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10:55 PM ET, March 9, 2021

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Bari Weiss / City Journal:
The Miseducation of America's Elites  —  Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children's private schools, organize in secret.  —  Education  —  The Social Order  —  The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls.
Discussion: HotAir and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
Cuomo faces new sexual harassment allegation, this time at Executive Mansion  —  Female aide claims governor touched her inappropriately; complaint reported to AG  —  ALBANY — A sixth woman has come forward and leveled allegations of sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo …
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Piers Morgan's Meghan Markle Comments Being Investigated by U.K. Media Regulator Ofcom … U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation after more than 41,000 people wrote in to complain about ITV's “Good Morning Britain” host Piers Morgan's comments on Meghan Markle.
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Patrick Freyne / The Irish Times:
Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Biden's COVID-Relief Bill Is a Big F**king Deal  —  Joe Biden won, but progressives lost.  —  For weeks after the 2020 election, this was the conventional wisdom about its outcome.  As Politico wrote on November 5, “During Barack Obama's presidency, Biden's propensity for cutting deals …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Hidden provisions in Biden's rescue bill make this a bigger deal than you thought  —  Some time in the next few days, President Biden will sign the American Rescue Plan, the first major legislation of his presidency.  It has gotten a large amount of press coverage, especially the $1,400 checks that will be going to most Americans.
Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Manchin promised to back his ‘Republican friends.’ Instead, he betrayed them.
Discussion: The Hill and Vox
Jon Walker / American Prospect:
The Almost Big F*cking Deal in the COVID Relief Bill
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
BuzzFeed Announces Deep Cuts To HuffPost Staff After Acquisition  —  BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost from Verizon Media in February.  —  BuzzFeed announced layoffs for the HuffPost newsroom on Tuesday, three weeks after acquiring HuffPost from Verizon Media in February.
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Laura Wagner / Defector:
Jonah Peretti Lays Off 47 HuffPost Staffers In Latest “Bloodbath”  —  BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, who acquired HuffPost from Verizon in a deal that was announced last year with the promise that HuffPost would thrive in partnership with BuzzFeed, announced in an all-hands meeting today …
Associated Press:
GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Democrats were on the brink of pushing through sprawling legislation with an eyepopping, $1.9 trillion price tag.  —  But many Republican politicians and conservative commentators had other priorities in recent days.
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
For Schumer, a Dream Job Comes With Tall Orders  —  After ascending to the top Senate job during the assault on the Capitol, Chuck Schumer faces a different kind of challenge: steering President Biden's agenda with no margin for error.  —  WASHINGTON — The moment Chuck Schumer achieved …
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Politico:
Another Oath Keeper with links to Roger Stone charged in Capitol riot
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
Reuters:
Republican donations surge despite corporate boycott after Capitol riots
Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Manhattan Prosecutors Advance Probe Into Trump's Seven Springs Estate  —  Subpoenas center on Trump Organization's failed efforts to develop the 213-acre property into a luxury subdivision  —  Manhattan prosecutors are intensifying their investigation into Donald Trump's businesses …
Discussion: New York Magazine and CNN
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Chris Sommerfeldt / Yahoo News:
Trump in NYC to ‘look under the hood’ of his businesses as prosecutors probing fraud turn up heat, source says
Discussion: Fox News and HuffPost
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NBC News:
House passes 'Protect the ‘Right to Organize Act,’ 225-206, sends bill to Senate  —  WASHINGTON — With no major labor reform since the 1930s, Democrats are seizing on the opportunity to strengthen workers' rights — including their ability to unionize.  —  On Tuesday, the House …
Discussion: Politico, Vox, WCDC-TV and Associated Press
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Bob Smietana / Religion News Service:
Bible teacher Beth Moore, splitting with Lifeway, says, ‘I am no longer a Southern Baptist’  —  Author and speaker Beth Moore speaks during a panel on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 10, 2019.
Discussion: USA Today
ABC News:
FBI releases new images of DC pipe bomb suspect  —  A reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect stands at $100,000.  —  FBI releases new video of Capitol Hill pipe bomb suspect  —  Just one night before the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill breach, pipe bombs were placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters.
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Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson:
Governor Hutchinson Issues Statement on Signing of SB6  —  “SB6 is a pro-life bill that prohibits abortion in all cases except to save the life of the mother in a medical emergency.  It does not include exceptions for rape and incest.  —  “I will sign SB6 because of overwhelming legislative support …
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The Carter Center:
President Carter Statement on Efforts to Restrict Voting Access  —  In 1962, I ran to represent the 14th Senate District in the Georgia legislature.  I won my Senate seat, but only after the courts ruled that a ballot box had been illegally “stuffed” with votes for my opponent.
