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10:10 AM ET, August 12, 2021

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Washington Post:
A majority of Americans in highly vaccinated counties now live in covid hot spots, Post analysis finds  —  Two-thirds of Americans in highly vaccinated counties now live in coronavirus hot spots, according to an analysis by The Washington Post, as outbreaks of the highly transmissible delta variant …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
How the Pandemic Now Ends  —  In September 2020, just before COVID-19 began its wintry surge through the United States, I wrote that the country was trapped in a pandemic spiral, seemingly destined to repeat the same mistakes.  But after vaccines arrived in midwinter, cases in the U.S. declined and …
New York Times:
Why Only 27 Percent of Young Black New Yorkers Are Vaccinated  —  As the Delta variant courses through New York City, many young Black New Yorkers remain distrustful of the vaccine.  —  A construction site safety manager in Queens said that as a Black man, he was more worried about the prospect …
Drake Bennett / Bloomberg:   Business Is Using Less Carrot and More Stick on Vaccinations
Jeffrey H. Anderson / City Journal:
Do Masks Work?  —  “Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS!”  So tweeted then-surgeon general Jerome Adams …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times:   California doing much better with Delta variant than Florida, Texas. Here's why
Joseph Clark / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Cyber expert says his team can't prove Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked election  —  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The cyber expert on the “red team” hired by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge allows defamation lawsuits against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO to go forward  —  Washington (CNN)Three major defamation lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and the right-wing lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani will move forward toward a trial …
Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek:   ‘This Is a Mistake’: Steve Bannon Slams Mike Lindell's Symposium for Not Proving Voter Fraud
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Greg Abbott Surrenders to the Coronavirus  —  A year and a half into the pandemic, Texas is running out of hospital beds.  —  The Texas Tribune reported on Tuesday that nearly 10,000 COVID-19 patients are in intensive-care units, some in areas where hospitals are close to capacity.
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New York Times:
Texas Hospitals Are Already Overloaded.  Doctors Are ‘Frightened by What Is Coming.’  —  Across Texas, health officials warned of a growing crisis not seen in months, with more than 10,000 Texans hospitalized and intensive care units stretched thin.  —  SAN ANTONIO — At least two hospitals …
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
The Politics of Bad Faith
Discussion: Breitbart and NBC News
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
The grand illusion: Hiding the truth about the Afghanistan war's ‘conclusion’  —  Part two of an excerpt from “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War.”  Part one can be found here.  Whitlock will discuss the book during a Washington Post Live event on Aug. 31.
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Rumble, a YouTube rival popular with conservatives, will pay creators who ‘challenge the status quo’  —  The video site has exploded during the pandemic as a home for anti-vaccine misinformation and conservative complaints about Big Tech censorship  —  A fast-growing YouTube rival popular …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
White House seizes an opportunity to whack DeSantis  —  MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made himself the national face of the anti-Biden Covid-response resistance.  —  So the president decided to punch it.  —  For the past two weeks, Biden and his allies have publicly escalated a war …
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Rand Paul discloses 16 months late that his wife bought stock in company behind covid treatment  —  An aide to the Kentucky Republican said he prepared the disclosure last year and only recently learned that it was never transmitted  —  Sen. Rand Paul revealed Wednesday that his wife bought stock …
ABC News:
Gaetz associate providing feds intel, documents as probe into congressman continues: Sources  —  Former tax collector Joel Greenberg is cooperating with investigators.  —  As the federal investigation into Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz continues into the summer, sources tell ABC News that Gaetz's …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Washington Post:
What Rosen told U.S. senators: Trump applied ‘persistent’ pressure to get Justice to discredit election  —  Former president Donald Trump's last attorney general has told U.S. senators his boss was “persistent” in trying to pressure the Justice Department to discredit the results of the 2020 election.
Mary L. Trump / New Republic:
Donald's Plot Against America  —  I felt as though I had stumbled across a crime scene so violent that I couldn't process it, let alone synthesize the images in front of me.  The parts remained stubbornly separate, and there was no way to grasp the meaning of the whole.
