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CNN:
Honig: Don't buy Bill Barr's latest story about the Big Lie  —  How Trump weaponized the Justice Department  —  Elie Honig is a CNN senior legal analyst and former federal and state prosecutor.  This op-ed is adapted from his book “Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code …
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Utterly Deranged’ Trump Has Full Meltdown Over Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell  —  The former president attacked the two key figures who enabled his agenda, calling them “spineless RINOs.”  —  Donald Trump issued a lengthy and rambling statement late Sunday attacking two of his staunchest allies during his one term in office.
Joan Walsh / The Nation:
Bill Barr's Rehabilitation Tour Begins. Let's Not Fall for It.
Discussion: Raw Story
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Attacks ‘RINO’ Bill Barr Over ‘Bullsh*t’ Election Fraud Claims: ‘A Disappointment in Every Sense of the Word’
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Supreme Court passes on transgender bathroom challenge  —  The Supreme Court on Monday passed on a long-winding legal battle over transgender students' rights to use bathrooms that match their gender identity.  —  Gavin Grimm, a transgender man, sued his school board in 2015 over its policy …
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court turns away transgender bathroom dispute in win for student Gavin Grimm
Discussion: CNN and Blue Virginia
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:   Transgender Boy Wins Bathroom Fight as Top Court Spurns Case
ABC News:
Supreme Court won't revive school's transgender bathroom ban
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
Republicans ramp up attacks on Biden on ... everything  —  Early in Joe Biden's presidency, Republicans openly conceded how poor a target he was for them.  Their hits on the president simply weren't sticking.  —  That hasn't, however, kept Republicans from swinging away.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The brouhaha over infrastructure infighting — a typical D.C. ‘process’ story — comes to naught
Washington Examiner:
Biden and Pelosi just dynamited the infrastructure deal
Discussion: ABC News, Roll Call and NBC News
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Washington Isn't Used to the Left Setting the Agenda
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Situation Room shouting match  —  Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly blew up at President Trump over how to handle last summer's racial-justice protests, The Wall Street Journal's Michael Bender writes in his forthcoming book, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election.”
Declan Garvey / The Dispatch:
Trump Returns to the Stump in Ohio  —  And Rep. Anthony Gonzalez responds to his biggest critic.  —  1 hr ago  —  After five months—long months if you liked the guy, short ones if you didn't—former President Donald Trump returned to form on Saturday, holding his first major political …
Discussion: Washington Post and Insider
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Kinzinger on Trump event: ‘Rally of a loser president’
Discussion: Mediaite, The Wrap and HuffPost
Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek:
QAnon Supporters Express Boredom With ‘Same Old’ Trump Speech: ‘This Is Getting Ridiculous’
Discussion: Insider and Washington Examiner
Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
His Insurrection Inside the Oval Office on January 6.  —  Seems like quite a few crazies," said the president.  —  A little more than three weeks before rioters and revelers stormed the Capitol on January 6, several thousand Trump fans and fanatics gathered in Washington …
Discussion: Insider, The Guardian and Raw Story
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by the Department of Defense  —  (Attributable to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby)  —  “At President Biden's direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Red America's Covid Problem  —  Cases are rising, because of the Delta variant.  —  There was a strange Covid-19 pattern in the U.S. for much of this spring.  The virus was not spreading any faster in communities with low vaccination rates than in those with high vaccination rates.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity, Study Finds  —  Immune cells are still organizing to fight the coronavirus months after inoculation, scientists reported.  —  The vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna set off a persistent immune reaction in the body …
Discussion: HotAir, Forbes, UPI, Fox News and CNBC
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
How the Arizona Cyber Ninjas Audit Happened—In One Easy Step!  —  It will amaze you how simple it is for politicians to hijack the ballots after an election.  —  Donald Trump wasn't able to use his big lie to overturn the 2020 election through local officials, the courts, or Congress.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:   Arizona's 2020 Vote ‘Audit’ Will Magnify Election Doubts
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Surfside-Condo Tragedy Does Not Need Your Political Hot Take  —  This is a tragedy, not an election.  Those pressing it into a partisan narrative are broken.  —  Hey, you.  Yes, you.  The one with his hands arched above the keyboard, debating whether to press “Send” on your Surfside hot take.
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Documents Show Ivanka Trump Didn't Testify Accurately in Inauguration Scandal Case  —  She said she played no role in planning inaugural events.  These records suggest otherwise.  —  Washington, DC, Bureau Chief  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michelle Fay Cortez / Bloomberg:
The Last-And Only-Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out  —  Danielle Anderson was working in what has become the world's most notorious laboratory just weeks before the first known cases of Covid-19 emerged in central China.  Yet, the Australian virologist still wonders what she missed.
Discussion: Townhall
Sam Raskin / New York Post:
Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry ‘pissed’ national anthem was playing at Olympic trials  —  A U.S. hammer thrower turned away from the American flag as the national anthem played while she and two other athletes stood on the podium at the Olympic trials Saturday, later saying she was “pissed” …
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
'I'm Easily Bored by Books,' Says Writer of 22 Novels  —  The latest from the aptly named Francine Prose is “The Vixen,” a surprisingly funny tale involving Ethel Rosenberg and the C.I.A.  —  Francine Prose writes a lot.  —  During her nearly 50-year career, Prose has published 30 books along …
Discussion: Althouse
Wall Street Journal:
Juul to Pay $40 Million to Settle Lawsuit Alleging It Targeted Teens  —  Suit brought by North Carolina the first of many against vaping startup set to go to trial  —  Juul Labs Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million to the state of North Carolina to resolve a lawsuit alleging that the vaping startup had targeted underage users.
Paige Williams / New Yorker:
Kyle Rittenhouse, American Vigilante  —  After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.  —  The proliferation of digital video has exposed abuses of power that in the past often remained hidden.  It has also allowed people to watch shocking footage …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
An Accusation Blew Up a Campaign.  The Media Didn't Know What to Do.  —  Handling a delicate allegation of sexual misconduct is a lot more challenging than covering a horse race.  —  Two days after coming in fifth in the election night count of votes for New York mayor last week …
 
 
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