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8:40 PM ET, September 1, 2021

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The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Texas Law SB8  —  Today, Texas law SB8 went into effect.  This extreme Texas law blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade and upheld as precedent for nearly half a century.  —  The Texas law will significantly impair women's access …
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Sarah McCammon / NPR:
What The Texas Abortion Ban Does — And What It Means For Other States  —  With the U.S. Supreme Court mum, a new law went into effect in Texas that bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.  That's well before many women even know they are pregnant.
Washington Post:
Amid silence from the Supreme Court, Texas ban on abortions after 6 weeks takes effect
CNN:
McConnell: 'There isn't going to be an impeachment' of Biden  —  Don Lemon: GOP hypocrisy is off the charts and sickening  —  (CNN)Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that “there isn't going to be an impeachment” of President Joe Biden over the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan …
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Rasmussen Reports:
52% of Voters Think Biden Should Resign Over Afghanistan Withdrawal  —  The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was so badly handled that President Joe Biden should resign because of it, according to a majority of voters.  However, most don't think Vice President Kamala Harris is qualified to replace Biden if he leaves office.
Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:
Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal could've gone so differently
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Facts are finally starting to penetrate bad Afghanistan punditry
Discussion: CNN and NBC News
Adam Andrzejewski / Forbes:
Biden Administration Erased Afghan Weapons Reports From Federal Websites
Alyssa Lukpat / New York Times:
Joe Rogan, A Podcasting Giant Who Has Been Dismissive of Vaccination, Has Covid  —  Joe Rogan, the host of the hugely popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” said on Wednesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus after he returned from a series of shows in Florida, where the virus is rampant.
CNN:
Another Trump Organization executive to appear before NY grand jury as prosecutors probe former President's business  —  Toobin: Trump Organization can try to pretend this is Weisselberg problem  —  (CNN)The Trump Organization's corporate director of security is expected to appear …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Organization Employees to Testify Before Manhattan Grand Jury  —  Senior finance official and director of security set to appear this week as criminal probe into Donald Trump's business affairs continues  —  Two Trump Organization employees are expected to testify before a grand jury …
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Purdue Pharma Is Dissolved and Sacklers Pay $4.5 Billion to Settle Opioid Claims  —  The ruling in bankruptcy court caps a long legal battle over the fate of a company accused of fueling the opioid epidemic and the family that owns it.  —  Purdue Pharma, the maker of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin …
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Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Bankruptcy judge approves Purdue Pharma plan to resolve opioid claims, giving Sackler family civil immunity
Discussion: One America News Network and NPR
Trafalgar Group:
California Recall Election Aug Survey  —  California Recall Election Aug Survey See Report Here
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Los Angeles Times:
Who's voted so far in the California recall? Lots of Democrats, few young people
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Associated Press:
AP sources: Intel shows extremists to attend Capitol rally  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Far right extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are planning to attend a rally later this month at the U.S. Capitol that is designed to demand “justice” for the hundreds of people who have been charged …
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy keeps revealing how ugly a GOP House would be  —  Mark this down: If Republicans win the House in the 2022 elections, one of their very first acts in the majority will be to impeach President Biden for the offense of having won the 2020 election.  —  Okay, that's a joke.  But only partly.
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Geneva Sands / CNN:
White supremacist praise of the Taliban takeover concerns US officials  —  Video reportedly shows Taliban celebrating with military parade  —  (CNN)As the United States-backed government in Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and US troops raced to leave the country, White supremacist …
Discussion: Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and Twitchy
Washington Post:
Massive randomized study is proof that surgical masks limit coronavirus spread, authors say  —  The authors of a study based on an enormous randomized research project in Bangladesh say their results offer the best evidence yet that widespread wearing of surgical masks can limit the spread of the coronavirus in communities.
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Judge Dismisses Hunter Biden Laptop Guy's Defamation Lawsuit with Prejudice, Forces Him to Pay Twitter's Attorneys' Fees Under Anti-SLAPP Law  —  A federal court in Florida has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed against Twitter by the Delaware computer repairman who briefly captured national attention during …
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Legal Minds Who Tried to Overturn the Election for Trump Are Being Welcomed Back Into Polite Society  —  Though it hasn't received the attention it deserves, courage from Republican election officials and leaders helped save this country from a total election meltdown in 2020 based on lies …
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Giuliani Records Cameo Endorsing Case Against His Own Client  —  Freedom of speech and freedom from compelled speech are protected rights in America, but nothing can protect Rudy Giuliani from himself.  —  In a video obtained by New York, the former mayor stars in an inadvertent public-service announcement …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
New York Poised to Join Ranks of States Extending Eviction Moratorium  —  Lawmakers say move would allow more time to distribute rental assistance funds  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — New York lawmakers are poised to extend the state's eviction moratorium until Jan. 15, a move they said would give officials …
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David Dayen / American Prospect:   America's Acute Governance Problem
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:
Sweetgreen CEO: Vaccines and Masks Will Not Save Us, But Salads Might  —  The pricey salad chain CEO took to LinkedIn to espouse his views on the pandemic, such as that Americans who got seriously ill were too fat.  —  EO  —  On Tuesday, the CEO of Sweetgreen, a restaurant chain …
Discussion: New York Magazine, Gizmodo and Eater
Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
McDonald's McFlurry Machine Is Broken (Again).  Now the FTC Is On It.  —  The frequently malfunctioning equipment leads to a lawsuit and gets the federal antitrust agency involved  —  Can the FTC help get you your McFlurry?  —  As many customers of McDonald's know all too well …
Mark Ballard / The Advocate:
After Hurricane Ida, President Joe Biden to visit Louisiana Friday  —  President Joe Biden will get a up close look at the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ida on Friday when he plans to spend most of the day touring southeast Louisiana, the White House said.
Discussion: The Hill
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Meghan McCain: I don't recognize this Joe Biden
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Exclusive: Government can't reach one-in-three released migrant kids  —  The U.S. government has lost contact with thousands of migrant children released from its custody, according to data obtained by Axios through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Far-Right Propagandist Turns up in Moscow After Jan. 6  —  Russia Insider founder Charles Bausman traveled from his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 and advanced as far as the Capitol's balustrades after Trump's speech, he said.  Soon after, he left the country for Moscow.
Deena Winter / Minnesota Reformer:
Jaleel Stallings shot at the MPD; a jury acquitted him of wrongdoing  —  Before the white, unmarked cargo van of the Minneapolis Police Department drove down Lake Street, an officer gave Sgt. Andrew Bittell his orders: “Drive down Lake Street.  You see a group, call it out.  OK great!
Balázs Gulyás / The Bulwark:
An Open Letter to Tucker Carlson from a Hungarian Conservative  —  Viktor Orbán isn't building the Christian conservative Disneyland in Hungary you think he is, but a Chinese and Russian Trojan Horse in the EU and NATO.  —  Editor's note: Earlier this month, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson visited Hungary.
Rory Kennedy / New York Times:
Don't Parole Sirhan Sirhan, My Father's Assassin  —  Ms. Kennedy is a documentary filmmaker.  She is the youngest child of Robert Kennedy, the New York senator and presidential candidate assassinated in June 1968.  —  I never met my father.  When Sirhan Sirhan murdered him in the kitchen hallway …
Jessica Donati / Wall Street Journal:
Majority of Interpreters, Other U.S. Visa Applicants Were Left Behind in Afghanistan, Official Says  —  Many Afghan allies had applied for visas to escape reprisal from the Taliban
Matt McFarland / CNN:
Amtrak might add more than 50 new routes.  But they still won't be faster than a car  —  Washington, DC (CNN)The $1 trillion infrastructure bill appears set to give passenger and freight rail $66 billion, an infusion that will likely expand where service is offered but does little to increase the speed of train travel in the US.
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Texas parents accused a Black principal of promoting critical race theory.  The district has now suspended him.  —  At a heated Texas school board meeting in late July, a man accused a Black principal of promoting critical race theory and “the conspiracy theory of systemic racism.”
Wall Street Journal:
Ben Dugan Works for CVS.  His Job Is Battling a $45 Billion Crime Spree.  —  Retailers are spending millions to combat organized rings that steal from their stores in bulk and peddle goods online, often on Amazon  —  Ben Dugan sat in an unmarked sedan in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood …
Discussion: HotAir
Politico:
Top U.S. diplomat during Kabul evacuation tests positive for Covid  —  Ross Wilson, who was the chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, recently tested positive for Covid-19, according to three people familiar with the matter.  He currently only has very mild, cold-like symptoms, one of the people said.
Discussion: Insider
 
