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Joseph Clark / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Cyber expert says his team can't prove Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked election  —  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The cyber expert on the “red team” hired by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate.
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Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek:
‘This Is a Mistake’: Steve Bannon Slams Mike Lindell's Symposium for Not Proving Voter Fraud  —  Right-wing media figure Steve Bannon has slammed MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's cyber symposium for failing to present evidence that actually proves Lindell's long-touted claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.
Discussion: Gizmodo
Joseph Marks / Washington Post:
The Cybersecurity 202: The bipartisan infrastructure bill could bring a cyber bounty for state and local governments
Discussion: Quartz, Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
NBC News:
Judge rules Dominion case can proceed against Trump allies
Discussion: Reuters and Insider
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge allows defamation lawsuits against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO to go forward
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Former U.S. attorney in Atlanta says Trump wanted to fire him for not backing election fraud claims.  —  Byung J. Pak, a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta, told congressional investigators on Wednesday that his abrupt resignation in January had been prompted by Justice Department officials' warning …
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Washington Post:
What Rosen told U.S. senators: Trump applied ‘persistent’ pressure to get Justice to discredit election  —  Former president Donald Trump's last attorney general has told U.S. senators his boss was “persistent” in trying to pressure the Justice Department to discredit the results of the 2020 election.
Politico:   Emails: Senior DOJ officials wrangled over baseless Trump voter fraud allegations
Mary Harris / Slate:   A Rogue DOJ Lawyer Almost Kept Trump in Office
New York Times:
Texas Hospitals Are Already Overloaded.  Doctors Are ‘Frightened by What Is Coming.’  —  Across Texas, health officials warned of a growing crisis not seen in months, with more than 10,000 Texans hospitalized and intensive care units stretched thin.  —  SAN ANTONIO — At least two hospitals …
Discussion: The Hill and The Texas Tribune
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Greg Abbott Surrenders to the Coronavirus  —  A year and a half into the pandemic, Texas is running out of hospital beds.  —  The Texas Tribune reported on Tuesday that nearly 10,000 COVID-19 patients are in intensive-care units, some in areas where hospitals are close to capacity.
Discussion: UPI, The Texas Tribune and Insider
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   The Politics of Bad Faith
Washington Post:
A majority of Americans in highly vaccinated counties now live in covid hot spots, Post analysis finds  —  Two-thirds of Americans in highly vaccinated counties now live in coronavirus hot spots, according to an analysis by The Washington Post, as outbreaks of the highly transmissible delta variant …
ABC News:
Gaetz associate providing feds intel, documents as probe into congressman continues: Sources  —  Former tax collector Joel Greenberg is cooperating with investigators.  —  As the federal investigation into Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz continues into the summer, sources tell ABC News that Gaetz's …
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Trump Keeps Rejecting Pleas From Allies for Pro-Vax Campaign  —  Donald Trump's former allies keep pleading with him to aggressively back the COVID-19 vaccine.  Trump won't do it.  —  It's been more than six months since Donald Trump left office and, despite pleas from multiple friends and advisers …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to meet with former Cheney ally about Wyoming primary challenge
Discussion: The Hill
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
U.S. #COVID19 vaccination levels by county OVER TIME  —  As regular readers know, I've become a bit obsessive over tracking COVID-19 vaccination rates at both the state and county levels over the past month or so.  I post the daily rate levels daily on Twitter, and once a week I've been updating …
Discussion: CBS News
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New York Times:
F.D.A. to Authorize Third Vaccine Dose for People With Weak Immune Systems
Discussion: HotAir and Wall Street Journal
CNN:
FDA expected to authorize Covid-19 vaccine booster shots for some immunocompromised people within the next 48 hours
Marc Caputo / Politico:
White House seizes an opportunity to whack DeSantis  —  MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made himself the national face of the anti-Biden Covid-response resistance.  —  So the president decided to punch it.  —  For the past two weeks, Biden and his allies have publicly escalated a war …
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Russians have videos of me doing crazy f***ing sex!’  Hunter Biden is seen in unearthed footage telling a prostitute that Russian drug dealers stole ANOTHER of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Vegas hotel room  — Hunter Biden claims Russian …
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Rand Paul discloses 16 months late that his wife bought stock in company behind covid treatment  —  An aide to the Kentucky Republican said he prepared the disclosure last year and only recently learned that it was never transmitted  —  Sen. Rand Paul revealed Wednesday that his wife bought stock …
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Mississippi's Hospital System Could ‘Fail’ In 10 Days, UMMC Warns As Feds Rush In  —  With COVID-19 patients overflowing at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, including in its pediatric center, hospital leaders are warning that the medical system statewide could be on the verge of failing without drastic intervention.
