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USA Today:
McAuliffe and Youngkin are in a dead heat with one week to Virginia governor election, poll shows — Phillip M. Bailey David JacksonUSA TODAY — Virginia's bellwether race for governor remains close in the final stretch of a campaign that is testing President Joe Biden's sagging approval numbers going into the 2022 midterms.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republican Leaders Could Still Stop Trump. They Just Don't Want To. Trump wants to take over. Republicans just want party unity. — If Terry McAuliffe holds on to defeat Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia governor's race, a large number of Republicans will blame Donald Trump.
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Breitbart
Politico:
‘This could be the ballgame:’ Biden goes all-in on Virginia
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CNN, Washington Examiner, Breitbart and The Daily Wire
Washington Post:
Terry McAuliffe should not fan the flames of voter suspicion
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Mediaite, IJR and National Review
Washington Post:
Fight over teaching ‘Beloved’ book in schools becomes hot topic in Virginia governor's race
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NBC News, Insider, Joe.My.God., The Daily Wire, HuffPost and HotAir
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
In Virginia Governor's Race, Biden Barely Rates a Mention
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Fox News
Washington Post:
Democrats quietly scramble to include immigration provision in social spending bill — Democrats are scrambling intensely behind-the-scenes to address immigration in the framework they are crafting to expand the nation's social safety net, according to people with knowledge of the situation …
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Politico, Bloomberg, ImmigrationProf Blog and CNN
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's new problem on the left — DRIVING THE DAY — A SIGN OF THE TIMES — ELON MUSK, the wealthiest man in the world, is now worth more than Exxon Mobil, per Bloomberg. — GRUMBLING ON THE LEFT — President JOE BIDEN might be finally homing in on a deal with Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.), the elusive moderate.
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Reuters, WTOP and Political Wire
John Nichols / The Nation:
Joe Manchin's Surefire Strategy to Ensure That Democrats Lose in 2022
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New York Magazine
Associated Press:
Billionaire tax hits critics as Biden pushes for budget deal
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Biden and Democrats Push for Budget Deal This Week as Rifts Remain
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Washington Post:
Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook's formula fostered rage and misinformation … Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”
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Washington Post:
How Facebook shapes your feed … Facebook's news feed algorithm has been blamed for fanning sectarian hatred, steering users toward extremism and conspiracy theories, and incentivizing politicians to take more divisive stands. It's in the spotlight thanks to waves of revelations …
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Vanity Fair, more at Mediagazer »
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
In case at center of political firestorm, judge finds teen committed sexual assault in Virginia school bathroom — In a case that has generated a political firestorm, a Virginia juvenile court judge found sufficient evidence during a trial Monday to sustain charges that a teen sexually assaulted …
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HotAir, WTOP, National Review, Yahoo News, The Western Journal, WJLA-TV, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy and No More Mister Nice Blog
Steve Gorman / Reuters:
Texas governor signs bill banning transgender girls from female sports in schools — Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday signed into law a bill banning transgender girls from participating in female sports at public schools, joining a wave of similar measures emerging from Republican-controlled statehouses across the country.
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The Texas Tribune, The 19th, The Daily Wire and National Review
Politico:
Jan. 6 investigators privately question Bannon associate — Dustin Stockton, a conservative activist linked to Steve Bannon, is fielding questions Monday from congressional investigators scrutinizing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to two sources familiar with the interview.
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump is killing American democracy
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A.B. Stoddard / Real Clear Politics:
GOP Bets Swing Voters Will Downplay the Insurrection Too
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Washington Examiner, New York Magazine and Raw Story
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid Cases Keep Falling — Covid cases have been falling in every region of the U.S., offering hope. — It is time for one of The Morning's occasional updates on the state of the pandemic. Today's is focused on the U.S. and organized around three main points. — 1. Covid's retreat continues
Claudia Irizarry Aponte / THE CITY:
Rep. Espaillat Campaign Paid Thousands to Online Influencers Who Delivered Flattering Posts — The bloggers' videos and articles do not disclose their financial ties to the Bronx and Manhattan congressman — exploiting a legal gray area as paid social media influencers play a growing role in campaigns nationally.
