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Joe Manchin / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Won't Support Spending Another $3.5 Trillion  —  Amid inflation, debt and the inevitability of future crises, Congress needs to take a strategic pause.  —  The nation faces an unprecedented array of challenges and will inevitably encounter additional crises in the future.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Manchin Has Put Biden's Presidency in Mortal Danger The mercurial senator calls for a “pause” when Democrats desperately need to move fast.  —  One of the most bullish indicators for Joe Biden's presidency came just a week after his inauguration, when Joe Manchin said, “We're going to make Joe Biden successful.”
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
Manchin Jolts Democrats by Urging ‘Pause’ on $3.5 Trillion Bill  — West Virginia senator's vote could determine fate of package  — Manchin had questioned the size of tax-and-spending plan  —  Senator Joe Manchin is demanding a “strategic pause” in action on President Joe Biden's economic agenda …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Manchin calls on Democrats to ‘pause’ and cut their $3.5 trillion spending plan, dealing potential blow to Biden agenda
Discussion: TheBlaze
Joseph Cox / VICE:
TikToker Makes Script to Flood Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site With Fake Info  —  An easy to use iOS shortcut lets non-technical users bombard the site, according to Motherboard's tests.  —  Joseph Cox  —  An activist has made a script to flood a Texas website used to solicit information …
Discussion: Insider and Rolling Stone
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The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Supreme Court Ruling on Texas Law SB8  —  The Supreme Court's ruling overnight is an unprecedented assault on a woman's constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade, which has been the law of the land for almost fifty years.  By allowing a law to go into effect …
Associated Press:
Supreme Court divides 5-4 to leave Texas abortion law in place
Ed Whelan / National Review:
Denial Should Have Been Unanimous  —  Last night the Court denied abortion providers' beyond …
Discussion: Washington Post
Carrie Campbell Severino / National Review:
A Procedural Abortion Ruling with a Substantive Lesson
Discussion: Washington Post
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
By turning law enforcement over to ‘abortion vigilantes,’ Texas uses lawlessness to destabilize equal treatment under law
NBC News:
Texas law could flip script on abortion politics, with Democrats eying gains
Joe Sneve / Argus Leader:
Gov. Kristi Noem wants South Dakota abortion laws tightened after Texas' 6-week ban stands
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court Overturned Roe v. Wade in the Most Cowardly Manner Imaginable
Russ Bynum / Associated Press:
Ex-prosecutor indicted for misconduct in Ahmaud Arbery death  —  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A former Georgia prosecutor was indicted Thursday on misconduct charges alleging she used her position to shield the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery from being charged with crimes immediately after the shootings.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Former prosecutor indicted over Ahmaud Arbery case, accused of helping shield suspects in fatal shooting  —  A grand jury on Thursday indicted a former Georgia prosecutor for her handling of Ahmaud Arbery's fatal shooting, on allegations she helped shield men now charged with murder in a case …
Discussion: Law & Crime
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Politico:   McCarthy's phone records among those eyed for preservation by Jan. 6 investigators
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
‘QAnon Shaman’ Reaches Plea Deal, Now ‘Repudiates’ Association With ‘Q,’ Lawyer Says  —  Jacob Chansley's lawyer called for “patience and compassion” for his client, who he said has “genuine mental health issues.”  —  The man known as the “QAnon Shaman” has reached a plea deal …
David Gilbert / VICE:
Trump's Plot to Steal Arizona Was Even Wilder Than We Thought  —  A massive data dump of emails, texts, and documents show Trump's allies were heavily involved in the bogus Arizona audit.  —  For months now, we all thought we knew that the bogus Arizona audit was a clown show.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ryan Randazzo / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Senate wants to keep nearly 2,900 audit-related documents from public view
Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
Americans Don't Really Hate Density  —  They hate other Americans  —  You may have seen a recent Pew survey result making the rounds on urbanism twitter.  It is a dispiriting finding if you believe (which you should believe, because it's simply true) that many of the land use …
ProPublica:
Heeding Steve Bannon's Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America's Elections  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal:
James Simons, Robert Mercer, Others at Renaissance to Pay $7 Billion to Settle Tax Probe  —  Tax settlement that may be the largest in history  —  Executives of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies LLC will personally pay approximately $7 billion in back taxes and penalties to settle …
Discussion: New York Times and Forbes
Matthew Gault / VICE:
Remington Subpoenas Report Cards of Five Children Killed in Sandy Hook Shooting  —  As part of a lawsuit defense, the company that made the guns used in the Sandy Hook shooting demanded the disciplinary and attendance records of dead children.  —  Gun company Remington has subpoenaed the report cards …
