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2:20 PM ET, May 25, 2021

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House Republican Leader:
Leader McCarthy Condemns Comparisons to the Holocaust  —  Washington, D.C. - House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement:
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Emily Bohatch / The State:
SC's Mace calls Marjorie Taylor Greene's vaccine ID Holocaust comparison ‘appalling’
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. releases part of internal memo on not charging Trump in Russia probe  —  The Justice Department late Monday night released part of a key internal document used in 2019 to justify not charging President Donald Trump with obstruction, but also signaled it would fight a judge's effort to make the entire document public.
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Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:   CREW statement on DOJ blocking release of Trump obstruction memo
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Should Republican voters be taken literally, or seriously?  —  The latest Ipsos poll finds that 75 percent of Americans think President Biden is the “true” president while 55 percent think he is the “legitimate and accurate” president; 25 percent disagree with each.  That's the good news.
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Michael Steele / MSNBC:
Trump's stranglehold on the GOP is a death trap for American democracy  —  Addressing a reunion of Civil War soldiers in 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant predicted that the dividing line in the nation's next great conflict “will not be Mason's or Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side …
Discussion: Raw Story and Real Clear Politics
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible  —  The source of the coronavirus that has left more than 3 million people dead around the world remains a mystery.  But in recent months the idea that it emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) …
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Jordan Schachtel / The Dossier:
What to make of the COVID-19 lab leak theory
Discussion: Fox News, Reuters and Breitbart
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Republicans plan to send Biden nearly $1 trillion infrastructure counteroffer this week  — A group of Senate Republicans plans to send the Biden administration an infrastructure counteroffer this week.  — Hopes for a bipartisan deal appeared to dim last week after the White House sent …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Politico, CBS News and The Hill
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NBC News:   In the post-Trump era, Virginia's GOP gubernatorial nominee tries to thread the needle
ABC News:
Biden to meet Putin in Geneva, White House says, with goal of restoring ‘stability’
Arizona Republic:
Tech company running Arizona ballot audit backs out: ‘They were done’  —  Jen Fifield Andrew OxfordArizona Republic  —  The Pennsylvania-based IT company that was in charge of running the hand recount of Maricopa County ballots is no longer involved in the audit.
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Trump lashes out against possible U.S. Senate candidate Mark Brnovich over election audit
Discussion: Associated Press
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Crisis of Anti-Semitic Violence  —  Violence between Jews and Muslims in the Middle East is often accompanied by spikes in anti-Semitic activity in the United States, but what's happened over the last week or so has been different.  —  As Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director …
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Blake Flayton / The Bulwark:
Inconvenient Anti-Semitism Is Still Anti-Semitism
Discussion: HotAir, UnHerd, New York Times and Forbes
Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Democrats nervous and GOP hopeful that New Mexico election is 2022 bellwether  —  ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — New Mexico's 1st Congressional District special election will test whether warnings over a left-wing approach to policing and crime work without former President Donald Trump topping the ballot.
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Dems fight off ‘defund the police’ attack in New Mexico special election
Discussion: Political Wire
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: What one year has brought  —  Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter.  —  Was this email forwarded to you?  Sign up here to receive the newsletter.  —  WHAT ONE YEAR HAS BROUGHT.  Today President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. wants to reopen Jerusalem consulate, Blinken tells Netanyahu  —  Secretary of State Tony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in their meeting on Tuesday that the Biden administration wants to reopen the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem as soon as possible, Israeli officials tell me.
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Mysterious air base being built on volcanic island off Yemen  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A mysterious air base is being built on a volcanic island off Yemen that sits in one of the world's crucial maritime chokepoints for both energy shipments and commercial cargo.
Discussion: HotAir
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Re-emerging without trust  —  Americans are taking off their masks and re-engaging publicly at levels not seen since the start of the pandemic, with the most dramatic shifts in people over 50 and those who've been vaccinated, according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
South China Morning Post:
WWE's Cena apologises to China after Taiwan country reference  —  John Cena says on Taiwanese TV that it would be ‘the first country to watch the film’ American quickly backtracked on Weibo, saying he made ‘one mistake’ after doing ‘a lot of interviews’ John Cena backtracks comments …
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
How Libs Can Stop Owning Themselves Online  —  The Right has mastered trolling as a political communications strategy and Dems have to stop falling for it  —  In the last few weeks, Senator Ted Cruz, no stranger to Twitter controversy, has  — Retweeted a Russian propaganda video while calling the U.S. military “emasculated.”
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right  —  One of the strange things about the last year in Western political debate is how rarely the name of the departed philosopher Michel Foucault came up — and not for want of opportunity.  One of Foucault's key concepts, “biopolitics,” …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: New York Times in talks to buy The Athletic  —  The New York Times is looking into a potential acquisition of The Athletic, three sources familiar with the matter tell Axios.  —  Driving the news: Sources say The Times approached The Athletic following a report about a potential deal between The Athletic and Axios in March.
Sami Sparber / The Texas Tribune:
Texans could carry handguns without a permit under bill headed to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk  —  Abbott has said he would sign the permitless carry proposal into law.  —  Copy link  —  A measure long sought by conservative activists allowing Texans to carry handguns without a license …
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / Medium:
The End IS Near.  No, Seriously.  —  The tone of some recent writing about this pandemic has seemed — to me, anyway — strangely defeatist.  —  Friends keep asking me questions like: “Is what I'm hearing true?  We'll never reach herd immunity?”  —  The subtext is we'll never really be safe …
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Republicans to quickly kill Medicaid expansion  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature planned Tuesday to convene then immediately end a special session called by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to expand Medicaid.  —  Rejecting expansion means Wisconsin …
New York Times:
State Revenues Pour In, Raising Pressure on Biden to Divert Federal Aid  —  Unexpected receipts, driven in part by taxes on high earners riding a hot stock market, have prompted Republicans to push the president to spend on infrastructure instead.  —  WASHINGTON — From California to Virginia …
Discussion: Politico
Matt Dixon / Politico:
How Matt Gaetz helped make Ron DeSantis  —  TALLAHASSEE — Just weeks after he took office as governor, Ron DeSantis held a press conference with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) that left Florida's political class befuddled.  —  Standing with Republicans DeSantis and Gaetz was a major Democratic donor …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Tom Porter / Insider:
How Ted Cruz ended up sharing Russian far-right propaganda to attack the US military  — Cruz shared a video comparing Russian and US army recruitment ads, and called the US Army “emasculated.”  — An expert on far-right disinformation has traced the meme to pro-Russian, far-right networks.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
 
 
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Keith E. Whittington / Chronicle of Higher Education:
We Are Critics of Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her Tenure Denial Is a Travesty.
Discussion: The Hill and New Republic
Washington Post:
DHS to issue first cybersecurity regulations for pipelines after Colonial hack
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
George P. Bush consults with Donald Trump before his expected challenge against Texas AG Ken Paxton
Perry Bacon / Washington Post:
The progressives are right about foreign policy, too
Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden looks abroad for electric vehicle metals, in blow to U.S. miners
Discussion: The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Any bipartisan January 6 commission is probably doomed
Discussion: Washington Post, CBS News and Raw Story
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The Child Soldiers of the Culture War
Washington Post:
Rising Democratic star Val Demings wants to challenge Sen. Marco Rubio. Could she win?
Michael E. Kanell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Labor shortages end when wages rise, say some local businesses
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘The final straw’: How the pandemic pushed restaurant workers over the edge
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Support for Israel among young US evangelical Christians drops sharply — survey
Discussion: TheBlaze
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Jen Psaki Smashes Peter Doocy As He Tries To Blame Biden For COVID Deaths