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Felix Salmon / Axios:
Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last minute — A trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted “within hours of the Treasury Secretary's decision to do so,” Philip Diehl, former director of the United States Mint, tells Axios. — Why it matters: Congressional solutions …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As the U.S. Hurtles Toward a Debt Crisis, What Does McConnell Want? — Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has a long record of tying debt ceiling increases to policy demands. But with a catastrophic default two weeks away, he has yet to make any.
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R. Marshall Brandt / The Bulwark:
What Was the Debt-Ceiling Showdown Really All About? — The answer is: Democracy.
What Was the Debt-Ceiling Showdown Really All About? — The answer is: Democracy.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Democrats Must Raise the Debt Limit to a Quadrillion Dollars
Democrats Must Raise the Debt Limit to a Quadrillion Dollars
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Bloomberg, Common Dreams, Breitbart, Press Herald and The Daily Caller
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden plots debt ceiling blitz to focus the blame on McConnell
Biden plots debt ceiling blitz to focus the blame on McConnell
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Washington Examiner, HotAir, CNN, New York Times, IJR, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
‘I Was Part of Something Unusually Evil’ In Kansas with Stephanie Grisham, who does not believe she will be redeemed. — Stephanie Grisham saw the pickup outside and yelped, “That's Larry!” She grabbed a small package and raced out her front door, down the steps of the porch …
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Stephanie Grisham / Washington Post:
I told the Trumps my relationship with a White House staffer had turned abusive. They didn't seem to care. — Stephanie Grisham served as chief of staff to the first lady, press secretary and communications director in the Trump White House. Her book “I'll Take Your Questions Now …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Mike Pence Says Media Focus on January 6 Is a Media Distraction Meant to ‘Demean’ Trump Supporters
Mike Pence Says Media Focus on January 6 Is a Media Distraction Meant to ‘Demean’ Trump Supporters
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
‘I Do’: Stephanie Grisham Straight-Up Confesses Her Enabling Trump Cost Lives During Covid
‘I Do’: Stephanie Grisham Straight-Up Confesses Her Enabling Trump Cost Lives During Covid
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New York Daily News:
FBI raids NYPD sergeants union Manhattan headquarters — Federal investigators descended Tuesday on the Lower Manhattan headquarters of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association, the union headed by fiery and controversial president Ed Mullins, the Daily News has learned.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin opens door to deal in range of $1.9T to $2.2T — Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday signaled he is open to a budget reconciliation bill in the ballpark of $1.9 trillion to $2.2 trillion, above the limit he set just last week of $1.5 trillion.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Piranhas Come for Kyrsten Sinema
The Piranhas Come for Kyrsten Sinema
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Washington Free Beacon, Nikkei Asia, Mediaite, Twitchy and Lawyers, Guns & Money
David Siders / Politico:
‘Her calculation is off’: Sinema dares the left to take her out
‘Her calculation is off’: Sinema dares the left to take her out
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The Daily Beast, HotAir, Mediaite, Crooks and Liars and The Babylon Bee
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Kyrsten Sinema, the Bad Maverick
Kyrsten Sinema, the Bad Maverick
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Tangle, National Review, New York Times, Mic, Washington Examiner and The American Spectator
Dorian Abbot / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
MIT Abandons Its Mission. And Me. — Let's make sure my cancellation is the last. That begins by standing up and saying no to the mob. — I am a professor who just had a prestigious public science lecture at MIT cancelled because of an outrage mob on Twitter. My crime?
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HotAir, Fox News, New York Post, JONATHAN TURLEY, The College Fix, Reason, Twitchy and Leiter Reports
New York Times:
Ozy Media is accused in a lawsuit of ‘fraudulent conduct.’ — A fund management company that invested more than $2 million in Ozy Media filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming Ozy “engaged in fraudulent, deceptive and illegal conduct.” — The lawsuit, filed by LifeLine Legacy Holdings of Beverly Hills …
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Lauren Williams / New York Times:
Ozy Shows That Serious Black Media Needs a New Business Model — Ms. Williams is the C.E.O. and a co-founder of Capital B, a nonprofit news organization reporting for Black communities that will begin operating next year. She is the former editor in chief of Vox.
