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Lara Jakes / New York Times:
F.E.C. Dismisses Claims That Twitter Illegally Blocked Hunter Biden Article — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken defended the Biden administration's decision to withdraw American forces and diplomats from Afghanistan on Monday, saying there was no evidence that the country would have stabilized …
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
GOP congressman erupts at Blinken during Afghanistan hearing: 'We don't need to hear lies'
GOP congressman erupts at Blinken during Afghanistan hearing: 'We don't need to hear lies'
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Politico, Washington Examiner, CBS News, The Guardian and Mediaite
Sam Tabachnik / Denver Post:
Bob Enyart, conservative firebrand and pastor, dies of COVID-19 — Conservative firebrand Bob Enyart, the pastor of the Denver Bible Church and indelible talk show host, has died from COVID-19, his radio co-host announced Monday on Facebook. — “Bob Enyart was one of the smartest …
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Friendly Atheist and Crooks and Liars
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw — Researchers at Citizen Lab found that NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, had infected Apple products without so much as a click. — Apple on Monday issued emergency software updates for a critical vulnerability …
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Washington Post:
New Pegasus hack found targeting Apple devices through iMessage, researchers say — Apple released a software update Monday to fix a security flaw exploited in hacking iPhones and other devices made by the company — Spyware researchers have captured what they say is a new exploit …
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The Citizen Lab, CBS News and Financial Times, more at Techmeme »
Bennett Madison / Gawker:
Help! I Couldn't Stop Writing Fake Dear Prudence Letters That Got Published — Sometime at the tail end of 2018, shortly after abandoning yet another draft of what was supposed to be my fifth Young Adult novel, I took up a different form of fiction: I started writing fake letters to Dear Prudence, Slate's long-running advice column.
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HotAir and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
BuzzFeed News:
She's One Of Congress's Leading Progressives — Just Not In Her Own Office, Staffers Say — WASHINGTON — Last May, Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced the Paycheck Recovery Act, aimed at curbing layoffs during the pandemic by having the federal government pay people's salaries.
David Zweig / The Atlantic:
Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number Is Losing Meaning — At least 12,000 Americans have already died from COVID-19 this month, as the country inches through its latest surge in cases. But another worrying statistic is often cited to depict the dangers of this moment: The number …
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Research Square, RedState, Townhall, HotAir and Twitchy
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That's Exempt. — A program known as XCheck has given millions of celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users special treatment, a privilege many abuse — Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook Inc. allows …
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Florida Politics, The Wrap, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Newsbusters, Forbes, TheBlaze and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
As Newsom leads California recall polls, Larry Elder pushes baseless fraud claims — WASHINGTON — Republicans in Tuesday's California gubernatorial recall election are already laying the groundwork to argue the election was stolen — even before a single ballot is reported or a victor declared …
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The Hill, New York Magazine, New York Times, Raw Story, Associated Press, Insider, Mother Jones and Patterico's Pontifications
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis is winning the Republican primary already playing out at Fox News — The Florida governor has a few reasons to thank the network for his current position in the lead — Fox News helped make Donald Trump president, providing him a weekly outlet for years before the 2016 election …
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Media Matters for America and Vanity Fair, more at Mediagazer »
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Most People Don't Need a Covid Vaccine Booster, New Review Says
Most People Don't Need a Covid Vaccine Booster, New Review Says
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STAT, The Colorado Sun, Denver Post, HotAir and HuffPost
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says Dems ‘disparaged’ COVID-19 vaccine while he was president: ‘Now they wonder why’ some are hesitant
Trump says Dems ‘disparaged’ COVID-19 vaccine while he was president: ‘Now they wonder why’ some are hesitant
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Scott Rasmussen, Washington Post, The National, POLITICUSUSA, RedState, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, Althouse, The Hill and IJR
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
George W. Bush just threw a whole lot of shade at Donald Trump — (CNN)The man who was president during the attacks of September 11, 2001, used a speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of that terrible day to call out the “malign force” coursing through the country thanks to the presidency …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump is showing just how divisive a new White House run would be
Trump is showing just how divisive a new White House run would be
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RedState, The Daily Caller, Trending Politics, Raw Story, Ace of Spades HQ and Washington Examiner
David Frum / The Atlantic:
What the Never Trumpers Want Now — Many of the conservatives and Republicans appalled by Donald Trump's presidency clutched a hope through the bewildering years: Someday this would all be over and politics would return to normal. — But normal has not returned.
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Vanity Fair and RedState
Catherine Clifford / CNBC:
Lab-grown woolly mammoths could walk the Earth in six years if geneticist's new start-up succeeds — Tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm is helping to fund a project by Harvard geneticist George Church to revive the woolly mammoth. — The project, called Colossal, aims to create a calf in as little as six years, Church told CNBC.
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Entrepreneur, Texas Monthly, National Review, HotAir and TechCrunch
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Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
A New Company With a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth
A New Company With a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth
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STAT and The Debrief
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Veronica Wolski, Woman Who QAnoners Demanded Hospital Treat COVID With Ivermectin, Dies — A woman who became the center of a harassment campaign against a Chicago hospital as QAnon supporters demanded they treat her COVID-19 diagnosis with ivermectin has died, according to reports.
