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10:25 PM ET, November 8, 2021

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Select Committee to Investigate …:
Select Committee Subpoenas Additional Witnesses Tied to Efforts to Overturn Election Results  —  Washington—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson today announced that the Select Committee has issued subpoenas to six individuals involved in efforts to promote false claims of election fraud or overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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Washington Post:
House Jan. 6 committee issues subpoenas to 6 top Trump advisers, including pair involved in Willard hotel ‘command center’  —  The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection issued subpoenas Monday to six top advisers to former president Donald Trump, including two who were active …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Indictment of Steele dossier source is more bad news for multiple media outlets  —  MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in December 2017 aired a special report on the Trump-Russia dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.  That document, claimed Maddow …
Discussion: HotAir and Twitchy
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
Six Degrees From Brookings: How a Liberal Think Tank Keeps Coming Up in the Russian Collusion Investigation
Discussion: New York Post
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder  —  The partisan gap in Covid's death toll has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.  —  As 2020 wound down, there were good reasons to believe that the death toll during the pandemic's first year might have been worse in red America.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Rep. Paul Gosar tweets photoshopped anime video showing him killing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden  —  Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) shared a photoshopped, animated video that depicts him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and swinging two swords at President Biden …
Niall Ferguson / Bloomberg:
I'm Helping to Start a New College Because Higher Ed Is Broken  —  Institutions dedicated to the search for truth have ossified into havens for liberal intolerance and administrative overreach.  —  If you enjoyed Netflix's “The Chair” — a lighthearted depiction of a crisis-prone English Department …
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Pano Kanelos / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
We Can't Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves. So We're Starting a New One.
Joe Lonsdale / New York Post:
Why I'm co-founding a new university dedicated to freedom of thought and study
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Eric Ting / SFGATE:
Gavin Newsom's wife, California Democrats bristle at questions about governor's continued absence  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom has not appeared publicly since abruptly canceling a visit to Glasgow, Scotland on Oct. 29 for a climate change conference, stirring considerable online speculation.
Discussion: Townhall and Political Wire
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CD Media:
BREAKING: Source Tells Children's Health Defense CA Gov Gavin Newsom Is Injured By Vaccine Booster, Not Seen In Weeks
Discussion: NOQ Report
Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
White House tells businesses to proceed with vaccine mandate despite court-ordered pause  — The White House on Monday said businesses should move forward with the requirements despite the court-ordered pause.  — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, considered …
Gene Johnson / Associated Press:
Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs  —  A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines.  —  Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn …
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
CNN:
CNN Poll: Majority of Americans say Biden isn't paying attention to nation's most important issues  —  (CNN)One year out from the 2022 midterm elections, 58% of Americans say President Joe Biden hasn't paid enough attention to the nation's most important problems, as a majority disapproves …
Discussion: Roll Call, HotAir and The Hill
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump told RNC chair he was leaving GOP to create new party, says new book  —  In his new book, Jonathan Karl shares what Trump said before backing down.  —  In an angry conversation on his final day as president, Donald Trump told the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee …
Christian Vanderbrouk / The Bulwark:
Notes on an Authoritarian Conspiracy: Inside the Claremont Institute's “79 Days to Inauguration” Report  —  The sun rises on January 6, 2021 while a nation is in crisis.  —  Michigan's presidential electors are in dispute after a mysterious fire in Detroit destroyed thousands of mail-in ballots …
Nathan Layne / Reuters:
Survivor of Rittenhouse shooting says he pointed gun at U.S. teen, tried to disarm him  —  The only protester shot by Kyle Rittenhouse to survive testified on Monday that he believed the U.S. teenager was an “active shooter” and was trying to disarm Rittenhouse when a bullet from the teen's semi-automatic rifle severed part of his arm.
