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Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
As countries condemn Belarus flight diversion, critics accuse West of similar tactics  —  In an elaborate ploy, a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius on Sunday was forced to land in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, over a bomb scare that Belarusian authorities appear to have engineered.
Tom Jones / Poynter:
The Associated Press fired a reporter over social media use — and what it means for other news outlets  —  Should journalists be expected to erase who they are for the sake of appearing to be objective?  News outlets need to refine these policies.  —  The big buzz in the media the past few days …
Washington Post:
Europe moves to isolate Belarus after Minsk forces airliner to land and detains dissident  —  RIGA, Latvia — European leaders on Monday were taking steps to cut off air connections with Belarus, barring airlines from flying over the country a day after its leaders forced a commercial jet to land and arrested a dissident journalist.
Financial Times:
How Roman Protasevich became one of Lukashenko's prized targets
Sheena McKenzie / CNN:
Belarus accused of ‘state-sponsored piracy’ as Ryanair says KGB agents were on diverted plane
Discussion: New York Post and KEYT-TV
Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed News:
AP Staffers Demanded To Know Why Emily Wilder Was Fired After A Conservative “Smear Campaign” Over Her Pro-Palestinian Activism
Discussion: Politico and The Intercept
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Belarus kidnapping sets a dangerous global precedent
David McCabe / New York Times:
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates  —  The new law is a direct response to Facebook's and Twitter's suspensions of former President Donald J. Trump.  —  WASHINGTON — Florida on Monday became the first state to regulate how companies like Facebook …
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:
Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Bill to Stop the Censorship of Floridians by Big Tech  —  MIAMI - Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7072 to hold Big Tech accountable by driving transparency and safeguarding Floridians' ability to access and participate in online platforms.
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Florida governor signs bill barring social media companies from blocking political candidates  —  Tech trade groups say law is unconstitutional, conflicts with federal law  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that aims to punish social media companies for their moderation decisions …
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Key impeachment witness Gordon Sondland sues Mike Pompeo and U.S. for $1.8 million in legal fees  —  President Donald Trump's former ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, is suing former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and the U.S. government for $1.8 million to compensate …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Liberal Media Dismissed the Lab-Leak Theory and Smeared Its Supporters  —  When Nicholson Baker wrote a cover story for New York laying out the evidence that COVID-19 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, the hypothesis was still highly controversial.
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Stephen L. Miller / spectator.us:
Don't let the media get away with U-turning on the lab leak theory
Discussion: El American
Matti Friedman / The Atlantic:
Israel's Problems Are Not Like America's  —  Rereading Exodus, the schmaltzy 1958 best seller about Israel that became a Hollywood movie starring Paul Newman, I was surprised by something I hadn't noticed as a teenager.  The author, Leon Uris, describes a utopia of brave young pioneers in khaki shorts …
Discussion: HotAir
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Max Fisher / New York Times:
As Israel's Dependence on U.S. Shrinks, So Does U.S. Leverage
Discussion: HuffPost
Juliet Macur / New York Times:
Simone Biles Dials Up the Difficulty, ‘Because I Can’  —  The Olympic gold medalist's new vault is so dangerous that gymnastics, for now, limits the scoring rewards for trying it.  Biles says that's unfair.  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The campaign for D.C. statehood just got a big boost  —  One of the most nettlesome objections to extending congressional representation to the residents of Washington, D.C., is that it requires a constitutional amendment.  Many Republicans say this, which is hardly surprising.
