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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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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 …
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, Insider and NPR
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 …
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan, Advancing Sweeping Safety Net Expansion
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Manchin has ‘serious concerns’ about Dems' $3.5T spending plan, signaling trouble for Biden agenda
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
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 and Daily Kos
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 …
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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.
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: The Hill, Raw Story and The Daily Beast
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Nathaniel Rodriguez / WFLA-TV:   White House plans to fund Florida schools who defy DeSantis' order against mask mandates
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
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.
Discussion: New York Post and Twitchy
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
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 …
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
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.
Washington Post:
CDC guidance now official: Pregnant women should get coronavirus vaccine  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Wednesday that pregnant women be vaccinated against the coronavirus, updating its advice after it found no increased risk of miscarriage among those who have been immunized.
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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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
A first: Judge delivers a blow to Abbott's ban on mask mandates in schools with temporary restraining order  —  There's rarely a dull moment in Texas these days.  Between the state Democrat fleebaggers drama and the coronavirus pandemic, things are popping.
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 …
Rebecca Jacobs / CREW:
Candidates have visited Trump properties more than 60 times since he left office … Though Donald Trump is no longer the president, he's still the de facto leader of the Republican Party.  While in office, Trump made it clear that the best way to get into his good graces is by spending money at his properties.
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
Megan Cassella / Politico:
‘Price growth is winning the race’: Inflation is devouring wage gains  —  Rising prices on everything from groceries to gasoline have eaten away the wage gains workers have seen since the start of the year, leaving most Americans earning less than they were before the pandemic began and derailing …
Discussion: Washington Examiner, CNN and CNBC
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.
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.
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 …
 
 
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Dom DiFurio / Dallas Morning News:
Texas has millions in COVID-19 rent relief. Here's how Dallas renters and landlords can get it
Discussion: ABC13 and New Hampshire Bulletin
Casey Michel / American Prospect:
The Investigator: Sen. Carl Levin (1934-2021)
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
Stephen Gutowski / The Reload:
Black ATF Agent Says Biden Nominee Falsely Accused Him of Cheating on Promotion Assessment
Discussion: Fox News
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
The Colorado Rockies fabricated a narrative, and the media dutifully parroted it
Discussion: USA Today, Reason and National Review
 Earlier Items: 
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’
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
 

 
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