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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
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  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court is allowing a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in force, for now stripping most women of the right to an abortion in the nation's second-largest state.
Ed Whelan / National Review:
Denial Should Have Been Unanimous  —  Last night the Court denied abortion providers' beyond-audacious request for emergency relief against the Texas Heartbeat Act by a 5-4 vote.  The feebleness of the four dissents shows that the denial should have been 9-0.
Discussion: Boston.com and Washington Post
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
Carrie Campbell Severino / National Review:
A Procedural Abortion Ruling with a Substantive Lesson
Discussion: Washington Post
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Republicans Shouldn't Be Scared of the Texas Abortion Law in 2022
NBC News:
Texas law could flip script on abortion politics, with Democrats eying gains
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Five Justices Did This Because They Could  —  The conservative majority on the Supreme Court …
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and TheJournal.ie
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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.
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.
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
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
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 …
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 …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“2016 on Steroids”: The Race to Inherit Trump's MAGA Base Is Already On—And the Knives Are Out  —  With the 2024 election in sight, Republican presidential contenders such as Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, and Mike Pompeo have begun racing each other to the bottom to claim the party's base.
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Jan. 6 Rioter Goes Back To Jail Over ‘Addiction’ To Online Conspiracy Theories  —  Doug Jensen chased Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up the stairs as the mob stormed the Capitol.  He's going back to jail.  —  A QAnon conspiracy theorist who stormed the U.S. Capitol in support …
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 …
 
 
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
State Dept Expands Iran Team Days After Israel Asked Biden to Abandon Nuke Talks
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
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Discussion: Mediaite
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
Herschel Walker passes his first test in Georgia's Senate race
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
State Department to relocated Afghans: For God's sake, don't move to California
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Elizabeth Bruenig / The Atlantic:
Stop Death Shaming
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A legal setback for Donald Trump Jr. on false claims — as he spreads more of them
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
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