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7:05 AM ET, June 4, 2021

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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
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook to end a longtime exception made for politicians who break its rules  —  The change is part of a series of responses to the Facebook Oversight Board's ruling on former president Trump.  —  Facebook plans to announce Friday that it will no longer automatically give politicians a pass …
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Facebook Plans to End Hands-Off Approach to Politicians' Posts  —  The social network, under pressure since barring former President Donald J. Trump, will no longer automatically give world leaders special treatment.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook plans to announce on Friday …
Discussion: 24matins.uk
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 …
Politico:
Biden can't quit infrastructure talks and progressives are losing their minds  —  Progressive activists have mostly kept their cool as President Joe Biden's infrastructure negotiations with Republican senators stretch on longer than planned.  —  But with talks ongoing and new concessions being offered …
Discussion: CNN, The Hill, NPR, Sacramento Bee and The Nation
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive: Biden opposes a presidential commission for Jan. 6
Washington Post:
Biden offers major change to tax proposal in effort to secure infrastructure deal with Republicans
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
White House: Biden will not appoint presidential Jan. 6 commission
Discussion: IJR
Myah Ward / Politico:
Pence says he and Trump may never ‘see eye to eye’ on Jan. 6 insurrection  —  In his second public address since leaving office, former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday put a little space between himself and his ex-boss, saying he and former President Donald Trump might never “see eye to eye” on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Discussion: CNN, NH Journal, HuffPost and New York Post
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
In pro-Trump speech, Pence says he doesn't know if they'll ‘ever see eye-to-eye’ on Jan. 6 Capitol attack
Financial Times:
Anthony Fauci urges China to release medical records of Wuhan lab workers  —  Biden adviser calls for help on solving question of whether Covid ‘leaked’ from facility  —  Joe Biden's chief medical adviser has called on China to release the medical records of nine people whose illnesses might …
Discussion: Fox News and 24matins.uk
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Christopher Bing / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism  —  The U.S. Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official told Reuters.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
‘They are hair on fire’: Biden admin mulling cyber attacks against Russian hackers
CNN:
DOJ signals plans to coordinate anti-ransomware efforts with the same protocols as it does for terrorism
Discussion: KEYT-TV
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.
Jenna Romaine / The Hill:
F. Lee Bailey, defense lawyer for OJ Simpson and Patty Hearst, dies at 87  —  His son Bendrix Bailey confirmed his death but didn't disclose the cause.  —  Story at a glance  — F. Lee Bailey died on Thursday, June 3 in a Georgia hospice center at the age of 87.
Discussion: Washington Post
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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Hating Trump is no excuse for comparing 1/6 to 9/11  —  “I'd like to see Jan. 6 burned into the American mind as firmly as 9/11.”  —  So said George Will on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday, in what is a growing chorus by super-serious people in political media pushing a super-insulting comparison between …
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: Insider, Washington Examiner and Forbes
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
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Ron Johnson is still weighing whether to run for a third senate term next year, but says he's ‘panicked’ for the nation  —  Bill Glauber Craig GilbertMilwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  The Milwaukee Press Club got the full Ron Johnson on Thursday.  —  In a virtual session that lasted an hour …
Discussion: The Hill
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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New York Times:
Giuliani and Prosecutors Agree on Former Judge to Review Seized Materials  —  Barbara S. Jones conducted a similar screening during the investigation into Michael D. Cohen.  —  Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have recommended that Barbara S. Jones, a former judge in Manhattan …
David Asher / Wall Street Journal:
The World Needs Answers on Covid's Origin  —  China wants the issue to go away.  The U.S. should use all of its tools to keep the pressure on Beijing.  —  Covid-19 began trickling out of Wuhan, China, at least a year and a half ago.  The world still knows far too little about the origins of the outbreak.
Discussion: Politico
Juliana Feliciano Reyes / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A teacher at a Main Line Jewish school criticized Zionism on Twitter.  Then he got fired.  —  When Jesse Schwartz got fired from his teaching job at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, administrators at the Main Line private school said it was because he had violated the school's social media policy …
Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
US taps groups to pick asylum-seekers to allow into country  —  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration has quietly tasked six humanitarian groups with recommending which migrants should be allowed to stay in the U.S. instead of being rapidly expelled from the country under federal pandemic-related powers …
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
For Many of America's Elites, China and Communism Have Already Won  —  Those who thought America was turning communist I would privately think of as paranoids.  —  No longer.  —  This change evolved from my observation of how communism is actually practiced in the People's Republic of China …
 
 
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Martha C. White / NBC News:
Positive new data builds expectations for a whopper number for Friday's closely watched jobs report
Discussion: The National Interest
PNAS:
Elite rhetoric can undermine democratic norms
KFF:
KFF Health Tracking Poll - May 2021: Prescription Drug Prices Top Public's Health Care Priorities
New York Times:
Minneapolis Removes Memorials and Barricades From ‘George Floyd Square’
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
HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Will Go Around Congress To Build Support For Voting Rights
Discussion: TheBlaze and CNN
 Earlier Items: 
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The RNC's scandal-plagued finance team, four years later
Juliegrace Brufke / New York Post:
Republican leaders to summit with Trump over conservative agenda
Emily Stewart / Vox:
America's cruel unemployment experiment
Discussion: American Experiment and Reuters
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Column: He helped make Ronald Reagan president. Now he's had it with the Republican Party
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Watch What's Happening in Red States
Discussion: Slate and Alternet.org
Washington Post:
FBI investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with past political fundraising