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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Democratic Voters Drive Decline in Sinema's Popularity in Arizona  —  The first-term centrist Democrat, who has bucked her party so far this year, is facing heat for holding up Biden's social spending agenda  — 46% of Arizona Democrats approved of Sinema's job performance in the third quarter of 2021 …
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Ashley Reese / Jezebel:
Absolutely Bully Kyrsten Sinema Outside Of Her Bathroom Stall  —  This senator is holding all of us back, and some of her most vulnerable constituents are, rightfully, sick of it.  —  Alerts  —  The effectiveness of certain kinds of protest will always be up for debate.
Meghan Mccain / Daily Mail:
The revolting scenes of Sen Sinema being abused in a ladies' room show that Democrat progressives have become as toxically intolerant as the Trump regime they despised.
Discussion: Mediaite and IJR
Andrew Yang:
Breaking Up with the Democratic Party  —  I changed my voting registration from ‘Democrat’ to ‘Independent’ today.  It was a strangely emotional experience.  —  I registered as a Democrat back in 1995 when I was 20 years old to vote for Bill Clinton's re-election.  It was a no-brainer for me.
New York Times:
Facebook Apps Went Down for Hours Worldwide  —  When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked out of their offices.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook and its family of apps …
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Scott Carpenter / Bloomberg:
Zuckerberg Loses $7 Billion in Hours as Facebook Plunges  — CEO drops to No. 5 on list of world's richest, below Gates  — Stock slide knocks his net worth down to $120.9 billion  —  Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours …
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew  —  A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.  —  One possible way to read “The Facebook Files,” The Wall Street Journal's excellent series of reports based on leaked internal Facebook research …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The revelations about Mike Pence's role in Jan. 6 keep getting worse  —  It has become a ubiquitous question in our politics: How close did Donald Trump come to pulling off an actual coup?  —  Efforts to grapple with this have been trapped largely in the zone of wild speculation.
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Washington Post:   Group files complaint with California bar association against John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on election challenges
Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed News:
What The Trump Books Tell Us About Jan. 6
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump, talked out of announcing a 2024 bid for now, settles on a wink-and-nod unofficial candidacy  —  As turmoil in Afghanistan reached a crescendo in August, Donald Trump began talking again with advisers about whether he should announce his 2024 campaign for president right away.
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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Donald Trump's favorability ratings are his highest in any Iowa Poll: ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’
Discussion: Washington Times, The Hill and Slate
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Exclusive: Stephanie Grisham says ‘I regret’ enabling culture of dishonesty in Trump White House  —  The former Trump aide spoke exclusively to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Stephanie Grisham, one of former President Donald Trump's …
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Ivana Saric / Axios:
New York's largest health care provider fires 1,400 unvaccinated workers  —  Northwell Health, New York's largest hospital system, announced Monday that it fired 1,400 workers for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19.  —  Driving the news: The state's vaccine mandate for health workers went into effect last week.
Politico:
Top State adviser leaves post, rips Biden's use of Trump-era Title 42  —  A senior State Department official is leaving his role in the Biden administration.  And on his way out, he has sent a scathing internal memo criticizing the president's use of a Trump-era policy to expel migrants from the southern border.
PIX11:
New video: Man splashes paint on George Floyd statue in Union Square  —  UNION SQUARE, Manhattan — After a statue of George Floyd was vandalized Sunday morning in Union Square, the NYPD early Monday released new surveillance video of a man dousing the statue with paint in broad daylight.
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Andrew Murray / Fox News:
Florida Gov. DeSantis' wife diagnosed with breast cancer  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 4  —  EXCLUSIVE - Casey DeSantis, the wife of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, has been diagnosed with breast cancer.  —  “I am saddened to report that Florida's esteemed First Lady …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: House Republican says he's facing federal prosecution  —  The top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee's agriculture panel says he's facing federal prosecution, Axios has learned.  —  Driving the news: In a new fundraising page for his legal expense fund, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry …
Discussion: Raw Story and Roll Call
David Dayen / American Prospect:
USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program  —  The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card.  —  The United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal banking system in America.
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
One-time presidential candidate Evan McMullin will mount an independent bid to oust Republican Sen. Mike Lee, Robert Gehrke reports  —  A McMullin candidacy challenges the rigid two-party standard, which leaves too many Utahns unrepresented.  —  Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin speaks …
Discussion: National Review and Twitchy
Associated Press:
Ex-U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies  —  Former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a conservative Missouri Republican whose comment that women's bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape” sunk his bid for the U.S. Senate and became a cautionary tale for other GOP candidates, died late Sunday.
