Jefferson coffee shop flooded with applications after raising wage to $15 an hour  —  JEFFERSON: Bold.  Refreshing.  Ethically sourced.  —  And that's just the coffee shop owner.  —  Rich Osborne, who owns Greene Bean Coffee in downtown Jefferson with wife Reagan, said they …
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Suspected saline switch sparks vaccine stir in Germany  —  Authorities in northern Germany appealed to thousands of people on Tuesday to get another shot of COVID-19 vaccine after a police investigation found that a Red Cross nurse may have injected them with a saline solution.
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Giuliani told agents it was okay to ‘throw a fake’ during political campaign  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani's promise of a “big surprise” to help Donald Trump's election in October 2016 led to Democratic accusations the FBI was feeding him secrets about an investigation of Hillary Clinton.
Washington Post:
'We are in harm's way': Election officials fear for their personal safety amid torrent of false claims about voting  —  In preparation for a vote on local tax assessments last week in Houghton County, Mich., county clerk Jennifer Kelly took extraordinary precautions, asking election staff …
Discussion: Raw Story
Brandon / sweater weather:
massachusetts holy ghost  —  martha's vineyard, cancellation, & the scammy demimonde  —  A little update: My introduction for Percival Everett's Erasure was published in The Telegraph.  It's paywalled—not my choice!—but you can read if you have a subscription, OR if you just buy …
New York Times:
China Sentences Canadian Businessman to 11 Years in Prison  —  The prosecution of Michael Spavor has been widely seen as political retaliation by China against Canada for the detention of a Chinese technology executive.  —  For years, as Michael Spavor tried to expand his business in North Korea …
Emma Colton / Fox News:
Psaki grilled on whether Biden created vaccine hesitancy with 2020 comments slamming Trump  —  Biden said last year that he trusts scientists, but not Donald Trump  —  White House press secretary Jen Psaki was grilled on whether or not President Biden encouraged vaccine hesitancy with comments …
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Feds warn of potential violence fueled by false election claims … False claims of fraud in the 2020 election are fueling calls for violence on social media, the Department of Homeland Security is warning local police departments.  —  “DHS has seen an increasing but modest level …
Joshua Ceballos / Miami New Times:
UM Students Outraged by Former Trump Official Alex Azar's Hire  —  The decision to hire former President Donald Trump's HHS Secretary Alex Azar has incensed faculty, staff, and students.  —  On its surface, the hiring of a former federal health official would seem like a smart move for the University of Miami.
 
 
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Olivia Little / Media Matters for America:
Far-right conspiracy theories about FEMA's emergency alert system test are going viral on TikTok
Discussion: FEMA.gov, WINK NEWS and WATE-TV
Washington Post:
Republicans risk becoming face of delta surge as key GOP governors oppose anti-covid measures
Discussion: Florida Politics and KOTA-TV
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Israel to approve new construction in West Bank for both settlers and Palestinians
Clayton Guse / New York Daily News:
Cuomo's departure leads Port Authority staffers to demand agency halt his LaGuardia AirTrain plan
Discussion: Curbed
Maurice Richards / The Hill:
Demonizing the police risks public safety and gets cops killed
 Earlier Items: 
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
Discussion: Boston Herald
John Markoff / New York Times:
Massachusetts Start-Up Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
The Colorado Rockies fabricated a narrative, and the media dutifully parroted it
Discussion: Reason, USA Today 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
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
‘The Rundown’: Gov. Cox gets letter demanding he change his ‘foul, dirty name’
Tom Lawrence / The Daily Beast:
‘No One I Know Is Vaccinated’: Sturgis Rally Bikers Are Coming for America
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story