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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As the U.S. Hurtles Toward a Debt Crisis, What Does McConnell Want?  —  Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has a long record of tying debt ceiling increases to policy demands.  But with a catastrophic default two weeks away, he has yet to make any.
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden plots debt ceiling blitz to focus the blame on McConnell  —  After months of playing it cool on the debt ceiling, the White House has quickly begun to turn the screws on Republicans in an attempt to shift blame for the financial brinkmanship squarely onto Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
R. Marshall Brandt / The Bulwark:
What Was the Debt-Ceiling Showdown Really All About?  —  The answer is: Democracy.
Discussion: Twitchy
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Democrats Must Raise the Debt Limit to a Quadrillion Dollars
CNN:
Manchin breaks with party leaders over strategy on debt ceiling and Biden's economic package
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Downsizing Dems' social spending bill
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Why the Senate doesn't work anymore
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
U.S. faces a recession if Congress doesn't address the debt limit within 2 weeks, Yellen says
Discussion: Politico, Axios, HotAir and CNN
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
‘I Was Part of Something Unusually Evil’ In Kansas with Stephanie Grisham, who does not believe she will be redeemed.  —  Stephanie Grisham saw the pickup outside and yelped, “That's Larry!”  She grabbed a small package and raced out her front door, down the steps of the porch …
Discussion: NPR
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Stephanie Grisham / Washington Post:
I told the Trumps my relationship with a White House staffer had turned abusive.  They didn't seem to care.  —  Stephanie Grisham served as chief of staff to the first lady, press secretary and communications director in the Trump White House.  Her book “I'll Take Your Questions Now …
Discussion: The Hill, Insider, Raw Story and HuffPost
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Mike Pence Says Media Focus on January 6 Is a Media Distraction Meant to ‘Demean’ Trump Supporters  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence said the focus on January 6th is a distraction intended to “demean” millions of Trump supporters.  —  Pence spoke with Sean Hannity Monday night …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
‘I Do’: Stephanie Grisham Straight-Up Confesses Her Enabling Trump Cost Lives During Covid
Discussion: IJR
New York Daily News:
FBI raids NYPD sergeants union Manhattan headquarters  —  Federal investigators descended Tuesday on the Lower Manhattan headquarters of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association, the union headed by fiery and controversial president Ed Mullins, the Daily News has learned.
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Raids Headquarters of the N.Y.P.D. Sergeants' Union  —  Investigators executed a search warrant in connection with an ongoing inquiry, people familiar with the matter said.  —  Federal investigators on Tuesday morning raided the Manhattan office of one of New York City's main police unions …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Fox News and Insider
New York Post:
FBI raids NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association headquarters  —  The Manhattan office of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association was raided by federal agents Tuesday morning, a high-ranking police source said.  —  Investigators from the FBI descended on the Worth Street office as part …
Felix Salmon / Axios:
Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last minute  —  A trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted “within hours of the Treasury Secretary's decision to do so,” Philip Diehl, former director of the United States Mint, tells Axios.  —  Why it matters: Congressional solutions …
Dorian Abbot / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
MIT Abandons Its Mission.  And Me.  —  Let's make sure my cancellation is the last.  That begins by standing up and saying no to the mob.  —  I am a professor who just had a prestigious public science lecture at MIT cancelled because of an outrage mob on Twitter.  My crime?
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
What's Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema?  —  In 2003, Joe Lieberman, at the time the worst Democratic senator, traveled to Arizona to campaign for his party's presidential nomination and was regularly greeted by antiwar demonstrators.  “He's a shame to Democrats,” said the organizer of a protest outside …
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Washington Examiner:
The Left's hate machine is going to get more people hurt
Discussion: Newsweek, Twitchy and New York Magazine
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook is harming our society.  Here's a radical solution for reining it in.  —  Frances Haugen, who revealed herself Sunday as the Facebook whistleblower, could not have made things any clearer.  —  “Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer …
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CNN:
Facebook whistleblower testifies company “is operating in the shadows, hiding its research from public scrutiny”
NIH News Release:
Francis Collins to step down as director of the National Institutes of Health  —  Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today announced his decision to end his tenure as the director of the National Institutes of Health by the end of the year.  Dr. Collins is the longest serving presidentially …
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes 400 For First Time In 25 Years  —  Donald Trump is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, leaving him $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year's Forbes 400 list of America's richest people.  The real estate mogul is just as wealthy as he was a year ago …
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Criminal inquiry into Trump's Georgia election interference gathers steam  —  The disgraced former president faces a range of possible charges - including conspiracy and election fraud  —  Donald Trump is facing increasing legal scrutiny in the crucial battleground state of Georgia …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger Details Trump's ‘Threats’
Discussion: Raw Story
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
What WaPo Writers Keep Getting Wrong about 2020  —  No, Trump didn't come close to overturning the election, and it's alright to say so.  —  elling people to take a deep breath and calm down, as the headline-writer for my latest column advised, does not always achieve its intended effect.
Discussion: Washington Post
John Nichols / The Nation:
Pramila Jayapal's Perfect Pitch  —  The Congressional Progressive Caucus chair is standing firm against Manchin, Sinema, and corporate “centrists,” and winning accolades as a master negotiator.  —  The New York Times headline on Sunday declared, “Biden Tacks Left,” as the newspaper recounted the fact that …
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New York Times:
Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants  —  Counterintelligence officials said in a top secret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost.
Irina Ivanova / CBS News:
Biggest tax haven in U.S.?  South Dakota, says Pandora Papers investigation  —  Mention tax havens, and most people imagine small nations with balmy weather: The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Malta.  —  But South Dakota and a handful of other U.S. states are increasingly competing as landing pads …
Discussion: The Atlantic, ICIJ and The Guardian
Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
Md. Gov. Hogan's former chief of staff is indicted on federal wire fraud charges  —  Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's former chief of staff, Roy McGrath, was indicted in federal court on Tuesday, charged with defrauding Maryland Environmental Service, a quasi-governmental agency he previously led.
Discussion: Baltimore Sun and Maryland Matters
 
 
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Fiona Hill Doesn't Think the Russians Had Anything on Trump
Discussion: Insider
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