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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations — Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions. Demands for refunds spiked. Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared. But the money helped keep Donald Trump's struggling campaign afloat.
BBC:
Jordan's Prince Hamzah bin Hussein ‘under house arrest’ — The former crown prince of Jordan says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics. — In a video passed to the BBC by his lawyer, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the half-brother of King Abdullah …
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Jordanian royal detained in alleged plot against King Abdullah II — Jordanian authorities detained the kingdom's former crown prince and arrested nearly 20 other people Saturday after what officials called a “threat to the country's stability.” — Prince Hamzah bin Hussein …
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Associated Press, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The National Interest, New York Post and KRDO
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Georgia political fallout of MLB's decision to move the All-Star Game — An AJC analysis — Major League Baseball's decision to pull the All-Star game from metro Atlanta in protest of the state's new election law could have profound political implications in Georgia. Let's unpack some of them here:
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Fox News, Page Array, New York Times, Daily Kos and Occupy Democrats
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Peter Aitken / Fox News:
Hank Aaron's grandson slams Kelly Loeffler over tweet on All-Star Game — Raynal Aaron said his grandfather would be ‘disappointed’ — Gov. Kemp: ‘Unfortunate’ MLB has caved to ‘cancel culture’ over Georgia voting law — Hank Aaron's grandson had some harsh words for Greater Georgia …
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Raw Story, Fox Business and Insider
SHG / Simple Justice:
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
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USA Today, New York Times and Talking Points Memo
Stephen L. Miller / spectator.us:
Woke capitalism comes to Georgia...but not China
Woke capitalism comes to Georgia...but not China
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Townhall, The Federalist and Louder With Crowder
Aaron Holmes / Insider:
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online — The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum. — The data includes phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and biographical information.
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Axios, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Breitbart and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The shameless revisionism of the Capitol attack cannot be allowed to take root — Come Tuesday, it will be three months since supporters of Donald Trump staged a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. — Not much time at all, really. But the former president and his enablers have been hard …
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UPI, FOX31 Denver and New York Magazine
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Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
We Have All Hit a Wall — Confronting late-stage pandemic burnout, with everything from edibles to Exodus. — Like many of us, the writer Susan Orlean is having a hard time concentrating these days. “Good morning to everyone,” she tweeted recently, “but especially to the sentence I just rewrote for the tenth time.”
Washington Post:
HP, Dow, Under Armour among nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states — After Georgia, voting rights activists call for corporate pushback against proposed voting bills in Texas and dozens of other states. — Nearly 200 companies on Friday joined …
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CNBC, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mother Jones, Insider and Vox
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Jacob Jarvis / Newsweek:
Laura Ingraham Warns Corporations of ‘Wrath of GOP’ Over Georgia Voting Law
Khristopher J. Brooks / CBS News:
Activists are calling on big companies to challenge new voting laws. Here's what they're asking for.
Activists are calling on big companies to challenge new voting laws. Here's what they're asking for.
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The Daily Caller, Mediaite, RedState, TheBlaze, Twitchy and CBS Chicago
Joann Muller / Axios:
Supersonic travel is about to make a comeback — In a few years, it might be possible to fly from Washington, D.C., to Paris in four hours — instead of eight — or from San Francisco to Tokyo in just six hours aboard a new crop of supersonic jets. — Why it matters: High-speed air travel promises …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Georgia's Election Law, and Why Turnout Isn't Easy to Turn Off — Making voting convenient doesn't necessarily translate into more votes, research shows. — There's nothing unusual about exaggeration in politics. But when it comes to the debate over voting rights, something more than exaggeration is going on.
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The Triad, Kevin Drum, NPR, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Daily Caller, G. Elliott Morris's Newsletter and Raw Story
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Study declares AOC one of the least effective members of Congress — She's the queen of Twitter — but less successful at lawmaking. — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the least effective members of the last Congress according to a new survey from the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking …
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Mike Freeman / USA Today:
The gutless Atlanta Braves put themselves on the wrong side of history — If you want to know what courage looks like, look at Major League Baseball right now. They saw the naked, jingoistic racism of voter suppression in Georgia, and in response, decided to move this year's All-Star game from the state.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
'The Narrative Is, “You Can't Get Ahead"' — In Evanston, Illinois, a Black parent and school-board candidate takes on a curriculum meant to combat racism. — Staff writer at The Atlantic — Ndona Muboyayi wants to improve the education that public-school children, including her son and daughter …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / Associated Press:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Johnson & Johnson Put in Charge of Plant That Ruined Millions of Vaccine Doses — The Baltimore contract plant ruined millions of doses of another vaccine. The U.S. is averaging over 3 million vaccine doses a day for the first time. — RIGHT NOW For 36 minutes on Saturday, Broadway was open.
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New York Times, CBS Baltimore, Washington Post and GOV.UK
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Biden revokes Trump's sanctions on International Criminal Court — President Biden on Friday revoked the sanctions imposed by his predecessor on officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Secretary of State Tony Blinken said in a statement. — Why it matters: Biden had promised …
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Just Security, New York Times and Common Dreams
About Amazon:
Our recent response to Representative Pocan — On Wednesday last week, the @amazonnews Twitter account tweeted the following back to Representative Mark Pocan: … This was an own-goal, we're unhappy about it, and we owe an apology to Representative Pocan. — First, the tweet was incorrect.
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BuzzFeed News:
Derek Chauvin's Lawyer Said “Angry” Bystanders Were A Threat To Cops. Here's What The Videos Actually Show. — Eric Nelson has characterized the people who witnessed George Floyd's death, including three teens and a 9-year-old girl, as a threat to officers. But videos from the scene tell a different story.
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CNN:
Republican congresswomen revoke endorsements of Texas GOP candidate after ‘hurtful and untrue’ comments about Chinese immigrants — (CNN)Two Republican congresswomen are revoking their endorsements of Texas GOP congressional candidate Sery Kim after she said that she didn't want potential Chinese immigrants in the United States.
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Dallas Morning News, The Hill, Raw Story, TheBlaze, Washington Post and The Intellectualist
Raya Jalabi / Reuters:
Kerry: U.S. ‘hopeful’ it can work with China to tackle climate change — DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said the United States was hopeful it could work with China to tackle climate change, despite longstanding disagreements that have affected the bilateral relationship.
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The Hill and New York Post