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8:05 AM ET, October 12, 2021

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New York Times:
Raiders Coach Resigns After Homophobic and Misogynistic Emails  —  A trove of emails in a separate workplace misconduct case shows Raiders Coach Jon Gruden went beyond previously disclosed racist comments to issue broad tirades.  —  Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach …
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says  —  On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Kamala Harris's NASA video featured child actors  —  The first installment of Vice President Kamala Harris's YouTube Originals space series featured child actors who auditioned for their roles in the project.  —  Trevor Bernardino, a 13-year-old actor from Carmel, California …
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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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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Texas Gov. Abbott issues order banning Covid vaccination mandates in rebuke of Biden  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday prohibiting any entity, including private businesses, from imposing Covid-19 vaccination requirements on employees or customers.
Washington Post:
In search for covid origins, Hubei caves and wildlife farms draw new scrutiny  —  ENSHI, China — Hundreds of caves are spread throughout the mountains of Enshi prefecture, an agricultural corner of China's Hubei province.  The most majestic, Tenglong, or “flying dragon,” …
Discussion: Fox News and New York Post
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Washington Post:
To prevent the next pandemic, we must find the source of covid-19. China's stonewalling is unacceptable.
Discussion: HotAir
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Dear Democrats: Only 10% of People Even Know What You Are Fighting For  —  Even if Democrats can pass their big bill, they won't be able to sell it.  —  (PHOTOS: GETTYIMAGES / SHUTTERSTOCK)  —  Quick: What is in the Democrats' $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better,” “Human Infrastructure,” …
Miami Herald:
Miami manager moves to fire police chief  —  City Manager Art Noriega moved to fire embattled Police Chief Art Acevedo Monday night, ending weeks of speculation and tumult at City Hall and after a pair of circus-like public hearings in which commissioners lashed out at the chief for everything …
Discussion: New York Post and UPI
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots  —  The number of eligible people still weighing whether to get a Covid vaccine has sharply dwindled, leaving an unvaccinated population that is mostly hard-core refusers.  —  Vaccinated people have been burning …
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Women wield the power  —  Women will decide President Biden's fate — in Congress and beyond.  —  Biden's recent slide in the polls really comes down to slack in his support from women.  The New York Times reports a recent nine-percentage point drop for support of Biden among women in an average of polls.
Washington Examiner:
Restoring America  —  America is going wrong.  That is the stark but necessary starting point for this editorial.  Many people know it to be true; they can feel our politics and culture turning ever more sour, taste the bitter reality of national decline.  —  But fewer people acknowledge it …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Biden's ‘tough month’ looms over Democratic campaigns in 2021  —  (CNN)The federal headwinds against Democrats on the ballot this November have never been stronger.  —  Democrats who were once buoyant that a well-liked President Joe Biden and popular agenda moving through Congress could propel …
Discussion: Fox News and New York Times
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The next legislative pile-up is coming  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WHAT WE'RE WATCHING — With the exception of today — when the House briefly returns to clear the Senate-passed, short-term debt ceiling stopgap — Congress is out on recess this week after lawmakers kicked the can on their entire legislative to-do list.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Hill, CNN and UPI
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Another Facebook whistleblower says she is willing to testify before Congress  —  San Francisco (CNN Business)Sophie Zhang, who said she felt like she had “blood on her hands” after working at Facebook, is willing to testify before Congress about her former employer, she told CNN Sunday.
Michael Doran / Wall Street Journal:
Azerbaijan's Defiant Message to Iran  —  Washington should take note of its alliance with Israel.  —  A picture is worth a thousand policy briefs.  On Oct. 4, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, mugged for the cameras.  Beaming before reporters, he stroked, patted …
New York Times:
Clear Differences Remain Between France and U.S., French Minister Says  —  Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says the two countries remain at odds over China and various security issues, even if they had effectively cooperated on overhauling the international tax system.
Discussion: Deseret News
New York Times:
Biden's Proposal to Empower I.R.S. Rattles Banks and Their Customers  —  To help fund its new initiatives, the Biden administration wants banks to report more customer information.  Account holders aren't happy.  —  When the Biden administration looked for ways to pay for the president's …
Discussion: Political Wire
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
Racial Bias Skewed Small-Business Relief Lending, Study Says  —  Black business owners were more likely to get Paycheck Protection Program loans from online lenders than from banks, according to new research.  —  From the very start of the Paycheck Protection Program last year …
Nonzero Newsletter:
Toward a Unified Theory of Blob-dom  —  “The Blob” isn't a coherent concept, according to some blobsters.  Well they would say that, wouldn't they? … The term “Blob” has arrived.  Within the past two months this recent addition to our foreign policy vocabulary has appeared in the New York Times …
Jan Egeland / New York Times:
Afghanistan Is in Economic Freefall.  It Needs Aid.  —  Mr. Egeland is secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council and has 30 years experience working as a humanitarian.  —  Traveling around Kabul a few weeks ago, the city felt worlds apart from my last visit in 2019 — and not just because a 20-year war had finally ended.
Associated Press:
Justice Department again presses to halt Texas abortion law  —  AUSTIN, Texas — The Biden administration urged the courts again to step in and suspend a new Texas law that has banned most abortions since early September, as clinics hundreds of miles away remain busy with Texas patients making long journeys to get care.
Simon Miles / Globe and Mail:
KGB archives show how Chrystia Freeland drew the ire (and respect) of Soviet intelligence services  —  The Soviet Union's secret police, the infamous KGB, praised her savvy and erudition, even as she frustrated their attempts to spy on her in Cold War Ukraine.  They tagged her with the code name Frida.
Wall Street Journal:
Strange Quiet Arrives in Afghanistan After Decades of War  —  Residents are returning to Taliban-controlled regions after years of displacement, visiting homes and relatives they haven't seen in years  —  SANGIN, Afghanistan—Eighteen years after his bakery was destroyed in an American airstrike …
John Nichols / The Nation:
Trump's Coup Attempt Is Far From Finished  —  Trump's preparing to run in 2024, but a new Senate report detailing his sedition gives officials the evidence they need to disqualify him from completing the coup.  —  “Subverting Justice,” the 394-page report released last week …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The Trump nightmare looms again  —  It is increasingly evident that the nightmare prospect of American politics — unified Republican control of the federal government in the hands of a reelected, empowered Donald Trump in 2025 — is also the likely outcome.  —  Why this is a nightmare should be clear enough.
Niara Savage / Yahoo News:
Texas Boogaloo Boy Admits In Court He Traveled to Minneapolis After George Floyd Died, Fired 13 Shots In Police Precinct Building to Sow Chaos  —  African American man who was a victim of police violence in the United States, killed by Derek Chauvin  —  A Texas man pleaded guilty on Sept. 30 …
Ellie Rushing / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
FBI raids home of Philadelphia Proud Boys' vice president to gather info about Capitol attack plans  —  The FBI raided the home of the vice president of the Proud Boys' Philadelphia chapter on Friday, seizing his computer, phone, and other electronics to gather information on the Jan. 6 attack …
Discussion: Raw Story
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show  —  Half a century after the Beatles broke up, he's still correcting the record—and making new ones. … Early evening in late summer, the golden hour in the village of East Hampton.  The surf is rough and pounds its regular measure on the shore.
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.
 