Abigail Shrier / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Top Trans Doctors Blow the Whistle on ‘Sloppy’ Care  —  In exclusive interviews, two prominent providers sound off on puberty blockers, ‘affirmative’ care, the inhibition of sexual pleasure, and the suppression of dissent in their field.  —  For nearly a decade, the vanguard …
Masaya Kato / Nikkei Asia:
China PCR test orders soared before first reported COVID case  —  Government contracts show surges in Wuhan-area purchases starting May 2019  —  TOKYO — Purchases of PCR tests in China's Hubei Province surged months before the first official reports of a novel coronavirus case there …
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Swab Job: Fox Folks Nix Vax  —  Dozens of Fox News employees in the Washington bureau apparently refuse vaccination, preferring daily nasal swabs.  —  MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2021/08/24: PARTICIPANTS SEEN HOLDING SIGNS AT THE PROTEST.  MEMBERS OF THE ACTIVIST GROUP RISE …
Politico:
McConnell reactivates his connection to Biden — with a sharp debt warning  —  Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell's two-man emergency hotline had gone silent — until now.  —  The Senate minority leader on Monday morning prodded the president to talk his party into raising the debt ceiling without the GOP …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE:
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked  —  Syniverse handles billions of text messages a year, and hackers had unauthorized access to its system for years.  —  Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai  —  A company that is a critical part of the global telecommunications …
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US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Additional OTC Home Test to Increase Access to Rapid Testing for Consumers  —  The following is attributed to Jeff Shuren, M.D., J.D., director of FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health  —  For Immediate Release:  —  Statement From:
HHS News releases:
HHS Issues Final Regulation Aimed at Ensuring Access to Equitable, Affordable, Client-Centered, Quality Family Planning Services  —  Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule to strengthen the Title X family planning program, fulfilling …
Laura Nahmias / New York Magazine:
White Riot In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall — and changed New York history.  —  This story was produced in partnership with The Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization that will address the crisis of mass incarceration and policing.
Donald Ayer / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Has Gone Off the Rails  —  Mr. Ayer was a U.S. attorney and principal deputy solicitor general in the Reagan administration and deputy attorney general in the George H.W. Bush administration.  —  The Supreme Court has final authority to make difficult judgment calls articulating …
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Judge Sent A Capitol Rioter To Prison, Rejecting The Government's Lighter Recommendation  —  WASHINGTON — A judge on Monday ordered Capitol rioter Matthew Mazzocco to spend 45 days in prison, rejecting not only the defense's argument for probation but also the prosecution's recommendation …
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Where's Daniel Dale?  CNN's Lead ‘Fact-Checker’ Goes Missing  —  CNN's top “fact-checker,” Daniel Dale, was a fixture on the cable network during Donald Trump's presidency.  He was the subject of numerous profiles in other media outlets, which lavished praise on the “virtuoso” journalist …
Alan Mirabella / Bloomberg:
Ken Griffin, Top GOP Donor, Rules Out Backing a Trump Rerun  —  Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, a major donor to Republicans, ruled out supporting Donald Trump for another run for president.  —  “I think it's time for America to move on,” he said in a discussion Monday with Erik Schatzker at the Economic Club of Chicago.
Discussion: Political Wire
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Journalists sue U.S. broadcasting arm for wrongful dismissal under Trump  —  Seven foreign journalists working for the U.S. Agency for Global Media who were fired by the Trump administration have sued the agency for breach of contract and wrongful termination.
James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal:
Lousy Management, Knucklehead Hires Plague Operations of Real-Life Sopranos  —  Failure to stick with best business practices and a younger generation of bumbling suburban-bred mobsters kneecap a storied New York clan  —  NEW YORK CITY—The kiss of death for Mafia families isn't necessarily from gang wars or snitches.
 
 
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
The provisions in Texas' restrictive abortion law are not popular, an NPR poll finds
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
With Biden's Agenda in the Balance, Lobbying Kicks Into High Gear
John Nichols / madison.com:
Wisconsin GOP mimics Orwell's Thought Police
Monica Lewinsky / New York Times:
Monica Lewinsky Has Some Things to Say About Cancel Culture
Discussion: Fox News and IJR
Louis Westendarp / Politico:
Meet the European leaders named in the Pandora Papers
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Giuliani Claims Trump Campaign Had Veto Power Over OAN Reporter's Stories
Discussion: Raw Story
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Shout Down Lindsey Graham for Pushing Vaccine
Discussion: The Big Picture and Raw Story
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Matthew Dowd Gets Snippy with Brianna Keilar, Dismisses Deleted Tweets as Fox ‘Conspiracy’: ‘I Answered Three Times’
Discussion: Newsbusters, The Hill and Twitchy
Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Jan. 6 rioters exploited little-known Capitol weak spots: A handful of unreinforced windows
Discussion: Daily Kos and Politico
New York Times:
U.S. Signals No Thaw in Trade Relations With China
 

 
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