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2:55 PM ET, August 15, 2022

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New York Times:
Giuliani Is Told He Is a Target of Trump Election Investigation in Georgia  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani, as former President Donald J. Trump's personal lawyer, spearheaded efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power.  —  ATLANTA — Lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have been told that he is a target …
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ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani now ‘target’ of Georgia criminal probe into effort to overturn 2020 election: Sources
Discussion: ABC13 and Just The News
Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Federal judge rejects Sen. Lindsey Graham's bid to quash grand jury subpoena in Georgia case
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Leaving with nuclear secrets would be Trump's dumbest, scariest stunt yet  —  A defeated former president who was at the center of a failed coup allegedly walks out the door with nuclear secrets, refuses to give them back and then leaves a creepy, semi-threatening message for the attorney general — that's apparently where we are.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Why Did Trump Take Classified Documents in the First Place?  —  We now know that the reason the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched Donald Trump's Palm Beach residence last week is because the 45th president is under investigation for pocketing classified documents related to nuclear weapons …
New York Times:
Trump's Shifting Explanations Follow a Familiar Playbook
Washington Post:
Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal  —  A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with President Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in Georgia as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment …
Discussion: Political Wire
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump ‘will do whatever’ he can to ‘help the country’ after FBI raid: ‘Temperature has to be brought down’  —  Trump said his representatives reached out to DOJ to offer to help amid outrage over the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 15
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Liz Cheney's political life is likely ending — and just beginning  —  JACKSON, Wyo. — The 2-minute video, meant ostensibly as the closing appeal to voters here, likely served much more as the launching point of a campaign that will last for years to come.  —  “No matter how long we must fight …
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Washington Post:   For never-Trump conservatives, it's never-ending misery
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Justice Department subpoenas former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann  —  A federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack has subpoenaed Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann for documents and testimony, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Election deniers march toward power in key 2024 battlegrounds  —  GOP nominees who dispute the 2020 results could be positioned to play a critical role in the next presidential election  —  First came Kristina Karamo, a community college instructor from Detroit who claimed without evidence …
Discussion: b'Raw Story
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Bolts:   Doug Mastriano Plans to Use His Secretary of State Pick to Disrupt Pennsylvania Elections
Garion Frankel / Chalkboard Review:
REPORT: Minneapolis Will Fire ‘White Teachers’ First  —  MPS Violates Civil Rights Act  —  A new contract between Minneapolis Public Schools and the local teachers union mandates that white teachers must be fired first when any kind of staff downsizing is initiated.
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Eugene Volokh / Reason:
Race-Based Layoff Scheme at Minneapolis Schools
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Power Line
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Longtime GOP insider Cheri Jacobus: America is “not going to recover from Donald Trump”  —  Former Republican strategist says her party can't be salvaged — and if Trump isn't punished, America is “done for”  —  The numerous catastrophes of the Age of Trump could all have been averted, or greatly mitigated.
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Washington's Top Labor Prosecutor Battles Whole Foods Over Black Lives Matter Masks  —  In June 2020, the week after a police officer murdered George Floyd, Jeff Bezos endorsed Black Lives Matter.  “I support this movement,” Bezos replied via email to a customer who'd complained about seeing a BLM banner on Amazon.com.
Discussion: Althouse
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Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine:
The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars  —  Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital.  They knew what they were doing — right?  —  The boat was a beauty of a thing: some 500 tons across 171 feet of glass and steel as white as Santorini.
New York Times:
Adam Neumann Gets a New Backer  —  WeWork's founder is back with a billion-dollar venture.  —  WeWork's founder is going residential  —  Adam Neumann, the founder of WeWork, whose spectacular rise and fall has been chronicled in books, documentaries and a scripted television series, has a new venture — and a surprising backer.
Spencer Brown / Townhall:
9 Times the Biden Admin Said Afghanistan Wouldn't Fall to the Taliban  —  Monday marks one year since the Taliban seized control of Kabul, Afghanistan, an event that escalated the chaos of President Biden's withdrawal from the country that went from “everything's fine” to complete, deadly catastrophe in a matter of days.
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New York Times:
The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score  —  Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked.  What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability.  What is lost?  —  Produced by Aliza Aufrichtig and Rumsey Taylor
Linda Rawles / Arizona Republic:
There's only 1 way to fix the Arizona GOP: Make it lose in November  —  Opinion: The Arizona GOP is broken to this lifelong Republican, and the only way to fix it is to ensure our most deranged candidates lose in November.  —  What on earth has happened to the Arizona Republican Party?
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Robert Draper / New York Times:   The Arizona Republican Party's Anti-Democracy Experiment
NBC News:
The U.S. could see a new ‘extreme heat belt’ by 2053  —  Climate change effects are forcing more Americans to move  —  An “extreme heat belt” reaching as far north as Chicago is taking shape, a corridor that cuts through the middle of the country and would affect more than 107 million people …
Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Hill and UPI
Julia Carpenter / Wall Street Journal:
Inflation Widens Married Couples' Money Lead Over Their Single Friends  —  Rapidly rising prices and more than two years of living in a pandemic increase the financial stress on those without pooled assets  —  The U.S. Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed in 2022  —  Created with sketchtool.
 
 
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Harry Stevens / Washington Post:
How ranked-choice voting could change the way democracy works
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Dara Massicot / Foreign Affairs:
Russia's Repeat Failures
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Kelly Laco / Fox News:
Top Republicans question FBI Director Wray over use of taxpayer-funded gov plane to fly to vacation home
Discussion: National Review and Townhall
Zoe Schacht / Colorado Newsline:
Public money supports conservative Colorado lobbying group through membership dues
Ben White / Politico:
Larry Summers emerges as the unlikeliest Democratic hero
Discussion: Washington Examiner, CNN and Breitbart
Philip Lenczycki / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Biden's CIA Director Employed Undisclosed Chinese Communist Party Members While Heading Elite DC Think Tank
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Morning News-UT poll: After massive media bounce, Beto now at ... 39%
Discussion: Bloomberg, Townhall and RedState
Paul Rosenzweig / The Bulwark:
Trump's Investigation Miscalculation
Discussion: b'Raw Story
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Too little, too late: Disband the CDC now
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Jim Heintz / Washington Post:
Lawyers appeal Griner's Russian prison sentence
Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post:
Iran denies involvement in Rushdie attack, says he brought it on himself
Emily Miller / Emily Posts News:
Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger, toldyaso
Discussion: Townhall and Just The News
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Sofia Carson Is Defending The Netflix Movie “Purple Hearts” Despite The Backlash Against It
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