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The Hill:
House appears poised to pull infrastructure vote amid stubborn stalemate  —  House Democrats appear poised to miss a second vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill this week, highlighting the stubborn stalemate over the larger social benefits package at the core of President Biden's agenda.
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Manchin trashes Democratic spending bill: ‘Fiscal insanity’  —  Sen. Joe Manchin, a key centrist Democrat whose approval is required to pass the party's massive social welfare spending package, firmly rejected the proposal on Wednesday, criticizing the $3.5 trillion cost and the vast new entitlements it would provide.
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 …
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.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
More in U.S. Vaccinated After Delta Surge, FDA Decision
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
Biden, Pelosi embark on late scramble to save $1 trillion infrastructure bill
Alan Levinovitz / Washington Post:   How the phrase ‘natural immunity’ misleads us about real risks and dangers
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Biden sticks to his dealmaking strategy, as some Democrats want him to do more to bring holdouts on board
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.
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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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Defense secretary blames State Department for delay in Afghanistan evacuation
Discussion: Breitbart
NBC News:
Congresswomen share personal stories of abortion in hopes of bringing change to policy conversation  —  Three congresswomen who will testify at a House oversight hearing on reproductive rights shared their deeply personal experiences about abortion.  They are hoping their stories can change …
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CNN:
January 6 committee targets organizers of Stop the Steal rally in latest batch of subpoenas  —  (CNN)The select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has issued its second round of subpoenas, this time targeting individuals involved in the planning and organization of the …
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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New Republic:   The Cops Who Touched Fentanyl
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Documents About Instagram and Teens, Published  —  The Senate holds a hearing Thursday about the social network's impact, prompted by The Wall Street Journal's coverage  —  Facebook Inc. is scheduled to testify at a Senate hearing on Thursday about its products' effects on young people's mental health.
Washington Post:
Democrats worry a loss in Virginia could set off a cascade of election troubles  —  President Biden's slumping approval ratings and gridlock on Capitol Hill have raised the risk that Democrats could lose the Virginia governor's race, according to party insiders who fear a defeat …
Riley Vetterkind / madison.com:
Wisconsin Assembly passes ban on teaching critical race theory  —  Teaching public school students and training employees about concepts such as systemic racism and implicit bias would be banned under legislation Republicans passed in the state Assembly Tuesday.
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Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Lawmakers drowned out by protesters as they announce critical race theory bill
Discussion: RedState
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 …
Washington Post:
Antisemitic mailer in Virginia legislative race follows a recent GOP pattern  —  Antisemitic stereotypes, tropes and imagery, centuries old, recur episodically in American politics, and not only on the ideological fringes.  Days ago, in a tightly contested Northern Virginia state legislative race …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Leader of ‘Atomwaffen’ hate group convicted of five federal felonies for conspiracy to threaten journalists and Anti-Defamation League employees  —  Defendant created threatening posters sent to homes in three states  —  Seattle - The leader of a Neo-Nazi hate group ‘Atomwaffen’ was convicted today …
Discussion: UPI, The Hill, CBS News and Raw Story
Kali Holloway / The Daily Beast:
He Ran Over BLM Protesters—but Apparently That's Not a Crime  —  OFF THE HOOK … He joked on social media about running down protesters and fled the state after actually doing it “to get out of a situation that he felt was dangerous to his family.”  —  Jared Benjamin Lafer …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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.
Jane Arraf / New York Times:
Talk of Iraq Recognizing Israel Prompts Threats of Arrest or Death  —  A conference promoting normalization, organized by a little-known American group, prompted a furor, pointing to the volatility and danger in Iraqi politics.  —  BAGHDAD — A conference last Friday in Iraq's Kurdistan …
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.
Chris Polansky / NPR:
Oklahoma Welcomes Hundreds Of Afghan Refugees — Despite The State GOP's Objections  —  In a cavernous warehouse in Tulsa, Okla., Kathy Clarke is digging through a big produce crate filled with bedsheets, keeping a tally on a clipboard.  —  “They're bringing in a bunch of stuff and then we're sorting through it,” Clarke says.
Todd Bensman / CIS.org:
Takeaways from the Del Rio Migrant Camp Crisis: What Now?  —  DEL RIO, Texas — The migrant encampment under the international bridge here has been liquidated and the 15,000 mostly Haitian illegal migrants who had pooled under it have moved on to different futures (most paroled into the United States …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
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nlrb.gov:
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Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Fairfax Schools Sues Special-Ed Parents, Demanding ‘Damages’ For Publicizing Embarrassing Records The Schools Gave Them
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Park MacDougald / UnHerd:
The importance of repression  —  A little over a half-century ago, the sociologist Philip Rieff announced …
Politico:
U.S. intensifies talks to use Russian bases for Afghan counterterrorism ops
Discussion: Washington Post and France 24
Sara Sirota / The Intercept:
Chickens Severely Mistreated at “Humane” California Slaughterhouse, New Video Alleges
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Jack Beyrer / Washington Free Beacon:
MLB Ships Jobs to China To Build Closer Relationship With CCP
Discussion: Townhall and Instapundit
Tzvi Joffre / Jerusalem Post:
VP Harris to student who accused Israel of ‘genocide’: Your truth must be heard
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Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin GOP lawmakers want superintendent, treasurer and secretary of state appointed, not elected
Discussion: Raw Story
Willy Staley / New York Times:
Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?
Discussion: WTOP