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David Gilbert / VICE:
QAnon's Wildest Moments From Their Massively Disturbing Conference  —  The ‘For God and Country: Patriot Roundup’ conference had Michael Flynn calling for a military coup and Roger Stone's social media advisor calling for Hillary Clinton's execution.  —  DG
Discussion: Insider, Forbes, Raw Story and MarketWatch
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Michael Flynn Could Face Court Martial for Myanmar Coup Remark: Ex-Trump Official
Discussion: Raw Story and UncoverDC
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Americans demand court-martial for Flynn after call for military coup: ‘Honor veterans — arrest this traitor’
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vows to defund state Legislature after voting restrictions bill fails, threatening salaries  —  “No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities,” Abbott tweeted Monday.  —  Copy link  —  Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday he would veto the section of the state budget …
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Joe Manchin: Deeply Disappointed in GOP and Prepared to Do Absolutely Nothing  —  The centrist Democrat believes, despite it all, that bipartisanship is still possible.  “I have to say, keep the faith in this damn Senate,” he told The Daily Beast.  —  When the Jan. 6 commission became …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Maureen Dowd Talks ‘Mare of Easttown’ With Kate Winslet  —  The star of ‘Mare of Easttown’ is back on the sides of buses.  Without airbrushing.  —  Philly's a tough town.  —  If there's a quintessential story about the City of Brotherly Love, it's this one: In 2015 …
Discussion: Variety and The Daily Beast
DeNeen L. Brown / Washington Post:
His arrest sparked the Tulsa Race Massacre.  Then Dick Rowland disappeared.  —  He liked to call himself “Diamond Dick.”  —  Dick Rowland, a tall teenager with velvet skin, wore a diamond ring as he shined shoes in downtown Tulsa.  Rowland, 19, had recently dropped out of Booker T. Washington High School …
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The White House:
A Proclamation on Day Of Remembrance: 100 Years After The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Cuomo is using his waning power to block mask sanity for kids  —  Last week, the Commack School District on Long Island wanted to do the sane thing and make masks optional for children.  The move is long overdue.  The state COVID positivity rate is under 1 percent, and deaths and hospitalizations have dropped precipitously.
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo:
Twitter May Start Labeling Your Tweets Based on How Wrong You Are  —  Twitter is one of many social media companies that's struggled to keep misinformation from running rampant on its platform over the years.  Its latest attempt to move the needle looks to be a tiered warning label system …
Discussion: Instapundit and Twitchy
Rasmussen Reports:
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll  —  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden's job performance.  Forty-five percent (45%) disapprove.  —  The latest figures include 32% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Christian pastors are ‘exhausted’ trying to stop parishioners from believing in QAnon: Evangelical leader  —  Evangelical leader Russell Moore tells Axios that belief in QAnon is becoming an increasing problem within many Christian denominations throughout the United States.
Discussion: Axios
BBC:
Nephew of Fetullah Gulen seized and brought back to Turkey  —  Turkish security services have detained a nephew of exiled cleric Fetullah Gulen overseas and brought him back to Turkey, local media have announced.  —  Selahaddin Gulen has been accused of belonging to an outlawed organisation headed by his uncle.
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Associated Press:
Turkish agents capture nephew of US-based cleric overseas
Jesse Jackson / Chicago Sun-Times:
Republicans just say no, but later will claim credit  —  The scope of what they won't do is breathtaking.  —  Just say no. That seems to sum up the position of Republicans in the Congress these days.  For all the talk about bipartisan compromise or about the two parties working together …
Discussion: Politico, HuffPost and Raw Story
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
Biden honors war dead at Arlington, implores nation to heal  —  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden honored America's war dead at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day by laying a wreath at the hallowed burial ground and extolling the sacrifices of the fallen for the pursuit of democracy, “the soul of America.”
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Biden invokes “soul of America” theme on Memorial Day
Discussion: The Hill and USA Today
Ben Feuerherd / New York Post:
‘Slimy’ FBI bigwig sexually harassed his juniors, drank on the job  —  A “slimy” and “creepy” high-ranking FBI agent groped three of his female subordinates, made inappropriate sexual comments in the workplace and regularly drank on the job, according to documents obtained by The Post.
Discussion: Daily Mail and Raw Story
Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Russia to form 20 new military units in west to counter NATO  —  Russia's defense minister says the military will form 20 new units in the country's west this year to counter what he described as a growing threat from NATO  —  MOSCOW — Russia's military will form 20 new units in the country's west …
Discussion: The Western Journal
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Reuters:
Russia tells U.S. to expect ‘uncomfortable’ signals ahead of Putin-Biden summit
Discussion: New York Post and The Daily Caller
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
Senior figures attack ‘obstruction’ of ICC's Palestine investigation  —  Exclusive: Open letter signed by dozens of European ex-officials calls for end to ‘unwarranted public criticism’ of inquiry into alleged war crimes  —  More than 50 former foreign ministers, prime ministers …
Brittny Mejia / Los Angeles Times:
A fight over Jim Crow Road divides rural Northern California town  —  As the story goes, a Native Hawaiian man came as a Gold Rush pioneer to a mountainous swath of Sierra County to strike it rich.  —  His name was given to a ravine, a stream and a street off scenic Highway 49 …
Discussion: Fox News
 
 
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Mairead McArdle / The Daily Wire:
Largest U.S. Hospital Group Will Require ‘Conscious Inclusion’ Training, Recommended Employees Read ‘White Fragility’
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Kelley Beaucar Vlahos / Responsible Statecraft:
Generation of veterans left with ‘emptiness’ after slow end to failed war
Justin Hendrix / Tech Policy Press:
Researchers reverse-engineer 2016 Texas protest organized by Russian Internet Research Agency
Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Nevada OKs bill in try for 1st presidential nominating state
WCAX-TV:
Bennington ‘white nationalist’ charged with witness tampering
Discussion: Raw Story
Natalie Winters / The National Pulse:
REVEALED: Fauci Has Been Working On ‘Life Philosophy’ Book To Be Released In Months.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
RFE / Reuters:
Russia's Newsru Media Outlet Announces Closure, Blames Political Situation
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Satloff:
What's wrong with the NY Times' report on children's deaths? So much.
Discussion: New York Times
Aaron Mesh / Willamette Week:
The Denver Nuggets Were in a Portland Hotel as It Was Surrounded by a Furious Crowd Seeking Andy Ngo
Discussion: Twitchy
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Anarchists and an increase in violent crime hijack Portland's social justice movement
Niccolo Soldo / Fisted by Foucault:
The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen - Interviewed by a Retard
Wall Street Journal:
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice Is Personally Liable for $700 Million in Greensill Loans
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
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A Siege, a Supply Run and a Descent Into a Decade-Old Battle
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