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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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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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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 Post, Washington Examiner, Daily Kos, Robert Reich, The National, The Daily Beast and NPR
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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BizPac Review, CNN and Denver Post
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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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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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Dear Colleague on the Advancement of the Build Back Better Act & Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework This Week — This week is a week of opportunity, as we work to keep government open, conclude negotiations on the Build Back Better Act and advance the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework:
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Centrists back $3.5T package
Scoop: Centrists back $3.5T package
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Pelosi sets Thursday vote on bipartisan infrastructure bill
Pelosi sets Thursday vote on bipartisan infrastructure bill
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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
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.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's new interviews and appearances show that a storm is brewing
Trump's new interviews and appearances show that a storm is brewing
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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
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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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.
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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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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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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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
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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Shalom Yerushalmi / The Times of Israel:
Bennett tells settlers he said no 3 times to Biden, on Iran, consulate, building — At recent meeting, PM assured settler leaders he won't bend to American pressure to rein in construction in West Bank, said he resisted specific US request related to Tehran
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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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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Washington Post:
Pelosi punts infrastructure bill as progressives claim 60 votes against it — 🚨: “Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats posted their worst-ever election results on Sunday, coming in second to their traditional center-left rival for the first time in a decade and a half …
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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 …
Phil Orenstein / Front Page Magazine:
The Civil Rights Struggle of 2021 — Mandated vaccines for all is the civil rights issue of our time. — The civil rights movement led to the end of legalized racial segregation and the beginning of the ability of African Americans to be free and equal citizens in the United States of America.