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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty in Fatal Kenosha Shooting  —  “The defendant will rise to face the jury and hearken to its verdicts.”  “As to the first count of the information, Joseph Rosenbaum, we the jury, find the defendant, Kyle H. Rittenhouse, not guilty.
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ACLU of Wisconsin:
ACLU Responds to ‘Not Guilty’ Verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse Case  —  KENOSHA, Wis. — The American Civil Liberties Union released the following statement after a jury decided that Kyle Rittenhouse was not guilty of the fatal shooting of two protestors and injuring of another …
Discussion: ABC7 and CBS Chicago
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
Kyle Rittenhouse Has Gotten Away With Murder—as Predicted  —  Rittenhouse's acquittal is not a “miscarriage” of justice, as some might claim.  It is our white justice system working as intended.  —  Kyle Rittenhouse, who was 17 years old when he shot three people, killing two, officially got away with murder.
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
The jury gave Rittenhouse the benefit of the doubt. That's what advocates of criminal justice reform should have wanted.
Nathan Layne / Reuters:
Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty of all charges in Wisconsin murder trial
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Root
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Biden expected to replace Ron Bloom, USPS board chair and key DeJoy ally, on postal board  —  Bloom, a Democrat, has backed the postmaster general as the agency slowed mail delivery standards and raised prices  —  President Biden is expected to announce Friday that he will not renominate Ron Bloom …
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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Biden replaces DeJoy allies on Postal Service board  —  President Biden on Friday announced his nominees to replace two members — and allies of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — of the USPS board of governors.  —  Why it matters: Biden is replacing Ron Bloom, a Democrat, and John Barger …
Discussion: Forbes
Washington Post:
The House battle over Build Back Better — 24 restless hours on the Hill  —  After months of legislating that exposed intraparty riffs, House Democrats began the day Thursday finally feeling confident they could pass their roughly $2 trillion economic and social spending package, sending it on to the Senate.
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Washington Post:
McCarthy's overnight speech — longest in modern history — underscores rancor in the House
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
House passes roughly $2 trillion spending package that would expand social benefits and fight climate change
The Daily Beast:
Democrats Finally Unite—to Mock Kevin McCarthy All Night as He Breaks Stupid Record
Washington Post:
Fauci's office flooded with attacks over beagle experiments  —  Covid chief's phone line rings 3,600 times in 36 hours after campaign by little-known animal rights group  —  Anthony S. Fauci was swamped by so many angry messages and threats that in late October his assistant quit answering the phone for two weeks.
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
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Allahpundit / HotAir:   Oh my: Fauci caught unmasking at indoor D.C. event this week?
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Push to Take Over the State's Elections  —  Led by Senator Ron Johnson, G.O.P. officials want to eliminate a bipartisan elections agency — and maybe send its members to jail.  —  Republicans in Wisconsin are engaged in an all-out assault on the state's election infrastructure …
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
What Disarray? Democrats Are Getting Stuff Done
The White House:
Statement by President Biden … While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken.  I ran on a promise to bring Americans together, because I believe that what unites us is far greater than what divides us.
Discussion: Fox News, Insider, Breitbart and Townhall
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
For 85 minutes, Kamala Harris became the first woman with presidential power  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden on Friday temporarily transferred power to Vice President Kamala Harris while he was under anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy for one hour and 25 minutes, according to the White House.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Scoop: Surprise Trump book, ‘Our Journey Together’  —  Former President Donald Trump today shocked the publishing world that has tried to cancel his administration by revealing that he is releasing his first post-White House book in December, titled Our Journey Together.
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: McCarthy filibusters, Biden dithers and Fauci unmasks  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  If a “New York minute” is a few passing seconds, then the opposite is a “McCarthy minute” — something that drags on and on for hours.  —  On Thursday night, at 8:38 p.m. …
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Politico:
Pennsylvania Republicans baffled by celebrity doctor's Senate bid
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
CNN:
Peng Shuai: UN calls for proof of Chinese tennis star's whereabouts; WTA chairman willing to pull out of China  —  Hong Kong (CNN)China is facing pressure from the United Nations over Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai's whereabouts as the organization called for an investigation into her allegations of sexual assault.
Christina Wyman / NBC News:
Schools face parents who want to ban critical race theory — and don't get how teaching works  —  An educator's top goal is to teach students to think.  Parents who dictate curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases hinder that goal.  —  CRT outrage & the VA governor's race
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:
I Made the World's Blandest Facebook Profile, Just to See What Happens  —  In 2019, a researcher at Facebook conducted an experiment to see whether the platform really has a tendency to send users down a rabbit hole of extreme and conspiratorial content.  The employee set up a pair of fake profiles …
CNN:
Trump's ire grows as DeSantis' popularity with Republicans takes off  —  People close to both men first noticed the palpable shift in Trump's posture toward DeSantis earlier this year as enthusiasm for the Florida governor swelled among donors and GOP operatives who praised his laissez-faire response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
‘Typical Bullsh*t’: Fox News Host Melts Down When Mediaite Asks About Fox's Vaccine Policy and Whether Trump Lost in 2020  —  Fox News host Pete Hegseth was my guest on this week's episode of The Interview.  Hegseth is the co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend and a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Slidin' Biden: “Mostly underwater” in Gallup, Cook shifts key Senate Dem seats to toss-ups  —  How low can he go?  For Joe Biden, that question doesn't just apply to overall job approval numbers, or even issue-approval polling.  It also applies to his party and its standing in the midterm elections …
Washington Post:
Attempted breach of Ohio county election network draws FBI and state scrutiny  —  Federal and state investigators are examining an attempt to breach an Ohio county's election network that bears striking similarities to an incident in Colorado earlier this year, when government officials helped …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
‘Tiger mother’ Amy Chua: ‘Boldness is my downfall’ … Owing to my forgetfulness, my lunch with Amy Chua starts awkwardly before it even begins.  On the train to New Haven, home of Yale University where Chua has been a tenured professor for 20 years, I realise that I forgot to reserve …
Laura Nahmias / New York Magazine:
Kathy Hochul's Got Seven Months … The governor of New York was sitting in the back of the Apollo Family Restaurant in Buffalo one recent Wednesday afternoon when an older man in a VFW baseball hat approached.  The governor, wearing a light-brown suit and a gold nameplate necklace that read “VAXED,” looked up from her rice pudding.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
The Ugly New Charges Against Jan. 6 Rioter ‘Baked Alaska’  —  “No more ‘Happy Hanukkah,’ only ‘Merry Christmas,’” racist livestreamer Baked Alaska allegedly said as he tore down a Jewish group's signage.  —  A notorious U.S. Capitol riot suspect and white supremacist livestreamer who goes by the alias …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
 
 
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