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Democrats Clash on Billionaire Tax as Neal Rejects Senate Plan — Senate proposal to tax billionaires lasted less than a day — Lawmakers are wrangling over revenue to pay for spending bill — The head of the House tax-writing committee said a proposal to put a levy on the assets …
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New York Times, Insider, The Hill, Shore News Network, Chicago Sun-Times, Roll Call and Political Wire
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Live Updates: Ahead of Meeting With White House Team, Manchin Criticizes Billionaire Tax Plan — Here's what you need to know: — Manchin denounces the Democrats' plan to tax billionaires as divisive. — Senate Democrats' plan to extract hundreds of billions of dollars from the wealth …
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USA Today, Townhall, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Common Dreams, Politico, Kevin Drum and No Labels
ABC News:
Manchin raises concerns over billionaires' tax as Democrats scramble to close social spending deal
Manchin raises concerns over billionaires' tax as Democrats scramble to close social spending deal
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Politico, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Denver Post
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Manchin pitches ‘patriotic’ 15% billionaires tax
Manchin pitches ‘patriotic’ 15% billionaires tax
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Bloomberg, Washington Times, CNN, TheBlaze, HotAir, The Daily Caller, Media Matters for America, Insider, NBC News and The Hill
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An Open Letter in Defense of Democracy — The future of democracy in the United States is in danger. — (DESIGN BY HANNAH YOEST / PHOTOS: GETTYIMAGES / SHUTTERSTOCK) — [This open letter is being published simultaneously by The Bulwark and the New Republic.]
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Common Dreams, Salon, Raw Story and Morning Shots
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A fear grows in Trumpworld: Have we gone too conspiratorial? — For months, conspiracies about the 2020 election being stolen from Donald Trump have fueled Republican efforts nationwide to rewrite election laws. But now, some GOP operatives and Trumpworld luminaries are worried …
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HotAir, Alternet.org, No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Times, Rolling Stone, CNN, Raw Story and The Daily Beast
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Why the Virginia Election Is Freaking Democrats Out — Ms. Cottle is a member of the editorial board. — With just under a week to go, the governor's race in Virginia has gotten tighter than Spanx on a hippo, prompting much agita in Democratic circles. When the Democrats won full control …
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Virginia's Youngkin spotlights woman who tried to ban Toni Morrison's ‘Beloved’
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Washington Post, Alternet.org, First Draft, Daily Kos and TheGrio
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Remarks by President Biden at Grassroots Event with Terry McAuliffe
Remarks by President Biden at Grassroots Event with Terry McAuliffe
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President Trump Responds on Pennsylvania's 2020 Election — Donald Trump writes a letter to the editor. — In your editorial “The Election for Pennsylvania's High Court” (Oct. 25), you state the fact that a court wrongly said mail-in ballots could be counted after Election Day.
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Washington Post, Mediaite and Raw Story
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Attorney General Letitia James Poised to Announce Run for Governor, Sources Say — James has been filming a campaign ad as her aides call elected officials and labor leaders to seek support, THE CITY has learned. She's set to take on Gov. Kathy Hochul, who got the top job …
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Marjorie Taylor Greene invested as much as $50,000 in the Trump SPAC before its stock plunged — New York (CNN Business)Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought as much as $50,000 worth of shares in a shell company that is merging with former President Donald Trump's new media venture, according to a financial disclosure form.
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New York Post and Joe.My.God.
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Cotton tells Garland: 'Thank God you're not on the Supreme Court' — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday clashed with Republican senators over the Justice Department's efforts to crack down on violent threats against school boards, with one GOP member telling the former judge, “Thank God you're not on the Supreme Court.”
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Insider, The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, Washington Times, The Federalist and Twitchy
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Merrick Garland Says He'll Keep Targeting Parents Even After School Board Group Apologized For Its Bogus ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Claims
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Tom Cotton to AG Garland: ‘Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court’
Tom Cotton to AG Garland: ‘Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court’
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RedState
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Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons. — Facebook has told employees to “preserve internal documents and communications since 2016” that pertain to its businesses because governments and legislative bodies have started inquiries into its operations …
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New York Post and Politico, more at Techmeme »
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Murphy Maintains Lead — Slight narrowing in governor race, but little change overall — West Long Branch, NJ - Phil Murphy maintains a sizable lead over Jack Ciattarelli, although the margin has narrowed over the past two months, according to the final Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll of the New Jersey governor's race.
