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10:55 AM ET, April 5, 2021

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Reuters:
Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event …
Discussion: Insider, Bulwark+ and Political Wire
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Shock Poll: Half of Republicans Believe False Accounts of January 6th Capitol Riots  —  A new poll out by Reuters and Ipsos reveals that half of all Republicans believe false accounts of the deadly insurrection on the Capitol building led by Trump supporters on January 6th.
Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
How the wealthy cut the line during Florida's frenzied vaccine rollout  —  Sharyn Alfonsi reports on corruption allegations clouding Florida's efforts to vaccinate its residents.  —  This past week, President Biden said 90% of U.S. adults will be eligible for the COVID vaccine by April 19 …
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Andrea Widburg / American Thinker:
CBS lies by omission about Governor Ron DeSantis  —  There are two loci of corruption in America: Academia and the media.  Academia churns out legions of indoctrinated young people, and the media churn out lies.  The latest example is the way that CBS edited a press conference …
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Florida governor clashes with “60 Minutes” over COVID vaccine rollout  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced a COVID-19 vaccine distribution partnership with Publix grocery stores weeks after the company gave $100,000 to his PAC, CBS' “60 Minutes” reported Sunday, citing campaign finance records.
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Cheney snags victories ahead of her next battle with Trumpworld  —  Rep. Liz Cheney took on the Trump wing of her party and survived its attempt to politically kneecap her.  But it's only the beginning of what looks like a yearslong fight for her place in the GOP.
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Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Is the Model GOP Representative: A Creep No One's Surprised About  —  If so many of his colleagues knew about his dirtiness, why are they only speaking up now and on background? … Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, a spoiled 38-year-old adult child of a wealthy Floridian …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and The Week
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
‘The 45th’: Why Trump is abandoning his iconic brand for a number  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump spent a lifetime putting his name on steaks to skyscrapers to stimulus checks, but now, the former president appears to be replacing the gold-plated surname with a number: 45.
Discussion: Raw Story
David Gelles / New York Times:
Inside Corporate America's Frantic Response to the Georgia Voting Law  —  Companies like Delta are caught between Democrats focused on social justice and populist Republicans.  They face major political consequences no matter what they do.  —  On March 11, Delta Air Lines dedicated a building …
Discussion: Detroit News and Daily Kos
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republicanleader.senate.gov:
McConnell: Corporations Shouldn't Fall for Absurd Disinformation on Voting Laws
Discussion: Townhall
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Facebook pledged to suspend political donations, then quietly funneled $50,000 to GOP group pushing voter suppression laws  —  On January 11, Facebook announced that “following last week's awful violence” it was suspending donations from its political committee “for at least the current quarter, while we review our policies.”
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive: Janet Yellen to call for global minimum tax rate  —  Janet Yellen will use her first major address as Treasury secretary to argue for a global minimum corporate tax rate, Axios has learned, as she makes the case for President Biden's plan to raise U.S. corporate taxes to fund his $2 trillion+ infrastructure plan.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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New York Times:
How White Evangelicals' Vaccine Refusal Could Prolong the Pandemic  —  Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19.  Tenets of faith and mistrust of science play a role; so does politics.  —  Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond …
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Progressives target Jim Cooper for primary challenge  —  Justice Democrats, the left-wing group that recruited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for Congress, has its eyes set on ousting another Democratic incumbent.  —  The organization will announce Monday that it is backing Democrat Odessa Kelly …
Discussion: Fox News, HuffPost, CNN and BuzzFeed News
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Stephen Elliott / Nashville Scene:
Odessa Kelly Takes Aim at Cooper ‘Dynasty’ in Congressional Primary Bid
Discussion: The Hill and American Prospect
Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
Satellite images show huge Russian military buildup in the Arctic  —  (CNN)Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe.
Marc Kovac / The Columbus Dispatch:
Danny O'Connor to run for U.S. House, removing another name from candidates for Portman's seat  —  Democratic Franklin County Recorder Danny O'Connor will not seek outgoing Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman's seat next year and is planning instead to run for the U.S. House.
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
Time back home with voters only emboldens Republicans to oppose Biden's agenda  —  A lifelong railroad aficionado, 74-year-old retiree Tony Benz has volunteered for nearly two decades helping passengers at the Amtrak station in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Mo.
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Why Is Major League Baseball Expected to Boycott Georgia, While Other Businesses Aren't?  —  This Thursday, the PGA Tour and Masters Tournament will begin in Augusta, Ga., despite the National Black Justice Coalition calling upon the PGA Tour and Masters Tournament to pull the upcoming event …
Discussion: The Federalist and HotAir
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The Lawyer Behind the Throne at Fox  —  Even before the company's C.E.O., Lachlan Murdoch, moved to Australia, Viet Dinh was seen as Fox's power center.  —  LOS ANGELES — In early 2019, as the Murdoch family completed the $71 billion sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney …
Bevan Hurley / Daily Mail:
NYC's top earners to pay the HIGHEST tax rates in the country under Gov Cuomo plan for $4.3BILLION of tax hikes to cover pandemic shortfall  — Under the so-called 'millionaire's tax', individuals earning more than $1 million or couples over $2 million will pay 9.65% state tax, up from 8.82%
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Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
New York Lawmakers Near Budget Deal to Raise Income, Corporate Taxes by $4.3 Billion
Discussion: Reason and New York Post
Karen Weise / New York Times:
Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds  —  The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers.  —  SEATTLE — Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its most prominent internal critics …
George Joseph / Gothamist:
He Spent 24 Years Behind Bars Because Queens Prosecutors Broke The Rules.  Was This Their Only Wrongful Conviction?  —  They came up at a time when prosecutors were expected to be tough, and this was one of the toughest offices around: Queens under District Attorney Richard Brown.
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Study: Republican control of state government is bad for democracy  —  New research quantifies the health of democracy at the state level — and Republican-governed states tend to perform much worse.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  In late March, Georgia passed a restrictive new voting law that …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden's border crisis  —  Democrats and the liberal media are policing the words we should use to describe the absolute catastrophe we're witnessing each day at the southern border.  They don't like “crisis” or “surge.”  —  So, let us propose this description: Joe Biden's fault.
Amos Harel / Haaretz:
Analysis |  Israel Returns to Sanity, but Ignores Rising COVID Infection in the West Bank and Gaza  —  While Israel has vaccinated tens of thousands of Palestinians, the vast majority remain unvaccinated at a time when Israel has surplus coronavirus vaccines.  It could all come back to haunt it
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Military Closes Failing Facility at Guantánamo Bay to Consolidate Prisoners  —  The move, which took place in a secret operation over the weekend, was conceived during the Trump administration to save on costs and troops at the remote base in Cuba.  —  U.S. military guards …
 
