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John Shiffman / Reuters:
How AT&T helped build far-right One America News — As it lauded former President Donald Trump and spread his unfounded claims of election fraud, One America News Network saw its viewership jump. Reuters has uncovered how America's telecom giant nurtured the news channel now at the center …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
As Debt Ceiling Vote Looms, Democrats Reconsider Filibuster — Top Democrats say the Republican refusal to allow a vote to avert a federal default is the most powerful argument yet for weakening the Senate's signature procedural weapon. — WASHINGTON — With a federal default projected …
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Life After Default … The credit of the United States is built on centuries of stability and responsibility. This country has never intentionally defaulted on its obligations because of the debt limit. But the U.S. Treasury Department estimates that it will have very limited resources …
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Biden says changing filibuster rules to raise debt ceiling is a ‘real possibility’
Biden says changing filibuster rules to raise debt ceiling is a ‘real possibility’
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Politico:
Top Covid experts privately urge Biden admin to scale back booster campaign — A vocal contingent of prominent doctors and scientists is pressing the Biden administration to scrap its plans to provide booster shots to all previously vaccinated adults, according to five people familiar with the matter.
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Natalie Prieb / The Hill:
Jason Aldean says Californians ‘should be outraged’ over school vaccine mandate
Jason Aldean says Californians ‘should be outraged’ over school vaccine mandate
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Top Trump aides set to defy subpoenas in Capitol attack investigation — Source says Meadows, Bannon and others will move to undercut House select committee inquiry - under instructions from Trump — Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top aides subpoenaed …
Mark Zuckerberg:
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. — Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you. — First, the SEV that took down all our services yesterday was the worst outage we've had in years.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
The Cocooning of Kyrsten Sinema — The Arizona senator has undergone a political metamorphosis. — In February 2018, I went to Arizona to report on what progressive Democrats there thought about Kyrsten Sinema, the centrist whose Senate vote is key in the fight over President Biden's agenda and political prospects.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What's Chuck's Plan B?
POLITICO Playbook: What's Chuck's Plan B?
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Wall Street Journal:
Science Closes In on Covid's Origins — Four studies—including two from WHO—provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory. — Where did Covid-19 come from? The answer can be found in the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself. To get to the truth, we need only unleash the power of science.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Search for a Covid Test — Rapid tests will soon be more available in the U.S. — I tried to buy a rapid at-home Covid test yesterday, and the search did not go well. — My local CVS did not have any. On CVS's website, I found a store several miles away that claimed to have the tests in stock …
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HuffPost:
Senate Republicans Shrug Off Candidates' Domestic Violence Allegations — Three GOP Senate candidates, including two with Trump's backing, have been accused of violence against women. Republicans don't seem to mind. — Republicans could end up backing three candidates accused of domestic …
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Andrew Egger / The Dispatch:
Federal Probe Scrutinizes Financial Dealings of the American Conservative Union — Sources say that investigators are looking into possible criminal campaign-finance misdeeds by the political organization headed by Matt Schlapp. — The American Conservative Union, the political organization …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
How Trump's health department fell in love with charter jets — Documents offer new insight into the strategy of shuttling former HHS secretary Tom Price around America — In April 2017, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services grappled with an urgent request …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Anybody Fighting Joe Biden Is Helping Trump's Next Coup All Republican politics is now functionally authoritarian. — In the aftermath of Donald Trump's bid to secure an unelected second term, his former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, in an extensive interview with Tim Alberta, registered her disgust …
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Las Vegas Sun, USA Today, Raw Story, Mother Jones and Wall Street Journal
Callie Patteson / New York Post:
Yellen defends IRS rule requiring banks to report all transactions over $600 — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is defending a Biden administration proposal that would require banks to report data to the Internal Revenue Service on transactions over $600, calling the collection of information …
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Power Line and MyStateline.com
Associated Press:
