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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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Texas's Abortion Law Blunder — The Supreme Court was right not to interfere for now, but the statute won't survive scrutiny on the merits. — By The Editorial Board — America is back fighting its endless legal war over abortion. A new front opened late Wednesday when five Justices issued …
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Steve Vladeck / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court doesn't just abuse its shadow docket. It does so inconsistently. — Justice Kagan's dissent cuts to the heart of the problem with the Texas abortion ruling — it undermines the court's legitimacy — The Supreme Court's midnight ruling on Wednesday …
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Axios:
1 big thing: Biden wants abortion fight
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
SCOTUS Delenda Est
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Carlie Porterfield / Forbes:
Bumble, Match Launch Funds To Cover Abortion Costs In Texas
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Time for Democrats to Go Nuclear Was Yesterday
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Mia Brett / The Editorial Board:
Abortion is virtually banned in Texas. The upside? Roe still rules for now in the other 49 states
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Joshua C. Wilson / Washington Post:
In Texas abortion law, conservatives adopted the progressive playbook — and used it against them
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New York Times:
Health Officials Advise White House to Scale Back Booster Plan for Now — Federal regulators warned on Thursday they may not have enough data to recommend boosters for anyone except certain recipients of the Pfizer vaccine by late September. — WASHINGTON — Top federal health officials …
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Is Unlikely to Get Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shot — Former president has urged his supporters to get vaccinated but tells WSJ he 'probably won't' get a booster shot when it is available — WASHINGTON—Former President Donald Trump, who received a Covid-19 vaccination …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin's new threat to destroy Biden's agenda is worse than it seems — When President Biden travels to storm-ravaged Louisiana on Friday, he will continue amplifying the case for getting much more serious about tackling the climate change that is fueling such extreme weather events.
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Annie Grayer / CNN:
First on CNN: More than 100 Democratic lawmakers introduce legislation to lower Medicare eligibility age to 60
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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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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 …
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Jim Huylebroek / New York Times:
The Two Afghanistans — The journalist Anand Gopal has long reported for The New York Times …
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Tamara Keith / NPR:
The Share Of U.S. Adults Willing To Get Vaccinated Ticks Up, A New Poll Finds
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Adela Suliman / Washington Post:
Here's what we know about the mu variant … A coronavirus variant known as “mu” or “B.1.621” was designated by the World Health Organization as a “variant of interest” earlier this week and will be monitored by the global health body as cases continue to emerge across parts of the world.
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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.
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Sen. Joni Ernst falsely claims Biden has ‘not once’ expressed gratitude to troops who fought in the last 20 years — Senator falsely claims Biden ‘not once’ thanked overseas veterans — Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a veteran of the war in Iraq and a member …
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley pleads guilty to felony in US Capitol riot — (CNN)The so-called “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the US Capitol in a horned bearskin outfit pleaded guilty Friday to a felony for obstructing the Electoral College proceedings on January 6.
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Horned, Furred, and Face-Painted ‘Shaman’ of the U.S. Capitol Siege Pleads Guilty in Federal Court
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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
GOP Sen. Pat Toomey: Trump should not be nominee in 2024 — Retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) told CNBC on Friday that he does not believe former President Trump should be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, calling his behavior after the 2020 election “completely unacceptable.”
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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.
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Bente Birkeland / NPR:
Voting Data From A Colorado County Was Leaked Online. Now, The Clerk Is In Hiding — It's been nearly a month since sensitive data about voting equipment in Colorado's Mesa County was posted online by conspiracy theorists eager to cast doubt on the outcome of the 2020 election.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
At odds with boss, some Biden aides privately alarmed as millions of workers head over jobless benefits cliff — Some White House officials are split on what will happen when the benefits cease next week, but advisers downplayed any rift. — The Biden administration faces internal dissatisfaction …
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Ethics Watchdog Requests Probe Into Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene For ‘Threatening’ Telecom Firms — The ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) on Friday asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate whether House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy …
Ellie Silverman / Washington Post:
Former Trump campaign operative plans rally for those charged in Capitol riot — Law enforcement authorities are monitoring plans by supporters of former president Donald Trump to rally outside the U.S. Capitol later this month to argue that the hundreds of people charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection …
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says — Right-leaning pages also produce more misinformation, the forthcoming study found. — A new study of user behavior on Facebook around the 2020 election is likely …
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Washington Post:
Trump Tower's key tenants have fallen behind on rent and moved out. But Trump has one reliable customer: His own PAC. — NEW YORK — Inside Trump Tower, swank suit-maker Marcraft Clothes once rented the entire 18th floor, outfitting its offices with fireplaces, mahogany-lined closets and two bars for schmoozing customers.
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Afghan evacuation raises concerns about child trafficking — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused.
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Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
What We Actually Know About Waning Immunity — Vaccines don't last forever. This is by design: Like many of the microbes they mimic, the contents of the shots stick around only as long as it takes the body to eliminate them, a tenure on the order of days, perhaps a few weeks.
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Sarah Chayes / Foreign Affairs:
Afghanistan's Corruption Was Made in America … In 2005, I visited a branch of Afghanistan's national bank in Kandahar to make a deposit. I was launching a cooperative that would craft skin-care products for export, using oils extracted from local almonds and apricot kernels …
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