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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 …
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 …
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 …
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Did Texas Hand Biden a Lifeline?
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Senate panel will probe Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling, ‘shadow docket’
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.
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
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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Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Launch Could Be Delayed
Washington Post:
Biden names former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell to serve as point person on Afghan resettlement in the United States  —  President Biden has tapped a former governor of his home state, Jack Markell, to temporarily serve as his point person on resettling Afghan evacuees in the United States, White House officials said Friday.
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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
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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
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.
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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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.
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 …
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
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.
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:
‘This is imaginary’: CNN fact-checks Kevin McCarthy's Fox News interview claim  —  CNN's Daniel Dale fact-checks a claim made by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy during a Fox News interview where he asserted thousands of Taliban fighters left Afghanistan and are trying to enter the US.Source: CNN
Discussion: The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Fox News and IJR
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
The Federalist:
Arizona Needs Real Leaders On Election Reform, Not Passive Politicians Like Attorney General Mark Brnovich  —  Mark Brnovich, when in a position of power and able to actually do something, is not the kind of true fighter the people of Arizona deserve.  —  For many inside the Republican Party base …
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Iranian Intelligence Network Targeting Iranian-American Activist in the United States  —  WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating four Iranian intelligence operatives who targeted a U.S. citizen …
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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Fabiola Cineas / Vox:
Critical race theory bans are making teaching much harder
Annie Grayer / CNN:
First on CNN: More than 100 Democratic lawmakers introduce legislation to lower Medicare eligibility age to 60
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
What We Actually Know About Waning Immunity
Discussion: medRxiv
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
 Earlier Items: 
Chris Moody / Washington Post:
Seeking out Alaska's Denali National Park in a summer of overcrowded outdoor spaces
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
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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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:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion
 
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