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10:55 AM ET, September 3, 2021

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
SCOTUS Delenda Est  —  There's nothing I can add to the overnight news out of the Supreme Court and Texas that we haven't discussed previously: the Supreme Court is both corrupted and corrupt.  One of the court's nine members sits illegitimately.  At least five of the current conservative majority …
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Carlie Porterfield / Forbes:
Bumble, Match Launch Funds To Cover Abortion Costs In Texas  —  Two of the most popular dating apps in the U.S., Match and Bumble, are kickstarting funds to help Texans access abortion services in the wake of a controversial new anti-abortion law that effectively bans the procedure after six weeks …
Kari Paul / The Guardian:
TikTokers flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with Shrek memes, fake reports and porn  —  Critics of Texas' new law have been filing hundreds of fake reports to the whistleblowing website in hopes of crashing it  —  Pro-choice users on TikTok and Reddit have launched a guerrilla effort …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Conservative Justices' Reasoning in the Texas Abortion Case Is Legal Mansplaining  —  If you woke up this morning to the news that in the middle of the night, in an unsigned order, five conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court ended 50 years of abortion rights in Texas without full briefing …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Time for Democrats to Go Nuclear Was Yesterday  —  In the U.S., constitutional law guarantees pregnant people the right to have an abortion without “interference from the state.”  Judicial precedent also empowers Americans to preempt any state law that flagrantly violates their constitutional rights …
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
The Texas abortion ban could force tech to snitch on users  —  With the Supreme Court deciding not to block Texas' effective ban on abortion this week, fears have been rightly focused on the people in Texas who will be almost entirely barred from receiving an abortion in the state and the providers …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Sen. Collins repeatedly asserted that Kavanaugh considered abortion rights settled law. The justice's decision on Texas's restrictive law suggests otherwise.
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Did Texas Hand Biden a Lifeline?
Wall Street Journal:
Texas Ruling Raises Doubts About Chief Justice's Hold on the Roberts Court
Washington Post:
Americans support Afghanistan pullout — but not the way it was done, a Post-ABC poll finds  —  Americans overwhelmingly support President Biden's decision to end the war in Afghanistan, but by a 2-to-1 margin they disapprove of how he handled the chaotic and ultimately deadly withdrawal …
Discussion: HotAir and The Hill
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Biden's job approval drops to 44% amid broad criticism on Afghanistan: POLL  —  Just 36% of Americans say the war was worth fighting; 77% support withdrawal.  —  President Joe Biden's job approval rating has fallen underwater in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll amid broad disapproval …
Daniel Funke / USA Today:
Fact check: Biden honored service members killed in Kabul, checked watch during ceremony  —  Corrections & Clarifications: This story was updated Sept. 2 to note that Biden checked his watch multiple times at the dignified transfer event, including during the ceremony itself.
Jim Huylebroek / New York Times:
The Two Afghanistans  —  The journalist Anand Gopal has long reported for The New York Times and others from stretches of Afghanistan that few other Westerners have entered.  So when an MSNBC interviewer asked him this week what he considered the greatest American misconception about the country, I was struck by his answer:
John Lucas / The Federalist:
Joe Biden Is Lying To Americans About Afghanistan
Washington Examiner:
Biden's purely political Afghanistan timeline got Americans killed
Discussion: ABC News, HotAir and Washington Post
William Mauldin / Wall Street Journal:   Afghanistan Voice of America, Radio Free Liberty/Radio Europe Staff Left Behind
Washington Post:   Taliban prepares to announce new government amid challenges to its power
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Trapped in Basements and Cars, They Lost Their Lives in Savage Storm  —  The storm's victims included at least 15 people in New York State and 23 in New Jersey.  Some died as waters inundated their basement homes.  —  At 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Mingma Sherpa, who lived in a basement apartment …
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THE CITY:   NYC Basement Apartment Storm Deaths Renew Housing Advocates' Calls for Legalization
New York Times:
Overlapping Disasters Expose Harsh Climate Reality: The U.S. Is Not Ready
Discussion: Wired and Slate
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
It's Still All About COVID  —  For the last couple of weeks, I've been watching focus groups.  Two of those groups included independent-leaning voters who don't align themselves strongly with either party.  One other group was comprised of so-called Democratic “surge” voters …
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Tina Reed / Axios:   America's in a COVID funk
KVOA-TV:
Police on-scene at Vail elementary school after group threatens to zip-tie principal over COVID-19 protocols
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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: NPR, Daily Kos and Connecticut Post
Katelyn Ogle / KFOR-TV:
Patients overdosing on ivermectin backing up rural Oklahoma hospitals, ambulances  —  SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA, Okla. (KFOR) - A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Jobs report disappoints — only 235,000 positions added vs. expectations of 720,000  —  Job creation for August was a huge disappointment, with the economy adding just 235,000 positions, the Labor Department reported Friday.  —  Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for 720,000 new hires.
Elliot Smith / CNBC:
‘Completely unacceptable’: Retiring GOP Sen. Toomey says Trump should not lead ticket in 2024  — Sen. Pat Toomey has urged his party not to nominate former President Donald Trump as its presidential nominee in 2024.  — The Pennsylvania Republican voted to convict Trump in the impeachment trial …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Experts call for rigorous audit to protect California recall  —  A group of election security experts on Thursday called for a rigorous audit of the upcoming recall election for California's governor after copies of systems used to run elections across the country were released publicly.
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.
Glenn Greenwald:
All Communications Between Myself and Chelsea Manning Since 2016: to Debunk Her Innuendo  —  Despite my not having said a single word to her since 2018, the whistleblower today claimed she's “terrified” of me, implying serious personal abuse.  See for yourself.
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Why Isn't Anyone Trying to Seduce the Never Trumpers?  —  You would think 2020 would spur Republicans to find a way to win back tens of thousands of conservative-leaning swing-state voters.  You'd be wrong.  —  BEAST INSIDE … Can't they both lose?  —  We have two political parties …
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Nicholas Kristof starts reaching out to staff for Oregon run  —  Nicholas Kristof, the Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist, has been making inquiries to high-level Democrats about staffing his possible bid for Oregon governor.  —  Kristof's outreach to campaign consulting firms …
 
 
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Matthew Cooper / Washington Monthly:
Democrats Are Better at Running FEMA. They Just Are.
Discussion: Fox News and The White House
CBS News:
ISIS “Beatle” pleads guilty pleads guilty in connection to the hostage taking and death of U.S. citizens
Discussion: HotAir
Washington Post:
Trump Tower's key tenants have fallen behind on rent and moved out. But Trump has one reliable customer: His own PAC.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
The Dangerous Legal Illusion of ‘Parental Rights’
Discussion: The Federalist
Eli Clifton / Responsible Statecraft:
Top defense firms spend $1B on lobbying during Afghan war, see $2T return
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Georgia's Witch Hunt: Who Helped the Feds Fight Our Voting Laws?
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Praveen Menon / Reuters:
Police in New Zealand kill “extremist” who stabbed six in supermarket
Washington Post:
Trump-appointed ambassador directed government business to his hotel, emails show
Discussion: Forbes and Raw Story
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Russ Bynum / Associated Press:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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