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10:30 AM ET, November 9, 2021

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Former VA administrator and Georgia senator Max Cleland dies at home  —  Former U.S. senator and Veterans Administration leader Max Cleland died Tuesday more than 53 years after a live grenade dropped by a fellow soldier in Vietnam robbed him of three limbs.The injuries, however …
Discussion: The Hill
Jonathan D. Karl / The Atlantic:
The Man Who Made January 6 Possible  —  In late October 2020, Donald Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was attending the confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett when his cellphone rang.  He answered with a whisper and walked out to the hallway to take the call.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Reuters:
USA-ELECTION/THREATS  —  Law enforcement has taken little action as backers of Donald Trump aim stark threats at election officials.  Reuters tracked down nine of the harassers.  Most were unrepentant.  —  This story contains text, images and audio clips with offensive language.
Phill Swagel / CBO Publications:
CBO's Schedule for Releasing a Cost Estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act  —  The Congressional Budget Office is in the process of preparing a cost estimate for the current version of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act (Rules Committee Print 117-18 incorporating a manager's amendment by Congressman Yarmuth).
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Tim Mak / NPR:
A secret tape made after Columbine shows the NRA's evolution on school shootings  —  Soon after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, senior leaders of the National Rifle Association huddled on a conference call to consider canceling their annual convention, scheduled just days later and a few miles away.
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:
Aaron Rodgers Didn't Just Lie  —  His lies, his illogical defense, and his hubris damage all professional athletes.  —  Professional athletes have come so far from the dark days when the public saw them as perpetually partying adolescents, mean-spirited bullies, and worse …
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Republican congressman details threatening voicemail he received after voting for bipartisan infrastructure bill  —  Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Fred Upton on Monday shared a threatening voicemail he had received after voting for the bipartisan infrastructure bill last week.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump makes — and loses — overnight bid to block Jan. 6 investigators  —  If you blinked you missed it.  —  Former President Donald Trump filed an emergency request to a federal judge late Monday night to prevent the National Archives from sending sensitive records to Jan. 6 committee investigators by Friday.
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.
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 …
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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.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A Trump-backed Senate hopeful takes the stand  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  PARNELL DOUBTS GROW — All eyes are on SEAN PARNELL when he testifies today for the second and final time in an ugly child custody battle with his estranged wife, LAURIE SNELL.
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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’
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Producer prices rise 8.6%, matching September record high  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level rose 8.6% last month from a year earlier, matching September's record annual gain and offering more evidence that inflationary pressures are not yet easing.
Discussion: National Review and Townhall
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Postal Banking Test in the Bronx Yields No Customers  —  From September 13 to October 31, not a single customer put a paycheck on a gift card in one of the four test locations.  —  While 9.4 percent of New York City households have no bank account, in the Bronx that number nearly doubles to 17.7 percent.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Rep. Paul Gosar tweets altered anime video showing him killing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden  —  Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) shared an altered, animated video that depicts him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and swinging two swords at President Biden …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
What Moves Swing Voters  —  A creative new poll tries to understand.  —  Political pundits often talk about swing voters as if they were upscale suburbanites, like “soccer moms” or “office-park dads.”  And some are.  But many are blue-collar.  They are the successors to the so-called Reagan Democrats …
Discussion: Jacobin
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Crisis brews in Bosnia as U.S., EU stand by  —  The international community's top representative in Bosnia is sounding the alarm over the “very real” possibility of a return to conflict, citing secessionist maneuvers by the Serb member of the country's tripartite presidency.
Discussion: Financial Times
Jeremy Tombs / WKYT-TV:
Sen. Mitch McConnell tours AppHarvest facility in Morehead  —  MOREHEAD, Ky. (WKYT) - Monday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a trip to Morehead to tour AppHarvest's facility.  —  After his tour with AppHarvest founder and CEO Jonathan Webb, Senator McConnell addressed dozens …
Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:
Ron DeSantis enemies list targets DNC member for “sleeping dragons” and viral tweets  —  Thomas Kennedy embarrassed Florida's governor.  DeSantis' office directed the state's top law enforcement agency to disseminate criminal intelligence about him.  —  Florida's top statewide law enforcement …
Jake Silverstein / New York Times:
The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History  —  Fights over how we tell our national story go back more than a century — and have a great deal to teach us about our current divisions.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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: Insider, TheBlaze and Sacramento Bee
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
What ‘Structural Racism’ Really Means  —  Whether for inspiration, new ideas or simply as a refresher, it is important to revisit the classics of whatever constitutes your field of interest.  It was with that in mind that I spent much of the weekend rereading the 1948 book, “Caste, Class …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Starbucks Wants Union Vote Delayed in Buffalo  —  The move, and a visit by the company's former chief executive days before the scheduled start of balloting at three Buffalo-area stores, reflect the stakes.  —  Just days before workers at three Starbucks stores in the Buffalo area were scheduled …
Washington Post:
Why millions of job seekers aren't getting hired in this hot job market  —  The United States has a record number of job openings, but many firms continue to favor candidates with several years of experience, availability to work evening or weekend hours, and a willingness to work in-person
Discussion: Daily Kos and Florida Politics
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
“Critical Race Theory” and actual education policy, part two  —  The core problem is a dangerous attack on efforts to measure learning  —  In yesterday's post I wrote about two recent trends in progressive education policy that have (rightly, I think) annoyed a lot of people …
Discussion: National Review
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
Unscientific Method  —  An astronomer's peer-reviewed work is passed under the “equity” lens and found wanting.  —  The Social Order  —  Another day, another retraction of a scientific paper for violating the code of diversity.  On November 1, astronomer John Kormendy withdrew an article …
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.
Discussion: RedState and Twitchy
Politico:
The Senate's year-end to-do list is ‘going to be a train wreck’  —  As Mark Warner considers the Senate work left undone as the holiday season dawns, he's weighing a couple of potentially ugly scenarios.  —  “Having only other senators to kiss on New Year's Eve?” the Virginia Democrat deadpanned …
Washington Examiner:
Randi Weingarten should have learned in school that she cannot fool everyone  —  On Oct. 25, just days before Virginia's governor's race, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten tweeted out with gleeful approval an opinion article in the Washington Post.
 
 
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
A ‘war on books’: Conservatives push for audits of school libraries
Laura Zhou / South China Morning Post:
Chinese diplomats call on US to not show off power over South China Sea
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
More than 360,000 U.S. children under 12 have already received a coronavirus vaccine
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Bloomberg:
Brainard Interviewed by Biden for Fed Chair as Search Heats Up
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Red states draw GOP-friendly maps as Dems despair
Tyler O'Neil / Fox Business:
Children's book series hails ‘Heroes of Liberty’ like Ronald Reagan, Amy Coney Barrett, Thomas Sowell
Paloma Esquivel / Los Angeles Times:
Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading
Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
White House tells businesses to proceed with vaccine mandate despite court-ordered pause