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Ana Ceballos / Tampa Bay Times:
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 …
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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.”
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Florida goes full fascist’: Ron DeSantis sparks furious backlash with ‘authoritarian’ campus political surveys
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis is showing Trump-level skill at waging culture war
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rules Against Union Recruiting on California Farms — The case concerned a unique state regulation allowing labor representatives to meet with farm workers at their workplaces for up to three hours a day for as many as 120 days a year. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court …
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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 …
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court sides with high school cheerleader who cursed online
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Restricts Police Powers To Enter A Home Without A Warrant
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Supreme Court limits when police can enter home without warrant
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Rules Cheerleader's F-Bombs Are Protected By The 1st Amendment
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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 …
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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.
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Top general fires back at ‘offensive’ criticism of military being ‘woke’ — The military's top officer on Wednesday pushed back against GOP lawmakers who said the Pentagon's efforts to combat racism and promote diversity have made the armed forces too “woke.”
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Politico:
‘The Tea Party to the 10th power’: Trumpworld bets big on critical race theory
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
The feedback loop the conservative movement is using against “critical race theory”
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Olivia Krauth / Courier-Journal:
Protesters, driven by disdain for critical race theory, derail JCPS school board meeting
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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.
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Matthew Sheffield / flux.community:
The Senate filibuster hasn't just stopped progressive legislation, it's also radicalized Republicans
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The GOP shows Manchin and Sinema that saving democracy is a partisan issue
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Say Voting Protections Trample ‘States’ Rights.' Uh-Oh. The chilling future implications of a very old argument.
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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 …
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Biden administration removes Rodney Scott as head of U.S. Border Patrol — The Biden administration has forced out the head of the U.S. Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, clearing a path for a leadership overhaul at an agency strained by a 20-year-high in illegal border crossings …
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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 …
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell — The software magnate reportedly died just hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States. — Software magnate John McAfee was found dead Wednesday afternoon in a Spanish prison cell just hours …
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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.”
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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:
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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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?
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
Centrist Pundits' Supposedly Savvy, Terribly Wrong Takes About the New York Mayoral Race — Savvy guys like Matt Yglesias, the newsletter writer and former Vox and Slate blogger, sometimes critique bad political punditry by pointing out that it often boils down to saying things like …
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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 …
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Zaid Jilani / INQUIRE:
The Intercept Publishes Bogus “Exclusive Leak” Of Material Publicly Available Online — Beyond presenting banal publicly available information as a blockbuster leak, the site wildly misrepresented its contents: No, the U.S. military is not targeting socialism. — 7 hr ago
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Common Dreams, The Guardian and The Intercept
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.
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Insider, The Hill, Daily Kos, Wall Street Journal, American Prospect, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Post
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 …
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