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7:45 PM ET, August 22, 2022

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Washington Post:
Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers  —  Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump's 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives  —  A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo.  —  WASHINGTON — A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor …
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Andrew Perez / The Lever:   Inside The Right's Historic Billion-Dollar Dark Money Transfer
ProPublica:   How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Gang of 8 wants to see Trump Mar-a-Lago search docs  —  The group of congressional leaders charged with reviewing the most sensitive intelligence information has asked the Biden administration for access to the documents seized from former President Donald Trump's private residence in Florida …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge says FBI's evidence for searching Mar-a-Lago is ‘reliable’  —  The federal magistrate judge who authorized the warrant to search Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate emphasized Monday that he “carefully reviewed” the FBI's sworn evidence before signing off and considers the facts contained …
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Judge concedes that Trump affidavit may be heavily redacted
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:
Statement by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.  —  I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Fauci Says He Will Step Down in December to Pursue His ‘Next Chapter’
Ty Ross / Occupy Democrats:
JUSTIFIED: Fox News just published an editorial that you won't believe came from them  —  After widespread criticism and deflection by Republican allies of Donald Trump — all scrambling to condemn the FBI's search of the ex-President's Palm Beach home — an unlikely source has pushed …
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Bradley Moss / Fox News:
The Trump Mar-a-Lago search was justified  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 22  —  Ever since news broke two weeks ago that the FBI had executed a search warrant on former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago, the political world has been aflame with hyperbole, accusations, innuendo, and hysteria.
Discussion: Alternet.org
CNN:
Exclusive: Justice Department issues new subpoena to National Archives for more January 6 documents  —  Why new Trump lawsuit shows disagreement behind the scenes 03:35  —  The Justice Department has issued a new grand jury subpoena to the National Archives for more documents as part …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: National Republicans bolster Herschel Walker with Senate control on the line  —  Republicans need a net gain of just one Senate seat to take control of the chamber in a political climate that favors the GOP.  So why is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell lowering expectations of a flip?
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Walker, criticizing climate law, asks: 'Don't we have enough trees around here?'
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Did opposition to Liz Cheney boost far-right candidates in Wyoming? … The line snaked out from the Central Wyoming Fairgrounds Industrial Building and down the road outside.  Voters stood in the warming August sun, waiting for an opportunity to cast their ballots Tuesday in Wyoming's most discussed primary election in memory.
Discussion: Reuters
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Liz Cheney Dares Kevin McCarthy And Jim Jordan To Subpoena Her
Discussion: Daily Kos
Bloomberg:
YouTube Bans Andrew Tate After Sexist Remarks, But He's Still on Twitch  —  A YouTube channel associated with Andrew Tate, an online influencer and self-described misogynist, was disabled Monday, as Google's video website joins a growing list of social media platforms taking action against the personality in the last week.
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Annie Todd / Argus Leader:
Attorney general's office to investigate ethics complaint against Gov. Kristi Noem  —  An ethics board investigating a pair of complaints leveled against Gov. Kristi Noem voted to refer one of those complaints to the South Dakota Attorney General's Office for investigation.
Discussion: Democrats
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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Ethics board: SD Gov. Noem may have ‘engaged in misconduct’
Discussion: ABC17NEWS and Just The News
Phil Davison / Washington Post:
David Kay, weapons inspector who helped disprove Iraqi WMDs, dies at 82  —  He concluded that no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq and that intelligence agencies had badly misjudged the available evidence  —  David A. Kay, the weapons proliferation expert who led a CIA-run operation …
Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost and New York Times
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
The horribly timed defenestration of Brian Stelter  —  In the spring of 2018, CJR's Pete Vernon profiled Brian Stelter, CNN's chief media correspondent.  It was the height of the Trump era, so the media—and Trump's relentlessness in attacking it—was a major story, and Stelter was ubiquitous in covering and analyzing it.
KSAT-TV:
$27 billion class action lawsuit announced for Uvalde victims and survivors  —  Charles Bonner of Bonner & Bonner Law is also representing victims in the Buffalo shooting  —  UVALDE - Some of the families affected by the Robb Elementary School mass shooting are now a part of a major lawsuit.
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
California congressman becomes latest Republican to invoke Nazis to defend Trump, bash Biden  —  Rep. Mike Garcia, a Republican who faces one of the most competitive House races in the country, likened the Biden administration to the Nazi regime during an interview on a conservative podcast last week.
Discussion: CNN
Rich Lowry / New York Times:
Can You Tell Me What Would Happen if the F.B.I. Were Investigating a Democrat?  —  The reaction to the F.B.I. search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property created an immediate and furious backlash among Republicans.  Even after two years of making political hay out of left-wing calls to defund the police …
Los Angeles Times:
These celebrities are accused of drought restriction violations  —  They're among the biggest names in entertainment and sports: Sylvester Stallone, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Hart, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian.  —  And as Southern California struggles with a third year of punishing drought …
Discussion: Breitbart
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
On Car Seats as Contraception  —  Or: Against Car Seat Laws At Least Beyond Age 2  —  (Note: This post takes the perspective of strongly preferring higher American fertility to lower American fertility on anything close to current margins.  I endorse this view and consider it very overdetermined …
Eric Beecher / Crikey:
Standing up for the free press: here's what abuse of media power looks like in Australia  —  Today Crikey is publishing a series of lengthy legal demands by Lachlan Murdoch's lawyers.  Here's why.  —  This article is part of a series about a legal threat sent to Crikey by Lachlan Murdoch …
 
 
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Geneva Sands / CNN:
ICE officials under Trump told to wipe phones when leaving agency
Discussion: Political Wire
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Desperate Alex Jones Pleads for Forgiveness From Trump After Backing DeSantis
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and Boing Boing
Bryan Anderson / WRAL-TV:
In memoir, NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson mulls 2024 run, calls for taking science, history out of elementary schools
Discussion: Raw Story
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer. Here's How.
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Emails Show Omaha Police Planned Deal With Far Right-linked Gun Shop
Kenneth Tran / USA Today:
In Nevada, Democrats' midterm prospects look better despite headwinds: Suffolk poll
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
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Discussion: Oregonian
Wall Street Journal:
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Biden bottoms out, pops back to 47% approval
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports
Paul J. Weber / Associated Press:
Election staff abruptly quits, upending rural Texas county
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