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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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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 …
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 …
Axios:
1 big thing: Biden wants abortion fight  —  President Biden is eager for a fight over abortion — an issue he sees as politically advantageous after the conservative Supreme Court left in place the near-ban in Texas, senior officials tell Axios.  — Why it matters: The Supreme Court appears …
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 …
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Did Texas Hand Biden a Lifeline?
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.
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Senate panel will probe Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling, ‘shadow docket’
Alyssa Lukpat / New York Times:
Former Prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery's Death Faces Criminal Charges
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 …
Discussion: HotAir, Washington Post and Raw Story
Daniel Funke / USA Today:
Fact check: Biden honored service members killed in Kabul, checked watch during ceremony
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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KVOA-TV:
Police on-scene at Vail elementary school after group threatens to zip-tie principal over COVID-19 protocols  —  TUCSON (KVOA) - A conflict over the COVID-19 quarantine policy at a Vail Unified School District elementary school has been resolved shortly after protesters threatened …
Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill and Raw Story
Tina Reed / Axios:
America's in a COVID funk  —  The pandemic may not be over, but Americans are over the pandemic — and it's starting to show in our collective willingness to cooperate with public health guidance.  —  Why it matters: Over the last several weeks, the Delta variant dashed hopes of getting …
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Washington Post:
U.S. economy added a lackluster 235,000 jobs in August, a disappointing month as virus surged
Discussion: Columbian and KTLA
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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Kelly Laco / Fox News:
DHS promises to ‘swiftly and safely’ resettle Afghans into US, confirms some flagged evacuees denied entry
Discussion: Washington Examiner
CNN:
Afghan women report forced marriages to flee country amid Taliban takeover, sources say
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
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.
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 …
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.
Elliot Smith / CNBC:
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 over his role …
Discussion: HotAir, The Hill and Raw Story
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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:   GOP Sen. Pat Toomey: Trump should not be nominee in 2024
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 …
Bloomberg:
Senate Democrats Eye Taxes on Stock Buybacks, Excess CEO Pay  — Senate Finance panel is assembling raft of tax-hike proposals  — Tax increases would go to pay for higher social spending  —  Senate Democrats are discussing a wider range of tax proposals than President Joe Biden has proposed …
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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.
CNN:
Trump administration deliberately slowed entry of Afghan allies  —  (CNN)Stephen Miller seemed floored by the idea, raised during a fall Cabinet meeting in 2018, of  keeping open the doors for Afghan allies and other Middle East refugees to enter the US.   —  “What do you guys want?”
Discussion: Raw Story and spectatorworld.com
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 …
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Horned, Furred, and Face-Painted ‘Shaman’ of the U.S. Capitol Siege Pleads Guilty in Federal Court  —  The man who stood behind former Vice President Mike Pence's Senate dais in a horned, coyote-fur headdress, red, white and blue face paint and a shirtless display of his tattooed torso dropped his ceremony of innocence on Friday.
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.
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 …
Discussion: CoinDesk and Bloomberg
Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
What We Actually Know About Waning Immunity  —  Reports of vaccines' decline have been greatly overstated.  —  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 …
Discussion: medRxiv
 
 
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Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Colorado county election official allegedly pressured employees to not cooperate with investigation into security breach
Discussion: Raw Story
Foreign Policy:
Afghanistan Was a Ponzi Scheme Sold to the American Public
Chris Moody / Washington Post:
Seeking out Alaska's Denali National Park in a summer of overcrowded outdoor spaces
BuzzFeed News:
Ivermectin Is Anti-Vaxxers' Latest COVID Drug Of Choice. A Study Promoting It Has Suspect Data.
 Earlier Items: 
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Texas now a “small Soviet republic” after abortion bill, says MSNBC's Reid
Discussion: Twitchy
Matthew Cooper / Washington Monthly:
Democrats Are Better at Running FEMA. They Just Are.
Discussion: Fox News and The White House
Christine Chung / THE CITY:
NYC Basement Apartment Storm Deaths Renew Housing Advocates' Calls for Legalization
Discussion: New York Times and Curbed
CBS News:
ISIS “Beatle” pleads guilty pleads guilty in connection to the hostage taking and death of U.S. citizens
Discussion: HotAir
Politico:
The Dangerous Legal Illusion of ‘Parental Rights’
Discussion: The Federalist
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Why Isn't Anyone Trying to Seduce the Never Trumpers?
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
 

 
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