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12:15 PM ET, August 26, 2022

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Marco Rubio / Fox Business:
President Biden, your student loan handout plan is the opposite of the Paycheck Protection Program  —  The student loan handout program announced Wednesday will not stimulate our economy, create jobs or rescue our small businesses  —  Biden's student loan handout will 'make college more expensive …
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Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
GOP ad blitz mocks Biden's student loan plan  —  The American Action Network, a conservative advocacy organization with ties to House GOP leadership, is going up with a national ad campaign for the next 10 days arguing President Biden's student debt forgiveness plan is unfair to working-class Americans.
Malcom Kyeyune / Compact Magazine:
Why the Right Lost the Student-Loan Fight
Discussion: Townhall
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Revealed: leaked video shows Amy Coney Barrett's secretive faith group drove women to tears  —  Wife of founder of People of Praise says members ‘were always crying’ during discussions about women's subservience to men  —  The People of Praise, a secretive Christian faith group that counts …
Discussion: Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
In fiery midterm speech, Biden says GOP's turned toward ‘semi-fascism’  —  It was some of the strongest language used by Biden, a politician long known — and at times criticized for — his willingness to work with members of the opposite party  —  President Biden on Thursday night launched …
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Biden asks Republicans to shun ‘MAGA’ in November, vote Democrat
Elizabeth Spiers / Washington Post:
Jared Kushner's memoir is only inadvertently revealing  —  All memoirs are self-serving — it's just a matter of degree.  But Jared Kushner's memoir, “Breaking History,” is, at its core, an extended news release that exists primarily to exculpate its author after his role …
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Virginia Canter / Just Security:
Need for US Ethics Reform Is Far from History: Kushner-MBS Deal Reflects Broken System
Discussion: The Guardian
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Judge rips fake electors' claims they shouldn't have to testify in Trump probe  —  Somewhat lost during a newsy day at the Fulton County special grand jury was a scathing order from Judge Robert McBurney that could have significant implications into the ongoing investigation …
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Christo Grozev / bellingcat:
Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a GRU Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy  —  Three minutes before midnight on 14 September 2018, the cell phone of Andrey Averyanov began to ring.  Despite the late hour, phone records show Maj. General Averyanov, the commander …
Discussion: The Guardian
Politico:
Dr. Oz shifts strategy as campaign ails  —  PHILADELPHIA — Mehmet Oz sees an opening to rescue his floundering Senate campaign: After largely refraining from making his opponent's health an issue, the celebrity doctor has decided to go there.  —  Oz's Democratic opponent, John Fetterman …
Discussion: Twitchy
Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Flip the Script  —  Earlier this cycle, a seasoned Democratic strategist argued that his party's success in the midterms wouldn't be predicated on policy successes but by turning out the 2018/2020 coalition of anti-Trump voters.  This strategy, however, of trying to turn the midterms …
New York Times:
Trump Golf Course in New York City Will Host Saudi-Backed Event  —  The Aramco Team Series women's event, separate from the LIV Golf tour that upended the PGA Tour, will be held at Trump Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx in October.  —  A New York City-owned golf course managed …
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
Scott Dworkin / Newsweek:
Joementum Has Arrived and It's Propelling Democrats to Victory  —  , EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DEMOCRATIC COALITION  —  Despite all the exuberant predictions from the Right, Democrats aren't in disarray.  Far from it.  —  Right now, according to recent polling average updates for Senate races …
Discussion: Washington Post and Alternet.org
Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
In new poll, Karen Bass jumps out to big lead over Rick Caruso in race for L.A. mayor  —  Rep. Karen Bass has built a double-digit lead in the Los Angeles mayor's race with a little over two months to go until election day, firming up her base among the city's Democratic voters …
Discussion: Political Wire
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The GOP's Big Tent Might Finally Collapse Now That Roe v. Wade Is Gone  —  The swing voters who elected Trump in 2016 aren't nearly as opposed to abortion as the conservative coalition of the past half-century. … Do Republicans have a case of BDE, otherwise known as Big Divorce Energy?
