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Washington Post:
Putin's partial military mobilization condemned by U.S., Europe … Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement of a “partial mobilization” of troops was condemned by United States and European officials as a dangerous escalation as the invasion in Ukraine falters.
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Slow Boring and Bloomberg
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Wall Street Journal:
Putin Orders Draft of Reservists for War in Ukraine, Threatens Nuclear Response — Russian president made the announcement amid faltering Russian offensive, Ukrainian advances in northeast — MOSCOW—In a major escalation of the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin raised …
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Reuters, Reason, The Daily Caller, New York Times and Al Jazeera
AIRLIVE:
BREAKING Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65 — Flights abroad sell out following Putin's partial mobilization. — Russian airlines have stopped selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65 unless they can provide evidence of approval to travel from the Ministry of Defense.
NBC News:
Putin mobilizes more troops for Ukraine war, threatens nuclear retaliation and backs annexation of Russian-occupied land — Watch: Putin announces partial mobilization of Russian military — Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization of his country's military Wednesday …
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, Lucid, CNN, Daily Kos, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Guardian, Fortune, Fox News and TASS
New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Putin Calls Up More Troops as His War Effort Falters — In a rare address to the nation, the Russian president railed against the West for providing Ukraine with weapons and made a veiled threat of using nuclear weapons. Russia's defense minister put the number of new call-ups at 300,000.
The Economist:
Vladimir Putin's situation looks ever more desperate
Vladimir Putin's situation looks ever more desperate
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Telegraph, The Liberty Loft, TASS, Big League Politics, Metro.co.uk and CBS News
Karl Ritter / Associated Press:
Putin sets partial military call-up, won't ‘bluff’ on nukes
Putin sets partial military call-up, won't ‘bluff’ on nukes
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New York Post, New York Daily News, The National Interest, Algemeiner.com, Al Jazeera, Fox News, Financial Times, UPI, CNSNews, The Daily Beast, NPR, Axios and Just The News
Washington Post:
Chris Murphy's warning: A GOP House would defund the Ukraine struggle
Chris Murphy's warning: A GOP House would defund the Ukraine struggle
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HuffPost, Digby's Hullabaloo, Voice of America, The Daily Beast and CNN
Emma Owen / BBC:
Putin calls up reservists for war in Ukraine
Putin calls up reservists for war in Ukraine
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HotAir, Breitbart, Reuters, The Times of Israel, KTLA, Voice of America and Kyiv Post
Washington Post:
‘Unchecked’ book excerpt: Inside McConnell's decision not to convict Trump — “Let's just ignore him,” the GOP Senate leader said at one point, underscoring his hands-off approach on whether to stand up to pro-Trump lawmakers after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol
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The Hill, CNN, The Guardian and Raw Story
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Inside McConnell's fateful impeachment decision — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — “MITCH McCONNELL sat in his office on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, agonizing over how to cast what he knew would be one of the most pivotal votes of his career.”
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The Hill
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Scoop: McConnell-aligned super PAC pulls out of Arizona
Scoop: McConnell-aligned super PAC pulls out of Arizona
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Vox, The Federalist, The Dispatch, Big League Politics, The Liberty Loft, CNBC, Washington Post, Breitbart, Ace of Spades HQ, Raw Story, PoliticusUSA, The Daily Caller and The Hill
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
The Performative Sadism of Ron DeSantis — The Florida governor and MAGA heir is betting his political future on hurting vulnerable people to own the libs. … The GOP—under Donald Trump and perhaps soon under his would-be successor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—is rapidly becoming …
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Politico, Raw Story, Fox News, HotAir, USA Today, BizPac Review, NewsNation and New Republic
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Juliette Kayyem / The Atlantic:
Trump Endorsed QAnon Because He's Stuck — For a man who believes in nothing, has no coherent ideology or value system except his own continuing relevance, obsesses over conspiracies, and subsists on grievance and anger, Donald Trump took a long time to fully embrace QAnon.
