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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 …
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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Rep. Mark Green / Washington Examiner:
What did Dr. Fauci know, and when did he know it?  —  Nearly 50 years ago, two iconic Tennesseans posed the pivotal question that led to the unveiling of one of the biggest political cover-ups in American history.  Fred Thompson, then-counsel to the Watergate Committee …
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 …
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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
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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Washington Examiner:
Biden just scrapped a good border policy, all because it was Trump's  —  “Some things may be true, even if Donald Trump said them.”  —  That was the epiphany that ABC's Jonathan Karl had over the weekend.  It's a difficult concept for the news media, and the Biden administration is having …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
US taps groups to pick asylum-seekers to allow into country
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
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 …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Manchin offers little comfort to frustrated Democrats  —  (CNN)The riddle of Joe Manchin is going to drive his fellow Democrats to distraction.  —  The senator from West Virginia, who sits at the fulcrum of Washington's balance of power, signaled in a new CNN exclusive interview …
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
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
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
Glenn H. Reynolds / New York Post:
Yale's move to rig board elections reveals the bankruptcy of US elites  —  Among the chief characteristics of the people running America's institutions are arrogance and a dogged unwillingness to be held accountable.  Both have lately been on prominent display at Yale University.
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 …
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.
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:
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Discussion: The National Interest
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New York Times:
Minneapolis Removes Memorials and Barricades From ‘George Floyd Square’
Washington Post:
The new Israeli government should turn the page on Netanyahu's destructive approach to Washington
Discussion: Foreign Policy
HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Will Go Around Congress To Build Support For Voting Rights
Discussion: TheBlaze and CNN
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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