 
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Reuters:
‘Everybody screwed up’: Blame game begins over turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan
Discussion: CNN
National Review:
The Pandemic's Web of ‘Temporary’ Government Programs
Jon Lee Anderson / New Yorker:
Is the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan the End of the American Empire?
Mark Landler / New York Times:
With Afghan Retreat, Biden Bucks Foreign Policy Elite
Discussion: Washington Post
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Liberal groups to Democrats: Your chance to save democracy is disappearing
Discussion: The Hill, Roll Call and IJR
Colleen Slevin / Associated Press:
Officers, medics indicted in 2019 death of Elijah McClain
J. Bradford DeLong / Project Syndicate:
Will Biden Make a Historic Mistake at the Fed?
Moderna, Inc.:
Moderna Announces Submission of Initial Data to U.S. FDA for Its COVID-19 Vaccine Booster
Discussion: CBS News and NPR
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
George W. Bush's wars are now over. He retreated a while ago.
Financial Times:
MoD could move UK nuclear subs abroad if Scotland breaks away
Janet Reitman / New York Times:
‘I Helped Destroy People’
NBC News:
America has wasted at least 15 million Covid vaccine doses since March, new data shows
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Arrest warrant issued for Ohio man accused of confronting NBC's Shaquille Brewster on live TV
 

 
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