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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 …
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
Discussion: CBS News and New York Magazine
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. Chamber backs off BIF
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
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Sinema and Cheney Are America's Best and Bravest Politicians
Discussion: Twitchy and Los Angeles Times
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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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.
R. Marshall Brandt / The Bulwark:   What Was the Debt-Ceiling Showdown Really All About?  —  The answer is: Democracy.
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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Politico:
Francis Collins to step down as NIH director by year's end  —  National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins plans to step down by the end of the year after nearly three decades at the agency, including 12 years at the helm, the agency announced Tuesday.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Brookings
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger Details Trump's ‘Threats’
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Mike Pence Says Media Focus on January 6 Is a Media Distraction Meant to ‘Demean’ Trump Supporters  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence said the focus on January 6th is a distraction intended to “demean” millions of Trump supporters.  —  Pence spoke with Sean Hannity Monday night …
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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 …
Discussion: CNBC
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 …
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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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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U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department Addresses Violent Threats Against School Officials and Teachers
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
Discussion: WBUR News
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?
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 …
Joseph Klein / Front Page Magazine:
Wholesale Invasion USA  —  Waves of illegal immigrants flood across the U.S. southern border - with no end in sight.  —  The Biden administration is aiding and abetting a wholesale invasion of the United States by illegal immigrants, with no idea of whether they are infected with COVID-19 or not.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Texas braces for surge of 60,000 Haitian migrants
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 …
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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Tsai Ing-Wen / Foreign Affairs:
Taiwan and the Fight for Democracy … The story of Taiwan is one of resilience—of a country upholding democratic, progressive values while facing a constant challenge to its existence.  Our success is a testament to what a determined practitioner of democracy, characterized by good governance and transparency, can achieve.
 
 
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