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7:30 PM ET, March 18, 2021

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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets  —  The hiring of Alexi McCammond, who was supposed to start at the Condé Nast publication next week, drew complaints because of racist and homophobic tweets she had posted a decade ago.  —  Alexi McCammond, who made her name …
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The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue's New Top Editor Out After Backlash Over Old Racist Tweets  —  The Condé-owned outlet's new editor has exited the job just days before she was set to take on the gig. … Just days before she was set to begin the job, Teen Vogue's new editor-in-chief is out at the publication …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Intel revelations raise difficult questions for several Republicans  —  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) this week released a declassified intelligence community assessment on foreign threats to our 2020 elections, and the top-line takeaway was important …
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William Saletan / Slate:
A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset  —  Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States.  That's been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence …
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Russia Erupts in Fury Over Biden's Calling Putin a Killer
Reuters:
‘It takes one to know one’ Putin retorts after Biden says he thinks he is a killer
Associated Press:
Biden to meet with Stacey Abrams on trip to Georgia  —  During his visit to Atlanta on Friday, President Joe Biden will meet with former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who has been widely credited with helping flip the former Republican stronghold blue.
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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
A Private Jet of Rich Trumpers Wanted to “Stop the Steal”—But They Don't Want You to Read This  —  These powerful Memphis figures reveal the rift in a segregated society.  —  At 12:11 p.m. on January 5, an eight-seat Bombardier Challenger 300 jet took off from Memphis International Airport.
CNN:
House Democrats weigh ejecting GOP winner of contested Iowa race, dismissing comparisons to Trump's efforts to overturn election  —  (CNN)House Democrats are undeterred by the mounting GOP criticism over their review of a contested congressional race that could potentially overturn …
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CNN:
McCarthy tries to rewrite history by claiming that he didn't back Trump's efforts to overturn the election  —  McCarthy claims he never backed Trump's effort to overturn election  —  (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried to rewrite history on Thursday by claiming that he was not involved …
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
73 House Democrats Push To Expel Marjorie Taylor Greene From Congress
Discussion: Washington Times
Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Washington Field Office Releases Videos of Assaults on Officers at U.S. Capitol, Seeks Public's Help to Identify Suspects  —  The FBI's Washington Field Office has released new information and videos of suspects in the most egregious assaults on federal officers during the riots …
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Politico:
Ted Cruz releases holds on Biden nominees as administration looks to get tough on Russia pipeline  —  Sen. Ted Cruz lifted his holds on two of President Joe Biden's top nominees on Thursday after the State Department indicated it would punish entities involved in the construction of a controversial Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline.
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Senate confirms William Burns to be next CIA director after Cruz lifts hold
Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:
FBI Cuomo Probe Seeks Details on Deal to Shield Nursing Homes from COVID Lawsuits  —  FBI investigators probing the Cuomo administration's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic last spring are seeking information about a state budget provision that gave operators legal immunity, THE CITY has learned.
Sinéad Baker / Insider:
Dan Bongino says Biden is ‘boring’ and ‘a disaster for talk radio’ but that he'll do his best against him anyway  —  The letter F. An envelope.  It indicates the ability to send an email.  An image of a chain link.  It symobilizes a website link url.  A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting.
Kyle Horan / WTVF-TV:
Bill would remove all members of the historical commission  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Not even two weeks after the historical commission voted to remove the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol, state senators are trying to vote to remove all members from the commission.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:   TN GOPers Push To Sack Commission That Voted To Remove KKK Leader's Bust
Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Armie Hammer Being Investigated by LAPD After Woman Comes Forward With Violent Rape Allegation … The anonymous woman who first posted allegations against Armie Hammer on social media has publicly come forward.  —  “I thought that he was going to kill me,” the woman, named Effie …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Elizabeth Warren calls Senate filibuster racist  —  Signaling a coming case by progressives, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Axios the Senate's legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes for most legislation, wasn't a creation of the founding fathers.  —  What she's saying …
Rod Dreher:
Damon Young: To Stop White Supremacy, Eliminate Whites  —  Damon Young, a black writer for The Root, a black-oriented commentary site owned by the same people who own Jezebel, Gizmodo, and The Onion (their parent company is Univision), had this to say at The Root about the Atlanta massage parlor mass murders:
Washington Post:
Trump faces an onslaught of legal problems, as investigations and dozens of lawsuits trail him from Washington to Florida  —  The district attorney is sifting through millions of pages of his tax records.  The state attorney general has subpoenaed his lawyers, his bankers, his chief financial officer — even one of his sons.
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
The GOP's Political Nightmare: Running Against a Recovery  —  President Barack Obama's 2009 stimulus bill may have helped avoid a second Great Depression, but it was a political fiasco.  As then-congressman Barney Frank liked to say: “Things Would've Sucked Even Worse Without Us” …
New York Times:
U.S. to Send Millions of Vaccine Doses to Mexico and Canada  —  The Biden administration has been quietly pressing Mexico to ramp up its efforts to limit the flow of migrants, clinging to a Trump policy of relying on southern neighbors to enforce America's immigration agenda.
Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN:
Seriously, stop sharing your vaccine cards on social media  —  (CNN Business)When one of my editors recently shared a celebratory picture of his vaccine card on Instagram, I sent him a direct message: “Didn't you read our story about not posting your record?  Scammers are watching!”
Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
Judge Rules Some Ghislaine Maxwell Details Are Too ‘Sensational and Impure’ to Be Revealed to the Public  —  A federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday ruled on a series of redactions proposed by Ghislaine Maxwell and prosecutors regarding a compilation of transcripts submitted under seal by the government last month.