In Idaho, a power play while the governor's away — BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Gov. Brad Little said he will rescind an executive order involving Covid-19 vaccines by Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, and the commanding general of the Idaho National Guard also on Tuesday told McGeachin she can't activate troops to send to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Armond White / National Review:
The Many Saints of Newark Is Trash — The culture of corruption, romanticized for RINOs and rotten Dems — For some of us, The Sopranos epitomizes everything that went wrong with American popular culture this millennium. Those of us who realize that mainstream media operate by different rules …
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Kamala Harris Might Have to Stop the Steal — For a few hours inside the ransacked Capitol on January 6, then-Vice President Mike Pence helped to preserve the democratic order by insisting that he was powerless to change the outcome of the election. On January 6, 2025 …
Wall Street Journal:
Climate Change Is Melting Russia's Permafrost—and Challenging Its Oil Economy — Across Russia, the thawing of earth thought to be forever frozen cracks buildings, infrastructure; 'It's all on the line.' — | Photographs and video by Arthur Bondar for The Wall Street Journal
Brenda Alexander / Yahoo News:
Sage Steele removed from ESPN following comments on Obama, vaccine; former colleague Jemele Hill calls her out — Hill called Steele a “clown” after Steele made references to Obama's ethnicity. — Sage Steele has been temporarily removed from ESPN for her comments on a podcast …
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Twitchy, Front Office Sports, The Daily Caller and The Hill
Errin Haines / The 19th:
The New Deal devalued home care workers. Advocates hope new legislation can undo that. — Domestic workers, many of them women and many people of color, have inherited a racist, sexist legacy of low pay and little job protections. — Editor-at-large — For Delores Sobowale …
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
State Department discloses number of nukes in US stockpile — WASHINGTON (AP) — In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department on Tuesday disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile. It said this will aid global efforts to control the spread of such weapons.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier. — Rich countries contribute an average of $14,000 per year for a toddler's care, compared with $500 in the U.S. The Democrats' spending bill tries to shrink the gap. — Typical 2-year-olds in Denmark attend child care during the day …
Jay R. Jordan / Houston Chronicle:
Texans asked to turn off lights after bird ‘mass mortality’ event — National Audubon Society calls for ‘Lights Out’ after ‘mass mortality’ event of migratory birds — Following the deaths of migratory of birds caused by bright city lights on the East Coast, Texas advocates call for late-night dimming in Lone Star State.
New York Times:
Can You Imagine Bill de Blasio as Governor? He Can. — A run for higher office by New York City's mayor might be viewed skeptically across the state, but he says he wants to remain in public life. — Mayor Bill de Blasio has begun to tell people privately that he plans to run for governor …
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Timothy Noah / New Republic:
South Dakota Is a Moral Sewer and Should Be Abolished … South Dakota is in the news because a consortium of journalists exposed shady doings there that take advantage of the state's status as a notorious tax haven, and because the state's governor, Kristi Noem, is caught …
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Dakota Free Press, NBC News and Washington Post
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Biden and Xi agree to abide by Taiwan agreement — President Biden said on Tuesday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to abide by the status quo in light of recent military provocations carried out by China against the self-governing island. — “I've spoken with Xi about Taiwan.
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The Daily Beast:
‘Trumpcoin’ Scam From Fake Celebrity Accounts Is Fooling QAnon — The “Caligula”-esque coins are being peddled by faux celebrity accounts purporting to be Elon Musk, Mel Gibson, Kirstie Alley, and even Denzel Washington. — QAnon world is being flooded with a currency scam in the form …
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Raw Story
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
An Afghanistan Grows In Wisconsin — Biden didn't withdraw from Afghanistan. He brought Afghanistan to America. — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Why Trump wants to tweet — Donald Trump's post-office online engagement is hitting new lows, according to exclusive data from SocialFlow provided to Axios. It helps explain why the former president recently asked a federal judge to have Twitter restore his signature account.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
American Greatness:
California's Children Are Property Of The State — Mandatory vaccines and behind-your-back child mutilation are in the works. — California has a long history of “firsts.” The Golden State was home to the first computer, the first movie theater, and, importantly, the first martini.
Kathryn Rubino / Above the Law:
Law School Student Famous For Saying ‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Now Has Prestigious Federal Clerkship — Hate doesn't seem to be slowing down her career prospects. — I'd say Crystal Clanton just keeps failing upwards, but given that outrage is currency in right-wing circles …
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