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3:40 PM ET, July 26, 2022

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New York Times:
‘Kind of Wild/Creative’: Emails Shed Light on Trump Fake Electors Plan  —  Previously undisclosed communications among Trump campaign aides and outside advisers provide new insight into their efforts to overturn the election in the weeks leading to Jan. 6.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: The Guardian
CNN:
The inside story of how John Roberts failed to save abortion rights  —  (CNN)Chief Justice John Roberts privately lobbied fellow conservatives to save the constitutional right to abortion down to the bitter end, but May's unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade made the effort …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
John Roberts Was Lobbying Kavanaugh to Save Roe.  Then the Draft Opinion Leaked  —  A new report says the leak, which conservatives insist was the work of a rogue liberal, actually helped get Roe overturned  —  Immediately after the draft Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was released …
Discussion: Daily News and RedState
Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   Sam Alito leaked his own Dobbs draft
Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Biden Considers New Pause on Paying Back Student Loans, $10,000 Relief  —  President Joe Biden is considering extending a pause on student loan repayments for several more months, as well as forgiving $10,000 in student loan debt per borrower, according to people familiar with the matter …
Discussion: Forbes and Talking Points Memo
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Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says LIV Golf Has Been Worth ‘Billions of Dollars’ in Publicity for Saudi Arabia  —  In an interview with The Wall Street Journal before his Bedminster course hosts the Saudi-backed circuit, the former president said LIV Golf has been a ‘great thing’ for the kingdom's image
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Ex-VP Chief Marc Short: ‘There Would Have Been A Massacre In The Capitol That Day’ If Rioters Had Gotten Closer to Pence  —  Former VP Chief of Staff Marc Short said if rioters had gotten any closer to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6 “there would have been a massacre that day in the Capitol.”
Carrie Feibel / NPR:
Because of Texas abortion law, her wanted pregnancy became a medical nightmare  —  New, untested abortion bans have made doctors unsure about treating some pregnancy complications, which has led to life-threatening delays and trapped families in a limbo of grief and helplessness.
Discussion: Jezebel, Raw Story and Eschaton
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
EXPLAINER: How do we know when a recession has begun?  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — By one common definition, the U.S. economy is on the cusp of a recession.  Yet that definition isn't the one that counts.  —  On Thursday, when the government estimates the gross domestic product for the April-June period …
Discussion: Washington Times
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Wall Street Journal:
China Targeted Fed to Build Informant Network, Access Data, a Probe Says
Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post:
Russia to withdraw from International Space Station  —  Russia on Tuesday announced it will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) project after 2024, signaling an end of an era in one of the last remaining areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States.
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Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024
The Daily Beast:
Trump Returns to D.C. and His Minions Can't Wait to Knife Each Other  —  THE MORE THINGS CHANGE...  “It's a mile wide and an inch deep,” a Trump adviser told The Daily Beast of the nonprofit where Trump will speak on Tuesday.  —  Former President Donald Trump's first return to Washington …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Former Missouri governor's bid for Senate sinking amid domestic abuse ads  —  National and state Republicans have spent a year hoping someone — anyone — would prevent disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens from becoming the Republican Senate nominee in Missouri.
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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Democrats boost right-wing challenger to GOP Trump foe … National Democrats are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost a far-right, Trump-endorsed conspiracy theorist in one of the most closely watched House races in the country — further endangering one of the 10 House Republicans …
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
On ECA: Don't Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good
Discussion: Bloomberg, Politico and HuffPost
David Mack / BuzzFeed News:
Listen To The Speech A Republican Lawmaker Gave At His Gay Son's Wedding Days After Voting Against Marriage Equality  —  “We're just blessed, and we just want to say thank you to everyone here as part of the celebration,” said Rep. Glenn Thompson, three days after voting against codifying marriage equality in federal law.
Claudia Aoraha / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: It's Alyssa!  ABC is set to name Trump's WH comms director Alyssa Farah Griffin as Meghan McCain's replacement on The View and will join the panel full time in September for show's 26th season  — Alyssa Farah Griffin, 33, will be the new permanent conservative co-host on The View, DailyMail.com can reveal
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A repulsive new breed of Trumpist candidates poses a fresh threat  —  Donald Trump is delivering a speech Tuesday in which he proclaims to be for law and order.  He is doing this half a mile from the Capitol, where he incited numerous crimes on his behalf amid an extraordinarily corrupt …
Discussion: CNN
The Verge:
Zuck turns up the heat  —  As Meta's growth slows, Mark Zuckerberg is pushing even harder.  Will his employees melt under the pressure?  —  Since Facebook started, he'd made a habit of frankly addressing employees directly at a weekly Q&A. Almost no topic was off-limits.
