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9:30 PM ET, September 29, 2021

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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 …

Discussion: Crowdpac, Raw Story, Arizona Mirror and Common Dreams

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.

Discussion: Politico, Salon, RedState, New York Times, HotAir, Washington Examiner, National Review, Townhall, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Daily Kos, ABC News, Outside the Beltway and The Dispatch

Rema Rahman / The Hill:

Manchin says he could back reconciliation bill this year — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Wednesday that he could support passing a Democratic-only spending bill by the end of the year, even as he blasted a multi-trillion-dollar top-line spending bill envisioned by progressives as “fiscal insanity.”

Discussion: Politico and Political Wire

Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Manchin trashes Democratic spending bill: ‘Fiscal insanity’

Discussion: National Review, Politico and HotAir

Sarah Jones / New York Magazine:
The Bottomless Emptiness of Manchema

Discussion: Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit and Talking Points Memo, more at Mediagazer »

Sam Stein / Politico:
Why progressives really may kill the bill

Discussion: CNN

Washington Post:
Biden, Pelosi embark on late scramble to save $1 trillion infrastructure bill

Discussion: Washington Times, The Hill, National Review, Insider, Reuters, The Atlantic, Jacobin, Breitbart, NBC4 Washington and Washington Examiner

The Hill:
House appears poised to pull infrastructure vote amid stubborn stalemate

Discussion: CNN, RedState, Yahoo Finance, USA Today, NPR, Mediaite, Washington Times, Washington Post, HotAir, Forbes, One America News Network, Bloomberg, IJR, Politico and Twitchy

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kyrsten Sinema's latest moves pose a dire threat to Biden's agenda

Discussion: New York Magazine, New York Times, The Mahablog, Washington Examiner, Daily Kos, CNN, Common Dreams and HotAir

HuffPost:
Senator Kyrsten Sinema Emerges As Main Obstacle To Joe Biden's Legislative Agenda

Discussion: Vanity Fair, Politico, Mother Jones and Daily Kos

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.

Discussion: New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Crooks and Liars, Digby's Hullabaloo, Joe.My.God., Mediaite, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, Insider and Political Wire

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 …

Discussion: Fox News, The Hill, Washington Post, Joe.My.God., Insider, Queerty, NPR, Ace of Spades HQ, Associated Press, BizPac Review and South Dakota

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.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, We Love Trump, Mediaite and Democrats

Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
South Dakota lawmakers question Noem's meeting with daughter

Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and The Daily Beast

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 …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Hill, USA Today, Mediaite, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo

CNN:
January 6 committee targets organizers of Stop the Steal rally in latest batch of subpoenas

Discussion: The Daily Caller

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 …

Discussion: Forbes, The Daily Caller, The Hill, The National Interest, Breitbart, Fox News, National Review, Washington Times, New York Post and Political Wire

Politico:
U.S. intensifies talks to use Russian bases for Afghan counterterrorism ops

Discussion: Washington Times, Washington Post and France 24

Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Gaetz slams Milley for spending more time talking to reporters than planning Afghan withdrawal

Discussion: Fox News, RedState and Politico

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” …

New Republic: The Cops Who Touched Fentanyl

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 …

Elizabeth Faddis / Washington Examiner:
YouTube announces crackdown on anti-vaccine content

Discussion: Washington Post, Townhall, NBC News and HotAir

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.

Discussion: Raw Story

Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Lawmakers drowned out by protesters as they announce critical race theory bill

Discussion: RedState

Peter Greene / Forbes: Critical Race Theory Bans Are Expanding To Cover Broad Collection Of Issues

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 …

Discussion: Inside Elections, Washington Free Beacon and Virginia Mercury

Dr. Harry Wilson / Roanoke College: Roanoke College Poll: Va. Governor's race, COVID-19 and more

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

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.

Discussion: Bloomberg, USA Today, New York Times, REVOLT and KTLA

Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Friends from Ohio get 45 days in jail for Capitol riot

Discussion: Politico, CNN, Washington Post, Insider and Law & Crime

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 …

Discussion: HotAir, Daily Mail, Townhall, Power Line, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review, TheBlaze, Mediaite, IJR, New York Post and Grabien News

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.

Discussion: Twitchy, The Daily Caller and Ace of Spades HQ

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.

Discussion: NPR

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.

Discussion: Jihad Watch and Task & Purpose

International Olympic Committee:

Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 - Updates on Spectators, Vaccination and COVID-19 Countermeasures — IOC News Press Release Beijing 2022 — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) held an Executive Board (EB) meeting today, in the presence of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Discussion: Washington Examiner, CBS News, Breitbart, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times, Reuters, One America News Network and NPR

Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:

“I Felt Like There Was No Mercy”: Cori Bush Is Ready to Talk About Her Abortion — Bush, who will tell her story at a Congressional hearing on Thursday, recognizes that as reproductive rights come under legislative attack, accounts like hers are crucial. — Seated on the edge of a grey couch …

Discussion: Insider, The Hill and The Daily Beast