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11:50 PM ET, August 22, 2022

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New York Times:
Trump Had More Than 300 Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago  —  The National Archives found more than 150 sensitive documents when it got a first batch of material from the former president in January, helping to explain the Justice Department's urgent response.
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John Solomon / Just The News:
Biden White House facilitated DOJ's criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims: memos  —  Long before it professed no prior knowledge of the raid on Donald Trump's estate, the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to instigate …
CNBC:
Trump sues to block DOJ from reviewing materials FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago until watchdog appointed  — Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to appoint a special watchdog to review documents seized from his Florida home by the FBI as part of a criminal investigation …
Ty Ross / Occupy Democrats:
JUSTIFIED: Fox News just published an editorial that you won't believe came from them  —  After widespread criticism and deflection by Republican allies of Donald Trump — all scrambling to condemn the FBI's search of the ex-President's Palm Beach home — an unlikely source has pushed …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge says FBI's evidence for searching Mar-a-Lago is ‘reliable’
Washington Post:
Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers  —  Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump's 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives  —  A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo.  —  WASHINGTON — A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor …
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ProPublica:
How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts  —  In the largest known political advocacy donation in U.S. history, industrialist Barre Seid funded a new group run by Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, who guided Trump's Supreme Court picks …
Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Fauci plans to step down in December after half a century in government  —  Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's preeminent infectious-disease expert who achieved unprecedented fame while enduring withering political attacks as the face of the coronavirus pandemic response under two presidents …
CNN:
White House leaning toward canceling $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers who make less than $125,000  —  . CNN's Blake Essig reports.  —  ' data-duration="02:56" data-source="CNN" data-affiliate-source-link="https:// www.cnn.com/" data-show-name="" data-show-url="" class="video-playlist__item" >
Discussion: Insider, Forbes, The Daily Caller and IJR
Saja Hindi / Denver Post:
Colorado GOP Sen. Kevin Priola switches party affiliation to Democrat, citing election conspiracies and climate denialism  —  Colorado Sen. Kevin Priola, a Henderson Republican, announced Monday morning that he is changing his party affiliation to Democrat.  —  Priola, considered …
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer.  Here's How.  —  In a first, the measure legally defines greenhouse gases as pollution.  That'll make new regulations much tougher to challenge in court.  —  When the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Justice Department issues new subpoena to National Archives for more January 6 documents  —  Why new Trump lawsuit shows disagreement behind the scenes 03:35  —  The Justice Department has issued a new grand jury subpoena to the National Archives for more documents as part …
Discussion: Insider
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Fraudster Gets Five Years for $25 Million Scheme  —  ALFORD PLEA  —  A federal judge on Monday sentenced Florida man Stephen M. Alford to 63 months in prison, followed by three years supervised release for his role in a scheme to defraud the family of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
Discussion: Raw Story
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
California congressman becomes latest Republican to invoke Nazis to defend Trump, bash Biden  —  Rep. Mike Garcia, a Republican who faces one of the most competitive House races in the country, likened the Biden administration to the Nazi regime during an interview on a conservative podcast last week.
Discussion: CNN
Mallory Moench / San Francisco Chronicle:
Despite Newsom's veto, S.F. might push ahead with supervised drug consumption sites anyway  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed pilot programs where people could use drugs under the supervision of trained staff in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles …
Phil Davison / Washington Post:
David Kay, weapons inspector who helped disprove Iraqi WMDs, dies at 82  —  He concluded that no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq and that intelligence agencies had badly misjudged the available evidence  —  David A. Kay, the weapons proliferation expert who led a CIA-run operation …
Discussion: New York Times, The Hill and HuffPost
Geneva Sands / CNN:
ICE officials under Trump told to wipe phones when leaving agency  —  The phones of several top Trump-era Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were deactivated when they left their positions and the data contained on them likely wiped, a court filing released late last week shows.
Discussion: Political Wire
Emily Crane / New York Post:
64-year-old NYC man savagely beaten with rock in subway attack  —  A 64-year-old man was beaten with a rock in a brutal attack on a Brooklyn subway platform this weekend, cops said.  —  Intazar Dar was on his way home from work when he was randomly attacked at the Avenue H station in Midwood …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and PIX11
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Liz Cheney Dares Kevin McCarthy And Jim Jordan To Subpoena Her  —  “I will welcome the opportunity to come and explain to them exactly what we found and the threat that Donald Trump poses,” the Wyoming Republican said.  —  Liz Cheney would be happy to testify if Republicans sent her a subpoena …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Did opposition to Liz Cheney boost far-right candidates in Wyoming?
