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The Note: What The 2016ers Are Saying About Baltimore … NOTABLES —OBAMA — ‘NO EXCUSE’ FOR ‘SENSELESS’ VIOLENCE IN BALTIMORE: President Obama condemned the violence in Baltimore yesterday, saying there is “no excuse” for the violence, looting and arson that followed the funeral held for Freddie Gray …
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Associated Press, Guardian, Taylor Marsh and Yahoo Politics
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Bernie Sanders To Announce Presidential Run — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a luncheon at the National Press Club on Monday, March 9, 2015 in Washington. VPR has learned that Sanders will announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday. — ANDREW HARNIK AP
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Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Hit & Run, New York Times, Scared Monkeys, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, PoliticusUSA, Mediaite, The Hill, Bloomberg Business, The Week, RT, The PJ Tatler, Moe Lane, Fox News, Common Dreams, FishbowlDC and The National Memo


Hillary Clinton to call for end to ‘mass incarceration’
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Washington Monthly and Talking Points Memo

Clinton: ‘Baltimore is burning’
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The Huffington Post, Hot Air, Weekly Standard and Mediaite

Hillary Clinton's forgotten death penalty shift
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Washington Post and New York Times

Hillary Clinton to Outline Pitch for Criminal Justice Reform
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US News, Shakesville and Washington Post

Bernie Sanders to launch Democratic presidential bid: Vermont radio
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WGN-TV and The Nation

Baltimore mom who smacked son during riots: “I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray” — Shares - — The Baltimore mother caught on video repeatedly smacking her son after catching him throwing things at police during rioting in Baltimore told CBS News that she was only concerned about protecting him.
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What you really need to know about Baltimore, from a reporter who's lived there for over 30 years
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Salon, American Journalism Review, CANNONFIRE, The Federalist, Business Insider, US News, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, Boing Boing and The Mahablog

Goodbye to Freddie Gray and Goodbye to Quietly Accepting Injustice
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Washington Post


‘We Will Not Obey’: Christian Leaders Threaten Civil Disobedience if Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage — “We will not obey.” — That's the blunt warning a group of prominent religious leaders is sending to the Supreme Court of the United States as they consider same-sex marriage.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Signal and Fox News
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Majority of Republicans would attend a loved one's gay wedding: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Hot Air and Political Wire

Justice Anthony Kennedy seems to see a nobility of purpose in gay marriage.
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The Progressive Pulse, Hullabaloo and The Atlantic

Supreme Court Divided In Same-Sex Marriage Arguments
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Slate, SCOTUSblog, Talking Points Memo, Vox, USA Today, The Hill, Liberaland, FOX News Radio and The Daily Caller


State of the News Media 2015 — Call it a mobile majority. At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of comScore data.
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The Atlantic, The Hill, Washington Post, TVNewser, Pew Research Center and Poynter., more at Mediagazer »


Back in Baltimore, Martin O'Malley is heckled, and could face political fallout — BALTIMORE —Former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley was heckled on a street corner in riot-scarred West Baltimore Tuesday, after he cut short a trip to Europe to return to the city he led as mayor for seven years.
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Washington Free Beacon, The Huffington Post, Hit & Run and Washington Monthly
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Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch — Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch. 9NEWS at 9 p.m. 04/27/15. — CONNECT — AURORA - A mother in Aurora claims a teacher at her child's preschool, Children's Academy, refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch, because it wasn't nutritious.
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New York's PIX11


Mother viciously beats woman over parking space at LI mall as husband, children watch — Warning: Video contains graphic language and violence. — VALLEY STREAM, Long Island (PIX11) — Police are looking for a mother who viciously beat a woman in a Long Island mall parking lot as her husband …
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fox13now.com and WGN-TV


Thousands of new Lerner emails found — An inspector general investigating the IRS's improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups has found thousands of emails from Lois Lerner, the agency official at the center of that controversy, according to committees involved in the probe.
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CNN, Fox News, Scared Monkeys, TheBlaze.com, Hot Air and The Last Refuge


Holy war against Hillary — What have the American people done to deserve the political campaigns that have become a permanent feature of American life, starring politicians who perpetually escalate every unsavory tactic that brings politics into widespread disrepute?


Senators vote to block EPA's use of ‘secret science’ — A Senate committee voted Tuesday to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using ‘secret science’ to back its regulations. — The vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee came after the GOP-controlled House repeatedly approved the bill.
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Hit & Run and The Daily Caller


The Church of Lyin'tology … Eventually even very high-powered, very highly-paid and very public political con men like Mr. David Brooks of the New York Times start to run out of road. After enough years have passed, a career's worth of public bulls**t and bad faith start to roll downhill faster …
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New York Times and Progress Pond


61 Times Bill Kristol Was Reminded of Hitler and Churchill — Foreign-policy analysts hate this one weird historic example that explains every foreign-policy scenario. — Shares — Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, writing in opposition to the Iran deal recently, observed …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money


Baltimore Is a Democrat Problem, Not America's Problem — Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America's problem or shame. That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem. Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind …
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Guardian, Instapundit and Daily Kos


Geraldo: ‘Annoying’ Protester Got in the Way of ‘Important Story’ — Fox News' Geraldo Rivera nearly got into it with a protester last night as he was trying to interview Maryland State Senate Majority Leader Catherine Pugh in the midst of the Baltimore demonstrations.
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Talking Points Memo, BizPac Review and Business Insider


Social media analysis suggests links between Baltimore and Ferguson violence — Baltimore firefighters battle a three-alarm fire Monday, April 27, 2015, at a senior living facility under construction at Federal and Chester Streets in East Baltimore. (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Raw Story, Fox News Insider and Washington Times
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Why Can't Baltimore's Black Female Mayor Stop Saying ‘Thug’?
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Salon, Twitchy, The Federalist, The Week, Common Dreams, Raw Story, Feministe, Talking Points Memo and The Atlantic


GOVERNOR BROWN ESTABLISHES MOST AMBITIOUS GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION TARGET IN NORTH AMERICA — New California Goal Aims to Reduce Emissions 40 Percent Below 1990 Levels by 2030 — SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued an executive order to establish a California greenhouse …
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ThinkProgress and CBS San Francisco


Unmanned Russian spacecraft plunging to Earth, says official — Cargo vessel ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is said to be out of control after contact was lost — An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control.