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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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Insider, NBC News, Breaking the News, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Morning Shots, Ordinary Times, Raw Story, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and The Hill
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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Twitchy
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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NBC News, Bloomberg, Breitbart, Washington Post, Press Herald, Common Dreams 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, CNN, HotAir, New York Times, IJR, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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 …
Cory Shaffer / Plain Dealer:
Ex-Trump staffer Max Miller files defamation lawsuit against Stephanie Grisham over abuse allegations — CLEVELAND, Ohio — Max Miller, the White House staffer under former President Donald Trump who is running for Congress in Northeast Ohio, sued former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham …
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Washington Post
Glenn Greenwald:
Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor — “Whistleblower” Frances Haugen is a vital media and political asset because she advances their quest for greater control over online political discourse. — Much is revealed by who is bestowed hero status by the corporate media.
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Why I'm still on Facebook, even though it's dividing and inciting America for profit
Why I'm still on Facebook, even though it's dividing and inciting America for profit
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Santi Ruiz / Washington Free Beacon:
Facebook Whistleblower Calls for More Regulation of Social Media Companies
Facebook Whistleblower Calls for More Regulation of Social Media Companies
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ABC News, The Daily Wire, NPR, Voice of America, Denver Post, TechCrunch, MyStateline.com, Politico, Deseret News, The Guardian, Associated Press, Roll Call, Deadline and Forbes
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook is harming our society. Here's a radical solution for reining it in.
Facebook is harming our society. Here's a radical solution for reining it in.
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Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, Deseret News, CNN and Mother Jones
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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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump is no longer one of Forbes' 400 richest people in America
Donald Trump is no longer one of Forbes' 400 richest people in America
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Twitchy, Forbes and POLITICUSUSA
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, JONATHAN TURLEY, New York Post, Reason, The College Fix, Twitchy and Leiter Reports
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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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox smears DOJ effort to stop criminal threats against educators as a war on its viewers — Fox News has spent months featuring incendiary and nonsensical coverage of “critical race theory” that stoked anger against school board members and educators. Now that the Justice Department …
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Washington Free Beacon, Liberty Unyielding, The Daily Signal, Florida Politics and Power Line
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Washington Post:
Garland asks FBI to address recent ‘disturbing spike’ in threats against educators
Garland asks FBI to address recent ‘disturbing spike’ in threats against educators
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The Daily Caller, Raw Story, New York Times, The Daily Beast, National Review, IJR, Balloon Juice, Joanne Jacobs, Daily Kos, Fox News and Florida Politics
Greg Childress / NC Policy Watch:
Johnston County school board acquiesces to demands of Board of Commissioners
Johnston County school board acquiesces to demands of Board of Commissioners
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The Daily Caller
David Siders / Politico:
‘Her calculation is off’: Sinema dares the left to take her out — When Kyrsten Sinema became the first Arizona Democrat in more than 40 years to win an open Senate seat, she was heralded by her party for breaking the Republican stranglehold on a state where Barry Goldwater's brand of conservatism runs deep.
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The Daily Beast, HotAir, Mediaite, POLITICUSUSA and The Babylon Bee
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William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Kyrsten Sinema, the Bad Maverick
Kyrsten Sinema, the Bad Maverick
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National Review, Mic, Tangle, Washington Examiner and The American Spectator
Baltimore Sun:
Former Hogan chief of staff indicted on charges of secretly recording governor on phone calls, embezzling funds — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's former top aide, Roy McGrath, faces dozens of federal and state criminal charges that he misled officials into paying him a six-figure severance …
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CBS Baltimore, Breitbart, NBC4 Washington and Maryland Matters
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Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
Md. Gov. Hogan's former chief of staff is indicted on federal wire fraud charges
Md. Gov. Hogan's former chief of staff is indicted on federal wire fraud charges
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Washington Examiner and Washingtonian
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 …
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Political Wire
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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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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NPR, The Hill and The Daily Wire
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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Washington Post
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Piranhas Come for Kyrsten Sinema — On the menu today: Like a school of piranhas, the progressive left attacks Kyrsten Sinema for the cardinal sin of not letting it have what it wants; Dr. Anthony Fauci pulls an Emily Litella; and a new report indicates that in the summer of 2019 …
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Nikkei Asia, Washington Free Beacon, Breitbart, Twitchy and Mediaite
Kathryn Rubino / Above the Law:
Law School Student Famous For Saying ‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Now Has Prestigious Federal Clerkship — Hate doesn't seem to be slowing down her career prospects. — I'd say Crystal Clanton just keeps failing upwards, but given that outrage is currency in right-wing circles …
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, Raw Story, Crooks and Liars and Brookings
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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Townhall and White Coat Waste Project
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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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
What Joe Manchin wants, decoded — Liberal Democrats saw a small victory last week on top of delaying the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure plan: They drew out one of the holdouts on a separate spending bill — the one they most want and that will require only Democratic votes — to declare his top-line figure on the cost.
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New York Post, IJR and Insider
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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Politico, Washington Examiner, Fox News, New York Post and The Daily Caller
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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National Review, Townhall and Political Wire
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