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10:05 PM ET, March 4, 2019

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Alana Goodman / Washington Examiner:
AOC's chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies  —  Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed …
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Daily Mail:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mom hopes daughter marries her boyfriend  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mother Blanca now lives in Florida and her Trump-supporting neighbors don't know the Democrat star is her daughter.
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
Ocasio-Cortez And Her Chief Of Staff ‘Could Be Facing Jail Time’ If Their Control Over PAC Was Intentionally Hidden, Former FEC Commissioner Says  — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a top aide appear to control an outside PAC credited with being the central force behind her June 2018 primary victory.
Discussion: TheBlaze, Daily Wire and New York Post
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House Dems will take floor action to confront Omar's latest Israel comments  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats will take floor action Wednesday in response to controversial remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar about Israel, the second such rebuke of the freshman Democrat from party leaders in recent weeks.
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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Ilhan Omar is the Steve King of the left  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar has, yet again, angered many House Democrats and Jewish groups by making anti-Semitic comments over the weekend.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the rest of the leadership need to realize that Omar (D-Minn.) has become their party's version of Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).
James Kirchick / Washington Post:   Jeremy Corbyn is thoroughly indecent
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Ilhan Omar is using President Trump's playbook
Discussion: Breitbart, Roll Call and Townhall
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Nancy Pelosi promotes Rolling Stone cover with Ilhan Omar as she continues to spread anti-Semitism
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Townhall and RedState
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Making of the Fox News White House  —  Fox News has always been partisan.  But has it become propaganda?  —  In January, during the longest government shutdown in America's history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through Hidalgo County, Texas, eventually stopping on a grassy bluff overlooking the Rio Grande.
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James Comey / Washington Post:
Republicans are wrong.  Transparency is possible in the Mueller investigation.  —  James Comey is a former director of the FBI and a former deputy attorney general.  —  Attorney General William P. Barr will decide how much of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's findings and conclusions …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Whitaker out at Justice Department  —  Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has left the Department of Justice.  —  A Justice Department spokesman told The Hill that Whitaker's last day was Saturday but did not expand on the circumstances surrounding his departure or his plans after leaving.
Discussion: Axios, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Trump's New Attorney General Won't Recuse Himself in Mueller Probe
Discussion: Breitbart
Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Matthew Whitaker, former acting attorney general, leaves Justice Department
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Matthew Whitaker has left the Justice Department
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Whether you call it impeachment or pre-impeachment, the Trump accountability era is here
emptywheel:
Puzzling Through the House Requests
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic  —  Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first permanent remission 12 years ago.  With the so-called London patient, they seem to have succeeded.
Discussion: The Stranger
Ben Collins / NBC News:
On Amazon, a Qanon conspiracy book climbs the charts — with an algorithmic push  —  The book is currently No. 9 in all books about politics and No. 1 in all books about “Censorship,” one slot ahead of Ray Bradbury's “Farhenheit 451,”  —  A book that pushes the conspiracy theory Qanon climbed within …
more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Lawyer for Cohen Approached Trump Attorneys About Pardon  —  An attorney for Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, raised the possibility of a pardon with attorneys for the president after federal agents raided Mr. Cohen's properties in April, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says  —  WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes …
Discussion: emptywheel and Lawfare
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It's Underpaying Many Men  —  SAN FRANCISCO — When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups, it found that more men than women were receiving less money for doing similar work.
bronx.news12.com:
