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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
By Attacking Me, Justice Alito Proved My Point — Last month, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the Supreme Court's critics are wrong. The Court is not “a dangerous cabal” that is “deciding important issues in a novel, secretive, improper way, in the middle of the night, hidden from public view,” he said.
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SHERO, Balloon Juice, Raw Story, Mediaite and New Republic
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Divided Supreme Court considers who can defend abortion restrictions — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed which state officials can defend abortion bans in court — a procedural question with implications that extend beyond reproductive health in states where the governor and attorney general hail from opposing parties.
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Washington Post, Insider and Washington Examiner
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Focuses on Procedure in Kentucky Abortion Case
Supreme Court Focuses on Procedure in Kentucky Abortion Case
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Wall Street Journal and UPI
Joshua Douglas / Washington Monthly:
Maybe Supreme Court Judges Really Are Driven by Politics
Maybe Supreme Court Judges Really Are Driven by Politics
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Washington Post and Slate
American Greatness:
A Southwest Pilot Explains What Happened over the Weekend … Southwest blamed “air traffic control issues” and inclement weather for the cancelled flights, but the problems were actually a direct result of the airline's announcement on October 4 that all of its 56,000 U.S. employees were required …
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Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill:
Texas airlines defy Abbott, comply with Biden vaccine order — American Airlines and Southwest Airlines will continue to require COVID-19 vaccinations for their employees as required by the Biden administration, defying Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) executive order banning all vaccine mandates in the state.
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Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Texas Tribune, National Review, Fox News and Washington Times
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
Southwest, American airlines workers will have to get vaccinated, despite Texas order
Southwest, American airlines workers will have to get vaccinated, despite Texas order
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Washington Examiner, Trending Politics and USA Today
Mary Schlangenstein / Bloomberg:
IBM, American Air, Southwest Snub Abbott and Back Biden on Shots
IBM, American Air, Southwest Snub Abbott and Back Biden on Shots
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The Daily Beast, Forbes, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg Law, The Gateway Pundit, Joe.My.God. and The Federalist
CBS News:
CBS News poll: Vaccine and economy fights driving tight Virginia governor's race — The Virginia governor's race is but one state contest, an entire year before the midterms. So why are the nation's political eyes all watching it so intensely? Because, as our poll finds …
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HotAir, Associated Press, The Hill, Blue Virginia, RedState, Washington Free Beacon and VA Scope
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Pelosi caves on reconciliation? — Get ready for the recriminations, because this won't end the internecine warfare taking place among Democrats. A few moments ago in her daily presser, Nancy Pelosi apparently signaled a retreat on the $3.5 trillion price tag on the progressive wish-list reconciliation bill:
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Washington Free Beacon, Washington Examiner, MSN, Louder With Crowder, ABC News, Bloomberg and The Gateway Pundit
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Dear Colleague on Audience with Pope Francis and Our Work to Build Back Better
Dear Colleague on Audience with Pope Francis and Our Work to Build Back Better
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Jayapal fundraising off Pelosi comments about smaller spending package
Jayapal fundraising off Pelosi comments about smaller spending package
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Political Wire
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Marine who criticized U.S. handling of Afghanistan withdrawal will plead guilty, seek favorable discharge — A Marine officer whose viral videos criticizing senior officials for how they withdrew from Afghanistan created a political uproar will plead guilty to several charges and seek …
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Washington Times and Fox News
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Close to a Deal to Sell Marquee Washington, D.C., Hotel — Miami-based CGI Merchant Group in talks to pay ex-president's family company around $370 million for property in former Old Post Office — Former President Donald Trump's family company is in advanced discussions to sell …
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Mitchell Prothero / VICE:
Bashar Assad's Playboy Cousin Spotted Driving $300K Ferrari in Beverly Hills — Ali Makhlouf, whose one-time billionaire father is on multiple U.S. sanctions list for financing the Syrian regime, told “what do you do for a living” Instagram star Daniel Mac he was doing an internship. — MP
Axios:
Unruly customers threaten economic recovery — The pace of the economic recovery hinges in part on workers returning to jobs that involve dealing with an unpredictable public. But many of those workers say increasingly combative customers — angry about everything from long wait times to mask mandates — have prompted them to quit.
Drew Magary / SFGATE:
ESPN didn't care and doesn't care about now-former Raiders coach Jon Gruden's bigotry — SFGATE columnist Drew Magary on what Jon Gruden's work emails ultimately say about ESPN — You can draw a line from the now-disgraced Jon Gruden to anyone else in the football world, and that line will be as strong as a suspension bridge cable.