 
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
An Extraordinary Winning Streak for Religion at the Supreme Court
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Robert Spencer / Front Page Magazine:
‘Follower of Farrakhan’ Crashes Capitol Barricade, Charges Cops with Knife
Jack Beyrer / Washington Free Beacon:
US Allies Threatened By Russian Nukes Under Biden
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
U.S. Looks to Build on Secret Portions of Taliban Deal to Reduce Violence
Discussion: Slate
Meredith Conroy / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity
Washington Post:
India announces 100,000 new cases a day, first country to do so since United States
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Politico:
Inside the White House plan to sell its massive infrastructure proposal
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Ruben Navarrette Jr / The Daily Beast:
The Real Presidential Immigration Villain Is Bill Clinton
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Jun Mai / South China Morning Post:
China says decades of terrorism justify tough Xinjiang measures
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
Biden Effort to Combat Hunger Marks ‘a Profound Change’
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
American Greatness:
The Appeal of the New Totalitarians  —  It's easy to understand and reject the horrors of totalitarianism.
Washington Post:
Will school be back to normal this fall? Kind of, sort of, maybe.
Discussion: Twitchy
Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal:
If You Sell a House These Days, the Buyer Might Be a Pension Fund
 

 
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast plans to announce Wednesday that it will be spinning off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks including MSNBC and CNBC, with Mark Lazarus as CEO

Kanis Leung / Associated Press:
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai testifies for the first time in his years-long national security trial; he is already serving a jail term for a fraud conviction

Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The Economist, The Week, ITV News, and others have joined Bluesky in the past week, while Politico, Semafor, Tortoise have resumed their activity on the site

 
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