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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Maggie Haberman Is Right  —  Donald Trump really does believe that he, along with two former GOP senators, will be ‘reinstated’ to office this summer.  —  WORLD  —  Were Wuhan Lab-Inquiry Opponents Worried about Provoking China?  —  By JIMMY QUINN June 3, 2021
Washington Post:
Biden offers major change to tax proposal in effort to secure infrastructure deal with Republicans  —  Instead of raising corporate tax rates to 28 percent, Biden has offered to create a new tax floor of 15 percent for businesses that pay very little.  —  President Biden signaled …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive: Biden opposes a presidential commission for Jan. 6  —  President Biden has decided against appointing his own commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection and will instead increase pressure on Congress to establish a committee, White House officials tell Axios.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
White House: Biden will not appoint presidential Jan. 6 commission
Discussion: IJR
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Groupthink That Produced the Lab-Leak Failure Should Scare Liberals  —  As we sift through the lab-leak debacle, the good news is that the healthy antibodies in the system are still strong enough to overcome the groupthink that produced the original error.
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Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins  —  Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits.  Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.  —  I. A Group Called DRASTIC
Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
The case that the virus emerged from nature, not a lab, is falling apart  —  Anthony S. Fauci told Congress last week that, despite growing support for the case that the pandemic emerged from the Wuhan lab, he still believes it came from nature.  “I have always said that the high likelihood …
Washington Post:
FBI investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with past political fundraising  —  The FBI is investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with campaign fundraising activity involving his former business, according to people familiar with the matter and a spokesman for DeJoy.
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump is getting worse  —  (CNN)The evidence is everywhere.  —  CNN's Dana Bash reported Thursday morning that former President Donald Trump is “more obsessed than ever with the 2020 election,” with one former Trump aide telling her that the former President is only listening to …
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Juliegrace Brufke / New York Post:
Republican leaders to summit with Trump over conservative agenda
Andrew Mark Miller / Washington Examiner:
Tucker Carlson: Fauci deserves to be under criminal investigation  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson opened his show Wednesday addressing recently exposed emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci, concluding the immunologist should be under criminal investigation.  —  “Are Peter Daszak and Tony Fauci under criminal investigation?”
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Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
As a vet spoke about Memorial Day's roots in Black history, his mic was cut.  It was no accident.  —  Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter was midway through his speech at a Memorial Day ceremony in an Ohio cemetery when he started discussing the role that freed Black enslaved people played in an early event honoring Civil War dead.
David Mack / BuzzFeed News:
A Former Treasury Official Was Sentenced To 6 Months In Prison For Giving Documents To BuzzFeed News  —  A former Treasury Department official was sentenced to six months in prison on Thursday after she admitted to providing highly confidential banking documents to a BuzzFeed News reporter.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former Treasury official sentenced to six months in prison for Mueller-related leaks
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
‘They are hair on fire’: Biden admin mulling cyber attacks against Russian hackers  —  The Biden administration is moving to treat ransomware attacks as a national security threat, using intelligence agencies to spy on foreign criminals and contemplating offensive cyber operations …
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Axios:
COVID-19 cases hit lowest point in U.S. since pandemic began  —  The U.S. has brought new coronavirus infections down to the lowest level since March 2020, when the pandemic began.  —  The big picture: Nearly every week for the past 56 weeks, Axios has tracked the change — more often than not …
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban  —  Going forward politicians will be treated more like everyone else  —  Facebook plans to end its controversial policy that shields politicians from the content moderation rules that apply to other users …
Washington Post:
The new Israeli government should turn the page on Netanyahu's destructive approach to Washington  —  Shalom Lipner, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, served seven consecutive Israeli premiers over a quarter-century at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.
Discussion: Foreign Policy
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Isaac Saul / Tangle:
What just happened in Israel, explained.
