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Todd Frankel / Washington Post:
More than a hundred corporate executives hold call to discuss halting donations and investments to fight controversial voting bills — More than 100 chief executives and corporate leaders gathered online Saturday to discuss taking new action to combat the controversial state voting bills …
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POLITICUSUSA, Slate and HillReporter.com
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Charles Sykes / Politico:
No, the GOP and the Dems Haven't Actually Swapped Brains
No, the GOP and the Dems Haven't Actually Swapped Brains
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Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Fox News and HotAir
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump slashes at McConnell as he reiterates election falsehoods at Republican event
Trump slashes at McConnell as he reiterates election falsehoods at Republican event
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Why We're Freaking Out About Substack — A company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions. — Danny Lavery had just agreed to a two-year, $430,000 contract with the newsletter platform Substack …
Associated Press:
‘Suspicious’ blackout strikes Iran's Natanz nuclear site — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's underground Natanz nuclear facility lost power Sunday just hours after starting up new advanced centrifuges capable of enriching uranium faster, the latest incident to strike …
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The Guardian, Reuters, The Times of Israel, Breitbart, American Military News, Al Jazeera, The Week, MyNorthwest.com and New York Post
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New York Times:
Blackout Hits Iran Nuclear Site in What Appears to Be Israeli Sabotage — The power failure comes at a delicate time, with talks underway in Vienna to restore the 2015 nuclear deal. — The Natanz nuclear facility in Iran mysteriously lost power on Sunday in what Iranian officials called …
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, UPI and The Times of Israel
Sune Engel Rasmussen / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Says Its Foes Targeted Nuclear Plant to Derail Potential Talks With U.S.
Iran Says Its Foes Targeted Nuclear Plant to Derail Potential Talks With U.S.
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The Times of Israel, Bloomberg and The Guardian
Jerusalem Post:
'Mossad behind cyber attack against Iran's Natanz nuclear facility'
'Mossad behind cyber attack against Iran's Natanz nuclear facility'
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Al Arabiya, Slate, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Times of Israel, Al Jazeera and HotAir
CNN:
Incident at Iran's Natanz facility a ‘terrorist action,’ nuclear chief says
Incident at Iran's Natanz facility a ‘terrorist action,’ nuclear chief says
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Washington Examiner and KDFX-TV
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon chief declares ‘ironclad’ US commitment to Israel
Pentagon chief declares ‘ironclad’ US commitment to Israel
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The Times of Israel, Washington Examiner and The Hill
New York Times:
‘Like the Tiger King Got Elected Tax Collector’: Inside the Case That Ensnared Matt Gaetz — Joel Greenberg, a onetime local official in Florida, is accused of an array of crimes, including bribery, stalking and corruption. — LAKE MARY, Fla. — Long before the F.B.I. began to scrutinize …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, WKMG, HuffPost, New York Magazine and justoneminute.typepad.com
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: GOP donors privately pan Trump's ‘horrible’ RNC speech — DRIVING THE DAY — A slew of well-heeled Republican National Committee donors descended on Palm Beach this weekend, excited to be schmoozed, eager for access to DONALD TRUMP and other potential 2024 nominees …
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Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
How Trump Unleashed a Domestic Terrorism Movement—And What Experts Say Must Be Done to Defeat It — “He tells them what to do. He tells them why they're angry.” — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
‘White Lives Matter’ rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up — In semi-private, encrypted chats, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists planned rallies in dozens of cities on Sunday to promote their racist movements and spread their ideologies to larger audiences.
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TheGrio, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times, more at Mediagazer »
Rachel Chason / Washington Post:
Virginia governor calls for investigation into police pepper-spraying of Black Army officer — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Sunday he is directing Virginia State Police to investigate a traffic stop during which two police officers held an Army second lieutenant at gunpoint in the southeast part of the state.
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Associated Press:
China admits that it's COVID-19 vaccine isn't very effective: official — BEIJING — In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to give them a boost.