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The Hill, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Mic, New York Post, Denver Post, New Republic, The Guardian and The Sun
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Amber Athey / spectatorworld.com:
Jon Gruden exposes the NFL's woke hypocrisy
Jon Gruden exposes the NFL's woke hypocrisy
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, CBS News, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, New York Post, Breitbart, The Daily Wire, Townhall and ESPN
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage — 4.3 million people quit their jobs in August, nearly 3 percent of the workforce. — The number of people quitting their jobs has surged to record highs, pushed by a combination of factors …
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The Daily Caller, Lawyers, Guns & Money and UPI
Emily Anthes / New York Times:
What the Future May Hold for the Coronavirus and Us — Viral evolution is a long game. Here's where scientists think we could be headed. — On Jan. 9, 2020, about a week after the world first learned of a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in central China, authorities announced …
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HotAir and The Indian Express
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson makes a great point about Fox News's vaccination policy — If only such nuance were a feature of the criticisms of Biden's policy — A Fox News host on Monday night offered a rare — if brief — commentary on his company's own vaccination policy, even as he and others continue …
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HotAir, BizPac Review, Townhall and Mediaite
Jeremy Schwartz / ProPublica:
Trump Won the County in a Landslide. His Supporters Still Hounded the Elections Administrator Until She Resigned. — Co-published with The Texas Tribune … An elections administrator in North Texas submitted her resignation Friday, following a monthslong effort by residents and officials loyal …
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
DHS secretary orders ICE to halt mass workplace raids — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday issued a memo ordering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop mass worksite raids. — Driving the news: Mayorkas said the Biden administration would instead focus …
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John Wright / Raw Story:
Pro-Trump candidate suggests taking ‘all the boats out of the water’ to lower sea levels — A Republican state legislative candidate in Virginia posed an interesting question on Twitter recently. — “I'm curious, Do you think the sea level would lower, if we just took all the boats out of the water?
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Blue Virginia
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mark Meadows's deranged Jan. 6 musings on Fox unmask the GOP's corrupt core — By now, it should be clear to even the most determined both-sidesing observer that the fate of democracy has itself become a starkly partisan issue. For Democrats, anti-majoritarian abuses and the future subversion …
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Raw Story
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
How Not to De-Trumpify the GOP — Jonah Goldberg's plan to create a conservative third party would likely exacerbate the problems it's meant to solve. — In the Los Angeles Times, Jonah Goldberg proposes that the best way to fix the now-terminally “Trumpified” GOP is to establish …
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Washington Post and Los Angeles Times
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
‘Hiding the Ball’: Hunter Biden Complicates White House Anti-Corruption Push — During the presidential campaign, liberals had plenty of reason to tune out the Hunter Biden story. — For one, it was being pushed by Donald Trump, whose administration was awash in ethics scandals of its own …
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National Review, Fox News, Digby's Hullabaloo, Insider and CNN
Justice News:
U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of Iranian Large-Scale Heroin Trafficker — Malek Mohammad Balouchzehi Is Charged with Conspiring to Sell Multi-Hundred Kilogram Quantities of Heroin for Distribution in New York City — Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York …
David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Case for Deliverism — Democrats can no longer skate by simply on talking about popular issues. — President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations after touring a Clayco Corporation construction site for a Microsoft data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, October 7, 2021.
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The Message Box
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Leaked Docs: Prestigious DC School Poised To Crack Down on ‘Harmful’ Humor — Students at one of the oldest and most prestigious boys schools in the United States could soon face expulsion for a single “misplaced” joke, according to a draft “anti-bias” policy circulating among school administrators …
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Fox News
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Michigan GOP Rep. Wears QAnon Pin at Pro-Trump Protest — A Michigan Republican lawmaker wore a pin with a flag with a “Q” on it as she addressed demonstrators at an election protest in Lansing, Michigan supported by former President Donald Trump on Tuesday—and made clear she buys into the sprawling conspiracy theory.
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Washington Examiner, Detroit News, Michigan Advance, Raw Story, Mediaite and Boing Boing
Reuters:
“There will be things that people can't get,” at Christmas, White House warns — White House officials, scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks choking U.S. ports, highways and railways, warn Americans may face higher prices and some empty shelves this Christmas season.
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Yahoo News, The Daily Caller, Don Surber, Twitchy, National Review, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
floridahealth.gov:
Florida Department of Health Issues Notice of Fine to Leon County Totaling More Than $3.5 Million for Violation of Florida Law — Contact: — Communications Office — NewsMedia@flhealth.gov — 850-245-4111 — The County's illegal employee vaccine mandate results in 714 counts of violating law
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The Hill, The Daily Beast, New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Orlando Sentinel and Townhall
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Trump-Era Pentagon Official Sues as Suspension Reaches 5 Months — Katie Arrington says her due process rights were violated — Official was ‘left dangling’ without explanation, lawsuit says — The Pentagon official who led a new cybersecurity initiative for defense contractors sued …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid and Age — An unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old. — Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University who frequently writes about parenting, published an article in The Atlantic in March that made a lot of people angry.
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Twitchy
Joseph Cox / VICE:
CIA Funding Arm Gave Encrypted App Wickr $1.6 Million — The funding solidifies Wickr's position as an encrypted chat platform for government agencies. — Joseph Cox — In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investment firm started by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), recently poured more than $1.6 million …
CNN:
Democrats scrutinize Pennsylvania congressman's efforts to help Trump overturn 2020 election — Washington (CNN)Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry is under renewed scrutiny after a Senate report released last week provided fresh details about Perry's role in helping former President Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election.
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Lawfare and Ohio Capital Journal
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Hundreds of Police Officers Have Died From Covid. Vaccines Remain a Hard Sell. — Far more law enforcement officers in the U.S. have died from Covid-19 than from any other work-related cause in 2020 and 2021. Even so, police unions are fighting vaccine mandates.
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