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Donald J. Trump / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Suing Big Tech — If Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can censor me, they can censor you—and believe me, they are. — One of the gravest threats to our democracy today is a powerful group of Big Tech corporations that have teamed up with government to censor the free speech of the American people.
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Trump Says He Will Sit For a Deposition For Social Media Lawsuit: ‘I Look Forward to It’
Trump Says He Will Sit For a Deposition For Social Media Lawsuit: ‘I Look Forward to It’
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Washington Times, POLITICUSUSA, Joe.My.God. and The Gateway Pundit
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's latest ridiculous lawsuit shows how small he has become
Trump's latest ridiculous lawsuit shows how small he has become
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MyNorthwest.com, Raw Story, NBC News, One America News Network, Vox, New York Times, Newsbusters, Fox News and YouTube, more at Mediagazer »
PRRI:
The 2020 Census of American Religion — THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE IN 2020 — The American Religious Landscape in 2020 — According to PRRI's 2020 American Values Atlas, seven in ten Americans (70%) identify as Christian, including more than four in ten who identify as white Christian …
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Washington Post, Boing Boing and Blue Virginia
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Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:
Survey: White mainline Protestants outnumber white evangelicals, while ‘nones’ shrink — Hundreds gathered at Times Square for an interfaith Shabbat lighting ceremony in late 2017 to celebrate religious diversity. Photo courtesy of Abe's Eats — (RNS) — White Christian decline has slowed.
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New York Magazine
CNN:
Five undervaccinated clusters put the entire United States at risk — (CNN)A new data analysis identifies clusters of unvaccinated people, most of them in the southern United States, that are vulnerable to surges in Covid-19 cases and could become breeding grounds for even more deadly Covid-19 variants.
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Washington Examiner and Deseret News
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Wall Street Journal:
‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master's Degrees That Don't Pay Off — Columbia and other top universities push master's programs that fail to generate enough income for graduates to keep up with six-figure federal loans — Recent film program graduates of Columbia University …
Alexis Nowicki / Slate:
I've Always Suspected “Cat Person” Was Based on My Life. Now I Know It Was.
— Kristen Roupenian's viral story draws specific details from my own life. I've spent the years since it published wondering: How did she know? — One night in December of 2017, I saw Call Me by Your Name …
New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg's Partnership Did Not Survive Trump — The company they built is wildly successful. But her Washington wisdom didn't hold up, and neither did their close working relationship. — Sheryl Sandberg knew she'd be asked about the attacks on the Capitol.
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Insider, more at Techmeme »
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Naming the Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Unarmed Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt — At top, pistol drawn in the House chamber, a plainclothes black officer who fits the description of Michael L. Byrd. His name was apparently divulged at a hearing as the cop who shot Ashli Babbitt.
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The Western Journal, Forbes, The American Independent, Townhall, Insider, The Gateway Pundit and BizPac Review
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Wajahat Ali / The Daily Beast:
Why Trump Is Anointing Ashli Babbitt as MAGA's First Martyr
Why Trump Is Anointing Ashli Babbitt as MAGA's First Martyr
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, BizPac Review, Raw Story, Daily Kos, TheBlaze and Gizmodo
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Deal of the art: White House grapples with ethics of Hunter Biden's pricey paintings — White House officials have helped craft an agreement under which purchases of Hunter Biden's artwork — which could be listed at prices as high as $500,000 — will be kept confidential from even the artist himself …
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HotAir, Insider, Washington Free Beacon, Fox News, RedState, Ace of Spades HQ, CNBC, National Review, New York Post, The Hill and Twitchy
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Gettr by the Pu$$y — [Note: This article includes sexually explicit language and a gross screenshot from Gettr users.] — Ahhh, internet forum moderation policy debates. — Right-wing politicians and pundits will have you believe that their victimization at the hands of overzealous online censors …
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Salon
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Supreme Court's Latest Voting Rights Opinion Is Even Worse Than It Seems — It's been almost a week since the Supreme Court issued its most significant ruling on voting rights in nearly a decade, and each time I read Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the angrier I become.
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The Atlantic, Insider, Raw Story and New Republic
NBC News:
Collapsed Florida tower could have been repaired faster under repealed law, experts say … SURFSIDE, Fla. — Late last year, after years of delays and disputes, the Champlain Towers South Condominium Association began a desperate search for $16.2 million to fix major structural damage …
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CNBC and The Guardian
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Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
DeSantis: Surfside condo ‘had problems from the start,’ won't commit to statewide review
DeSantis: Surfside condo ‘had problems from the start,’ won't commit to statewide review
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The Hill, Common Dreams, Joe.My.God., Alternet.org, The Daily Caller and NPR
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Inside Donald Trump's Last Days in the White House and Plans for a Comeback — The president's effort to overturn the election alienated much of his inner circle—but solidified his dominance of the GOP. Now he's planning his return. — On the morning of Nov. 7, 2020 …
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Alternet.org, Los Angeles Times, How To Live BULLSHIT-FREE and Raw Story
David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump charged Secret Service nearly $10,200 in May for agents' rooms — Former president Donald Trump's golf club in Bedminster, N.J., charged the Secret Service nearly $10,200 for guest rooms used by his protective detail during Trump's first month at the club this summer, newly released spending records show.
