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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: Mediaite
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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Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Sam Alito leaked his own Dobbs draft  —  I'm calling my shot on this.  —  According to Joan Biskupic, who has an excellent source on the SCOTUS, in late April John Roberts was furiously lobbying his buddy Brett Kavanaugh to go for the “minimalist” death by a thousand distinctions route …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
John Roberts Was Lobbying Kavanaugh to Save Roe. Then the Draft Opinion Leaked
Discussion: Daily News and RedState
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.”
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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.
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 …
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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
China Targeted Fed to Build Informant Network, Access Data, a Probe Says
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.
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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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
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.
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.
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
Molly Beck / Journal Sentinel:
Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley involved in fatal car crash that killed a mother and her 5-year-old daughter  —  MADISON - Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley was involved in a fatal car crash Friday that left a mother and her 5-year-old daughter dead.  —  Bewley, a Democrat who represents …
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
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
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.
New York Times:
Kraken, a U.S. Crypto Exchange, Is Suspected of Violating Sanctions  —  The Treasury Department is investigating whether the crypto exchange allowed users in Iran to buy and sell digital tokens, said people with knowledge of the matter.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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
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 …
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.
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
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Man's 63-month prison term matches longest for Capitol riot  —  A man who attacked police officers with poles during the riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five years in prison, matching the longest term of imprisonment so far among hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions.
Discussion: WITF and Press Herald
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
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.
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.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell won't comment on bill protecting same-sex marriage until it reaches floor  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) won't say whether he will support bipartisan House-passed legislation to require states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states until the bill comes to the Senate floor.
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Department of Energy Releases New Notice of Sale as Gasoline Prices Continue to Fall  —  Treasury Department Estimates that Strategic Petroleum Reserve Releases by President Biden and International Partners Reduced the Price of Gasoline by up to 40 Cents Per Gallon
Discussion: Insider
KFF:
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: July 2022  — With the FDA granting emergency use authorization for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 6 months through 4 years old, many parents of these young children remain reluctant to vaccinate their child.
 
 
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Michigan Wolverines' Jim Harbaugh says he'd help raise baby if member of family, program involved with unplanned pregnancy
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
Dan Kaufman / New Yorker:
Will Wisconsin's Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult?
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Discussion: Mediaite
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Warnock to Walker: ‘Stop dodging. Commit to debates.’
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Cruz endorses Trump-backed Cheney opponent Harriet Hageman in Wyoming congressional race
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