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Politico:
'The president's decline is alarming': Biden trapped in coronavirus malaise  —  ATLANTA — In a focus group last week, Pennsylvania Democrats one after another articulated the issue vexing top White House aides, party operatives in Virginia and voters in Georgia: Why isn't President Joe Biden's diminished job rating rebounding?
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A.B. Stoddard / Real Clear Politics:
If Polls Are Right, Dems Are Doomed.  If They're Wrong, It's Worse.  —  COMMENTARY  —  In less than three months, President Biden's approval rating has tumbled from a remarkable position in a polarized nation to the lowest of all but two presidents since 1945.
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
‘Frustration is at an all-time high’: Behind Biden's falling poll numbers  —  ATLANTA — W. Mondale Robinson spent a large chunk of last fall in clubs and bars and concert venues in Georgia, trying to convince disenchanted Black men that casting a ballot — in the 2020 general election …
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Biden's COVID-19 Body Count Just Passed 300K
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Politico: Dems warn that “the president's decline is alarming”
Discussion: Instapundit
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
John Eastman's employer tries to whitewash his road map for overturning Trump's loss  —  John Eastman, it seems, is the victim of one big misunderstanding.  —  The conservative Claremont Institute, which employs the lawyer who provided a road map for then-President Donald Trump …
Saeed Jones / GQ:
Dave Chappelle's Betrayal  —  Poet Saeed Jones used to consider himself a longtime fan of the comedian.  But Chappelle's new Netflix special “The Closer,” which fixates on gay and trans people, feels like a stab in the back.  —  You ever hear the one about the famous Black comedian …
Discussion: Twitchy
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Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Netflix suspends trans employee who tweeted about Dave Chappelle special  —  Internally, trans employees and allies are asking executives tough questions about the line between commentary and hate  —  Netflix has suspended a trans employee who tweeted about Dave Chappelle's comedy special The Closer.
Maud Maron / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Why Are Moms Like Me Being Called Domestic Terrorists?  —  Showing up to dress down school boards over their dereliction of duty isn't a crime.  It's good parenting and good citizenship.  —  I am a mother of four, a criminal defense attorney and a lifelong liberal who is deeply concerned …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:   AG Merrick Garland is at war with American families
George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
Superman Comes Out, as DC Comics Ushers In a New Man of Steel  —  The new Superman, the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, is concerned about the environment, does not shy away from politics and will soon begin a romantic relationship with a male friend.  —  Up, up and out of the closet!
David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
How Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell Plotted to Undermine Trump's Stolen Election Claims  —  Neither senator openly contradicted the former president when he began spreading election-fraud conspiracy theories, but both privately agonized over a potential bandwagon scenario, David M. Drucker writes in his new book, In Trump's Shadow.
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Ian Haney Lopez / link.medium.com:
Shor is mainly wrong about racism (which is to say, about electoral politics)  —  A race-informed response to Ezra Klein's engagement with David Shor  —  What Shor gets right  —  Shor is correct that most Democratic messaging makes it harder to win elections because it either fails …
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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Kyrsten Sinema Is Confounding Her Own Party. But ... Why?
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Kyrsten Sinema, We're Sick of Your Act
Discussion: Twitchy and The Guardian
Gitit Levy-Paz / The Forward:
Why won't Sally Rooney allow her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew?  —  The young Irish writer Sally Rooney is a literary prodigy.  In 2018, she was nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Prize, and the TV series adapted from her first book became a global hit.
Alani Letang / KSBW:
Monterey teen featured in new YouTube kids special with Vice President Kamala Harris  —  Hide Transcript Show Transcript  —  The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox.  —  Your Email Address  —  Submit  —  Privacy Notice  —  A Monterey teen actor is featured …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
White Tiger and Cheetah Furs: A Mess of Trump Gift Exchanges  —  Gift exchanges between U.S. and foreign leaders, a highly regulated process, devolved into sometimes risible shambles during the Trump administration.  —  The Saudi royal family showered Donald J. Trump and his entourage …
Robby Soave / Reason:
The New York Times Spreads Misinformation About COVID-19  —  The purported threat of social media has emerged once again as a top concern of senators, whistleblowers, and members of the press.  They are very, very worried about Facebook fanning the flames of hate, compromising U.S. democracy, and spreading COVID misinformation.
Discussion: Breitbart
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Is Durham Circling Jake Sullivan?  The Special Counsel May Not Be Done With National Security Adviser  —  Last month Washington was rocked by the indictment of Michael Sussman, former counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee …
Discussion: Fox News
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
We can celebrate both Columbus Day and Indigenous People's Day  —  The first official Columbus Day celebration occurred in 1792 in New York, to commemorate the tricentennial of the explorer's landing.  A century later, President Benjamin Harrison issued a proclamation “recommending to the people …
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Sam Stein / Politico:
Dems thought giving voters cash was the key to success.  So what happened?  —  When they took power this past winter, Democrats made a commitment to not repeat what many viewed as a critical misstep of the Obama years.  The legislation they passed would do two things well …
The White House:
Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on National Coming Out Day  —  Today, we celebrate National Coming Out Day and the courage of LGBTQ+ people who live their lives with pride, create community with open arms and hearts, and showcase the strength of being your authentic self.