Nick Judin / Mississippi Free Press:
UMMC Prepping Garage For Field Hospital, Requesting Federal Support To Staff It (Updated)  —  The University of Mississippi Medical Center is clearing out space in the bottom floor of a parking garage to prepare for the construction of a field hospital to handle the burden of an overwhelming influx of new COVID-19 patients.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Mississippi's Hospital System Could ‘Fail’ In 10 Days, UMMC Warns As Feds Rush In
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
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.
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Russians have videos of me doing crazy f***ing sex!’  Hunter Biden is seen in unearthed footage telling a prostitute that Russian drug dealers stole ANOTHER of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Vegas hotel room  — Hunter Biden claims Russian …
Politico:
Emails: Senior DOJ officials wrangled over baseless Trump voter fraud allegations  —  During Donald Trump's final weeks in office, top Justice Department officials wrangled over how the FBI should handle a particularly wacky voter fraud allegation promoted by the then-president and his allies.
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Trump Keeps Rejecting Pleas From Allies for Pro-Vax Campaign  —  Donald Trump's former allies keep pleading with him to aggressively back the COVID-19 vaccine.  Trump won't do it.  —  It's been more than six months since Donald Trump left office and, despite pleas from multiple friends and advisers …
Discussion: Insider, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Andy Puzder / Real Clear Politics:
The Biden Inflation Tax, Made Clear in One Chart  —  COMMENTARY  —  What is all this “Biden inflation tax” talk really about?  What is the actual effect of inflation on the lives of real people?  —  Well, below is a chart that compares yearly wage and inflation rates for each month …
Human Rights Watch:
Palestinian Rockets in May Killed Civilians in Israel, Gaza  —  Indiscriminate Attacks by Gaza-Based Armed Groups Are War Crimes  —  (Jerusalem) - Palestinian armed groups' rocket and mortar attacks during the May 2021 fighting in the Gaza Strip, which killed and injured civilians in Israel and Gaza …
Shawn Nottingham / CNN:
5th graders at Georgia school are sent home due to Covid-19  —  Fifth graders at one suburban Atlanta elementary school were sent home Wednesday for virtual learning due to high numbers of positive Covid-19 cases, according to a school district email sent to parents and obtained by CNN.
Discussion: Poynter and Bloomberg
Jerry Zremski / Buffalo News:
In one-on-one interview, ‘energized’ Hochul says she's ‘prepared’ to take reins  —  ALBANY - New standards of ethics and transparency are coming to the governor's mansion.  The next lieutenant governor will be a full partner in governing.  And soon, New York will have a governor engaged in making sure the Bills remain in Buffalo.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
House socialists may hold infrastructure bill hostage.  Let them.  —  I'm old enough to remember when the media was crowing about how the passage of the $1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill in the Senate was “another big win for Joe Biden's agenda.”  Some of those talking heads may need …
Hussein Ibish / The Atlantic:
When They Fantasize About Killing You, Believe Them  —  Decades of living in, studying, and writing about the Middle East have taught me that whenever a political faction becomes obsessed with violent rhetoric and fantasies, brutal acts aren't far behind.  And while there's always been a strain …
Discussion: Raw Story and Twitchy
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
The Human Rights Campaign's 40 Years of Colluding With Sexual Predators  —  From Harvey Milk to Andrew Cuomo.  —  Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
 
 
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Bill Schneider / The Hill:
Cuomo dynasty ends; search for ‘tough liberal’ persists
Mary Harris / Slate:
A Rogue DOJ Lawyer Almost Kept Trump in Office
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
University to create equity-based honors program for students of color
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to meet with former Cheney ally about Wyoming primary challenge
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Ameer Benno / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Jan 6 Prosecutors admit to possession of “images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks”
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Carlos Del Toro / navy.mil:
78th Secretary of the Navy Message to the Fleet
Samantha Melamed / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
After 50 years in prison — 37 in solitary confinement — Philly man's conviction is vacated
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