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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. …
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.
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Wired
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 …
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Politico, Financial Times and CNN, more at Techmeme »
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.
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New York Times, CBS News, Financial Times, CNN, The Times of Israel, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Forbes and Bloomberg
Khalid Abdelaziz / Reuters:
Ministers, party leaders detained in apparent coup in Sudan - sources
Ministers, party leaders detained in apparent coup in Sudan - sources
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Associated Press
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 …
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HuffPost
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
DeSantis eyes $5,000 bonus for unvaccinated police to relocate to Florida
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Political Wire
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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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
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Raw Story, New York Post, RedState and Power Line, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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.
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Leighton Woodhouse / KERFUFFLE:
Anthony Fauci Has Been Abusing Animals for 40 Years
Anthony Fauci Has Been Abusing Animals for 40 Years
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The Gateway Pundit, Townhall and RedState
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.
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Ben Kesslen / NBC News:
Rep. Jim Banks suspended from Twitter for misgendering trans government official Dr. Rachel Levine
Rep. Jim Banks suspended from Twitter for misgendering trans government official Dr. Rachel Levine
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New York Magazine and Insider
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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The Atlantic, New York Times and Forbes
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.
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.
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Raw Story
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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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.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The 9 most important days of Biden's presidency — DRIVING THE DAY — THE GREAT MISMATCH: President JOE BIDEN's average approval rating is at a new low (43.4%), and his average disapproval rating is at a new high (50.7%), according to FiveThirtyEight.
Axios:
1 big thing: Schlapps see '24 Trump run — The chairman of the American Conservative Union told Margaret Talev for “Axios on HBO” he accepts “Joe Biden is my president, and I want him to succeed,” but predicted Republicans retake the House and Senate in 2022 — and greater than 50% odds Donald Trump runs in 2024.
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The American Conservative
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. — Bo Dietl says on the phone to come by the South Street Seaport at six, where he'll be hosting a fund-raiser for Eric Adams, the Democratic nominee and all but assured next mayor of New York City.
Haaretz:
Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a conference in Tel-Aviv, in April. Credit: Moti Milrod — The government's declaration of civil society organizations in the West Bank as terrorist organizations is a destructive folly that tarnishes all of the parties in the coalition and the state itself.
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Just Security
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
How 4 Weeks of U.S. Paid Leave Would Compare With the Rest of the World — The U.S. is one of six countries with no national paid leave. The Democrats have cut their plan to four weeks, which would still make it an outlier. — Congress is now considering four weeks of paid family and medical leave …
James Fallows / Breaking the News:
What We Learned, at the Town Hall — The press keeps asking about the ‘how’ of politics. Citizens ask about the ‘what’ of governance. — This post is on what we learned about the presidency, about this president, and about the press, in the “Town Hall” session that Joe Biden had this past week …
Lyz Lenz / HuffPost:
A 19th-Century Law Dismantled The KKK. Now It Could Bring Down A New Generation Of Extremists. — In a Virginia courthouse this week, a historic trial will begin that aims to unravel the real motivations of the far-right activists behind the 2017 Charlottesville riot.