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Lawmakers Press to Rescue Afghan Relatives of U.S. Service Members  —  Members of Congress who helped evacuate Afghans who worked with U.S. forces turn their focus to their stranded relatives.  —  WASHINGTON — More than a month after a frenzied U.S. effort to evacuate thousands facing retribution …
Livia Albeck-Ripka / New York Times:
Missing Apostrophe in Facebook Post Lands a Man in Defamation Court  —  An Australian man claimed a real estate agent did not pay its “employees” retirement funds.  The lack of a punctuation mark may cost him thousands.  —  A missing apostrophe in a Facebook post could cost a real estate agent …
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Outcry after federal agents kill eight wolf cubs adopted by Idaho school  —  US Department of Agriculture defends its agents' killing of the pups, part of a pack adopted by a high school in 2003  —  Conservationists in Idaho are speaking out against the “inhumane” killings of eight wolf pups …
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Inside Blue Origin: Employees say toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’ led to mistrust, low morale and delays at Jeff Bezos's space venture  —  'It's condescending.  It's demoralizing,' said one former top executive of conditions prompting many to leave the company
Discussion: The Wrap
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Jon Stewart says Trump has ‘a very good chance’ in 2024  —  Jon Stewart says former President Trump has “a very good chance” of winning back the White House if he enters the 2024 race.  —  “I think he's got it — he's got a very good chance.  And they're smarter about it,” …
Discussion: Breitbart
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Joe Biden Is in a World of Trouble  —  Even Democrats don't like him.  —  1. Group Therapy  —  Last week I Sarah invited me onto The Focus Group.  The episode is out.  You can subscribe on Apple Podcasts here or listen to it here.  —  We watched a group of nine Democratic voters …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Matthew Cooper / Washington Monthly:
Chuck Schumer, Chutzpah, and the Crybaby Republicans  —  After threatening to break the debt ceiling, GOP senators are whining.  Boo-hoo.  —  There are no longer any Jewish Republicans in the United States Senate.  But surely the Republican conference is familiar with chutzpah …
Discussion: New York Post and Virginia Mercury
The Hill:
Bleak midterm outlook shadows bitter Democratic battle  —  The 2022 midterm elections — and the very real possibility that Democrats could be swept from their House majority — are hanging over the bitter political fight within the party over President Biden's domestic agenda.
Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Far-left activists plan to ‘birddog’ Sinema during Boston Marathon over opposition to Biden spending plan  —  Completing a marathon is hard enough.  Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will also have to grapple with a group of far-left activists hounding her on Monday at the Boston Marathon.
Peter Beinart / Jewish Currents:
How the US Media Misreads Naftali Bennett … BENJAMIN NETANYAHU obsessed over his image in US media—as political attaché in Israel's embassy in Washington in the early 1980s, according to Ben Caspit and Ilan Kfir's biography, he rented TV cameras to tape himself conducting practice interviews at home on weekends.
Luz Lazo / Washington Post:
Southwest Airlines flight woes extend to Monday with hundreds of cancellations, delays  —  The carrier is working to return flight operations to normal as it deals with a backlog of passengers from nearly 2,000 canceled flights since Friday.  —  Air passengers hoping to travel Monday …
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Lego commits to removing ‘gender bias and harmful stereotypes’ from its toys  —  Lego on Monday vowed to rid its toys of “gender bias and harmful stereotypes” in a push to make them more accessible to girls.  —  The world's largest toymaker has already stopped labeling its products as …
 
 
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Sliding toward Geopolitical Defeat
Discussion: HotAir, RedState, New York Post and CNN
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Climate protesters swarm White House, vandalize Jackson statue, warn Biden
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Alan Cole / Full Stack Economics:
Save the magnet schools
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: The Democrats' dark campaign master
NBC News:
As Biden's vaccinate-or-test mandate approaches, questions arise over enforcement
Laurence Steinberg / New York Times:
Does Instagram Harm Girls? No One Actually Knows.
Discussion: Althouse
Modern Diplomacy:
Ageing cars are bogging down the battle against climate change
Discussion: Breitbart
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Karl Salzmann / Washington Free Beacon:
Goldman Sachs Downgrades Economic Growth Forecast
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The amazingly bad voter-fraud theories behind Trump's DOJ scheme
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
The 2020 Election Was Nothing Like Bush-Gore
David M. Drucker / The Daily Beast:
The Lincoln Project Got Attention but These Never Trumpers Got Results
Discussion: NBC News
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Herschel Walker off to $3.7M fundraising start in 2022 Senate race
Discussion: New York Times, Politico and Insider
The Daily Beast:
Corey Lewandowski in Exile: Banned at Trump Properties
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Two Journalists Started an Argument in Boston in 1979. It's Not Over Yet.