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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.
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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 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
If You Think Progressives Won't Compromise with Centrists, You Have It Backwards Liberals are begging to negotiate with centrists.  —  The impression has taken hold with many people who have moderate inclinations that the Democratic Party is split between moderate pragmatists and left-wing ideologues who refuse to compromise.
Discussion: HotAir, The Daily Caller, Salon and Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats expect Pelosi will reschedule infrastructure vote
Discussion: HuffPost and Washington Times
Politico:
Manchin, Sinema leave Dems in lurch as Biden agenda teeters
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump donor: Corey Lewandowski made unwanted sexual advances  —  A Donald Trump donor is accusing Corey Lewandowski, one of the former president's longtime top aides, of making unwanted sexual advances toward her at a Las Vegas charity event over the weekend.
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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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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YouTube:
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...
Discussion: HotAir, CNN, The Hill, Raw Story and Twitchy
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Willy Staley / New York Times:
Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?  —  The show's new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Discussion: WTOP
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.
Discussion: Gawker, Althouse and The Guardian
Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Why Biden Is Patient as Democrats Panic  —  A faint but discernible note of alarm has been slipping into Democrats' chatter about the 2022 and 2024 elections.  President Joe Biden's approval ratings have slumped to their lowest levels since his inauguration.  His governing coalition is splintering over the Haitian migrant crisis.
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 …
Peter Greene / Forbes:
Critical Race Theory Bans Are Expanding To Cover Broad Collection Of Issues  —  The conservative cancel culture panic over “critical race theory” in schools is continuing to spread.  But while some school districts are correctly pointing out that CRT is not taught in their system …
Laura Hancock / Plain Dealer:
Abortion rights supporters vow fight against Ohio bill making abortion illegal if U.S. Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio -During an Ohio Senate committee's first hearing on a bill that would make abortion almost entirely illegal in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade …
Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin GOP lawmakers want superintendent, treasurer and secretary of state appointed, not elected  —  MADISON - Republican lawmakers are proposing to eliminate elections for the state superintendent, state treasurer and secretary of state and instead allow governors to appoint those positions.
Discussion: Raw Story
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
America Is Having a Violence Wave, Not a Crime Wave  —  A historic rise in homicides in 2020—and continued bloodshed in 2021—has incited fears that after years of plummeting crime rates, the U.S. could be headed back to the bad old days, when a crime wave gripped the country from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Discussion: KVIA-TV
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Voodoo math: Media mostly fails to challenge Biden's ‘zero-dollar cost’ infrastructure  —  “My ‘Build Back Better’ agenda costs zero dollars.  Instead of wasting money on tax breaks, loopholes and tax evasion for big corporations and the wealthy, we can make a once-in-a-generation investment in working America.”
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Friends from Ohio get 45 days in jail for Capitol riot  —  Two friends from Ohio have been sentenced to 45 days in jail for storming the U.S. Capitol together in January  —  COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Federal prosecutors assert that everybody who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 …
Declan Leary / The American Conservative:
The Most Dangerous Man in America  —  Gen. Mark Milley is ambitious, incompetent, progressive, and wildly self-assured.  —  Four-star General Mark A. Milley, 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and highest-ranking officer in the United States Armed Forces, is a walking answer to the unasked question …
Kelsey Bradshaw / Austin American-Statesman:
Arson suspect sought after throwing ‘molotov cocktail’ into Travis County Democrats' Austin office  —  Austin arson officials are investigating after a man wearing a U.S. flag bandana threw an incendiary device and possibly a rock into the Travis County Democratic Party's East Sixth Street office early Wednesday.
Dr. Harry Wilson / Roanoke College:
Roanoke College Poll: Va. Governor's race, COVID-19 and more  —  Former Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe maintains a 7-percentage point lead over Republican Glenn Youngkin (48%-41%) with 9% undecided in the race for Virginia governor, according to The Roanoke College Poll.
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 …
Discussion: TheGrio, Mediaite, TheBlaze and IJR
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Sen. Marshall, Doctors Caucus send letter to CDC urging recognition of COVID-19 natural immunity  —  Physicians called on CDC to ‘truly determine’ a person's immunity to the novel coronavirus  —  Concha on CDC Director Walensky being the ‘wrong COVID-19 messenger’
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Townhall
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.
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.
 
 
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Katie Kull / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Black student admits to writing racist graffiti in Parkway Central bathrooms
Peter Landers / Wall Street Journal:
Fumio Kishida to Become Japan's Next Prime Minister After Party Election Win
Discussion: VICE and UPI
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Democrats Fear 2022 ‘Bloodbath,’ Toy With Going for Broke Now on Infrastructure
Discussion: Raw Story and The Federalist
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Twenty percent of border crossers tested positive amid delta variant surge, ‘surprised’ Mayorkas says
Discussion: ABC News
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
BLM NY: We need some George Floyd-style protests against vaccine mandates
Discussion: CNSNews
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Unsealed Rudy Giuliani Filings Reveal Scope of Government's Investigation — Including His Trip to Poland
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Conservative Koch network disavows critical race theory bans
Discussion: Raw Story
Thomas Colson / Insider:
Trump's failed attempt to enforce Omarosa's NDA in court may unleash a new wave of embarrassing disclosures, said the lawyer who beat him
Discussion: Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
Michael Warren / CNN:
Vilified by Trump, Liz Cheney explores her political future with backing from GOP elders
Discussion: Raw Story
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
‘This Was a Failure’: Biden's A.T.F. Pick Says White House Left Him Open to Attack
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Laura Ingraham Makes Baffling Claim: 'It's Almost Always A Lie' When ‘They Say The Hospitals Are Being Overwhelmed’
Discussion: governor.ny.gov and CNN
Axios:
A racist conspiracy theory goes mainstream
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Arizona Audit Backers Turn on Each Other After Recount Flop
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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