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11:25 AM ET, July 10, 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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Ben Paviour / NPR:
Charlottesville Removes Robert E. Lee Statue That Sparked A Deadly Rally  —  got a news tip?  —  At NPR, we welcome your news tips.  Here's a guide to getting in touch with our newsroom and how to share sensitive information.  —  INVESTIGATIONS  —  Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor …
Discussion: HotAir
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Brad Bannon / The Hill:
Investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will resurrect democracy  —  On July 4, we celebrated the dawn of American democracy.  This past Tuesday, July 6, marked the half-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, which many mourned as the democracy's sunset.
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Mo Brooks Tells Conservatives To ‘Fight’ And ‘Sacrifice’ Like Revolutionary War Soldiers  —  Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) on Friday doubled down on the rhetoric that led a fellow House member to sue him for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, urging attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference to …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Fox News
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
CPAC attendee circulates ‘plan’ to re-install Trump as president ‘in days’
Discussion: HuffPost and Fox News
Zachary Petrizzo / Salon:
Stewart Rhodes, founder of right-wing Oath Keepers militia, spotted at CPAC  —  Multiple federal agencies are investigating the Oath Keepers for their alleged role in the Jan. 6 insurrection  —  DALLAS — Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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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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Wall Street Journal:   Afghanistan's Taliban, Now on China's Border, Seek to Reassure Beijing
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Top Biden ally pleads with him to scrap filibuster for election reform  —  After months of setbacks and gridlock on voting rights, one of President Joe Biden's top allies in Congress is calling for him to support amending the Senate filibuster.  —  House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) …
Christopher F. Rufo / New York Post:
Disingenuous defenses of critical race theory  —  The latest defense for teaching our children to be racially divisive?  It's free speech!  —  Last week, The New York Times published an opinion piece by commentators David French, Kmele Foster, Thomas Chatterton Williams and Jason Stanley …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic:
There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory
Discussion: Townhall, HotAir and Fox News
Houston Public Media:
Texas AG's Office Arrests Houston Voter Hervis Rogers For Alleged Illegal Voting  —  Rogers captured national attention in March 2020 when he waited for hours to vote on Super Tuesday.  —  When Hervis Rogers went viral on social media for being the last person in line at Texas Southern University …
Discussion: Raw Story, NPR and ACLU
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
A Landlord Says Her Tenants Are Terrorizing Her.  She Can't Evict Them.  —  A landlord in Queens says her tenants curse and spit at her and owe more than $23,000 in rent.  But an eviction moratorium keeps them from being kicked out.  —  For more than a year, Vanie Mangal …
Discussion: HotAir and TheBlaze
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Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
Secret Service Says It Has No Plan for Protecting White House Pets During an Attack
Washington Post:
Biden tells Putin the U.S. will take ‘any necessary action’ after latest ransomware attack, White House says
Kevin G. Hall / Miami Herald:
South Florida men arrested in Haiti assassination said they were translators for operation  —  Details and a timeline began emerging late Friday, filling in blanks about how two South Florida men became entangled in the killing of Haiti's president.  —  Photos released in Haiti …
Discussion: Insider
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Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
The Hunter Biden Laptop Is Real  —  Our ‘newspapers of record’ become something else when they conspire to deny facts and hide truth.  —  The problem isn't Hunter Biden —it's Joe—as major media outlets may be discovering, sort of, with the White House's absurd intervention in the younger …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Eric Adams Has Plans for New York, Beyond Public Safety  —  Mr. Adams, the Democratic mayoral nominee, has stances on policing, transportation and education that suggest a shift from Mayor Bill de Blasio.  —  In the afterglow of winning the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City …
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
GOP's Madison Cawthorn: Biden may use door-to-door vaccine program to ‘take your Bibles’  —  Republican efforts to keep Americans from getting vaccinated continue to escalate despite the surge in Delta variant infections.  —  On Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced “door-to-door outreach” …
CNN:
Los Angeles County sees exponential growth in Covid-19 cases as Delta variant becomes dominant, worrying officials  —  (CNN)The most populous county in the US is seeing “exponential growth” of Covid-19 cases as the Delta variant takes over as the dominant coronavirus strain, health officials in Los Angeles County said.
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
Washington Examiner:
The wretched Xavier Becerra wants to control your life  —  How to weigh the rights of the individual versus the authority of the government?  —  That question became trickier over the past 18 months.  In an otherwise free country, governments forbade us from gathering to worship …
Catrin Einhorn / New York Times:
Like in ‘Postapocalyptic Movies’: Heat Wave Killed Marine Wildlife en Masse  —  An early estimate points to a huge die-off along the Pacific Coast, and scientists say rivers farther inland are warming to levels that could be lethal for some kinds of salmon.  —  Dead mussels and clams coated rocks …
MSNBC:
New legal trouble for Trump?  Arizona eyes criminal probe for election scheme  —  Arizona's top elections official is calling for a criminal investigation into potential election interference by Donald Trump and his allies.  Secretary of State Katie Hobbs joins MSNBC's Dr. Jason Johnson …
Insider:
Photos show shirtless Democratic congressmen and their wives riding camels on a Qatar trip paid for by a special interest group  —  By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
 
 
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William Saletan / Slate:
Early Voting Is Secure. So Why Are Republicans Against It?
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Biden Administration Punts on Due Process Rights for Guantánamo Detainees
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Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
The Trump administration used an early, unreported program to separate migrant families along a remote stretch of the border
Discussion: Political Wire
Schuyler Kropf / Post and Courier:
SC's Gov. McMaster joins effort condemning Biden ‘door-to-door’ promotion of COVID shots
Fabiola Cineas / Vox:
“Race norming” and the long legacy of medical racism, explained
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Where Are The Newest COVID Hot Spots? Mostly Places With Low Vaccination Rates
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden-allied group warns: Voters are largely clueless about POTUS' accomplishments
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How Amazon Controls Virtually Everything You Watch
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