Discussion: Common Dreams
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
McGahn Is Likely to Testify Next Week on Trump's Efforts to Obstruct Russia Inquiry  —  A delay is said to have stemmed from an initial threat by former President Donald J. Trump to intervene, but he apparently reversed course.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump's former White House counsel …
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
They tried to overturn the 2020 election.  Now they want to run the next one.  —  Republicans who sought to undercut or overturn President Joe Biden's election win are launching campaigns to become their states' top election officials next year, alarming local officeholders and opponents …
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Nears Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM  —  Deal for the ‘Rocky’ and ‘James Bond’ studio would mark tech company's second largest-ever acquisition  —  Amazon.com Inc. is nearing a deal to buy the Hollywood studio MGM Holdings for almost $9 billion including debt, said people familiar with the matter …
Jack Posobiec / Human Events:
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked State Department Memo Indicates Official Support for BLM Agenda  —  A source within the Biden State Department wishing to remain anonymous has shared with Human Events News a document that indicates that all U.S. “Diplomatic and Consular posts” are being encouraged …
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Judge Reveals More About the ‘Principal Lies’ Paul Manafort Told to Robert Mueller  —  A federal judge unsealed nearly half a dozen files on Monday itemizing the “principal lies” Donald Trump's since-pardoned former campaign chair Paul Manafort allegedly told special counsel Robert Mueller's team …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
What the Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed  —  THE MARQUEE BLOCK  —  More than 70 businesses operated in mostly one-, two- and three-story red brick buildings clustered along the block.  All but a couple were owned by Black entrepreneurs.  —  In this stretch alone, there were four hotels …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Are We Entering a New Political Era?  —  The neoliberal order seems to be collapsing.  A generation of young activists is trying to insure that it's replaced by progressive populism, not by the fascist right.  —  Last June, when most Americans could agree that their country was in crisis …
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / UnHerd:
How influencers have enabled anti-Semitism  —  Instagram activists have turned false narratives into deadly fantasies  —  Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Founder of the AHA Foundation, and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast.
Discussion: NPR, Jewish Journal and TheBlaze
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Weightlifting, Gatorade, birthday calls: Inside Biden's day  —  During a speech in Pittsburgh in March, President Biden held up the index card he keeps in his right breast pocket to track the nation's covid deaths, inadvertently revealing a glimpse of his private schedule on the back side.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's shifting arguments against a Jan. 6 commission  —  There have been plenty of indications that Republicans don't want to see a congressional Jan. 6 commission for one very basic reason: It's politically bad.  —  It's bad because it would necessarily point the finger (to some degree) …
Catherine Shoard / The Guardian:
Kevin Spacey set for return to movies with paedophilia drama  —  The actor, who has been the subject of multiple sexual misconduct allegations, is to play a detective in Franco Nero's film about a man wrongly suspected of child abuse  —  Kevin Spacey, the actor who has faced numerous allegations …
Natalie B. Compton / Washington Post:
30 observations from my first vaccinated flight  —  Everything you hated about flying is back, baby.  —  Many people took a hiatus from travel last year, because — well, you know why.  Road warriors stayed home.  Newlyweds put off their honeymoons.  But now that millions of people …
Luke Savage / The Atlantic:
If Democracy Is Dying, Why Are Democrats So Complacent?  —  If you've followed recent Democratic messaging, you'll have heard that American democracy is under serious attack by the Republican Party, representing an existential threat to the country.  If you've followed Democratic lawmaking …
Allison Fisher / Media Matters for America:
Will “climate lockdowns” be Fox's next bonkers conspiracy theory?  —  Laura Ingraham told viewers that, in the name of climate change, more COVID-style lockdowns are coming … On back-to-back nights last week, Fox prime-time host Laura Ingraham warned her viewers that COVID-19 lockdowns …
Cleve Wootson / Washington Post:
Biden to meet with George Floyd's family amid uncertain progress on race  —  On Tuesday, a year after George Floyd was killed at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, his family members will fly to Washington, D.C., for a private audience with President Biden, their first in-person meeting …
Discussion: Power Line
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Whitmer apologizes after photo shows her at bar violating her own order  —  Lansing — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an apology Sunday after a photo emerged showing her at a restaurant with 12 other people gathered around tables pushed together in violation of her health department's current epidemic order.
Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE: Court action seeks probe of Trump's Scottish golf course buys  —  The Scottish government is facing a new legal challenge over its February rejection of a motion to investigate former U.S. President Donald Trump's all-cash purchases of two golf courses, reviving an effort to force Trump to disclose how he financed the deals.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Vaccine Class Gap  —  The biggest vaccination gap isn't based on race or partisanship.  It's based on class.  —  It is common to hear about two different demographic groups that are hesitant to receive a Covid-19 vaccination: Republican voters and racial minorities, especially Black and Latino Americans.
Discussion: HotAir
 
 
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