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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Red Covid — Covid's partisan pattern is growing more extreme. — During the early months of Covid-19 vaccinations, several major demographic groups lagged in receiving shots, including Black Americans, Latino Americans and Republican voters. — More recently, the racial gaps — while still existing — have narrowed.
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Insider, POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40 Million Conference Call Gone Wrong — The digital media company has raised eyebrows for its claims about its audience size for years. Then came the strange voice on the phone. — This past winter, Goldman Sachs was closing in on a $40 million investment in Ozy …
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New York Post and Insider, more at Mediagazer »
Lee Drutman / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Bipartisanship In The Senate Is Dying — Congress is in full-on chaos mode right now, with the future of infrastructure, government funding, the debt limit and voting rights all uncertain. But at the heart of the chaos is a core disagreement over a basic tenet of governing: Is bipartisanship still possible?
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
‘No backup plan’: Democrats reject grueling debt limit off-ramp — Democrats are running out of time to prepare an unpalatable debt limit contingency plan as Republicans keep stonewalling and the nation nears a devastating default. — GOP leaders have insisted that Democrats lift the cap …
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Washington Examiner, Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, NPR, The National and Robert Reich
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans prepare to block measure to fund government, stave off U.S. default
Senate Republicans prepare to block measure to fund government, stave off U.S. default
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CNN, POLITICUSUSA and Joe.My.God.
Juan Williams / The Hill:
GOP's assault on voting rights is the real fraud
GOP's assault on voting rights is the real fraud
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claytoonz, Denver Post and CNN
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Shutdown Plan B — The Senate will hold a futile vote Monday night — just 72 hours …
Shutdown Plan B — The Senate will hold a futile vote Monday night — just 72 hours …
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
U.S. Debt-Limit Brinksmanship Has Become a Political Game
U.S. Debt-Limit Brinksmanship Has Become a Political Game
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Media Matters for America, Bloomberg, Outside the Beltway, RedState, NBC4 Washington, Mother Jones, the, Florida Politics and The Hill
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's new interviews and appearances show that a storm is brewing — (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. — “Our country will not survive this.” — I watched Donald Trump's entire “interview” …
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Raw Story, Insider and The Philadelphia Inquirer
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CBS News:
Liz Cheney on being a Republican while opposing Donald Trump — Liz Cheney tells Lesley Stahl about running for re-election as an anti-Trump Republican in Wyoming, as her own party there has called for her resignation, and joining the House Select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
How an Anti-Trump Plotter in 2016 Became His Champion Against Liz Cheney
How an Anti-Trump Plotter in 2016 Became His Champion Against Liz Cheney
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BizPac Review, The Hill, The Daily Caller and CBS News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The latest effort by moderates to upend Biden's agenda is already backfiring — With Democrats stumbling headlong into the final negotiations over President Biden's agenda, and progressives vowing to exercise maximal leverage in a way that has centrists in a fury, a question has arisen …
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CNBC, Roll Call and Talking Points Memo
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Dear Colleague on the Advancement of the Build Back Better Act & Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework This Week
Dear Colleague on the Advancement of the Build Back Better Act & Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework This Week
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The Intercept, Talking Points Memo, HotAir, UPI, WV MetroNews, Townhall and ABC News
Washington Post:
Pelosi punts infrastructure bill as progressives claim 60 votes against it
Pelosi punts infrastructure bill as progressives claim 60 votes against it
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The Hill, HotAir, Associated Press, New York Times, NBC News, Al Jazeera, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone and USA Today
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Centrists back $3.5T package
Scoop: Centrists back $3.5T package
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New York Times, Breitbart, WTOP, Forbes, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, RedState and Political Wire
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Anti-Vaccine Cartoonist Ben Garrison Says He's Got Covid-19, Won't Go to Hospital — The pro-Trump cartoonist says he's lost about 15 pounds and is taking ivermectin. — Alerts — Ben Garrison, a right-wing cartoonist known for his opposition to vaccines and his extremely flattering drawings …
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New York Times, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Matt Grossman / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Pauses Instagram Kids Project — The social-media app had faced criticism over a version for children that it was developing — Facebook Inc. will pause the development of its Instagram for kids project, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said in an interview on the Today Show Monday.
