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CNN:
New emails show how Trump and his allies pressured Justice Department to try to challenge 2020 election results — (CNN)New emails show how former President Donald Trump's White House assistant, chief of staff and other allies pressured the Justice Department to investigate claims of voter fraud …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Trump Pressed Official to Wield Justice Dept. to Back Election Claims — The former president began pressuring his acting attorney general even before announcing that his predecessor was stepping down, emails show. — WASHINGTON — An hour before President Donald J. Trump announced …
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Washington Post, Election Law Blog, HuffPost, HotAir, Truthout, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller and Talking Points Memo
House Committee on Oversight and Reform:
New Documents Show Trump Repeatedly Pressed DOJ to Overturn Election Results Before Inciting Capitol Attack — Ahead of Hearing on Insurrection, Oversight Committee Releases New Evidence and Seeks Transcribed Interviews with Key Officials — Washington, D.C. (June 15, 2021)— Today …
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Politico, CBS News, CNBC, Insider, Al Jazeera, Law & Crime, POLITICUSUSA and Hackwhackers
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The more we learn about Trump's corruption of DOJ, the worse it gets
The more we learn about Trump's corruption of DOJ, the worse it gets
Jennifer Taub / Washington Monthly:
Why Is Merrick Garland Defending Bill Barr's Policies?
Why Is Merrick Garland Defending Bill Barr's Policies?
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New York Times, CNN, HuffPost, The Signorile Report, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and IJR, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Emails show Trump pressured Justice Dept. over 2020 election
Emails show Trump pressured Justice Dept. over 2020 election
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Wall Street Journal, HotAir, NBC News, CNN, Denver Post and The American Independent
NBC News:
Critical race theory invades school boards — with help from conservative groups — A booby-trapped billboard. A list of demands. A conservative media frenzy. — Jeff Porter, superintendent of a wealthy suburban school district in Maine, had no idea that his community was about to become part …
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Ross Hunt / The American Mind:
Fighting Critical Race Theory, One Door at a Time
Fighting Critical Race Theory, One Door at a Time
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Media Matters for America
Lis Power / Media Matters for America:
Fox has mentioned “critical race theory” nearly 1,300 times in the past 3.5 months
Fox has mentioned “critical race theory” nearly 1,300 times in the past 3.5 months
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Insider and New Republic
Politico:
'He's screwed over so many publishers': Trump confronts a skeptical book industry — Almost five months after leaving office, major publishing houses still are wary of publishing a book by former President Donald Trump, even though a post-White House memoir would almost assuredly be a best-seller.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
New Book Publisher Caters to Conservative Voices It Says Are Being Silenced
New Book Publisher Caters to Conservative Voices It Says Are Being Silenced
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Robby Soave / Reason:
A Composer Condemned Arson. Now No One Will Hire Him. — Until last year, Daniel Elder—a 34-year-old musician who lives in Nashville, Tennessee—had a promising career ahead of him. The theme of the prize-winning composer's work, truth through emotion, is evident across his catalogue of choral music …
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HotAir
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Get Ready for the Shitstorm That Will Follow the Arizona “Recount” — Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy's plan for Arizona is the same as it was before January 6. — Your whole life, like a sandglass, will always be reversed and will ever run out again,—a long minute of time will elapse until …
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Raw Story and Missouri Independent
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
The Wuhan lab-leak explanation is “not a conspiracy theory, ” says ... Jon Stewart? — That strange popping sound you've been hearing overnight? Media-elite heads exploding, perhaps, or maybe just eardrums adjusting to the new narrative pressure provided by Jon Stewart.
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The Independent, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, RedState, TheBlaze, Twitchy, Power Line and National Review
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Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
Former CDC director Redfield explains why he believes COVID-19 emerged from lab, WHO ‘compromised’ — Redfield argued COVID-19's efficient human-to-human spread contradicted behavior of other deadly coronaviruses with similar profiles — Exclusive: Former CDC Director Redfield says he believes COVID-19 came from Wuhan lab
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RedState, National Review, New York Post, The Federalist and The National Pulse
The White House:
FACT SHEET: National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism … On his first full day in office, President Biden directed his national security team to lead a 100-day comprehensive review of U.S. Government efforts to address domestic terrorism, which has evolved into the most urgent terrorism threat the United States faces today.
