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8:00 PM ET, September 6, 2022

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Miru / CREW:
Judge removes Griffin from office for engaging in the January 6 insurrection  —  SANTA FE — A New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately, ruling that the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin's participation …
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New York Times:
Judge Unseats Official Who Trespassed at Capitol on Jan. 6  —  The ruling made Couy Griffin, a county commissioner in New Mexico, the first official in more than 100 years to be removed under the Constitution's bar on insurrectionists holding office.  —  WASHINGTON — A judge in New Mexico …
Ashley Lopez / NPR:   A New Mexico judge cites insurrection in barring a county commissioner from office
Andrew Weissmann / The Atlantic:
A Ruling Untethered to the Law  —  One of the most dispiriting aspects of the decision yesterday by Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon—which granted former President Donald Trump's request to appoint a special master to review the evidence seized from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Why Trump's FBI investigation could now be delayed for months or even years  —  Trump Judge Aileen Cannon's order is egregiously wrong and could be overturned on appeal.  But it helps Trump run out the clock.  —  Judge Aileen Cannon's order suspending one of the Justice Department's criminal investigations …
Abby Aguirre / Vogue:
Jennifer Lawrence Talks Motherhood, Causeway, and the End of Roe v. Wade  —  Lawrence has no patience for the politically unengaged.  “You have to be political.  It's too dire.  Politics are killing people.”  Dior top, skirt, and belt.  Photographed by Tina Barney, Vogue, October 2022.
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Caitlin Cruz / Jezebel:
Dr. Oz on Incest: More Than First Cousin?  ‘Not a Big Problem.’  —  It's incredible that this man really thought he should run for office after publicly weighing in on people “smashing” their cousins, among other things.  —  Alerts  —  The problem with being a celebrity before you enter politics …
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Political Wire
CNN:
Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county's elections office before voting machine breach  —  A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county's election offices …
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Beneath campaign nastiness, legitimate concerns about Fetterman's health  —  Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman has not fully recovered from the serious stroke he suffered in May. His campaign has acknowledged his obvious struggles with “auditory processing” …
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Politico's new German owner has a ‘contrarian’ plan for American media  —  Mathias Döpfner has global ambitions for what he calls a more ‘nonpartisan’ kind of journalism — even as his own politics are hard to pin down  —  BERLIN — Months after his company bought Politico …
Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Democrats Winning Over the “Meh” Voter  —  A big reason we pay so much attention to a president's job approval rating, even in a midterm election when the president isn't on the ballot, is the significant correlation between voter opinions of a president and their vote choice in an election.
Discussion: Washington Post
FiveThirtyEight:
More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall  —  From the Carolinas to California, Montana to Florida, election denialism has spread across the country.  Candidates who support former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen …
Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
Hurts So Good  —  Why are so many young women suffering from invisible illnesses?  Meet the girls in a world of pain.  —  In July 2019, Morgan Cooper was in a hospital bed when her gastroenterologist, psychiatrist, internist, a few nurses, and her mother marched into her room.
Discussion: Unreported Truths
Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
Rape, incest exceptions out of South Carolina abortion bill  —  Abortion South Carolina  —  A South Carolina Senate committee voted Tuesday to remove exceptions for rape and incest from a proposed abortion ban setting up a showdown among Republicans wary of passing such a restrictive bill.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden's Cabinet hasn't changed, a sharp break from Trump  —  When President Joe Biden met with senior members of his administration on Tuesday, the 24 officials sitting around the table were identical to the ones Biden gathered 17 months ago for his first Cabinet meeting.
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Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Trump Says Geoff Diehl Will Rule Massachusetts With ‘Iron Fist’ If Elected  —  Donald Trump called on Republican voters to back Geoff Diehl, his choice for governor in Massachusetts, in Tuesday's GOP primary, while promising the former state representative will “rule with an iron fist.”
Discussion: USA Today, Washington Post and CBS News
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Anna Merlan / VICE:
Peter Thiel's Investment Firm Is Backing a Menstrual Cycle-Focused ‘Femtech’ Company  —  Evie Magazine is COVID-skeptical, transphobic, and obsessed with traditional womanhood.  Now, with Thiel Capital's help, they're launching a “wellness” company based on menstrual cycles.  —  Anna Merlan
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Jezebel and Althouse
John Knefel / Media Matters for America:
New CNN chief's first major hire is retired cop who recently lied about the NYPD spying on Muslims after 9/11  —  John Miller has a long history of obfuscation when it comes to police misconduct.  Welcome to Chris Licht's new CNN.  —  CNN's newest pundit is John Miller …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit  —  The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims.  —  The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air.
CNBC:
Deal partner for Trump's Truth Social fails to get backing for SPAC extension: Reuters, citing sources  — The blank-check acquisition firm that agreed to merge with Donald Trump's social media company failed to secure enough shareholder support for a one-year extension to complete the deal …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A longtime conservative insider warns: The GOP can't be saved  —  With the midterm elections hurtling into their final stretch, a group of Never Trumpers is pumping millions of dollars into ads aimed at defeating Republican candidates aligned with Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election.
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and CNN
Kevin Truong / The San Francisco Standard:
San Francisco Braces for Epic Commercial Real Estate Crash  —  Imagine a slow-moving train coming towards you.  The lights are shining, the horn is blaring, but it's just far enough in the distance that the risk doesn't seem real just yet.  —  That's a fitting-enough analogy for the state …
New York Times:
It Was War.  Then, a Rancher's Truce With Some Pesky Beavers Paid Off.  —  The ‘highly skilled environmental engineers’ can help to store precious water and rejuvenate land ravaged by climate change.  Just don't dynamite their homes.  —  WELLS, Nev. — Horace Smith blew up a lot of beaver dams in his life.
Stephen Neukam / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz says he will vote against bill to codify same-sex marriage protections  —  On an episode of his podcast Tuesday, the U.S. senator said the bill would be an attack on religious liberties.  —  Copy link  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said he will vote against a bill …
Politico:
Oath Keepers' founder Rhodes fires lawyers, seeks delay in Capitol riot trial  —  The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers fired his attorneys on Tuesday, just a few weeks before he's slated to go on trial for seditious conspiracy over his group's alleged involvement in the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Discussion: The Hill and Insider
Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit  —  Financial catastrophe is now only a few clicks away, a problem that is showing quiet signs of becoming a crisis.  “I can't just get rid of my phone,” one problem gambler says.  —  MS
Larry O'Connor / Townhall:
Stop Believing the ‘Republicans Are Blowing the Midterms’ Propaganda  —  The headlines are inescapable if you insist on paying attention to the Mainstream Corporate Propagandists in the legacy media.  —  From CNN: “From a Republican ‘tsunami’ to a ‘puddle’: Why the forecast for November is changing”
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Jan. 6 defendant turned in by ex he called a ‘moron’ gets nine months in prison
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Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
On China, PM Liz Truss will move Britain closer to the US
Discussion: Politico
Alon Pinkas / Haaretz:
A New Value the U.S. and Israeli Media Share: ‘Bothsidesism’
Scott J. Street / The Federalist:
I'm A Democrat Who Thinks Biden's Anti-Democratic Rhetoric Has Gone Too Far
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Reuters:
Putin approves new foreign policy doctrine based on ‘Russian World’
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Bloomberg:
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Pro-MAGA D.C. Cop Secretly Worked to Undermine Seth Rich Investigation
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Maria Bartiromo / Fox Business:
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