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The American Mind:
Claremont Institute Statement on Senior Fellow John Eastman — The Claremont Institute does not normally comment on the work of its scholars. But a recent combined disinformation, de-platforming, and ostracism campaign requires us to make an exception. Claremont Institute Senior Fellow John Eastman …
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Election Law Blog, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Constitutionalist, Power Line and Alternet.org
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
John Eastman's employer tries to whitewash his road map for overturning Trump's loss — John Eastman, it seems, is the victim of one big misunderstanding. — The conservative Claremont Institute, which employs the lawyer who provided a road map for then-President Donald Trump …
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Raw Story and Alternet.org
Max Boot / Washington Post:
I'm no Democrat — but I'm voting exclusively for Democrats to save our democracy
I'm no Democrat — but I'm voting exclusively for Democrats to save our democracy
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USA Today, The Week, Deseret News, Newsweek and Liberty Nation
Politico:
'The president's decline is alarming': Biden trapped in coronavirus malaise — ATLANTA — In a focus group last week, Pennsylvania Democrats one after another articulated the issue vexing top White House aides, party operatives in Virginia and voters in Georgia: Why isn't President Joe Biden's diminished job rating rebounding?
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HotAir, Fox News, Washington Post, RedState, Townhall, Ace of Spades HQ, Outside the Beltway, Twitchy and Don Surber
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
‘Frustration is at an all-time high’: Behind Biden's falling poll numbers
‘Frustration is at an all-time high’: Behind Biden's falling poll numbers
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HotAir, Fox News, Zandar Versus The Stupid and Althouse
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Biden's COVID-19 Body Count Just Passed 300K
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Biden's COVID-19 Body Count Just Passed 300K
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Washington Examiner
Saeed Jones / GQ:
Dave Chappelle's Betrayal — Poet Saeed Jones used to consider himself a longtime fan of the comedian. But Chappelle's new Netflix special “The Closer,” which fixates on gay and trans people, feels like a stab in the back. — You ever hear the one about the famous Black comedian …
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Twitchy
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Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Netflix suspends trans employee who tweeted about Dave Chappelle special — Internally, trans employees and allies are asking executives tough questions about the line between commentary and hate — Netflix has suspended a trans employee who tweeted about Dave Chappelle's comedy special The Closer.
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The A.V. Club, Variety, Input, The Gateway Pundit, Rolling Stone, TMZ.com, New York Post, Deadline, Raw Story and Twitchy, more at Mediagazer »
George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
Superman Comes Out, as DC Comics Ushers In a New Man of Steel — The new Superman, the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, is concerned about the environment, does not shy away from politics and will soon begin a romantic relationship with a male friend. — Up, up and out of the closet!
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HotAir, The Guardian, IGN, RedState, KHVO, Breitbart, National Review, Insider, Comic Watch, Instapundit, DC, Forbes, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, Variety, Mediaite and MyStateline.com
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Kyrsten Sinema Is Confounding Her Own Party. But ... Why? — Most Democrats in Congress are united around the Democratic agenda, but a small number of senators and representatives have so far been able to hold up its passage. “I need 50 votes in the Senate.
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Washington Post and The Daily Caller
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Ian Haney Lopez / link.medium.com:
Shor is mainly wrong about racism (which is to say, about electoral politics)
Shor is mainly wrong about racism (which is to say, about electoral politics)
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Freddie deBoer, Washington Post and Balloon Juice
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Kyrsten Sinema, We're Sick of Your Act
Kyrsten Sinema, We're Sick of Your Act
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Washington Examiner, RedState, The Guardian and Twitchy
Alani Letang / KSBW:
Monterey teen featured in new YouTube kids special with Vice President Kamala Harris — Hide Transcript Show Transcript — The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. — Your Email Address — Submit — Privacy Notice — A Monterey teen actor is featured …
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Fox News, National Review and Trending Politics
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Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Kamala Harris's NASA video featured child actors — The first installment of Vice President Kamala Harris's YouTube Originals space series featured child actors who auditioned for their roles in the project. — Trevor Bernardino, a 13-year-old actor from Carmel, California …
David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
How Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell Plotted to Undermine Trump's Stolen Election Claims — Neither senator openly contradicted the former president when he began spreading election-fraud conspiracy theories, but both privately agonized over a potential bandwagon scenario, David M. Drucker writes in his new book, In Trump's Shadow.
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
Luz Lazo / Washington Post:
Southwest Airlines flight woes extend to Monday with hundreds of cancellations, delays — The carrier is working to return flight operations to normal as it deals with a backlog of passengers from nearly 2,000 canceled flights since Friday. — Air passengers hoping to travel Monday …
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Forbes, Washington Times, New York Times, Crooks and Liars and Townhall
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Sliding toward Geopolitical Defeat
Sliding toward Geopolitical Defeat
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HotAir, RedState, New York Post and WRIC-TV
Ramishah Maruf / CNN:
Southwest canceled more than 2,000 weekend flights and the disruption continues
Southwest canceled more than 2,000 weekend flights and the disruption continues
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Breitbart, HotAir, Fox News, NPR, lbpost.com, New York Post, Reason, IJR and UPI
Maud Maron / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Why Are Moms Like Me Being Called Domestic Terrorists? — Showing up to dress down school boards over their dereliction of duty isn't a crime. It's good parenting and good citizenship. — I am a mother of four, a criminal defense attorney and a lifelong liberal who is deeply concerned …
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, New York Post, DV Journal, The Daily Wire, The Federalist and Althouse
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Outcry after federal agents kill eight wolf cubs adopted by Idaho school — US Department of Agriculture defends its agents' killing of the pups, part of a pack adopted by a high school in 2003 — Conservationists in Idaho are speaking out against the “inhumane” killings of eight wolf pups …
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Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says — On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.
