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Brian Stelter / CNN:
ADL calls on Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson over racist comments about ‘replacement’ theory — New York (CNN Business)The Anti-Defamation League is calling for Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson. — “Given his long record of race-baiting, we believe it is time for Carlson to go,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt says.
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The new lies of the GOP and Tucker Carlson — Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat), a frequent contributor to CNN Opinion, is professor of history at New York University and the author of “Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.” Read her newsletter “Lucid.” The views expressed here are her own.
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Media Matters for America:
White nationalists praise Tucker Carlson's full embrace of their “replacement” conspiracy theory — On the April 8 broadcast of Fox News Primetime, Tucker Carlson offered perhaps his most explicit justification yet for the core belief of the so-called “great replacement” conspiracy theory …
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Media Matters for America
Max Boot / Washington Post:
How do the immigrants who run Fox feel about Tucker Carlson's anti-immigrant rants?
How do the immigrants who run Fox feel about Tucker Carlson's anti-immigrant rants?
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Media Matters for America and HuffPost
Suzanne Scott / Anti-Defamation League:
ADL Letter to Fox News Condemns Tucker Carlson's Impassioned Defense of “Great Replacement Theory”
ADL Letter to Fox News Condemns Tucker Carlson's Impassioned Defense of “Great Replacement Theory”
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Informed Comment, The Daily Beast, Forbes, The Hill, HuffPost, Deadline and New York Times
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
By 5-4 Vote, Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on Prayer Meetings in Homes — The court shifted direction in cases on Covid-related limits on religious services after Justice Amy Coney Barrett replaced Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court late Friday night lifted …
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RedState, National Review, Althouse and Fox News
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court strikes another pandemic-related restriction on religious services — In another late-night ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday blocked another California coronavirus restriction on religious gatherings, saying the state's limits on home-based Bible-study and prayer sessions violated constitutional rights.
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Townhall and Washington Examiner
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
How an online ‘Lego’ gamer infiltrated the White House press corps — Four times in recent weeks, members of the White House press corps have relayed questions to press secretary Jen Psaki from someone claiming to be a fellow reporter who was not able to be there in the room due to Covid protocols.
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Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Kamala Harris MIA on border crisis
Kamala Harris MIA on border crisis
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Slow Boring and Occupy Democrats
New York Times:
White House Border Coordinator to Step Down
White House Border Coordinator to Step Down
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Politico, Los Angeles Times, The White House, Bloomberg, IJR, Townhall, Washington Post, The Western Journal, Breitbart, Fox News, UPI, Washington Examiner, TheBlaze, CNN, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Twitchy and Political Wire
Emma Ockerman / VICE:
Cops Caught on Video Holding a Black Army Lieutenant at Gunpoint, Then Pepper-Spraying Him — When Lt. Caron Nazario said he was afraid to get out of the vehicle, one officer responded, “Yeah, you should be.” — EO — Caron Nazario was driving his newly-purchased Chevy Tahoe home …
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The Hill, Virginian-Pilot, abc7NY and Digby's Hullabaloo
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Inside the Fight for the Future of The Wall Street Journal — A special team led by a high-level manager says Rupert Murdoch's paper must evolve to survive. But a rivalry between editor and publisher stands in the way. — The Wall Street Journal is a rarity in 21st-century media: a newspaper that makes money.
Detroit Free Press:
Workers weary, patients angry, as COVID-19 fills Michigan hospitals — again — With an eye on his father's bloodied face, Barry Jensen began punching numbers into his cellphone from the hospital emergency room. — His 90-year-old dad had fallen on a gravel driveway. His glasses were broken.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Red states are vaccinating at a lower rate than blue states — (CNN)One of the biggest obstacles in America's race to vaccinate against the coronavirus has been that substantial proportions of certain groups choose not to vaccinate. — The polling has suggested all along that Republicans …
CNN:
Texas GOP chairman Allen West falsely says Texas could secede from the US: ‘We could go back to being our own Republic’ — (CNN)Texas Republican Party chairman Allen West falsely suggested that Texas could secede from the United States and become an independent country, a CNN KFile review of his comments in recent months shows.
