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Sean Illing / Vox:
Are Democrats sleepwalking toward democratic collapse? — “I'm not sure people appreciate how much danger we're in.” — Donald Trump may be out of Washington, but his spirit very much lives on in the party he left behind. This month, Republican congressional leaders Kevin McCarthy …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Democrats Are Running Out of Time — Anxiety is growing among a broad range of civil-rights, democracy-reform, and liberal groups over whether Democrats are responding with enough urgency to the accelerating Republican efforts to both suppress voting and potentially overturn future Democratic election victories.
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HotAir, Washington Post, The Editorial Board, Snopes.com and OpenSecrets.org
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Democrats are falling for Republicans' fake negotiations again
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Mitch McConnell's Gift to Progressives
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Politico, The Daily Caller and Slate
Politico:
GOP frets behind the scenes over potential Trump 2024 bid — Republicans largely oppose forming a commission to examine the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, hoping to block out further Donald Trump-induced chaos while they try to retake Congress next year. — The former president is making clear he isn't going anywhere.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: GOP dreads the return of Trump rallies — DRIVING THE DAY — FILIBUSTER DAY — It's taken longer than anyone expected, but the first GOP filibuster of a big JOE BIDEN priority in the Senate is expected today when Republicans plan to block legislation to create a Jan. 6 commission.
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David Siders / Politico:
'It's insane': Proud Boys furor tests limits of Trump's GOP
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Raw Story, Las Vegas Review-Journal and The Nevada Independent
PRRI:
Understanding QAnon's Connection to American Politics, Religion, and Media Consumption — THREE COMPONENTS OF THE QANON CONSPIRACY MOVEMENT — Three Components of the QAnon Conspiracy Movement — The far-right conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon emerged on the internet in late 2017 …
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NPR, Insider, Washington Post, Forbes and Raw Story
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden to Propose $6 Trillion Budget to Boost Middle Class and Infrastructure — The president's plans to invest in infrastructure, education, health care and more would push federal spending to its highest sustained levels since World War II. — WASHINGTON — President Biden will propose …
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Insider, National Review, HotAir, CNN, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, IJR, Steve Bannon's War Room, UPI, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Brookings and The National Interest
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘The only Bush who got it right,’ as far as Trump is concerned — No Republican political family has been as tormented by Donald Trump as the Bush dynasty. — Now Trump has one more opportunity to twist the knife, as George P. Bush — the last remaining Bush in public office …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The Worst Bush — Picking sides in the Lone Star State's Iran-Iraq war. — 1. The Iran-Iraq War of Texas — Politico has a story about George P. Bush's coming campaign for Texas AG. He's going up against Ken Paxton. — Who d'ya got? — In one corner we have Paxton …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Emily Wilder's firing is a story of bad faith, not bad tweets. Newsrooms must do better. — There's a lot of talk in journalism circles these days about social media rules. — What kind of things, exactly, are journalists allowed to tweet or post on Facebook without running afoul of their newsrooms' policies?
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Associated Press tells staff it made mistakes in firing of Emily Wilder — The news service is facing criticism and internal dissent for terminating a junior staffer based on her social media activity. — Senior managers at the Associated Press admitted fault on Wednesday in the firing …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
How China Can Quash the Wuhan Lab-Leak Theory — What a difference a year makes. In 2020, discussing the hypothesis that Covid-19 originated in a Chinese lab could get your video yanked from YouTube. Many journalists dismissed such talk as a conspiracy theory, and many scientists insisted it was fake science.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Lab-Leak Theory — We have an explainer. — Suddenly, talk of the Wuhan lab-leak theory seems to be everywhere.
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Tangle, Nieman Lab, Spin, strangeness, and charm, The Daily Caller and Pharyngula
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Enough of Fauci's lies!
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IJR, Breitbart, Washington Examiner and TheBlaze
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Emails Tie Top Trump Exec Allen Weisselberg to Yet Another Trump Financial Scandal — Allen Weisselberg is in the hot seat—and that's bad news for Donald Trump and his family. Assorted news reports have identified Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization …
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Molly Fischer / The Cut:
Guilty Parties Two entrepreneurs have built a business dredging up white women's shame. — Were White Fragility to be adapted as reality TV, the result might look something like this: A collection of affluent white women, equipped with varying degrees of vanity and self-delusion, gather at a well-appointed dinner table.
