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11:30 PM ET, June 6, 2021

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Joe Manchin / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Why I'm voting against the For the People Act  —  THE MOUNTAIN STATE'S TRUSTED NEWS SOURCE.  —  The right to vote is fundamental to our American democracy and protecting that right should not be about party or politics.  Least of all, protecting this right, which is a value I share, should never be done in a partisan manner.
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
'You're doing it exactly the wrong way': Chris Wallace shreds Joe Manchin for enabling GOP ‘obstruction’  —  Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday challenged Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who is refusing to support filibuster reform to pass a voting rights bill and other progressive initiatives.
Fox Business:
Bipartisan lawmakers prep $878B infrastructure plan as White House-GOP negotiations drag
Discussion: Fox News
CNN:
STATE OF THE UNION  —  JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST (voice-over): Trillion-dollar question.
Discussion: Twitchy
Madison Dapcevich / Snopes.com:
No, Trump Did Not Wear His Pants Backwards at Rally  —  Former U.S. President Donald Trump wore his pants backwards during the June 2021 North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greenville, North Carolina.  —  Rating  —  False  —  In early June 201, a video of former U.S. President …
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump adviser Lewandowski: he ‘lost the election’ and will not be reinstated
Discussion: Insider
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The GOP superspreaders of Trump's contagion
Discussion: Slate, Washington Examiner and Rev
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis  —  An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important.  —  It was supposed to be the celebration …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Anthony Weiner's Not Coming Back.  But He Has Nowhere to Go.  —  The man who was almost New York's mayor talks about the current campaign, selling tweets and why he feels bad for the media.  —  Anthony Weiner doesn't pay the kind of attention to New York politics that he did back when he was running …
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Rep. Mo Brooks served with lawsuit related to his role in Capitol insurrection  —  (CNN)Alabama GOP Rep. Mo Brooks was served with a lawsuit filed by California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell seeking to hold him partially accountable for the January 6 insurrection, according to a tweet from Brooks and an attorney for Swalwell.
Discussion: Insider, The Hill, Raw Story, UPI and WHNT-TV
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Eric Swalwell Finally Serves Mo Brooks With Lawsuit Holding Him Responsible For Jan. 6  —  Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) successfully served Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) with a lawsuit holding Brooks and other top Republicans “responsible for the injury and destruction” on Jan. 6 after initially failing …
Discussion: Raw Story
Anshel Pfeffer / Haaretz:
Party leaders to meet as government swearing-in approaches  —  A new Israeli government may be sworn in as soon as Wednesday after securing a coalition to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  —  Party leaders will meet Sunday to finalize the coalition deal, with Yamina party leader Naftali expected …
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Sam Sokol / Haaretz:
Netanyahu Slams ‘Biggest Election Fraud in History of Country’ at Likud Meeting
Aaron Rabinowitz / Haaretz:   Top Right-wing Israeli Rabbis Call on Public to Do ‘Everything’ to Thwart Bennett-Lapid Gov't
Shira Rubin / Washington Post:   Israel's security issues rare warning over Jan. 6-style mob violence ahead of Netanyahu departure
Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
Something appears to be ‘simply, simply wrong’ at the Biden Justice Department  —  Fred Ryan is publisher of The Post.  —  During the final days of the Trump administration, the attorney general used extraordinary measures to obtain subpoenas to secretly seize records of reporters at three leading U.S. news organizations.
Rebecca Klapper / Newsweek:
Fox News Blocks Ad Showing Law Enforcement Officers Describing Capitol Riot Violence  —  Fox News blocked a commercial showing law enforcement officers describing the events of the deadly January 6 Capitol riot that was supposed to air for the first time on Sunday, the creators of the commercial said.
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Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Fox News declines to air ad about Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol  —  Fox News declined to broadcast an ad Sunday about the violence that law-enforcement members faced as they tried to stop the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to the creators of the political commercial.
Discussion: Insider and News Corpse
THE CITY:
Eric Adams' Aqueduct Casino Bid Scandal Interview Transcript Reveals Contradictions and Shaky Memory  —  The now-mayoral candidate repeatedly told investigators he couldn't remember key details of his birthday bash at a fancy Manhattan club, documents show.  Among the guests: bidders for a …
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
A conservative talk radio host once backed the Arizona GOP election recount.  Now he's warning Republicans against it  —  Mike Broomhead talks for a living, but for a moment last week, all he could do was sigh.  —  With that flash of wordless exasperation behind him, he continued with his work …
Discussion: CNN
Rosalind Helderman / Washington Post:
How the national push by Trump allies to audit 2020 ballots started quietly in Pennsylvania  —  Joe Biden's presidential victory in Pennsylvania had been certified for weeks when officials in some Republican-leaning counties began receiving strange phone calls from GOP state senators in late December.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Stars & Stripes:
David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies at 98  —  BERLIN — David Dushman, the last surviving Allied soldier involved in the liberation of Auschwitz, has died.  He was 98.  —  The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria said Sunday that Dushman had died at a Munich hospital on Saturday.
Discussion: Associated Press and New York Post
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
George P. Bush, the Lone Star state's latest profile in cowardice  —  George Prescott Bush's middle name is an homage to his great-grandfather, whose proud legacy was his courage in calling out demagogues.  Now, the ambitious young politician is defiling that memory.
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Clarence Williams III, a Star of ‘Mod Squad’ Is Dead at 81  —  He portrayed Linc Hayes, a hip undercover police officer who was teamed with Peggy Lipton and Michael Cole.  —  Clarence Williams III, the reflectively intense actor who starred as Linc Hayes, a young, hip undercover police officer on ABC's …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
White House briefing room to return to full capacity  —  The White House press briefing room will return to 100 percent capacity on Monday.  —  “Since the onset of the pandemic, our priority has been to keep journalists safe, while ensuring that the critical work of informing the public …
Discussion: Townhall
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Quint Forgey / Politico:   White House briefing room to return to full, pre-pandemic seating capacity
 
 
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NBC News:
Meet the Press - June 6, 2021
Discussion: HotAir, Townhall and Insider
Mike Allen / Axios:
“Axios on HBO”: Blinken vows to hold China accountable on COVID origins
Maria Cramer / New York Times:
School District Agrees to Pay $3 Million After a Bullied Boy, 8, Killed Himself
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
‘Do We Need to Be in Hong Kong?’ Global Companies Are Eying the Exits
Discussion: Instapundit
Heather Kelly / Washington Post:
Ransomware attacks are closing schools, delaying chemotherapy and derailing everyday life
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Energy secretary says adversaries have capability of shutting down US power grid
Discussion: Mother Jones and New York Post
Sarah Oliver / Daily Mail:
Julian Assange's lawyer fiancee says the WikiLeaks founder is in mental turmoil in Belmarsh just days before a ruling on a new US bid to extradite him
New York Times:
U.S. Aid to Central America Hasn't Slowed Migration. Can Kamala Harris?
Discussion: The Week, Alpha News and Twitchy
 Earlier Items: 
Matthew Futterman / New York Times:
Martina Navratilova Has Plenty to Say
Discussion: Iowa Capital Dispatch
Sue Halpern / New Yorker:
The Republicans' Wild Assault on Voting Rights in Texas and Arizona
Wall Street Journal:
The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak
Discussion: New York Post and Fox News
Peggy Fletcher Stack / Salt Lake Tribune:
QAnon? The ‘big lie’? What might it take to get Latter-day Saints to stop believing in them?
Harry Enten / CNN:
Why Democrats may defy history and win the 2022 midterms
Discussion: USA Today
 

 
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