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10:20 AM ET, August 9, 2022

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Washington Post:
FBI searches Trump safe at Mar-a-Lago for possible classified documents  —  Search was court-authorized and related to long-running investigation, person familiar with the probe said.  —  Former president Donald Trump said Monday that the FBI had raided his Mar-a-Lago Club and searched his safe …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox is furiously poisoning the well after the Mar-a-Lago search  —  “Partisan witch hunt,” “dark day for our republic,” “preemptive coup,” “Third World bullshit,” “Gestapo,” “Stasi”  —  Shortly before 7 p.m. ET on Monday night, former President Donald Trump issued a press release confirming …
New York Times:
The search appears to be focused on materials Trump took from the White House.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the F.B.I. had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe — an account signaling a major escalation in the various investigations into the final stages of his presidency.
David Gilbert / VICE:
Trump Supporters Are Calling for Civil War After FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago  —  “Civil war coming to America,” one Trump supporter wrote.  —  David Gilbert  —  After news broke that the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday, his supporters openly called …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
If Trump broke a law on the removal of official records, would he be barred from future office?  —  Early reports that the F.B.I. search of former President Donald J. Trump's residence in Florida related to an investigation into whether he had unlawfully taken government files when he left …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Search Should Just Be Garland's Opening Act  —  We now know that the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have an active interest in Donald Trump because Trump told us so.  —  “My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's inauspicious knee-jerk reaction to the Trump raid  —  One day, relatively soon, the heads of the Justice Department and the FBI are likely to be brought to Capitol Hill to testify about the historic decision to raid a former president's home.  —  For now, though …
New York Times:
Alex Jones's Text Messages Turned Over to House Jan. 6 Committee  —  The messages only cover a period up to mid-2020, disappointing investigators who hoped they would shed light on the conspiracy theorist's role in the events leading to the attack on the Capitol.
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson ‘Shitting Himself’ Scared That His Alex Jones Texts May Leak  —  This reporting appears as one of several scoops featured in this week's edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media.  Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.
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Maegan Vazquez / CNN:   Biden begins his victory lap after string of legislative wins
Politico:
Biden suddenly is piling up wins. Can Dems make it stick?
Discussion: NRCC
Washington Post:
Inside Biden's hot streak, from the poolside to the Capitol
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
Why Internet Leftists Are So Pissed About Democrats' Historic Climate Bill  —  By and large, climate activists have greeted the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed the Senate on Sunday, as an imperfect but undeniably big victory in the battle against global warming.
Discussion: Jacobin, Talking Points Memo and E&E
New York Times:
How Russia Took Over Ukraine's Internet in Occupied Territories  —  Internet traffic in Kherson is being diverted through Russia  —  Internet routing data for a service provider in Kherson shows traffic beginning to flow through Russian networks in May before fully transitioning by early June.
Discussion: NPR, more at Techmeme »
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Anxious New Yorkers Worry Whether Eric Adams Is the Man for the Moment  —  City residents are concerned about violent crime, housing costs, school budget cuts and homelessness.  Some believe that the mayor has not met the challenge.  —  Outside Liberty Pool in Jamaica, Queens …
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Tudor Dixon launches gender-based attack in historic Michigan governor's race  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For the first time ever in Michigan, voters in November will decide between two women when they cast their ballots for governor.  —  But the Republican nominee, Tudor Dixon …
Reuters:
As Russian missiles struck Ukraine, Western tech still flowed  —  After Russia invaded Ukraine, the West announced tough new sanctions and tech companies said they had halted all exports to Russia.  Yet supplies of Western computer parts continued, a joint investigation finds.  —  KYIV, UKRAINE
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Ruth Maclean / New York Times:
Live Updates: Ukrainian Grain Has Not Gone to Countries Most in Need
Discussion: CBS News and Associated Press
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Mike Pompeo meeting with January 6 committee on Tuesday, source says  —  Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is meeting on Tuesday with the January 6 committee, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.  The deposition will be conducted virtually, the source added.
Discussion: HuffPost and New York Times
Serena Williams / Vogue:
Serena Williams Says Farewell to Tennis On Her Own Terms—And In Her Own Words  —  This morning, my daughter, Olympia, who turns five this month, and I were on our way to get her a new passport before a trip to Europe.  We're in my car, and she's holding my phone, using an interactive educational app she likes.
Priscilla Aguirre / MySanAntonio.com:
Texas church illegally performs ‘Hamilton’ with anti-LGBTQ message  —  The McAllen church is facing backlash for its controversy  —  A McAllen church is facing backlash for illegally performing Hamilton with anti-LGBTQ messaging and biblical themes, according to multiple reports.
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Republicans in Wisconsin embrace family leave in wake of near-total abortion ban  —  WAUKESHA, Wis. — On a debate stage in Milwaukee last month, two candidates enthusiastically vowed to implement paid family leave programs if they are elected.  —  But the promises — a signature part …
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
With Deal in Hand, Democrats Enter the Fall Armed With Something New: Hope  —  Vulnerable incumbent Democratic senators like Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada are already planning events promoting the landmark legislation they passed over the weekend.
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
A Trap or Not?  Deciphering the Electoral Count Reform Act  —  Earlier this year, a group of Senate Republicans caught my attention when they claimed that they wanted to work with Democrats to help fix the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA), the outdated law by which presidential elections are certified.
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Ron DeSantis Endorses Election Deniers  —  DeSantis isn't challenging Trump for the 2024 nomination.  He's auditioning to be Trump's understudy.  —  Pour one out for all the anti-anti-Trumpers who thought the grand eminence of the Sunshine State, America's Governor Ron DeSantis …
Wall Street Journal:
Tilting at Climate Windmills  —  Schumer-Manchin will have little effect on the world's temperature.  —  Nearly all of Washington—Democrats, the press, lobbyists—is taking a victory lap with Senate passage of the Schumer-Manchin tax, climate and drug price control bill.
Discussion: Samizdata
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
GOP polls show House battlefield stretching into double-digit Biden districts  —  A round of new internal polling is giving the GOP fresh optimism that the House battleground map is stretching even more favorably in their direction.  —  Four surveys conducted in late July reveal close races …
Department of Homeland Security:
DHS Statement on U.S. District Court's Decision Regarding MPP  —  We welcome the U.S. District Court's decision, which follows the U.S. Supreme Court's June 30th decision, to lift the injunction that required DHS to reimplement the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) in good faith.
 
 
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Democrats seek edge with women as Michigan prepares to vote on abortion
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Washington Post:
State supreme courts could soon decide on abortion, raising stakes of their midterm races
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases
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Fight With Kash & Ric Grenell file defamation suit against fired deep state employee
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Politico:
DOJ pushes back against Eastman effort to reclaim his cellphone
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Associated Press:
David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89
David Petraeus / The Atlantic:
Afghanistan Did Not Have to Turn Out This Way  —  A year after the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport …
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Bloomberg:
Polymarket says the FBI seized CEO Shayne Coplan's phone and electronics; source: the DOJ is investigating Polymarket for allegedly accepting bets from US users

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and “imposing unfair trading conditions” on rival websites, the first such fine for Meta

Tony Romm / Washington Post:
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