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9:05 AM ET, July 25, 2022

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Eugene Daniels / Politico:
Harris plots her next, more aggressive, volley in the abortion fights  —  Vice President Kamala Harris and her team plan to hit the campaign and fundraising circuit in an aggressive bid to elevate Democratic state legislators and governors on the abortion rights frontlines.
Discussion: NPR and The Federalist
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Revolving door creates questions and complications for Kamala Harris  —  There's been a running theme for years in Kamala Harris's world.  —  When she was senator very few people in her office had the institutional knowledge of her time as attorney general in California.
Discussion: HotAir
Washington Post:
Myanmar junta executes four pro-democracy activists  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Myanmar's military junta has executed four pro-democracy activists, state media and the U.S. Embassy in Yangon reported, carrying out its first executions in more than three decades and defying international appeals for restraint.
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Reuters:
Myanmar junta executes four democracy activists  —  Myanmar's military authorities have executed four democracy activists accused of helping carry out “terror acts”, state media said on Monday, the Southeast Asian nation's first executions in decades.  —  Sentenced to death in January …
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
“I am not a traitor”: Reality Winner explains why she leaked a classified document  —  A story about someone named Reality Winner has got to start with the name.  Her father, playing on the family name, explained he wanted “a real winner.”  And so, Reality.
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
College alumni groups spread nationally to counter ‘cancel culture’  —  Independent groups are forming to promote free speech on some university campuses  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Alumni groups pressing free-speech issues are popping up at colleges in many states …
Reuters:
Iran will keep IAEA cameras turned off until nuclear deal is restored -Tasnim  —  Iran will keep the UN nuclear watchdog's cameras turned off until a 2015 nuclear deal is restored, the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organisation said on Monday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Los Angeles Times:
2 dead, 5 injured in shooting at crowded San Pedro park  —  Two people were killed and five wounded after gunfire erupted Sunday afternoon in San Pedro's Peck Park, authorities said.  —  Police said there were approximately 500 people at the park just before 4 p.m., when they received reports of a shooting.
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
GOP plots Fauci probe after midterms  —  Congressional Republicans are eagerly floating investigations into Anthony Fauci and the Biden administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic if they win back control of the House or Senate in the midterm elections.
Charles Hilu / National Review:
University of Michigan Medical Students Walk Out on Pro-Life Speaker at Initiation Ceremony  —  Incoming University of Michigan Medical School students staged a walkout of the school's White Coat Ceremony Sunday to protest the choice of a pro-life doctor as the ceremony's keynote speaker.
Bill Glauber / Journal Sentinel:
Tom Nelson drops out of Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senate primary, throws support to Mandela Barnes  —  Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson's long run for the U.S. Senate is over.  —  Nelson announced Monday that he was ending his Democratic primary campaign and throwing his support to Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
CNN:
How two Texas megadonors have turbocharged the state's far-right shift  —  Tune into CNN's Special Report “Deep in the Pockets of Texas” Sunday July 24 at 8 p.m. ET  —  (CNN)Gun owners allowed to carry handguns without permits or training.  Parents of transgender children facing investigation by state officials.
Discussion: Mediaite, Forbes and Political Wire
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
‘The stakes could not be higher’: Kansas abortion vote set for Aug. 2  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — At a recent gathering of abortion rights canvassers in a strip-mall office in this Kansas City suburb, a hand-lettered sign on the wall summed up the confusion …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Across the nation, a grim preview of what could happen if abortion is outlawed in Pa.
Discussion: Robert's Newsletter
Wajahat Ali / The Daily Beast:
The Four Stages of Republican Misinformation  —  The right has a tested formula to brainwash its base.  From the Big Lie to attacking a 10-year-old rape victim, here's how they do it. … If a 10-year-old girl cannot escape the cruel machinery of the right-wing disinformation network …
Discussion: Raw Story and Blue Virginia
Popular Information:
Coachella's parent company is donating major cash to an anti-abortion political organization  —  This story is being published in partnership with Rolling Stone.  Subscribe to get its biggest stories on music, culture, politics, and entertainment.  —  June 24, the day the Supreme Court …
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
These former Trump advisers are trying to do the impossible: Make Trumpism about the future  —  At the beginning of 2020, a small group of President Donald Trump's top advisers huddled at the White House to craft a second-term policy agenda for the next administration.
John Blake / CNN:
An ‘imposter Christianity’ is threatening American democracy  —  (CNN)Three men, eyes closed and heads bowed, pray before a rough-hewn wooden cross.  Another man wraps his arms around a massive Bible pressed against his chest like a shield.  All throughout the crowd, people wave “Jesus Saves” …
Discussion: Insider
FiveThirtyEight:
How The Fight To Ban Abortion Is Rooted In The ‘Great Replacement’ Theory  —  It may not be immediately obvious how the fight over abortion rights is tied to the “great replacement” theory — the debunked conspiracy theory promoted by some Republican politicians who claim that Democrats support …
 
 
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Pamela Paul / New York Times:
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Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Under attack by AIPAC, Jewish congressman turns to progressive allies
Discussion: Politico
Edward Wong / New York Times:
On U.S. Foreign Policy, the New Boss Acts a Lot Like the Old One
Discussion: Fortune and Florida Politics
Mikhail Shishkin / The Atlantic:
Don't Blame Dostoyevsky  —  Culture, too, is a casualty of war.  After Russia's invasion of Ukraine …
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
Last Stand at Azovstal: Inside the Siege That Shaped the Ukraine War
New York Times:
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
We Can't Afford Not to Prosecute Trump
Discussion: Insider
Washington Post:
Claim that sex ed ‘grooms’ kids jolted Nebraska politics a year before it swept the nation
Steven L. Isenberg / Washington Post:
Quit, Joe, Quit! Biden could save the midterms with a one-term pledge.
Discussion: The Hill and HotAir
Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk's Friendship With Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair
 

 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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