Discussion: RedState and Reuters
Los Angeles Times:
These celebrities are accused of drought restriction violations  —  They're among the biggest names in entertainment and sports: Sylvester Stallone, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Hart, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian.  —  And as Southern California struggles with a third year of punishing drought …
Discussion: Breitbart
Nolan Hicks / New York Post:
NYC could spend $300M annually to house migrants in hotels  —  The Big Apple could be on the hook for more than $300 million per year to provide shelter space in hotels for newly arrived migrants, a Post analysis shows.  —  City officials have either rented or announced plans …
Bethania Palma / Snopes.com:
Is This a List of ‘Banned Books in Florida Schools and Libraries’? … Amid a push by U.S. Republican legislators to limit children's access to books in schools and libraries about sensitive topics, some social media users in August 2022 posted a list that allegedly contained titles of …
Discussion: BizPac Review
KSAT-TV:
$27 billion class action lawsuit announced for Uvalde victims and survivors  —  Charles Bonner of Bonner & Bonner Law is also representing victims in the Buffalo shooting  —  UVALDE - Some of the families affected by the Robb Elementary School mass shooting are now a part of a major lawsuit.
Bloomberg:
YouTube Bans Andrew Tate After Sexist Remarks, But He's Still on Twitch  —  A YouTube channel associated with Andrew Tate, an online influencer and self-described misogynist, was disabled Monday, as Google's video website joins a growing list of social media platforms taking action against the personality in the last week.
Olivia B. Waxman / TIME:
African-American History Finally Gets Its Own AP Class—And Historians Say It's More Important Than Ever  —  On the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Biden bottoms out, pops back to 47% approval  —  With the help of Democrats bailing out his sinking approval ratings, President Joe Biden has started to recover just in time to begin a national 2022 election trip.  —  Rasmussen Reports, the sole pollster still conducting daily presidential approval ratings …
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports
Eric Beecher / Crikey:
Standing up for the free press: here's what abuse of media power looks like in Australia  —  Today Crikey is publishing a series of lengthy legal demands by Lachlan Murdoch's lawyers.  Here's why.  —  This article is part of a series about a legal threat sent to Crikey by Lachlan Murdoch …
David Montgomery / Washington Post:
Can Antony Blinken Update Liberal Foreign Policy for a World Gone Mad? … As he packed for a security conference in Munich in mid-February, Secretary of State Antony Blinken added an unexpected detour to Manhattan.  The United Nations Security Council was meeting, and Blinken had word …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Desperate Alex Jones Pleads for Forgiveness From Trump After Backing DeSantis  —  Three days after dumping Trump for DeSantis, Jones insisted he never “abandoned” the ex-president and urged Trump to call him.  —  Well, that didn't take long.  —  Three days after declaring he found someone …
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and Boing Boing
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
On Car Seats as Contraception  —  Or: Against Car Seat Laws At Least Beyond Age 2  —  (Note: This post takes the perspective of strongly preferring higher American fertility to lower American fertility on anything close to current margins.  I endorse this view and consider it very overdetermined …
Dave Levinthal / Insider:
Trump PAC's $650,000 ‘charitable contribution’ to the Smithsonian will pay for portraits of Donald and Melania Trump  — Save America, one of Donald Trump's political committees, donated $650,000 to the Smithsonian.  — A Smithsonian official confirmed to Insider that the money will fund portraits of Donald and Melania Trump.
 
 
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Richard Spencer / The Times:
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Bryan Anderson / WRAL-TV:
In memoir, NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson mulls 2024 run, calls for taking science, history out of elementary schools
Discussion: Raw Story
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
After attacks and primary challenge, Wisconsin GOP leader still stands by Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Emails Show Omaha Police Planned Deal With Far Right-linked Gun Shop
Emran Feroz / New Lines Magazine:
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Paul J. Weber / Associated Press:
Election staff abruptly quits, upending rural Texas county
David Weigel / Washington Post:
In Upstate N.Y., a test for Democrats running on abortion to stop GOP wave
Discussion: CBS News and ABC17NEWS
George Thomas / The Atlantic:
Mike Pence Owes the Country an Explanation
Olivia Yarvis / The Texas Tribune:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: National Republicans bolster Herschel Walker with Senate control on the line