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Michael Wines / New York Times:
In Arizona 2020 Election Review, Risks for Republicans, and Democracy — Experts call it a circus. Polls say it will hurt the G.O.P. in 2022. But Republicans are on board in Arizona and elsewhere, despite warnings of lasting damage to the political system.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Rep. Mo Brooks served with lawsuit related to his role in Capitol insurrection — (CNN)Alabama GOP Rep. Mo Brooks was served with a lawsuit filed by California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell seeking to hold him partially accountable for the January 6 insurrection, according to a tweet from Brooks and an attorney for Swalwell.
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Eric Swalwell Finally Serves Mo Brooks With Lawsuit Holding Him Responsible For Jan. 6
Eric Swalwell Finally Serves Mo Brooks With Lawsuit Holding Him Responsible For Jan. 6
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Occupy Democrats and Raw Story
Madison Dapcevich / Snopes.com:
No, Trump Did Not Wear His Pants Backwards at Rally — Former U.S. President Donald Trump wore his pants backwards during the June 2021 North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greenville, North Carolina. — Rating — False — In early June 201, a video of former U.S. President …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Trump's grievances cloud Republican agenda heading into 2022
Trump's grievances cloud Republican agenda heading into 2022
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Washington Post, American Greatness, Washington Examiner, Alternet.org, Daily Kos, Real Clear Politics, Florida Politics and Townhall
Spectrum News NY1:
Exclusive: Eric Adams jumps in front, Yang slips in NY1/Ipsos poll — Eric Adams has surged to the front of the pack, overtaking Andrew Yang and building a six-point lead in the Democratic primary for mayor, according to the exclusive results of a new Spectrum News NY1/Ipsos poll. — What You Need To Know
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The dirty secret behind the success of top Republican fundraisers — A constellation of obscure websites — populated with content stolen from major media outlets like Politico, Axios, and BuzzFeed — has played a significant role in the fundraising success of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene …
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Cheney: Trump inciting January 6 riot ‘the most dangerous thing’ a president has done — Jonathan Swan: Liz Cheney is a woman without a party — (CNN)Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney accused former President Donald Trump of having committed the worst violation of a president's oath …
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Mediaite, National Review, Washington Times and New York Magazine
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Anthony Weiner's Not Coming Back. But He Has Nowhere to Go. — The man who was almost New York's mayor talks about the current campaign, selling tweets and why he feels bad for the media. — Anthony Weiner doesn't pay the kind of attention to New York politics that he did back when he was running …
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Insider
Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
Something appears to be ‘simply, simply wrong’ at the Biden Justice Department — Fred Ryan is publisher of The Post. — During the final days of the Trump administration, the attorney general used extraordinary measures to obtain subpoenas to secretly seize records of reporters at three leading U.S. news organizations.
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HotAir, Reason, National Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Insider, Outside the Beltway, USA Today, The Hill, Mediaite and Twitchy, more at Mediagazer »
Jackie Wattles / CNN:
Jeff Bezos is going to space on first crewed flight of rocket — New York (CNN Business)Jeff Bezos will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled for July 20th, just 15 days after he is set to resign as CEO of Amazon.
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New York Times, CBS News, The Times of Israel, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, New York Post, Variety, Mediaite and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
David Dayen / American Prospect:
House Democrat Leading Effort Against Key Consumer Protection — Rep. Josh Gottheimer is lobbying against a resolution that would end the practice of predatory lenders charging astronomical interest rates on consumer loans. — Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) speaks during …
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New York Times:
New York City Plans a Central Park Mega-Concert to Celebrate Reopening — The mayor's office has asked the producer Clive Davis to sign up musical stars for an event on the Great Lawn in August. — Brunch crowds are back. Rush-hour traffic is back. Tourists in horse-drawn carriages are back.
Washington Examiner:
Biden rejoining the World Health Organization looks worse every day — President Joe Biden's decision to rejoin the World Health Organization without preconditions was foolish. Now, the organization is making itself an even greater mockery of the credibility that Washington is lending it.
Washington Post:
Vaccination rates fall off, imperiling Biden's July Fourth goal — The ‘last mile’ of delivering coronavirus shots has become a marathon, with health officials showing up at stores, parks and factories, rather than waiting for people to come to them. — Plummeting vaccination rates …
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HotAir, New York Post and Political Wire
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
What Were They Thinking About Insurrection? — The hopes and fears of the participants in the Capitol attack, government officials, and Donald Trump. — On January 6, 2021, members of the Oath Keepers, high on conspiracies and disinformation, went to Washington, D.C. to support then-President Donald Trump.
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Washington Times
James Downie / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin's mighty delusions — Sen. Joe Manchin III is at it again. In the Charleston Gazette-Mail on Sunday, the West Virginia Democrat announced his opposition to the For the People Act and doubled down on his commitment to keeping the Senate filibuster.
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New York Magazine, Fox News, NBC News, The Hill, CBS News, Alternet.org, Insider and NBC4 Washington
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Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Was mask-wearing pointless, after all? Fauci must be forced to answer — Did we ever need masks? — It's a touchy, complex question. People may not want to learn that millions of us covered our faces for 15 months for no good reason, after all. But asking the questions is exactly what we must do.
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis — An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important. — It was supposed to be the celebration …
Steve Thomma / White House Correspondents' Association:
WHCA Announces New Scholarship at University of Tennessee — The White House Correspondents' Association is pleased to announce a new scholarship at the University of Tennessee. — The Carter Holland memorial scholarship will be in honor of the late Carter Holland, a promising young journalist …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Stormy Daniels says her attorney is in contact with prosecutors investigating Trump Organization — Stormy Daniels says her lawyer has been in touch with prosecutors in New York City who are investigating former President Trump's company. — “I have not been called to testify,” …
New York Times:
What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Social Media — When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday, Facebook said the former president would not be allowed …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Biden should go it alone — Seventeen months — that's all the time that's left. — That's how long President Biden can hope to hold Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. — Now is the time to start thinking about the November 2022 midterm elections.
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Raleigh News & Observer, CNN, The Atlantic, Daily Kos, Real Clear Politics, JONATHAN TURLEY and Los Angeles Times
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Interview with Barack Obama … During his time in office, former President Barack Obama maintained something of a hot-and-cold relationship with Jewish leaders, particularly around his administration's foreign policy in the Middle East. Obama first entered the national stage with longstanding ties …
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The Daily Beast:
Dems Worry the GOP Will Try to ‘Benghazi’ Jan. 6 Probe — The authoritative investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was never supposed to carry the adjective “Benghazi-style.” — But six months after the deadly insurrection, Democrats are confronting the reality …
Joe Sutton / CNN:
Video appears to show GOP Oregon lawmaker telling protesters how to enter closed state Capitol — (CNN)An Oregon state lawmaker who has been charged after he allegedly allowed protesters into the closed state Capitol building during a debate over Covid-19 restrictions is seen in new video appearing …
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Washington Post
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
An end to the military draft... or an expansion? — Back in the late sixties, I remember my family nervously waiting to find out if my older brother's number would come up in the draft and if he would be sent to Vietnam. My sister, three years older than my brother, had never faced …
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Washington Post
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
A Psychiatrist Invited to Yale Spoke of Fantasies of Shooting White People — The Yale School of Medicine said the tone and content of a lecture by Dr. Aruna Khilanani, who has a private practice in New York, were “antithetical to the values of the school.”
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