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9:50 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 …
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 …
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 …
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.  —  Sen. Susan Collins emerged from her face-to-face meeting with then-Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh in August 2018 insisting …
Laura Bassett / The Atlantic:
All of Those ‘Hysterical’ Women Were Right  —  Last night, the Supreme Court quietly green-lit the most extreme abortion ban the United States has seen in half a century: a Texas law that prohibits abortions at six weeks from a woman's last period, even in cases of rape or incest …
Wall Street Journal:
Texas Ruling Raises Doubts About Chief Justice's Hold on the Roberts Court
Jessica Piper / Bangor Daily News:
Susan Collins calls Texas abortion law ‘extreme’ under more scrutiny for Kavanaugh vote
Discussion: HuffPost
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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
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 …
Discussion: RedState and Washington Post
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
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Former Trump officials praise Biden for carrying out ‘Trump-Biden withdrawal’ from Afghanistan
Discussion: Orlando Weekly
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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New York Times:
Overlapping Disasters Expose Harsh Climate Reality: The U.S. Is Not Ready
Discussion: Wired and Slate
Washington Post:
Here's what made the New York City flooding so devastating
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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: Daily Kos and Connecticut Post
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Doha Madani / NBC News:
Former DA indicted for allegedly ‘showing favor’ to men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery  —  A former Georgia district attorney was indicted Thursday by a grand jury, which said she showed preference to the men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery last year.  —  The former prosecutor …
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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.
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 …
 
 
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Elliot Smith / CNBC:
‘Completely unacceptable’: Retiring GOP Sen. Toomey says Trump should not lead ticket in 2024
Politico:
The Dangerous Legal Illusion of ‘Parental Rights’
Discussion: The Federalist
Politico:
Nicholas Kristof starts reaching out to staff for Oregon run
Discussion: Political Wire
Eli Clifton / Responsible Statecraft:
Top defense firms spend $1B on lobbying during Afghan war, see $2T return
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Why Isn't Anyone Trying to Seduce the Never Trumpers?
Discussion: Raw Story
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
KVOA-TV:
Police on-scene at Vail elementary school after group threatens to zip-tie principal over COVID-19 protocols
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Trump-appointed ambassador directed government business to his hotel, emails show
Discussion: Forbes and Raw Story
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Now, for the Accountability  —  The CIA and FBI also need a reckoning now that Kabul is gone.
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Exclusive: Silicon Valley investor dismissed racism, called BLM “the true racists”
Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
Americans Don't Really Hate Density
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
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