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
What Matt Gaetz's Legal Lineup Tells Us About His Troubles — There have hardly been any developments in the alleged case against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). But the lawyers he's hired indicate that he's not out of the woods. — While the federal sex crimes investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz …
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Raw Story
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Fox News embraces white nationalism and these advertisers embrace Fox News — For months, Tucker Carlson has been promoting the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory. The concept, which is embraced by white nationalists and neo-Nazis, is that there is a secret plot to “replace” whites with non-white immigrants.
Sarah Mucha / Axios:
Glenn Youngkin's play: Forever- and Never-Trumpers — Standing on a flatbed hitched to a John Deere tractor in red Rockingham County, Virginia, Glenn Youngkin decried California liberalism and bashed his rival, Terry McAuliffe. He also encouraged early voting. Two words he avoided: Donald Trump.
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Election Law Blog
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Covert Postal Service unit probed Jan. 6 social media — In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, an obscure arm of the U.S. Postal Service did some serious internet sleuthing. — On Jan. 11, the United States Postal Inspection Service's Internet Covert Operations Program …
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Raw Story
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
John Hinckley, Who Shot President Reagan, Wins Unconditional Release — A federal judge has approved the unconditional release next year of John Hinckley Jr., who wounded late President Ronald Reagan and three others outside a Washington, D.C., hotel in a failed assassination attempt in 1981.
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
They miss Trump so much — Normalizing an insurrectionist … Subscribe to PRESS RUN — American democracy is teetering increasingly close to the abyss as the Republican Party embraces cult-like conspiracies and races to shred the electoral process, now in the form of undemocratic ballot “audits.”
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Washington Post
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
These Show Ponies Made Themselves Threats to Our National Security — ‘LESS SAFE NOW’ … The process of filling critical positions has been deteriorating, and consequently putting the country at risk, for decades—and it's getting worse. — If an enemy of the United States wanted …
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Raw Story
Christopher F. Rufo / City Journal:
The White Backlash That Wasn't — Opposition to critical race theory is broad and bipartisan. — Education — The Social Order — Over the past year, the left-leaning media has peddled the narrative that an emotional constellation of “white resentment,” “white fragility,” “white rage …
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Ivana Hrynkiw / al.com:
Photographer, social media star Matt Mathews: Opossum taken by the state was his ‘baby’ — Maybe he should have played possum. — Matt Mathews, one of the most sought-after boudoir photographers in the Southeast and a multiple time world-qualifying barrel racer, is also a fierce animal advocate …
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Althouse
Fox News:
Border Patrol agents who Biden said would ‘pay’ could get minimal punishment, officials say — Biden promised that ‘those people will pay’ — Biden and top officials distance themselves from their own Border Patrol — The Border Patrol agents who were pictured blocking migrants …
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BizPac Review, National Review and IJR
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Mara Gay / New York Times:
What America Can Learn From New York City — Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board. — This isn't a comeback story — not yet. — This is about how New Yorkers are carrying on after we lost 34,000 of our neighbors and were left to pile our dead in refrigerated trailers.
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Daily Mail
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Dentists' Group Fights Plan to Cover Dental Benefits Under Medicare — ADA opposition could be factor as Democrats look to trim $3.5 trillion spending plan — WASHINGTON—The American Dental Association is mobilizing its 162,000 members to fight a proposal to include dental coverage …
Axios:
Biden's reengineer-America moment — The Senate's bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and President Biden's $3.5 trillion spending package could live or die this week — and take Democrats' fortunes with them. But all the minute-by-minute political drama obscures how much America could change if even a fraction of it passes.
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New Republic, Associated Press, The Guardian, Tax Foundation and The Hill