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10:20 PM ET, October 12, 2021

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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
By Attacking Me, Justice Alito Proved My Point  —  Last month, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the Supreme Court's critics are wrong.  The Court is not “a dangerous cabal” that is “deciding important issues in a novel, secretive, improper way, in the middle of the night, hidden from public view,” he said.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Divided Supreme Court considers who can defend abortion restrictions  —  A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed which state officials can defend abortion bans in court — a procedural question with implications that extend beyond reproductive health in states where the governor and attorney general hail from opposing parties.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Focuses on Procedure in Kentucky Abortion Case
Joshua Douglas / Washington Monthly:
Maybe Supreme Court Judges Really Are Driven by Politics
CBS News:
CBS News poll: Vaccine and economy fights driving tight Virginia governor's race  —  The Virginia governor's race is but one state contest, an entire year before the midterms.  So why are the nation's political eyes all watching it so intensely?  Because, as our poll finds …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
More women are tuning out politics — a danger sign for Democrats in Virginia and beyond  —  Democrats are sweating the Virginia governor's race, which is turning out to be tighter than expected.  But while President Biden's sagging poll numbers have become a drag on the Democratic nominee …
American Greatness:
A Southwest Pilot Explains What Happened over the Weekend … Southwest blamed “air traffic control issues” and inclement weather for the cancelled flights, but the problems were actually a direct result of the airline's announcement on October 4 that all of its 56,000 U.S. employees were required …
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Marine who criticized U.S. handling of Afghanistan withdrawal will plead guilty, seek favorable discharge  —  A Marine officer whose viral videos criticizing senior officials for how they withdrew from Afghanistan created a political uproar will plead guilty to several charges and seek …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage  —  4.3 million people quit their jobs in August, nearly 3 percent of the workforce.  —  The number of people quitting their jobs has surged to record highs, pushed by a combination of factors …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
A record 4.3 million workers quit their jobs in August, led by food and retail industries
Discussion: HotAir and The Daily Wire
Mitchell Prothero / VICE:
Bashar Assad's Playboy Cousin Spotted Driving $300K Ferrari in Beverly Hills  —  Ali Makhlouf, whose one-time billionaire father is on multiple U.S. sanctions list for financing the Syrian regime, told “what do you do for a living” Instagram star Daniel Mac he was doing an internship.  —  MP
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Close to a Deal to Sell Marquee Washington, D.C., Hotel  —  Miami-based CGI Merchant Group in talks to pay ex-president's family company around $370 million for property in former Old Post Office  —  Former President Donald Trump's family company is in advanced discussions to sell …
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Meghan Faulkner / CREW:   The federal government should stop doing business with the Trump Organization
Axios:
Unruly customers threaten economic recovery  —  The pace of the economic recovery hinges in part on workers returning to jobs that involve dealing with an unpredictable public.  But many of those workers say increasingly combative customers — angry about everything from long wait times to mask mandates — have prompted them to quit.
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Pelosi caves on reconciliation?  —  Get ready for the recriminations, because this won't end the internecine warfare taking place among Democrats.  A few moments ago in her daily presser, Nancy Pelosi apparently signaled a retreat on the $3.5 trillion price tag on the progressive wish-list reconciliation bill:
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
White House tells states to prepare for Covid vaccinations in young children
Discussion: NBC Chicago and Political Wire
Amber Athey / spectatorworld.com:
Jon Gruden exposes the NFL's woke hypocrisy  —  Former head coach John Gruden of the Las Vegas Raiders (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)  —  Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned Monday after insensitive emails he'd sent a decade ago were leaked to the media, gifting us the latest example of woke mob hypocrisy.
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Emily Anthes / New York Times:
What the Future May Hold for the Coronavirus and Us  —  Viral evolution is a long game.  Here's where scientists think we could be headed.  —  On Jan. 9, 2020, about a week after the world first learned of a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in central China, authorities announced …
Discussion: HotAir and The Indian Express
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
DHS secretary orders ICE to halt mass workplace raids  —  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday issued a memo ordering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop mass worksite raids.  —  Driving the news: Mayorkas said the Biden administration would instead focus …
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Hundreds of Police Officers Have Died From Covid.  Vaccines Remain a Hard Sell.  —  Far more law enforcement officers in the U.S. have died from Covid-19 than from any other work-related cause in 2020 and 2021.  Even so, police unions are fighting vaccine mandates.
