Top Items:
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Manchin proposed $1.5T top-line number to Schumer this summer — Joe Manchin proposed a deal to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer this summer to limit the total cost of Democrats' sweeping spending bill to $1.5 trillion, according to a copy of the agreement obtained by POLITICO.
RELATED:
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Katie Porter's epic beatdown of Kyrsten Sinema reveals an important truth — However the battle over President Biden's agenda turns out, this ugly saga will accomplish something crucial: It will separate Democrats who take their role as public servants seriously from those who are operating …
Discussion:
Insider, Vanity Fair, Daily Kos, Power Line and TheBlaze
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Manchin Just Might Finally Be Onto Something Glimmers of hope in his quasi-plan. — Joe Manchin attracted a great deal of press attention last night by issuing a long statement expressing his list of mostly familiar grievances with Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda.
Discussion:
The Left Coaster and Balloon Juice
Politico:
White House gives a wink to progressives as they threaten Biden's infrastructure bill
White House gives a wink to progressives as they threaten Biden's infrastructure bill
Discussion:
The Hill, CNN, HotAir, Rolling Stone, National Review, Digby's Hullabaloo, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times, Newsbusters and Commentary Magazine
CNN:
Durham issues fresh round of subpoenas in his continuing probe of FBI investigation into Trump, Russia — Washington (CNN)Special Counsel John Durham has issued a new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, an indication that Durham …
Discussion:
HotAir, National Review and Ace of Spades HQ
RELATED:
New York Times:
Trump Server Mystery Produces Fresh Conflict — A recent indictment suggested that researchers who found strange internet links between a Russian bank and the Trump Organization did not really believe their own work. They are pushing back. — Read in app
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor Pressure — The historian Beverly Gage, who has run the Grand Strategy course since 2017, says the university failed to stand up for academic freedom amid inappropriate efforts to influence the curriculum.
Discussion:
Lawyers, Guns & Money
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw Fined $5,000 for Skirting House Metal Detector — PRICEY PASSTHROUGH — Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) has been fined $5,000 for refusing to go through metal detectors en route into the chambers of the House of Representatives. According to a notice from the House Committee on Ethics …
RELATED:
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Live Updates: Senate Passes Spending Bill, and Manchin Calls for $2 Trillion Cut to Biden's Social Spending Plan — The House will now take up the short-term spending bill, which would fund the government until early December. Senator Joe Manchin III, a key holdout on the president's social policy …
RELATED:
NBC News:
Senate reaches deal to avoid government shutdown, Schumer announces
Senate reaches deal to avoid government shutdown, Schumer announces
Discussion:
Associated Press, RedState, Washington Post, KVIA-TV, USA Today, CNBC, Outside the Beltway, Talking Points Memo, HotAir, New York Times, Washington Times, Letters from an American, Insider, CNBC, Washington Times, ABC7, Talking Points Memo, New York Post, The Guardian, The Hill and Political Wire
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Right to Health — Immunization mandates aren't new. One helped win the American Revolution. — The United States owes its existence as a nation partly to an immunization mandate. — In 1777, smallpox was a big enough problem for the bedraggled American army that George Washington thought it could jeopardize the Revolution.
Discussion:
HotAir, The Daily Caller and The Hill
RELATED:
Katie Pavlich / The Hill:
A border crisis Biden is comfortable with — Americans are watching in horror as towns like Del Rio, Texas, continue to be overrun with a historic wave of preventable illegal immigration. Drone images recently captured by Fox News shocked the nation as 12,000 illegal immigrants from Haiti built …
RELATED:
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
A Border Town's Democratic Mayor Has Had Enough
A Border Town's Democratic Mayor Has Had Enough
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, HotAir, Fox News, U.S. Customs …, TheBlaze and NewsBreak
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Kristi Noem cuts ties with adviser Corey Lewandowski after donor alleged unwanted sexual advances — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has severed ties with political strategist Corey Lewandowski, following allegations reported by POLITICO that Lewandowski made unwanted sexual advances toward a woman at a recent fundraising event.
