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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Faces New Claims of Sexual Harassment From Current Aide  —  The aide, Alyssa McGrath, accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of ogling her body, remarking on her looks, and making suggestive comments to her and another woman in his office.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — He called her and her co-worker “mingle mamas.”
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Wall Street Journal:
Cuomo Accused of Inappropriate Behavior by Fifth Female Aide
Discussion: The Week
Tracy Quan / Los Angeles Times:
Don't forget — the Atlanta shooting is a hate crime against sex workers  —  Eight people were killed in Atlanta last Tuesday.  We have no shortage of explanations, including the perpetrator's version, which many refuse to accept.  Eros, rebranded and vilified as sex addiction, inspired a homicidal atrocity.
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May Jeong / New York Times:
The Deep American Roots of the Atlanta Shootings  —  The victims lived at the nexus of race, gender and class.  —  May Jeong is a writer at Vanity Fair and an Alicia Patterson fellow.  She is at work on a book about sex work.  —  Among the first things I did upon learning about the shootings …
CNN:
Glory days of Trump's gold-plated 757 seem far away as plane sits idle at a sleepy airport  —  Washington (CNN)Trump's personal Boeing 757 was always the crown jewel of his wealth — the ultimate sign that he had made it.  He's used it as a backdrop for sleek photo shoots, campaign rallies …
Associated Press:
Trump's Mar-a-Lago partially closed due to COVID outbreak  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, has been partially closed after staff members tested positive for the coronavirus.  —  That's according to several people …
Robby Soave / Reason:
The Media Got It Wrong: Police Captain Didn't Say the Atlanta Spa Killer Was Having a ‘Bad Day’  —  A moment from the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office press conference on Wednesday quickly went viral: Jay Baker, a spokesperson for the police department handling the investigation …
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Washington Post:
Surveillance video shows Atlanta suspect entered first spa more than an hour before shooting  —  The suspect in the shootings at three Atlanta-area spas entered Young's Asian Massage more than an hour before gunfire was reported at the business, the beginning of a rampage that left eight people dead …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Bannon battling prosecutors who won't dismiss his case after Trump's pardon  —  NEW YORK — Stephen K. Bannon, the firebrand political strategist and ex-confidant to former president Donald Trump, is fighting to get his federal fraud case formally dismissed over the strong objection of prosecutors …
Sonny Bunch / Bulwark+:
Zack Snyder's Justice League, Reviewed  —  Are the four hours worth your time?  —  12 hr ago  —  For the easiest way to understand the difference between Joss Whedon's version of Justice League and Zack Snyder's version of Justice League, consider the following.
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
How a Sham Candidate Helped Flip a Florida Election  —  The candidate and the man who prosecutors say recruited him to play spoiler in a Florida Senate race last year were both arrested this week.  —  MIAMI — The recruitment of the sham candidate began with a Facebook message at around 4 a.m. on May 15, 2020.
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Ron Johnson is a racist  —  It used to be that racists at least tried to hide their identities, lest they bring shame upon their friends, families and communities.  —  But thanks to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), we've now seen what a racist looks like.  —  Undoubtedly, Johnson would swear he's nothing of the sort.
Wall Street Journal:
Sen. Susan Collins Sees ‘Poor Strategy’ in White House Rebuffing GOP  —  Biden says he values bipartisanship, yet the centrist Maine Republican says she feels frustrated  —  WASHINGTON—When a Democratic administration pursued an economic stimulus package in 2009, Republican …
Andrew Davis / Bloomberg:
Summers Says U.S. Facing Worst Macroeconomic Policy in 40 Years  —  Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that the U.S. is suffering from the “least responsible” macroeconomic policy in the last 40 years, pointing the finger at both Democrats and Republicans for creating “enormous” risks.
