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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Why House Democrats May Be More United Than They Seem — Two factions of the Democratic Party in Congress are currently playing tug-of-war over the centerpieces of President Biden's legislative agenda. Moderate Democrats have balked at the proposed $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget bill …
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Manchin, Sinema leave Dems in lurch as Biden agenda teeters — Democrats wanted clarity Tuesday from Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema after back-to-back meetings with President Joe Biden. They didn't get it. — During a private meeting with the president, Sinema made clear she's still …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: T-minus 24 hours: The view from the W.H. — DRIVING THE DAY — Tuesday was the day it became clear either: — A) President JOE BIDEN's legislative agenda is about to implode — or — B) Biden made serious progress toward a deal to salvage his agenda.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans at Odds Over Infrastructure Bill as Vote Approaches
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Dino Grandoni / Washington Post:
Ivory-billed woodpecker officially declared extinct, along with 22 other species — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's move underscores what scientists say is an accelerating rate of extinction worldwide, given climate change and habitat loss — The “Lord God Bird” is dead.
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Matthew Brown / Associated Press:
US says ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species extinct
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden opposes changing Senate rules to raise debt limit — The White House said Tuesday that President Joe Biden opposes changing the filibuster to suspend or raise the debt ceiling, closing off a break-the-glass option to avoid financial calamity. — White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Kill the Bill — Members of Congress have begun to say explicitly in the last couple days what I think has been clear for weeks and months. Kyrsten Sinema's multiple trips to the White House yesterday just confirms it. She's not negotiating about any of this in good faith.
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Voting against the full faith and credit of the United States is what you'd expect from the party of political sabotage
Clay Risen / New York Times:
How the Debt Ceiling Came to Be a Political Cudgel
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American Greatness:
Kristi Noem Shows Why Republicans Can't Have Nice Things — Exclusive: Sources reveal the South Dakota governor and potential 2024 VP candidate is having an extramarital affair with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. — Multiple sources have informed American Greatness …
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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
South Dakota AG reviewing Noem's meeting with daughter — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's attorney general said Tuesday he is reviewing concerns from state lawmakers over a meeting Gov. Kristi Noem held last year that included both her daughter and a state employee who was overseeing …
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Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content — The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Facebook made the same change months ago. — SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube is taking …
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Tragic cost of Biden's Afghanistan lies — Biden lied, they died. — That's no longer just an accusation. It's now a fact, with Tuesday's Senate testimony shredding President Biden's nonsensical fictions about Afghanistan and confirming that he alone made the fateful decisions that created the chaotic and deadly withdrawal.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans aim their fire at the military
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Say, How Is Joe Biden's Memory These Days?
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Kamala Harris' office frustrated with ‘The View’ after last week's Covid fiasco, sources say — New York (CNN Business)The office of Vice President Kamala Harris is vexed with “The View” after the false Covid-19 positive tests revealed just before Harris was to appear on the show last week sent …
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Axios:
A racist conspiracy theory goes mainstream — A growing number of elected Republicans are openly promoting “white replacement theory,” a decades-old conspiracy theory that's animated terrorist attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. — Why it matters: This mainstreams what once …
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Reed Abelson / New York Times:
Faced with vaccine mandates, most health workers are getting immunized. — Hundreds of sought-after nurses are leaving some U.S. hospitals that have established vaccine requirements for all employees, involving some protests and legal opposition. But most workers, especially at large hospital chains …
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Dowd for Texas Announcement — Matthew Dowd announces his campaign for Texas Lt Governor and end the reign of the cruel and craven GOP incumbent. He says enough is enough and it is time t...
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Jonathan Landay / Reuters:
U.S. bars flight from landing with Americans from Kabul - activists — The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday denied U.S. landing rights for a charter plane carrying more than 100 Americans and U.S. green card holders evacuated from Afghanistan, organizers of the flight said.
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Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason's Role in Human Progress … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. — For someone who so frequently and serenely proclaims that he's right, Steven Pinker can get curiously defensive.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Arizona Audit Backers Turn on Each Other After Recount Flop — The Arizona audit showed that, if anything, Joe Biden won the state by even more votes than previously realized. Cue the GOP panic. — Supporters of Republicans' controversial “audit” of 2020 presidential election ballots …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
‘This Was a Failure’: Biden's A.T.F. Pick Says White House Left Him Open to Attack — David Chipman's defeat was a loss for gun control groups, which saw the appointment of a strong director as the most important move the president could make on guns. — David Chipman's confirmation odyssey began …
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Richard Haass / Foreign Affairs:
The Age of America First … Donald Trump was supposed to be an aberration—a U.S. president whose foreign policy marked a sharp but temporary break from an internationalism that had defined seven decades of U.S. interactions with the world. He saw little value in alliances and spurned multilateral institutions.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Laura Ingraham Makes Baffling Claim: 'It's Almost Always A Lie' When ‘They Say The Hospitals Are Being Overwhelmed’ — Fox News' Laura Ingraham made the baffling assertion on Tuesday night that “it's almost always a lie” when people say hospitals are being overwhelmed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump plans to sue to keep White House records on Capitol attack secret — Legal strategy could delay and possibly stymie efforts by House select committee into Capitol attacks to see key documents — Donald Trump is preparing to sue to block the release of White House records …
Malcolm Turnbull:
Address to the National Press Club - September 2021 — Address to the National Press Club By the Honourable Malcolm Turnbull AC — With the swirl of media soundbites, the impression has been created that the Australian Government has replaced a diesel electric French designed submarine …
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Politico:
McAuliffe, Youngkin unload in feisty final Virginia debate — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin bickered their way through the second and final debate of Virginia's competitive governor's race on Tuesday, trading attacks and accusations from the start of the hourlong meeting.
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
New evidence emerges against COVID lab-leak theory — but the press keeps pushing it — When it comes to the pandemic, pseudoscience has outweighed real science at almost every turn. One of the best examples of that is the unsupported assertion that the virus causing COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Ozy says it's great at discovering big names before the mainstream media. But is it? — Does the site's “signature ahead-of-the-curve coverage” really uncover “the new, the next, rising stars, new trends, that kind of stuff”? Or does it “discover” stars already discovered?
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
At critical moment, confidence in Biden's ability to handle range of issues eroding: POLL — Dissatisfaction among Republicans and independents is fueling the decline. — As President Joe Biden faces a critical moment for his agenda, Americans' confidence in his handling of a range of issues is eroding …
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