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11:35 AM ET, November 17, 2021

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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Rating agencies say Biden's spending plans will not add to inflationary pressure  —  U.S. President Joe Biden's infrastructure and social spending legislation will not add to inflationary pressures in the U.S. economy, economists and analysts in leading rating agencies told Reuters on Tuesday.
Discussion: Twitchy, KFOR-TV and Political Wire
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Timothy B Lee / Full Stack Economics:
No, the real inflation rate isn't 15 percent  —  Jordan Peterson and Jack Dorsey are touting a bogus theory about the inflation rate.  —  Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the official inflation rate had soared to 6.2 percent in October, the highest level in decades.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:   What Biden Should — and Shouldn't — Do to Combat Inflation
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Can Biden Whip Inflation Now?
Discussion: NPR
Politico:
Sinema speaks up — and shakes off her critics  —  Watch the Senate floor enough and you'll notice Sen. Kyrsten Sinema regularly chatting with Mitch McConnell and his top deputy John Thune.  Republicans have even tried to recruit her to their conference, and throw the Senate to the GOP.
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Cornyn says GOP might not run someone against Sinema in 2024  —  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) suggested that Republicans may not run anyone to oppose Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) when she comes up for reelection in 2024.  —  Cornyn, who is considered a potential successor …
Discussion: Insider
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Democrats Shouldn't Panic.  They Should Go Into Shock.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  The rise of inflation, supply chain shortages, a surge in illegal border crossings, the persistence of Covid …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
The Steele Dossier and the End of Shame In American Politics  —  The famous philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal once declared that “the only shame is to have none.”  The problem with shame is that it requires a sense of guilt over one's actions.  In the age of rage …
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Washington Examiner:   Dirty tricks by Clintons shaped liberal opinion and news coverage of Trump for years
Ernest Luning / Colorado Politics:
FBI raids home of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in election data breach investigation  —  Federal, state and local authorities searched the homes of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and three of her associates on Tuesday as part of an investigation into accusations the elected official was involved …
Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten:
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know  —  I know I'm two months late here.  Everyone's already made up their mind and moved on to other things.  —  But here's my pitch: this is one of the most carefully-pored-over scientific issues of our time.  Dozens of teams published studies saying ivermectin definitely worked.
Washington Post:
Trump's legal strategy tested in fight with Congress over Jan. 6 records  —  As president, Donald Trump stymied lawmakers seeking his financial records and the testimony of a close adviser by employing a legal strategy that worked to his advantage even when he lost in court.
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Politico:
Judge questions why Justice reversed course on Trump taxes
Discussion: Raw Story and Roll Call
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
RED SHIFT: How Trump's attempt to let COVID-19 destroy Blue America reversed itself, animated  —  Back in July 2020, Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban wrote a shocking expose  —  which exposed the depths of callousness and cold-hearted political calculation which the Trump Administration used …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Poll: Voters' doubts rising about Biden's health, mental fitness  —  Voters have increasing doubts about the health and mental fitness of President Joe Biden, the oldest man ever sworn into the White House, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.  —  Only 40 percent of voters surveyed agreed …
Jon Kamp / Wall Street Journal:
Drug Overdose Deaths, Fueled by Fentanyl, Hit Record High in U.S.  —  Nation records more than 100,000 fatalities over 12 months for first time  —  The U.S. recorded its highest number of drug-overdose deaths in a 12-month period, eclipsing 100,000 for the first time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Discussion: USA Today and The Guardian
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Sherrilyn Ifill stepping down from NAACP Legal Defense Fund  —  Longtime second-in-command Janai Nelson will take over one of the country's top civil rights groups this spring, but no official transition date has been set  —  Sherrilyn Ifill was 10 years old when a New York City police officer shot …
Politico:
‘This experience broke a lot of people’: Inside State amid the Afghanistan withdrawal  —  In the days after the Taliban took Kabul in August, a desperate Afghan father pleaded over the phone with a State Department official to help get his family out of harm's way.
Scott Bland / Politico:
Liberal ‘dark-money’ behemoth funneled more than $400M in 2020  —  A left-leaning, secret-money group doled out a whopping $410 million in 2020, aiding Democratic efforts to unseat then-President Donald Trump and win back control of the Senate.  —  The group, the Sixteen Thirty Fund …
Axios:
Unlikely coalition wants women to register for military draft  —  America's young women are on the cusp of a rite of passage that's been reserved for men until now: registering with the Selective Service when they turn 18.  —  Driving the news: Whether allowing women to serve in combat …
Discussion: Breitbart
John Bowden / Yahoo News:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump had a dinner party the day after the Capitol riot, book claims  —  President Donald Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, hosted a fancy dinner party for members of the Trump administration and invited guests just hours …
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Biden administration will invest billions to expand coronavirus vaccine manufacturing  —  The Biden administration is planning to invest billions of dollars to expand U.S. manufacturing capabilities of coronavirus vaccines to increase the supply of doses for poorer nations, the White House said Wednesday.
Discussion: The Hill, New York Times and CNN
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden Sells Infrastructure Improvements as a Way to Counter China  —  Spending on roads, broadband internet and more will help revitalize U.S. competitiveness against its top economic adversary, the president says.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday began selling …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
U.S. and China Agree to Ease Restrictions on Journalists
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Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
Tucker Carlson's Fox News host salary is bankrolled by you  —  ‘New front in their war’: Fox News caught deceptively editing Biden speech  —  Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke recently praised Fox News host Tucker Carlson for repeatedly broadcasting on his show the white nationalist-fabricated …
Washington Post:
D.C. will no longer require masks in many public settings, Bowser announces  —  Washington's local mask mandate, one of the strictest in the nation since late July, will relax greatly beginning Monday, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Tuesday.  —  The District had required residents …
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Greene says she's accumulated $63K in House mask fines and is not vaccinated
Discussion: NBC News and CNN
New York Times:
How a Cure for Gerrymandering Left U.S. Politics Ailing in New Ways  —  Independent commissions to oversee the redrawing of electoral maps were thought to be the solution to an age-old problem.  Instead, they have become bogged down in political trench warfare.
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal:
Gun-Control Support Drops Amid Growing Crime and Firearm Purchases  —  A new survey by Gallup found that 52% of U.S. adults want stricter gun laws and 19% support a ban on handguns  —  Americans' support for stricter gun-control measures has fallen to its lowest level since 2014, according to a poll released Wednesday by Gallup.
Discussion: National Review
Sean Golonka / The Nevada Independent:
Clark County man pleads guilty to voting more than once in 2020 election  —  A Clark County man prominently featured by local and national Republicans as having evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election pleaded guilty on Tuesday to voting more than once during the same election …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Who's Afraid of Saule Omarova? … When she was a child in western Kazakhstan, Saule Omarova fantasized about visiting America.  Her wish was shaped in part by her father, who used to play old records for her.  “There was one — Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and they sang ‘Hello, Dolly!’”
Sam Dorman / Fox News:
HHS memo shows department moving to undo Trump-era action aimed at better protecting religious liberty  —  HHS' internal memo rolling back Trump-era religious liberty protections is expected to be rolled out this week  —  Unvaccinated Marine awaits religious exemption response: I am ‘caught in the crosshairs’
New York Times:
The N.Y. Governor's Race Is Wide Open, and Democrats Are Rushing In  —  Jumaane Williams, the New York City public advocate, became the latest Democrat to enter the 2022 race for governor.  —  On a weekend swing through Southern California, Letitia James, New York's attorney general …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Did the Justice Department overreach in raiding James O'Keefe's home?  —  The FBI on Nov. 6 searched the Mamaroneck, N.Y., home of James O'Keefe, the founder of the video-sting group Project Veritas.  As reported by the New York Times, authorities also searched the homes of two O'Keefe associates.
 