Discussion: Breitbart
Ben Leonard / Politico:
Zeldin gets testy when asked if Biden won election  —  “If you would like to give my answer for me, you can go ahead and do that.  But I thought I was going to be here to answer my own questions,” Zeldin said.  —  Rep. Lee Zeldin got testy with POLITICO Playbook authors Ryan Lizza …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Louisiana Man Indicted for Attempted Murder of a Gay Man and Plot to Kidnap and Murder Other Gay Men  —  A Louisiana man was indicted and charged today in federal court in the Western District of Louisiana on six counts, including hate crime, kidnapping, firearm and obstruction charges.
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Democratic Senate campaign arm raises $7.2 million in February, besting GOP group  —  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) pulled in more than $7 million last month, besting its GOP counterpart, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), as the two groups gear up for a high-stakes midterm election in 2022.
Discussion: Breitbart
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep. Extols Lynchings During Hearing on Anti-Asian American Violence  —  “There's an old saying in Texas about find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree.  You know, we take justice very seriously.  And we ought to do that.  Round up the bad guys.”
Joey Roulette / The Verge:
Biden to tap former Senator Bill Nelson as NASA chief  —  If confirmed, the former senator from Florida would helm NASA's return to the Moon  —  President Biden has tapped former Democratic Senator Bill Nelson for NASA administrator, according to three people familiar with the decision.
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
House passes legislation to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants  —  The vote to legalize “dreamers” was 228-197, with nine Republicans joining all the Democrats in support  —  White House limits media contact with Border Patrol amid migrant surge  —  The House of Representatives …
Annalee Newitz / The Hypothesis:
Here's why Substack's scam worked so well  —  They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative  —  I think of myself as having decent critical faculties, but somehow I got suckered again by a bog-standard publishing venture masquerading as a useful communications tool.
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy / Arizona Mirror:
Paul Gosar plans to go on a popular QAnon talk show  —  Weeks after Republican Congressman Paul Gosar gave a speech to a gathering of white nationalists, he is scheduled to appear on Patriots' Soapbox, a leading QAnon talk show.  —  “He has taken a stand against the conservative establishment …
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and Raw Story
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Not My Party: Boring But Radical  —  The fact that Republicans have been calling Biden radical and senile tells us more about them than him.  —  Slightly modified video transcript.  Watch the original and subscribe to “Not My Party” on Snapchat.  —  So it's the middle of March now …
Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair:
Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Down in Emotional Interview With Ady Barkan  —  The late-night host and the dying healthcare champion shared some laughs—then things took an emotional turn.  —  Jimmy Kimmel's job is to make people laugh at the end of a long day, but he has become just as well-known for moments of sincerity that break the heart.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court reinstates guilty verdicts against Flynn partner over Turkey lobbying  —  A federal appeals court has reinstated a jury's guilty verdicts on the business partner of former Trump administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn over the pair's lobbying for Turkish interests in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Maroosha Muzaffar / The Independent:
Outrage as 172 Republicans vote to oppose Violence Against Women Act  —  House of Representatives votes through bill to reauthorise Violence Against Women Act day after Atlanta spa shootings  —  One day after seven women were killed in attacks across three massage parlours in Atlanta …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Biden administration to rewrite family planning program rules  —  The Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it plans to write new rules for the Title X federal family planning program, effectively undoing an overhaul the Trump administration imposed that barred Planned Parenthood …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
David Bixenspan / MEL Magazine:
The Strange Saga of Lauren Boebert's Pro Wrestler Paternity Case  —  The gun-toting Colorado congresswoman rarely mentions her father, but in a trail of YouTube comments, she and her mother have singled out one man: 1980s journeyman tag-team specialist ‘Sweet’ Stan Lane
JM Rieger / Washington Post:
After years of ducking them, Republicans in 2021 find mean tweets disqualifying  —  For four years, Republicans had a go-to response for former president Donald Trump's tweets: They hadn't seen them, and they didn't want reporters to tell them about them.  —  But over the past two months …
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Financial Times:
The US vaccine effect: rapid rollout starts to bear fruit  —  Analysis of official figures shows sharper decline in hospitalisations and deaths of older people  —  The rapid rollout of Covid-19 vaccines across the US is starting to work, according to a Financial Times analysis of official data …
Discussion: CBS Chicago
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.  —  In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images.
 
 
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NBC News:
Biden poised to announce first wave of nominations to reshape U.S. courts
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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Showtime, ‘Comey Rule’ Team Developing U.S. Capitol Riot Limited Series
Discussion: Deadline and The Daily Caller
Joseph Loconte / National Review:
An American Defense of Britain's Constitutional Monarchy
J.D. Vance / Newsweek:
True ‘Compassion’ Requires Secure Borders and Stopping Illegal Immigration
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge tosses journalist's surveillance lawsuit against Rod Rosenstein
Emily Oster / The Atlantic:
Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma
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 Earlier Items: 
USA Today:
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Discussion: Vox, AsAmNews, WAGA-TV and NPR
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Republicans Block Bill To Protect Stimulus Checks From Debt Collectors
David Dayen / American Prospect:
First 100: Filibuster Reform's Greatest Champion Sees a Moment for Resolution
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
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Discussion: Fox News and Reason
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid's Partisan Errors
CBS San Francisco:
Witnesses: Elderly Asian Woman Beats Up Man Attacking Her In San Francisco