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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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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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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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Politico:
GOP's debt limit challenge: Don't be ‘a complete a—hole’ — The Senate GOP's budget point man, Lindsey Graham, wants to make Democrats work hard to lift the debt limit — but not so hard that it threatens a cataclysmic default. — Graham is carefully calibrating how hard to press …
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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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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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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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Youngkin calls for audit of voting machines in Virginia
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Youngkin continues call for ‘audit’ of election machines in Virginia
Youngkin continues call for ‘audit’ of election machines in Virginia
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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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New York Post:
Ed Mullins, bombastic NYPD union chief, resigns amid federal probe — Ed Mullins, the controversial head of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association, stepped down on Tuesday night amid a federal probe into the alleged misappropriation of union funds. — His resignation …
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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Jack Posobiec / Human Events:
Human Events Exclusive: Fmr. Facebook Official Frances Haugen Plans to Testify to EU, Called Her Friend Conspiracy Theorist After Becoming a Men's Rights Advocate/Red Pill Supporter
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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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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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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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
The Cocooning of Kyrsten Sinema — The Arizona senator has undergone a political metamorphosis. — In February 2018, I went to Arizona to report on what progressive Democrats there thought about Kyrsten Sinema, the centrist whose Senate vote is key in the fight over President Biden's agenda and political prospects.
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 …
Mark Zuckerberg:
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. — Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you. — First, the SEV that took down all our services yesterday was the worst outage we've had in years.
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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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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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Josie Duffy Rice / Balls and Strikes:
The Supreme Court Can't Deliver Justice for William Wooden — The Court's preoccupation with the precise definition of “occasion” obscures a multitude of deeper failures of the criminal legal system. — It was around 1:00 AM on a November night when William Wooden heard someone knocking on his door.
New York Times:
New Top Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan and Brooklyn Are Confirmed — One of the two, Damian Williams, will be the first Black person to lead the powerful U.S. attorney's office for New York's Southern District. — The U.S. Senate confirmed Damian Williams late Tuesday as the new U.S. attorney …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats Lost the Most in Midwestern ‘Factory Towns,’ Report Says — The party's struggles in communities that saw declines in manufacturing and union jobs, and health care, could more than offset its gains in metropolitan areas. — WASHINGTON — The share of the Democratic presidential vote …
Grant Stern / The Dworkin Report:
Reality Winner's sister talks about growing up with an American patriot — Scott speaks with Brittany Winner, whose sister Reality Winner just got out of federal prison after disclosing a classified record from the NSA revealing Russia's attack on the 2016 election.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
An Ohio COVID patient treated with ivermectin after wife sued hospital has died — An Ohio man diagnosed with COVID-19 whose wife sued to force a hospital to give him the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin has died, his attorney said. — Jeffrey Smith, 51, died on Sept. 25, his attorney …
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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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Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Republican Senate candidate Sean Parnell is seeking a gag order against his wife and her attorney as their dispute spills into the campaign — Republican Senate candidate Sean Parnell has asked a judge to seal records in his ongoing custody case and to ban his wife and her attorney …
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Michael McCarthy / Front Office Sports:
ESPN Anchor Sage Steele Removed From Air — Sage Steele expected to be off the air at ESPN for at least a week due to Covid-19 and recent controversy. — Steele is under fire for her resistance to mandated vaccine shot — and comments about Barack Obama. — SHARE
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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.
Antonio Planas / NBC News:
Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans disproportionally killed by Covid-19 last year, study says — Covid-19 killed a disproportionate number of the country's Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans during the pandemic last year, while the disease also exacerbated health disparities among those groups, a new study concludes.
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David Harsanyi / New York Post:
How left-wing protesters are justified, but angry moms are ‘domestic terrorists’ — When is a protester “angry and justified” and when are they a “domestic terrorist”? It all depends on how far left they are. — This week, activists stalked Sen. Krysten Simena into a women's restroom …
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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WAGA-TV:
Ahmaud Arbery murder suspect requests court ban photo of Confederate flag license plate — Travis McMichael (Glynn County Detention Center) — SAVANNAH, Ga.. - One of the men accused of chasing and murdering Ahmaud Arbery is fighting to ban certain photo evidence from his upcoming trial.
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Politico:
Biden's new health challenge: Find another Francis Collins — The high-profile opening could cause headaches for an administration that is struggling with pandemic messaging as it choreographs the rollout of vaccine boosters. — NIH Director Francis Collins navigated turbulence with a plainspoken …
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USA Today:
US deaths from virus in 2021 surpass 2020 total; Johnson & Johnson seeks FDA clearance for booster shots: COVID updates — Jorge L. Ortiz Ryan W. Miller Grace HauckUSA TODAY — In the history of the pandemic in the U.S., 2020 will be remembered as the most disruptive year …
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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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Shannon Vavra / The Daily Beast:
Border Officials Seize Ivermectin Pills and Fake Vaccine Cards — Anti-vaxxers are still ordering fake vaccine cards and horse paste from China in an attempt to skirt vaccine mandates and prevent COVID-19 infections. — Customs and Border Protection officials in Chicago seized multiple shipments …
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