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
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Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
With Mississippi Hospitals Near Calamity, Gov. Reeves Left State For GOP Political Event
Discussion: Mississippi Today and Raw Story
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Giuliani told agents it was okay to ‘throw a fake’ during political campaign  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani's promise of a “big surprise” to help Donald Trump's election in October 2016 led to Democratic accusations the FBI was feeding him secrets about an investigation of Hillary Clinton.
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
Now What?  —  Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast.  Vaccine uptake has plateaued.  The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.  —  In september 2020, just before COVID-19 began its wintry surge through the United States, I wrote that the country was trapped in a pandemic spiral …
Drake Bennett / Bloomberg:
Business Is Using Less Carrot and More Stick on Vaccinations  —  Forget incentives like paid time off or free concert tickets.  Governments and employers increasingly worry that mandates are the only answer for the fast-spreading delta variant.  —  The belief that vaccination should be a matter …
Bill Schneider / The Hill:
Cuomo dynasty ends; search for ‘tough liberal’ persists  —  And so, another political dynasty has ended.  Like the Kennedy dynasty before it, the Cuomo dynasty ends in tragedy and personal failure.  —  By preparing to run for a fourth term, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was clearly trying …
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
House socialists may hold infrastructure bill hostage.  Let them.  —  I'm old enough to remember when the media was crowing about how the passage of the $1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill in the Senate was “another big win for Joe Biden's agenda.”  Some of those talking heads may need …
Politico:
Biden on Afghanistan: Not my problem  —  As the Taliban blitz across Afghanistan and U.S. officials scramble to assess just how quickly the government in Kabul could fall, President Joe Biden is recalibrating his message to Americans.  —  Where he once insisted that two decades of U.S. backing …
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Politico:
Redistricting sprint begins with major census data drop  —  The Census Bureau's long-awaited release of redistricting data Thursday will unleash a torrent of new state political maps in the weeks and months to come, starting with the handful of states pressed against early fall deadlines to enact new district boundaries.
Discussion: UPI
Shawn Nottingham / CNN:
5th graders at Georgia school are sent home due to Covid-19  —  Fifth graders at one suburban Atlanta elementary school were sent home Wednesday for virtual learning due to high numbers of positive Covid-19 cases, according to a school district email sent to parents and obtained by CNN.
Discussion: Poynter
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Pelosi's summer squeeze  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  PELOSI FACES DOWN THE MODS — Speaker NANCY PELOSI is calling the House back from summer recess Aug. 23 to vote on the party's $3.5 trillion budget, but she has a problem: Six moderate House Democrats, our ace House reporters Sarah Ferris …
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Post
David Reaboi / Late Republic Nonsense:
Autonomy for Red America, Part 1  —  In biology, an ecosystem is a complex of living organisms and their interrelationships with their physical environment within a particular unit of space.  —  In American politics today, the ecosystem of the Right is no less complex and interwoven.
 
 
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Jeffrey H. Anderson / City Journal:
Do Masks Work?  —  “Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS!”  So tweeted then-surgeon general Jerome Adams …
Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
University to create equity-based honors program for students of color
Discussion: RedState
Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
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Discussion: Political Wire
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Ameer Benno / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Jan 6 Prosecutors admit to possession of “images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks”
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Carlos Del Toro / navy.mil:
78th Secretary of the Navy Message to the Fleet
Samantha Melamed / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
After 50 years in prison — 37 in solitary confinement — Philly man's conviction is vacated
Sandra Sanchez / KVEO-TV:
Laredo sending busloads of migrants to Austin and Houston without testing for coronavirus
Washington Post:
'We are in harm's way': Election officials fear for their personal safety amid torrent of false claims about voting
Discussion: Raw Story