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5:45 PM ET, July 11, 2013

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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Harry Reid escalates nuclear threat in a big way  —  An important moment on the Senate floor just now: Harry Reid said he would be filing cloture today on a whole bunch of executive nominations, and challenged Republicans to act on them — a major escalation of the threat to change the Senate rules …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Democrats Poised to Limit Filibusters, Angering G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON — A confrontation in the Senate between Republicans and Democrats over the confirmation of President Obama's cabinet nominees edged closer on Thursday toward a showdown over changing the rules on filibusters.
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Mitch McConnell's problem: How can he threaten to obstruct the Senate even more?  —  There's a reason the Senate majority rarely goes through with filibuster reform: The minority can make the aftermath hellish.  —  Will Harry Reid actually change the rules?  (Michael Reynolds/EPA)
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Reid: McConnell Broke His Word On Filibuster, So The Nuclear Option Is On The Table
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Yahoo! News
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
House approves farm bill in big win for Boehner, GOP leaders  —  The House approved a stripped-down farm bill Thursday in a tight 216-208 vote, giving a huge boost to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other Republican leaders after the embarrassing failure of an earlier bill last month.
Discussion: Yahoo! News, CNN and Daily Kos
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Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:   Obama's Big Problem Is Obama
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
House Passes Farm Bill, Now Without Food Stamp Cuts
New York Times:
Republicans in House Resist Overhaul for Immigration  —  WASHINGTON — Meeting for the first time as a group to hash out their approach to immigration, House Republicans on Wednesday came down overwhelmingly against a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws …
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Pelosi Draws Her Bright Lines On Immigration Reform  —  After a two-hour meeting Wednesday in the Capitol basement, House Republicans were no closer to an immigration reform consensus other than that they don't like the Senate bill, they don't like big bills, and they don't like a …
New York Times:
Sudden Improvements in Egypt Suggest a Campaign to Undermine Morsi  —  CAIRO — The streets seethe with protests and government ministers are on the run or in jail, but since the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi, life has somehow gotten better for many people across Egypt …
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Christians Targeted for Retribution in Egypt
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten's blog:
Getting the Muslim Brotherhood Wrong
Discussion: Washington Post
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Marist Poll:
7/11: A Second Chance for Spitzer? Takes Lead in NYC Comptroller's Race
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Post Politics
Gail Collins / New York Times:   New York Sizzles  —  Positive aspects of New York City's Weiner-Spitzer summer:
Guardian:
Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages  —  • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism  —  • Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch  —  • Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Rand Paul Stands By His ‘Southern Avenger’  —  WASHINGTON — In an interview with The Huffington Post, Sen. Rand Paul stoutly defended an aide who, as a radio shock jock in South Carolina, praised John Wilkes Booth, heaped scorn on Abraham Lincoln and wore a ski mask emblazoned with the stars and bars of the Confederate Battle Flag.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' Obamacare search-and-destroy mission  —  Watching House Republicans' latest complaint about Obamacare brings to mind the joke Woody Allen used to open “Annie Hall,” about two elderly women at a Catskills resort.  —  “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible,” says one.
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Fox News:
Prosecution paints Zimmerman as angry vigilante in closing arguments  —  A Florida prosecutor painted George Zimmerman as an angry vigilante who “tracked” Trayvon Martin through a gated community and provoked the confrontation that claimed the teenager's life in a scorching summation Thursday.
Discussion: Power Line and The Week
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Samantha Maziarz Christmann / Buffalo News:
Wegmans cuts health benefits for part-time workers  —  Et tu, Wegmans?  —  The Rochester-based grocer that has been continually lauded for providing health insurance to its part-time workers will no longer offer that benefit.  —  Until recently, the company voluntarily offered health insurance …
Dr. Milton R. Wolf / Washington Times:
Obamacare's panicked Democrats  —  Why the employer mandate delay will backfire  —  Poor Democrats.  An election looms and their Obamacare train wreck is deservedly being called the worst law in American history.  Voters hate it, and why shouldn't they?  The Democrats' promises …
Discussion: Megan McArdle and Power Line
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: House to vote next week on delaying ObamaCare mandates
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Yahoo! News
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Sarah Palin  · 3,554,768 like this  —  Really, Mark?  Really?  —  Margaret Thatcher used to say, “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
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Mark Begich / CNN:
Palin fires back in war of words with Begich
Sheelah Kolhatkar / Businessweek:
Hedge Funds Are for Suckers  —  At the height of the financial crisis in 2008, a group of famous hedge fund managers was made to stand before Congress like thieves in a stockade and defend their existence to an angry public.  The gilded five included George Soros, co-founder of the Quantum Fund …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
D.C. Council approves ‘living wage’ bill over Wal-Mart ultimatum  —  D.C. lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a bill requiring some large retailers to pay their employees a 50 percent premium over the city's minimum wage, a day after Wal-Mart warned that the law would jeopardize its plans in the city.
Emily Swanson / The Huffington Post:
Abortion Poll Finds Support For 20-Week Ban  —  Most Americans would favor sweeping new national restrictions on abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll.  But the poll also shows many Americans remain conflicted in their views on abortion.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trapped: An air escape from Moscow unlikely for NSA leaker Snowden  —  WASHINGTON — Beginning a third week holed up in a Moscow airport's transit zone, Edward Snowden finds himself far enough away to evade U.S. authorities, but also too far from any of the sympathetic nations willing to shelter him.
Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette and Hot Air
NME:
Jay-Z: ‘I get texts from President Obama, of course’  —  Rapper opens up his relationships with Rihanna, Jack White and daughter Blue Ivy  —  Jay-Z has opened up about his life in a new radio interview, revealing that he texts President Obama as well as discussing his relationships with Rihanna, Jack White and daughter Blue Ivy.
 
 
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Cecile Richards Can't Explain Difference Between Gosnell Killings and Elective Late-Term Abortions
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Russ Schriefer / The Daily Beast:
Bill Clinton, the Original Sex Scandal Comeback Kid
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David Dayen / Alternet:
Oregon Students Fight Back Against Debt, And Win
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Senate GOP leaders look outside as they run for re-election
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Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Ex-Sanford police chief: Zimmerman probe ‘taken away from us’