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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.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kyrsten Sinema and the amnesia of the Great Civility Debate — The Great Civility Debate is back once again — this time spurred by liberal protesters confronting Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) in an Arizona State University bathroom. — As with the previous events spurring this debate …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Chasing Kyrsten Sinema into a Bathroom Is Not Normal
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Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Left-Wing Billionaire George Soros Bankrolling Group Behind Harassment of Kyrsten Sinema
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: Sinema under attack
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New York Times:
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Were Down: Here's What to Know — 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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New York Times:
Users Turn to Twitter During Facebook Crash. Jokes and Venting Ensue. — Facebook and its family of apps — including Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus — began flickering back online late Monday, after being down for more than five hours and disrupting the digital lives of billions of its users.
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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 …
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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 …
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Eliana Johnson / Washington Free Beacon:
Top Democratic Operative Bill Burton Advising Facebook Whistleblower
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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.
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Washington Post:
Group files complaint with California bar association against John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on election challenges — A bipartisan group of former officials and legal heavyweights, including two former federal judges, asked the California bar association Monday to investigate …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The revelations about Mike Pence's role in Jan. 6 keep getting worse
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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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Politico:
Black Lives Matter comparison roils court in Jan. 6 cases — Federal judges are wrestling with a dilemma as dozens of cases stemming from the Capitol riot move toward sentencing: Should they throw the book at everyone who streamed into the building on Jan. 6, or just those who committed violence and destruction?
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Judge Sent A Capitol Rioter To Prison, Rejecting The Government's Lighter Recommendation
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Eugene S. Robinson / Look What You Made Me Do:
OZY Rules: The House Negro Gets It in the End — The now-defunct OZY's business chicanery conceals a much more corrosive narrative. — “And in regards to your little music thing...” It was both a dressing down, very possibly Dressing Down #37, and a pep talk. Or it was intended to be.
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Politico:
Democrats start bargaining in bid to save party-line megabill — Congressional Democrats don't want to talk about the discord around the total cost of President Joe Biden's social spending plan, even as that elusive figure remains the biggest impediment to the party's agenda.
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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.
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.
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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 …
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.
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 …
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HotAir, Sydney Morning Herald and Moguldom
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 …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department Addresses Violent Threats Against School Officials and Teachers — Citing an increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation's public schools, today Attorney General Merrick B. Garland directed …
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Politico, Fox News and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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 …
Bilge Ebiri / Vulture:
Miami Vice's Journey From Misfire to Masterpiece — Spend an evening with Vulture, every Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET on Twitter. — At regular but sometimes unpredictable intervals, Vulture selects a film to watch with our readers as part of our Wednesday Night Movie Club.
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.
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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 …
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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.
CNN:
‘Some are just psychopaths’: Chinese detective in exile reveals extent of torture against Uyghurs — (CNN)The raids started after midnight in Xinjiang. — Hundreds of police officers armed with rifles went house to house in Uyghur communities in the far western region of China …
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Biden's polling numbers are even worse than they appear — Democrats are rightly worried about President Biden's poor job approval ratings. A closer look at his ratings among independents shows Democrats should be even more worried than they are. — Biden's overall job approval ratings are bad enough.
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