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Big Primaries Across The Country Today
Primaries Will Test Trump’s False 2020 Claims
Democrats Must Embrace Culture War

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Pelosi Lands In Taiwan, Tensions With China Rise — HuffPost
Stephen King Testifies Against Publisher in Merger — WBUR
Helping Kentuckians Recover From Flooding — WFPL
Banana Boat Sunscreen Recalled Over Cancer-Causing Chemical — The Hill
Graveyard Grift as Trump Buries Ex-Wife on Golf Course — Salon
It’s Us or the Oil Companies — The Guardian
Manchin Bill Will Help Inflation, Experts Say — CNN
Manchin-Approved Bill Hell Of A Lot Better Than Nothing — In These Times
Housing Crunch Turned Young Voters Off Capitalism — Politico
Vet Health Bill Causing Rift In GOP — RawStory

TRUMP ENDORSES ERICS IN MISSOURI

GOP Primary Has Three Erics, Trump Declines to Add Last Name
“Devious Move” From Former President
GOP “Baffled” By Endorsement

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US Drone Strike Kills Al Qaeda Leader — New York Times
Manchin Side Deal Could Be Climate Bomb — Common Dreams
Trump: “Spoiled” Brittney Griner Deserves to Be in Russian Prison — VICE
Biden Gives Activist Shareholders A Leg Up — Lever News
Fox News Ghosting Trump — DailyKos
Right-Wing Think Tank Pretended to Be Church — Raw Story
Taiwan Braces For Chinese Show of Force Over Pelosi Visit — Washington Post
Whistleblowers and the Road to Tyranny — Salon
Alito Thinks US Christians Are Oppressed — New Republic
The Gilead Playbook — Tom Dispatch

Nation Stressed As Recession Fears Mount

Working People Screwed By Wages, Rents
People “Feel Unsafe” Because Visible Poverty Is Everywhere
To Roll Back The Police State We Need To Tackle Income Inequality
Recession Woes Cut Into Spending Power
60% Of Americans Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck

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Amazon’s Emissions Increased 18% Last Year — CNBC
Are We in a Recession? Depends What Side You’re On — VICE
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Kamala? — Intelligencer
Drug Market Is Booming — Rave New World
Immigrant Body Count and Failed Deterrence — Border/Lines
Anti-Abortion Activist Says 13-Year-Olds Do “Phenomenal” as Mothers — Washington Post
UN Chief Says Humanity “One Miscalculation Away From Nuclear Annihilation” — Common Dreams
Chile’s Draft Constitution, Reviewed — FAIR
Ignore Manchin’s Comments About Biden And Democrats — The Nation

MONKEYPOX VACCINE ACCESS FOLLOWS PREDICTABLE PATH

US Monkeypox Vaccine Shortage Could Last Months
Vaccine Apartheid Feared In Poorer Nations
NYC Declares Public Health Emergency
Disease FAQ

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Gen Z Activist Mocked by Gaetz Raises $1M for Abortion Access in 72 Hours — Washington Post
How Joe Biden Became the Father of the Iranian Nuclear Bomb — The Intercept
Tlaib and Levin Rally With Bernie — Common Dreams
Democrats Gave Mitch McConnell a Taste of His Own Medicine — New Republic
Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten. — New York Times
Slovenia: Wildfires Set Off Hundreds of Unexploded WWI Bombs — Insider
Jamie Raskin on Jan 6 — DailyKos
Post-“Roe,” Transgender People Fear for the Future — American Prospect
No Libertarian Exit — The Nation
Nancy Pelosi Could Get Us All Killed — Salon

Manchin-Schumer Deal Catches GOP Flat-Footed

GOP Furious They Got Outfoxed For Once
How The Climate Bill Might Impact You
Bill Could Be Big For Electric Car Industry
Biden-Manchin Climate Bill Isn’t Very Good, But It’s All We’ve Got

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Iowa Man Assaults Abortion Rights Protester — DailyKos
Big Pharma’s Anti-Drug Price Reform Ad Campaign — Common Dreams
Highways in Poor, Minority Communities Maintained Poorly — VICE
DeSantis Goes After Drag Shows Citing 1947 Law — The Hill
Jan. 6 Texts Missing For Top DHS Officials — Washington Post
Al. Official Told Reporter Her Skirt Was Too Short To Witness An Execution — HuffPost
Another Airline Merger That Would Worsen Inflation — American Prospect
Brazil Goes After Amazon NFT Sale — Thompson Reuters Foundation
Biden Finishing Trump’s Border Wall — NBC News
Bank of America Hopes Conditions for Workers Get Worse — The Intercept

