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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.
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Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
MLB requires photo ID to pick up tickets from Will Call, but boycotts Georgia for voter ID law — South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace called the league out on Twitte — Beating Up on Georgia — Major League Baseball responded to calls to boycott the state of Georgia over a controversial …
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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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New York Magazine, NBC New York, Fox News and Daily Kos
James Wagner / New York Times:
Baseball Joins Other Sports in Flexing Its Activist Muscles
Baseball Joins Other Sports in Flexing Its Activist Muscles
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NPR and Simple Justice
Peter Aitken / Fox News:
Hank Aaron's grandson slams Kelly Loeffler over tweet on All-Star Game
Hank Aaron's grandson slams Kelly Loeffler over tweet on All-Star Game
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Insider, Raw Story and Fox Business
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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Associated Press, Al Jazeera, New York Times, NPR and Bloomberg
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Jordanian royal detained in alleged plot against King Abdullah II
Jordanian royal detained in alleged plot against King Abdullah II
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The Guardian, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Los Angeles Times and The National Interest
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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CNN, The Guardian and New York Times
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
U.S. Taps Johnson & Johnson to Run Troubled Vaccine Plant
U.S. Taps Johnson & Johnson to Run Troubled Vaccine Plant
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Political Wire
Joe Concha / The Hill:
WokeWorld comes for ‘oppressor’ Obama: Activists rip school being named after ‘deporter in chief’ — They came for Washington. Then Jefferson. Then Lincoln. Then (checks notes) Dianne Feinstein. — So, it's no surprise that the woke mob would eventually come for the nation's …
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Two Korean Americans in Congress pull endorsements of Sery Kim over her comments on Chinese immigrants — Kim, a GOP candidate to replace Ron Wright in in Texas' 6th Congressional District, says she'll continue to speak the truth about the Chinese government.
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New York Times:
Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say — Declining infection rates over all masked a rise in more contagious forms of the coronavirus. Vaccines will stop the spread, if Americans postpone celebration just a bit longer. — For weeks, the mood in much of the United States has been buoyant.
Washington Post:
Police crackdowns on illicit massage businesses pose harms to the women they aim to help — Undercover officers sometimes engage in sexual contact with spa workers during stings, records show, which trafficking experts say dehumanizes the women and has spurred calls to set limits on police
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Mike Huckabee Posts Anti-Asian Tweet Amid Spike in Racist Attacks — 'AIN'T AMERICA GREAT?' — Mike Huckabee joked on Saturday that he would now “identify” as Chinese, mocking both LGBTQ people and Asian-Americans simultaneously. The Fox News contributor wrote, “I've decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese.
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Jason Farago / New York Times:
What a Tiny Masterpiece Reveals About Power and Beauty — Images: Chitarman, “Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait,” recto: 1627-28 and verso: circa 1530-50/Metropolitan Museum of Art; “Uttaradhyayanasutra,” circa 1460/Victoria and Albert Museum; Bhairavi Ragini …
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Marginal REVOLUTION
Washington Post:
How Joe Biden tamed the left — at least for now — Joe Biden launched the early months of his presidency with a one-two combination that's gone a long way toward taming the party's restive left wing: Listen a lot, and back many of the policies that activists have long wanted.
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The Hill and Political Wire
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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Bloomberg, The Guardian, Axios, Cyprus Mail, Breitbart and New York Post, more at Techmeme »
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
'The Narrative Is, “You Can't Get Ahead"' — Ndona Muboyayi wants to improve the education that public-school children, including her son and daughter, receive in Evanston, Illinois, where her mother's family history goes back five generations. — As a candidate for the school board in District 65 …
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Reality catches up with propaganda channel — Eleven Fox programs whine about press conference treatment as Dominion lawsuit drops — Ask not for whom the world's tiniest violin plays — it plays for Fox News. Three months ago the network's hosts enjoyed unprecedented political power …
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New York Magazine and littlegreenfootballs.com
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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Washington Examiner and Slate
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.
MSNBC:
Rep. Anna Eskamani on voicemail from Matt Gaetz, Joel Greenberg: ‘Another day as a woman in politics’ — Regarding a voicemail from Matt Gaetz and Joel Greenberg, Rep. Anna Eskamani says she ‘absolutely got the feeling that it was very much an attempt at an intimate conversation.’ Eskamani also says …
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