memeorandum: McCarthy confirms living arrangements with Luntz after tip to Tucker Carlson (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)

12:45 PM ET, May 4, 2021

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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:

Elected Republicans are lying with open eyes. Their excuses are disgraceful. — “Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!” — “Henry IV,” Part 1, Act 5 — For the activist base of the Republican Party, affirming that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential contest has become …

Discussion: HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA, Piecebusiness, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Townhall, CNN, Daily Kos, The Guardian and Outside the Beltway

Alayna Treene / Axios:

Scoop: GOP wants to replace Cheney with another woman — House Republicans are moving closer to ousting Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from leadership, and are already considering replacements — including Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) and Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), congressional aides tell Axios.

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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:

Kevin McCarthy: Master of Strategery — Pushing our Liz McCarthy makes it easier to turn 2022 into another referendum on Trumpism. — Kevin McCarthy, apparently, thinks that if he can stop Liz Cheney from talking about former President Trump's promotion of the election lies that led to the January 6 riot …

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CNN:
Cheney: What Trump did ‘is a line that cannot be crossed’

Melanie Zanona / Politico:
The pro-Trump Republican trying to upstage Cheney

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
From the GOP Leadership: Help Wanted - Non-Threatening Female

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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
When will Liz Cheney and the GOP break up?

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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Why Has Fox News Completely Ignored Trump and Liz Cheney's Battle Over ‘The Big Lie’?

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Chandelis Duster / CNN:
GOP candidate crushed after opposing Trump says party ‘not living up to this moment’

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Emma Green / The Atlantic:

The Liberals Who Can't Quit Lockdown — Lurking among the jubilant Americans venturing back out to bars and planning their summer-wedding travel is a different group: liberals who aren't quite ready to let go of pandemic restrictions. For this subset, diligence against COVID-19 remains …

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:

McCarthy confirms living arrangements with Luntz after tip to Tucker Carlson — Share to Facebook Share to Twitter — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) confirmed on Tuesday he rented a room from GOP pollster Frank Luntz during the coronavirus pandemic …

Discussion: Daily Mail, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and Mediaite

Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Tucker Carlson has a new GOP target

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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:

CNN's Don Lemon Slams Santorum's Non-Apology For Racist Comments: ‘It Was Horrible’ — CNN anchor Don Lemon raked former GOP senator-turned-CNN contributor Rick Santorum (R-PA) over the coals on Monday night after Santorum refused to apologize for his racist comments downplaying European settlers' genocide of Native Americans.

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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Furious’ Don Lemon Loses His Cool After Chris Cuomo Has Rick Santorum On

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:

Yamiche Alcindor Is Named Host of ‘Washington Week’ on PBS — She succeeds Robert Costa at a program best known as the longtime home of the anchor Gwen Ifill. — Last month, when Yamiche Alcindor learned she would become the next moderator of the PBS current-affairs show “Washington Week …

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WETA:
Yamiche Alcindor Named Moderator of Washington Week

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Robert Mendick / Telegraph:

MI6 spy Christopher Steele ‘produced second dossier on Donald Trump for FBI’ — The dossier is believed to be raw intelligence that makes claims of Russian meddling and sex tapes — The former MI6 spy Christopher Steele produced a second dossier for the FBI on Donald Trump while he was in the White House, sources told The Telegraph.

Discussion: Raw Story and Crooks and Liars

Insider:
Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele produced a 2nd unverified dossier about Trump while he was president, report says

Discussion: HotAir

BuzzFeed News: Flynn, Bannon, Manafort, Ivanka: Private Emails From Inside The Mueller Investigation

The Yeshiva World:

Former NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Has Been Released Early From Prison — Sources tell YWN that NY Assemblyman Sheldon Silver has been released from prison and is on his way home. He was released five years earlier than his six year sentence. His original release date was March 10, 2026.

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David Zweig / New York Magazine:

Experts: CDC's Summer-Camp Rules Are ‘Cruel’ and ‘Irrational’ — From the peak on January 8 to today, following the trajectory of new COVID cases in the U.S. is like a descent on the Matterhorn. The mortality rate has taken a similar plunge over the past few months.

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting … I. — At 8AM PT on Friday, a bleary-eyed Basecamp CEO Jason Fried gathered his remote workforce together on Zoom to apologize. Four days earlier, he had thrown the company into turmoil by announcing that …

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Luke Nozicka / Kansas City Star:

White supremacist who killed 3 at Jewish sites in Overland Park dies in Kansas prison — A white supremacist who in 2014 killed three people at Jewish sites in Overland Park has died in prison, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. — F. Glenn Miller Jr. …

Discussion: Snopes.com

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

How three major news organizations all got a story about Rudy Giuliani wrong — Incorrect information from government sources apparently led three separate news organizations to publish the same erroneous claim about Rudolph W. Giuliani last week that all three later corrected.

