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Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone:
EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff  —  As the House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack heats up, some of the planners of the pro-Trump rallies that took place in Washington, D.C. …
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Washington Post:
Inside PhRMA's fight to kill Democrats' drug pricing plan
Discussion: Common Dreams and Politico
Politico:   POLITICO Playbook: The 9 most important days of Biden's presidency
Ben Smith / New York Times:
How Frances Haugen Became a Power Player in the Facebook Leaks  —  In a time of mega-leaks, journalists' sources have become power players.  Frances Haugen, the former Facebook product manager who shared company documents, led a meticulous media rollout.  —  Frances Haugen first met Jeff Horwitz …
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Washington Post:
The case against Mark Zuckerberg: Insiders say Facebook's CEO chose growth over safety … Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party to censor anti-government dissidents or risk getting knocked offline in one of Facebook's most lucrative Asian markets.
Discussion: Wired, more at Techmeme »
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’  —  Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company's own employees know it. … Before i tell you what happened at exactly 2:28 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6 …
Mike Wright / Telegraph:   Facebook whistleblower warns company's encryption will aid espionage by hostile nations
Associated Press:
AP source: Manchin agreeable to wealth tax for Biden plan  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pivotal Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden's scaled-back social services and climate change package.
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Biden administration to announce plan for accelerating authorization of at-home Covid tests  —  The Biden administration on Monday will announce several steps aimed at making rapid, at-home Covid testing more widely available while lowering costs, according to details shared with NBC News.
Boris Epshteyn / Newsweek:   Biden Administration Plans to Kill America's Energy Sector
BBC:
Sudan's civilian leaders arrested amid coup reports  —  Members of Sudan's transitional government and other civilian leaders have been arrested amid reports of a military coup.  —  Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok is among those reported to have been put under house arrest by unidentified soldiers.
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Max Bearak / Washington Post:
Sudan's military detains prime minister, cabinet members in apparent coup  —  NAIROBI — The detention by Sudan's military of the country's prime minister and a large number of his cabinet and party members early Monday morning plunged the country's fragile democratic transition into disarray.
Khalid Abdelaziz / Reuters:
Ministers, party leaders detained in apparent coup in Sudan - sources
Discussion: Al Jazeera and The Times of Israel
Katherine Huggins / Mediaite:
Trump Blasts Fox News For Supposedly Airing ‘Untruthful Anti-Trump Commercials’  —  Former President Donald Trump blasted Fox News on Sunday, claiming the network “continually allow[s] horrible and untruthful anti-Trump commercials to be run.”  —  “What good is it if FOX News speaks …
Discussion: HuffPost
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Facebook has known it has a human trafficking problem for years.  It still hasn't fully fixed it  —  New York (CNN Business)Facebook has for years struggled to crack down on content related to what it calls domestic servitude: “a form of trafficking of people for the purpose …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Disgraced former governor is recast as MAGA warrior in Senate bid  —  Missouri's open Senate race features a crowded cast of conservative characters.  There's the self-described “farm girl,” the auctioneer on a bus tour, a state attorney general suing China, and the guy who stood on his lawn and pointed an AR-15 at protesters.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:   Senate GOP rallies to Herschel Walker
CNN:   Trump pick's messy personal life worries Senate Republicans desperate to hold on to Pennsylvania seat
Fatma Khaled / Newsweek:
Ron DeSantis Planning $5K Bonus for Unvaccinated Police to Relocate to Florida  —  Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Sunday that he is hoping to sign legislation that would give unvaccinated police officers a $5,000 bonus to relocate to his state.
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
DeSantis eyes $5,000 bonus for unvaccinated police to relocate to Florida
Politico:
What's still in the Dem megabill?  Cheat sheet on 12 big topics  —  Democrats are making big sacrifices to slash the price tag of their social spending bill from $3.5 trillion to roughly $2 trillion as they close in on a deal that can satisfy both the party's moderate and progressive factions.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:   How 4 Weeks of U.S. Paid Leave Would Compare With the Rest of the World
ProPublica:
“The Liberty Way”: How Liberty University Discourages and Dismisses Students' Reports of Sexual Assaults  —  Note: This story includes descriptions of sexual violence and attempted suicide.  —  When Elizabeth Axley first told Liberty University officials she had been raped, she was confident they'd do the right thing.