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Paige Williams / New Yorker:   The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse Begins with Gruesome Videos and a Plea for Fact-Finding
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Deceptive Republican attack ad uses images from Trump presidency to depict ‘chaos’ under Biden  —  Keilar challenges Senator Scott on Trump's role in 2022 midterms  —  Washington (CNN)A new national television ad from House Republicans' campaign arm deceptively uses images …
Discussion: Raw Story, Townhall, The Hill and Axios
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A pollster tested 8 pieces of covid misinformation.  On 6 of 8, more Republicans said they were true than false.  —  Whatever one's views on the appropriateness of vaccine or mask mandates or other coronavirus-related policies, one fact about those debates is incontrovertible …
Discussion: Political Wire
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KFF:
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: Media and Misinformation
Sarakshi Rai / The Hill:
Ted Cruz wants Texas to secede if ‘things become hopeless’ in the US  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said that Texas should secede if Democrats “fundamentally” destroy the U.S. but added that “he is not ready to give up on America yet.”  —  “If the Democrats end the filibuster …
Discussion: Washington Times, HuffPost and Mediaite
John Wagner / Washington Post:
NRSC chair Rick Scott declines to say if Trump-backed Senate hopeful accused of strangling wife is right candidate for the job  —  Sen. Rick Scott, who heads the group that works to elect Senate Republicans, declined Monday to say whether Sean Parnell, a GOP hopeful in Pennsylvania …
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Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Lawyers for GOP Senate hopeful challenge abuse charges brought by estranged wife
Discussion: Breitbart and CNN
James Surowiecki / MSNBC:
How Covid became the unlikely hero of our inflation crisis  —  The message Americans have been getting about inflation from in recent months can be summed up in four words: Be afraid.  Very afraid. … It's a message that much of the media has been happy to spread, epitomized by an odd segment …
Discussion: Twitchy, Mediaite and Instapundit
The Moscow Times:
U.S. Capitol Rioter Seeks Asylum in Belarus - State TV  —  A man on the FBI's Most Wanted List for allegedly attacking police during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot is now seeking asylum in Belarus, the ex-Soviet country's state-run television reported Sunday.  —  Evan Neumann, 48 …
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell spent decades chasing power.  Now he heeds Trump, who mocks him and wants him gone.  —  How one of Washington's longtime Republican power players succumbed to the preeminence of the 45th president  —  As President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Insider
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
McConnell says Trump wrote foreword to his memoir. Trump says he didn't
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Red states draw GOP-friendly maps as Dems despair  —  Republican-controlled states have been cranking out new congressional maps that spell trouble for Democrats unless courts intervene.  —  Why it matters: Last week's Virginia and New Jersey results set off alarm bells for the party …
Alexandra Macon / Vogue:
Inside Ivy Getty's Fantasy Wedding Weekend in San Francisco  —  Artist and model Ivy Love Getty, the great granddaughter of J. Paul Getty and one of the heiresses to the oil fortune he amassed, married photographer Tobias Alexander Engel in a ceremony officiated by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at City Hall in San Francisco.
Discussion: Sacramento Bee and Page Six
David Corn / Mother Jones:
In the Middle of Infrastructure Talks, Joe Manchin Has Pursued a Book Deal  —  Fight disinformation.  Get a daily recap of the facts that matter.  Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.  —  Over the past few weeks, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has been involved in some of the most …
Tyler O'Neil / Fox Business:
Children's book series hails ‘Heroes of Liberty’ like Ronald Reagan, Amy Coney Barrett, Thomas Sowell  —  Editor of new book series decries ‘garbage and indoctrination’ in children's literature  —  Alex Berenson on Dr. Seuss, China, censorship  —  EXCLUSIVE: A forthcoming children's book …
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Paloma Esquivel / Los Angeles Times:
Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading  —  A few years ago, high school teacher Joshua Moreno got fed up with his grading system, which had become a points game.  —  Some students accumulated so many points early on that by the end of the term they knew …
S.E. Cupp / Rolling Stone:
Tucker Carlson Is a ‘Manipulative Son of a Bitch’ — and Other Thoughts from Adam Kinzinger  —  The outgoing Republican lawmaker gets candid about what he was ready to do Jan. 6, his next election, and whether Republicans will pay a price for their addiction to Donald Trump
Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
Canadian woman becomes first person diagnosed as suffering from ‘climate change’  —  “If we're not looking at the underlying cause, and we're just treating the symptoms, we're just gonna keep falling further and further behind,” the doctor responsible for the diagnosis said.  —  Story at a glance
Discussion: Power Line
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Covid-Related School Chaos Is a Problem for Democrats  —  Last Wednesday morning, Christopher Rufo, the architect of the right-wing crusade against critical race theory, sent me a message asking if I wanted to talk, I suppose because I was one of the first people to write about his project back in February.
Ruby Cramer / Politico:
'He's Comin' Across Like the F—ing Tin Man Up There'  —  The first voice you hear, somewhere off-camera, belongs to Jesse Moss, the filmmaker.  —  “Anything you want to make sure that I ask him?”  —  By this point, Moss has spent 11 months with his subject, filming him backstage at events …
 
 
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Curt Mills / The American Conservative:
Kamala Harris: Weakest Vice President Since Dan Quayle
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Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Does Adding Police Officers Reduce Crime? The Results Are Mixed
Max Hastings / Bloomberg:
Politicians Who Claim Churchill's Mantle Embody His Worst Traits
Washington Post:
Progressives ‘incredibly pessimistic’ they'll get what they want in social spending bill
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Could Michael Thurmond be Democrats' Plan B if Stacey Abrams doesn't run?
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Washington Post:
More countries are taking Americans hostage. The U.S. is losing its ability to stop it.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Leonard Pitts Jr / madison.com:
Good riddance to 34 New York City cops
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
When Keeping It ‘Woke’ Gets Racist, Liberals Should Say So
Discussion: Mediaite, HotAir and Washington Post
Robert Frank / CNBC:
Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he's selling stock
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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