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Dennis Pillion / al.com:
'I'm sorry, but it's too late' Alabama doctor on treating unvaccinated, dying COVID patients  —  Dr. Brytney Cobia said Monday that all but one of her COVID patients in Alabama did not receive the vaccine.  The vaccinated patient, she said, just needed a little oxygen and is expected to fully recover.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Betsy McKay / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Life Expectancy Fell by 1.5 Years in 2020, the Biggest Decline in Generations  —  Covid-19, drug overdoses and homicides drove longevity down; Hispanic men suffered largest decline  —  Life expectancy in the U.S. fell by 1.5 years in 2020, the biggest decline since at least World War II …
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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
US life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest drop since WWII  —  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday.  The decrease for both Black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even worse: three years.
Discussion: The Hill, Forbes and Al Jazeera
Washington Post:
Driven by covid deaths, U.S. life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years in 2020
Discussion: NPR and Slate
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Right-wing media could end the pandemic — without giving an inch in the culture war.  Here's the script.  —  No one took Geraldo Rivera very seriously last year when he proposed naming the coronavirus vaccine in honor of the just-defeated president.  —  “With the world so divided …
Discussion: Insider
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Washington Post:
Growing number of Republicans urge vaccinations amid delta surge
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
The Delta Variant Is a Reality Test  —  Americans haven't wanted to understand what it means for a virus to be endemic.  —  The difficulty of the news business is that you're constantly trying to tell people their information is outmoded, which they resist since assimilating new information entails a cost.
Discussion: RedState and Washington Post
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Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
White Alabama City Councilman Refers to Fellow Council Member as a ‘House N****r’  —  ‘WILL SHE PLEASE STAND UP?’  —  An Alabama city councilman referred to a fellow city council member as a “house n—  r” at a meeting on Monday evening.  Tarrant, Alabama city councilman Tommy Bryant loudly asked, “Do we have a house n—
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CNN:
Ted Cruz is blocking diplomats from being confirmed, and it has nothing to do with their qualifications  —  Washington (CNN)An extraordinary effort by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to block nominees from being confirmed to vital jobs in the State Department is creating hurdles …
Discussion: Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Paul Gosar was a beloved dentist.  Now he's a MAGA congressman.  His former patients need a spit bowl.  —  Coreen Anderson didn't want to see the dentist.  —  She hadn't had her teeth cleaned for the better part of a decade, and was “super fearful” of the experience.
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP's favorite spin about Biden's plans just took a big hit  —  With President Biden and Democrats working to pass $4 trillion in new investments in our future, Republicans are making a big bet: All that spending will lead to sustained inflation, which they can use to claim Democrats have lost control of the economy.
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Alina Selyukh / NPR:
Bezos Landed, Thanked Amazon Workers And Shoppers For Paying, Gave Away $200 Million  —  Moments after returning from the edge of space, Jeff Bezos thanked the Blue Origin team that made his flight possible.  He also thanked the Texas town of Van Horn, which hosted Tuesday's launch.  And then he said this:
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Jenny Gross / New York Times:
Women's Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms  —  Norway's beach handball players were each fined 150 euros for wearing shorts rather than the required bikini bottoms.  A spokeswoman for the International Handball Federation said she didn't know the reason for the rule.
CNN:
McConnell says GOP will not vote to raise debt ceiling, setting up clash in Congress  —  Washington (CNN)Republicans will not vote to increase the federal borrowing limit, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a new interview, setting the stage for a huge battle in Congress as it stares at a deadline to avoid a debt default.
Washington Post:
Top U.S. Catholic Church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to gay bars  —  The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access to cellphone data that appeared to show …
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
Popular Massachusetts tourist destination issues mask advisory after 132 new Covid cases … A popular Massachusetts tourist destination issued a mask advisory Monday after an outbreak of Covid-19 cases following the July 4 holiday weekend.  —  As of Friday, 132 Covid cases that are associated …
Discussion: The Hill, ABC News and New York Post
MeidasTouch / The MeidasTouch Podcast:
Taking a Doocy with Rep. Eric Swalwell  —  On today's episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, the brothers sit down with Congressman Eric Swalwell of California's 15th Congressional District.  During the interview, the team takes a deep dive into the new and expanded edition of Congressman Swalwell's book …
Discussion: Insider
Summer Ballentine / Associated Press:
No Black parents, teachers or scholars invited to Missouri hearing on teaching race  —  A Missouri legislative committee on Monday held a hearing on how educators teach K-12 students about race and racism without hearing from any Black Missourians.  —  No Black parents, teachers …
Discussion: The Hill
Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News:
China Can Lock Up A Million Muslims In Xinjiang At Once … This project was supported by the Open Technology Fund, the Pulitzer Center, and the Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism.  —  For the first time, BuzzFeed News can reveal the full capacity of China's previously secret network …
Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Personal threats, election lies and punishing new laws rattle election officials, raising fears of a mass exodus  —  (CNN)Maribeth Witzel-Behl had run elections in Madison, Wisconsin, for 15 years when the 2020 election arrived, bringing challenges like no other: a global pandemic, a crushing workload, lawsuits and a recount.
