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2:15 PM ET, July 29, 2022

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Wall Street Journal:
Kyrsten Sinema Is Critical Vote on Manchin-Schumer Climate and Tax Deal  —  Arizona centrist senator has forced changes in past Democratic packages  —  Watch: Biden Explains Key Points of Inflation Reduction Act … WASHINGTON—Democrats' hopes of turning a long-sought tax and energy agreement …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: White House to GOP: Why you trippin'?  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  MANCHIN GIVETH AND MANCHIN... — Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) may have just resurrected Biden's domestic agenda, but he told CHRIS CUOMO in an interview that aired Thursday …
Wall Street Journal:
The Senate GOP Got Played
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
‘Getting Rolled’: McConnell Was Outfoxed With His Own Playbook
Yahoo News:
Horrifying footage appears to show Russian captors castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war  —  A horrific video posted online on Thursday appears to show a Ukrainian prisoner of war being castrated by his Russian captors.  —  While Yahoo News cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video …
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Washington Post:
With Griner, Putin gambles again that authoritarians can outlast democracies  —  Welcome to The Daily 202!  Tell your friends to sign up here.  On this day in 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  —  The big idea
David Walker / Washington Post:
Ukraine and Russia trade blame for strike reportedly killing Mariupol prisoners
Discussion: EuroFile and Associated Press
Washington Post:
Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security's Wolf and Cuccinelli  —  DHS watchdog was alerted in February to unavailable records of top officials, but did nothing to alert or investigate  —  Text messages for former President Donald Trump's acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Pro-Trump influencer upset after documents detailing ‘substantial’ cooperation with FBI are released  —  WASHINGTON — A pro-Trump social media influencer who was convicted of disorderly and disruptive conduct on Capitol grounds for his actions on Jan. 6 is upset over the release of court filings …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
As Jan. 6 probe expands, officials worry DOJ resources are at a breaking point
Discussion: Bloomberg, Salon, The Hill and Daily Kos
Mariko Paulson / Issues:
Inflation Reduction Act: Preliminary Estimates of Budgetary and Macroeconomic Effects … Key Points  — PWBM estimates that the Inflation Reduction Act, as written, would reduce cumulative deficits by $248 billion over the budget window.  — The Act would very slightly increase inflation until 2024 …
Discussion: Bloomberg and National Review
Jack Kelly / The Cap Times:
Sarah Godlewski suspends U.S. Senate bid, endorses Mandela Barnes  —  Wisconsin Treasurer and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Sarah Godlewski is suspending her campaign and endorsing Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, the two campaigns confirmed Friday.  —  Godlewski's decision to drop out of the race …
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NBC News:
A Democrat who dropped out of the Wisconsin Senate race is giving the party a $600,000 surprise gift
Discussion: Mother Jones
Ana Radelat / MinnPost:
Phillips: Democrats need ‘new generation’ of leadership, not Biden in 2024  —  In an interview on the Chad Hartman radio show on WCCO-AM, Phillips, who represents Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District, said he wants to see “a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats who step up.”
U.S. Department of Justice:
Russian National Charged with Conspiring to Have U.S. Citizens Act as Illegal Agents of the Russian Government  —  An indictment was unsealed today in Tampa, Florida, charging a Russian national, working on behalf of the Russian government and in conjunction with the Russian Federal Security Service …
Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Improvement or Illusion?  —  Over the last couple of weeks, there's been a shift in opinion among many political professionals about Democrats' chances in the midterm campaign.  They point in particular to improvement for Democrats in the generic ballot poll question (which party …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
First on CNN: Jared Kushner details West Wing ‘war’ with ‘toxic’ Steve Bannon in new book  —  (CNN)Jared Kushner details his clashes with Steve Bannon in his new book, describing a “toxic” West Wing presence who accused him of “undermining the President's agenda” and threatened to break him “in half” if Kushner turned on him.
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Reuters:
Inside one far-right sheriff's crusade to prove Trump's bogus voter-fraud claims  —  In rural Michigan, county Sheriff Dar Leaf has teamed with a Trump-camp lawyer to chase the former president's outlandish rigged-election theories.  A member of a radical group of “constitutional sheriffs,” he's now under investigation himself.
Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stayed at fundraiser for hours after Uvalde shooting, records show  —  Finance, flight-tracking documents show the governor stayed in Huntsville longer than he implied.  —  AUSTIN — After the Uvalde school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott spent nearly three hours in Huntsville …
Bloomberg:
Fear of Rampant Crime Is Derailing New York City's Recovery … Incidents of violent crime remain at historic lows in New York City.  But people's views on guns and crime are often more influenced by what they see and hear, rather than by hard numbers.  While homicide is the most high-profile type …
Zachary D. Carter / In The Long Run:
On Economics And Democracy  —  High unemployment is extremely dangerous.  —  Earlier this week, I spoke at a gathering in Washington organized by Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Adam Jentleson on what they are calling “Inclusive Populism” — an economic agenda that defends the rights of all working people, whatever they may look like.
Rachel Sharp / The Independent:
Trump plasters presidential seal across golf club during Saudi-backed LIV tournament despite complaints  —  Earlier this month, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to criminally investigate Mr Trump's Bedminster golf club over its use of the seal
Discussion: Insider and UPI
Washington Post:
Americans dismayed at end of Roe are less certain they will vote, poll finds  —  A Washington Post-Schar School poll finds 65 percent of Americans view the Supreme Court's abortion ruling as a major loss of women's rights, while 35 percent say it is not  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans …
Discussion: The Hill, Forbes, CNN and Political Wire
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Paul Manafort admits indirectly advising Trump in 2020 but keeping it secret in wait for pardon  —  In new book, obtained by Guardian, 2016 campaign manager convicted of tax fraud says he was ‘very careful’ to hide advice  —  Paul Manafort indirectly advised Donald Trump's 2020 campaign …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
D.C. mayor asks for National Guard to help with Texas, Arizona migrants  —  D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Thursday she is seeking to have 150 National Guard troops deployed to the city to help with the thousands of migrants arriving on chartered buses from Texas and Arizona …
The Economist:
Vladimir Putin is in thrall to a distinctive brand of Russian fascism  —  That is why his country is such a threat to Ukraine, the West and his own people  —  What matters most in Moscow these days is what is missing.  Nobody speaks openly of the war in Ukraine.  The word is banned and talk is dangerous.
American Prospect:
It's Past Time to Replace IRS Chief Charles Rettig  —  No more Trump cronies overseeing the tax authority … Earlier this month, The New York Times broke the story that former FBI director James Comey and his former deputy director Andrew McCabe, both loathed and eventually fired by President Trump …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
So You Want To Start a Third Party?  —  Then tell me how you are going to attract real-world Trump voters.  —  Starting a new third party is all the rage these days, especially out here in Never Trumpistan.  —  The Yang Gang is teaming up with some future former Republicans for the Forward Party.
Wilson Ring / Associated Press:
Passenger rail return to Vermont city took vision, decades  —  Amtrak-Expansion-Vermont  —  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — After a nearly 70-year absence, a passenger train running from Vermont's revitalized Burlington train station to New York City headed south Friday as part of a nationwide renewal of interest in rail travel.
Discussion: Eschaton
Rachel Leingang / Arizona Agenda:
“I can't believe I even survived that job.”  —  Staffers fleeing Katie Hobbs' campaign question her ability to lead Arizona.  —  In the past five months, two-thirds of Democrat Katie Hobbs' gubernatorial campaign staff have left, and several describe the campaign as an emotionally abusive atmosphere …
Hamodia:
Adams Says 'We're in a Recession,' Contradicting Biden  —  כ"ט תמ  ו  ז תשפ"ב 2 Minute Read  —  STATEN ISLAND — New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday, “We're in a recession,” contradicting the administration of President Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat.
Discussion: New York Post
Wall Street Journal:
In Michigan Governor Race, Legal Missteps Hurt GOP Bid to Unseat Gretchen Whitmer  —  Ahead of Aug. 2 primary, establishment Republicans look to boost political newcomer Tudor Dixon as unusual GOP race comes to a close  —  Midterms 2022: Where Republicans and Democrats Stand on the Issues
 
 
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CNN:
At least 16 people are dead after Kentucky's catastrophic flooding, and the death toll is expected to rise
Washington Post:
The GOP went to war against Google over spam — and may win
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Lessons of Last Year's Larry Summers Hatefest
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Common Sense:
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David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:
Pelosi's January 6th Committee and the Death of American Justice
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