'I'm not running': Hillary Clinton rules out 2020 bid for first time on camera in exclusive interview with News 12  —  NEW YORK -  —  Hillary Clinton ruled out a 2020 presidential run for the first time on camera in an exclusive interview with News 12, pledging instead to take an active role …
Discussion: Townhall and New York Times
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“We're F—ked.  Gavin Is Going to Get Jeff Back Together with MacKenzie": Inside the Bezos Affair, a Tale of Love, Lust, Uncertainty, and Way More Complexifiers Than Previously Imagined  —  “At the end of this, we're all going to look really, really bad,” says Michael Sanchez.
more at Mediagazer »
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Pro-Trump Conspiracy Peddler Jerome Corsi Apologizes to Seth Rich's Family  —  Corsi retracted a column parroting the baseless conspiracy that Rich and his brother hacked the DNC in 2016  —  WASHINGTON - The family of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer whose unsolved murder …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, emptywheel and Mediaite
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Jerome Corsi retracts and apologizes for 2018 story promoting Seth Rich conspiracy theory
Lee Davidson / Salt Lake Tribune:
The lengthy legal fight over Utah election law is over as U.S. Supreme Court refuses to accept GOP appeal  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ended five years of legal battles by the Utah Republican Party to quash a 2014 election law that allows candidates to qualify for the ballot …
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate Republicans leave Khashoggi briefing dissatisfied  —  Senate Republicans on the Foreign Relations Committee appeared dissatisfied with a Trump administration briefing Monday on the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi.  —  The briefing came after the Trump administration …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
'Where are the women's teams?':  Trump ignores women's champions in White House sports ceremonies  —  President Trump on Monday became the first president since Bill Clinton to play host to a college football team that won a title in the NCAA's secondary division when he feted the North Dakota State Bison at the White House.
Discussion: The Hill, The White House, IJR and Politico
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
HUD Secretary Ben Carson says he intends to leave his post at the end of President Trump's term  —  Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson says he intends to leave his post at the end of President Trump's term.  —  Carson made his remarks in a segment airing Monday evening on Newsmax TV, a conservative news outlet.
Sister Toldjah / RedState:
Martina Learns That Nothing Short of Total Surrender Will Appease Transgender Activists  —  Tennis great Martina Navratilova is learning the hard way that apologizing to militant transgender activists is not - and will never be - enough.  —  On Sunday, Navratilova used her personal website …
Discussion: Outsports, NB Blog and Instapundit
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The left's embrace of modern monetary theory is a recipe for disaster  —  We've seen this movie before.  —  There is widespread frustration with the performance of the economy.  Traditional policy approaches are not delivering hoped-for results.  A relatively unpopular president is loathed …
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Record number of families, cold reality at border  —  In a dusty lot along the U.S.-Mexico border fence, a single Border Patrol agent was stuck with few options and falling temperatures.  —  A group of 64 parents and children had waded through a shallow bend in the Rio Grande to turn themselves in to the agent on the U.S. side.
HuffPost:
Steve King Promotes White Nationalist On Twitter ... For The Third Time  —  The congressman from Iowa quote-tweeted Faith Goldy, a Canadian white nationalist who once recommended a book calling for the “elimination of Jews.”  —  For the third time in less than a year, Rep. Steve King …
 
 
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Thousands Of Ex-Felons Just Got The Right To Vote Back In Louisiana. There Are Still Big Obstacles.
Daniel Jativa / Washington Examiner:
Adam Schiff says there is ‘direct evidence’ of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia
Washington Post:
John Bolton puts his singular stamp on Trump's National Security Council
Lamar White, Jr / The Bayou Brief:
District Director for U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins at the Center of Alleged Human Trafficking Ring
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Keeps Pushing Deal to Send Nuclear Tech to Saudis
 Earlier Items: 
Adele M. Stan / American Prospect:
Liar, Racist, Cheat: This is Your President, America — With the CPAC Seal of Approval
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Shawn Donnan / Bloomberg:
Evidence Grows That Trump's Trade Wars Are Hitting U.S. Economy
Discussion: Vanity Fair and New York Times
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Trump Told Cohen to Lie to Congress About “Collusion” in General—Not just the Moscow Tower deal
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New Yorker
Garrett M. Graff / New York Times:
How Giuliani Might Take Down Trump
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Eric H. Holder Jr / Washington Post:
Eric Holder: I won't run, but I will fight to elect the right Democratic president
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumped 50%+ after hours
 
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