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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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Just Security, Hackwhackers and Jewish Journal
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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
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CNN, Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Voting Rights Bill Falters in Congress as States Race Ahead
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Fox News, Just The News, No More Mister Nice Blog and Jezebel
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 …
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 …
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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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Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Michael Flynn Could Face Court Martial for Myanmar Coup Remark: Ex-Trump Official
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BizPac Review, Raw Story, Slate, UncoverDC and Crooks and Liars
David Gilbert / VICE:
QAnon's Wildest Moments From Their Massively Disturbing Conference
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Washington Post, Insider, Forbes and Raw Story
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Ahead of Tulsa trip, Biden to unveil plans to reduce Black-White wealth gap — President Biden plans to unveil a set of policies intended to narrow the wealth gap between Black and White Americans in a speech he's set to deliver Tuesday in Tulsa, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the massacre …
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Talking Points Memo, National Review, Hackwhackers and Associated Press
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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.
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 …
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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 …
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IndieWire, Insider, Variety and The Daily Beast
Maggie Severns / Politico:
An Evangelical Battle of the Generations: To Embrace Trump or Not? — For years, there was an adage around Liberty University that if God split Jerry Falwell in half, you would have his sons Jerry and Jonathan. — Jerry Jr. inherited his father's desire to be a force in American politics …
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Raw Story
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.
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Raw Story
Kamala Harris / Forbes:
Kamalanomics: Vice President Harris Outlines Her Vision Of Inclusive Entrepreneurship — The pandemic has prompted a surge in entrepreneurship, voluntary and involuntary. The United States' first female, Black and Asian-American vice president shares her ideas in an exclusive essay for Forbes …
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The Hill
Washington Post:
Anthony Fauci's pandemic emails: ‘All is well despite some crazy people in this world’ — Fauci's correspondence from March and April 2020, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, offers a peek into his world during the frantic early days of the coronavirus crisis
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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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.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The American Spectator
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 …
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.
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Associated Press
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 …
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court will soon release a potentially pivotal decision for LGBT rights — The Supreme Court is expected to release a decision in the coming days that could provide the first glimpses of how its 6-3 conservative majority will shape the future of LGBT rights.
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Political Wire
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 …
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Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit
Eric Foner / The Nation:
The Gilded Age's Democratic Contradictions — The New Party Bosses — How did our once-raucous party system become the pacified purview of elites? — In “The Four Lost Men,” an elegiac short story written in the 1930s about his dying father's memories of life in post-Civil War America …
Vatican News:
Pope reforms penal sanctions in the Church: Mercy requires correction — With the Apostolic Constitution “Pascite Gregem Dei,” Pope Francis reforms Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, continuing a revision begun by Benedict XVI and applying penal sanctions to more criminal offenses.
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CBS News and Political Wire
New York Times:
Disputing Racism's Reach, Republicans Rattle American Schools — In a culture-war brawl that has spilled into the country's educational system, Republicans at the local, state and national levels are trying to block curriculums that emphasize systemic racism.
Ryan Prior / CNN:
Most Americans think they can spot fake news. They can't, study finds — (CNN)As many as three in four Americans overestimate their ability to spot false headlines — and the worse they are at it, the more likely they are to share fake news, researchers reported Monday.
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