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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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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.
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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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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden plots debt ceiling blitz to focus the blame on McConnell
Biden plots debt ceiling blitz to focus the blame on McConnell
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Why the Senate doesn't work anymore
Why the Senate doesn't work anymore
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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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Stephanie Grisham / Washington Post:
I told the Trumps my relationship with a White House staffer had turned abusive. They didn't seem to care. — Stephanie Grisham served as chief of staff to the first lady, press secretary and communications director in the Trump White House. Her book “I'll Take Your Questions Now …
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 …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Trump's ex-press secretary says former administration's handling of Covid-19 was ‘tragic’
Trump's ex-press secretary says former administration's handling of Covid-19 was ‘tragic’
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
‘I Do’: Stephanie Grisham Straight-Up Confesses Her Enabling Trump Cost Lives During Covid
‘I Do’: Stephanie Grisham Straight-Up Confesses Her Enabling Trump Cost Lives During Covid
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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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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 Times:
F.B.I. Raids Headquarters of the N.Y.P.D. Sergeants' Union — Investigators executed a search warrant in connection with an ongoing inquiry, people familiar with the matter said. — Federal investigators on Tuesday morning raided the Manhattan office of one of New York City's main police unions …
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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 …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
What's Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema?
What's Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema?
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Piranhas Come for Kyrsten Sinema
The Piranhas Come for Kyrsten Sinema
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Downsizing Dems' social spending bill
Downsizing Dems' social spending bill
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Washington Examiner:
The Left's hate machine is going to get more people hurt
The Left's hate machine is going to get more people hurt
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Sinema and Cheney Are America's Best and Bravest Politicians
Sinema and Cheney Are America's Best and Bravest Politicians
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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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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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Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Facebook Whistleblower Is Leftist Activist Repped By Lawyer For ‘Whistleblower’ Behind Trump Impeachment
Facebook Whistleblower Is Leftist Activist Repped By Lawyer For ‘Whistleblower’ Behind Trump Impeachment
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CNN:
Facebook whistleblower testifies company “is operating in the shadows, hiding its research from public scrutiny”
Facebook whistleblower testifies company “is operating in the shadows, hiding its research from public scrutiny”
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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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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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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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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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New York Times:
Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants — Counterintelligence officials said in a top secret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost.
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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Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
Md. Gov. Hogan's former chief of staff is indicted on federal wire fraud charges — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's former chief of staff, Roy McGrath, was indicted in federal court on Tuesday, charged with defrauding Maryland Environmental Service, a quasi-governmental agency he previously led.
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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.
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.
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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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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