Discussion: Connecticut Post
Andy Ngo / New York Post:
Sex offending suspect claims transgender harassment in Wi Spa case  —  In June, a group of women complained that a person who identified as female exposed their penis at the Wi Spa in Los Angeles.  The incident led to months of sometimes violent protests, with media outlets declaring …
The Guardian:
UK defence secretary suggests US is no longer a superpower  —  Ben Wallace also contrasts his department's handling of Afghanistan crisis with Foreign Office response  —  Ben Wallace, Britain's defence secretary, suggested the US could no longer be considered a superpower in an interview …
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Katy Balls / Spectator:
‘Britain is not a superpower’: an interview with Ben Wallace
Discussion: Insider
Phill Swagel / CBO Publications:
The Effects of Increased Funding for the IRS  —  Last month, the Congressional Budget Office published An Analysis of Certain Proposals in the President's 2022 Budget.  Since then, CBO has completed its analysis of another proposal in the President's budget, an increase in spending …
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Biden's Approval Rating Hits A New Low After The Afghanistan Withdrawal  —  Amid the chaos of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Biden's approval rating slid to just 43% in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.  —  That is down 6 percentage points from a survey conducted …
Alex Marquardt / CNN:
US intelligence chief intervenes to block state secrets in Saudi Crown Prince's feud with former Saudi official  —  Washington (CNN)The US Director of National Intelligence has made an extraordinary intervention in a federal court case brought against a top former Saudi intelligence official …
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Tree of Life synagogue disputes Biden's claim he visited after massacre  —  President Biden on Thursday told Jewish leaders that he spent time at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the October 2018 mass murder of 11 people there -but the synagogue told The Post he never visited.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and Twitchy
New York Times:
We Work at the A.C.L.U. Here's What We Think About Vaccine Mandates.  —  Mr. Cole is the national legal director of the A.C.L.U., and Mr. Mach is the director of its Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief.  —  Do vaccine mandates violate civil liberties?  Some who have refused vaccination claim as much.
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Afghans Who Worked for The Times Arrive in the U.S.  —  The group, 124 people including families, flew to Houston from Mexico City after their escape from Kabul.  One Afghan journalist in the group has not been cleared by U.S. border officials.  —  Two weeks after escaping …
Discussion: The Hill
Vinay Prasad / The Atlantic:
The Downsides of Masking Young Students Are Real  —  Scientists have an obligation to strive for honesty.  And on the question of whether kids should wear masks in schools—particularly preschools and elementary schools—here is what I conclude: The potential educational harms …
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump's Ambassador Craft Steered U.S. Government Business To Her Boss' Hotel  —  While serving as U.S. ambassador to Canada, Kelly Craft directed government business to then-President Donald Trump's Washington, D.C. hotel, according to internal emails released by the State Department.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tommy Beer / Forbes:
Gov. DeSantis' Net Approval Rating Drops 14 Points Amid Covid Spike, Poll Finds  —  Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas have seen their approval ratings dip amid an alarming rise of Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations in both states over the past two months …
Joe Mcdonald / Associated Press:
China bans men it sees as not masculine enough from TV  —  BEIJING (AP) — China's government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.
John Nichols / The Nation:
Ron Johnson Gets Caught Debunking the Big Lie  —  After months of amplifying Donald Trump's claims about 2020 election “fraud,” the senator is captured on tape admitting the truth: Trump lost.  —  Even before the January 6 insurrection by supporters of former President Donald Trump …
 
 
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Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Exclusive: Silicon Valley investor dismissed racism, called BLM “the true racists”
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
'We Don't Have Any Money': Taliban Takeover Plunges Afghanistan Into Economic Turmoil
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
State Dept Expands Iran Team Days After Israel Asked Biden to Abandon Nuke Talks
Discussion: Israpundit
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
TV news takes heat for relying on former defense officials as Afghanistan pundits
Discussion: Mediaite
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Sami Sparber / Dallas Morning News:
Democrats sue to keep Abbott, Republicans from redistricting in special session this year
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 Earlier Items: 
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
State Department to relocated Afghans: For God's sake, don't move to California
Discussion: Fox News and Reason
The Economist:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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