Thomas Frank / The Guardian:
Liberals want to blame rightwing ‘misinformation’ for our problems.  Get real  —  In progressive circles these days, there is a palpable horror of the uncurated world, of thought-spaces flourishing outside the consensus  —  ne day in March 2015, I sat in a theater in New York City …
Jill Tucker / San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco school board member criticized for racist tweets in 2016 aimed at Asian Americans  —  A civil rights group founder, political leaders, parents and alumni called Friday for a San Francisco school board member to resign after critics highlighted a series of racist tweets she posted …
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Davey Alba / New York Times:
How Anti-Asian Activity Online Set the Stage for Real-World Violence
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story
Erik Maulbetsch / Colorado Times Recorder:
Promoting QAnon-linked Conspiracy, Boebert Says Resignations Will Soon Allow GOP to Control Congress  —  Congresswoman Lauren Boebert put a Q-flavored cherry atop an already controversial town hall last Monday night, when she claimed to have insider knowledge of a QAnon-linked conspiracy theory promoted …
Governor Kristi Noem / South Dakota State News:
Governor Noem Returns HB 1217 to Legislature, Suggests Style and Form Changes  —  PIERRE, S.D. - Today, Governor Noem returned HB 1217 to the South Dakota Legislature with Style and Form suggestions.  Specifically, the Governor suggests four Style and Form changes to address …
Kyle Shideler / The American Mind:
Making Americans Your Enemies  —  How the government shifted its “Counter-Extremism” strategy to target the mainstream.  —  The narrative is here, and it doesn't like you very much.  —  In recent remarks before members of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, the chief …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Louisiana House Race Sets Up a Democratic Showdown in New Orleans  —  The first competitive special congressional election of 2021 will unfold on Saturday, with two rival Democrats poised for a runoff to succeed the Biden adviser Cedric Richmond.  —  DONALDSONVILLE, La. …
Discussion: Washington Post
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive: Pro-Biden group won't disclose donors  —  A Pro-Biden group, operating with the White House's blessing, plans to raise unlimited funds — and grant donors anonymity — as it prepares to promote and protect the president's agenda from the outside.  —  Why it matters …
Michael Kruse / Politico:
How Ron DeSantis won the pandemic  —  FLORIDA MAN — Ron DeSantis wants you to know how well he has done.  —  “We've had tremendous success,” the Republican governor of Florida said recently at a vaccine site in Sumterville in the central part of the state when I caught up with him while reporting …
Associated Press:
‘An all-hands moment’: GOP rallies behind voting limits  —  On an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights.  —  Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters …
Discussion: Insider and Political Wire
David Siders / Politico:
Gavin Mussolini, the ‘Superhero Pirate’ and the Ragtag Campaign that Could Take Down California's Governor  —  CULVER CITY, Calif.—  The on-air bulb lit red.  Strains of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' “Californication” rolled through the introduction.  And inside the studio at KABC-AM …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily News
National Review:
Iran Probably Already Has the Bomb.  Here's What to Do about It  —  We can start by figuring out how to defend ourselves.  —  Washington's policy-makers are being misled by the intelligence and defense communities that are grossly underestimating the nuclear threat from Iran, just as they did with North Korea.
Discussion: Washington Post
CNN:
Inside why all lawmakers still aren't vaccinated after months of access to shots on the Hill  —  (CNN)As the political fight over vaccinations continues around the country, CNN has learned that several members of Congress still have not been vaccinated despite having had access to the vaccine on Capitol Hill since December.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Neil Gorsuch Supports an Originalist Theory That Would Destroy Modern Governance  —  On Thursday, the Columbia Law Review published one of the most important and topical scholarly articles in recent memory, Delegation at the Founding.  Its authors, Julian Davis Mortenson and Nicholas Bagley …
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
Platforms vs. PhDs: How tech giants court and crush the people who study them  —  Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout.  —  “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during one of several frantic phone calls, “this is my nightmare.”
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Wife of FBI task force member arrested in connection with Capitol riot  —  The wife of a detective attached to an FBI task force in Pittsburgh was charged for allegedly taking part in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.  —  Jennifer Marie Heinl, 55, was charged in an FBI criminal complaint filed …
National Review:
National Review Prevails against Michael Mann  —  The D.C. superior court granted National Review's motion to dismiss climate scientist Michael Mann's long-running defamation suit.  —  More than 8 years ago, Mann launched the suit against NR, writing privately that he saw it as an opportunity to “ruin” this “filthy organization.”
 
 
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Mnuchin blocking Trump tax returns from Congress was unprecedented, Treasury response reveals
CNN:
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy found out he had Covid-19 and never knew it
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