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Emily Witt / New Yorker:
The March for Our Lives Presents a Radical New Model for Youth Protest — The outcry against violence was delivered with a mix of pop sentiment, corporate coöperation, and an awareness of the socioeconomic privilege that allows certain voices to be heard louder than others.
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Citizen Times and Hullabaloo
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Students Lead Huge Rallies for Gun Control Across the U.S. — WASHINGTON — Standing before vast crowds from Washington to Los Angeles to Parkland, Fla., the speakers — nearly all of them students, some still in elementary school — delivered an anguished and defiant message: They are …
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Axios, CNN, Political Wire and TalkLeft
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
NRA host taunts Parkland teens: ‘No one would know your names’ if classmates were still alive … As they've stepped out of the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and into the national spotlight, the Parkland, Fla., teenagers have become Twitter influencers …
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Outside the Beltway, Daily Wire, Eschaton and Law & Crime
HuffPost:
The March For Our Lives Is Proof That Generation Z Can't Be Stopped
The March For Our Lives Is Proof That Generation Z Can't Be Stopped
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AOL, RealClearPolitics and CBS News
NBC News:
At March For Our Lives, survivors lead hundreds of thousands in call for change
At March For Our Lives, survivors lead hundreds of thousands in call for change
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Associated Press, USA Today, The Week, Bloomberg, NBC News, The Moderate Voice, Mediaite and The Trace
Washington Post:
‘Never again!’ Students demand action against gun violence in nation's capital
‘Never again!’ Students demand action against gun violence in nation's capital
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New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Politicus USA, AOL and Politico
Tucker Carlson / RealClearPolitics:
The Problem With David Hogg and the Parkland Students
The Problem With David Hogg and the Parkland Students
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RedState and ThinkProgress
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
For Parkland Students, a Surreal Journey From ‘Normal’ to a Worldwide March
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Trump to make ‘one or two major changes to his government’ soon: President's friend — A friend of President Donald Trump said that when he spoke to him yesterday the president said Trump told him “he's expecting to make one or two major changes to his government very soon,” but “that's going to be it.”
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Politico, Political Wire and Mediaite
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Associated Press:
Trump is staffing — or casting— from Fox — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's favorite TV network is increasingly serving as a West Wing casting call, as the president reshapes his administration with camera-ready personalities. — Trump's new national security adviser, John Bolton …
Washington Post:
Trump friend says president told him to expect one or two more major personnel changes … WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A friend of President Trump said Sunday that the president has told him that he expects to make one or two more major personnel changes in his administration soon …
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
In a burst of tweets, Trump insists that he's happy with his legal team … President Trump ran through a litany of topics in a series of tweets early Sunday, commenting on a recent attack by a gunman in France, explaining why he believes a wall will still be constructed along the southern border despite …
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Axios, WSVN-TV, Daily Caller News Foundation and The Week
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
A Domestic Budget to Make Barack Obama Proud — President Obama finally got a Republican-controlled Congress to fund his domestic budget. All it took was Donald Trump in the White House to get it done. — In the $1.3 trillion spending bill that President Trump reluctantly signed on Friday …
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones — Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook's algorithms know who you called. — This past week, a New Zealand man was looking through the data Facebook had collected from him in an archive he had pulled down from the social networking site.
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Mashable, The Verge and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
Stormy Daniels, Trump's Unlikely Foe, Is ‘Not Someone to Be Underestimated’ — One by one, the honorees came forward to be recognized: the wounded veteran, the tech executive and the noted porn star. — It was the 10-year reunion for Scotlandville Magnet High School's Class of 1997 in Baton Rouge …
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Washington Monthly and The Daily Beast
Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
Armed white men showed up to intimidate kids at #MarchForOurLives rallies — it didn't work — Nationwide protests swept America today, as a teenager-led protest against the epidemic of mass shootings. — But as with most protests, there were counter-protests.
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G Salisbury / City & State PA:
Sources: US Rep. Costello to drop out of PA-6 race before May primary — Sources have told City&State PA that Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello has decided not to seek reelection in Pennsylvania's hotly contested Sixth Congressional District. — Despite filing petitions on Tuesday to run …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Bolt the Oval Against Bolton — WASHINGTON — It's unnerving covering a president who is treated like a boy king, requiring minders; who is easily swayed because he is underinformed; who can sit still only long enough for short oral briefings; who swaggers and mocks to mask his insecurities …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump-Russia, by the (misleading) numbers — Lately Democrats have accused Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee of prematurely shutting down the Trump-Russia investigation without interviewing many key witnesses. The committee “obtained either no or incomplete information …
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RedState
Ryan Glasspiegel / The Big Lead:
CBS Sports Boss Sean McManus: Kentucky Loss “Really Hurt Us” [AUDIO] — One thing that we have generally reflexively known about the NCAA Tournament is that while a flurry of upsets makes for an exciting first few rounds, the elimination of blue blooded programs takes some of the juice out of the later rounds.
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Kentucky Sports Radio
Harry Enten / CNN:
Activists are marching, but the public hasn't punished GOP in polls for inaction on guns — Students prepare to ‘march for their lives’ — (CNN)In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, the public's support for stricter gun laws shot up to levels not seen in 25 years.
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Front Page Magazine and Hullabaloo
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Dakin Andone / CNN:
11-year-old speaks up for the black girls whose stories don't make the front page
11-year-old speaks up for the black girls whose stories don't make the front page
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Mediaite
Siva Vaidhyanathan / New York Times:
Don't Delete Facebook. Do Something About It. — On March 16, as the buzzer sounded in perhaps the worst upset in N.C.A.A. tournament history, and my beloved University of Virginia went down to the 16th-seeded University of Maryland, Baltimore County, I had one thought: I need to deactivate my Facebook account.
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Gizmodo and Bloomberg, more at Mediagazer »
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The Guardian:
The Brexit whistleblower: ‘Did Vote Leave use me? Was I naive’ — Shahmir Sanni, a volunteer for the Vote Leave, the official pro-Brexit EU referendum campaign, explains how a company linked to Cambridge Analytica played a crucial role in the result, and voices his concerns …
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