Discussion: Raw Story and Esquire
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NBC News:
In Arizona, Blake Masters backtracks on abortion and scrubs his campaign website
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Alex Jones Accused of Hiding Assets From Sandy Hook Families  —  The Infowars fabulist has been funneling millions out of his empire while claiming bankruptcy, the Sandy Hook families suing him say.  —  Sandy Hook victims' families asked a federal bankruptcy court on Thursday to order …
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Fetterman Opposes School Vouchers for the Poor.  He Sends His Kids To One Of PA's Priciest Prep Schools.  —  Pennsylvania Senate hopeful John Fetterman (D.) opposes vouchers that let children in failing public school districts attend private and charter schools.
Discussion: HotAir
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Powell declares war on inflation, predicts “pain” ahead  —  Looks like Joe Biden's “Inflation Reduction Act” left Jerome Powell as underwhelmed as everyone else.  Faced with the worst and longest inflationary cycle in decades, the Federal Reserve chair issued an unusually blunt statement this morning.
Reuters:
Migrants bused to U.S. capital from Texas struggle to secure housing, medical care  —  Nearly a month after arriving with their 1-year-old daughter on a bus sent by the governor of Texas to Washington, D.C., Colombian couple Noralis Zuniga and Juan Camilo Mendoza are unsure how long …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Everything's Coming Up Schumer … Chuck Schumer had the ease of someone already on summer vacation.  “I'd much rather be in New York than Washington any day of the week,” he said during a Zoom conversation from his Manhattan office in mid-August.  The Senate Democrats had just passed …
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Defendants targeted in DeSantis' voter fraud crackdown were told they could vote  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Several people who were arrested last week as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis' voter fraud crackdown were notified by official government entities they were eligible to vote, according to court documents and interviews.
Discussion: The Guardian
Randall D. Eliason / Washington Post:
Newly released memo to Barr was just cover for exonerating Trump  —  In response to a court order, the Justice Department has released a 2019 internal memorandum to then-Attorney General William P. Barr concerning whether the evidence gathered by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III …
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
A Putin Critic Fell from a Building in Washington.  Was It Really a Suicide?  —  The mysterious death last week of a prominent critic of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in Washington's West End neighborhood is drawing fury from some of the Kremlin's best-known global detractors …
Peter Beinart / New York Times:
Has the Fight Against Antisemitism Lost Its Way?  —  Over the past 18 months, America's most prominent Jewish organizations have done something extraordinary.  They have accused the world's leading human rights organizations of promoting hatred of Jews.  —  Last April, after Human Rights Watch issued …
Wall Street Journal:
Tesla Supplier Panasonic Plans Additional $4 Billion EV Battery Plant in U.S.  —  Oklahoma is top contender for new site after Kansas won earlier investment  —  Taking Apart an EV Battery Illustrates Why ‘Made in America’ Will Be Tough  —  Created with sketchtool.
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis  —  Did America produce too many frustrated college graduates in the 2000s and 2010s?  —  “We're talented and bright/ We're lonely and uptight/ We've found some lovely ways/ To disappoint” — The Weakerthans  —  Here's an eye-opening bit of data …
Axios:
Former leaders have been jailed or charged all over the world  —  Former President Trump and a number of his close allies have argued that the multiple investigations he's facing, and in particular the search of his Mar-a-Lago property, are something out of a “banana republic.”
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Endangered Democrat turns to abortion as opening argument on TV  —  Endangered Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) is going on air Friday with a TV ad focusing on abortion rights — the latest sign that a growing number of swing-district Democrats view it as a winning issue in the fall.
Discussion: Blue Virginia
 
 
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PEN America:
Removal of 327 Books with LGBTQ+ Themes by TN School District Is “Heartbreaking” Censorship
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
The iceman cometh: Biden creates an Arctic ambassador
Discussion: Associated Press
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When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home
Robin Ashenden / Quillette:
Lydia and the Vlads  —  An Estonian's changing relationship with Russia.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Jon Schwarz / The Intercept:
The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”
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Maybe Donald Trump's Big Lie is, well, um, good for democracy?
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