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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 …
CNN:
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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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.
Discussion: CNN, New York Times and The Bulwark
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Why the Democratic majority is shakier than ever
Discussion: Iowa Capital Dispatch and Politico
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
The $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill isn't as popular as it seems
Discussion: Oregonian and Issues & Insights
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  — CEO drops to No. 5 on list of world's richest, below Gates  — Stock slide knocks his net worth down to $120.9 billion  —  Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours …
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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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.
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.
Los Angeles Times:
Officials knew about oil off O.C. coast Friday, sparking new questions about response  —  California and federal officials had strong indications of oil on the water off the Huntington Beach coast Friday evening, records reviewed by The Times show, more than 10 hours before the operator of an oil platform reported it to authorities.
John L. Dorman / Insider:
Stephanie Grisham called Lindsey Graham ‘Senator Freeloader’ and said he would show up at Mar-a-Lago to ‘stuff his face with free food’: book  — In her forthcoming memoir, Stephanie Grisham blasted Sen. Graham for his trips to Trump properties.  — “It struck me that he was using Trump …
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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 …
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.
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.
Politico:
Top State adviser leaves post, rips Biden's use of Trump-era Title 42  —  A senior State Department official is leaving his role in the Biden administration.  And on his way out, he has sent a scathing internal memo criticizing the president's use of a Trump-era policy to expel migrants from the southern border.
Alan Mirabella / Bloomberg:
Ken Griffin, Top GOP Donor, Rules Out Backing a Trump Rerun  —  Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, a major donor to Republicans, ruled out supporting Donald Trump for another run for president.  —  “I think it's time for America to move on,” he said in a discussion Monday with Erik Schatzker at the Economic Club of Chicago.
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and The Hill
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
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Biden administration reverses Trump rule barring federally funded family planning clinics from abortion referrals  —  The Biden administration has revoked a Trump-era rule that had become a flash point in the abortion wars, saying Monday it would no longer bar clinics that receive federal family planning aid …
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:   The provisions in Texas' restrictive abortion law are not popular, an NPR poll finds
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 …
Andrew Yang:
Breaking Up with the Democratic Party  —  I changed my voting registration from ‘Democrat’ to ‘Independent’ today.  It was a strangely emotional experience.  —  I registered as a Democrat back in 1995 when I was 20 years old to vote for Bill Clinton's re-election.  It was a no-brainer for me.
Masaya Kato / Nikkei Asia:
China PCR test orders soared before first reported COVID case  —  Government contracts show surges in Wuhan-area purchases starting May 2019  —  TOKYO — Purchases of PCR tests in China's Hubei Province surged months before the first official reports of a novel coronavirus case there …
Abigail Shrier / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Top Trans Doctors Blow the Whistle on ‘Sloppy’ Care  —  In exclusive interviews, two prominent providers sound off on puberty blockers, ‘affirmative’ care, the inhibition of sexual pleasure, and the suppression of dissent in their field.  —  For nearly a decade, the vanguard …
 
 
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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: Fox News and New York Times
Noreen Marcus / Florida Bulldog:
The Florida Bar wants to immunize AG Moody and all lawyers who are state officers
Jeff Schuhrke / In These Times:
Why Are Major Unions Undermining the Progressive Strategy on Reconciliation?
Discussion: Slate and Tangle
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
Discussion: RealClearMarkets and Common Dreams
Donald-Shaw / Sludge:
Criticizing Joe Manchin's Coal Conflicts is ‘Outrageous,’ Says Heitkamp
Discussion: The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
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
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE:
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked
 

 
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: ~100 NYT Tech Guild members cross the picket line to work on Election Day; NYT engineer and union steward Benjamin Harnett says the figure is under 50

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
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