Doug Mainwaring / LifeSiteNews:
Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph  —  Salvation can only be achieved through devotion to Christ and the works of the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.' … Milo Yiannopoulos, the gay man whose conservative messaging and willingness to speak …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Politico:
Pentagon chief to urge Manchin to support nominee amid Twitter troubles  —  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday urged Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin to support President Joe Biden's nominee for the top Pentagon policy job amid criticism of his past Twitter posts.  But the moderate senator says he's still undecided.
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Politico:
EconTwitter makes it to the Oval
Discussion: Bloomberg
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The Biden administration confirms some but not all of Trump's Wuhan lab claims  —  In its final days, President Donald Trump's State Department made a series of highly controversial claims about the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, and its possible connection to the covid-19 outbreak.
Discussion: HotAir
Reuters:
Exclusive: Quad nations meeting to announce financing to boost India vaccine output - U.S. official  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A first ever leaders' meeting of the Quad group of countries on Friday plans to announce financing agreements to support an increase in manufacturing capacity …
Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Who Ordered a Smear Campaign Against Andrew Cuomo's First Accuser?  —  In early December, Lindsey Boylan responded to a prompt on Twitter for people to share the worst job they'd ever had.  “Most toxic team environment?” she tweeted.  “Working for @NYGovCuomo.”
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Good News about the Pfizer Vaccine  —  In Your Face, Variants!  —  In the tug of war between pandemic optimism and pandemic pessimism, one of the recurring arguments from the side of pessimism is that the virus is always mutating, mutated versions have in some cases become more contagious and more virulent …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Fox News, HotAir and Mediaite
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Brood X cicadas are about to put on one of the wildest shows in nature.  And D.C. is the main stage.  —  “We are at the epicenter of an event that happens nowhere else on the planet,” an entomologist said.  “It blows your mind.”  —  They've been buried — alive — for 17 years.
Discussion: Fox News and NBC4 Washington
Ben Weingarten / The American Mind:
Out of His Census  —  Biden's betrayal of citizenship sabotages our republican form of government.  —  Editors' Note  —  This article will be part of a longer forthcoming series regarding President Biden's harmful Executive Orders.  —  President Joe Biden's flurry of initial actions …
Washington Post:
A viral tsunami: How the underestimated coronavirus took over the world  —  New Year's Eve 2019: Ian Lipkin, a famed Columbia University epidemiologist, is having dinner with his wife and a fellow scientist.  He gets a confidential phone call from a highly placed source in China …
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
‘QAnon Shaman’ stays in jail as judge slams his arguments: 'So frivolous as to insult the Court's intelligence'  —  Jacob Anthony Chansley, often referred to as the “QAnon Shaman” who donned horns and red-white-and-blue face paint to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, has spent nearly …
Bloomberg:
Trump's Next Challenge Is to Turn 74 Million Believers Into Buyers  —  They backed Donald Trump in November, and now they aren't buying what he's selling.  —  A quarry owner in the heart of Texas Trump country says she has little interest in staying at one of his hotels.
Discussion: HillReporter.com and Raw Story
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
If Fox News wants to be a political tool, it should be treated as such and not given access meant for journalists |  COMMENTARY  —  The dangerously anti-democratic behavior of former President Donald Trump and the slavish endorsement of it by Fox News the past five years has forced …
National Women's Hall of Fame:
2021 Induction  —  The National Women's Hall of Fame will celebrate the inclusion of these extraordinary women into the Hall at the biennial in-person induction ceremony on October 2, 2021 at the NWHF's new home, the recently revitalized 1844 Seneca Knitting Mill building.
Charlie Cook / National Journal:
OFF TO THE RACES: A historic bill, but at what cost?  —  The $1.9 trillion package does a lot more than simply address the pandemic and the economy.  Which is why Republicans were so reluctant to play ball.  —  On Saturday, on a party-line vote of 50 to 49, Senate Democrats passed H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
 
 
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Washington Free Beacon:
President of Taxpayer-Funded Antiracist Group Funneled Nearly $300K to Husband's Law Firm
Associated Press:
UAE minister: US sanctions on Syria challenge rapprochement
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wyoming lawmakers weigh runoff legislation that could hurt Liz Cheney.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
South China Morning Post:
exclusive | China and US in talks for top-level relationship reset meeting in Alaska
Discussion: Bloomberg
Bloomberg:
Republican Senator Sees ‘Day of Reckoning’ on Debt After Biden Stimulus
Discussion: Political Wire
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David Klion / Jewish Currents:
Progressives Are Losing Patience with Biden's Iran Policy
Davey Alba / New York Times:
Epoch Media Casts Wider Net to Spread Its Message Online
Eileen Reslen / Page Six:
Dana Perino reveals why George W. Bush once kicked her out of Oval Office
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Politico's Eugene Daniels: ‘We Are Changing Who Is Allowed To Talk About Politics And Who Is Allowed At The Table’
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
How to Put Out Democracy's Dumpster Fire