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POLITICUSUSA, Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Biden to Nominate 5 More Judges — The Biden administration is set to on Tuesday announce a fourth round of judicial nominations, including a New York appeals court nominee with an expertise in voting rights — an issue likely to occupy the courts in coming months.
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to be judge on powerful appeals court
Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to be judge on powerful appeals court
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Forbes, Fortune, Politico, UPI, HuffPost, The 19th, Washington Times, The Hill, USA Today, The Daily Caller, CBS News, ABC News, Roll Call, WTOP and Washington Post
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: What Marjorie Taylor Greene did not apologize for — By Patricia Murphy - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tia Mitchell - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution … Marjorie Taylor Greene has been called on to apologize many times before.
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Forbes, Associated Press, CNN, The Dispatch and Minnesota Reformer
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Finds Out How Bad the Holocaust Was
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Finds Out How Bad the Holocaust Was
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NBC News, Occupy Democrats, Patterico's Pontifications and National Review
New York Times:
The Amazon That Customers Don't See — Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.
Colin Woodard / Press Herald:
Ex-Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, now a Mainer, marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6 — The former Californian, who's been called 'Putin's favorite congressman,' said he participated to protest the ‘stolen election’ but urged fellow protesters not to storm the Capitol. — POLITICS
Erin Douglas / The Texas Tribune:
Texas' main power grid operator urges reduced electricity use through Friday due to “tight grid conditions” — The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says a large number of power plants are offline, but it could not provide details as to what may be causing the “very concerning” number of outages.
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Betsy McKay / Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Virus Ranged From Illinois to Massachusetts Before States Reported First Cases — People in five U.S. states were infected with the Covid-19 virus well before their state's first confirmed case, including some in December 2019 — The Covid-19 virus infected people in five U.S. states …
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OUP Academic, Washington Examiner, New York Times, KVIA-TV and Twitchy
Bonchie / RedState:
More Evidence Emerges That Joe Biden Is Not Well — Joe Biden's disastrous G7 performance has been well documented here at RedState. From his getting played by Vladimir Putin to his partisan rantings against Republicans to his train wreck of a press conference (before his other train wreck …
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HotAir, Catholic News Agency and The New Neo
Julius Young / Fox News:
Michael Costello shares ‘unhealed trauma,’ says he had suicidal thoughts after alleged Chrissy Teigen bullying — The ‘Project Runway’ star claimed Teigen allegedly followed through on threats to end his career — Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines for June 14
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Medium, Deadline, The Daily Caller and KVIA-TV
Institute of Politics and Public Service:
Battleground Poll — The Battleground Poll is a national bipartisan survey that has been reliably measuring political opinion among registered voters in the United States for nearly thirty years. Produced by Republican strategist Ed Goeas of The Tarrance Group and Democratic strategist Celinda Lake …
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Washington Examiner and The Hill
Politico:
Republicans plot an infrastructure 2-step: Spend more, then kill Biden's agenda — Senate Republicans are mulling support for a massive amount of new spending on infrastructure — in part because they think it'll help kill President Joe Biden's liberal agenda.
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Washington Examiner, NBC News, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, CNN, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, National Review, Forbes, Fox News, The Hill, Bloomberg, Raw Story and Insider
Revolver:
Unindicted Co-Conspirators in 1/6 Cases Raise Disturbing Questions of Federal Foreknowledge — Experience Revolver without ads … Of all the questions asked, words spoken, and ink spilled on the so-called “Capitol Siege” of January 6, 2021, none hold the key to the entire event quite …
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
The terrific triviality of Twitter — Twitter strikes fear into the heart of millions. But how much real power does it have? — 8 hr ago — Anyone who's read my writing over the years knows that I have this weird obsession with Twitter. I've come to believe that Twitter …
Gabe Stutman / J.:
Stanford therapists allege ‘hostile climate’ for Jews in the workplace — Two Jewish mental health professionals at Stanford's on-campus counseling clinic have filed workplace discrimination complaints after what they call “severe and persistent” anti-Jewish harassment from colleagues.
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Call it authoritarianism — The Republican Party has embraced an agenda that rigs the rules in their favor. There's a name for that behavior. — American democracy is in a bad way, and the Republican Party is the reason why. — Blocking an inquiry into the January 6 attack on the Capitol …
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Daily Kos and The American Spectator