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6:25 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.  —  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
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Manchin Seeks Big Cuts to Safety Net Plan; Congress Passes Spending Bill
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
White House ‘working toward’ successful Thursday vote on infrastructure
Politico:
Pelosi mounts eleventh-hour push for infrastructure vote
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Senate narrowly turns back GOP amendment to curtail assistance to Afghan refugees
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 …
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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
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
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.”
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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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
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 …
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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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Psaki says Dem party infighting is democracy at work: ‘I know it feels foreign’ after Trump
Discussion: Townhall and CNN
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
Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner:
Senate to vote this week on Rohit Chopra, Biden pick to lead CFPB  —  The Senate is expected to vote this week on the nomination of Rohit Chopra, President Joe Biden's choice to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  —  This week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer filed cloture …
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg, New York Times and WTOP
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
A Border Town's Democratic Mayor Has Had Enough  —  The Democratic mayor of Laredo, Texas, slammed President Joe Biden's immigration policy, alleging that his party has no plan to fix the southern border and has abandoned local communities in favor of massive spending proposals for other interest groups.
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Katie Pavlich / The Hill:   A border crisis Biden is comfortable with
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Sharon Osbourne says Carlos Watson lied when he claimed the Osbournes invested in Ozy Media after court fight  — 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.
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.
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.
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw bypassed Capitol security, police say.  He's the latest lawmaker to be hit with a $5,000 fine.  —  Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tex.) must pay a $5,000 fine for skipping security procedures as he entered the Republican cloakroom inside the U.S. Capitol last week …
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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 …
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
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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos, Joe.My.God. and abc7NY
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 …
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
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: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
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 …
Dan Vergano / BuzzFeed News:
A Declassified 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.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Rolling Stone and Mediaite
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.
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  —  U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has pushed back on any suggestion that wealthy individuals, such as himself, should be paying more in income taxes.
Discussion: 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 …
 
 
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Ian Bassin / The Bulwark:
Democracy Cannot Survive the Fracturing of the Democratic Coalition
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Military suicides in 2020 ‘troubling,’ though not a significant increase: Report
Discussion: ABC News and UPI
Mark Harris / Wired:
How a Secret Google Geofence Warrant Helped Catch the Capitol Riot Mob
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: Fox News and Politico
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Stephanie Grisham's Book Won't Save Her From Her Sins
Discussion: HuffPost and The Guardian
 Earlier Items: 
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Inside America's Broken Supply Chain
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court will hear Ted Cruz's challenge of campaign contribution limit
Wall Street Journal:
the facebook files  —  Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled …
CDC:
COVID-19 Vaccination for Pregnant People to Prevent Serious Illness, Deaths, and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes from COVID-19
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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