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David Johns / The Hill:
Critical race theory is under attack  —  One hundred years ago today, mobs of armed white supremacists violently attacked and killed Black residents and destroyed Black businesses in Tulsa, Okla., in the Greenwood District.  —  The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating …
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DeNeen L. Brown / Washington Post:   In Tulsa, solemn remembrances of a century-old race massacre by survivors and descendants
DeNeen L. Brown / Washington Post:   His arrest sparked the Tulsa Race Massacre. Then Dick Rowland disappeared.
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
After defeating restrictive voting bill, Texas Democrats send loud message: ‘We need Congress to do their part’  —  Texas Democrats who defeated a Republican effort to pass a suite of new voting restrictions with a dramatic, late-night walkout from the state House chamber on Sunday have a message …
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Joe Manchin: Deeply Disappointed in GOP and Prepared to Do Absolutely Nothing
Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Echoing QAnon forums, Michael Flynn appears to suggest a Myanmar-style coup should happen in the United States  —  (CNN)Michael Flynn, former President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, appeared to endorse a Myanmar-style coup in the United States on Sunday.
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Tracy Connor / The Daily Beast:
Michael Flynn Calls for Myanmar-Style Coup in the U.S.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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 …
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
The GOP Has Discovered Joe Biden's Political Superpower  —  Something strange has been happening to my in-box.  It's still a wasteland, a ghastly stream of spam and requests from an endless array of politicians and political organizations.  But the GOP fundraising emails — usually the loudest …
Discussion: CNN
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Build Black Wealth and Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap … One hundred years ago, the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Black Wall Street,” was ruthlessly attacked by a violent white supremacist mob.
Discussion: Insider
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Ahead of Tulsa trip, Biden to unveil plans to reduce Black-White wealth gap
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: Insider, Variety and The Daily Beast
DW.COM:
Belarus enacts new rules restricting citizens from leaving  —  Minsk's border agency has announced new rules that will make it nearly impossible to leave the country.  As citizens attempt to flee Belarus, longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko appears to be closing all the exits.
Washington Examiner:
The public school system had stopped teaching children long before the pandemic  —  If the academic year now ending has taught us anything, it's that the public school system would rather indoctrinate than educate its students.  —  The school system was created to teach students academically and morally …
Politico:
Republicans fear Trump will lead to a ‘lost generation’ of talent  —  As Donald Trump ponders another presidential bid, top Republicans have grown fearful about what they're calling the party's “lost generation.”  —  In conversations with more than 20 lawmakers, ex-lawmakers, top advisers and aides …
Kayla Epstein / Insider:
Low-paid Capitol Hill staffers are moonlighting for Starbucks and Door Dash.  They're fed up with unlivable salaries that hinder diversity and kneecap careers.  — Hill staffers have put up with low wages for years.  Some start in the high $20,000s.  — Powerful Congress members …
Discussion: Insider
Dave Lawler / Axios:
World anxiously waits to see where Biden will send America's vaccines  —  The U.S. is about to pivot from hoarding vaccines to sharing them globally, and countries around the world are trying to secure their places in line.  —  Why it matters: President Biden has promised to donate 80 million doses by the end of June.
Discussion: Associated Press
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Biden set for G-7 boost in bid for all nations to impose minimum global corporate tax  —  Finance leaders have complained that numerous companies take steps to avoid paying taxes.  —  Finance ministers from Group of Seven nations meeting in London on Friday are expected to back President Biden's call …
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Fox News host Sean Hannity wrote Trump 2020 campaign ad, book claims  —  Hannity worked on ‘swamp creature’ ad that ran during Hannity's show, according to Mike Bender's Frankly, We Did Win This Election  —  The Fox News host Sean Hannity was criticised for appearing at a Trump rally in 2018 …
Politico:
Put Trump on the ballot in '22?  No thanks, some Dems say  —  As Donald Trump cannonballs back into national headlines more scandal-ridden than ever, it turns out that Republicans aren't the only ones who don't want to fixate on the former president.  Many House Democrats feel the same way.
New York Post:
Hunter Biden's laptop keeps damning Joe, but most media just ignore it  —  Hunter Biden's laptop continues to yield damning information that shows his dad, President Joe Biden, played a significant and knowing role in his son's sleazy influence-peddling.  And while the media efforts to pretend …
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.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Neighbors Fear Bear-Themed Compound Will Be Next Ruby Ridge  —  Alt-right comedian Owen Benjamin wants to create a “refuge” for his “internet friends” in Idaho.  His neighbors, however, worry the rural site will become a scary militia haven.  —  An alt-right comedian's plans for a remote patch …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Close encounters: Democrats and Republicans unified in taking UFOs seriously  —  Last month, former CIA director R. James Woolsey told Black Vault, a website that collects paranormal case files, that he is “not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly,” about UFOs, and that …
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's back.  Here's what his re-entry means for 2024. … WASHINGTON — Defeated presidents usually go away — at least for a long while.  Not Donald Trump.  —  Trump returns to the electoral battlefield Saturday as the marquee speaker at the North Carolina Republican Party's state convention.
Discussion: Raw Story
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
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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Maggie Severns / Politico:
An Evangelical Battle of the Generations: To Embrace Trump or Not?
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Prior / CNN:
Most Americans think they can spot fake news. They can't, study finds
Discussion: Raw Story
Jesse Jackson / Chicago Sun-Times:
Republicans just say no, but later will claim credit
Discussion: Politico, HuffPost and Raw Story
Mairead McArdle / The Daily Wire:
Largest U.S. Hospital Group Will Require ‘Conscious Inclusion’ Training, Recommended Employees Read ‘White Fragility’
Discussion: RedState and New York Post
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
 Earlier Items: 
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
Senior figures attack ‘obstruction’ of ICC's Palestine investigation
WCAX-TV:
Bennington ‘white nationalist’ charged with witness tampering
Discussion: Raw Story
Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Russia to form 20 new military units in west to counter NATO
Discussion: The Western Journal
BBC:
Nephew of Fetullah Gulen seized and brought back to Turkey
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
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Christian pastors are ‘exhausted’ trying to stop parishioners from believing in QAnon: Evangelical leader
Discussion: Axios
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Anarchists and an increase in violent crime hijack Portland's social justice movement
 

 
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