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Will Republicans Shut Out the Press in 2024?  —  GOP politicians are increasingly shirking sit-down interviews, barring journalists from 2022 events, and skipping debates—an aversion to media scrutiny that could upend how the next presidential election cycle is covered.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What Bennie Thompson did on Jan. 6, 2005  —  WHAT BENNIE THOMPSON DID ON JAN. 6, 2005.  The 2004 presidential election was a relatively close one.  Republican President George W. Bush won reelection with 286 electoral votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 251.  (No, that does not add up to 538.
Damon Young / Washington Post:
Someone gave our daughter a White doll.  How do we, um, ‘disappear’ it?  —  We still don't know how it got into our house.  Maybe it was a present from my mother-in-law.  (She regularly sneaks toys and snacks to our kids like they're prisoners and Cheetos gets them phone card minutes.)
Discussion: Twitchy and Althouse
Joshua Solomon / Albany Times Union:
District attorney behind charges in Zeldin incident scrutinized for campaign ties  —  Also: State data shows charged offense in case of candidate's would-be attacker was rare, only filed once in Monroe County in 2021  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Red states are building a nation within a nation  —  (CNN)It was a revealing sign of the times when the Supreme Court last week, in response to a lawsuit from the Republican state attorneys general in Texas and Louisiana, blocked President Joe Biden's administration from changing a key element of federal immigration policy.
BBC:
Sunak tweets support to Kate McCann  —  Rishi Sunak has tweeted his best wishes to TalkTV presenter Kate McCann after she fainted while hosting the debate.  —  TalkTV called off the debate but said “she is fine”. … Who is Kate McCann?  —  Kate McCann - who fainted …
Peter Wehner / New York Times:
What in the World Happened to Elise Stefanik?  —  There was a time in 2016 when Elise Stefanik, now the third-ranking Republican in the House, was so disgusted by Donald Trump, she would barely mention his name.  Today he proudly refers to her as “one of my killers.”  —  She proved that again last month.
Discussion: Washington Post
Kate Bennett / CNN:
First on CNN: Jill Biden's press secretary leaving White House  —  (CNN)Michael LaRosa, the press secretary for first lady Dr. Jill Biden, is departing the White House, a White House official told CNN.  —  LaRosa began serving as Biden's spokesperson in 2019 during the presidential campaign …
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Voter vs. voter: Georgia conservatives target thousands for cancellation  —  Georgia election law empowers residents to challenge voter eligibility  —  Bearing long lists of voters' names, a determined group of Republicans is asking local election boards to cancel thousands of Georgia voter registrations …
Discussion: The Root
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Eligible To Run For Reelection: Judge  —  Five voters from Greene's district sought to have her removed from the ballot, saying that she played a significant role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.  —  ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in Atlanta has rejected …
Discussion: CNN
CNN:
Biden administration working behind the scenes to convince Pelosi of the risks of traveling to Taiwan  —  National security officials are quietly working to convince House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the risks her potential trip to Taiwan could pose during a highly sensitive moment between the self-governing island and China.
John Haltiwanger / Insider:
Trump thought Kevin McCarthy was ‘dumb’ and annoyingly needy: book  — Trump thought McCarthy was “dumb” and “needy to the point of being annoying,” a new book says.  — There have been tensions between Trump and McCarthy over January 6.  — But McCarthy has sought to appear publicly allied …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Shay Khatiri / The Bulwark:
Saying Goodbye to My Father from Half a World Away  —  When my father passed away last week in Gorgan, Iran, I had not seen him for eight years.  If I had known during our last visit that I would not see him again, I would not have said goodbye.  But he didn't regret our long separation at the end of his life.
 
 
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Rachel Donadio / Vogue:
Portrait of Bravery: Ukraine's First Lady, Olena Zelenska
Discussion: New York Post
ABC News:
House Jan. 6 committee in discussions with Mike Pompeo for testimony, sources say
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
Joseph Gedeon / Politico:
'She's a Human Being Who Was Killed in Cold Blood': Shireen Abu Akleh's Family Demands U.S. Action
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
Thomas Chatterton Williams Pals With Fellow Losers at Alex Jones Premiere
Discussion: New York Times and Twitchy
Dan Kaufman / New Yorker:
Will Wisconsin's Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult?
 Earlier Items: 
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Department of Energy Releases New Notice of Sale as Gasoline Prices Continue to Fall
Discussion: Insider
Brian Bushard / Forbes:
Thousands Of Cattle Reportedly Dumped Into Kansas Landfill After Dying From Extreme Heat
Discussion: Reuters and The Daily Caller
Peter Savodnik / Common Sense:
Blake Masters Wants to Be Trump 2.0
Discussion: Mediaite and Immigration News
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
Abolish State Senates
Marc Levy / Associated Press:
GOP warms to far-right gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania
Discussion: Daily Kos and Newsbusters
Elizabeth Scalia / Our Sunday Visitor:
Selling the mansions: It's a very good start
Discussion: Instapundit
Brad Hunter / Toronto Sun:
Ghislaine Maxwell moved to Florida Club Fed featuring yoga, wellness
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