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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Maricopa County will replace voting machines, fearful that audit has compromised security  —  Arizona's Maricopa County announced Monday that it will replace voting equipment that was turned over to a private contractor for a Republican-commissioned review of the 2020 presidential election …
Jen Fifield / Arizona Republic:   Maricopa County won't reuse voting equipment that was with Cyber Ninjas for audit
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
'It's a daydream:' Questions emerge about financing plans for bipartisan infrastructure deal  —  Offsetting $500 billion in new spending without raising taxes or adding to the deficit requires some creative math  —  To pay for their proposed infrastructure package, the White House …
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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Democrats launch new ‘coming back’ push to tout Biden agenda  —  WASHINGTON — Covid-19 kept candidate Joe Biden off the campaign trail last July Fourth.  But this year, the White House and the Democratic National Committee are launching a campaign-style blitz as Americans get set …
Discussion: The Hill and YouTube
CNN:
How Biden and his team rushed to save him from his infrastructure blunder
Discussion: NBC News and Daily Herald
Miami Herald:
Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed this damage in garage  —  There was nothing unusual about the lobby and pool area at Champlain Towers South condo, which looked clean and well maintained to a commercial pool contractor who visited the building last Tuesday …
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Deborah Acosta / Wall Street Journal:
Miami-Area Condo Board President Warned of Need for Repairs in April Letter  —  ‘The concrete deterioration is accelerating.  The roof situation got much worse,’ condo board leader told residents  —  SURFSIDE, Fla.—The president of the Champlain South Towers condo association told residents …
Luke Money / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. County urges everyone to wear masks indoors as Delta variant spreads  —  With the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus continuing to spread statewide, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is recommending that all residents wear masks in public indoor spaces …
Discussion: Associated Press, HotAir and KTLA
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publichealth.lacounty.gov:
As Delta Variant Circulates, Public Health Recommends Masking Indoors as a Precaution - 3 New Deaths and 259 New Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County
Wall Street Journal:
Delta Variant of Covid-19 Surges Across Unvaccinated Africa
Discussion: California Globe
Jonathan Van Meter / Vogue:
A First Lady for All of Us: On the Road with Dr. Jill Biden  —  To listen to this profile, click the play button below:  —  When Jill Biden visits community colleges, which is a lot these days, she is received in highly choreographed settings by a governor, say, or members of the public as the nation's first lady.
Discussion: CNN and Twitchy
Axios:
Boring news cycle deals blow to partisan media  —  In the months since former President Donald Trump left office, media companies' readership numbers are plunging — and publishers that rely on partisan, ideological warfare have taken an especially big hit.  —  Why it matters …
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump lawyer: Manhattan DA won't charge former president  —  Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has indicated he does not currently plan to charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to allegations of “hush money” payments and real estate value manipulations, according to a personal lawyer for Donald Trump.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
House GOP bristles as a Jan. 6 investigation lands in its lap  —  In the days after the deadly Capitol attack on Jan. 6, tension among House Republicans was so high that one of them privately suggested some GOP colleagues be punished for their roles in encouraging the riot.
Joe Biden / Yahoo News:
Americans can be proud of the infrastructure deal  —  I have always believed that there is nothing our nation can't do when we decide to do it together.  Last week, we began to write a new chapter in that story.  —  After weeks of negotiations, a bipartisan group of United States senators forged …
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Amy Graff / SFGATE:
It's so hot in the Pacific Northwest that roads are buckling  —  It's so hot in the Pacific Northwest that roads are buckling.  —  Asphalt and concrete roadways are expanding and cracking and even Interstate 5 has been impacted amid a heat wave that has sent temperatures soaring to dangerous levels.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The truth about many in the GOP base: They prefer authoritarianism to democracy  —  We want to believe that goodwill can foster a return to less contentious and hyperpartisan times.  But what if one side adopts noxious views antithetical to democracy — and, worse, rejects the basic premise of America?
Discussion: Morning Consult
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Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
The Voting Rights Package That Can Pass the Senate  —  A plan that can get past Joe Manchin, the Republicans, and still help voters.  —  Filibuster opponents and bipartisanship skeptics on the left view the Republican rejection of Sen. Joe Manchin's voting rights proposal as validation.