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
This Undercover Operative Says She Recruited the Proud Boys for the GOP  —  “Just received this from the GOP.  They are asking me to potentially gather the 'boys and all the patriots and lead a literal (non violent) charge on the County Elections office.”  —  A transgender poker player …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Biden is sending Joe Manchin a very loud message.  Will the senator hear it?  —  If this doesn't move Sen. Joe Manchin III, then nothing will.  —  President Biden has sliced hundreds of billions of dollars off his latest infrastructure offer to Republicans, multiple news outlets are reporting.
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New York Times:
Minneapolis Removes Memorials and Barricades From ‘George Floyd Square’  —  City workers began clearing the intersection where the police killed Mr. Floyd just over a year ago.  The reopening efforts drew criticism from some activists.  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The bulldozers arrived before dawn …
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Hunter Walker / Vanity Fair:
“Tell Me Something to Do Better and I'll Shut Up”: Ben Crump Is Making His Presence Felt in Biden's Washington
Discussion: The Uprising
New York Times:
Government Finds No Evidence That Aerial Sightings Were Alien Spacecraft  —  The strange objects witnessed by Navy pilots remain unexplained, but officials briefed on a new study say they are not secret technology from a classified American program.  —  WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials …
Katie Herzog / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
What Happens When Doctors Can't Tell the Truth?  —  I always thought that if you lived through a revolution it would be obvious to everyone.  As it turns out, that's not true.  Revolutions can be bloodless, incremental and subtle.  And they don't require a strongman.
Discussion: New York Times
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Watch What's Happening in Red States  —  It's not just voting rights.  —  Though this year's proliferation of bills restricting ballot access in red states has commanded national attention, it represents just one stream in a torrent of conservative legislation poised to remake the country.
Discussion: Slate and Alternet.org
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Column: He helped make Ronald Reagan president.  Now he's had it with the Republican Party  —  Recently, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library launched a lecture series entitled “Time for Choosing,” a name consciously echoing the famous 1964 speech that launched Reagan's political career and put him on a path to the White House.
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Unveils Strategy for Global Vaccine Sharing, Announcing Allocation Plan for the First 25 Million Doses to be Shared Globally  —  As we continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic at home and work to end the pandemic worldwide, President Biden has promised …
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The Daily Beast:
MyPillow Guy's Bizarre New Lawsuit Invokes Sci-Fi and RICO  —  The Minnesota MAGA enthusiast filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic engaged in a racketeering conspiracy.  —  Pillow magnate Mike Lindell is trying to re-litigate the election with a second lawsuit …
Discussion: Washington Examiner, Forbes and Insider
Washington Post:
Biden privately called Lawrence Summers, a critic of White House agenda, to discuss economy  —  President Biden recently called former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Democrat who has been openly critical of his economic agenda, to acknowledge Summers's concerns and ask him to explain …
Yahoo News:
Federal Investigators Eye Rudy Giuliani's Security Firm as Probe Ramps Up  —  their probe into Rudy Giuliani, investigators have homed in on Giuliani Security & Safety, a consulting firm that has done business with various governments and organizations around the world, according to two people briefed …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn, and Trump's lasting elevation of the fringe  —  Then-President Donald Trump's 2017 decision to elevate Michael Flynn to White House national security adviser, in many other contexts, would have made lots of sense.  Flynn was a military general.
 
 
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HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Will Go Around Congress To Build Support For Voting Rights
Discussion: CNN and TheBlaze
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The RNC's scandal-plagued finance team, four years later
Devan Cole / CNN:
Boehner: GOP push to enact voting restrictions will undermine people's confidence in the electoral process
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Jan. 6 riot caused $1.5 million in damage to Capitol — and U.S. prosecutors want defendants to pay
Discussion: Insider, Political Wire and Raw Story
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Biden's nonsensical claim about Alzheimer's and hospital beds
Discussion: The Western Journal
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Elie Mystal / The Nation:
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw's search for ‘woke military’ complaints draws ridicule — and war movie quotes
Discussion: The Hill
Michele L. Norris / Washington Post:
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Politico:
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