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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: Dems' sneaky sabotage  —  A group tied to prominent Democratic strategists is posing as a conservative outfit to try to drive a wedge between the Republican candidate for Virginia governor and his core voters, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: The state's gubernatorial race …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Stable Governor's Race  —  McAuliffe maintains issue advantage  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Democrat Terry McAuliffe maintains a small lead over Republican Glenn Youngkin according to the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll of the Virginia governor's race.
Hunter Walker / New York Magazine:
Jumaane Jumps In He's running for governor, calling Kathy Hochul a Cuomo ‘enabler,’ and keeping an eye on Tish James.  —  Three years ago, Jumaane Williams came within seven points of beating Kathy Hochul in the Democratic primary for New York lieutenant governor.
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New York Times:
Deadline Looming, Thousands of Health Care Workers in New York Get Vaccinated  —  Though many hospital and nursing home employees remain unvaccinated, officials say worst-case staffing shortages seem less likely.  —  When New York State officials issued a sweeping coronavirus vaccine mandate …
Discussion: WIVB-TV and Mediaite
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Pass the damn infrastructure bill, dammit  —  Then pass the reconciliation bill, then pass another bill...  I am annoyed at the way Democrats are handling the two spending bills now moving through Congress.  When the bipartisan infrastructure deal passed the Senate, I assumed it was a done deal …
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Washington Post:
House Democrats huddle amid simmering tensions over Biden's big economic agenda
Washington Post:   Senior Democrats' push for powerful climate tool collides with political realities
Jeff Schogol / Task & Purpose:
Marine officer who blasted leaders over Afghanistan withdrawal now in the brig  —  “All our son did is ask the questions that everybody was asking themselves, but they were too scared to speak out loud.”  —  Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, the Marine officer whose meteoric rise to internet fandom began …
Discussion: RedState and Fox News
Michael Powell / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. Apologizes for Tweet That Altered Quote by Justice Ginsburg  —  The organization acknowledged that changing references from women to people was a mistake — albeit a well-intentioned one.  —  Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The A.C.L.U. Errs on R.B.G.
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
Damon Linker / The Week:
The unimportance of Trump's incompetence  —  The most talked-about essay of the past week is undoubtedly Robert Kagan's “Our constitutional crisis is already here” in The Washington Post, a long, gripping examination of the very serious danger that Donald Trump poses to American democracy …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
When Trump says the U.S. ‘will not survive,’ don't look away  —  Arizona ‘audit’ flop fails Trump; furthers Republican degradation of democracy  —  It was an opinion that was designed to raise eyebrows — and it worked.  The Washington Post published an op-ed late last week from Robert Kagan …
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Republicans Block Government Funding, Refusing to Lift Debt Limit  —  Senate Republicans opposed legislation to avert a government shutdown and prevent a debt default at a critical moment for Democrats' domestic agenda.  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Monday blocked a spending bill needed …
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Politico:
Dems may drop debt fight to avoid shutdown
Troy Closson / New York Times:
R. Kelly Found Guilty in Decades-Long Sexual Abuse Scheme  —  The six-week trial in Brooklyn, N.Y., included graphic and disturbing testimony about sexual abuse by one of America's best-known musicians.  —  Key Updates:  —  Jonah Bromwichcovers the courts in New York
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Mapped: No majority-Hispanic districts added in Texas  —  Texas Republicans propose adding seats in Austin and Houston — but no majority-Hispanic districts — in new congressional district maps released Monday.  —  Why it matters: Texas is a rapidly growing, diversifying and politically changing state.
Discussion: Raw Story and Roll Call
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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
The Largest Autocracy on Earth  —  In 1947, Albert Einstein, writing in this magazine, proposed the creation of a single world government to protect humanity from the threat of the atomic bomb.  His utopian idea did not take hold, quite obviously, but today, another visionary is building the simulacrum of a cosmocracy.
Zachary Stieber / theepochtimes.com:
Florida Man Dies While Awaiting Trial on Charges Related to Jan. 6 US Capitol Breach  —  A U.S. military veteran who was charged in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach has died.  —  John Anderson, 61, died at a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sept. 21, according to family members and his lawyer.
Robby Soave / Reason:
Viral Video of White Woman Allegedly Telling Black Couple To ‘Stay in Your Hood’ Was Recorded by a Known Fabulist  —  Frederick Joseph is a marketing guru, an Elizabeth Warren campaign surrogate, and the author of a 2020 book, The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person.  He is black.