RECORD PROFITS FOR BIG OIL

Oil Companies Post Record Profits As World Burns
Record Profits For Big Oil, But Not More Jobs
Satellites See Extreme Weather From Space
Senate Deal Would Be Most Ambitious Climate Action By US Ever

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Congress Won’t Let the Snakehead Drone Die — Responsible Statecraft
Dems Boosting MAGA Candidates Is Reckless — MSNBC
Jon Roberts Hagiography Must End — Balls and Strikes
Alabama Execution Included Three-Hour Delay — Law Dork
CHIPS Fall — Wars of Future Past
UN: Healthy Environment a Human Right — Currently
White House Insisting Economy Is Strong — Washington Post
Illinois Police Beating of Teen Captured on Video — New York Times
Dismantle the ADL — Mondoweiss
It’s Past Time to Replace IRS Chief Charles Rettig — American Prospect
Chick-fil-A Asks For “Volunteers” to Work — VICE
How Magicians Won the Attention Economy — Economist

EMBOLDENED RIGHT ATTACKS MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES

Alito Mocks Critics as Pregnant People Suffer
Majorie Taylor Greene Goes After Gay Men to Sell Shirts
Iowa Town Library Closes After Residents Threaten LGBTQ Employees

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People Who Switched Jobs During Great Resignation Making More Money — Axios
Leaked Memo Shows Amazon’s Anti-Union Strategies — Vox
If Trump Were Black He’d Be in Jail Already — Salon
Sinema’s Manchin Moment — New Republic
Inflation Hits Kentucky Prison Stores — Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting
Jon Stewart Enraged Over Vets Bill — The Hill
Alex Jones: When You Think About it, I’m Like Jesus Christ — Alternet
Flash Flooding in Kentucky Kills at Least 8 — New York Times
Obstructionist Democrats Could Still Kill the Manchin Deal — Intelligencer
🔈 World on Fire — The Insurgents
This Is What Every Anti-Abortion Monster Deserves — Discourse Blog

Manchin’s In, But Is Sinema?

What’s In Reconciliation Bill & How Can Dems Get It Done
DC Waits For Sinema’s Verdict
$369 Billion To Fight Climate Change Hangs In Balance
Menendez Might Hold Out Over SALT Deduction

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Thomas Impeachment Petition Reaches 1.2 Million — Common Dreams
Could Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan Set Off a War? — VICE
Revealed: US Role in Nigeria Attack That Killed Over 160 Civilians — The Intercept
Abortion Bans Will Kill Diabetic People — Jezebel
The American Teacher in Russian Prison — Washington Post
Gas Prices Are Plummeting Across the Country — Intelligencer
Biden and Xi Have Call to De Escalate Tensions — New York Times
🔈 Inequality and the Pandemic — The Flashpoint Podcast
The Media Drops the Ball on Effects of the Heatwave — The Column

BUILD BACK MANCHIN

Manchin and Schumer Announce Major Climate Bill
Taxes, Healthcare Included
Skeptics Unconvinced Bill Will Pass
Major Reversal for Manchin

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Russia-Ukraine War Is Propelling Us Into a New Age of Global Political Upheaval — The Intercept
Britain’s Power Grid Warns of a Tight Energy Supply This Winter — New York Times
Trump’s Big New Applause Line: Attacking Trans People — VICE
The Recession Question — Intelligencer
Lawmakers Aren’t Disclosing Their Next Jobs — Lever News
Matt Gaetz Votes Against Human Trafficking Bill for Some Reason — The Hill
Arizona’s GOP Primary and the Culture War — New Republic
One in Three People Killed By Cops Were Running Away — The Guardian

PRIORITIES IN DISARRAY

Dems Punt On Police Funding, Assault Weapons Ban Bill
House Dems Complain About Idiotic DCCC Strategy
Baby Formula Shortage Is A Crisis Of Capitalism

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Miserable Flight Cancellations Continue — Gothamist
It’s Gustavo Rivera Versus the Bronx Machine — City & State
Elizabeth Warren Returns To Campaign Spotlight — The Hill
Being Black & Principled in White America — olurinatti
US Power Companies Using Profits to Stop Clean Energy — The Guardian
Doug Mastriano Is Unfit For Office — Penn Live
Uvalde Scapegoats Elementary School Principal — ABC News
The Threat of Viktor Orban’s Racism — New Statesman
A Radical Attack On The First Amendment — Popular Info
Fed Expected To Make Another Big Rate Hike — NPR
The ‘Space Economy’ Grew To $469 Billion in 2021 — CNBC
19-Year-Old Turns Gaetz Insult Into $115K For Abortion Rights — Washington Post