New York Times:
How Amazon Mishandled Paying Dozens of Workers on Leave  —  A knot of problems with Amazon's system for handling paid and unpaid leaves has led to devastating consequences for workers.  —  A year ago, Tara Jones, an Amazon warehouse worker in Oklahoma, cradled her newborn …
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Former Saudi official calls Mohammed bin Salman a “psychopath,” says Saudi crown prince fears what he knows  —  Saad Aljabri was number two in Saudi intelligence until, he says, Mohammed bin Salman forced him out.  Now, MBS is Saudi Arabia's crown prince, and Aljabri is in exile.
Discussion: Insider, The Guardian and Bloomberg
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Internal Chat Boards Show Politics Often at Center of Decision Making  —  Employees allege content rules aren't enforced for Breitbart and other right-wing publishers for fear of public blowback, and management expresses wariness of appearing biased, according to internal documents
Bryn Stole / Baltimore Sun:
U.S. Rep. Anthony G. Brown launching campaign for Maryland attorney general  —  U.S. Rep. Anthony G. Brown, a Prince George's County Democrat and former lieutenant governor, will run for attorney general of Maryland next year.  —  Brown, 59, is the first major Democratic candidate to jump …
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Twitter suspends Rep. Jim Banks for misgendering transgender four-star officer  —  Twitter suspended the account of Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) Saturday after he intentionally misgendered Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender Senate-confirmed federal official, a spokesperson for the platform told Axios.
Discussion: RedState, HuffPost, UPI, WPTA21 and TheBlaze
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Ben Kesslen / NBC News:
Rep. Jim Banks suspended from Twitter for misgendering trans government official Dr. Rachel Levine
Discussion: New York Magazine and Insider
Brent Buchanan / Cygnal:
Cygnal Poll: YOUNGKIN TIED; GENERIC REPUBLICAN +1  —  New Cygnal survey of 800+ likely voters shows steep declines for McAuliffe  —  WASHINGTON - The ground in Virginia has shifted.  A new poll of 816 likely voters shows Glenn Youngkin and Terry McAuliffe dead even at 48% a piece, with one week to go until Election Day.
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and Political Wire
Mike Allen / Axios:
Fauci fires back at Rand Paul for slam on tonight's “Axios on HBO”  —  Responding to charges by Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday's “Axios on HBO,” NIAID director Anthony Fauci told “ABC This Week” that it's “molecularly impossible” for U.S.-funded bat virus research in China to have produced COVID-19.
Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters:
Fauci says vaccines for kids between 5-11 likely available in November  —  Vaccines for kids between the ages of 5 and 11 will likely be available in the first half of November, top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Sunday, predicting a timetable that could see many kids …
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Jerusalem Post:
People vaccinated against COVID-19 less likely to die of other causes - study
 
 
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Jerry Zremski / Buffalo News:
Real? Absolutely. Resilient? You bet. But some wonder: Is India Walton ready?
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Republican spin on Biden is off the mark
Discussion: NBC News and CNN
Eliza Mackintosh / CNN:
Facebook knew it was being used to incite violence in Ethiopia. It did little to stop the spread, documents show
CBS News:
Florida's top health official booted from meeting after refusing to put on mask
Discussion: Miami Herald, HuffPost and Axios
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Russia Challenges Biden Again With Broad Cybersurveillance Operation
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
It's His Town Now As he coasts to general-election victory, the post-technocrat, post-progressive Eric Adams mayoralty has already begun.
Henry Foy / Financial Times:
EU plans to reopen Afghanistan diplomatic mission within a month
Alex Yablon / Insider:
Joe Manchin and the GOP think Biden's plan to give parents bigger monthly checks will encourage people to quit their jobs.  A new study shows that argument is garbage.
 Earlier Items: 
Haaretz:
Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a conference in Tel-Aviv, in April. Credit: Moti Milrod
Discussion: Just Security
James Fallows / Breaking the News:
What We Learned, at the Town Hall
Emily Waltz / Scientific American:
COVID Vaccine Makers Prepare for a Variant Worse than Delta
Axios:
1 big thing: Schlapps see '24 Trump run
Lyz Lenz / HuffPost:
A 19th-Century Law Dismantled The KKK. Now It Could Bring Down A New Generation Of Extremists.
Reuters:
Moscow decries U.S. move to call Russians ‘homeless’ for visa purposes
Discussion: Raw Story
Tyler O'Neil / Fox News:
McAuliffe claims Stacey Abrams should be governor of Georgia, furthering what some call her ‘Big Lie’
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and Townhall
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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