Discussion:
Associated Press, Washington Post, The Hill, RedState, RADAR and Mediaite
RELATED:
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Super PAC Removes Corey Lewandowski After Sexual Harassment Claim
Trump Super PAC Removes Corey Lewandowski After Sexual Harassment Claim
Discussion:
National Review, Fox News, CNBC, CNN, USA Today, Washington Examiner, Morning Shots, Talking Points Memo, The American Independent, KSFY/KDLT, Joe.My.God., IJR, Queerty, Raw Story, HuffPost, UPI, Politico, Twitchy, Bloomberg, Mediaite, Breitbart, TheBlaze, The Sun, Washington Times, Fox News, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo, Joe.My.God., Insider, Crooks and Liars and Rolling Stone
Wall Street Journal:
the facebook files — Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents …
Discussion:
Forbes, Washington Post, Politico, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, New York Times and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Task & Purpose:
US Marine who says he rescued baby at Kabul airport investigated for appearing at Trump rally [Updated] — A Marine who says he saved a baby in Kabul by lifting the infant over the walls outside Hamid Karzai International Airport is now under investigation for appearing on stage …
Discussion:
RedState, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Todd Starnes, Townhall and Twitchy
Lauren Weber / NBC News:
Covid is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of people in urban areas — Unvaccinated Covid patients still overwhelming health care workers — Rural Americans are dying of Covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that health experts say is likely …
Discussion:
Daily Montanan
Jennifer McEachern / Tennessee Department …:
Governor Lee, Commissioner Rolfe Announce Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. to Relocate Headquarters and Other Major Operations to Tennessee — Leading U.S.-based firearms manufacturer will invest more than $125 million to relocate from Springfield, Massachusetts to Maryville, Tennessee
Discussion:
WREG-TV
RELATED:
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Top Republicans rub shoulders with extremists in secretive rightwing group, leak reveals — Wealthy entrepreneurs and media moguls also named on membership list for influential Council for National Policy — A leaked document has revealed the membership list of the secretive Council for National Policy …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
New Initiative Explores Deep, Persistent Divides Between Biden and Trump Voters — The University of Virginia Center for Politics has partnered with Project Home Fire, a new initiative dedicated to finding common ground in American politics, on an innovative new data analytics and polling project …
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Biden's Approval Rating Recovers Some From Last Month's Low, An NPR Poll Finds — Since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan a month ago, President Biden's approval rating has recovered some in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. — Last month, just 43% of survey respondents approved …
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Cori Bush shares personal story of sexual assault as a teenager and decision to have an abortion — (CNN)Rep. Cori Bush on Thursday shared her personal experience of how she was raped as a teenager, became pregnant and chose to get an abortion. — It was one of the first times that Bush …
Discussion:
Associated Press, BuzzFeed News, Roll Call, The Root, LifeNews.com and The 19th
RELATED:
Sarah Donaldson / ABC News:
Lawmakers provide intimate testimony about their own abortions
Lawmakers provide intimate testimony about their own abortions
Discussion:
Crooks and Liars and Mother Jones
Dan Vergano / BuzzFeed News:
A Secret State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn't Cause “Havana Syndrome” — Noises linked to mysterious injuries among US diplomats in Cuba were most likely caused by crickets — not microwave weapons — according to a declassified scientific review commissioned by the US State Department and obtained by BuzzFeed News.
KMVT-TV:
Idaho Secretary of State refutes Mike Lindell's statewide election manipulation claims — BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Staff from the Idaho Secretary of State's office visited two Idaho counties last week following receipt of information that alleged statewide manipulation of Idaho's election results.
Discussion:
Idaho Secretary of State, CNN, Bonner County Daily Bee, Rolling Stone, National Review and Raw Story
Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post:
Shakira says wild boars in Barcelona attacked her and stole her purse — Grammy Award-winning singer Shakira says two wild boars pounced on her bag as she visited a Barcelona park with her son, running off into the forest with it. — In a series of videos posted to her Instagram story Wednesday …
Discussion:
CBS News, Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast and Full Feed
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
DHS issues new arrest and deportation guidelines to immigration agents — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued broad new directives to immigration officers Thursday saying that the fact that someone is an undocumented immigrant “should not alone be the basis” …
Discussion:
CBS News and Washington Examiner
Yahoo News:
Pompeo: Sources for Yahoo News WikiLeaks report ‘should all be prosecuted’ — Former CIA Director and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called for the criminal prosecution of sources who spoke to Yahoo News — for a story detailing proposals by the intelligence agency …
Discussion:
Jacobin and Shadowproof
Maxwell Meyer / The Stanford Review:
Review Analysis: Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets — In April of this year, I witnessed something on the Stanford campus that will be seared into my memory forever: a student on a bicycle, wearing flip-flops, AirPods in ear, going the wrong way through …
Discussion:
Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and Marginal REVOLUTION
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Matthew Dowd once urged ‘White male Christians’ like himself to ‘step back,’ allow women, minorities to lead — 'Let's put the country first and our fellow humans ahead of our own egos,' Dowd told his demographic peers — Liberal pundit-turned-politician Matthew Dowd once called for …
Discussion:
Joe.My.God., Breitbart and The Federalist
Gothamist:
Hack Of Oath Keepers Militia Group Includes Names Of Active NYPD Officers, De Blasio Launches Investigation — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said it will scrutinize NYPD ranks following a WNYC/Gothamist investigation of online records that appears to tie several …
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Justice Sonia Sotomayor: ‘There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount’ — (CNN)Days before the start of a tumultuous term, and after the Supreme Court justices divided bitterly over a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned …
Discussion:
HotAir, Reason, LifeNews.com, Washington Post, Insider and Associated Press