Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed  —  Snarky tweets targeting Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren came after the CEO told execs they weren't pushing back hard enough on critics.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  Amazon has long been at odds …

Donald Trump Rails on Biden During Wedding Speech at Mar-a-Lago  —  DONALD TRUMP MAR-A-LAGO WEDDING SPEECH ... Enough About The Couple, Let's Talk About Me … It's been over 4 months since the November election, and Donald Trump is still acting like a sore loser — that, or a belligerent wedding guest.

Family groups crossing border in soaring numbers point to next phase of crisis  —  The Biden administration's attention along the Mexico border has been consumed for the past several weeks by the record numbers of migrant teenagers and children crossing into the United States without their parents …

'He's toast': GOP leaves Raffensperger twisting in the wind  —  The former president is obsessed with defeating him next year.  He's getting mauled by his own state party.  Last week alone, a Republican congressman announced he'd challenge in the primary and the state legislature voted to strip his office of some official powers.

French philosopher Michel Foucault ‘abused boys in Tunisia’  —  The philosopher Michel Foucault, a beacon of today's “woke” ideology, has become the latest prominent French figure to face a retrospective reckoning for sexually abusing children.  —  A fellow intellectual, Guy Sorman …

POLITICO Playbook: Dissension inside The Washington Post  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  It was supposed to be an upbeat town hall to rally the newsroom, as Washington Post leaders highlighted their moves to defend reporter SEUNG MIN KIM from internet trolls.  But sources tell us the March 16 Zoom meeting …

University of Oxford considers scrapping sheet music for being ‘too colonial’ after staff raise concerns about music curriculums' ‘complicity in white supremacy’ after Black Lives Matter movement  — Professors set to reform music courses to move away from the classic repertoire

Inside America's Most Interesting Magazine, and Media's Oddest Workplace  —  The publication of the “Harper's letter” attracted huge attention.  Most people had stopped reading the magazine, which is stranger and better than you might expect.  —  Last August, when the pandemic seemed endless …

Cases in Florida, a national Covid bellwether, are rising — especially among younger people.  —  Scientists view Florida — the state furthest along in lifting restrictions, reopening society and welcoming tourists — as a bellwether for the nation.  —  If recent trends there are any indication …

The Unlikely Team of Prosecutors Hunting Trump in Georgia … The public integrity unit at the Fulton County District Attorney's office once had a miserable reputation.  Now, a new crew there is investigating the biggest target of them all.  —  A sheriff's deputy who went to law school but remained a cop for another two decades.

Insurrection fundraiser: Capitol riot extremists, Trump supporters raise money for lawyer bills online  —  Brenna Smith Jessica Guynn Will CarlessUSA TODAY  —  Defendants accused in the Capitol riot Jan. 6 crowdfund their legal fees online, using popular payment processors and an expanding network …

The Week in Fascism  —  On Claremont and Tucker  —  I was recently teased by a friend that my Substack was “all about Nazis,” which I don't think is entirely fair, but I have to admit is some truth to it.  I'm sorry, but they keep coming up!  —  I would like very much to move past the …

‘Vaccine passports’ are on the way, but developing them won't be easy  —  White House-led effort tries to corral more than a dozen initiatives  —  The Biden administration and private companies are working to develop a standard way of handling credentials — often referred to as …

Birx recalls ‘very difficult’ phone call from Trump following her Covid-19 warnings  —  (CNN)Dr. Deborah Birx revealed in a CNN documentary clip released Sunday that she received a “very uncomfortable” and “very difficult” phone call from Donald Trump after speaking publicly about the spread …

Joe Biden is a paradigm shifter  —  The great Civil War historian James McPherson once explained why the most articulate voices of an era — the politicians, the journalists, partisans of various kinds — often dominate how a period is understood.  “It is the squeaky wheel,” he wrote, “that squeaks.”

Panetta's assessment of Biden's first days  —  Joe Biden is off to an auspicious start with passage of his $1.9 trillion COVID Relief bill, has made excellent appointments, and generally has struck the right tone.  Now is when trouble is likely.  —  That's not just the view of a hack pundit.

Parler explains ‘free speech’ to angry users after sharing Capitol riot posts with the FBI  —  Parler tried to throw Facebook under the bus.  Now the right wing social network's users are angry.  —  Just as Congress was finishing up grilling the CEOs of Facebook, Google …

The Biden do-over: Democrats get a chance to try again on Obama defeats  —  Barack Obama, facing pressure from both parties, worked to keep his stimulus package under $1 trillion.  Joe Biden launched his presidency by spending about $2 trillion and hopes to bump it up to $5 trillion.

Biden to unveil major new spending plans as Democrats eye bigger role for government  —  The president is set to unveil key components of infrastructure reform, and the early contours of his 2022 budget  —  President Biden this week is set to begin sketching out his plan to commit trillions …

What happened in Wuhan?  Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus  —  A lack of transparency from Chinese officials and looming geopolitical consequences have damaged the credibility of a WHO-led inquiry into how the virus that causes COVID-19 originated.  Lesley Stahl reports.

‘Double Down’: Swing-District Democrats Embrace Biden Agenda  —  Many in the party see stimulus checks, an infrastructure plan, and tax hikes on the rich as key to winning working-class votes.  —  Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan could be forgiven if he wanted to break with early parts of President Joe Biden's agenda.

Defense Department Hires A ‘Diversity And Inclusion’ Officer Who Compared Trump To Hitler  —  The official hired this month to oversee U.S. Special Operations Command's office of diversity and inclusion compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in a photo posted to Facebook last year.

‘The Iowa caucuses are on’: Republicans say early political trips reinforce plans for 2024 caucus  —  Mike Pompeo rattled off a list of his accomplishments as Secretary of State under former President Donald Trump, touted his Midwest roots and took nearly an hour of questions from a roomful of eager Iowa Republicans.

For Atlanta Shooting Victims, American Life Was Often a Lonely Struggle  —  Many of the slain women of Asian descent were striving to make ends meet  —  ATLANTA—Seven days after Daoyou Feng was shot and killed at the spa where she worked, her body lay unclaimed in a morgue in the Atlanta area.

Bills to ban transgender kids from sports try to solve a problem that doesn't exist  —  Opinion by Megan Rapinoe … I remember how I felt when I played soccer for the first time.  Long before I was winning World Cup matches, I was trying to keep up with my brother.

Inside Myanmar's Army: ‘They See Protesters as Criminals’  —  Four officers spoke about life in the feared Tatmadaw, which has turned its guns on civilians again.  For most soldiers, one said, “The Tatmadaw is the only world.”  —  Capt. Tun Myat Aung leaned over the hot pavement in Yangon …