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State university faculty, students to be surveyed on beliefs — Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested that budget cuts could be looming if universities and colleges are found to be “indoctrinating” students. — TALLAHASSEE — In his continued push against the “indoctrination” of students …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Insider, KVIA-TV, Crooks and Liars, New York Post, Democracy Docket, Florida Politics, Raw Story, Twitchy and fldoe.org

Travis Gettys / Raw Story:

Florida students required to register political views with the state to promote ‘intellectual diversity’ — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation requiring students, faculty and staff at Florida's public universities and colleges to register their political views with the state as a way to encourage “intellectual diversity.”

Discussion: driftglass and Crooks and Liars

Travis Gettys / Raw Story:

‘Florida goes full fascist’: Ron DeSantis sparks furious backlash with ‘authoritarian’ campus political surveys — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation requiring Florida students, faculty and staff to register their political views in surveys in an effort to promote “intellectual diversity” …

Max Boot / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis is showing Trump-level skill at waging culture war

Discussion: Washington Times and No More Mister Nice Blog

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Supreme Court Rules for Cheerleader Punished for Vulgar Snapchat Message — A Pennsylvania school district violated the First Amendment by disciplining a student for off-campus speech, the court ruled. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a Pennsylvania school district …

Discussion: HuffPost, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Outside the Beltway, Deseret News, TheBlaze, CNBC, The Daily Caller, NBC Connecticut, Vox, Forbes, Why Evolution Is True and The Verge

Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rules Against Union Recruiting on California Farms

Discussion: Vox, Wall Street Journal, SCOTUSblog, Associated Press, The Daily Caller and ABC News

Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court sides with high school cheerleader who cursed online

Discussion: KVIA-TV

Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court rules for cheerleader in case involving school rules, free speech on social media

Discussion: HotAir, Politico, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Reason, Washington Examiner, National Review, RedState, New York Magazine, Bloomberg, abc7NY and Gizmodo

Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Rules Cheerleader's F-Bombs Are Protected By The 1st Amendment

Discussion: USA Today, Cyprus Mail, Associated Press, UPI, Law & Crime, The Federalist, NBC News, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, New York Post, The College Fix and SCOTUSblog

Daniel Lippman / Politico:

Kamala Harris is set to visit the border — Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border this week, amid an unrelenting chorus of criticism from Republicans over her failure to visit there. — Harris, who was tasked by President Joe Biden to lead diplomatic efforts …

Discussion: HotAir, The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, CNBC, CBS News, Breitbart, The Sun, RedState, Forbes, Florida Politics, The Western Journal, The Daily Caller, NOQ Report, IJR, CNN, Twitchy, Conservative Brief, KTLA, Townhall, KXAN-TV, Washington Times, Mediaite and KVIA-TV

Olivia Beavers / Politico:

House Republicans set to join Trump's border trip — A group of House Republicans is set to join Donald Trump's visit to the U.S.-Mexico border next week. — About a dozen members of the Republican Study Committee, the biggest caucus in the House GOP, plan to join the former president on the trip next Wednesday.

Discussion: The Hill, Insider, KVIA-TV, Breitbart, National Review, Washington Post and The Daily Caller

Jeremy Wallace / Houston Chronicle: Ted Cruz defends Texas Rep. Chip Roy as Donald Trump attacks him

Politico:

‘The Tea Party to the 10th power’: Trumpworld bets big on critical race theory — Former top aides to President Donald Trump have begun an aggressive push to combat the teaching of critical race theory and capitalize on the issue politically, confident that a backlash will vault them back into power.

Discussion: PRESS RUN and Vanity Fair

Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Top general fires back at ‘offensive’ criticism of military being ‘woke’

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Task & Purpose and National Review

Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
The feedback loop the conservative movement is using against “critical race theory”

Discussion: National Review, Fox News, The Georgia Star News and Townhall

Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Many GOP Voters Hold Strong Views on Critical Race Theory. Democrats? Not So Much

Discussion: Townhall, HotAir and Christopher F. Rufo

Olivia Krauth / Courier-Journal:
Protesters, driven by disdain for critical race theory, derail JCPS school board meeting

Discussion: Raw Story

CNN:

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner distance themselves from the former President and his constant complaints — (CNN)With each passing day away from Washington, former President Donald Trump's grievances continue unabated. And those complaints appear to be driving away two of the people …

Discussion: Insider, KVIA-TV and Raw Story

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

A top Biden ally just fired a warning shot on the filibuster. Should we believe it? — As a Democrat from Joe Biden's longtime home state of Delaware, Sen. Christopher A. Coons is widely perceived to have a direct line to the president, so his views on what's next after the failure of voting reform deserve careful attention.

