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1:25 PM ET, October 4, 2021

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Andrew Yang:
Breaking Up with the Democratic Party  —  I changed my voting registration from ‘Democrat’ to ‘Independent’ today.  It was a strangely emotional experience.  —  I registered as a Democrat back in 1995 when I was 20 years old to vote for Bill Clinton's re-election.  It was a no-brainer for me.
Politico:
McConnell reactivates his connection to Biden — with a sharp debt warning  —  Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell's two-man emergency hotline had gone silent — until now.  —  The Senate minority leader on Monday morning prodded the president to talk his party into raising the debt ceiling without the GOP …
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Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Biden blasts McConnell, GOP on ‘dangerous’ debt ceiling gambit  —  President Biden warned Monday that the U.S. may default its debt for the first time in history if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) continues to block Democratic attempts to raise the federal borrowing limit.
Discussion: Insider, Associated Press and Bloomberg
David Dayen / American Prospect:
USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program  —  The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card.  —  The United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal banking system in America.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:   What's really happening with the mail
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:   USPS testing paycheck cashing, which could transform how millions access money and pay bills
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: House Republican says he's facing federal prosecution  —  The top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee's agriculture panel says he's facing federal prosecution, Axios has learned.  —  Driving the news: In a new fundraising page for his legal expense fund, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry …
Discussion: Roll Call and Raw Story
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It  —  The former Facebook employee says her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant  —  The former Facebook Inc. employee who gathered documents that formed the foundation …
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CBS News:
Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation
Andrew Murray / Fox News:
Florida Gov. DeSantis' wife diagnosed with breast cancer  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 4  —  EXCLUSIVE - Casey DeSantis, the wife of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, has been diagnosed with breast cancer.  —  “I am saddened to report that Florida's esteemed First Lady …
The Hill:
Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over DC representation in Congress  —  The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by Washington, D.C., residents over their lack of voting rights in Congress.  —  The justices' move affirmed a lower court ruling that held that D.C. residents …
Discussion: Washingtonian and POLITICUSUSA
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Donald Ayer / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Has Gone Off the Rails
Discussion: Raw Story and JONATHAN TURLEY
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema makes liberal heads explode.  And that's just fine with the Arizona Democrat  —  When Kyrsten Sinema ran for Senate in 2018, she could not have been more clear.  The Democrat did not call herself a Democrat but rather an “Arizona independent.”
Discussion: Fox News and Mediaite
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Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
For Democrats and the Biden agenda, it's becoming a matter of trust
Julie Luchetta / Arizona Republic:   Activists ambush Sen. Kyrsten Sinema at ASU over immigration, Build Back Better Act
New York Times:
U.S. Signals No Thaw in Trade Relations With China  —  The Biden administration said it would not immediately remove the Trump administration's tariffs and would require that Beijing uphold its trade commitments.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration offered its strongest signal yet …
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Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Jan. 6 rioters exploited little-known Capitol weak spots: A handful of unreinforced windows  —  Four major access points that Jan. 6 rioters used to break into and overtake the U.S. Capitol had something unusual in common: They were among a dozen or so ground-floor windows and glass-paned doors that had not been recently reinforced.
Discussion: Politico
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 panel braces for collision with Trump
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Ex-U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies  —  Former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a conservative Missouri Republican whose comment that women's bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape” sunk his bid for the U.S. Senate and became a cautionary tale for other GOP candidates, died late Sunday.
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Exclusive: Stephanie Grisham says ‘I regret’ enabling culture of dishonesty in Trump White House  —  The former Trump aide spoke exclusively to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Stephanie Grisham, one of former President Donald Trump's …
Discussion: Insider, The Hill, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
New: Whitmer vetoes GOP bills part of ‘calculated misinformation’ about the 2020 election  —  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Sunday vetoed three Republican election bills introduced after former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election as part of a nationwide right-wing effort to restrict voting and change election rules.
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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Trump seeking to elevate Republicans who refuse to accept Biden victory
Discussion: Slate, Washington Post and Raw Story
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid, in Retreat  —  New cases in the U.S. have fallen by more than a third in the past month.  —  Covid-19 is once again in retreat.  —  The reasons remain somewhat unclear, and there is no guarantee that the decline in caseloads will continue.  But the turnaround is now large enough …
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
One-time presidential candidate Evan McMullin will mount an independent bid to oust Republican Sen. Mike Lee, Robert Gehrke reports  —  A McMullin candidacy challenges the rigid two-party standard, which leaves too many Utahns unrepresented.  —  Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin speaks …
Discussion: Twitchy
Laura Nahmias / New York Magazine:
White Riot In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall — and changed New York history.  —  This story was produced in partnership with The Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization that will address the crisis of mass incarceration and policing.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew  —  A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.  —  One possible way to read “The Facebook Files,” The Wall Street Journal's excellent series of reports based on leaked internal Facebook research …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Sprawling Use of NDAs Now Threatens to Humiliate Him  —  For decades, Donald Trump used the same legal language in Non-Disclosure Agreements to prevent associates from saying anything bad about him.  That's bad news for Trump.  —  For decades, Donald Trump has treasured Non-Disclosure …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Foreign money secretly floods U.S. tax havens.  Some of it is tainted.  —  (Washington Post illustration; Photograph by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)  —  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Across from a Holiday Inn, in a red-brick building with a welcome sign that reads “The Heart of America,” …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Matthew Dowd Gets Snippy with Brianna Keilar, Dismisses Deleted Tweets as Fox ‘Conspiracy’: ‘I Answered Three Times’  —  Tensions briefly flared between CNN's Brianna Keilar and Matthew Dowd as the former George W. Bush strategist fielded questions about a major Twitter purge he did.
Discussion: The Hill and Twitchy
 
 
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Shout Down Lindsey Graham for Pushing Vaccine
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Terry Jones / tippinsights:
I&I/TIPP Poll: Most Independents Oppose Biden's Massive Spending Plan
Discussion: HotAir and ABC
Dan Hannan / Washington Examiner:
Conservatives everywhere should fear a Canada-like future
Washington Post:
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Pelosi shows her power
Discussion: The Dispatch and The National
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
Dems Tuck Multibillion-Dollar Handout to Illegal Immigrants Into Reconciliation
Discussion: Power Line
CNN:
Pro-Trump challenger's residency issues catch Murkowski's eye
Discussion: Raw Story
Miles Himmel / Washington Examiner:
Elites think they're better than you
Jeremy Egner / New York Times:
Damian Lewis Discusses the Future of ‘Billions’
Discussion: New York Post and Variety
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider:
A Connecticut doctor who gave patients blank, signed COVID-19 exemption forms has surrendered her medical license
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Ben Smith / New York Times:
What They Saw in Ozy  —  The story behind the story is about the elite investors who plowed millions …