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Rush Limbaugh's Radio Show to Be Taken Over by Clay Travis and Buck Sexton — Duo's show to begin airing in the coveted weekday time slot on June 21 in hundreds of markets — The Rush Limbaugh replacements are in, as Clay Travis and Buck Sexton will take over his three-hour conservative talk radio show …
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The Hill, OutKick, RedState, Forbes, Deadline, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Twitchy, more at Mediagazer »
Jocelyn Gecker / Associated Press:
Killer of 8 in California had talked of workplace attacks — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — An employee who gunned down eight people at a California rail yard and then killed himself as law enforcement rushed in had talked about killing people at work more than a decade ago, his ex-wife said.
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Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Senate: Sununu's Vital Choice — Dear Readers: Virginia lost one of its most prominent and successful political figures on Tuesday, as former Sen. John Warner (R-VA) died at the age of 94. Warner served for three decades in the Senate (1979-2009), becoming known for his expertise …
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Simone Pathe / CNN:
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022
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Arizona Republic, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, The Hill, USA Today, Common Dreams, Politico, Hackwhackers and Political Wire
Samuel Chamberlain / New York Post:
Book reveals Bernie's hotel demands: King-size beds and 60-degree rooms — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is a demanding hotel guest whose requirements would make even the most pampered celebrity blush, according to a new book detailing Democratic Party politics.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ron DeSantis Forces Cruise Ships to Take Unvaccinated Passengers It's not like they're doing something harmful, like ordering a gay wedding cake. — A few years ago, conservatives became obsessed with the legal travails of a bakery that refused to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple.
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New York Times:
A Wave of Afghan Surrenders to the Taliban Picks Up Speed — Dozens of besieged outposts or bases, and four district centers, have given up to the insurgents this month, in an accelerating rural collapse as American troops leave. — MEHTARLAM, Afghanistan — Ammunition was depleted inside the bedraggled outposts in Laghman Province.
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HotAir, Defense One and CNN
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
US democracy is still in the danger zone — Threat has outgrown Trump as Republican states seek to control what happens in future elections — Early into Donald Trump's presidency, the Economist Intelligence Unit downgraded the US to a “flawed democracy”. Unfortunately it still belongs there.
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Juliegrace Brufke / New York Post:
Matt Gaetz still eyes 2024 bid despite fed sex trafficking probe — unless Trump runs
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Occupy Democrats, Joe.My.God., Raw Story and Political Wire
New York Times:
Can Removing Highways Fix America's Cities? … ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Built in the 1950s to speed suburban commuters to and from downtown, Rochester's Inner Loop destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses, replacing them with a broad, concrete trench that separated downtown from the rest of the city.
Tess Owen / VICE:
Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Bought a 40-Acre Compound in Texas for Its ‘Patriots’ — The Rod of Iron Ministries has become more militant since leader Hyung Jin “Sean” Moon attended the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. — TO — A religious sect known for worshipping …
New York Times:
U.S. Faces Outbreak of Anti-Semitic Threats and Violence — In the wake of clashes in Israel and Gaza, synagogues have been vandalized and Jews have been threatened and attacked. — A brick shattering a window of a kosher pizzeria on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance:
Jobless claims: Initial filings fell for a fourth straight week to set new pandemic-era low — Initial unemployment claims fell for a fourth straight week to set a new 14-month low as the labor market recovery made further strides toward recovering jobs lost during the pandemic. — The
Michelle Lee / Washington Post:
‘This could have been me’ — The six victims of Asian descent in the Atlanta-area mass shooting represented a diverse community. Their deaths have united many Asian American women. — They represented a diverse community: A single mother of two sons in their early 20s.
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Budget Said to Assume Capital-Gains Tax Rate Increase Started in Late April — Congress must still approve any rate changes and retroactive effective dates — WASHINGTON—President Biden's budget assumes that his proposed capital-gains tax rate increase took effect in late April …
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