Discussion: CBS News, Salon, Washington Times, New York Post and The Daily Caller

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Say Voting Protections Trample ‘States’ Rights.' Uh-Oh. The chilling future implications of a very old argument.

Discussion: The Nation, The Message Box, Los Angeles Times, Insider, The Western Journal, Digby's Hullabaloo, Daily Kos, The Guardian, CBS News and IJR

Matthew Sheffield / flux.community:
The Senate filibuster hasn't just stopped progressive legislation, it's also radicalized Republicans

Discussion: Politico, One America News Network, Vox and The Babylon Bee

New York Times:

The Most Detailed Map of New York City Mayoral Primary Results — New York City voters cast their ballots for mayor on Tuesday, and it became clear that the competitive Democratic race would be decided by the city's new ranked-choice system. It is likely to be weeks before a winner is known.

Discussion: National Review, FiveThirtyEight, TheBlaze, Politico, The Uprising, PIX11, Reuters and Reason

David Freedlander / New York Magazine:

The Mayor's Race Isn't (Quite) Decided Yet — “This is going to be about not only the ones, but also about the two and threes,” Kathryn Garcia said in her flat Brooklynese when she took the stage at 99 Scott, the hip Bushwick event space her sister runs. She was referring to the city's …

Jonathan Oosting / Bridge Michigan:

GOP investigation finds no Michigan vote fraud, deems many claims ‘ludicrous’ … LANSING —A months-long Republican investigation into Michigan's 2020 election uncovered no evidence of widespread fraud and concluded Wednesday with a recommendation the attorney general investigate those who made false claims for “personal gain.”

Discussion: Michigan Advance, Michigan Senate Republicans, The Hill, The Guardian, Washington Examiner, HotAir, Page Array, Raw Story and Detroit News

Luis Ferré-Sadurní / New York Times:

India Walton, a socialist candidate, stuns longtime incumbent in Buffalo mayor's race. — A progressive challenger running her first campaign was poised on Tuesday to beat Buffalo's four-term Democratic mayor in a primary upset that would upend the political landscape in New York's second-biggest city …

Discussion: CBS News, Crooks and Liars, New York Magazine, CNN, Washington Post, Insider, Mother Jones, WIVB-TV, Democrat and Chronicle, NPR, UPI, Investigative Post, The Intercept, Forbes, The Daily Caller, NBC News and Common Dreams

Robert J. McCarthy / Buffalo News:
India Walton claims upset in Buffalo mayoral race; Byron Brown pins hopes on absentees

Discussion: WIVB-TV, NBC News, TheBlaze and HuffPost

Sahil Kapur / NBC News:

Manchin open to Biden's ‘human infrastructure’ plans and undoing some Trump tax cuts — WASHINGTON — A key moderate Democratic senator opened the door Tuesday to investing in President Joe Biden's “human infrastructure” proposals and unwinding some of the Republican tax cuts of 2017.

Discussion: Insider, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, American Prospect, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Post

Nate Cohn / New York Times:
A Bill Destined to Fail May Now Spawn More Plausible Options

Discussion: The Hill, Issues & Insights, CNN, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Townhall, Forbes, The Daily Beast, BizPac Review, The Daily Signal, Fox News, Ohio Capital Journal, One America News Network, Roll Call and Politico

Politico:

‘Staggering’: Biden breaks from agenda to grapple with bloodshed plaguing big cities — CHICAGO — It was 6 a.m. last week when news broke of a mass shooting in Chicago. Eight people were shot, five of whom died. By 7:30 a.m. a White House official was on the phone with Mayor Lori Lightfoot's office.

