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5:30 PM ET, October 30, 2021

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Washington Post:
During Jan. 6 riot, Trump attorney told Pence team the vice president's actions caused attack on Capitol  —  As Vice President Mike Pence hid from a marauding mob during the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, an attorney for President Donald Trump emailed a top Pence aide to say that Pence …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Most Damning Jan 6th Revelation Yet  —  New Emails Show Trump and Eastman Saw the Insurrectionists as the Foot Soldiers of the Coup.  They Cheered Them on and Used Them in Real Time.  —  As I have noted in other recent posts, much of the recent ‘news’ about the insurrection has not been terribly new.
Washington Post:
Read: Pence aide Greg Jacob's draft opinion article denouncing Trump's outside lawyers  —  Below is the text of a draft op-ed Greg Jacob wrote in January 2021, when he was chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence, but ultimately decided not to publish.  The Washington Post obtained a copy …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Call logs, speech drafts among records Trump is trying to block from Jan. 6 investigators  —  Donald Trump is seeking to prevent Jan. 6 investigators from accessing daily presidential diaries, drafts of election-related speeches, logs of his phone calls, handwritten notes and files of top aides …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The most shocking new revelation about John Eastman
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Raw Story
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
John Eastman Blamed Pence for Violence at Jan. 6 Riot
Discussion: HuffPost and Daily Kos
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
New January 6 court filings reveal what Trump is trying to keep secret from Congress
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump wants call logs, aide's notes hidden from Jan. 6 panel
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Joe.My.God. and WPTA21
CNN:   Trump lawyer John Eastman said ‘courage and the spine’ would help Pence send election to the House in comments before January 6
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Group of anti-Trump Republicans was behind tiki torches in Virginia campaign  —  A group of mostly Republican critics of former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed responsibility on Friday for a demonstration in the Virginia governor's campaign that recalled an infamous 2017 rally in the state.
Discussion: The Right Scoop and Twitchy
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Dan Merica / CNN:
McAuliffe says Virginia election ‘is not about Trump’ after making former President central figure in campaign  —  Trump has been relatively hands off.  Smerconish has a theory why  —  Virginia Beach, Virginia (CNN)Terry McAuliffe claimed on Saturday that the Virginia gubernatorial election is …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
The 5 key groups fueling Youngkin's rise
Discussion: Breitbart, Yahoo News and HotAir
Isaac Schorr / National Review:
Lincoln Project Claims Credit for Racial Hoax at Youngkin Event
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘This is a powder keg’: AR-15-loving church aligning itself with the far right as it grows  —  According to a report from Business Insider, the Rod of Iron ministry that worships the AR-15 and is decidedly pro-Donald Trump, is increasingly aligning itself with far-right figures as evidenced by a recent …
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Alia Shoaib / Insider:   A gun church that glorifies the AR-15 and is led by the son of the ‘Moonies’ church founder has been making alliances with far-right figures
The White House:
Joint Statement by the President of France Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Boris Johnson, and President of the United States Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on Iran  —  We, the President of France, Chancellor of Germany …
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Western leaders warn Iran on nuclear deal
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Kate McGee / The Texas Tribune:
911 transcripts filed in updated “Trump Train” lawsuit reveal San Marcos police refused to send escort to Biden bus  —  The highway confrontation between a Biden bus and Trump supporters made national news in the final days of the heated 2020 presidential campaign.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Ruth Serven Smith / al.com:
Samford disinvites historian Jon Meacham after student anti-abortion protest  —  Want more state education news?  Sign up for The Alabama Education Lab's free, weekly newsletter, Ed Chat.  —  Samford University has uninvited Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham from inauguration ceremonies …
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
How 'Let's Go Brandon' became code for insulting Joe Biden  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended an Oct. 21 House floor speech with a fist pump and the phrase “Let's go, Brandon!” it may have seemed cryptic and weird to many who were listening.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Inside the last-ditch effort by Democratic women to pressure Manchin and salvage paid family and medical leave  —  The party's still-forming $1.75 trillion economic package jettisoned the long-time priority to win over the West Virginia moderate.  But many Democrats aren't yet ready to give up the fight.
Discussion: The Hill
Axios:
House aims to pass infrastructure and social spending bills on Tuesday  —  House Democratic leaders are telling lawmakers they plan to pass both a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and a $1.75 trillion social spending bill as early as Tuesday, two sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and Bloomberg
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
G-20 leaders endorse global minimum tax  —  Leaders of the world's largest economies are endorsing the establishment of a global minimum tax at the opening of the Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Rome on Saturday.  —  The global minimum tax seeks to block corporations from moving jobs or profits overseas in order to avoid paying taxes.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court embarks on most dramatic reckoning for abortion rights in decades  —  The Supreme Court will face a bramble of unsettled legal questions when it reviews Texas's most-restrictive-in-the-nation abortion law Monday, but the inquiry itself is evidence of a changed court whose view …
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Vaccine confers better protection than natural immunity, CDC finds  —  American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator.  —  WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, the conservative radio host Dennis Prager announced he had contracted the coronavirus.  This was, as far as he was concerned, good news.
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
De Blasio makes moves toward his political future as spotlight focuses on others  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio was in his element, just as New York's political lens was focusing on others.  —  Hours before a throng of candidates gathered for a pre-Election Day rally in Manhattan last Sunday …
Discussion: New York Times
Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:
University of Florida bars faculty members from testifying in voting rights lawsuit against DeSantis administration  —  The University of Florida barred three faculty members from testifying for plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a voting-restrictions law enthusiastically embraced by Gov. Ron DeSantis …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Florida Bars State Professors From Testifying in Voting Rights Case
 
 
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Making ‘Last Ditch’ Effort to Skip Deposition, Zervos Says
Discussion: Raw Story
Pedro Gonzalez / Chronicles:
Lobbyist Alleges Cato Institute ‘Mercenaries’ Are Paid to Push Pro-Immigration Studies
Discussion: Page Array
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's promise to progressives
Tom Mackaman / World Socialist Web Site:
Woody Holton retreats from Dunmore Proclamation claims in “historians' debate” with Gordon Wood
Discussion: Slate
Reuters:
Taliban says failure to recognise their government could have global effects
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CBS News:
Virginia malls and shopping centers increase security amid ISIS threat
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
When will disinfo journalists talk about Joy Reid?
 Earlier Items: 
Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
Mask Mandates, Critical Race Theory Heat Up School-Board Elections
Jessica Grose / New York Times:
When Will Kids' Masks Come Off at School?
Financial Times:
Allies lobby Biden to prevent shift to ‘no first use’ of nuclear arms
Discussion: rbc.ru
Kieran Healy:
The Polarization of Death  —  I'm continuing to update the covdata package in anticipation …
Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
A Black chief diversity officer lost a job offer after flagging racial bias