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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyoming GOP votes to no longer recognize Rep. Cheney as a Republican  —  Wyoming Republican leaders voted this weekend to no longer recognize Rep. Liz Cheney as a member of their party.  —  The resolution, which does not strip Cheney of any tangible power, passed the Wyoming GOP Central Committee …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A victory lap and a reality check  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  It was all smiles and selfies at the White House on Monday as Democrats celebrated passage of the bipartisan infrastructure deal.  But rising voter concern about inflation has cast a pall over President JOE BIDEN's victory lap.
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Dem tension breaks, but to-do list looms  —  Presented by The American Petroleum Institute  —  With Anthony Adragna, Heather Caygle and Kyle Cheney.  —  SCOREKEEPER, SCREEN YOUR CALLS — Speaker Nancy Pelosi's message to her leadership team on Monday night was clear …
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Jenna Ellis' memo on stealing the 2020 election holds a lesson for Democrats  —  Another Trump lawyer wrote another memo pressuring Pence to overturn election  —  After losing the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump was obsessed with finding a route to remain in power.
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Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
In Another Trump Book, a Journalist's Belated Awareness Steals the Show … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.  —  By the looks of his formidable résumé, the veteran Beltway journalist Jonathan Karl shouldn't startle all that easily.
Discussion: HuffPost
Axios:
Goldman: “Inflation will get worse”  —  “The current inflation surge will get worse this winter before it gets better,” Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research warns clients in a “2022 U.S. Economic Outlook.”  —  Driving the news: But Goldman expects the economy “to reaccelerate …
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Matt Egan / CNN:
The unemployment rate will match 50-year low by end of 2022, Goldman Sachs says
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
Americans broadly support Supreme Court upholding Roe v. Wade and oppose Texas abortion law, Post-ABC poll finds  —  Americans say by a roughly 2-to-1 margin that the Supreme Court should uphold its landmark abortion decision in Roe v. Wade, and by a similar margin the public opposes …
Discussion: Althouse
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Sofi Sinozich / ABC News:
Majorities back maintaining Roe v. Wade, oppose states' abortion clinic restrictions (POLL)
Discussion: NBC News
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump allies pressed Defense Department to help overturn election, new book says  —  Michael Flynn told a DoD official that Democrats were “stealing the election.”  —  In the aftermath of the 2020 election, some of Donald Trump's closest allies embarked on an unprecedented effort …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
Waiting for the Apocalypse: The Unnerving New Normal  —  A few months ago, the humorist David Sedaris wrote about his joy at feeling he no longer had to care about political news.  Four years of “constant monitoring” of events, which a friend of his likened to having a second job, had left him exhausted.
Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Kevin McCarthy says he called Paul Gosar about now-deleted tweet  —  How Rep. Gosar's constituents reacted to the violent video he posted  —  (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told CNN that he called Rep. Paul Gosar last week after the Arizona Republican posted an anime video …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:   Trump supporters' logic of political violence should alarm us all
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Biden and Xi Pledge More Cooperation, but Offer No Breakthroughs  —  President Biden and China's leader, Xi Jinping, met for about three and a half hours.  U.S. officials said the talks were meant to reassure both sides that misunderstandings would not lead to unintended clashes.
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The Daily Beast:
Mary Trump: If Donald Runs Again, This Will Be the Reason  —  Mary Trump is honest about what she thinks about Biden's low approval ratings and what her uncle is brewing.  Plus, a Holocaust survivor's son shares a chilling Trump prediction.  —  Mary Trump knows her uncle, Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
David Pitt / USA Today:
Audit: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds improperly used COVID funds for salaries  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — A state audit report on government spending released Monday accused Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds of using nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds to pay salaries for 21 staff members …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Hill
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Donovan J. Thomas / Washington Post:   Cambridge, Md., mayor charged with 50 counts in revenge porn case
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Andrew Sullivan and the Narrative of the “MSM Narrative”  —  The narrative on MSM narratives is false.  —  Over the weekend Andrew Sullivan published a jeremiad against the “mainstream media” that tracks pretty closely with the Matt Taibbi-Glenn Greenwald-Bari Weiss view …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Althouse
Paul Bond / Newsweek:
James O'Keefe's Attorneys Demand Leakers be Identified in Case involving Ashley Biden's Alleged Diary  —  At 6 a.m. on November 6, a groggy James O'Keefe responded to pounding on his apartment door in New York's Westchester County wearing just his underwear.
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Erik Crouch / Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ concerned over FBI raid on home of Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Mnuchin and Pompeo Discussed a Plan to Oust Trump from Office on Jan. 6: Report  —  “In the hours after the riot, there were high-level conversations about” using the 25th Amendment to kick Trump out of office, according to ABC News' Jonathan Karl  —  Steve Mnuchin and Mike Pompeo discussed …
Discussion: Joe.My.God., The Hill and YouTube
Rachel Holliday Smith / THE CITY:
FDR Drive Tear-Down and Manhattan Land Extension Eyed in Downtown Flood Plan  —  A higher waterfront and a lower highway may be on tap for Lower Manhattan.  —  The city has a new proposal for protecting the Financial District and Seaport from future flooding: extending the eastern edge …
University of Chicago News:
Statement from Chancellor Robert J. Zimmer on his role for the University of Austin  —  I was asked to serve in an advisory role to the University of Austin by its founding president, Dr. Pano Kanelos.  This board had no fiduciary, oversight or management responsibilities.
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NBC News:
Parents protesting ‘critical race theory’ identify another target: Mental health programs  —  At a September school board meeting in Southlake, Texas, a parent named Tara Eddins strode to the lectern during the public comment period and demanded to know why the Carroll Independent School District …
Discussion: Summit News and Chicago Sun-Times
Max Fisher / New York Times:
U.S. Allies Drive Much of World's Democratic Decline, Data Shows  —  Washington-aligned countries backslid at nearly double the rate of non-allies, data shows, complicating long-held assumptions about American influence.  —  The United States and its allies accounted for a significantly outsize share …
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Biden administration plans imminent booster expansion to all adults  —  The Biden administration is expected to begin the process of expanding the booster authorization to all adults as early as this week, according to a source familiar with internal planning.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and CBS News
Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal:
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to Back Home Loans of Nearly $1 Million as Prices Soar  —  Scheduled increase in loan limits is a boon for borrowers but also stokes debate over government's role in housing market  —  WASHINGTON—The federal government is about to back mortgages of nearly $1 million for the first time.
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Joe Biden's Empty Inflation Toolbox  —  President Joe Biden was clear.  Inflation — now at the highest point in 30 years — was at the top of his concerns.  —  “Many people remain unsettled about the economy, and we all know why,” Biden said recently at the Port of Baltimore.  “They see higher prices.
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Washington Post
Bill Grueskin / New York Times:
How Did So Much of the Media Get the Steele Dossier So Wrong?  —  Mr. Grueskin is a professor of professional practice and former academic dean at Columbia Journalism School.  He has held senior editing positions at The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald and Bloomberg News.
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 ‘Documentary’ Is His Most Nakedly Fascist Piece Of Propaganda Yet  —  His recent series for Fox Nation, “Patriot Purge,” is setting the stage for something even worse than the attack on the Capitol.  —  Tucker Carlson's “Patriot Purge,” a revisionist history …
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall / Reuters:
As Congress advances Democrats' tax plans, the wealthy eye loopholes  —  As Congress looks to advance its $1.75 trillion spending package this week, wealthy individuals are already planning ways to avoid paying for it.  —  Lawmakers are expected to vote on Democrats' social spending bill …
 
 
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Fredrik deBoer / New York Times:
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Bloomberg:
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
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