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6:15 PM ET, July 9, 2021

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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Biden fires head of Social Security Administration, a Trump holdover who drew the ire of Democrats  —  President Biden on Friday fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, a holdover from the Trump administration who had alienated crucial Democratic constituencies with policies designed …
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The White House:
Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia … President Biden spoke today with President Putin.  The leaders commended the joint work of their respective teams following the U.S.-Russia Summit that led to the unanimous renewal …
Washington Post:
Biden tells Putin the U.S. will take ‘any necessary action’ after latest ransomware attack, White House says  —  President Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that the United States will take “any necessary action” to defend U.S. infrastructure after Russia-based hackers carried …
ABC News:
White House officials arrange confidential sales of Hunter Biden's art
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy … The economy is booming under President Biden's leadership.  The economy has gained more than three million jobs since the President took office—the most jobs created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history.
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Biden's Executive Order on Competition: A Quick Rundown
Discussion: Common Dreams and Protocol
The White House:
Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy
Margaret Harding McGill / Axios:
Biden takes aim at Big Tech, broadband with sweeping competition order
Discussion: NBC News, CNN and Breitbart
CNN:
The worst speech of Biden's presidency  —  Biden defends pulling US out of Afghanistan as Taliban advances  —  Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University.  He is author of the forthcoming book “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden.”
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Reuters:
Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as U.S. withdraws  —  Afghan Air Force Major Dastagir Zamaray had grown so fearful of Taliban assassinations of off-duty forces in Kabul that he decided to sell his home to move to a safer pocket of Afghanistan's sprawling capital.
Discussion: The Hill, ABC News and RedState
Wall Street Journal:
Afghanistan's Taliban, Now on China's Border, Seek to Reassure Beijing
Discussion: The Hill and Forbes
The Atlantic:
The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election  —  The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6, but the possibility of a stolen presidential election.  Contemporary democracies that die meet their end at the ballot box, through measures that are nominally constitutional.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic:
There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory  —  The United States is not in the midst of a “culture war” over race and racism.  The animating force of our current conflict is not our differing values, beliefs, moral codes, or practices.  The American people aren't divided.  The American people are being divided.
Discussion: Fox News
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP and Fox News rush to turn vaccine door-knockers into terrifying straw men  —  It has been three days since President Biden announced an initiative to send people door-to-door trying to get more people vaccinated, and Republicans and their conservative media allies have wasted no time turning …
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New York Post:
Eric Adams breaks bread with GOP heavyweights at Rao's  —  It was an offer he didn't refuse.  —  Just days after winning the Democratic nomination for mayor, Eric Adams broke bread at storied Italian eatery Rao's with billionaire Republican John Catsimatidis.
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Oath Keepers Leader Sits for F.B.I. Questioning Against Legal Advice  —  In a bold move, Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the right-wing militia group, sat for an interview with federal agents after they seized his phone in May.  —  It was shortly after federal agents confronted …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Vera Bergengruen / TIME:   Inside One Combat Vet's Journey From Defending His Country to Storming the Capitol
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
New Evidence Indicates Enough Illegal Votes In Georgia To Tip 2020 Results  —  In Georgia, there was both an audit and a statewide recount confirming Biden's victory, but ignored in the process was evidence that nearly 35,000 Georgians had potentially voted illegally.
Discussion: The Election Wizard
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
What Happened To You?  —  The radicalization of the American elite against liberalism  —  “What happened to you?”  —  It's a question I get a lot on Twitter.  “When did you become so far right?”  “Why have you become a white supremacist, transphobic, misogynistic eugenicist?”  Or, of course: “See!
Discussion: HotAir
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas  —  The measure bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.  And it effectively deputizes ordinary citizens to sue people involved in the process.  —  People across the country may soon be able to sue abortion clinics …
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Biden taps Eric Garcetti for India ambassador post  —  President Biden plans to nominate Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as ambassador to India and Denise Bauer, a former ambassador to Belgium and prominent Biden donor, to serve as ambassador to France, the White House announced Friday.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former GOP Hill aide pleads guilty in child porn case  —  A former GOP staffer and Republican National Committee aide pleaded guilty Friday to a child pornography charge and is facing 12 years or more in prison under a plea deal with prosecutors.  —  Ruben Verastigui, 27 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How a hidden Biden victory could deal a big blow to Trumpian nationalism  —  When President Biden recently announced a deal with 130 countries to combat tax avoidance by multinational corporations, you probably didn't connect the news to the poisonous impact that Donald Trump continues to wield over our politics.
Discussion: PIIE, Wall Street Journal and CBS News
John Wright / Raw Story:
GOP lawmakers caught on undercover video gleefully thanking Manchin and Sinema for preserving Senate filibuster  —  Progressive activists erupted in anger on Friday after several Republican GOP lawmakers were caught on camera praising Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It's Taking America With It  —  The presidency of George W. Bush may have been the high point of the modern Christian right's influence in America.  White evangelicals were the largest religious faction in the country.
Discussion: Religion News Service
Jonathan A. Greenblatt / Newsweek:
It's Time to Admit It: The Left Has an Antisemitism Problem  —  In our super-charged partisan times, it is often said that every issue has become politicized, with each side of the spectrum lining up on “their” side.  This is also true of antisemitism which, like so many other issues in society …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans believe Covid leaked from lab  —  Most Americans now believe that the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory in China, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard poll that found a dramatic shift in public perception of Covid-19's origins over the last year.
New York Times:
C.D.C. to Issue New School Guidance, With Emphasis on Full Reopening  —  The guidance acknowledges that many students have suffered from months of virtual learning.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to release new guidance on Friday urging schools to fully reopen in the fall …
Clara Hendrickson / Detroit Free Press:
AG accepts GOP lawmaker's request to investigate those peddling election lies  —  Michigan's chief law enforcement officer, along with state police, will launch an investigation into those who have allegedly peddled disinformation about the state's Nov. 3 election for their own financial gain.
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor Retiring Before Sept. 11 Trial Begins  —  Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins had held the job longest, and was for many years the public face of military commissions.  —  WASHINGTON — The Army general who has led war crimes prosecutions at Guantánamo Bay …
FWIW:
Republicans ditch Snapchat ads in the Biden era  —  Also inside: A look at the GOP using Critical Race Theory in Virginia  —  Millennials and Gen Z'ers are a steady, growing force to be reckoned with in American politics, and campaigns ignore them at their own peril.
Discussion: Blue Virginia
 
 
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White nationalists prep for “physical” altercation with security at Dallas CPAC conference
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
New study shows dramatic gap in religious diversity between the Southeast and much of the country
 Earlier Items: 
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
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Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Trump Organization Indictment May Spell Trouble for Trump Spawn
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org