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Raw Story, Insider, Rolling Stone and CNN
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
House Rating Changes: Schweikert Moves to Toss Up, Cuellar to Lean Democrat — As both parties begin to blitz the competitive battleground with ads, Republicans continue to be the party playing more offense, linking Democratic incumbents to “wasteful spending” and more IRS funding in the just-passed reconciliation bill.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Trump vs. DeSantis in 2024? USA TODAY/Suffolk poll shows Florida Republicans prefer their governor — In a hypothetical 2024 presidential primary in the Sunshine State, DeSantis leads Trump 48%-40%. That's a reversal from a poll of Florida in January, when Trump led DeSantis 47%-40%.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Washington Times, Mediaite and National Review
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Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Trump's legal payments soar in wake of Mar-a-Lago search, campaign finance filings show — Spending by Donald Trump's Save America PAC surged in August to more than $6.3 million — its highest monthly total of the year — as the former President waged court battles over the FBI's search of his waterfront Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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Raw Story
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Mar-a-Lago probe gives Trump plenty of headaches ... and political benefits, too
Mar-a-Lago probe gives Trump plenty of headaches ... and political benefits, too
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The Hill
Politico:
Special master to Trump's lawyers: 'You can't have your cake and eat it'
Special master to Trump's lawyers: 'You can't have your cake and eat it'
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VICE, Insider, Morning Shots, Axios, Mediaite, New York Times, NBC News, New York Post, CNN, emptywheel, The Bulwark, IJR, Streams of Crunchiness, The Gateway Pundit, Forbes, Patterico's Pontifications, Washington Times, HuffPost, Rolling Stone, Mock Paper Scissors, Washington Post, Crooks and Liars, The Daily Beast, Law & Crime, The Post Millennial, Talking Points Memo and Associated Press
New York Times:
Inside the Completely Legal G.O.P. Plot to Destroy American Democracy — Mr. Harris is a video journalist. Ms. Cottle is a member of the editorial board. — For the past two years, Americans have been overwhelmed by a deluge of headlines suggesting democracy in the United States is under threat: Voter suppression.
Discussion:
Digby's Hullabaloo
Renee Nygren / KVLY:
Man admits to killing teen after political dispute in Foster Co., court docs allege — MCHENRY, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A community is mourning the loss of an 18-year-old man from Grace City, North Dakota, as investigators look into what led up to a deadly crash.
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The Federalist, The Daily Caller, Frontpage Mag, Breitbart, Grand Forks Herald and The Western Journal
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Ashley Gold / Axios:
Meta: We're not-so-big tech now — As Meta shapes its antitrust defense, it has begun pointing out its plummeting stock price as a sign that competition is alive and well in its market. … It has lost ground to its surging rival TikTok, and its revenue has been curtailed by Apple's iOS privacy changes.
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Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
The Guardian:
Revealed: the ‘shocking’ levels of toxic lead in Chicago tap water — Tests performed for thousands of Chicago residents found lead, a neurotoxin, in amounts far exceeding the federal standards — Erin McCormick, Aliya Uteuova and Taylor Moore with photographs by Jamie Kelter Davis
Marist Poll:
The 2022 Elections in Ohio — Marist Ohio Poll — Vance & Ryan in Dead Heat in Ohio Senate Race, DeWine with 18-Point Lead in Governor's Race — In the U.S. Senate contest to fill retiring Senator Rob Portman's seat, Democrat Tim Ryan and Republican J.D. Vance are in a statistical dead heat …
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The Hill, Punchbowl News and Townhall
David Wasserman / NBC News:
The six types of races that will decide control of the House in 2022 — Analysis: The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter rates 31 House races as toss-ups. Control of the chamber will come down to a very narrow cross-section of the country. — Republicans need to pick up at least five seats …
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Washington Examiner, New York Magazine and Just The News
Politico:
Most Republicans Support Declaring the United States a Christian Nation — Christian nationalism, a belief that the United States was founded as a white, Christian nation and that there is no separation between church and state, is gaining steam on the right.
Discussion:
NBC News and Mock Paper Scissors
CBS News:
Personal and national factors collide in tight Georgia Senate race — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll — It's the personal vs. the partisan in Georgia's Senate race, where the candidates are close in support, but voters' rationales for supporting each of them are quite different.
Discussion:
The Hill
CNN:
House set to consider proposal for legislation to prevent another January 6 — The House on Wednesday is set to consider legislation introduced by GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California to make it harder to overturn a certified presidential election …
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Washington Post, PolitiFact, Associated Press, Politico and Daily Kos
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Liz Cheney's role in electoral count bill fuels GOP distrust
Liz Cheney's role in electoral count bill fuels GOP distrust
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New York Magazine, The Hill, Politico and CBS News
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Biden aims to rally world leaders behind Ukraine in U.N. remarks — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will use his remarks at the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday to rally the world in support of Ukraine as part of a broader call for countries to protect the established international order.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The U.N. is getting Ukraine surprisingly right
The U.N. is getting Ukraine surprisingly right
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Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Associated Press, UPI and Politico