Discussion: HotAir, Senator Josh Hawley, CNN, USA Today and MSN

Mike Allen / Axios:

Scoop: New book says Trump talked of COVID killing John Bolton — “Nightmare Scenario,” a book out next week on President Trump's handling of COVID, reports that he said he hoped it would take out his former national security adviser, John Bolton, who had just written an explosive tell-all about his time in the White House.

Discussion: Politico, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Raw Story, Insider, Mock Paper Scissors, Political Wire and IJR

Wall Street Journal:

Afghan Government Could Collapse Six Months After U.S. Withdrawal, New Intelligence Assessment Says — Taliban advances prompt agencies to revise outlook for how long Kabul can hold out — KABUL—The U.S. intelligence community concluded last week that the government of Afghanistan …

Discussion: Defense One

Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:

How Federal Cop Control Left Liberals Joyless in Seattle (Also, Tear-Gassed) — Under an Obama-era consent decree, Seattle was powerless to defund police last year. More such surrenders of local control to federal judges are likely as the Biden administration revives decrees.

Discussion: Real Clear Politics

Mike Baker / New York Times:
Black Campus Police Officers Say They Suffered ‘Unbearable’ Racism

Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, The Crime Report, MyNorthwest.com and The Stranger

Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:

Republican official in Ohio faces charge for voting twice in November election — Republican lawmakers in Ohio pushing for more “safety and security” at the ballot box can now point to a clear example of voter fraud in the November 2020 presidential election. — Unfortunately for them, it involves another Republican.

Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and Mediaite

CNN:

I can't forgive the people who won't admit my partner, Brian Sicknick, was a hero — Opinion by Sandra Garza — Sandra Garza is a licensed clinical social worker and was the long-time partner of Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police Officer who protected the US Capitol from pro-Trump rioters during …

Discussion: The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, New York Post, Raw Story and Mediaite

Jennifer Mercieca / Just Security:

The Propaganda Playbook: A Section-by-Section Dissection of Tucker Carlson's Communication Strategy — Tucker Carlson is very effective at setting the rightwing agenda, telling them what to think about and framing how to understand politics. Ever wonder how he does it?

Bloomberg:

U.K. Denies Russia Claim Warning Shots Fired at Warship — Fighter dropped bombs near destroyer in Black Sea, Russia says — U.K. says Russian action was part of ‘gunnery exercise’ — Russia said it used bombs and gunfire in “warning shots” to force a British Navy destroyer …

Joe Concha / The Hill:

Why won't the national media cover the story Americans care about most? — It's a very basic concept of journalism: Cover the stories that impact your viewers and readers most, the stories they most care about. — But for one very big story, there's been relative silence from our national media, just passing mentions.

Wall Street Journal:

Covid-19 Gene Data That Could Have Aided Research on Early Epidemic Removed From Database — Researcher says he recovered gene sequences after a Chinese scientist asked that they be removed from government archive — Chinese researchers directed the U.S. National Institutes of Health …

Discussion: bioRxiv, The Daily Caller, Twitchy, New York Post and TheBlaze

Yun Li / CNBC:

Warren Buffett gives away another $4.1 billion, resigns as trustee at Gates Foundation — This year's donation marked the halfway point for Buffett, who pledged in 2006 to give away all of his Berkshire shares through annual gifts to five foundations. — Buffett said his 16 annual contributions …

Discussion: Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Vox and Washington Examiner

Quinnipiac University Poll:

Texans Split On Whether Gov. Abbott Deserves To Be Reelected, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Democrats Want O'Rourke To Run For Governor, About 4 In 10 Texas Voters Want McConaughey To Run — mail_outline — As Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, seeks reelection next year …

Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Do Chance Meetings at the Office Boost Innovation? There's No Evidence of It. — For some, the office even stifles creativity. As the pandemic eases in the U.S., a few companies seek to reimagine what work might look like. — When Yahoo banned working from home in 2013 …

Katie Robertson / New York Times:

Nikole Hannah-Jones Says She Won't Join U.N.C. Faculty Without Tenure — A letter from Ms. Hannah-Jones's lawyers said an unnamed “powerful donor” had contributed to the University of North Carolina board of trustees' failure to grant her tenure. — The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist …