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Democracy is under attack – and reporting that isn’t ‘violating journalistic standards’

Biden gave a rare primetime address on the most important challenge facing America – and the media coverage was just more he-said/she-said reaction

The Guardian - US

Jackie Calmes: No, Tucker Carlson, armed IRS agents won't be coming for Amercans' money

My dad was an armed IRS agent, gun-toting for good reason. He helped bust mob figures across northern Ohio for tax evasion, from Toledo to Youngstown. He died too young (of natural causes), and his public service is among my best memories.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Kevin McCarthy’s mad that Joe Biden linked GOP to fascism. Maybe look in the mirror, sir?

So Kevin McCarthy doesn’t like it when he gets called a nasty name. Tough. He’s done it for years.

Tribune News Service

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Trump blows up over Biden speech

Trump bizarrely claimed that Biden's speech was a threat to use "military force"

Salon

Biden takes aim at Trump, 'MAGA Republicans' in prime-time speech

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden delivered an urgent call to the country Thursday night, asserting in a prime-time speech that American democracy remains in great peril and bluntly singling out the person he sees as the biggest threat to the system: former President Donald Trump.

Los Angeles Times

Kevin McCarthy backs Trump hoarding top secret papers, calling FBI search an ‘assault on democracy’

Republican leader in House frames the FBI raid as a partisan attack

The Independent UK

Biden asks Americans to defend democracy in elections, politics - Roll Call

President Joe Biden warned of dire threats to American democracy from some Republicans at a prime-time address in Philadelphia on Thursday.

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Biden's prime-time speech to call out Trump, his loyalists

The November elections are less than 10 weeks away, and President Joe Biden plans to use a prime-time speech Thursday night at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to frame them as part of an ongoing battle for what he's calling the “soul of the nation.”

The Independent UK

What the end of the Pelosi era could cost California

WASHINGTON — California could be on the cusp of losing one of the most effective national political allies it's ever had.

Los Angeles Times

Fauci quits: Right wins war on science

The right's attack on science is the most dangerous of its cynical power plays. Fauci is just collateral damage

Salon

California Rep. Eric Swalwell says caller threatened to kill him with assault rifle

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said Tuesday that a man called his office and threatened to show up with an assault rifle to kill the congressman.

Los Angeles Times

Decades on Capitol Hill: From civility to open hostility

How has Congress changed in the last four decades

The Independent UK

Adam Kinzinger says Republicans in trouble ahead of midterms: "We have no leadership"

"Kevin McCarthy isn’t leading, he’s asking, 'What does Marjorie Taylor Greene want me to do?'"

Axios

Trump's son-in-law distances himself from Jan 6 Capital Hill's insurrection in his book 'Breaking History'

Former President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has sought to distance himself from the January 6 Capitol Hills insurrection, the focus of the Congressional committee's investigations on Trump's alleged dereliction of duty to call off the mob, in his latest book "Breaking History".

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Anita Chabria: Violent crime is spiking in Trump's California. These counties blame everyone but themselves

Homicides are up across California and the blame experts are aiming their outrage at the usual suspects.

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Tribune News Service

Earmarks’ future unclear as Republicans split ahead of midterms

WASHINGTON — Potential changes in control of one or both chambers in the midterm elections could put the practice of earmarking federal funds for local projects on the chopping block in the next Congress.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Republicans attacking student loan relief as a taxpayer burden got degrees on taxpayers' dime

President Joe Biden's student loan relief proposal, including a freeze on payments through the end of the year and forgiveness of $10,000 to $20,000 in loan balances, has elicited predictable cries of outrage from Republicans.

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Earmarks’ future unclear as Republicans split ahead of midterms - Roll Call

Potential changes in control of one or both chambers could put earmarks for local projects on the chopping block.

Tribune News Service

Liz Cheney, unbowed by defeat, vows to keep battling Trump and 2020 election deniers

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, fresh from a resounding loss at the polls to a diehard supporter of former President Donald Trump, vowed to keep up her fight against the former president and his supporters.

The Guardian - US

Cheney vows to fight other Republicans who embrace Trump’s election lie

Cheney says two Republican US senators – Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley – have both made themselves ‘unfit for future office’

Axios

Liz Cheney vows to unseat Republicans who support Trump's "big lie"

Cheney described large portions of the Republican party, including its leadership, as "very sick."

The Guardian - US

Armed ... auditors? The IRS becomes the latest target of GOP misinformation

Some Republicans have spread false information about how new funds will be used by IRS, stoking outrage and alarming experts

Axios

House and Senate Republicans' midterm fortunes are rapidly diverging

The GOP's path back to power in the Senate is far less clear than in the House.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Wyoming Republicans affirm that principles no longer apply. Only Trump matters

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney is hardly the only Republican to suffer at the polls for having placed principle over party, but she’s definitely the most high-profile one because of her leadership role on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. In Wyoming’s Republican primary Tuesday, voters…

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