Discussion: Metro.co.uk
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson makes a great point about Fox News's vaccination policy  —  If only such nuance were a feature of the criticisms of Biden's policy  —  A Fox News host on Monday night offered a rare — if brief — commentary on his company's own vaccination policy, even as he and others continue …
Discussion: HotAir, BizPac Review, Townhall and Mediaite
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
How Not to De-Trumpify the GOP  —  Jonah Goldberg's plan to create a conservative third party would likely exacerbate the problems it's meant to solve.  —  In the Los Angeles Times, Jonah Goldberg proposes that the best way to fix the now-terminally “Trumpified” GOP is to establish …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Alec MacGillis / New York Times:
An Ocean Away, I Found Some Common Sense on Mask Wearing  —  Mr. MacGillis is a reporter for ProPublica and a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.  —  BERLIN — You see it everywhere here in Germany, day in and day out: People taking the subway or bus or train put masks on as they prepare to board.
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Leaked Docs: Prestigious DC School Poised To Crack Down on ‘Harmful’ Humor  —  Students at one of the oldest and most prestigious boys schools in the United States could soon face expulsion for a single “misplaced” joke, according to a draft “anti-bias” policy circulating among school administrators …
Discussion: Fox News and RedState
Jeremy Schwartz / ProPublica:
Trump Won the County in a Landslide.  His Supporters Still Hounded the Elections Administrator Until She Resigned.  —  Co-published with The Texas Tribune … An elections administrator in North Texas submitted her resignation Friday, following a monthslong effort by residents and officials loyal …
Parents Defending Education:
State School Board Associations' Responses to the NSBA Letter  —  On October 11, Parents Defending Education emailed 47 state school board associations for comment on the NSBA's September 29 letter (Hawaii and Washington DC are not members of NSBA, and Virginia & Louisiana had already made public statements).
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mark Meadows's deranged Jan. 6 musings on Fox unmask the GOP's corrupt core  —  By now, it should be clear to even the most determined both-sidesing observer that the fate of democracy has itself become a starkly partisan issue.  For Democrats, anti-majoritarian abuses and the future subversion …
Discussion: Raw Story
floridahealth.gov:
Florida Department of Health Issues Notice of Fine to Leon County Totaling More Than $3.5 Million for Violation of Florida Law  —  Contact:  —  Communications Office  —  NewsMedia@flhealth.gov  —  850-245-4111  —  The County's illegal employee vaccine mandate results in 714 counts of violating law
Elizabeth Howe / Defense One:
Catholic Troops Can Refuse COVID Vaccine, Archbishop Declares  —  “No one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience,” Broglio wrote.  —  Catholic U.S. troops should be allowed to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine based solely …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Pro-Trump PAC fined over foreign money offer  —  A pro-Trump political group has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle allegations it illegally solicited $2 million from reporters posing as intermediaries for a Chinese national.  —  Why it matters: A key player in the scheme, a veteran Republican operative …
Abigail Constantino / WTOP:
Blue Line train car derails between Rosslyn, Arlington Cemetery stations  —  Several riders were stuck on a Metro train going toward Franconia-Springfield Station in Virginia after a single train car derailed Tuesday.  —  It happened just before 5 p.m. Metro received a report …
Discussion: NBC4 Washington
Joseph Cox / VICE:
CIA Funding Arm Gave Encrypted App Wickr $1.6 Million  —  The funding solidifies Wickr's position as an encrypted chat platform for government agencies.  —  Joseph Cox  —  In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investment firm started by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), recently poured more than $1.6 million …
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Abandon ship: Dem chair of House Budget Committee not running for reelection  —  Ah, a tradition unlike any other — the drumbeat of retirement announcements among the governing party ahead of an expected bloodletting in the midterms.  —  John Yarmuth of Kentucky is the first into the lifeboats as the S.S. Biden begins to sink.
Discussion: Fox News and WLKY-TV
 
 
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Jesse O'Neill / New York Post:
Walgreens closes five more San Francisco locations, citing ‘organized retail crime’
Justice News:
U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of Iranian Large-Scale Heroin Trafficker
CNN:
Democrats scrutinize Pennsylvania congressman's efforts to help Trump overturn 2020 election
Discussion: Lawfare
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Trump-Era Pentagon Official Sues as Suspension Reaches 5 Months
Dirk VanderHart / opb:
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof forms committee for Oregon gubernatorial run
 Earlier Items: 
David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Case for Deliverism  —  Democrats can no longer skate by simply on talking about popular issues.
Discussion: The Message Box
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Brian Faler / Politico:
U.S. sees biggest revenue surge in 44 years despite pandemic
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid and Age  —  An unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old.
Discussion: Twitchy
 

 
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