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11:35 AM ET, August 12, 2021

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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 …
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
How the Pandemic Now Ends  —  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, seemingly destined to repeat the same mistakes.  But after vaccines arrived in midwinter, cases in the U.S. declined and …
New York Times:
Why Only 27 Percent of Young Black New Yorkers Are Vaccinated  —  As the Delta variant courses through New York City, many young Black New Yorkers remain distrustful of the vaccine.  —  A construction site safety manager in Queens said that as a Black man, he was more worried about the prospect …
Los Angeles Times:
California doing much better with Delta variant than Florida, Texas. Here's why
Discussion: ACA Signups
Jeffrey H. Anderson / City Journal:
Do Masks Work?  —  “Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS!”  So tweeted then-surgeon general Jerome Adams …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Drake Bennett / Bloomberg:   Business Is Using Less Carrot and More Stick on Vaccinations
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
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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 have been hospitalized, and that the state's intensive-care units are being overwhelmed.
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Biden administration tries to mobilize international diplomatic effort to halt Taliban  —  The Biden administration has mounted a last-ditch effort this week to convince the Taliban, as it continues its relentless march across Afghanistan, that the world will reject it if it takes over the entire country by force.
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Lara Jakes / New York Times:
U.S. Asks Taliban to Spare Its Embassy in Coming Fight for Kabul  —  The demand seeks to stave off an evacuation of the embassy by dangling aid to future Afghan governments — even one that includes the Taliban.  —  WASHINGTON — American negotiators are trying to extract assurances …
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:   The grand illusion: Hiding the truth about the Afghanistan war's ‘conclusion’
Mary L. Trump / New Republic:
Donald's Plot Against America  —  I felt as though I had stumbled across a crime scene so violent that I couldn't process it, let alone synthesize the images in front of me.  The parts remained stubbornly separate, and there was no way to grasp the meaning of the whole.
Washington Post:
Texas Senate passes bill with new voting restrictions after a Democrat filibustered for 15 hours to try to stop the measure  —  AUSTIN — The Texas Senate on Thursday approved a bill that contains new voting restrictions after a Democratic senator filibustered for 15 hours to try to stop the legislation …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Slate
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Rumble, a YouTube rival popular with conservatives, will pay creators who ‘challenge the status quo’  —  The video site has exploded during the pandemic as a home for anti-vaccine misinformation and conservative complaints about Big Tech censorship  —  A fast-growing YouTube rival popular …
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 …
Politico:
Emails: Senior DOJ officials wrangled over baseless Trump voter fraud allegations  —  During Donald Trump's final weeks in office, top Justice Department officials wrangled over how the FBI should handle a particularly wacky voter fraud allegation promoted by the then-president and his allies.
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
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 …
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Politico:   How Schumer's kept his Democrats in array — so far
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.
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 …
Nick Judin / Mississippi Free Press:
UMMC Prepping Garage For Field Hospital, Requesting Federal Support To Staff It (Updated)  —  The University of Mississippi Medical Center is clearing out space in the bottom floor of a parking garage to prepare for the construction of a field hospital to handle the burden of an overwhelming influx of new COVID-19 patients.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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 …
Cindy Krischer Goodman / Sun-Sentinel:
Broward County hospital admissions lead US, as Florida COVID cases hit another daily high at 24,753  —  For the 11th straight day, Florida hospitals set records for the number of COVID patients they are treating, and on Wednesday the state set a new high for daily cases.
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
Don't Panic, But Breakthrough Cases May Be a Bigger Problem Than You've Been Told Current public-health messaging may understate the scale and risk.  —  The term itself, perhaps, is a problem.  “Breakthrough” sounds bad — implying an immune-escape mutation, likely rare, and therefore alarming.
Discussion: Tennessee Star
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP strategy for retaking power is about to take an ugly new turn  —  It is a brutal reality about this political moment that Republicans can capture the House while dwelling almost exclusively in the safe confines of their alternate information environment.
Hussein Ibish / The Atlantic:
When They Fantasize About Killing You, Believe Them  —  Decades of living in, studying, and writing about the Middle East have taught me that whenever a political faction becomes obsessed with violent rhetoric and fantasies, brutal acts aren't far behind.  And while there's always been a strain …
Discussion: Twitchy and Raw Story
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Trump Judges Won't Stop Whining About Cancel Culture  —  Donald Trump and his allies spent much of the 2020 campaign fomenting Republican fear of “cancel culture” to whip up votes against Joe Biden.  He decried the alleged crisis in many speeches, accusing Democrats of wielding “cancel culture” …
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
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
HHS the latest agency to mandate COVID vaccinations for health care workers  —  Veterans Affairs expanded its existing vaccine mandate to more workers  —  HHS chief Becerra claims vaccine status is ‘government business’  —  The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced …
Discussion: Forbes, The Hill, ABC News, CNN, Politico and Axios
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.
 
 
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Joshua Chaffin / Financial Times:
After Andrew Cuomo's downfall, New York reconsiders its political bullies
Discussion: HotAir
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Major study of Ivermectin, the anti-vaccine crowd's latest COVID drug, finds ‘no effect whatsoever’
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Potential Al Qaeda resurgence in Afghanistan worries U.S. officials
Angelo Codevilla / The American Mind:
The Death of the Global Cop
David Harrison / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Jobless Claims Fell Last Week
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
The Human Rights Campaign's 40 Years of Colluding With Sexual Predators
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Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
University to create equity-based honors program for students of color
Discussion: RedState
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to meet with former Cheney ally about Wyoming primary challenge
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
Shawn Nottingham / CNN:
5th graders at Georgia school are sent home due to Covid-19
Discussion: Poynter and Bloomberg
Samantha Melamed / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
After 50 years in prison — 37 in solitary confinement — Philly man's conviction is vacated
David Reaboi / Late Republic Nonsense:
Autonomy for Red America, Part 1
 

 
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