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10:30 AM ET, September 10, 2021

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Biden announces sweeping new vaccine mandates for businesses, federal workers — President Biden announced sweeping new coronavirus vaccine mandates Thursday designed to affect tens of millions of Americans, ordering all businesses with more than 100 employees to require their workers to be immunized or face weekly testing.

The White House:

President Biden's COVID-19 Plan — President Biden is implementing a six-pronged, comprehensive national strategy that employs the same science-based approach that was used to successfully combat previous variants of COVID-19 earlier this year. This plan will ensure that we are using every available tool …

CNN:

Fox trashes “authoritarian” Biden — “An Authoritarian.” — “Rotting bag of oatmeal ... tyrant.” “Very frail and very weak.” — Those are only a handful of the vile attacks directed at President Biden on Fox News Thursday night following his address to the nation announcing sweeping new vaccine mandates.

Discussion: The Verge, POLITICUSUSA, IJR, New York Times, Crooks and Liars, Alternet.org, Arizona Republic, Fox News and Forbes

John Podhoretz / New York Post:

Joe Biden's incoherent, fear-mongering COVID vaccine speech — MORE FROM: — Joe Biden's speech on COVID was bizarrely incoherent. — He told the American people without qualification that fully vaccinated people are at incredibly low risk: “Only 1 out of every 160,000 fully vaccinated Americans …

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, Breitbart and Yahoo News

Robby Soave / New York Times:

Biden's Vaccine Mandate Is a Big Mistake — Mr. Soave, a senior editor at Reason, has written extensively about law, public policy and free speech. — There's one person that President Biden desperately needs to consult about his new federal vaccine mandate: President-elect Biden.

Discussion: Washington Post, HotAir, National Review, Reason, Talking Points Memo and Politico

Mike Allen / Axios:
America's civil war of 2021

Discussion: Washington Post, Washingtonian, Raw Story, BizPac Review, Mediaite and The Olympian

Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
RNC to sue Biden administration over vaccine mandates

Discussion: Washington Post, HotAir, National Review, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Breitbart, The Hill and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

National Review:
Biden's Desperate COVID Overreach

Discussion: Breitbart, BizPac Review, Financial Times and New York Times

Leana Wen / Washington Post:
Biden's six-step covid strategy does not go far enough to compel vaccinations

Discussion: New York Post, Fox News, Crooks and Liars and Gizmodo

Robby Soave / Reason:
Until Today, Joe Biden, Jen Psaki, and Rochelle Walensky Were All Publicly Opposed to Federal COVID Vaccine Mandates

Discussion: HotAir, Outside the Beltway, Reason, Townhall, The Dispatch, Real Clear Politics and Israpundit

Kevin D. Williamson / New York Times:

The Trump Coup Is Still Raging — Mr. Williamson writes extensively about politics and more at National Review. — What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was not a coup attempt. It was half of a coup attempt — the less important half. — The more important part of the coup attempt …

Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org

Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:

Hundreds of law enforcement officials were prepped early for potential Jan. 6 violence — Just two days before armed rioters stormed and ransacked the Capitol, about 300 law enforcement officials got on a conference call to talk about the possibility that Donald Trump's supporters would turn violent on Jan. 6.

Discussion: The Daily Beast

ABC News:
Fence going up around US Capitol, as law enforcement braces for Sept. 18 protest

Discussion: Politico

Wall Street Journal:

Journalism Schools Leave Graduates With Hefty Student Loans — Students take on debt for master's degrees in hope of news jobs even as opportunities diminish — News reporting has lost thousands of jobs over the past decade, with a further slide predicted.

Edward Rhodes / The Hill:

Justice Ginsburg's parting gift? — If the Democratic Party retains control of Congress in next year's midterm elections, it will have the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to thank. — Had she not passed away — and had former President Donald Trump not filled her seat at the bench …

Discussion: Houston Public Media, Los Angeles Times and The 19th

John Nichols / The Nation:
Susan Collins, Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas's Abortion Ban

Discussion: Raw Story, The Texas Tribune, Politico and New York Times

Politico:
Texas ban spotlights Democrats' generational divide on abortion and trans issues

Discussion: NBC News, Common Dreams and SHERO

Krishnadev Calamur / NPR:
Justice Breyer Says Supreme Court Upholding Texas Abortion Ban Was ‘Very, Very Wrong’

Discussion: Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, Vanity Fair, Reuters, Associated Press, Slate, Washington Times, CNN, Washington Post and NPR

Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Barbara Boxer on abortion, being mugged and Dianne Feinstein

Discussion: TheJournal.ie, Boston Herald, Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, The Hill, National Review and Politico

CNN:

CNN launches new polling methodology — (CNN)The landscape of political polling is changing, and so too is the way CNN carries out its polls. Beginning with Friday's newly released CNN poll conducted by SSRS, the network is implementing a new methodology for measuring public opinion.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Dan Bloom / Mirror.co.uk:

Britain will now see ‘permanent food shortages’ and it's ‘going to get worse’ — Food and Drink Federation chief Ian Wright said the country won't run out of food, but the days of shoppers knowing they can get whatever they like at the supermarket are gone forever

CNN:

Trump's House GOP enemies get boost from McCarthy's leadership team — ‘Disgraceful’: Former President Trump's niece reacts to what he's doing on 9/11 — (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his leadership team are quietly working to prop up some of the GOP incumbents targeted …

Discussion: Insider and Political Wire

Jordan Green / Raw Story:

Ex-Marines in neo-Nazi terror cell planned to attack power grid as precursor to assassination campaign: government — A neo-Nazi terror cell enmeshed in the US Marine Corps made plans to attack the power grid last fall, hoping the could set the stage to carry out assassinations in their quest …

Politico:

They Created Our Post-9/11 World. Here's What They Think They Got Wrong. — The sense of vulnerability and fear — yes, terror — was palpable. In the hours and days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the consensus was that more deadly attacks were being prepped.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Fox News and NBC News

Lawfare:
Remembering the Gains of the Afghanistan War

Discussion: New York Times, Politico and Mother Jones

Alex Thompson / Politico:

Andrew Yang to launch a third party — Former presidential and New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is set to launch a third party next month, according to two people familiar with the matter. — Yang is expected to start the party in conjunction with the Oct. 5 release of his new book …

Discussion: Insider, The Daily Caller, Penguin Random House, BizPac Review, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Fox News and Mediaite

Krishnadev Calamur / NPR:

Breyer Warns Against Remaking The Court: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’ — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has a warning to those who want to remake the court: Be careful what you wish for. — In his new book, The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics …

Discussion: HotAir

Krishnadev Calamur / NPR:
Progressives Want Justice Stephen Breyer To Retire. His Response? Not Yet

Discussion: The Floridian, Townhall, HotAir, Raw Story and Reason

Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:

New poll finds Newsom could easily beat recall thanks to motivated Democrats — Momentum has turned strongly against the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom with just days to go before voting ends, a change that comes after a deluge of political ads and support from leading Democrats …

Discussion: Politico, The Hill, CNN, Breitbart and Washington Post

Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:

Americans refuse to leave Afghanistan without their families as evacuation flights resume — In the days and weeks before the U.S. military's hectic departure from Afghanistan, two former interpreters for the American military already resettled in the United States — one a naturalized U.S. citizen …

Discussion: New York Times, Associated Press, Breitbart and KTLA

Washington Examiner:
Biden's lies keep coming amid his Afghan evacuation debacle

Discussion: Breitbart

Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:

An alleged Capitol rioter says his ankle monitor beeps too loudly. He wants a judge to let him remove it. — Potential customers eyeing Supreme Aluminum Florida's handiwork might have been wowed by the construction company's poolside pergolas or outdoor grilling enclaves.

Discussion: Raw Story

David Brooks / New York Times:

When Dictators Find God — 阅读.体中文.閱讀.體中文. — What is the 21st century going to be about? If you had asked me 20 years ago, on, say, Sept. 10, 2001, I would have had a clear answer: advancing liberalism.

Discussion: Althouse

Kyle Smith / New York Post:

Media ignore racial attack on Larry Elder because he's a black Republican — MORE FROM: — Do a search for “Larry Elder” and gorilla on the CNN website and nothing comes up. Washington Post? Zilch. Nothing comes up on The New York Times site either, although if you make it to the 15th paragraph …

Discussion: Althouse, Fox News, AMAC and Instapundit

Matthew Cooper / Washington Monthly:

The Lost Journalistic World of 9/11 — The mainstream press was far from perfect. But before the era of “hot takes,” information silos, steep budget cuts, and ugly charges of “fake news,” it had strengths that we need now. — I was getting a late start, which wasn't uncommon at newsmagazines early in the week.

Discussion: National Review and The Federalist