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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. Chamber backs off BIF  —  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is withdrawing its support of the Senate-passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill just hours after Punchbowl News reported House Republicans were booting it from its strategy calls, Axios has learned.
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden plots debt ceiling blitz to focus the blame on McConnell  —  After months of playing it cool on the debt ceiling, the White House has quickly begun to turn the screws on Republicans in an attempt to shift blame for the financial brinkmanship squarely onto Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden getting frustrated with Manchin and Sinema  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU: Rep. ILHAN OMAR (D-Minn.) was dissed by the White House on Monday — her birthday, no less.  The whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus was not invited …
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Biden eager to get out of DC, push benefits of spending plan
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Why the Democratic majority is shakier than ever
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
What's Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema?  —  In 2003, Joe Lieberman, at the time the worst Democratic senator, traveled to Arizona to campaign for his party's presidential nomination and was regularly greeted by antiwar demonstrators.  “He's a shame to Democrats,” said the organizer of a protest outside …
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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.
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 …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kyrsten Sinema and the amnesia of the Great Civility Debate
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Left-Wing Billionaire George Soros Bankrolling Group Behind Harassment of Kyrsten Sinema
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.
Scott Carpenter / Bloomberg:
Zuckerberg Loses $7 Billion in Hours as Facebook Plunges
CNN:
Instagram promoted pages glorifying eating disorders to teen accounts
Discussion: NPR, Deseret News and Vox
Associated Press:
Records show slow response to report of California oil spill  —  HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard received the first report of a possible oil spill off the Southern California coast more than 12 hours before a company reported the major leak in its pipeline and a cleanup effort was launched, records show.
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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 …
Discussion: తెల … and HotAir
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 …
Politico:
Francis Collins to step down as NIH director  —  National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins plans to announce his resignation on Tuesday after nearly three decades at the agency, including 12 years at the helm, three sources tell POLITICO.  —  The 71-year-old physician-geneticist led …
Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal:
Black Former Tesla Worker Awarded More Than $130 Million in Damages  —  The company subjected the employee to a racially hostile work environment, jury finds  —  SAN FRANCISCO— Tesla Inc. subjected a Black former worker to a racially hostile work environment and failed to take reasonable steps …
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?
Discussion: Raw Story
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Case Against Temporary, Half-Assed Reforms  —  Over the coming decade, the United States is projected to produce $288 trillion worth of goods and services.  In that same time period, our country is also poised to:  —  • suffer from massive shortages of affordable housing, eldercare, and childcare.
Discussion: The Hill, CBS News and Fox News
Anna Gustafson / Michigan Advance:
Once lauded as heroes, health care workers are now spit on and ‘threatened every day at work’  —  Some doctors and nurses wear panic buttons because of violent patients  —  When Tom Kelsch heads to his job as a registered nurse in Mercy Health Muskegon's emergency department, he knows …
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.
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Nikki Haley Embraces Trump in Her Vision of GOP Future  —  Trump's U.N. ambassador says the Republican Party needs the former president, but she believes he was defeated in election  —  Nikki Haley calls Donald Trump a friend and says she would consult with him before embarking on a White House bid …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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.
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.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Pence Says He ‘Parted Amicably’ With Trump After Supporters Tried to Hang Him  —  “The president and I sat down a few days later and talked through all of it,” the former vice president told Sean Hannity on Monday night.  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence insisted on Monday night that he …
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 …
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger Details Trump's ‘Threats’  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger writes in a new book that former President Donald Trump was a “bully” who used “threats” to try to overturn a legitimate election.  —  BEAST INSIDE
Discussion: Raw Story and The Guardian
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
New Trump Super PAC Formed in the Wake of Misconduct Accusations  —  After a Trump donor accused Corey Lewandowski of making unwanted sexual advances, allies of the former president formed a new super PAC.  —  Allies of former President Donald J. Trump formed a new super PAC days after Corey Lewandowski …
Discussion: Political Wire
John Nichols / madison.com:
Wisconsin GOP mimics Orwell's Thought Police  —  George Orwell's “Nineteen Eighty-Four” warned of a dystopian future where totalitarians imposed societal restrictions so rigid that any dissent was punished as a “thought crimes.”  To establish their authoritarian order, the fascists described in Orwell novel banned words.
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.
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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Dana Difilippo / New Jersey Monitor:
With Bridgegate at center stage, race for humdrum Bergen County post heats up
Brian C. Joondeph / American Thinker:
COVID has Replaced Climate Change as the Religion of the Left
Democrat and Chronicle:
Lovely Warren to resign by Dec. 1 as part of plea deal over all criminal charges she faces
Discussion: New York Times and Fox News
Noreen Marcus / Florida Bulldog:
The Florida Bar wants to immunize AG Moody and all lawyers who are state officers
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Will Knight / Wired:
Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos
Discussion: Gizmodo and Fortune
Nick Hanauer / New Republic:
Biden's Plan to Tax Rich People Like Me is the Best Way to Grow the Economy
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Donald-Shaw / Sludge:
Criticizing Joe Manchin's Coal Conflicts is ‘Outrageous,’ Says Heitkamp
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Stephen Gutowski / The Reload:
Wayne LaPierre Re-Elected to Lead NRA Despite Dissension
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Swab Job: Fox Folks Nix Vax
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Where's Daniel Dale? CNN's Lead ‘Fact-Checker’ Goes Missing
Alan Mirabella / Bloomberg:
Ken Griffin, Top GOP Donor, Rules Out Backing a Trump Rerun
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and The Hill
Abigail Shrier / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Top Trans Doctors Blow the Whistle on ‘Sloppy’ Care
Politico:
Top State adviser leaves post, rips Biden's use of Trump-era Title 42
 

 
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