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Manchin breaks with party leaders over strategy on debt ceiling and Biden's economic package — (CNN)Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday pushed back on several politically sensitive positions his party leaders are taking at a crucial time for President Joe Biden's domestic agenda.
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Pramila Jayapal's Perfect Pitch — The Congressional Progressive Caucus chair is standing firm against Manchin, Sinema, and corporate “centrists,” and winning accolades as a master negotiator. — The New York Times headline on Sunday declared, “Biden Tacks Left,” as the newspaper recounted the fact that …
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Daily Kos, Washington Post, The Editorial Board and IJR
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:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden getting frustrated with Manchin and Sinema
POLITICO Playbook: Biden getting frustrated with Manchin and Sinema
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Real Clear Politics and New York Times
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Biden eager to get out of DC, push benefits of spending plan
Biden eager to get out of DC, push benefits of spending plan
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New York Magazine and CBS News
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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Washington Examiner:
The Left's hate machine is going to get more people hurt — Three smartphone-wielding leftist activists followed Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema into a public restroom on the campus of Arizona State University Sunday afternoon. They proceeded to yell at her for not supporting a laundry list …
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Democratic Voters Drive Decline in Sinema's Popularity in Arizona
Democratic Voters Drive Decline in Sinema's Popularity in Arizona
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NIH News Release:
Francis Collins to step down as director of the National Institutes of Health — Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today announced his decision to end his tenure as the director of the National Institutes of Health by the end of the year. Dr. Collins is the longest serving presidentially …
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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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New York Times:
Users Turn to Twitter During Facebook Crash. Jokes and Venting Ensue.
Users Turn to Twitter During Facebook Crash. Jokes and Venting Ensue.
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New York Times:
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Were Down: Here's What to Know
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Were Down: Here's What to Know
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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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Donna Cassata / Washington Post:
Pence says media focus on Jan. 6 insurrection is to ‘demean’ Trump supporters
Pence says media focus on Jan. 6 insurrection is to ‘demean’ Trump supporters
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Washington Post:
Group files complaint with California bar association against John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on election challenges
Group files complaint with California bar association against John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on election challenges
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The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Media Matters for America and Raw Story
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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The Hill, HuffPost, Raw Story, IJR and New York Post
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.
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R. Marshall Brandt / The Bulwark:
What Was the Debt-Ceiling Showdown Really All About? — The answer is: Democracy. — The Western liberal tradition to which we belong has as it foundation two things: proportional representation of the will of the people and capitalism. — Both are equally as important. One cannot survive without the other.
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Nikki Haley Embraces Trump in Her Vision of GOP Future
Nikki Haley Embraces Trump in Her Vision of GOP Future
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Crooks and Liars
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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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger Details Trump's ‘Threats’
GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger Details Trump's ‘Threats’
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Raw Story
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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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.
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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 …
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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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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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CNBC
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Where the wave begins — MIDLAND, Pennsylvania — For as much cash and strategy as partisans put into creating a wave for their own parties, they always seem to miss where the ripple starts and why. — Part of the reason they miss it is that they are in Washington and not in places such as this one.
Newsweek:
Kamala Harris and the Truth about Israel — There are some things even the most skilled spin-master can't spin. Last week Vice President Kamala Harris' new crisis communications manager had something of a baptism of fire trying to clean up after her boss, after the vice president failed …
Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
Garland taps FBI in response to ‘disturbing spike’ in threats against educators — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday ordered federal law enforcement authorities to huddle with local leaders in the coming weeks to address what the nation's top prosecutor called a recent …
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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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