memeorandum: Voting to Overturn the Election Is Apparently Great for Fundraising (Roger Sollenberger/The Daily Beast)

9:25 AM ET, July 21, 2021

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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:

J.&J. Vaccine May Be Less Effective Against Delta, Study Suggests — Many who received the shot may need to consider boosters, the authors said. But federal health officials do not recommend second doses. — The coronavirus vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson is much less effective …

Discussion: CNBC, Salon, NBC 6 South Florida, New York Post, Forbes and The Hill

Washington Post:

Growing number of Republicans urge vaccinations amid delta surge — A growing number of top Republicans are urging GOP supporters to get vaccinated as the delta coronavirus variant surges across the United States, marking a notable shift away from the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorizing …

Discussion: Mediaite, Daily Kos, Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I and Forbes

New York Times:
As Virus Resurges, G.O.P. Lawmakers Allow Vaccine Skepticism to Flourish

Discussion: Medscape, Popular Information, UPI, Mediaite, RedState and Political Wire

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
The Delta Variant Is a Reality Test

Discussion: RedState and Washington Post

Scott Wong / The Hill:
Republicans divided on how hard to push vaccines

Discussion: Fox News, ABC News and Florida Politics

Brianna Abbott / Wall Street Journal:
Delta Variant Accounts for 83% of Known U.S. Covid-19 Cases

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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.

U.S. Department of Justice:

Former Advisor to Presidential Candidate Among Three Defendants Charged with Acting as Agents of a Foreign Government — Defendants Allegedly Acted and Conspired to Act at the Direction of Senior United Arab Emirates Officials to Influence a Presidential Campaign, Public Opinion and the U.S. Government

Discussion: Mother Jones, Fortune, Associated Press, Informed Comment, New York Magazine, CNN, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Insider, CNBC, Forbes, Deadline, NPR, Sputnik News, UPI, Financial Times, Nuclear Diner, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Beast

Washington Post:
Trump ally Thomas Barrack accused of trying to use influence to help United Arab Emirates

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, NBC 6 South Florida and Washington Examiner

NBC News:
Tom Barrack, Trump's inaugural committee chair, charged with acting as agent of UAE

Discussion: Variety and Insider

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 …

Discussion: Sputnik News, The Verge, The Daily Register, The Daily Caller and The Catholic Thing, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, NPR, Slate, National Review and Common Dreams

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: Forbes and Al Jazeera

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:

Discussion: Politico, CNN, New York Times, TheGrio and The Western Journal

National Review:
To Boldly Go — Over the last two weeks, a new frontier in space travel has been opened …

Discussion: The Federalist

Monica Showalter / American Thinker:

Cyberhacks: What does China have on Biden? — Does anybody remember the bluster Joe Biden emitted when he ‘confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin’ over Russian hacking at his June 16 Geneva summit? … Tough, tough, tough. And as far as public knowledge goes, it's not completely certain …

Discussion: Washington Post, Associated Press and Protocol

Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Biden's crisis presidency will only get harder as it passes the six-month mark

Discussion: Reason, The Dispatch, Associated Press and Raw Story

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 …

Discussion: The Hill, Salon and Politico

Politico:
Democrats begrudgingly accept McCarthy's picks for Jan. 6 committee

Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, Truthout, The Hill and Political Wire

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—

Discussion: HuffPost, Law & Crime, Alabama Political Reporter and TheGrio

Howard Koplowitz / al.com:
Tarrant councilman Tommy Bryant uses n-word at meeting, sparking calls for resignation

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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:

Unvaccinated Trump supporter who spread coronavirus conspiracy theories dies of COVID-19 — On Tuesday, the Cape Cod Times reported that Linda Zuern, a former member of the Bourne, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen and a Trump-supporting figure in the local Republican Party, had died of COVID-19.

Discussion: The Editorial Board, Digby's Hullabaloo, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Intellectualist

Beth Treffeisen / Cape Cod Times:
Linda Zuern, former Bourne selectman, dies of complications of COVID-19

Discussion: LGBTQ Nation, White Plains Daily Voice, TheBlaze, Crooks and Liars, Progress Pond and POLITICUSUSA

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Tom Brady Joins Biden to Laugh at Trump in Worst Day of Trump's Life The sum of all Trump fears. — Tom Brady visited the White House Tuesday to celebrate the Tampa Bay Buccaneers winning the Super Bowl, where he joked around with President Biden at Donald Trump's expense.

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 …

CNN: Prominent Democrat calls out Biden admin for missing deadline to further sanction Russia over Navalny poisoning

Wall Street Journal:

Fed Chair Powell Enjoys Support For Reappointment, but He's Not a Lock — If President Biden does seek change, Fed governor Lael Brainard is the most likely candidate — President Biden's selection of the next Federal Reserve chair is likely to be a choice between keeping the current chief …

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

Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:

Florida authorities take new action on Arizona audit group linked to Sidney Powell — A Dow Chemicals' heir started Sidney Powell's fundraising operation but now uses his own unregistered nonprofits to raise money supposedly going to Maricopa County. — 5 hr ago

Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Is Losing Major Political Donors Amid Federal, State Probes — The defections could complicate the New York governor's expected re-election bid as he fights off allegations that he sexually harassed staff and mishandled the pandemic — For over a decade …

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: VICE

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.

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Steve Helber / Newsy:

Extremist Heimbach To Relaunch Hate Group, Says He Supports Violence — Content advisory: What you are about to read contains highly disturbing ideas. Newsy is reporting on them because they speak to a trend of growing national  security concerns.  

Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:

New York to Require Vaccination or Weekly Testing for City Health Workers — The new city policy takes aim at improving vaccination rates at public hospitals. Around 60 percent of workers in the city's public hospital system are vaccinated. — For months, Mayor Bill de Blasio …

Discussion: The Hill

CBS News:

CBS News poll: Still more to learn about January 6, most Americans say — With Congress' January 6 Select Committee slated to start work soon, Americans still overwhelmingly disapprove of the events they witnessed that day, a sentiment that includes big majorities of both Republicans …

Discussion: News Corpse

Andrew Demillo / Associated Press:

Federal judge blocks Arkansas law banning most abortions — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked an Arkansas law banning nearly all abortions in the state while she hears a challenge to its constitutionality. — U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker issued …

Discussion: Townhall, The Hill and Political Wire

Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:

Voting to Overturn the Election Is Apparently Great for Fundraising — The Republicans who objected to certifying the election—and owned it—are outraising the Republicans who voted for impeachment. — After the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Republicans who voted to overturn the election faced …

Discussion: Raw Story

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:

My mother had a ‘vaccine passport’ from decades ago. So why are we so averse to the idea now? — Our family wasn't much for heirlooms. — My mother, especially in her years as a busy young wife of an Air Force officer, tended to shed things, rather than save and curate them, as we moved every year or two.

Jeffie Lam / South China Morning Post:

Hong Kong national security police arrest another Apple Daily editor — Lam Man-chung is the eighth senior executive from the now-defunct newspaper to have been arrested since sweeping operation last month The publication, founded by media mogul Jimmy Lai, was forced to close after millions …

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