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2:45 PM 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.
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Timothy B Lee / Full Stack Economics:   No, the real inflation rate isn't 15 percent
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
What Biden Should — and Shouldn't — Do to Combat Inflation
Discussion: RedState
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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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:   ‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison
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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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Cornyn says GOP might not run someone against Sinema in 2024
Discussion: Washington Examiner and 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 …
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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 …
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.
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
Gabriel Schoenfeld / The Bulwark:
Adam Schiff's Insider Account of the Fight to Save Our Democracy
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
House poised to censure Gosar, eject him from committees over violent video depicting slaying of Ocasio-Cortez  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) condemned the “outrageous” silence of House Republican leaders Wednesday ahead of an expected vote to censure Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi on Gosar punishment: 'It's an emergency'
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 …
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.
Discussion: HotAir
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.
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 …
Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
Fox News proved a #MeToo lawsuit against them had “seemingly undisputed” allegations of sexual harassment  —  A #MeToo lawsuit against Fox News targeting its most popular nighttime opinion hosts, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, was just dismissed with prejudice over legal technicalities.
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Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:   Tucker Carlson's Fox News host salary is bankrolled by you
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 …
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.
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 …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. floats interim Iran nuclear deal  —  National security adviser Jake Sullivan raised with his Israeli counterpart the idea of an interim agreement with Iran to buy more time for nuclear negotiations, three Israeli and U.S. sources tell me.  —  Why it matters: The idea is only preliminary …
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?”
Discussion: The Dispatch, Breitbart and RedState
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 …
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 …
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
 
 
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Rainesford Stauffer / InStyle:
Hallie Jackson Opens Up About Mental Health and Burnout in Her New Show
Michael Warren / CNN:
Trump's thirst for revenge is causing chaos in the Georgia governor's race
Discussion: The Hill
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
From Electric Bikes to ‘Tree Equity,’ Biden's Social Policy Bill Funds Niche Items
Adam Gold / Rolling Stone:
How Conspiracy Theorists and Eric Trump Turned Nashville's Most Famous Hotel into Anti-Vax HQ
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
‘Circular firing squad’: Democratic power players are split on the Virginia blame game and how to prepare for the midterms
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The right-wing culture war just got worse. Liberals need a better response.
The Guardian:
Exclusive: LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying
 Earlier Items: 
Scott Bauer / madison.com:
US Senate candidate McCloskey shows support for Rittenhouse
Discussion: WKRG-TV and NBC Chicago
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Can Biden Whip Inflation Now?
Discussion: NPR
Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal:
Gun-Control Support Drops Amid Growing Crime and Firearm Purchases
Discussion: National Review
John Bowden / Yahoo News:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump had a dinner party the day after the Capitol riot, book claims
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Who's Afraid of Saule Omarova?
Axios:
Unlikely coalition wants women to register for military draft
Discussion: Breitbart and Instapundit
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to the NYT to help ensure election coverage is available

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Ellen Clegg / What Works:
After The Minnesota Star Tribune decided last summer not to endorse anyone for president, 15 former opinion staffers posted their own endorsement online

 
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