Discussion: New York Post, The Root and RADAR
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New York Times:
New Taliban Chancellor Bars Women From Kabul University  —  The new policy for Afghanistan's premier university is another major blow to women's rights under Taliban rule, and to a two-decade effort to build up higher education.  —  Tightening the Taliban's restrictions on women …
Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg and KVIA-TV
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Here's the Truth About Brett Kavanaugh's Finances  —  No, liberals, the Koch brothers don't own him.  —  It's become a predictable pattern: The Supreme Court issues a controversial ruling on a hot-button social issue, and then Justice Brett Kavanaugh trends on Twitter.
Discussion: PREVAIL
Sophie Haigney / The Drift:
Persistence Pays  —  “Harriet Tubman was born a slave, and her story could have ended there.  Instead, she persisted, escaping from slavery and becoming the most famous ‘conductor’ on the Underground Railroad,” begins the first section of Chelsea Clinton's baffling 2017 children's book …
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Sinema resists the budget bill, she is set to raise money from business groups that oppose it.  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, the inscrutable Democrat who may hold the key to passing her party's ambitious social policy and climate bill, is scheduled to have a fund-raiser …
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
As daughter sought state license, Noem summoned agency head  —  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Just days after a South Dakota agency moved to deny her daughter's application to become a certified real estate appraiser, Gov. Kristi Noem summoned to her office the state employee who ran the agency …
Nate Rattner / CNBC:
Unvaccinated Americans say the need for booster shots proves Covid vaccines don't work, Kaiser survey shows  — A Kaiser Family Foundation survey shows that 71% percent of unvaccinated respondents said boosters are a sign that vaccines are not working.  — The split in attitudes toward …
Discussion: CNN
Neal E. Boudette / New York Times:
Ford Will Build 4 Factories in a Big Electric Vehicle Push  —  The automaker and a supplier will spend $11.4 billion on three battery factories and a truck plant, creating 11,000 jobs.  —  Ford Motor significantly increased its commitment to electric cars and trucks on Monday by announcing …
Discussion: Financial Times
New York Times:
American Siblings Barred From Leaving China for 3 Years Return to U.S.  —  Their release coincided with an agreement on Friday that cleared the way for a senior executive of Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications giant, to return to China.  —  Victor and Cynthia Liu …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Moriah Balingit / Washington Post:
New York can move forward with coronavirus vaccine mandate for school workers, judges say  —  Teachers and other school workers in the city have until Friday to show they have received at least one vaccine shot  —  A federal appeals court Monday made way for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio …
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
The Public Continues to Underestimate COVID's Age Discrimination  —  In mid-September, King County, Washington, in which Seattle is located, released an eye-popping slide about vaccine efficacy and breakthrough prevalence: Vaccines had reduced the risk of infection from COVID sevenfold …
Discussion: Washington Post
Jon Jackson / Newsweek:
Trump's ‘Mar-a-Lago Trio’ Broke Law in Plan to Monetize Veterans' Medical Records: Report  —  Three executives used their personal ties to former President Donald Trump to allegedly break the law to shape veterans' policies for their own benefit, according to the findings of an investigation by House Democrats released Monday.
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Bolsonaro's wife was vaccinated during their visit to New York for the U.N.G.A.  —  Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's proudly unvaccinated president, is contending with more fallout from his visit to New York last week to speak at the United Nations: A fourth member of his entourage has tested positive for Covid-19 …
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Raw Story and Reuters
Brad Polumbo / Foundation for Economic Education:
Biden Bizarrely (and Falsely) Claims His $3.5 Trillion Spending Agenda Has a Price Tag of ‘Zero’  —  President Biden and his progressive allies in Washington, DC are currently trying to pass one of the largest government spending plans in American history.  Yet they're now bizarrely claiming …
 
 
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Mark Moore / New York Post:
Thousands of Haitian migrants reportedly heading to US border
Discussion: Twitchy
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Florida's ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Rate Is the Same as Other Anti-Vax, Science-Hating States Delaware, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania
Discussion: Insider
Akhil Ramesh / The Hill:
Has China already won?
Discussion: CNBC
Politico:
Harris' non-crisis crisis comms hire
Discussion: RedState and Washington Examiner
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
McConnell gets booster, calls it ‘easy decision’
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Breitbart and Insider
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
Texas airline pilots warn that vaccine mandates could roil holiday flights
Discussion: ABC News
 Earlier Items: 
Saahil Desai / The Atlantic:
Misinformation Is About to Get So Much Worse  —  Editor's Note: This article is part of our coverage of The Atlantic Festival.
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Education polarization is only growing
Discussion: Instapundit
CBS Boston:
Dozens Of Massachusetts State Police Troopers Resigning Over COVID Vaccine Mandate, Union Says
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How Republicans learned to stop worrying and embrace ‘replacement theory’ — by name
Discussion: The Root and Popular Information
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Asked Russia About Offer of Bases to Monitor Afghan Terror Threat
 

 
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