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USA Today, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and Insider
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Four States Start Inquiries Into Recurring Donation Tactics of Both Parties — Letters to WinRed and ActBlue, which process online campaign donations for Republicans and Democrats respectively, ask for documents related to their use of prechecked boxes. — Four state attorneys general …
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Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Maggie Fox / CNN:
Coronavirus almost certainly came from an animal, not a lab leak, top scientists argue — US intelligence working on report about Covid-19 origins — (CNN)The coronavirus pandemic almost certainly originated from an animal, probably at a wildlife market in China, and not from a laboratory leak …
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National Review, Bloomberg and Zenodo
Washington Post:
U.S. citizen among suspects arrested in assassination of Haitian president, senior official says — PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A U.S. citizen of Haitian descent has been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, a senior official here said Thursday.
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Washington Examiner, USA Today, National Review, Denver Post, Associated Press, NPR, WTOP and NBC Boston
Josh Hammer / The American Mind:
The Social Credit Security State — Our woke ruling class intends to use both private and public enterprise to police and punish hearts and minds. — President Ronald Reagan famously said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Bay Area NIMBYs are saying the racist parts out loud over affordable housing developments — The term “affordable housing” often functions as California code for no housing. Thanks to a scarcity of homes driven by residents and officials who pretend to support housing subject to its affordability …
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Harris to announce $25 million DNC investment to aid voting access … WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris will announce Thursday a $25 million investment by the Democratic National Committee to support efforts to protect voting access ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
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USA Today, Politico, CNBC, ABC News, CBS News, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, One America News Network and Democracy Docket
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Live free and die: Inside the bizarre political philosophy of America's unvaccinated — A couple of weeks ago, I drove two hours north to the hillside town of Olyphant, Pa., just outside Scranton, to meet with a Donald Trump superfan for a book project I've been working on.
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
How May Edwards became the forgotten whistleblower — By the time Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards stood before Judge Gregory Woods in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan last month, she had lost her job, her car, her home and had spent nearly three years on supervised release, awaiting a likely prison sentence.
Joseph Cox / VICE:
We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals — ‘Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one. — Joseph Cox — The sleek, black phone seems perfectly normal. — Unlocking the Google Pixel 4a with a PIN code reveals …
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Boing Boing
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Disgraced Trump foe Michael Avenatti weeps as he is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for Nike extortion scheme — Michael Avenatti, the brash attorney who became a leading foe of then-President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison for a brazen botched scheme …
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Washington Post, CBS News, Washington Examiner, Associated Press, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New York Post, TMZ.com, ABC News and TheBlaze
Conrad Black / The Hill:
The steady erosion of Trump-hate is a growing problem for Team Biden — Infinitely slowly, some of the most vocal Donald Trump-haters are tentatively dropping out of lockstep with the Biden administration and the serried ranks of its docile, fervent political propaganda apparatus.
Rep. Devin Nunes / Washington Examiner:
Don't let California nuke affordable energy — Late last week, California's electricity grid managers declared that the Golden State is dangerously low on electricity. — Despite living in what once was America's most innovative energy economy, Californians now must endure extreme measures …
Julia Ioffe / Vanity Fair:
“These Bastards Will Never See Our Tears”: How Yulia Navalnaya Became Russia's Real First Lady — When the Kremlin tried to kill Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, his wife launched an epic battle to save his life—and became the face of the resistance to Vladimir Putin.
Sion Bell / American Prospect:
One Weird Trick to Force Billionaires to Pay Taxes — The ‘economic substance doctrine’ could be employed by the IRS to crack down on tax avoidance. — Peter Thiel speaks during an American Technology Council roundtable in the State Dining Room of the White House, June 19, 2017, in Washington.
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Washington Post, Raw Story and Alternet.org
Ilana Kaplan / New York Times:
‘Legally Blonde’ Oral History: From Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic — Along the way, adult zingers were edited out, Jennifer Coolidge struggled with the “bend and snap” and the ending was changed at least three times. — In 2001, Reese Witherspoon was already on her way to becoming a household name.
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Insider
Jessica Dickler / CNBC:
Inflation's silver lining: higher salaries — Although consumers may be paying more for everyday items, it's not all bad news. — As inflation takes hold, wages may increase, too. — These industries may face the most pressure from rising wages — As the economy picks up in the wake …
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Texas Is the Hardest State to Vote In. It Could Soon Get Much Harder. — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. — Beto O'Rourke is once again crisscrossing the state of Texas …
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Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, CNN, CBS News and The Western Journal
Brandon Tensley / CNN:
The engineered conservative panic over critical race theory, explained — Washington (CNN)A version of this story appeared in CNN's Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here. — Spare a thought for critical race theory. It wasn't always a conservative bogeyman.
Ruy Teixeira / The Liberal Patriot:
Why Current Democratic Strategy Probably Won't Work — The Biden Boom Is Not Enough — The Democrats have a plan for 2022. It's called the Biden boom. Into that boom will be folded Democratic policy successes like the vaccine rollout, the American Rescue Plan and, possibly …
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Alternet.org
Natalie Jackson / FiveThirtyEight:
Whether Republicans Get Vaccinated Has A Lot To Do With If They Watch Fox News ... Or OANN — It's no secret that Republicans really distrust the media. In fact, that distrust is increasingly an important part of their political identity. — For a long time, understanding …
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Raw Story