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Sam Stein / Politico:
Why progressives really may kill the bill — Presented by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network — With help from Renuka Rayasam and Tyler Weyant — PROGRESSIVES' PILGRIMAGE — It is an article of faith among most Democrats that progressives will always cave …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Kill the Bill — Members of Congress have begun to say explicitly in the last couple days what I think has been clear for weeks and months. Kyrsten Sinema's multiple trips to the White House yesterday just confirms it. She's not negotiating about any of this in good faith.
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Rema Rahman / The Hill:
Manchin says he could back reconciliation bill this year
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Manchin trashes Democratic spending bill: ‘Fiscal insanity’
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Sarah Jones / New York Magazine:
The Bottomless Emptiness of Manchema
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Washington Post:
Biden, Pelosi embark on late scramble to save $1 trillion infrastructure bill
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Biden sticks to his dealmaking strategy, as some Democrats want him to do more to bring holdouts on board
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The Hill:
House appears poised to pull infrastructure vote amid stubborn stalemate
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats expect Pelosi will reschedule infrastructure vote
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kyrsten Sinema's latest moves pose a dire threat to Biden's agenda
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump donor: Corey Lewandowski made unwanted sexual advances — A Donald Trump donor is accusing Corey Lewandowski, one of the former president's longtime top aides, of making unwanted sexual advances toward her at a Las Vegas charity event over the weekend.
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American Greatness:
Kristi Noem Shows Why Republicans Can't Have Nice Things — Exclusive: Sources reveal the South Dakota governor and potential 2024 VP candidate is having an extramarital affair with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. — Multiple sources have informed American Greatness …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Super PAC Removes Corey Lewandowski After Sexual Harassment Claim — The move came after a donor to former President Donald J. Trump said that Mr. Lewandowski had made unwanted sexual advances and touched her inappropriately. — Corey Lewandowski, a longtime political adviser to Donald J. Trump …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem dismisses conservative website's claims of extramarital affair with former Trump adviser — South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) on Wednesday dismissed a conservative media outlet's claim that she is having an extramarital affair with Corey Lewandowski, a former Trump adviser who is also advising Noem.
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New York Times:
Kyrsten Sinema Faces a Growing Revolt From Her Former Supporters — The centrist senator is key to President Biden's agenda in Washington. Her positions have angered some Democrats back home. — PHOENIX — Jade Duran once spent her weekends knocking on doors to campaign for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema …
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Select Committee to Investigate …:
Select Committee Subpoenas Organizers of Rallies and Events Preceding January 6th Insurrection — Washington—Today, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson announced that the Select Committee has issued subpoenas for deposition testimony and records to individuals tied to the events and rallies leading …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Wake up, Virginia Democrats. There's serious Trumpist danger ahead. — We now have at least three polls that seem to confirm a trend: In Virginia, where a big and important election looms, Democratic voters appear less energized than Republican ones do. — This is despite the fact …
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Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
Officer-Involved Delusions — Cops lie to us. We should be even more worried when they lie to themselves. — The latest episode of The Politics of Everything is about police and fentanyl. Specifically, it's about what exactly is happening when police officers “overdose” …
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Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content — The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Facebook made the same change months ago. — SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube is taking …
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Elizabeth Faddis / Washington Examiner:
YouTube announces crackdown on anti-vaccine content
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Axios:
Scoop: Milley's blunt private blame for the State Department — In a classified briefing with senators on Tuesday, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley directly blamed the State Department for a botched evacuation from Afghanistan, saying officials “waited too long” to order the operation …
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NBC News:
Senate reaches deal to avoid government shutdown, Schumer announces — Congress racing to prevent government shutdown — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that senators have reached a deal on a stopgap government funding measure to prevent a shutdown.
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John McCormack / National Review:
Manchin: Reconciliation ‘Dead on Arrival’ If It Doesn't Include Hyde Amendment — House Democrats have pushed forward in their reconciliation bill with creating a new “Medicaid-like” program that lacks the Hyde amendment, a measure that generally prohibits federal funding of abortion.
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Nathan Fenno / Los Angeles Times:
Olympic medalist and USC swimmer Klete Keller pleads guilty to Capitol riot charge — Klete Keller, the five-time Olympic swimming medalist from USC, agreed to a plea bargain Wednesday after facing seven federal charges for participating in the U.S. Capitol riot.
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Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Friends from Ohio get 45 days in jail for Capitol riot
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Park MacDougald / UnHerd:
The importance of repression — A little over a half-century ago, the sociologist Philip Rieff announced the “triumph of the therapeutic” with his 1966 book of the same name. Perhaps because the phrase itself is so striking, it has been widely cited but only rarely understood.
Tzvi Joffre / Jerusalem Post:
VP Harris to student who accused Israel of ‘genocide’: Your truth must be heard — US Vice President Kamala Harris applauded a student who accused Israel of “ethnic genocide,” saying “your truth cannot be suppressed.” — During a discussion with students about National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday …
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Andrea Bernstein / New Yorker:
Trump Still Faces a Reckoning in New York — Court documents and interviews indicate that the Manhattan District Attorney is accumulating evidence of pervasive tax fraud. — Last Monday, eighty days after their first courtroom appearance in a case known as The People of the State of New York v …
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
We're Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic — A year after the United States bombed its pandemic performance in front of the world, the Delta variant opened the stage for a face-saving encore. If the U.S. had learned from its mishandling of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus …
Jennie Taer / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Jailed Marine Who Demanded Accountability For Afghanistan Offered To Resign Honorably But Was Rejected — Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller offered to resign under honorable conditions but his request was rejected, according to Marine Corps documents exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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CNN:
Tennessee parents say some books make students ‘feel discomfort’ because they're White. They say a new law backs them up — Battle over how race is taught in classrooms heats up in school district — Williamson County, TN (CNN)Robin Steenman pulled her daughter out of public school over a mask mandate last year.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Think tank president quits after domestic violence complaint — Jerry Taylor, the co-founder and president of the Niskanen Center, recently resigned from the Washington, D.C.-based think tank after being charged with violently attacking his wife, according to court records obtained by POLITICO.
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