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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 …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Election Workers in Georgia Are Fired for Shredding Voter Registration Forms
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: Townhall and BizPac Review
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
“We are not pretending at all.  It's real.”  —  The Fox host finally addressed the issue Monday, in response to the comments by President Biden that the network has a vaccine mandate.  —  “As a factual matter, what Joe Biden just said is completely untrue.  It is a lie, period,” he said.
Discussion: Mediaite
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Texas Gov. Abbott issues order banning Covid vaccination mandates in rebuke of Biden
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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Kara Scannell / CNN:   Trump Organization in advanced talks to sell Washington hotel lease, source says
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 …
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.  —  Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University who frequently writes about parenting, published an article in The Atlantic in March that made a lot of people angry.
Discussion: Twitchy
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
‘Hiding the Ball’: Hunter Biden Complicates White House Anti-Corruption Push  —  During the presidential campaign, liberals had plenty of reason to tune out the Hunter Biden story.  —  For one, it was being pushed by Donald Trump, whose administration was awash in ethics scandals of its own …
Discussion: Insider and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Embassy Staff in Colombia Struck With Havana Syndrome Ahead of Blinken Visit  —  U.S. official said there were at least two known cases of the mysterious neurological affliction  —  The U.S. Embassy in Colombia is investigating several cases of the mysterious neurological affliction known …
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
I'm not asking comedians to stop telling trans jokes.  I'm asking them to stop telling *the same* trans jokes over and over.  —  How many variations on “I identify as...” do we need in this world?  —  To be entirely honest, I didn't know Dave Chappelle had a new stand-up special out until …
Discussion: The Indian Express and RedState
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 …
Aliya Uteuova / The Guardian:
What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized  —  New images show what areas of the world can be saved or lost if carbon emissions aren't curbed  —  The land on which 10% of the world's population lives could be lost to sea level rise if carbon emission trends continue, new maps and visualizations show.
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
Trump to Skip 2024 Campaign and Go Straight to Claiming He Won  —  PALM BEACH (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump will skip the 2024 campaign and go straight to claiming that he won, the former reality-show host has confirmed.  —  Speaking to reporters, Trump said that campaigning in 2024 would be …
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Prompted by Abbott primary challenger, Texas agency removed webpage with suicide hotline, other resources for LGBTQ youth  —  In late August, one of Gov. Greg Abbott's primary challengers, Don Huffines, accused Texas' child welfare agency of “promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth” …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Cheney campaign sees second-highest fundraising quarter  —  Rep. Liz Cheney's House reelection campaign enjoyed its second-biggest fundraising quarter ever this summer, a Cheney aide told the Star-Tribune.  The donations came on the heels of Cheney's all-time fundraising record, which occurred one quarter earlier.
Ted Osius / Salon:
Behind the scenes of Donald Trump's very strange White House meeting with Vietnam's prime minister  —  Nothing in my 30-year diplomatic career prepared me for this Trump administration event  —  In mid-May of 2017, Robert Lighthizer, the new U.S. trade representative, came to Vietnam for an APEC ministerial-level meeting.
Discussion: HuffPost and Rolling Stone
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Revealed: Facebook's Secret Blacklist of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” … To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence.
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
NBC News:
House Budget Committee Chair John Yarmuth announces he won't seek re-election  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Kentucky, chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee, will announce Tuesday that he won't seek re-election in 2022, NBC News has learned.
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 …
Discussion: UPI and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Sarakshi Rai / The Hill:
Prince Charles says his Aston Martin runs on wine and cheese byproducts  —  Prince Charles says that his Aston Martin runs on environmentally friendly cheese waste and surplus white wine, the BBC reported.  —  The car — given as a 21st birthday gift almost 51 years ago …
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The GOP alliance with Europe's far-right deepens  —  You're reading an excerpt from the Today's WorldView newsletter.  Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday.  —  Toward the end of last month …
KFF:
Large Majorities Across Parties Favor Allowing the Federal Government to Negotiate Drug Prices, Even After Hearing Common Arguments About It  —  Few Buy Argument that Drug Makers Have to Charge High Prices to Invest in Research into New Drugs  —  Most of the Public Lacks Confidence that President Biden …
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Biden is losing COVID trust  —  Americans' trust in President Biden has eroded as they've slowed their expectations for how quickly they can get back to their pre-pandemic lives, according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Popular-ism and the Democratic Messaging Deficit  —  The raging debate over what Democrats should say ignores the fact that people aren't hearing what we are saying.  —  Ever since Donald Trump came disturbingly close to defeating Joe Biden, an online and offline debate continues …
Politico:
Biden taps veteran diplomat as new point person for Afghan relocation efforts  —  The Biden administration is tapping Elizabeth Jones to be its new coordinator for Afghan relocation efforts, the State Department announced Tuesday.  —  Jones, a veteran diplomat who served as the ambassador …
Discussion: CNN and Reuters
Jonathan Larsen / TYT Network:
Franklin Graham Is Secretly Bankrolling the National Prayer Breakfast  —  One of a series about the Fellowship Foundation, the secretive religious group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast and is popularly known as The Family.  This series is based on Family documents obtained by TYT …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Are Rehabilitating the Participants in Trump's Attempted Coup The campaign to defend John Eastman.  —  Last week, the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee published their report on new revelations into Donald Trump's efforts to discard the election results and remain in power.
Brian Faler / Politico:
U.S. sees biggest revenue surge in 44 years despite pandemic  —  Despite a pandemic, a recession and a slew of tax cuts, federal tax receipts are booming.  —  Revenues jumped 18 percent in the fiscal year that just ended, analysts say — the biggest one-year increase since 1977.
PNAS:
Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination  —  aDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;  —  bUniversity of Virginia Equity Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Kim Jong-un displays “invincible” weapons  —  The diminutive dictator of North Korea is back up to his old tricks this week.  Kim Jong-un released video of his tour of a number of strategic weapons yesterday, something that he hasn't done in quite a while.  He gave a speech accusing …
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Schiff calls House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy an ‘insurrectionist in a suit and tie’  —  (CNN)Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff on Tuesday referred to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as an “insurrectionist in a suit and tie,” as he slammed the House Republican leader for having “absolutely no reverence for the truth.”
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:
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Lincoln Project creates mock AT&T ad promoting the company's funding of ‘white nationalist’ on OAN  —  The Lincoln Project just released a video of a mock AT&T commercial bragging about their phone service while funding white nationalist hosts at the far-right network OAN.
Discussion: Boing Boing and Crooks and Liars
 
 
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Fox News:
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William Doyle / The Federalist:
The 2020 Election Wasn't Stolen, It Was Bought By Mark Zuckerberg
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Maxine Joselow / Washington Post:
EPA head says he'll act on climate even if Congress doesn't
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American Greatness:
Our Representatives, Not J6 Protesters, Defile the ‘Sacred’ U.S. Capitol
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The Purpose Of The Jan. 6 Select Committee Is To Suppress Free Speech
Discussion: The Nation, National Review and HotAir
New York Times:
Clear Differences Remain Between France and U.S., French Minister Says
Discussion: Deseret News
Washington Examiner:
Restoring America  —  America is going wrong.  That is the stark but necessary starting point for this editorial.