Washington Examiner:
Get politics out of the CDC — Go to any school in Europe, and you'll see happy children running, reading, and learning — all without any masks on their little faces. But here in the United States, 10 states and countless counties have mandated the wearing of masks for even the youngest kindergartners.
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
They left Facebook's integrity team. Now they want the world to know how it works. — Shortly before he left Facebook in October 2019, Jeff Allen published his last report as a data scientist for the company's integrity team — the team Facebook Papers whistleblower Frances Haugen has recently made famous.
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Robby Soave / Reason:
The Facebook Papers Are a Big Fat Nothingburger
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Ryan Burge / New York Times:
Why ‘Evangelical’ Is Becoming Another Word for ‘Republican’ — Mr. Burge, an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor, has written extensively about the interaction of religion and politics. — The conventional wisdom about religion …
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Raw Story
Avi Mayer / Yahoo News:
Hate is on the rise: Antisemitism surges on America's far left and far right. — In May, as Hamas rockets exploded in Israeli cities and Israeli aircraft targeted terrorist infrastructure in Gaza, thousands of miles away, American Jews were under attack. — A young man wearing a kippah …
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Times of Israel
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Arlington County Board candidate who said she was 52 is actually 72, records show — Arlington County Board candidate Audrey Clement, who previously told news outlets that she is in her early 50s, appears to be two decades older, according to government records.
Washington Post:
Immigration arrests fell to lowest level in more than a decade during fiscal 2021, ICE data shows — Immigration arrests in the interior of the United States fell in fiscal 2021 to the lowest level in more than a decade — roughly half the annual totals recorded during the Trump administration …
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Raw Story
Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Dave Chappelle Willing to Discuss ‘The Closer’ With Trans Community, but Says He's 'Not Bending to Anybody's Demands' … Dave Chappelle has spoken out about the controversy over his Netflix special “The Closer” in a new stand-up video, saying that he is willing to meet with transgender Netflix employees …
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Washington Post:
In advance of climate summit, tension among Biden aides on China policy — In the early summer, with less than five months to go before a critical United Nations climate conference in Scotland, John F. Kerry told President Biden that he wouldn't achieve his goal of tackling climate change …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, New York Times, NPR and HotAir
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
White House rejects latest Trump claim of executive privilege — The White House is rejecting more claims of executive privilege from former President Trump over documents requested by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, directing the National Archives …
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
Weekly Update: #COVID19 case & death rates by county, partisan lean & vaccination rate — Here's the weekly look at the rate of COVID-19 cases & deaths at the county level since the end of June, broken out by partisan lean (i.e, what percent of the vote Donald Trump received in 2020).
David Koenig / Associated Press:
Miles donations are providing flights for Afghan refugees — A campaign that began with ordinary people donating frequent-flyer miles has raised enough in two months to provide 40,000 flights for refugees from Afghanistan, and organizers and the White House are looking to nearly double that figure.
Jared Marcel Pollen / Quillette:
‘Woke Racism’—A Review — A review of Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter. Portfolio, 224 pages. (October, 2021) — If you had told someone a decade ago—after the election of the first black president, and in anticipation …
Financial Times:
Amazon strikes deal with UK spy agencies to host top-secret material — Cloud contract for GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 with US tech group aims to speed analysis but likely to ignite sovereignty fears — The UK's three spy agencies have contracted AWS, Amazon's cloud computing arm …
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Chrissy Clark / The Daily Caller:
Loudoun County Forces Parents To Sign NDA-Style Form To View CRT-Inspired Curriculum — Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is requiring parents to sign a form comparable to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to view a portion of the district's new curriculum inspired by critical race theory …
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