Discussion: Raw Story
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Ratings of Black-White Relations at New Low  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the second consecutive year, U.S. adults' positive ratings of relations between Black and White Americans are at their lowest point in more than two decades of measurement.  Currently, 42% of Americans say relations between …
Amanda Prestigiacomo / The Daily Wire:
U.S. Women's Soccer Team Takes Stunning Loss After Kneeling For BLM At Olympic Opener  —  The U.S. women's soccer team took a devastating 3-0 loss to Sweden early Wednesday morning in their Tokyo Olympic opener, breaking their 44-game winning streak.  —  All 22 players on Team USA took …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol attack committee chair vows to investigate Trump: ‘Nothing is off limits’  —  Bennie Thompson tells Guardian he will pursue wide-ranging inquiry to uncover root causes of January 6 attack  —  Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the new House select committee to scrutinize …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
College Republicans Erupt in Civil War Over Kid Rock Cash  —  ‘SELFISH AMBITIONS’  —  A year out from the midterms, young Republicans are at war over the American Bad Ass' contributions and a disputed leadership race.  —  Decades ago, future GOP operatives like Roger Stone, Paul Manafort …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ed Shanahan / New York Times:
She Hates Biden.  Some of Her Neighbors Hate the Way She Shows It.  —  A local judge ordered a New Jersey woman to take down political banners over obscenity complaints, setting up a First Amendment fight.  —  Andrea Dick is a die-hard supporter of former President Donald J. Trump and thinks …
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
Love-Bombs and Buzzwords: How Authoritarian Cults Work  —  Welcome back to Lucid!  This week I'm thinking about cults.  Here is the first of two essays on authoritarian cults.  Next week's piece will be about disengagement.  Stay tuned for tomorrow's interview with Amanda Montell, author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism.
Discussion: Cape Cod Times
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Mike Lee OK with spending funds suspected sex trafficker Gaetz helped him raise, Robert Gehrke says  —  Campaign first said it would wait for legal process, but report shows Mar a Lago proceeds have already been disbursed.  —  U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., grabs the hand of a supporter following …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Guyer / American Prospect:
Biden Advisers Ride on Pegasus Spyware  —  The NSO Group, now part of a Washington Post exposé, has for years enlisted powerful consultants to save its reputation.  —  Dan Shapiro, who is under consideration to be the president's Middle East envoy, advised NSO.
Dr. Thomas K. Lew / USA Today:
Death for some, sunbaked cookies for others.  We must get serious about the climate crisis.  —  Scorching heat is making people sick.  I am seeing them in my hospital now.  To fight the climate crisis, we must invest in science - and believe in it.  —  Parking at the Northern California hospital …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
How America lost its commitment to the right to vote  —  The Supreme Court isn't even pretending that it's bound by legal texts in its voting rights cases.  —  The Supreme Court, Justice Elena Kagan lamented in a dissenting opinion earlier this month, “has treated no statute worse” than the Voting Rights Act.
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Wildfire smoke pouring into Mid-Atlantic prompts air-quality alert for D.C. and Baltimore  —  Air quality is expected to improve by Thursday as a cold front pushes most of the smoke away  —  Smoke from wildfires in the western United States and southern Canada is spilling into the eastern United States …
Washington Post:
Allen Weisselberg resigned from the top of the Trump Organization.  So who's running the company now?  —  Earlier this month, Allen Weisselberg — the Trump Organization's most powerful employee not named “Trump” — resigned his post in the company's leadership.
SSRN:
Abstract  —  In this Article, we introduce our planned ten-part series that provides the first comprehensive examination of the offices and officers of the Constitution.  This series will explain the original public meaning of twelve clauses of the Constitution that refer to six categories of offices and officers.
Discussion: Reason
 
 
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Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
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Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: HotAir
Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Washington Post
Monica Showalter / American Thinker:
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Steve Helber / Newsy:
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
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