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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vance — What do we call a man who turns on everything he once claimed to believe? For a practitioner of petty and self-serving duplicity, we use “sellout” or “backstabber.” (Sometimes we impugn the animal kingdom and call him a rat, a skunk, or a weasel.)
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Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Top U.S. General Said Trump Preached ‘Gospel of the Führer’ — General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, likened Donald Trump's effort to hold on to power after the 2020 election to Adolf Hitler, saying the president was preaching “the gospel of the Führer” …
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Talking Points Memo, Insider and Mediaite
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
The Deeply Racist Dimensions To Ashli Babbitt's Martyrdom — “Who killed Ashli Babbitt?” — It's a question that, in recent weeks, has become a mainstream rallying cry among the MAGA crew after growing in volume for months on the far-right fringes. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has asked it repeatedly …
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The Boston Globe and Digby's Hullabaloo
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Robin DiAngelo Wants White Progressives to Look Inward — The author of “White Fragility” discusses her new book, “Nice Racism.” — In 2018, Robin DiAngelo, an academic and anti-racism consultant, published the surprise best-seller “White Fragility.” The book, which argues that white people tend …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI failed to pursue Nassar sex-abuse allegations, inspector general finds — The FBI failed to properly investigate sex-abuse allegations against Larry Nassar, the former doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, according to a scathing report by the Justice Department's Inspector General …
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NBC News, USA Today, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Democrats Call For a Tax on Imports From Polluting Countries — The party's $3.5 trillion budget plan would include a first-ever carbon tariff, as well as a host of other climate actions. — WASHINGTON — Democrats have agreed to include a tax on imports from nations that lack aggressive …
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and STAT
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Sean-Michael Pigeon / National Review:
For Democrats, Money Is Just a Number
For Democrats, Money Is Just a Number
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Politico, CNBC, Washington Examiner, NPR, Talking Points Memo and Truthout
NBC News:
Senate Democrats reveal $3.5 trillion plan to invest in health care, climate change and more
Senate Democrats reveal $3.5 trillion plan to invest in health care, climate change and more
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Washington Post, The Hill, Roll Call, Axios, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, The Moderate Voice, Breitbart, Raw Story, Daily Kos, HotAir, Slate, UPI and Bloomberg
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Inside Facebook's Data Wars — Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources. — One day in April, the people behind CrowdTangle, a data analytics tool owned by Facebook, learned that transparency had limits.
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Gizmodo, SFist, Politico and Insider, more at Mediagazer »
NBC News:
Britney Spears granted right to hire own lawyer; accuses father of ‘conservatorship abuse’ … LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears was granted a request to hire her own attorney on Wednesday, a development that could mark a major shift in how her 13-year conservatorship case has been handled.
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The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Page Six, NBC 6 South Florida, Rolling Stone, NPR and TMZ.com
Detroit Free Press:
Michigan GOP executive who blamed Trump for election loss resigns leadership post — Dave Boucher Clara HendricksonDetroit Free Press — A Michigan Republican Party leader who faced grassroots pushback after saying the 2020 presidential election wasn't stolen and blaming ex-President Donald Trump …
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Raw Story, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Forbes and Bridge Michigan
Washington Post:
Drug overdoses soared to a record 93,000 last year — Deaths from drug overdoses soared to more than 93,000 last year, a staggering record that reflects the coronavirus pandemic's toll on efforts to quell the crisis and the continued spread of the synthetic opioid fentanyl in the illegal narcotic supply …
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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
US overdose deaths hit record 93,000 in pandemic last year
US overdose deaths hit record 93,000 in pandemic last year
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BuzzFeed News, RedState, Bloomberg, CBS New York, NPR, National Review and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance — Tucker Carlson huddled in a low-ceilinged dungeon that had served as a holding pen for Africans bound for enslavement in the United States. It was a July day in 2003 in Ghana, and Carlson stood alongside some of America's most prominent civil rights leaders.
Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Bolsonaro in hospital as hiccups persist for more than 10 days — President, 66, to be observed by doctors for next 48 hours — Speculation grows over health of Brazil's far-right leader — The Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been admitted to hospital complaining of abdominal pain …
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CNN, Gizmodo, Insider and The Uprising
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
George W. Bush says ending U.S. military mission in Afghanistan is a mistake — Former president George W. Bush said he believes the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is a mistake, in rare public remarks on the military intervention he launched nearly two decades ago.
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Axios, The American Independent, NBC News, CNN, HotAir, The Western Journal, The National Interest, Insider, Washington Times and Politico
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Sam Ro / Axios:
Poll: 1.8 million Americans have turned down jobs due to unemployment benefits — About 1.8 million out-of-work Americans have turned down jobs because of the generosity of unemployment insurance benefits, according to Morning Consult poll results released Wednesday.
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Washington Examiner, Morning Consult, TheBlaze, New York Post, The National Interest and BizPac Review
Associated Press:
US to begin evacuation of Afghans who aided US military — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is set to begin evacuations of Afghans who aided the U.S. military effort in the nearly 20-year war during the last week of July, according to a senior administration official.
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NBC News, Associated Press and The Gateway Pundit
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Christopher Ingraham / The Why Axis:
Two-thirds of Southern Republicans want to secede — And that number is rising — A new YouGov survey conducted on behalf of a democracy watchdog group finds that 66 percent of Republicans living in the South say they'd support seceding from the United States to join a union with other Southern states.