Discussion: The Federalist, Twitchy, New York Post, NewsHounds blog and The Western Journal

Glenn Greenwald:
Corporate News Outlets Again “Confirm” the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it

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Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Why Rising Diversity Might Not Help Democrats as Much as They Hope — Voters of color make up an increasing percentage of the United States electorate, but that trend isn't hurting Republicans as much as conservatives fear. — The Census Bureau released two important sets of data last week …

Discussion: Althouse

Teo Armus / Washington Post:

Are the Bidens giants? Are the Carters tiny? Or are our eyes failing us? — On first glance, the photograph seems typical enough. President Biden and first lady Jill Biden kneel beside their predecessors in the White House, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, during a trip to Georgia last week.

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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:

How Democrats can get a voting rights bill through the Senate — Senate Democrats have their marching orders: The caucus leadership has vowed to pass a national voting rights bill that will curb changes Republicans have made in the states that will make it harder to vote for too many Americans.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Vox, Raw Story and Daily Kos

Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:

What the Republican Party Needs vs. What It Wants — A failed congressional candidate in Texas told Republicans truths they needed to hear, but didn't want to. — Welcome to the Tuesday, a weekly newsletter about thus and such and whatnot, language and politics and culture, and other things.

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CNN:

CIA briefing to lawmakers on suspected energy attacks turned contentious — A briefing on suspected energy attacks on US intelligence officers turned contentious last week, two sources told CNN, as senators demanded more information about the mysterious incidents from the CIA and accountability for how the agency has handled them.

Discussion: Politico

Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:

Pennsylvania man admits he voted for Trump with his dead mom's name: ‘I listened to too much propaganda’ — Weeks before Election Day, Bruce Bartman mailed his mother's absentee ballot with a check mark next to President Donald Trump's name. — The problem was, his mother had been dead since 2008.

Discussion: Washington Examiner and Law & Crime

New York Times:

Biden Confronts Coronavirus Vaccine Patents — President Biden and drugmakers are facing demands from liberal activists and global leaders to suspend intellectual property rights on the vaccines as the pandemic surges. — WASHINGTON — President Biden, faced with surging Covid-19 crises …

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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Majority Of House Democrats Want Joe Biden To Waive COVID-19 Vaccine Patents

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Will Carless / USA Today:

Proud Boys saw wave of contributions from Chinese diaspora before Capitol attack — The donations started coming in about 10 p.m. on Dec. 17. — A donor named Li Zhang gave $100. A few minutes later, someone named Jun Li donated $100. Then Hao Xu gave $20, followed shortly by $25 from a Ying Pei.

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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:

White House will make unordered vaccine supply available to other states — Unordered doses will go into a federal bank available each week to states where demand continues to outstrip supply. — The White House on Tuesday told states that coronavirus vaccine supply they choose not to order …

Discussion: Political Wire

Jordain Carney / The Hill:

Hawley defends Jan. 6 fist pump — Share to Facebook Share to Twitter — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who led efforts to challenge the 2020 election results in Congress, on Tuesday defended his fist pump to protesters outside of the Capitol on Jan. 6. — A photo that shows Hawley outside …

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Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:

Treasury: States can seize stimulus payments to provide criminal restitution — Share to Facebook Share to Twitter — States can seize third-round stimulus payments from those convicted of crimes in order to provide restitution for victims and their families, according to the Treasury Department.

Discussion: The National Interest

Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:

Whatever Happened to ‘the Clinton Kid’? — On the morning of April 19, Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson posed on the steps of the statehouse in Little Rock, a big grin spread across his face. He was greeting guests who had come out to kick off “Save AR Students,” a campaign sponsored …

Emma Colton / Washington Examiner:

Texas Democratic Party leader who called Tim Scott an ‘oreo’ resigns — The Texas Democratic Party official who called Sen. Tim Scott an “oreo” is resigning after multiple state leaders condemned his “disgusting” comments. — “I am deeply and sincerely sorry for my inappropriate and hurtful use …

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Noga Tarnopolsky / Washington Post:

Netanyahu is desperate, unhinged and totally uninterested in governing — Unable to claim a mandate, the Israeli prime minister is trying to cling to power anyway — In the end, it took only four days to settle a matter that has hovered over Israel for years: How far would Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

Aniruddha Ghosal / Associated Press:

‘Horrible’ weeks ahead as India's virus catastrophe worsens — NEW DELHI (AP) — COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be “horrible.”

Discussion: UPI

Associated Press:

How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it — Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, essential workers struggling through the pandemic face another hazard of hard times: employers who steal their wages. — When a recession hits, U.S. companies are more likely to stiff their lowest-wage workers.