Discussion: NPR
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CNN:
Moderate House Democrats are uneasy over Pelosi's infrastructure strategy
Alan M. Dershowitz / The Hill:
Giuliani's suspension from the law is unconstitutional  —  Rudy Giuliani has been suspended from the practice of law without a hearing, based largely on First Amendment-protected statements he made outside of any court of law.  A panel of the Appellate Division of New York suspended …
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
Laura Nahmias / Fun City:
The Man who Would be Mayor  —  Into the Archives, with Eric Adams  —  Over the last six months, it's been fascinating to watch Eric Adams, who has decent odds of becoming New York City's 110th mayor, characterized as the most conservative candidate in the Democratic primary when it comes to policing.
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
General Milley Leads the Enemy Within  —  Championing critical race theory, undermining the military.  —  [Editors' note: To sign the Freedom Center's petitions to remove Admiral Michael Gilday and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin from their positions, CLICK HERE and HERE.]
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:   Democracies Don't Try to Make Everyone Agree
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Book bombshells reveal depths of Trump's 2020 delusions  —  Washington (CNN)Excerpts from three upcoming books revealed previously unknown efforts by then-President Donald Trump to abuse the powers of his office to overturn the 2020 election, deploy the military against racial justice protests and prosecute his political opponents.
Dave Levinthal / Insider:
Republican Rep. Pat Fallon failed to properly disclose more than 90 stock transactions worth as much as $17.53 million in apparent violation of federal law  — Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas disclosed some stock trades up to nearly four months late.  — Tardy stock disclosures can open up members of Congress to investigations and fines.
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
Dan Snyder Tries to End an Era of NFL Scandal With a Progressive Pivot  —  A diverse front office.  A gender-neutral dance team.  His wife as the new co-CEO.  Snyder, the owner of the Washington Football Team, speaks out on his bid to fix a franchise plagued by internal problems.
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Biden's defense of new airstrikes in Iraq and Syria is weak … The United States launched airstrikes on another country's soil this week.  Again.  According to the Pentagon, the “defensive precision” strikes hit their targets in Iraq and Syria.  Great victory, huge success, everyone shrugs and goes about their day.
Discussion: Algemeiner.com, Just Security and CNN
Roland Li / San Francisco Chronicle:
Californians are fueling Austin's housing frenzy: 'We've never seen migration like this'  —  AUSTIN, Texas — The metro area of this capital city grows by around 180 people every day, a boom that's made it the country's fastest-growing major region for the past decade.
Discussion: Breitbart
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Court dismisses FTC, state antitrust cases against Facebook  —  A D.C. federal court on Monday dismissed two antitrust cases brought against Facebook last year in a major setback for federal and state regulators.  —  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will have an opportunity to file an amended complaint …
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats in Oil Country Worried by Party's Natural-Gas Agenda  —  Progressive agenda has moderates weathering Republican attack ads over oil and gas jobs  —  WASHINGTON—Democratic Party progressives are pushing President Biden to include in his infrastructure agenda stringent measures …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Congressman Recruits Holocaust Deniers Into the Republican Party A Republican radical with a sinister plan.  —  Some of the most cartoonishly nutty members of the Republican caucus simply want to get famous, rich, or the affections of younger women.  Representative Paul Gosar, on the other hand, has a plan.
Discussion: Mediaite
Sarah Mucha / Axios:
Biden to use Wisconsin speech as roadmap for infrastructure sales pitch  —  President Biden will use his visit to La Crosse, Wisconsin, to “cut through the noise in Washington,” aides told Axios, enlisting voters to help him hold together a fragile $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal.
Discussion: UPI
Joel Kotkin / The American Mind:
Fully Oligarchic Luxury Californication  —  The tech elite have joined forces with progressive visionaries to establish a model of America's feudal future.  —  What happens in California matters well beyond its borders.  The Golden State's cultural and technological influence on America …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Claims the NSA is Monitoring His Communications ‘In an Attempt to Take This Show Off the Air’  —  Tucker Carlson claimed on Monday night that his communications are being monitored by the NSA “in an attempt to take this show off the air.”  —  Carlson told viewers a whistleblower …
Discussion: HuffPost, The Hill, Insider, Townhall and UPROXX
 
 
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