 
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Cortney O'Brien / Fox News:
Samantha Bee admits she didn't want to challenge ‘hero’ narrative about Andrew Cuomo last year
Discussion: New York Times
MSNBC:
Rep. Scalise refuses to say 2020 election wasn't stolen
Kyle Arnold / Dallas Morning News:
Southwest Airlines, union insist pilots didn't walk out to protest vaccine mandates
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
January 6 Was No Hoax  —  Trump abused the trust of his supporters, and the result was a disgrace.
Discussion: HotAir
Rachel Poser / New Yorker:
Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes
Wall Street Journal:
Indian Health Service Managers Protected a Pedophile in Their Midst. Now the Agency Is Protecting Them.
The Hill:
Bannon's subpoena snub sets up big decision for Biden DOJ
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Fiona Hill, a nobody to Trump and Putin, saw into them both
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Jon Stewart says Trump has ‘a very good chance’ in 2024
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Outcry after federal agents kill eight wolf cubs adopted by Idaho school
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Is Durham Circling Jake Sullivan? The Special Counsel May Not Be Done With National Security Adviser
Discussion: Fox News
Matthew Cooper / Washington Monthly:
Chuck Schumer, Chutzpah, and the Crybaby Republicans
Discussion: New York Post and Florida Phoenix
Gitit Levy-Paz / The Forward:
Why won't Sally Rooney allow her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew?
George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
Superman Comes Out, as DC Comics Ushers In a New Man of Steel
 

 
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