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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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Washington Examiner, HotAir, Insider, NPR, Gawker, RedState, No More Mister Nice Blog and IJR
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi on Gosar punishment: 'It's an emergency' — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday defended the Democrats' decision to punish Rep. Paul Gosar, saying the Arizona Republican crossed a bright red line — and may have committed criminal acts — in promoting an animated video …
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Arizona Republic, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Monique Beals / The Hill:
Cornyn says GOP might not run someone against Sinema in 2024
Cornyn says GOP might not run someone against Sinema in 2024
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Washington Examiner and Insider
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.
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Politico, Tangle, Washington Post, 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.
NBC News:
Democrats rebrand Build Back Better bill to counter inflation concerns
Democrats rebrand Build Back Better bill to counter inflation concerns
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New York Times, Twitchy, The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast and The Daily Wire
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
What Biden Should — and Shouldn't — Do to Combat Inflation
What Biden Should — and Shouldn't — Do to Combat Inflation
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RedState
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 …
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Statista, justoneminute.typepad.com and Twitchy
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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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
The Steele dossier: A guide to the latest allegations
The Steele dossier: A guide to the latest allegations
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Twitchy and New York Times
Washington Examiner:
Dirty tricks by Clintons shaped liberal opinion and news coverage of Trump for years
Gabriel Schoenfeld / The Bulwark:
Adam Schiff's Insider Account of the Fight to Save Our Democracy
Adam Schiff's Insider Account of the Fight to Save Our Democracy
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Raw Story
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.
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Overdose Deaths Reached Record High as the Pandemic Spread — More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the yearlong period ending in April, government researchers said. — Americans died of drug overdoses in record numbers as the pandemic spread across the country …
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Washington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon and Boston.com
New York Times:
2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated Decades Later — The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader. — Two of the men found guilty of the assassination …
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The Daily Beast, Washington Post, NBC Boston and Political Wire
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.
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HotAir
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 …
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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 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
DeSantis Spokesperson Blames Vaccine Passport on the Rothschilds … The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a forgery written by the czarist secret police more than a century ago, purporting to reveal a lurid international Jewish plot. The Rothschild family played an outsize role in the imagined conspiracy …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley, A Capitol Riot ‘Flag-Bearer,’ Sentenced To Prison — Jacob Chansley, whom prosecutors called “the public face of the Capitol riot,” received one of the harshest sentences of any Jan. 6 defendant to date. — Jacob Chansley, the man federal prosecutors called …
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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 …
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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 …
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Insider, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, Red Voice Media, The Gateway Pundit, Occupy Democrats, Page Array, Joe.My.God., Denver Post and Raw Story
Dana Loesch / Dana Loesch's Chapter and Verse:
Kyle Rittenhouse Isn't a Villain and There Is Nothing Wrong with Open Carry — I've known David French for a few years and there are things we agree on and things we do not agree on and this is most definitely the latter. I feel compelled to respond to this. … Open carry is “menacing?”
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The Dispatch, Breitbart and Fox News
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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New Republic, Reason, Raw Story, DCReport.org, CNN and Vanity Fair
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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.
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller and Who the Hell Is Jim Treacher?
Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
US auctions off oil and gas drilling leases in Gulf of Mexico after climate talks — Biden administration launching auction of more than 80m acres for fossil fuel extraction that experts call ‘incredibly reckless’ — Just four days after landmark climate talks in Scotland in which Joe Biden vowed …
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Townhall
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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 …
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 …
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Breitbart and Instapundit
Bridget Read / The Cut:
What Happened at Carmine's — A confrontation between a host and dining patrons slid neatly into every outrage narrative of 2021. Maybe a bit too neatly. — A few hours before his workplace went viral, Matt, a server at Carmine's on the Upper West Side, was sitting in a pre-shift meeting, taking notes on the dinner specials.
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 …
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 …
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Raw Story
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The right-wing culture war just got worse. Liberals need a better response. — With the culture-warring around education and race from Republicans and the right escalating, some Democratic strategists have issued a new call for a more aggressive response.
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Complete Colorado and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
‘Circular firing squad’: Democratic power players are split on the Virginia blame game and how to prepare for the midterms — Democratic Party officials and donors are split over whom to blame for losses in several state-level races this month — They're also divided over how the party …