 
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Gabriel Schoenfeld / The Bulwark:
Adam Schiff's Insider Account of the Fight to Save Our Democracy
Discussion: Raw Story
American Greatness:
False Incentives for Vaccination
Joseph Klein / Front Page Magazine:
Racist CRT Lessons in Public School Classrooms
Discussion: spiked
Matthew Foldi / Washington Free Beacon:
Top Biden Aide's Lobbyist Brother Wins Presidential Visit for Client
Discussion: WDET
Nicole Cobler / Axios:
Beto rejects Trump as foil
Discussion: New Republic and Bloomberg
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The AMA's “Advancing Health Equity” plan leaves out everything that matters
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
GOP primary fights escalate after Trump's endorsements
Politico:
Whistleblower worries Jan. 6 committee is going easy on Capitol Police
Discussion: Raw Story
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The Daily Beast:
‘Murder Plot’ Claims, a Dog Bite, and Roger Stone: Inside Florida's Craziest Race
Discussion: Raw Story
Juana Summers / NPR:
House Democrats have a new strategy to engage voters of color in the midterm elections
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Want a Clue About the 2022 Midterm Elections? Look at 2 Ohio Races.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘The View’ erupts during segment with unvaccinated former co-host, providing a teachable moment
Discussion: Breitbart and YouTube
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Anatomy of a Republican lie: A new GOP attack on Biden gives away the game
Nikolas Lanum / Fox News:
NPR slammed over story highlighting ‘disappointment’ over Boston electing Asian woman mayor
Kana Ruhalter / The Daily Beast:
COVID-Positive Republican Senator Charged for Inappropriately Grabbing Nurse
Discussion: MLive.com
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

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

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

 
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