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POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite and Mock Paper Scissors
The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Surfaces at Trumpy Summit to Declare 'I'm Built for the Battle' — SCANDAL? WHAT SCANDAL? — Amid a new ethics investigation, Rep. Matt Gaetz reemerged on Friday night to ignore the saga of scandals and deliver MAGA boilerplate. — After 10 days of relentless developments …
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Jacob Finkel / The Atlantic:
Trump's Power Won't Peak for Another 20 Years — The Trump presidency may be over, but the Trump era has only just begun—at least when it comes to influence over the nation's courts. Measured solely by the number of judges he appointed, Donald Trump's impact is staggering: 234 judges …
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Outside the Beltway
Clare Foran / CNN:
‘An existential threat’: The Republicans calling for their party to reject QAnon conspiracy theories — (CNN)Republican Rep. Peter Meijer has a warning for his party: He fears baseless conspiracy theories like QAnon will destroy the GOP from within if Republicans don't decisively …
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Patterico's Pontifications
New York Times:
‘A Tremendous Complication’: G.O.P. Dances Around Trump's Lingering Presence — A gathering of Republican leaders and top donors in Florida this weekend is less a reset of priorities and more a reminder of the tensions that Donald J. Trump instills in his party.
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HuffPost, The Gateway Pundit, Axios and Oil City News
Kathy Frankovic / YouGov:
Half of vaccine rejectors believe it is safe to travel now, compared to 29% of vaccinated adults — Economist/YouGov Poll Politics & current affairs — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now say it is safe for fully vaccinated Americans to travel.
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Outside the Beltway, HotAir, National Review and Mediaite
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Christina Maxouris / CNN:
Analysis: Covid-19 vaccinations are climbing. But familiar mistakes could lead to more misery
Analysis: Covid-19 vaccinations are climbing. But familiar mistakes could lead to more misery
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The Atlantic
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
State Department revokes security clearance for acting chief of staff to UN ambassador — A top aide to the U.S. envoy to the United Nations has stepped aside after her security clearance was revoked, according to two people familiar with the matter. — Jennifer Davis, the de facto chief …
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Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
Police Say an Antifa Activist Likely Shot at Officers. His Gun Suggests Otherwise. — Investigators said that Michael Reinoehl probably opened fire before officers killed him last year. But some key evidence raises questions about that conclusion. — SEATTLE — When a U.S. Marshals …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
High number of Trump political appointees sought permanent jobs in final year — The number of political appointees who sought permanent positions in the final year of former President Donald Trump's term outpaced the number who did so under his predecessor during the same time frame, according to documents obtained by NBC News.
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Raw Story
CNN:
Nearly 40% of Marines have declined Covid-19 vaccine — Washington (CNN)Nearly 40% of US Marines are declining Covid-19 vaccinations, according to data provided to CNN on Friday by the service, the first branch to disclose service-wide numbers on acceptance and declination.
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New York Post
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump faces a narrow path to victory against Facebook suspension — If former President Donald Trump manages to get back on Facebook and Instagram this month, his win will rest on a series of close calls. — Facebook's oversight board is expected to rule in the coming weeks on whether …
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Harriet Alexander / Daily Mail:
BLM founder is branded a ‘FRAUD’ after buying a $1.4 million home in an upscale mostly white enclave in LA — Patrisse Cullors, 37, has bought an expansive property in Topanga Canyon — The district in which the BLM founder will now live is 88% white and 1.8% black
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Townhall
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon takes step toward new screening procedures to weed out extremists — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is moving to set up new screening procedures at the Pentagon as part of an effort to weed out extremists in the military, according to a memo released Friday.
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Outside the Beltway, Politico and Associated Press
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
A Truce Proposal In The Trans Wars — There is a compromise available. Here's one version. — 10 hr ago — If we were going to construct a test-case for how dysfunctional our politics have become, it would be hard to beat the transgender issue. It profoundly affects …
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Alternet.org and New York Times
PR Newswire:
Joe diGenova Apologizes To Former CISA Director Chris Krebs — WASHINGTON, April 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — On November 30, 2020, I appeared on the Howie Carr Show. During the show, I made regrettable statements regarding Christopher Krebs, which many interpreted as a call for violence against him.