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes 400 For First Time In 25 Years — Donald Trump is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, leaving him $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year's Forbes 400 list of America's richest people. The real estate mogul is just as wealthy as he was a year ago …
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CNN, HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Insider, NPR, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite, Raw Story and IJR
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Democratic Spending Bills Retain Majority Support, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Democrats In Congress Lose Ground — mail_outline — A majority of Americans support the two spending bills being debated on Capitol Hill that are key to President Biden's economic agenda …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Kerry on Biden: He ‘Literally Had Not Been Aware of What Had Transpired’ on Submarine Deal — In an interview with French television, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry helpfully explains that President Biden simply had no idea that the U.S.-U.K.-Australia deal on submarines …
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, New York Post and The Daily Caller
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
What WaPo Writers Keep Getting Wrong about 2020 — No, Trump didn't come close to overturning the election, and it's alright to say so. — elling people to take a deep breath and calm down, as the headline-writer for my latest column advised, does not always achieve its intended effect.
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Taylor Swift fans are getting caught up in the Virginia gubernatorial race — Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin was involved in the controversial sale of Swift's master recordings — Weeks before Virginia's gubernatorial election, the campaign for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe …
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The Hill
Robert Kolker / New York Times:
Who Is the Bad Art Friend? — Art often draws inspiration from life — but what happens when it's your life? Inside the curious case of Dawn Dorland v. Sonya Larson. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Criminal inquiry into Trump's Georgia election interference gathers steam — The disgraced former president faces a range of possible charges - including conspiracy and election fraud — Donald Trump is facing increasing legal scrutiny in the crucial battleground state of Georgia …
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The Daily Beast, Crooks and Liars, Raw Story and Brookings
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook is harming our society. Here's a radical solution for reining it in. — Frances Haugen, who revealed herself Sunday as the Facebook whistleblower, could not have made things any clearer. — “Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer …
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Wall Street Journal, CNN, Just Security, Pirate Wires and The Daily Beast
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Why I'm still on Facebook, even though it's dividing and inciting America for profit — I work hard to avoid the dark, enraged side of social media. But I know others thrive there and sometimes plan dangerous actions like the Capitol riot. — After watching Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen accuse …
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Victor Davis Hanson: Why I Left National Review — Victor Davis Hanson, author of “The Dying Citizen,” speaks with FNC's Tucker Carlson about why he no longer writes for the National Review. — VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I didn't know much about Donald Trump, I wasn't a supporter of his in the primaries, but I knew he was going to win.
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Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Will Trump Run in 2024? There's a Reason Why He Won't Say — The former president's hesitance to declare his candidacy involves — you guessed it — money and skirting the law — A missive arrived Monday from the outer reaches of the Trump Expanded Universe heralding the formation of …
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Raw Story, Washington Post and HuffPost
New York Times:
Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants — Counterintelligence officials said in a top secret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost.
Irina Ivanova / CBS News:
Biggest tax haven in U.S.? South Dakota, says Pandora Papers investigation — Mention tax havens, and most people imagine small nations with balmy weather: The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Malta. — But South Dakota and a handful of other U.S. states are increasingly competing as landing pads …
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The Atlantic, ICIJ and The Guardian
CREW:
DEA approved more than 50 requests for covert surveillance of racial justice protests last summer … The Drug Enforcement Administration approved at least 51 requests from state, local and federal law enforcement agencies to conduct covert surveillance during racial justice protests last summer, according to records obtained by CREW.
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
The big picture — Public Notice begins with a conversation with Brian Klaas about the fragile state of US democracy. — As Public Notice launches, it seems fitting to begin with a macro look at the perilous state of US democracy as we head into a high-stakes midterm cycle …
Washington Post:
Pfizer vaccine 90% effective against hospitalization, death six months later, study says … The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine continues to be 90 percent effective in protecting against hospitalization and death from covid-19 up to six months after the second dose …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Once and Future Threat of Trump — Last fall, before the November election, Barton Gellman wrote an essay for The Atlantic sketching out a series of worst-case scenarios for the voting and its aftermath. It was essentially a blueprint for how Donald Trump could either force the country …
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Julie Steenhuysen / Reuters:
Former FDA chief Gottlieb expects Delta to be last big pandemic wave in U.S. — The summer spike in cases fueled by the Delta variant of the coronavirus is likely the last big COVID-19 wave in the United States, but the pandemic is far from over globally, former U.S. Food …
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Washington Examiner and Balloon Juice
Anna Gustafson / Michigan Advance:
Once lauded as heroes, health care workers are now spit on and ‘threatened every day at work’ — When Tom Kelsch heads to his job as a registered nurse in Mercy Health Muskegon's emergency department, he knows, almost without a doubt, that he'll be threatened by a patient or their family that day.
Dylan Housman / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Fauci-Funded Experiment Killed Dozens Of Puppies Using Taxpayer Money — Documents from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) obtained by a taxpayer watchdog organization reveal that the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), led by Dr. Anthony Fauci …
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