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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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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.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Focuses on Procedure in Kentucky Abortion Case
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and UPI
Joshua Douglas / Washington Monthly:
Maybe Supreme Court Judges Really Are Driven by Politics
Discussion: 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.
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
Southwest, American airlines workers will have to get vaccinated, despite Texas order
Discussion: Washington Examiner and USA Today
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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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Jayapal fundraising off Pelosi comments about smaller spending package
Discussion: Political Wire
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Pelosi backs ending congressional control over debt limit
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
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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Meghan Faulkner / CREW:   The federal government should stop doing business with the Trump Organization
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 …
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 …
Discussion: HotAir, BizPac Review and Townhall
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
“We are not pretending at all. It's real.”
Discussion: Mediaite
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.
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 …
Elizabeth Faddis / Washington Examiner:
Mayorkas directs ICE and Border Patrol to cease workplace raids  —  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is directing officials to cease workplace raids targeted at illegal immigrants, according to a new memo.  —  Mayorkas is directing Tae Johnson, acting director for the U.S. Immigration …
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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.
Discussion: Boing Boing
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Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Michigan representative wears ‘Q’ button to election audit rally
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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?
Discussion: Blue Virginia
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.
Discussion: 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 …
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.
Discussion: Twitchy
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Lawfare and Ohio Capital Journal
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
White House says it didn't pick kids in Harris YouTube video  —  The White House on Tuesday said it did not select the children, reportedly child actors, who appeared in a YouTube video with Vice President Harris.  —  The video has led to mockery of Harris by some Republicans …
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
I'm not asking comedians to stop telling trans jokes.  I'm asking them to stop telling *the same* trans jokes over and over.  —  How many variations on “I identify as...” do we need in this world?  —  To be entirely honest, I didn't know Dave Chappelle had a new stand-up special out until …
Discussion: ABC7 and RedState
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.
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
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Revealed: Facebook's Secret Blacklist of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” … To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence.
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 …
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Apple CEO's Anti-Leak Edict Broke Law, Ex-Employee Alleges  — Gjovik, fired from Apple last month, files new NLRB complaints  — CEO Tim Cook warned employees that Apple was pursuing leakers  —  Apple Inc.'s restrictive employee handbook rules and Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook's recent pledge …
 
 
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Afghan interpreter who helped rescue Biden in 2008 is evacuated from Afghanistan
Joe Sonka / Courier-Journal:
Rep. John Yarmuth, U.S. House Budget chairman from Louisville, will not run for reelection
NBC News:
State Department watchdog investigating missing Trump gifts meant for foreign dignitaries
Discussion: The Hill and Digby's Hullabaloo
Dirk VanderHart / opb:
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof forms committee for Oregon gubernatorial run
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Hundreds of Police Officers Have Died From Covid. Vaccines Remain a Hard Sell.
Discussion: Metro.co.uk
Brian Faler / Politico:
U.S. sees biggest revenue surge in 44 years despite pandemic
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Embassy Staff in Colombia Struck With Havana Syndrome Ahead of Blinken Visit
Discussion: New York Times and The Daily Wire
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
Trump to Skip 2024 Campaign and Go Straight to Claiming He Won
Ted Osius / Salon:
Behind the scenes of Donald Trump's very strange White House meeting with Vietnam's prime minister
Discussion: Rolling Stone and HuffPost
Jonathan Larsen / TYT Network:
Franklin Graham Is Secretly Bankrolling the National Prayer Breakfast
PNAS:
Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination
Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Cheney campaign sees second-highest fundraising quarter
 

 
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