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3:40 PM ET, September 6, 2021

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Hamza Shaban / Washington Post:
Justice Department to protect women seeking an abortion in Texas  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday that the Justice Department would protect women seeking an abortion in Texas as the agency explores ways to challenge one of the most restrictive laws in the nation.
Discussion: Political Wire
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Regarding Texas SB8  —  The U.S. Department of Justice today issued the following statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland regarding Texas SB8:  —  “While the Justice Department urgently explores all options to challenge Texas SB8 …
Anand Gopal / New Yorker:
The Other Afghan Women  —  In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them. … Late one afternoon this past August, Shakira heard banging on her front gate.  In the Sangin Valley, which is in Helmand Province …
Discussion: Raw Story, HotAir, CNN and BBC
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Washington Post:
Panjshir Valley, last resistance holdout in Afghanistan, falls to the Taliban  —  The Taliban on Monday seized Panjshir province, a restive mountain region that was the final holdout of resistance forces in the country, cementing its total control over Afghanistan a week after U.S. forces departed the country.
New York Times:
U.S. Citizens and Afghans Wait for Evacuation Flights From Country's North
Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’  —  The number of men enrolled at two- and four-year colleges has fallen behind women by record levels, in a widening education gap across the U.S.  —  Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels.
Tim Miller / The Triad:
Strange New Disrespect  —  The ideology beneath an abortion position that nobody likes.  —  1. Strange New Disrespect  —  Welp, the “strange new respect” I had garnered from certain corners of the progressive interwebs was bound to circle back around to “strange new WTF Tim” at some point. …
Discussion: Twitchy
Jake Zuckerman / Ohio Capital Journal:
Judge reverses order forcing hospital to give ivermectin to COVID-19 patient  —  “We are believers he's going to survive because of ivermectin.”  —  HAMILTON — A Butler County judge sided with a local hospital and reversed a previous court order forcing it to honor a prescription of ivermectin …
Discussion: KHON2
Hailey Branson-Potts / Los Angeles Times:
In red California, Trump's lies about a rigged election echo among recall supporters  —  Looking to oust the governor?  Ed Brown has just the right merch for you.  —  Camouflage Recall Newsom hats and Recall Newsom masks.  He's got Recall Newsom yard signs.  A stack of Recall Newsom pamphlets.
Discussion: Raw Story, Politico and Fox News
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NBC News:
U.S. evacuates 4 more Americans out of Afghanistan, official says  —  WASHINGTON — The United States facilitated the safe departure of four American citizens by overland route from Afghanistan on Monday, a senior State Department official said.  —  The news came while Secretary …
Discussion: CBS News
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Jack Dutton / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Beats Joe Biden in 2024 Election Poll  —  A new poll has placed former President Donald Trump as the favorite to win the 2024 U.S. election, slightly edging Democratic incumbent Joe Biden.  —  A national Emerson College Poll found that if the two men were to go head-to-head in 2024 …
Discussion: BizPac Review
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Brad McElhinny / WV MetroNews:
Poll: Fewer than half of West Virginians believe legitimacy of 2020 presidential election
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
New York Times:
Americans Stretch Across Political Divides to Welcome Afghan Refugees  —  “Even the most right-leaning isolationists” are coming forward to help those fleeing Afghanistan, a pastor said.  A mass mobilization is underway.  —  PHOENIX — The hundreds of parishioners at Desert Springs Bible Church …
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus / New Yorker:
Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?  —  The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they're everything.  —  Until she was thirty-three …
The Hill:
Why can't we mandate anything?  —  For Americans who are fully vaccinated, organized political resistance to vaccination mandates is infuriating.  Such resistance continues to ravage communities, disrupt commerce, overload hospitals and generate an appalling toll of needless illness and death.
Discussion: Althouse
The Daily Beast:
Threats & Leaks: New Documents Show Just How Crazy the Georgia Recount Fiasco Got  —  While the Georgia secretary of state's office was fending off calls from then-President Donald Trump to find votes, officials were also dealing with bomb threats.  —  Back in January 2021 …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Taliban accused of murdering pregnant Afghan policewoman in front of her family  —  (CNN)The Taliban murdered a pregnant policewoman in front of her family on Saturday night, according to her son.  Her death, in the central Afghanistan province of Ghor, adds to mounting concerns about the repression of women under the Taliban's rule.
Kyle Smith / National Review:
Whatever Happened to the Journalistic B.S. Detector?  —  At some point the journalistic injunction, “If your mother says she loves you, check it out” became “If it fits the Narrative, don't bother to check it out.”  —  Rolling Stone — which really ought to know better by now …
Issues & Insights:
Biden Loses 4,890 Migrant Children, And The Left Yawns  —  Last week, Axios reported that the Department of Health and Human Services has lost contact with more than 4,500 children who'd crossed the border illegally after it had released them into the country.  That's a third of the migrant children it was supposed to be tracking.
Discussion: Instapundit
New York Times:
Covid Deaths Surge Across a Weary America as a Once-Hopeful Summer Ends  —  Cases are starting to fall in some hard-hit Southern states, but nearly half of Americans are not fully vaccinated, allowing the Delta variant to persist.  —  OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A summer that began with plunging caseloads …
Discussion: Denver Post
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Labor's surprising winning streak  —  “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”  —  On this Labor Day 2021, let's apply Mark Twain's famous quip to America's labor unions.  —  News about organized labor is always headlined by sad accounts about declining union membership.
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Jeff Rhodes / Washington Examiner:   Workers deserve a day in their honor. The unions that exploit them don't
 
 
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Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Belarus opposition leader jailed in Lukashenko ‘purge’
Discussion: UPI
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Republicans in crosshairs of 6 January panel begin campaign of intimidation
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Seeks to Shift Focus to Domestic Issues After Afghanistan Exit
Gordon Corera / BBC:
Pro-Kremlin trolls target news website comments, researchers say
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Arizona GOP Hired Anti-Vaccine Vote Conspiracist ‘Dr. Shiva’ For Sham Election Audit
Discussion: Raw Story
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Herschel Walker's empty campaign calendar sparks concern among Georgia Republicans
Discussion: Raw Story
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Back on the Trail, Sanders Campaigns for a Legislative Legacy
 Earlier Items: 
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Progressives' Tax-the-Rich Dreams Fade as Democrats Struggle for Votes
Andy Mannix / Star Tribune:
Minnesota State Patrol destroyed texts, e-mails after riot response
Discussion: Raw Story and TheGrio
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
N.F.L. Will Allow Six Social Justice Messages on Players' Helmets
Discussion: Deadline
Ben Smith / New York Times:
If Gawker Is Nice, Is It Still Gawker?
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
New PR ploy  —  The head of a prominent centrist advocacy group quietly seeded a news outlet …
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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