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** British prime minister defeated by lettuce — and other notable journalism for your weekend
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Britain’s now former Prime Minister Liz Truss addresses the media Thursday. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Well, that sure didn’t take long. Liz Truss is out as U.K. Prime Minister, resigning after just 44 days. As Anthony Scaramucci tweeted ([link removed]) , “Liz Truss lasted 4.1 Scaramuccis.” (Scaramucci was fired as Donald Trump’s White House communications director after 10 days.) Scaramucci later cracked ([link removed]) , “But she outlasted the milk in the refrigerator. I wasn’t able to do that! Kudos.”

Just last week, the British tabloid The Daily Star started a poll ([link removed]) to ask readers who would last longer: Truss as PM or a head of lettuce? Apparently, the lettuce has won, as The New York Times’ Daniel Victor notes ([link removed]) . Truss goes down as the shortest shortest-serving prime minister in British history.

So I start today with some of the better and more analytical (and serious) coverage of the Truss resignation.
* The Washington Post’s Leo Sands, Adela Suliman and Karla Adam with “Why Liz Truss resigned as U.K. prime minister: A guide to the chaos.” ([link removed])
* The Associated Press’ Jill Lawless with “Truss quits, but UK’s political and economic turmoil persist.” ([link removed])
* The New York Times’ Mark Landler with “Truss Defied the Markets, and They Ruthlessly Sealed Her Fate.” ([link removed])
* BBC News economic editor Faisal Islam with “Prime Minister Liz Truss was the author of her own demise.” ([link removed])
* Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen with “Liz Truss’s resignation is a warning for Republicans.” ([link removed])
* The Atlantic’s Brian Klaas with “What Happened to Liz Truss Can’t Happen Here.” ([link removed])
* The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Sugden with “Before Liz Truss, This British Prime Minister Held the Record for Shortest Tenure.” ([link removed])
* And, finally, The New York Times with “These are the likely front-runners to replace Liz Truss. ([link removed]) ”


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** And now on to other journalism you should catch up over the weekend
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* Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch with “Shock videos of Fla. handcuffing Black voters showed true stakes of ‘22 election.” ([link removed])
* Reporting from Mexico City, The Los Angeles Times’ Kate Linthicum with “Mexico’s new racial reckoning: A movement protests colorism and white privilege.” ([link removed])
* If you read this newsletter regularly, you know I’ve written time and time again how I believe The Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins is the best sports columnist in the country. Here’s another example as she takes on a favorite target in the owner of the Washington NFL team: “Daniel Snyder is always looking for the sucker. This time, it might be him.” ([link removed]) Here’s a devastating line from her opening paragraph: “Snyder is long on bluster and short on everything else, including competence, and his duplicity has made him chronically distrusted.”
* Also in the Post, media critic Erik Wemple with “CNN host dreams of a ‘whole network’ for ‘independent thinkers.’” ([link removed])
* And one more breaking news story from The Washington Post’s Elizabeth Dwoskin, Faiz Siddiqui, Gerrit De Vynck and Jeremy B. Merrill: “Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce.” ([link removed])
* The Daily Beast’s Lawrence O. Gostin and Jana Shaw with “Megyn Kelly’s Anti-Vax Lies Are a Threat to Public Health.” ([link removed])
* And speaking of journalists saying dangerous things, my goodness, what the heck has happened to former “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan? The Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona has the latest in “Lara Logan Goes Full QAnon, Spews Blood Libel on Newsmax.” ([link removed])
* For ProPublica, Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi, in conjunction with NPR, with “The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price.” ([link removed])
* Andscape’s David Dennis Jr. with “Kanye West’s ‘Drink Champs’ episode failed us all.” ([link removed])
* On his latest “The Axe Files” podcast ([link removed]) , David Axelrod talks with New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman about her coverage over the years of former President Donald Trump, and her new book, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.”
* For Wired, Will Bedingfield with “The Bruce Willis Deepfake Is Everyone’s Problem.” ([link removed])
* Teen Vogue’s Lauryn Higgins with “A School ‘Paused’ Its Student Newspaper After an LGBTQ Pride Issue.” ([link removed])
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* New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat debuts a new weekly newsletter ([link removed]) today. It’s about politics and culture.

Have a great weekend everyone. Talk to you again on Monday.

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