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Washington Free Beacon, National Review, Joe.My.God., NBC New York, Bloomberg, New Jersey Monitor, Politico and Washington Times
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Trump-Backed QAnon Candidates Launch Group to ‘Control the Election System’ — A coalition of right-wing MAGA candidates, including multiple Trump-backed candidates, are seeking to take control of elections in states across the U.S.—and one says they're formally working with a group of conspiracy theorists …
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Joe.My.God., Raw Story and Daily Kos
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David Perdue is considering a primary challenge against Brian Kemp — Former U.S. Sen. David Perdue is seriously considering mounting a Republican primary challenge against Gov. Brian Kemp, according to a number of GOP activists and operatives, which would set up a divisive showdown between …
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The Hill
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Bidenomics Is Working — Consumer prices are high and rising, and so is disapproval of Joe Biden. In recent days, the president's net-favorability rating has hit new lows in FiveThirtyEight's aggregation of polls. Meanwhile, America's headlines are full of testaments to economic discontent.
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Alternet.org
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema wore a denim vest to preside over the Senate. Here's why that matters — We see you, Senator. We really do. — But that's no surprise, is it? After all, it's what you seem to want. — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona's walking, talking headline — well …
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Washington Examiner
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How did Florida end up with one of the best COVID-19 case and death rates in the US despite Gov Ron DeSantis refusing to implement mask or vaccine mandates? — During the peak of the recent COVID-19 surge in Florida, the state was recording 101 cases per 100,000 people and 1.77 new deaths per 100,000
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Florida judge rules Trump can't skirt Twitter's terms just because he was president in latest legal setback — A Florida federal judge ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump's status as a former president does not exclude him from following Twitter's terms of service, the latest setback in his quest …
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The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, Insider, Morning Consult, One America News Network, Joe.My.God. and Forbes
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U.S. General Likens China's Hypersonic Weapon Test to ‘Sputnik Moment’ — Top U.S. general says suspected test is ‘very concerning’ — Afghan war a failure as the ‘regime that we supported lost’ — The U.S.'s top uniformed military officer called China's suspected test …
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MSN, Stars & Stripes, Axios, National Review, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Townhall, Al Jazeera, Defense One and Washington Examiner
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Job Market Ratings Set Record, but Economic Confidence Slides — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in the economy continues to weaken, and their mentions of a variety of economic issues as the nation's most important problem are rising — even as a record-high 74% say it is a good time to find a quality job.
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The Hill
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Cybercriminals claim to have hacked the NRA — A notorious Russian cybercriminal group has posted what appear to be National Rifle Association files to the dark web. — The group, known as Grief, posted 13 files to its website Wednesday and claimed to have hacked the NRA.
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The Daily Beast, Bangor Daily News and Washington Times
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The Supreme Court case that could gut America's gun laws, explained — More than a century of gun laws are potentially on the chopping block. — For nearly all its history, the Supreme Court kept its distance from gun policy. Now it's about to decide a case that could radically reduce the government's power to regulate guns.
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Sacramento Bee, Daily Kos and SCOTUSblog
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The M25 is our Maginot Line — Anyone who believes there are biological differences between men and women is literally a Nazi — This article is taken from the October 2021 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we're offering five issue for just £10.
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Actually, Facebook isn't making people angrier. Some people are just jerks. — People share disinformation to hurt the other side, this research shows. — The Wall Street Journal's reports on Facebook's leaked internal documents — and other recent media investigations and public testimony …
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Some ‘very fine people’ walk into a courthouse — Dispatch from the big federal lawsuit in Charlottesville — Greetings from Charlottesville. Today is the third day of Sines v. Kessler, the federal lawsuit brought against the organizers of the white supremacist rampage that turned …
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Washington Post
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All About the Bidens: Introducing RealClearInvestigations' Hunter Biden Reader — This is RealClearInvestigations' Hunter Biden Reader, a compendium of news reports aggregated across the political spectrum documenting the dubious dealings and apparent influence peddling of Joe Biden's errant son and other family members.
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Real Clear Politics
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Warning: Joe Biden's ‘eat the rich’ pitch may come back to bite you — President Joe Biden has struggled to get the massive new spending bill through Congress with a pitch that would make Joe Isuzu blush: “We talk about price tags. It is zero price tag” and “My Build Back Better agenda costs zero dollars.”
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TaxProf Blog
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Boston Medical Center surgeon fined for leaving operating room to eat in his car, then falling asleep and missing the procedure — The longtime head of spine surgery at Boston Medical Center has been reprimanded by state regulators and fined $5,000 for leaving an operating room before the start …
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The Daily Beast
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Vaccine eligibility for mood disorders underscores elevated covid risk — When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added mood disorders to the list of conditions that put people at high risk for severe covid-19 recently, clinicians were not surprised. The mind-body connection, they say, is long-settled research.
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Washington Examiner and KOKI-TV