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Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Whodunit? Trump. New Books Dig Into the Crimes We All Saw Him Commit. — YEAR FOR THE BOOKS — As if living through 2020 wasn't enough, now we have to read about it. Seriously, though, some of these books about Trump and the pandemic are actually worth the pain.
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Mediaite and Joe.My.God.
Patrick Hauf / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Taps Son of Top Dem Donor for Product Safety Post — President Joe Biden on Tuesday tapped the son of one of his closest political allies to an important federal post. — Biden appointed Rich Trumka Jr., son of AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, to the Consumer Product Safety Commission …
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Fox News, OpenSecrets.org and The White House
Robin Bravender / Insider:
Ex-Kamala Harris staffers have bad memories of a toxic culture in her past offices and are texting each other about it — Some former Harris staffers are feeling vindicated after reports of dysfunction in her office. — They're texting one another and having flashbacks about their time working for her.
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Politico, New York Post and Washington Free Beacon
John Sexton / HotAir:
Disgusting: Deliver driver tampered with NYPD officer's food claiming ‘we at war’ — A Door Dash delivery driver posted a video of himself tampering with food that had been ordered by an NYPD officer in Brooklyn. The Facebook account where it was originally posted has been deleted but not before it was captured:
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NBC News, NBC New York and New York Post
Michael Moline / Florida Phoenix:
Groups sue to block enforcement of DeSantis' anti-riot law as Cuban violators in FL go largely untouched — Quality Journalism for Critical Times — Civil rights groups have asked a federal judge to block enforcement of HB 1, Gov. Ron DeSantis' crackdown on street protests …
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USA Today, Tampa Bay Times, Joe.My.God., WINK NEWS and Breitbart
Wesley Yang / Year Zero:
Welcome to Year Zero — A Tentative Beginning in a Subdued Key — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of America announced last year that it would set diversity quotas for any film eligible to win a best picture award. In order to enforce these targets …
Tahir Hamut Izgil / The Atlantic:
My Friends Were Sent to the Camps — If you took an Uber in Washington, D.C., a couple of years ago, there was a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets. Tahir Hamut Izgil arrived with his family in the United States in 2017, fleeing the Chinese government's merciless persecution of his people.
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Why Cuba is having an economic crisis — Three crises and a whole lot of bad policy decisions have driven hungry Cubans into the streets. — 6 hr ago — Cuba is in chaos. A wave of protest has been followed by internet blackouts, reports of shootings, lists of missing persons …
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CBS News, New York Times, spectatorworld.com and CNN
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Inside the Industry That Unmasks People At Scale — Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous. But there's an entire industry that links them to real people and their address. — Joseph Cox — Tech companies have repeatedly reassured the public that trackers used …
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U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced the Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 2021, legislation to prohibit the imposition of mask mandates on public transportation. U.S. Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5) will be introducing companion legislation …
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Breitbart, The Hill, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Joe.My.God., The Western Journal, Fox News and IJR
The Daily Beast:
Inside Shepard Smith's Post-Fox News Crash on CNBC — The ex-Fox anchor's much-hyped new show has failed to bring in viewers and, per insiders, it has struggled with some internal turmoil, including “regular tantrums” from Smith. — Whether it's a poor time slot, behind-the-scenes squabbles …
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Christina Maxouris / CNN:
‘We are seeing people passing quicker than before’: What hospitals look like in US Covid hot spots — (CNN)Dr. Sergio Segarra says when Covid-19 patient numbers in the Miami hospital he works in dipped below 20 last month, he began feeling optimistic. — “I remember seeing articles …
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Matt Johnson / WSB-TV:
‘He wished he had gotten the vaccine:’ Local man battling COVID-19 from ICU for months — GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Blake Bargatze, 24, was the only one in his family to not get vaccinated and now he remains in a hospital ICU more than three months after contracting COVID-19, according to his family.
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Raw Story
Bloomberg Law:
GOP Criticism of Defender Judicial Picks Rebutted by Law Groups — President Joe Biden's judicial nominees with public defender backgrounds are being “singled out for extra criticism” during the confirmation process, a coalition of more than 50 legal groups, including multiple state criminal …
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
More than 150 companies back update to Voting Rights Act — More than 150 companies, including PepsiCo, Amazon and Target, threw their support behind updating the Voting Rights Act in a letter released Wednesday. — The signatories, all U.S. employers, urged Congress to enact …
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Washington Post, One America News Network, CNBC, The Guardian, Political Wire and IJR
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida Dems to Biden: Don't blow ‘golden opportunity’ on Cuba — MIAMI — Donald Trump and the GOP dominated Florida's elections last November in part due to the former president's hardline Latin America policy and rhetoric. — Now, in Cuba's historic uprisings, Florida Democrats …
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Quillette, Vox, IJR, The Western Journal, Townhall and Political Wire
Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
Family of five charged for allegedly storming the Capitol after tipster provides social media screenshots — For five people arrested this week after they were charged by federal prosecutors for allegedly storming the U.S. Capitol, the Jan. 6 insurrection appeared to be a family affair.
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Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
Can the Black Rifle Coffee Company Become the Starbucks of the Right? — The company doubled its sales last year by leaning into America's culture war. It's also trying to distance itself from some of its new customers. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Samuel Kim / Washington Examiner:
Biden's civil rights nominee remains unapologetically divisive on Title IX — The Department of Education's former civil rights head Catherine Lhamon has not changed much over the past four years. — On Tuesday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing …
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