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8:45 PM ET, September 30, 2021

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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.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Manchin Just Might Finally Be Onto Something Glimmers of hope in his quasi-plan.
Discussion: The Left Coaster and Balloon Juice
Politico:
‘Pass-fail test’: Pelosi barrels ahead on infrastructure vote
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
White House ‘working toward’ successful Thursday vote on infrastructure
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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
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Ozy Built a TV Show on a False Claim, Says Its Former Producer  —  Producers say they were led to believe they were making a talk show for A&E, which said no to the program.  “You are playing a dangerous game with the truth,” the top producer wrote in his resignation email.  — Read in app
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Sharon Osbourne says Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson lied when he claimed the Osbournes invested in his company  — Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson boasted on CNBC in 2019 that Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne had invested in his company.  It was a lie, according to Sharon Osbourne.
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Pelosi Plans Infrastructure Vote Tonight; Democrats Prepare for Showdown  —  The Senate and House passed a 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 and climate bill …
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Congress approves funding bill hours before shutdown deadline, Biden expected to sign
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
Politico:
Congress averts shutdown, sends 9-week funding patch to Biden's desk
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Senate narrowly turns back GOP amendment to curtail assistance to Afghan refugees
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Alex Jones Just Lost 2 Sandy Hook Cases  —  A judge issued default judgments — a rarity in the legal world — against Jones and Infowars after the conspiracy theorist failed to produce discovery records.  —  Infowars host Alex Jones has lost two of several lawsuits filed against him by relatives …
CNN:
Harriet Hageman once rebuked Trump and endorsed Liz Cheney.  She's now challenging her with his support  —  (CNN)Harriet Hageman, who earned the endorsement of former President Donald Trump in her 2022 bid to challenge Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, once called her current opponent a “proven, courageous, constitutional conservative.”
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
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
Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Business gets personal: Leftists push boundaries in protests targeting public figures  —  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas became the latest victim of liberal activism targeting political figures personally when protesters shrouded his Washington, D.C., home in a giant foil blanket this week.
Discussion: ABC News, Townhall and BizPac Review
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Katie Pavlich / The Hill:   A border crisis Biden is comfortable with
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
DHS issues new arrest and deportation guidelines to immigration agents
Politico:
Harris' office does damage control over student's Israel ‘ethnic genocide’ comment  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' office is working behind the scenes to mend relationships with pro-Israel Democrats after not pushing back on a student who, in asking her a question, accused Israel of “ethnic genocide.”
Gordon Klein / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Why I Am Suing UCLA  —  I refused to discriminate against my students.  Then the problems began.  —  Recently, I was suspended from my job for refusing to treat my black students as lesser than their non-black peers.  —  Let me back up: I teach at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, and I've been doing this for 40 years.
Discussion: HotAir, The Lid and JONATHAN TURLEY
Techno Fog / The Reactionary:
IG Horowitz discovers more FBI abuses of FISA process  —  A bad day for FBI Director Wray  —  Today, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued a damning new report on the FBI's “Execution of its Woods Procedures for Applications Filed with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Relating to US Persons.”
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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.
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
Task & Purpose:
US Marine seen in viral video rescuing baby at Kabul airport investigated for appearing at Trump rally  —  ​​A Marine who 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 …
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Matthew Miller / Washington Examiner:
Psaki snipes at claims Biden has been acting Trump-like  —  White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed back against claims that President Joe Biden is acting Trump-like.  —  “There have been a number of issues in the last several weeks in which advocates, allies of the president …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Alito speaks out on Texas abortion case and ‘shadow docket’  —  Justice Samuel Alito leapt into a political fray over the Supreme Court on Thursday, lashing back at critics who have accused the justices of increasingly issuing momentous decisions on its emergency docket without the benefit of a full briefing or oral arguments.
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 …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Tight race for Virginia governor  —  The survey, released Thursday, was conducted September 26 through September 29 among Virginia registered voters  —  McAuliffe says parents shouldn't choose their children's curriculum  —  Virginia voters give Democrat Terry McAuliffe …
Discussion: Townhall
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: So long, swing seats: Gerrymandering is already shrinking the midterm map  —  In this edition: The slow death of the swing seat, debate echoes in New Jersey and Virginia, and a boom market in anti-Kyrsten Sinema PACs.  —  Please don't make me write about an August 2024 primary until at least next month.
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Adam Wren / Insider:
I just rode the bus with Biden's education chief.  You should hear what he said about Trump supporters, critical race theory, and mask mandates.  — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona toured the Midwest last week.  — He's touting a safe return to school amid the pandemic.
Discussion: HotAir, Fox News and Politico
Mark Harris / Wired:
How a Secret Google Geofence Warrant Helped Catch the Capitol Riot Mob  —  A WIRED investigation has found 45 federal criminal cases that cite Google geolocation data to place suspects inside the US Capitol during the January 6 riot.  —  COURT DOCUMENTS SUGGEST the FBI has been using …
Discussion: Raw Story
Zach Despart / Houston Chronicle:
Houston, epicenter of Harvey damage, still would get $0 under Texas' latest disaster aid plan  —  Harris County and the city of Houston this week blasted the Texas General Land Office's revised plan for distributing billions in federal Hurricane Harvey aid, saying that while it is an improvement …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Ian Bassin / The Bulwark:
Democracy Cannot Survive the Fracturing of the Democratic Coalition  —  When anti-authoritarian coalitions splinter, the authoritarians take over.  —  (PHOTOS: GETTYIMAGES / SHUTTERSTOCK)  —  In the early days of the first Trump presidency, our organization cohosted a “Summit for Democracy” …
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Lobbyists' frustration with BIF uncertainty spills out into the open  —  HEADS OF LOBBYING GROUPS GET TESTY ON BIF: The heads of three major trade associations pushing hard for the House to move forward with a vote in the bipartisan infrastructure bill today betrayed their frustration …
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
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
In Well-Vaccinated Maine, Covid-19 Still Fills Hospitals With the Unvaccinated
Discussion: HotAir
E. Jean Carroll / Ask E. Jean:
You're Only Old Once!  —  I'm a woman on the wrong side of fifty-five who has just embarked upon an advanced degree.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The trainwreck of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is the cost of not getting money out of politics
Discussion: The Hill, OpenSecrets.org and NPR
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
DEA Agents Arrest 800 in the U.S. in Crackdown on Illegal Sales of Drugs Laced With Fentanyl
Discussion: ABC News
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Bice: Multimillionaire U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson paid a mere $2,105 in state income taxes in 2017, despite making big bucks
Discussion: Raw Story
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Stephanie Grisham's Book Won't Save Her From Her Sins
Discussion: HuffPost and The Guardian
 Earlier Items: 
House Committee on Ethics:
Statement of the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics Regarding Representative Dan Crenshaw
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Biden's Approval Rating Recovers Some From Last Month's Low, An NPR Poll Finds
Lioness.Co:
Bezos Wants to Create a Better Future in Space. His Company Blue Origin Is Stuck in a Toxic Past.
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Top Republicans rub shoulders with extremists in secretive rightwing group, leak reveals
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
the facebook files  —  Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled …
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney board members are exploring fresh candidates in their search for a successor to Bob Iger, including EA CEO Andrew Wilson

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Perplexity says it will begin experimenting with ads on its platform in the US starting this week; ads will be formatted as “sponsored follow-up questions”

 
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