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Washington Post, HotAir, Breitbart, National Review, The Guardian and Fox News
New York Post:
Never Trump conservatives are complicit with Team Biden's moral outrages and norm-breaking — Remember Never Trump? — For four years, an influential clique of think tankers, Republican operatives and talking heads claimed that any conservative who supported Donald Trump was complicit with a uniquely malevolent presidency.
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Vox Media to Buy Owner of Preet Bharara's Podcast — Bharara, a former Manhattan U.S. attorney, will join Vox Media as a host and creative director — Vox Media said it is acquiring Cafe Studios Inc., publisher of a popular podcast hosted by former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Twitter Censors Criticism of BLM Founder Buying $1.4 Million Home In Predominantly White Neighborhood — We have been discussing the expanding censorship on Twitter and social media. The latest example involves the story of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37 …
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We Love Trump, RedState and New York Post
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Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' million-dollar real-estate buying binge
Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' million-dollar real-estate buying binge
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Breitbart, Twitchy, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, We Love Trump, RedState, TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit, unz.com, Daily Mail and Townhall
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
Welcome to Galaxy Brain — Why I'm leaving (The) New York (Times). — Hello! Hi! I have a new job — you're looking at it. Welcome to Galaxy Brain, my humble internet outpost. I am terribly excited. Before I arrived here, I spent a few great years as a writer at large for the New York Times Opinion section.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
NY Times beclowns itself by normalizing court-packing ‘to balance the conservative majority’ — “Breaking News: President Biden will create a panel to study expanding the Supreme Court in an effort to balance the conservative majority created by Donald Trump.”
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Charlie Kirk, We Love Trump and The Gateway Pundit
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Respectfully, Justice Breyer, court enlargers aren't the problem
Respectfully, Justice Breyer, court enlargers aren't the problem
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TheBlaze and Alternet.org
Jean Guerrero / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: The media's whitewashing of Stephen Miller's white nationalism — Stephen Miller, the former Trump White House senior advisor and speechwriter from Santa Monica, has gone back to the California conservative playbook for his next act: launching a legal group that co-opts social justice strategies to fight social justice.
Lateshia Beachum / Washington Post:
Maskless Florida woman who coughed on Pier 1 customer gets 30 days in jail — A Florida woman who, without wearing a mask, purposefully coughed on another customer in a Pier 1 store last year has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. — Debra Hunter, 53, will serve time in Duval County jail …
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Axios and Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
Congress should stop attacking DeJoy and consider his plan to fix the Postal Service — LAST YEAR was a rough one for the U.S. Postal Service. Relentlessly bashed by then-President Donald Trump, the Postal Service landed in election-year controversy when Mr. Trump's choice for postmaster general …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Joe Manchin beats his chest for D.C. elites while struggling W. Va. waits for help | Will Bunch — Jeanne Peters moved to Wood County, W. Va., from Atlanta more than two decades ago seeking to launch an e-commerce business while breathing in some of what has kept families in the isolated Mountain State …
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Washington Post, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Talking Points Memo and The Guardian
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Biden pollster urges blunt tax talk — The top pollster for Joe Biden's presidential campaign is advising the White House to do something that often makes Democrats nervous: Talk loudly and proudly about raising taxes on the rich. — Why it matters: John Anzalone tells Axios his extensive polling …
Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
Of hate, crimes and hate crimes: Anti-Asian violence is not quite what city pols want it to be — Flipping through the paper on Friday, you could read about: — A young Asian man who was at the Home Depot in East New York when a man brandished a two-by-four and asked his girlfriend, “Why you with that little d—k Asian n—
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: Trump campaign boosted by unsuspecting state GOPs — Federal regulators are probing financial reporting discrepancies stemming from an effort to funnel $75 million through state Republican parties to the national GOP effort to reelect Donald Trump, Axios has learned.
CNN:
‘We cannot go back to normal’: Boston's Mayor Kim Janey sees a mandate for racial equity in post-Covid era — Boston (CNN)For 200 years, Boston has been led by an unbroken string of White men — until now. Kim Janey, a Black woman who traces her roots in the city back generations …
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The Hill