United States Capitol Police:
USCP Officers Arrest California Man with Bayonet & Machete — This morning the United States Capitol Police arrested a California man who had multiple knives in his truck near the Democratic National Committee headquarters. — “This is good police work plain and simple,” said Chief Tom Manger.
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Politico:
Homeland Security chief of staff abruptly resigns — Karen Olick, chief of staff to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, announced Monday that she will be leaving for an undisclosed opportunity. — Jennifer Higgins, the current associate director of Refugee …
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Breitbart, UPI, Political Wire, The Western Journal, The Daily Caller, The Hill and CNN
New York Times:
House Democrats' Plan to Tax the Rich Leaves Vast Fortunes Unscathed — The House Ways and Means Committee's proposal to pay for trillions in social spending leaves wealth gains and inheritances largely alone. It focuses instead on a more traditional target: income.
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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, The Hill and New York Post
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Jack Herrera / Texas Monthly:
Why Democrats Are Losing Texas Latinos — The party assumes people of color will turn the state blue. But most Tejanos consider themselves white. And more are voting Republican. — In an interview with Javier Villalobos in early June, Fox Business host Stuart Varney presented his guest with a riddle.
Josh Dzieza / Curbed:
They obey the bespoke instructions that pop up on their screens: Don't wait outside Benny's Burritos, don't ask to use the restroom, be “super nice!” to Dig Inn because it is a “VIP client” — or have your account suspended. — The apps failed and bought each other, and now three giants remain …
Washington Post:
Seven reasons to think Senate Democrats will actually change the filibuster — The party has to pass voting rights legislation. Changing the rules is the only way to do it. — In the middle of a brazen nationwide assault on voting rights, of a kind we have not seen since Jim Crow …
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Townhall, NPR, The Daily Caller and Roll Call
New York Times:
A Million Afghan Children Could Die in ‘Most Perilous Hour,’ U.N. Warns — The international community pledged more than $1 billion in emergency aid as millions of Afghans risk running out of food just as winter sets in. — Millions of Afghans could run out of food before the arrival …
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Breitbart and Common Dreams
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Touts Nicki Minaj's Vaccine Comments, Reads Aloud Her Swollen Testicle Tweet — Tucker Carlson took a moment during his Monday night show to tout Nicki Minaj's comments about the covid-19 vaccines. — Minaj said earlier Monday that she isn't vaccinated yet …
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CBS News, The Verge and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
GOP condemnation of Biden coronavirus mandate fuels concern other vaccine requirements could be targeted — Republicans' sweeping denunciations of President Biden's plan to force more people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus are raising concerns among public health experts …
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Forbes, Political Wire, The American Independent and Mediaite
Politico:
Democrats confront their Manchin and Sinema dilemma — Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema hold the reins on President Joe Biden's jobs and families plan, and their fellow Democrats are struggling with how to handle it. — Led by Manchin's media tour on Sunday shows and in the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages …
Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Yes, I had one scotch’: Giuliani says he was NOT drunk during rambling September 11th speech at Cipriani, isn't an alcoholic and denies mocking the Queen: Claims he is the victim of a left-wing smear — Giuliani spoke at Cipriani restaurant in New York City on Saturday night
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
DeSantis and the Agony of the Anti-Anti-Anti-Vaxx Republican The GOP-elite darling tries to walk a careful line, and falls off. — The right-wing backlash against the coronavirus vaccines has forced Republican politicians to make an agonizing choice. On the one hand, public health …
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HotAir, WESH-TV and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Virginia Aabram / Washington Examiner:
‘Smell my hair’: Hundreds of protesters greet Biden in Idaho — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest President Joe Biden's visit to Boise, Idaho, on Monday. — The president, who is visiting Boise as part of his two-day tour of western states, including California and Colorado …
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Politico, KTFT, Associated Press, Washington Post, The Western Journal, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Hannah Giorgis / The Atlantic:
Most Hollywood Writers' Rooms Look Nothing Like America — I. “You Can Hear a Pin Drop” — Carl Winslow, the protagonist of the '90s sitcom Family Matters, wore his badge with honor. On the show, about a middle-class Black household in Chicago, Winslow (played by Reginald VelJohnson) …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Blinken testifies on Afghanistan: “We inherited a deadline, but not a plan” — Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered an unwavering defense of the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan on Monday, insisting it was “time to end America's longest war” and praising the evacuation from Kabul as “extraordinary.”
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NBC News:
Schools facing critical race theory battles are diversifying rapidly, analysis finds — Downingtown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, has been changing. And the school district has tried to change with it. — In 1994, students of color made up just 5 percent of the enrollment in the Downingtown Area School District.
David Gilbert / VICE:
Major Trump Backer Is Hosting a Huge QAnon Conference in Las Vegas — A Nevada businessman who once cleared out his company's warehouse to host a Trump rally in violation of state lockdown laws, has become the new host for the country's biggest QAnon conference.
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Raw Story