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Mike Allen / Axios:
America's civil war of 2021 — Top Republicans are calling for a public uprising to protest President Biden's broad vaccine mandates, eight months after more than 500 people stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to overturn the election. — Why it matters: It has been decades since America …
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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Federal mandate takes vaccine decision off employers' hands — Larger U.S. businesses now won't have to decide whether to require their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Doing so is now federal policy. — President Joe Biden announced sweeping new orders Thursday …
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Robby Soave / New York Times:
Biden's Vaccine Mandate Is a Big Mistake — Mr. Soave, a senior editor at Reason, has written extensively about law, public policy and free speech. — There's one person that President Biden desperately needs to consult about his new federal vaccine mandate: President-elect Biden.
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Right-wing vaccine disinformation is killing people, and the propagandists are furious Biden is fighting back — President Joe Biden's Thursday announcement that federal regulators will seek to compel businesses with more than 100 employees to require their employees to either be vaccinated …
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
What legal ground do Republican governors have to push back on vaccine mandates?
What legal ground do Republican governors have to push back on vaccine mandates?
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National Review, Washington Free Beacon, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Claire Rafford / Politico:
Biden to vaccine mandate legal challengers: ‘Have at it’
Biden to vaccine mandate legal challengers: ‘Have at it’
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ABC News and Washington Post
Philip Klein / National Review:
The Practical Problems with Biden's Employer Vaccine Mandate
The Practical Problems with Biden's Employer Vaccine Mandate
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HotAir
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: Scientists Say Biden's Vaccine Mandates Will Need Time to Slow the Pandemic
Covid Live Updates: Scientists Say Biden's Vaccine Mandates Will Need Time to Slow the Pandemic
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New York Post, Fox News, Trending Politics, Right Side Broadcasting … and The Daily Caller
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Joe Biden's incoherent, fear-mongering COVID vaccine speech
Joe Biden's incoherent, fear-mongering COVID vaccine speech
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Patricia McCarthy / American Thinker:
Biden's vaccine mandate speech!
Washington Post:
Unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die of covid-19, CDC report finds — Moderna vaccine is most effective, says another study, the largest to date in U.S. to assess real-world effectiveness … People who were not fully vaccinated this spring and summer were over 10 times …
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New York Times and BuzzFeed News
Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
New poll finds Newsom could easily beat recall thanks to motivated Democrats — Momentum has turned strongly against the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom with just days to go before voting ends, a change that comes after a deluge of political ads and support from leading Democrats …
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Opposition to California recall widens in new poll
Opposition to California recall widens in new poll
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New York Times, POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Journalism Schools Leave Graduates With Hefty Student Loans — Students take on debt for master's degrees in hope of news jobs even as opportunities diminish — News reporting has lost thousands of jobs over the past decade, with a further slide predicted.
Kevin D. Williamson / New York Times:
The Trump Coup Is Still Raging — Mr. Williamson writes extensively about politics and more at National Review. — What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was not a coup attempt. It was half of a coup attempt — the less important half. — The more important part of the coup attempt …
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Hundreds of law enforcement officials were prepped early for potential Jan. 6 violence — Just two days before armed rioters stormed and ransacked the Capitol, about 300 law enforcement officials got on a conference call to talk about the possibility that Donald Trump's supporters would turn violent on Jan. 6.
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Dan Bloom / Mirror.co.uk:
Britain will now see ‘permanent food shortages’ and it's ‘going to get worse’ — Food and Drink Federation chief Ian Wright said the country won't run out of food, but the days of shoppers knowing they can get whatever they like at the supermarket are gone forever
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton:
Norton Denies Responsibility for Setting Zebras Free, Supports Freedom Generally — Norton says the charges are understandable, but for the first time offers an alibi. The six zebras escaped from a D.C.-area farm early this week — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton …
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Politico:
They Created Our Post-9/11 World. Here's What They Think They Got Wrong. — The sense of vulnerability and fear — yes, terror — was palpable. In the hours and days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the consensus was that more deadly attacks were being prepped.
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Insider and The Moderate Voice
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Brendan O'Neill / spiked:
When the politics of victimhood turned violent
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Kellyanne Conway didn't belong on the Air Force Academy board — President Joe Biden is cleaning house. On Wednesday, the White House asked for resignations from more than 10 of former President Donald Trump's appointees to boards that advise three military service academies.
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HotAir, Washington Examiner, Fox News, The Daily Beast, National Review and Townhall
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CNN:
CNN launches new polling methodology — (CNN)The landscape of political polling is changing, and so too is the way CNN carries out its polls. Beginning with Friday's newly released CNN poll conducted by SSRS, the network is implementing a new methodology for measuring public opinion.
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HotAir, NBC News, The Daily Caller and Twitchy, more at Mediagazer »
David Goldman / CNN:
Here's who loves Biden's vaccine mandate: The companies that have to enforce it — New York (CNN Business)President Joe Biden gave a gift to every major company in America by forcing them to mandate vaccines or stringently test their employees for Covid. Their reaction to the new rule: glee.
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Townhall, POLITICUSUSA and The Wrap
Musadiq Bidar / CBS News:
In speech taking on Trump, Christie calls on Republicans to renounce conspiracy theories and discredit extremists “in our midst” — Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who was once a close adviser to former President Trump, told Republicans gathered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential …
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Politico:
Texas ban spotlights Democrats' generational divide on abortion and trans issues — When Texas last week became the first state in nearly 50 years to ban abortions early in pregnancy, President Joe Biden, senior Democrats in Congress and the liberal members of the Supreme Court swiftly condemned the move …
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Washington Examiner, Common Dreams, TheJournal.ie, NBC News and WAMU
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Susan Collins, Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas's Abortion Ban
Susan Collins, Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas's Abortion Ban
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Slate, The Hill, The Texas Tribune and Raw Story
Daniel Idfresne / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
I'm 17. And I'm Immunized from Woke Politics. — Here's how. — I'm a first generation, 17-year-old Black American who grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the Brooklyn neighborhood made famous by Jay-Z. — Given that brief biography, perhaps you'd assume that I'm a Black Lives Matter slogan-chanting …
CNN:
Trump's House GOP enemies get boost from McCarthy's leadership team — ‘Disgraceful’: Former President Trump's niece reacts to what he's doing on 9/11 — (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his leadership team are quietly working to prop up some of the GOP incumbents targeted …
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Insider, BizPac Review, Raw Story and Political Wire
Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
‘I Was Responsible for Those People’ — On the evening of September 4, 2021, one week before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Glenn Vogt stood at the footprint of the North Tower and gazed at the names stamped in bronze. The sun was diving below the buildings across the Hudson River in New Jersey …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
On Sean Hannity's Fox News show, it's still Trump, Trump, Trump — Almost every night, a member of the Trump family or a former Trump administration official appears as a guest on the primetime show — During the four years of Donald Trump's presidency, the 9 p.m. hour on Fox News hosted …
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Noah Garfinkel / Axios:
CDC: Unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 — Unvaccinated people were about 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 and were more than 10 times more likely to be hospitalized with the disease, a new study from the CDC released on Friday found.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A dangerous trend among GOP candidates shows the Trump threat is here to stay — So is this really how it's going to be? Are more and more Republican candidates across our great land going to treat it as a requirement that they cast any and all election losses as dubious or illegitimate by definition?
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