Gitit Levy-Paz / The Forward:
Why won't Sally Rooney allow her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew? — The young Irish writer Sally Rooney is a literary prodigy. In 2018, she was nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Prize, and the TV series adapted from her first book became a global hit.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A.B. Stoddard / Real Clear Politics:
If Polls Are Right, Dems Are Doomed. If They're Wrong, It's Worse. — COMMENTARY — In less than three months, President Biden's approval rating has tumbled from a remarkable position in a polarized nation to the lowest of all but two presidents since 1945.
Ellie Rushing / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
FBI raids home of Philadelphia Proud Boys' vice president to gather info about Capitol attack plans — The FBI raided the home of the vice president of the Proud Boys' Philadelphia chapter on Friday, seizing his computer, phone, and other electronics to gather information on the Jan. 6 attack …
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Raw Story
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Biden 2020 win ‘tainted,’ 56% say it was a cheater's paradise — A growing number of likely voters believe that cheating tainted President Joe Biden's 2020 win over former President Donald Trump, and even more feel that a key Democratic election reform scheme will increase fraud.
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Associated Press, Rasmussen Reports, HotAir, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit and Trending Politics
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Is Durham Circling Jake Sullivan? The Special Counsel May Not Be Done With National Security Adviser — Last month Washington was rocked by the indictment of Michael Sussman, former counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee …
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Fox News
Matthew Cooper / Washington Monthly:
Chuck Schumer, Chutzpah, and the Crybaby Republicans — After threatening to break the debt ceiling, GOP senators are whining. Boo-hoo. — There are no longer any Jewish Republicans in the United States Senate. But surely the Republican conference is familiar with chutzpah …
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New York Post and Florida Phoenix
The Hill:
Bannon's subpoena snub sets up big decision for Biden DOJ — Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon's choice to buck a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol could tee up a big decision for a Justice Department determined to strike an independent tone.
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Political Wire
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
White Tiger and Cheetah Furs: A Mess of Trump Gift Exchanges — Gift exchanges between U.S. and foreign leaders, a highly regulated process, devolved into sometimes risible shambles during the Trump administration. — The Saudi royal family showered Donald J. Trump and his entourage …
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Slate, Insider, Alternet.org, Rolling Stone and The Indian Express
Simon Miles / Globe and Mail:
KGB archives show how Chrystia Freeland drew the ire (and respect) of Soviet intelligence services — The Soviet Union's secret police, the infamous KGB, praised her savvy and erudition, even as she frustrated their attempts to spy on her in Cold War Ukraine. They tagged her with the code name Frida.
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Jon Stewart says Trump has ‘a very good chance’ in 2024 — Jon Stewart says former President Trump has “a very good chance” of winning back the White House if he enters the 2024 race. — “I think he's got it — he's got a very good chance. And they're smarter about it,” …
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Breitbart
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Joe Biden Is in a World of Trouble — Even Democrats don't like him. — 1. Group Therapy — Last week I Sarah invited me onto The Focus Group. The episode is out. You can subscribe on Apple Podcasts here or listen to it here. — We watched a group of nine Democratic voters …
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Balloon Juice
Associated Press:
Fiona Hill, a nobody to Trump and Putin, saw into them both — WASHINGTON (AP) — Vladimir Putin paid scant attention to Fiona Hill, a preeminent U.S. expert on Russia, when she was seated next to him at dinners. Putin's people placed her there by design, choosing a “nondescript woman,” …
Robby Soave / Reason:
The New York Times Spreads Misinformation About COVID-19 — The purported threat of social media has emerged once again as a top concern of senators, whistleblowers, and members of the press. They are very, very worried about Facebook fanning the flames of hate, compromising U.S. democracy, and spreading COVID misinformation.
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Breitbart
Niara Savage / Yahoo News:
Texas Boogaloo Boy Admits In Court He Traveled to Minneapolis After George Floyd Died, Fired 13 Shots In Police Precinct Building to Sow Chaos — African American man who was a victim of police violence in the United States, killed by Derek Chauvin — A Texas man pleaded guilty on Sept. 30 …
Peter Beinart / Jewish Currents:
How the US Media Misreads Naftali Bennett … BENJAMIN NETANYAHU obsessed over his image in US media—as political attaché in Israel's embassy in Washington in the early 1980s, according to Ben Caspit and Ilan Kfir's biography, he rented TV cameras to tape himself conducting practice interviews at home on weekends.
Livia Albeck-Ripka / New York Times:
Missing Apostrophe in Facebook Post Lands a Man in Defamation Court — An Australian man claimed a real estate agent did not pay its “employees” retirement funds. The lack of a punctuation mark may cost him thousands. — A missing apostrophe in a Facebook post could cost a real estate agent …