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11:05 PM ET, November 6, 2021

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Andrew Solender / Axios:
The infrastructure Republicans  —  Some of the swing-district House Republicans who crossed party lines to help Democrats pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill told Axios they believe they can survive the political fallout from their own party — and that their vote strengthens …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP erupts over its House members bailing out Biden  —  In Tuesday's election, Republicans served notice that the clock is ticking on Democrats' slim majorities in Congress.  On Friday, 13 House Republicans delivered the decisive votes to rescue a key part of President Biden's agenda — an agenda endangered by those in his own party.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Patience, persistence pay off as Biden brings infrastructure package across finish line  —  Bipartisan deal would have ramifications for roads, bridges, ports, and broadband access across the entire country, delivering on a campaign promise.  —  Less than 10 months after taking office …
The White House:   Fact Sheet: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal
Ricochet:
13 Republican Congressmen Save Pelosi, Biden on $1.2T Infrastructure Vote
Discussion: Vox, Insider and Power Line
New York Times:
Election Results in Virginia Prove Things Can Get Worse for Democrats  —  Republicans ran up the margins in rural Virginia counties, the latest sign that Democrats, as one lawmaker put it, “continue to tank in small-town America.”  —  HOT SPRINGS, Va. — The increasingly liberal politics …
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Politico:
Rural Democrats stare into the abyss after Virginia
Discussion: Fox News and HuffPost
New York Times:
F.B.I. Searches James O'Keefe's Home in Ashley Biden Diary Theft Inquiry  —  Authorities carried out a court-ordered search at the New York apartment of the Project Veritas founder two days after searching the homes of his associates.  —  Federal authorities on Saturday searched the home of James O'Keefe …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
House 6 January panel to issue new round of subpoenas for Trump allies  — Focus on events at Willard hotel ‘command center’  — John Eastman among about 20 individuals in committee's sights  —  The House select committee investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Merrick Garland is caught in a pickle with Steve Bannon
New York Times:
The Congressional Black Caucus Was Key to the Infrastructure Vote  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the chairwoman of the caucus, Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, to announce a key deal, understanding that the lawmaker had more influence at that point than she did.
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Grace Segers / New Republic:
The Democrats Finally Get Their Act Together on Infrastructure
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
U.S. federal appeals court freezes Biden's vaccine rule for companies  —  A U.S. federal appeals court issued a stay Saturday freezing the Biden administration's efforts to require workers at U.S. companies with at least 100 employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested weekly, citing …
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
GOP-appointed judges freeze Biden vaccine requirement after federal lawsuit
Glen Owen / Daily Mail:
Joe Biden or the new Mr Trump?  Camilla 'hasn't stopped talking about' hearing the President ‘break wind’ during chat at Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow  — President Joe Biden met Duchess of Cornwall during reception on Monday  — They made polite small talk and Camilla was shocked to hear Biden break wind
Discussion: The Right Scoop and NOQ Report
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Susan Estrich / New York Post:   Terry McAuliffe's doom: Joe Biden and the price of eggs
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
'It's a walkout!' … BRADFORD, Pa. — Dustin Snyder was tired of the low wages, the 60-hour workweeks and the impossible-to-please customers, and so in early September the assistant general manager at a McDonald's here drafted a petition that laid bare months of building anger and frustration.
New York Times:
Georgia Grand Jury Looms in Trump Inquiry  —  An Atlanta D.A. is said to be likely to impanel a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of election interference by the former president and his allies.  —  As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot fights …
Discussion: Raw Story
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
Americans Are Flush With Cash and Jobs.  They Also Think the Economy Is Awful.  —  The psychological effects of inflation seem to have the upper hand.  —  Americans are, by many measures, in a better financial position than they have been in many years.  They also believe the economy is in terrible shape.
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
How Police Justify Killing Drivers: The Vehicle Was a Weapon  —  A Times investigation into a common defense for shooting motorists found that some officers had put themselves in danger.  Others appeared to face no peril at all.  —  PHENIX CITY, Ala. — On a Sunday in May 2017 …
Matt Bonesteel / Washington Post:
Aaron Rodgers lashes out against NFL, ‘woke mob’ in defense of vaccination status  —  Decrying the “woke mob,” “cancel culture” and what he described as a “witch hunt” against him, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers vigorously defended his decision not to be vaccinated …
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Kylee Zempel / The Federalist:
9 Truths From Aaron Rodgers' Explosive Vaxx Interview You Aren't Allowed To Say
Discussion: NBC News, SBNation.com and CBS News
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Wokeness Derails the Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — In Shakespeare, when characters want to fulfill their desires, they escape to what's been called the Green World.  —  And that's what Democrats promised voters: that they could leave behind the vitriol and aggravation of Donald Trump's America …
Jake Cordell / The Moscow Times:
Russia Faces $2T in Stranded Hydrocarbon Assets in Net Zero World  —  Researchers say more than half of Russia's oil and gas infrastructure could be worthless within the next 15 years.  —  Russia could be left with almost $2 trillion in worthless hydrocarbon assets if major economies hit …
CNN:
Moms who voted for Biden explain why they voted for a Republican in Virginia  —  CNN's Pamela Brown sits down with some White suburban moms from Virginia about what made them vote for a Republican in the recent governor's race, despite voting for Biden for president in 2020.  Source: CNN
Rachel Ramirez / CNN:
Generation Climate: How the crisis made young people the adults in the room  —  (CNN)Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018.  She didn't consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after that disaster she and her younger siblings …
Kimberley Strassel / New York Post:
Inside the Clinton dossier and the con behind the Russiagate scandal  —  The nation argued for five years over the infamous Steele dossier, the document on which the FBI relied to investigate Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.  It should have been called the Clinton dossier.
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Melissa Gomez / Los Angeles Times:
UC Hastings College of the Law to rename school after reviewing founder's role in mass killings of Yuki Indians
City Journal:
Goodbye, MIT  —  As the university increasingly caves to “wokeness,” two alumni explain …
Scott Barry Kaufman / The Atlantic:
What Collective Narcissism Does to Society
Hadley Freeman / The Guardian:
Huma Abedin on Anthony Weiner: ‘He ripped my heart out and stomped on it over and over again’
The White House:
Remarks by President Biden on Passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal
New York Times:
Infrastructure Bill Makes First Major U.S. Investment in Climate Resilience
Discussion: The Hill and Florida Politics
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Democrats Choosing Less Risky Path on Drug Prices
Michelle R. Martinelli / USA Today:
NASCAR president denounces 'Let's Go Brandon' chant: 'We're not happy about that'
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 Earlier Items: 
Elizabeth Faddis / Washington Examiner:
13 Republicans under fire for breaking ranks on infrastructure bill
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. Supervisor Dean Preston invited YIMBYs to look at his housing record. They panned it.
Benjamin Carter Hett / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: When politicians claim professors like me are the enemy, what are they really attacking?
Jason Farago / New York Times:
Hunter Biden: Emotionally Honest, Generically Smooth
Discussion: Real Climate Science
New York Times:
Trapped in a Pandemic Funk: Millions of Americans Can't Shake a Gloomy Outlook
Discussion: Political Wire
 

 
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
A US FTC report on the data practices of Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six other companies finds “vast surveillance” of consumers to monetize their information

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after a long courtship; the lobbying group's other members are Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and WBD

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Amazon's Twitch is launching The Glitch, a “brand-customizable” game world in Fortnite, on September 20, with two brand partners having their own in-game worlds

 
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