memeorandum: ‘This is not the story we want’: Reporters chased out of meeting with Kushner family pitching Chinese investors (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)

8:40 AM ET, May 7, 2017

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:

House Republicans Go Off the Cliff — OVER the last seven years, the Republican Party has engaged in increasingly elaborate political suicide attempts. The G.O.P. has nominated cranks and erstwhile witches and Todd Akin in winnable Senate races. It has engaged in Somme-esque trench warfare within …

Morgan Winsor / ABC News:

House Republicans face voters in home districts angry over health care bill — Rep. Tom Reed of New York, who was among the Republican members of Congress to vote for a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, held a string of hometown forums on Saturday where he was lambasted by crowds …

Discussion: Axios

New York Times:

‘No District Is Off the Table’: Health Vote Could Put House in Play — WASHINGTON — In a suburban Chicago district, Kelly Mazeski, a breast cancer survivor, used the day of the vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act to announce her House candidacy, vowing to make Representative Peter Roskam pay for his vote …

Discussion: The Atlantic

Peter Suderman / New York Times:

The House Health Care Disaster Is Really About Taxes — I have been a critic of Obamacare since it became law, but the Republican alternative is worse in nearly every way. — The American Health Care Act, which was narrowly passed in the House last week, would worsen Obamacare's problems rather than fix them.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, CNN and Washington Post

Marc K. Siegel / New York Times:
What the Republican Health Plan Gets Right

Discussion: Unfogged

Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Fact Check: It's a Lie That the GOP Healthcare Bill Abandons People With Pre-Existing Conditions

Discussion: RedState, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and BizPac Review

Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Despite critics' claims, the GOP health bill doesn't classify rape or sexual assault as a preexisting condition

Discussion: IJR, BizPac Review, twitchy.com, Common Dreams and skippy the bush kangaroo

Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Cruz: ‘Catastrophic’ if Senate fails to pass ObamaCare repeal

Discussion: RedState

Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
House Republicans face voters in home districts angry over health care bill

Discussion: Associated Press

WBAY-TV:
WATCH: Governor, Outagamie Co. Executive get into spat over health care

Discussion: Raw Story

Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed: Here's What Is Actually True And False About The Republicans' Health Care Plan

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: Idaho town hall erupts after GOP lawmaker says ‘no one dies’ from lack of health care

Discussion: Shareblue, Idaho Statesman, The Hill and Talking Points Memo

Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast:

Did Macron Outsmart Campaign Hackers? … PARIS—It was the dog that didn't bark in the night, and its bite may be less impressive still. As a tale of hacking and political subversion unfolded in France on Friday and Saturday, it looked like a re-run of the American experience.

Discussion: Sputnik International, Joe.My.God., Althouse and The Nation

Zeynep Tufekci / BuzzFeed:
Dear France: You Just Got Hacked. Don't Make The Same Mistakes We Did.

Discussion: Politico, CANNONFIRE, The Gateway Pundit, Lawyers, Guns & Money, New York Magazine, Balloon Juice and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »

Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
There Are No “Macron Leaks” in France. Politically Motivated Hacking Is Not Whistleblowing.

Discussion: The Atlantic, Hullabaloo, ThinkProgress, Mother Jones, Politico, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Washington Post, more at Techmeme »

BBC:
French election: Hollande vows ‘response’ to Macron hack attack

Discussion: Observer

Reuters:
France fights to keep Macron email hack from distorting election

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, ITV and New York Times

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:

‘This is not the story we want’: Reporters chased out of meeting with Kushner family pitching Chinese investors — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Reporters attempting to cover a pitch to wealthy Chinese investors at a seminar on visas from members of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's family …

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Common Dreams

CNNMoney:

Kushner family in Beijing: ‘Invest $500,000 and immigrate’ to US — Ivanka defends husband's White House role — The Kushner family hopes to lure investments from wealthy business owners in China with the promise of American visas. — Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House adviser …

Discussion: The Guardian, Business Insider, RedState, ThinkProgress, Axios and Joe.My.God.

New York Times: Jared Kushner's Sister Highlights Family Ties in Pitch to Chinese Investors

Only A Game:

A Day (And A Cheeseburger) With President Trump — Three years ago, golf writer James Dodson was invited to play golf with Donald Trump. Rain cut short the outing, but Dodson came away with stories ... and a cheeseburger.

Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:

TRUMP Act would put Trump's New York tax returns online — How New York State could release Trump's taxes — Some Democratic state senators in New York are trying an end run to get Donald Trump's taxes into the public view by introducing legislation that would reveal his state tax returns for the last five years.

Discussion: The Hill and AOL

Ai Weiwei / New York Times:

How Censorship Works — BEIJING — In the space of a month in 2014, at separate art exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai that included my work, my name was blotted out — in one case by government officials and by exhibitors themselves in the other case. Some people might take such treatment in stride, as nothing to get huffy about.

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz / New York Times:

Don't Let Facebook Make You Miserable — IT is now official. Scholars have analyzed the data and confirmed what we already knew in our hearts. Social media is making us miserable. — We are all dimly aware that everybody else can't possibly be as successful, rich, attractive, relaxed …

Discussion: Althouse

David Ferguson / Raw Story:

DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — MSNBC host Joy Reid said on Saturday that her producers reached out to all 217 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted for the American Healthcare Act (ACHA) — dubbed by some as “Trumpcare” — and invited them to appear on the show to defend their vote.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog