Top Items:
Denver Post:
Boulder shooting: Gunman kills at least 6, including police officer, at King Soopers — A gunman opened fire inside a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder on Monday afternoon, killing at least six people, including a police officer, and sending shoppers fleeing for their lives.
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
Boulder Shooting Leaves Six Dead, Including Police Officer — Law enforcement had reported an active shooter at a Colorado King Soopers grocery store Monday afternoon — A gunman killed at least six people, including a police officer, Monday afternoon at a supermarket in Boulder, Colo. …
Discussion:
CNN, The Hill, New York Times, CBS News, CBS Denver, NPR, Crime Online, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and Breaking911
Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
10 people dead, including police officer, after shooting at Colorado grocery store … Ten people are dead, including a police officer, after a shooting Monday at a Colorado grocery store that the state's governor called an “unspeakable tragedy.” — Eric Talley, 51, was an 11-year veteran …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
Police: Multiple people killed at Colorado supermarket — BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A shooting at a Colorado supermarket killed multiple people Monday, including a police officer, and a suspect was in custody, authorities said. — Boulder police Cmdr. Kerry Yamaguchi said at a news conference …
Discussion:
Denver Post, Crime Online and Raw Story
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden Team Prepares $3 Trillion in New Spending for the Economy — A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive. — WASHINGTON — President Biden's economic advisers …
RELATED:
Washington Post:
White House prepares massive infrastructure bill with universal pre-K, free community college, climate measures — White House officials are preparing to present President Biden with a roughly $3 trillion infrastructure and jobs package that includes high-profile domestic policy priorities …
Discussion:
Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Bloomberg, The Hill and Breaking911
Evan Perez / CNN:
Former Capitol riot prosecutor's comments on Trump alarm new no-drama Justice Department — (CNN)Attorney General Merrick Garland is quietly ushering in a change in tone at the Justice Department, making few public comments and staying out of sight — and unlike his predecessor — eschewing commentary about ongoing investigations.
Discussion:
Raw Story
RELATED:
C. Ryan Barber / Insider:
A Trump-appointed prosecutor blindsided the Biden DOJ with a ‘60 Minutes’ interview on the Capitol riot cases — A Trump-appointed federal prosecutor surprised DOJ officials with a ‘60 Minutes’ interview about the Capitol riots. — Justice Department officials were infuriated …
Discussion:
NBC News, The Root, TheGrio, New York Magazine and Vanity Fair
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
USPS chief DeJoy said to cut post office hours, lengthen delivery times in 10-year-plan — The postmaster general is expected to announce his long-awaited strategic initiative, one that is expected to raise prices and diminish delivery standards. — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will unveil …
Discussion:
New York Magazine and Raw Story
Shawna Chen / Axios:
Sidney Powell moves to dismiss Dominion lawsuit — Sidney Powell, the pro-Trump lawyer who spread baseless claims of election fraud, moved Monday to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against her. — What she's saying: Powell argues in her motion that “no reasonable person” …
Discussion:
Law & Crime, Washington Examiner, Just The News and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Marcia Brown / American Prospect:
Did CNN Air a Staged Migrant Crossing of the Rio Grande? — An unusual video has been flagged by activists as deliberately manufactured to present a story of a border crisis, possibly with the participation of the Border Patrol. — CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera gestures toward …
Discussion:
TheBlaze, CANNONFIRE, POLITICUSUSA and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Inside a crowded border patrol tent in Donna, Texas
Scoop: Inside a crowded border patrol tent in Donna, Texas
Discussion:
Fox News, New York Post, NBC News, The Texas Tribune, HotAir, Daily Mail, BuzzFeed News, Washington Free Beacon, The Gateway Pundit, National Review, RedState, Chicks On The Right, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, The Hill, ABC News, TheBlaze, Breitbart, The Week, Alpha News, IJR, Metro.co.uk, ImmigrationProf Blog, The Daily Signal, Mediaite, illegal immigration …, Townhall, Washington Post, Twitchy and CNN
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Rep. Filemon Vela to retire from House ahead of Texas redistricting
Rep. Filemon Vela to retire from House ahead of Texas redistricting
Discussion:
The Hill, Fox News, Breitbart, Daily Kos, The Texas Tribune, CNN, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post, Political Wire and National Review
WAFB-TV:
11 National Guard Soldiers transporting vaccines held at gunpoint in West Texas, suspect arrested — Idalou Police responded to the scene — LUBBOCK COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) - An Arizona man has been arrested after he cut off and held at gunpoint a caravan of National Guardsmen transporting COVID-19 vaccines …
Discussion:
Salon and POLITICUSUSA
Aída Chávez / The Nation:
How Kyrsten Sinema Sold Out — The origin story of the Senate's newest super villain. — In 2002, The Arizona Republic published a letter from Kyrsten Sinema, then a social worker preparing to run for a seat in the state House of Representatives, putting forth a critique of capitalism.
Isaac Arnsdorf / ProPublica:
Mo Brooks Compared Biden's Election to the Start of the Civil War. Now He Wants a Senate Seat. — The Alabama Republican led the fight to overturn election results. On Jan. 6, he spoke to the crowd that later stormed the Capitol, resulting in five deaths. Brooks blamed antifa.
Discussion:
New York Magazine, al.com and Bloomberg
RELATED:
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Mo Brooks launches Senate bid in Alabama
Mo Brooks launches Senate bid in Alabama
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Mo Brooks spotlights support for Trump as he launches Alabama Senate bid
Mo Brooks spotlights support for Trump as he launches Alabama Senate bid
Discussion:
CNN, Associated Press and The Daily Caller
Freddie deBoer:
It's All Just Displacement — Blue checkmarks are mourning bad careers in a broken industry … Media Twitter does not hate Substack because it's pretending to be a platform when it's a publisher; they don't hate it because it's filled with anti-woke white guys; they don't hate it because of harassment or any such thing.
RELATED:
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Sovereign Writers and Substack
Sovereign Writers and Substack
Discussion:
The Triad, more at Mediagazer »
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden first president in decades to have first-pick Cabinet secretaries confirmed — (CNN)President Joe Biden is the first president in more than 30 years to have all of his original Cabinet secretary nominees confirmed to their posts. — The Senate confirmed the final nominee …
Discussion:
HuffPost, Washington Post, The Guardian and Raw Story
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Secrets Philip Roth Didn't Keep — Roth revealed himself to his biographer as he once revealed himself on the page, reckoning with both the pure and the perverse. — “The Ghost Writer” was published in 1979. It was the first of nine novels by Philip Roth narrated by Nathan Zuckerman.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Trump predicted news ratings would 'tank if I'm not there.' He wasn't wrong. — Of all Donald Trump's prophecies and predictions — that Mexico would pay for a border wall, that coronavirus would spontaneously disappear, that he would be easily reelected — at least one wasn't entirely wrong.
Discussion:
Mediaite, POLITICUSUSA, HotAir, The Hill and RedState, more at Mediagazer »
Eric Garcia / Washington Post:
Trump, My Dad and the Rightward Shift of Latino Men — Why are Latino men moving away from Democrats? And how can liberals win them back? For me, it's a topic that hits close to home. — In 2016, my dad, Charlie Garcia — a third-generation Mexican American and lifelong Republican …
Heritage Foundation:
Heritage Foundation President, Executive Vice President Announce Resignations … WASHINGTON — After serving as The Heritage Foundation's leadership team for the last three years, President Kay C. James and Executive Vice President Dr. Kim R. Holmes have announced their resignations.
Discussion:
Breitbart, The Hill, The Daily Caller and The Daily Signal
RELATED:
Holly Brewer / Backbencher:
The divine right of wingnuts
Associated Press:
Cops' posts to private Facebook group show hostility, hate — PITTSBURGH (AP) — In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs who took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters …
Discussion:
The Root, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Hill and Associated Press
Jesse Singal / Singal-Minded:
GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated) — This is infuriating — I should be able to keep this short because these are not difficult errors to correct. In fact, anyone who has read my work at all wouldn't have made them.
Mark Guarino / Washington Post:
Evanston, Ill., leads the country with first reparations program for Black residents — CHICAGO — The nation's first government reparations program for African Americans was approved Monday night in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, action that advocates say represents a critical step …
Discussion:
Chicago Sun-Times and New York Times
Nolan Rappaport / The Hill:
Are Democrats really serious about passing a DREAM Act in 2021? — The Democrats have been introducing DREAM Acts for 20 years. Some of them have passed in the House, and others have passed in the Senate, but none has passed both. Their most recent attempt just passed in the House …
Discussion:
Washington Post
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated — In case you needed another reason to get your COVID-19 vaccination, Krispy Kreme is sweetening the deal — it's giving free doughnuts to anyone with proof of vaccination, all year long.
Discussion:
USA Today, KNSD-TV, Business Wire, HotAir and CBS Denver
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
White House yanks Interior nominee after Murkowski opposition — The White House has withdrawn its nomination of Elizabeth Klein to become the Interior Department's deputy secretary, as the Biden administration faced push back from Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, sources familiar with the situation said Monday.
Discussion:
The Hill
Sinéad Baker / Insider:
A police detective filed for divorce from his wife after she was photographed with another man at the Capitol riot — A police detective filed for divorce from his wife after she took part in the January Capitol riot. — The FBI said Jennifer Heinl was inside the Capitol rotunda and was photographed with another man.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, TheGrio, Fox News and The Sun
Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
National trackers say D.C. is among the worst vaccinators in the U.S. The reality is more complicated. — When D.C. residents awaiting coronavirus vaccinations turn to trackers that show the state-by-state progress of inoculations, they see alarming numbers.
Discussion:
Politico and Washington Monthly
CREW:
Betsy DeVos made at least $225 million while education secretary … Betsy DeVos reported at least $225 million — and potentially well over $414 million — in outside income while working as Donald Trump's education secretary, according to an analysis of DeVos's financial disclosures by CREW.
Discussion:
Forbes
Callum Borchers / WBUR:
Kim Janey Becomes First Black Woman To Lead Boston — Kim Janey shattered two historic barriers when she became acting mayor of Boston Monday evening: She is both the first woman and the first person of color to lead the city. — Janey, a Black woman, was elevated from city council president …
Discussion:
Spectrum Bay News 9
Tom LoBianco / Insider:
Trump advisors expect ex-president's Twitter alternative to run on a new platform built by Brad Parscale — Trump may use Parscale platform for social media effort, two Republicans close to the former president say. — Trump has been teasing his new social media effort.
Discussion:
Politico, New York Post, Political Wire, Washington Post and Chicks On The Right
David Harsanyi / National Review:
Sorry, Stacey Abrams, H.R. 1 Exemplifies the Need for the Filibuster — The entire nation's voting system could be changed, top to bottom, by 51 senators without even a debate. — Democratic Party folk hero and conspiracy theorist Stacey Abrams recently argued that the filibuster is a bigoted relic that should be abolished.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The dumbing down of the D.C. statehood debate — There are valid, philosophical reasons to argue that Washington, D.C., should not be a state or have voting rights in Congress — chief among them being that it was created as a federal district. — But as the House held a hearing on the topic Monday …
Discussion:
HillReporter.com, The American Independent, USA Today, Washington Examiner, Forbes, CNN, Wall Street Journal and Political Wire
Thomas Novelly / Post and Courier:
Securing a presidential pardon is rare. But SC's Sen. Tim Scott landed one for his cousin. — In the waning days of Donald Trump's presidency, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott secured a pardon for a pastor he applauded for becoming a model citizen after being convicted in a cocaine bust in the 1990s.
Discussion:
Raw Story
fmprc.gov.cn:
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Announces Sanctions on Relevant EU Entities and Personnel — The European Union (EU) imposed unilateral sanctions on relevant Chinese individuals and entity on March 22, citing the so-called human rights issues in Xinjiang. This move, based on nothing but lies …
Discussion:
South China Morning Post, GOV.UK, Axios, consilium.europa.eu and Politico
Mitch McConnell / Courier-Journal:
The filibuster is Kentucky's veto. It stops radical ambitions like Yarmuth's — Congressman John Yarmuth likes to pretend he knows me. He talks to reporters and writes in these pages as if he's some sort of “McConnell-whisperer.” That's a full day's drive from reality.
Discussion:
RedState, HillReporter.com, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, IJR, Wall Street Journal and CNN
Nancy Rommelmann / Reason:
The Dream of the '90s Died in Portland — A typical night in Portland 2020. The sun is down and a few hundred people, nearly all in their 20s and 30s, start to congregate, by twos and threes, at a prearranged location, usually a city park but sometimes at the U.S. Immigration and Customs building …