memeorandum: State GOP leaders push new 2020 election reviews as Arizona report looms (Zach Montellaro/Politico)

10:25 AM ET, September 7, 2021

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David Leonhardt / New York Times:

One in 5,000 — The real chances of a breakthrough infection. — The C.D.C. reported a terrifying fact in July: Vaccinated people with the Delta variant of the Covid virus carried roughly the same viral load in their noses and throats as unvaccinated people.

Discussion: Raw Story

The Intercept:

New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab … Newly released documents provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Intercept has obtained more than nine hundred pages of documents detailing …

Discussion: Breitbart and Twitchy

New York Times:

The U.S. surpasses 40 million known coronavirus cases. — More than 40 million cases of the coronavirus have been recorded in the United States, according to a New York Times database. — The total number of known infections, more than the population of California, the nation's most populous state …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Forbes, WV MetroNews and CNN

Madeline Holcombe / CNN:
How to protect children under 12 from Covid-19, according to Fauci

Discussion: HotAir, Twitchy and The Daily Beast

Ali Soufan / Washington Post:

The terrorism threat is entering a new, more dangerous phase — Ali Soufan, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, is a private security consultant and the author of “Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State.” — On Sunday, the Biden administration …

Discussion: Washington Examiner and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Joe Davidson / Washington Post:
American diplomats recall 20-hour days, sleeping in Kabul airport while helping those desperate to flee

Discussion: The Dispatch and The Western Journal

Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Working With Taliban on Flying Remaining Americans Out of Afghanistan

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Politico, The Hill, Reuters and Al Jazeera

Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal: Shot-Up SUVs, Teens Manning Checkpoints: A Reporter's Return to Kabul Weeks After the Fall

Reuters:
A curtain divides male, female students as Afghan universities reopen

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New York Post:

‘The Wire’ actor Michael K. Williams found dead in NYC apartment — “The Wire” actor Michael K. Williams was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment Monday afternoon, law-enforcement sources told The Post. — Drug paraphernalia was found in the apartment, suggesting a possible overdose, sources said.

Judd Legum / Popular Information:

These corporations bankrolled the sponsors of Texas' abortion ban — Texas just enacted the nation's most draconian abortion ban, prohibiting all abortions after six weeks — before many women even know they are pregnant. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:

A website for ‘whistleblowers’ to expose Texas abortion providers was taken down — again — After a Texas law restricting abortion went into effect Wednesday, an antiabortion organization had hoped to out those involved in unlawful procedures by collecting anonymous tips online.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, KXAN-TV, The Hill and myfox8.com

Lawrence Douglas / The Guardian:
President Biden, Texas shows we can't wait any longer. It's time to pack the court

Discussion: HotAir

Hamza Shaban / Washington Post:
Justice Department to protect women seeking an abortion in Texas

Politico:

Trump builds ‘turnkey’ campaign operation for 2024 — Boots on the ground in Iowa. Accelerated fundraising. More national media interviews. A flood of new press statements. A rise in attack ads on the web. — With a flurry of activity from his main political committee and hints dropped …

Discussion: Insider, Mediaite, The Bulwark, BizPac Review, The Federalist, Althouse and Fox News

Zach Montellaro / Politico:
State GOP leaders push new 2020 election reviews as Arizona report looms

Discussion: Raw Story

Jack Dutton / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Beats Joe Biden in 2024 Election Poll

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and BizPac Review

William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:

The Real Structural Racism — Is it OK that black eighth graders aren't proficient in math and reading? — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may have a point about structural racism. But it's probably not the point the Queens Democrat and her progressive allies think it is.

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Alphonso David, Who Advised Cuomo, Fired as Human Rights Campaign President — Mr. David, who previously worked as a lawyer for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was identified in a report as having advised Mr. Cuomo on how to handle sex harassment allegations. — Alphonso David …

Discussion: HRC, Talking Points Memo, TheGrio, The Root, Twitchy, New York Post, HuffPost and Fox News

Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:

J.D. Vance Is So Thirsty — The sad, needy tweets of a loser. — On Sunday, J.D. Vance pushed out a nova-hot tweet professing his respect for Alex Jones: … This is what the kids call a thirst trap. It's very sad. Let me explain. — You can tell that Vance's tweet was engineered …

Paul LeBlanc / CNN:

Ex-FBI official says law enforcement needs to take upcoming right-wing rally in DC ‘very seriously’ — Washington (CNN)Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Monday evening that law enforcement needs to take the upcoming right-wing rally in support of jailed January 6 rioters …

Discussion: Zandar Versus The Stupid, Raw Story, Washington Times and Alternet.org

David Gilbert / VICE:

QAnon Is Harassing a Hospital Into Giving Bogus COVID ‘Cure’ Ivermectin — Some of the most powerful QAnon influencers are urging their hundreds of thousands of followers to harass a Chicago hospital into treating an anti-vaccine activist with ivermectin. — Veronica Wolski …

The Daily Beast:

GOP's Promised Jan. 6 Probe Has One Problem: No One Wants It — “I have nothing to hide, but I have nothing to add,” Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told a local TV station when asked about his conversations with Trump on Jan. 6. — When he appeared before the press on July 21 …

Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite

James L. McQuivey / Institute for Family Studies Blog:

Most Americans, Including Most Parents, Are ‘Okay’ as Pandemic Lifts … General happiness rose from 60% in 2019 to 64% in 2021. Life satisfaction rose even more, from 58% in 2019 to 66% in 2021. — Parents experienced above-average increases in happiness and life satisfaction between 2019 and 2021.

Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:

‘Keep your head on a swivel’: FBI analyst circulated a prescient warning of Jan. 6 violence — An FBI intelligence analyst warned days after the 2020 election that Stop the Steal rallies — one of which metastasized into the ransacking of the Capitol — could turn violent.

Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:

A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’ — The number of men enrolled at two- and four-year colleges has fallen behind women by record levels, in a widening education gap across the U.S. — Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels.

Discussion: Common Sense with Bari Weiss, Samizdata, The College Fix and HotAir

Washington Post:

The John Lewis Act would restore key voting protections. Democrats should fight for it. — Thousands of voting rights demonstrators who gathered in Washington recently seemed to have something to celebrate: The House had just passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act …