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CNN:
Biden administration tells ex-Trump officials to resign from military academy advisory boards or be dismissed — (CNN)The Biden administration has told 11 officials appointed to military service academy advisory boards by former President Donald Trump to resign or be dismissed, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN's KFile.
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Defiant Kellyanne Conway refuses to quit Air Force Academy board — and demands Biden fire her — Former Donald Trump senior advisor Kellyanne Conway announced on Wednesday that she was refusing to resign from a military post and that President Joe Biden would have to fire her.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Biden moves to boot Trump loyalists from advisory boards
Biden moves to boot Trump loyalists from advisory boards
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Military.com, The Guardian, CBS News, Fox News, ABC News, Associated Press, Washington Times, Insider and Mediaite
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Biden boots Trump appointees from military academy advisory boards
Biden boots Trump appointees from military academy advisory boards
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Insider, Fox News, Alternet.org, Roll Call and Common Dreams
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Biden administration tells former Trump officials to resign from military academy boards
Biden administration tells former Trump officials to resign from military academy boards
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Instapundit, Politico and Twitchy
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Administration Prepares to Sue Texas Over Abortion Law — Lawsuit challenging law limiting procedure to first six weeks of pregnancy set to be filed in coming days — WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is preparing to sue Texas over its new law banning most abortions …
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Mediaite, Raw Story and The New Civil Rights Movement
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Pro-Life Cause Deserves Better Than the Texas Law
The Pro-Life Cause Deserves Better Than the Texas Law
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Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, HotAir and MSNBC
Josh Haskell / ABC7:
Larry Elder tours homeless encampment in Venice, but leaves due to angry crowd … Larry Elder's Venice event cut short due to angry crowd — Larry Elder had to cut his campaign event short in Venice after he encountered an angry crowd and had an egg thrown at him.
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Julia Wick / Los Angeles Times:
Larry Elder cuts short Venice homeless encampment tour after hostile confrontation — Larry Elder's scheduled tour of homeless encampments in Venice ended shortly after it began Wednesday morning, with the leading Republican in the gubernatorial recall race hastily exiting in an SUV …
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New York Post, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Townhall, Instapundit, National Review, Breitbart, TheBlaze and KTLA
Thomas McDonald / Independent Chronicle:
Egg-throwing agitators attack Larry Elder, campaign staff in Los Angeles
Egg-throwing agitators attack Larry Elder, campaign staff in Los Angeles
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TMZ.com, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
Tess Owen / VICE:
Oath Keeper Snitched on Himself to FBI Agent During Tattoo Session, Docs Say — An Oath Keeper and accused Capitol rioter who owns a tattoo parlor in upstate New York unwittingly poured his heart out to an off-duty FBI agent who'd stopped by his business for an appointment.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The looming chaos of Trump 2024 — There is nothing substantively different about what Donald Trump is now than what he was in 2015. — He is as indifferent to the expectations of elected leadership as he ever was, choosing to recognize the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What should the Jan. 6 probe examine? A veteran Sept. 11 investigator weighs in. — It is strange to think that even as we approach the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, some two decades later we're consumed with sorting through another nationally traumatic and transformative attack …
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Raw Story
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Is Donald Trump Finished?
Is Donald Trump Finished?
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Washington Post and The Mahablog
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
The top 1 percent are evading $163 billion a year in taxes, the Treasury finds. — WASHINGTON — The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans are the nation's most egregious tax evaders, failing to pay as much as $163 billion in owed taxes per year, according to a new Treasury Department report released on Wednesday.
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Alternet.org, Forbes and Daily Kos
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Trump rips removal of Robert E. Lee statue: ‘Complete desecration’ — Former President Trump on Wednesday blasted the decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., saying the taking down would result in a “complete desecration.”
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Fox News, Rolling Stone and New York Post
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Kathy Frankovic / YouGov:
More Americans than ever before disapprove of Joe Biden's performance as president — President Joe Biden is confronting the worst public ratings of his eight-month-old presidency. His approval ratings in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, overall and on his handling of major issues, have all fallen, dramatically in some cases.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
California's recall becomes the new epicenter of unfounded fraud claims
California's recall becomes the new epicenter of unfounded fraud claims
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HuffPost, Fox News, The Desert Sun, Politico, Washington Examiner and Talking Points Memo
Dana Bash / CNN:
Schwarzenegger on California recall: This is not a GOP ‘power grab’
Schwarzenegger on California recall: This is not a GOP ‘power grab’
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Townhall, Associated Press, Fox News, New York Post, The Verge, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Vanity Fair and Insider
Peter Boghossian / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit. — The more I spoke out against the illiberalism that has swallowed Portland State University, the more retaliation I faced. … Dear Provost Susan Jeffords, — I'm writing to you today to resign as assistant professor …
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New York Post, Washington Free Beacon, Twitchy, Power Line, Breitbart, BizPac Review, HotAir, Washington Examiner, TheBlaze, The Federalist, Fox News and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Trump reaches out to families of U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan — When Darin Hoover traveled to Dover Air Force Base to receive the casket of his 31-year-old Marine son, who was killed in Afghanistan, he, like several other families, declined an offer to meet with President Biden.
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New York Post, Raw Story, The Floridian, Trending Politics and Washington Examiner
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop — An internal police chief memo shows employees were directed to use ‘field interview cards’ which would then be reviewed — he Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect …
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Washington Field Office Releases Video and Additional Information Regarding the Pipe Bomb Investigation — The FBI's Washington Field Office has released new information and video regarding the suspect who placed pipe bombs in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. …
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YouTube, HuffPost, NBC News, KFOR-TV, UPI, CBS News, CNN, The Daily Caller, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Fox News and Washington Examiner
James Laporta / Associated Press:
A U.S. Marine, a curious Afghan boy, an unfathomable moment — One day not long ago, I watched my soon-to-be 3-year-old son jump up and down to the sound of “ho” and “hey.” — It's a song by The Lumineers, an American folk-rock band. The lyrics and stomp reverberate throughout the kitchen and into the house.
David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
Donald Trump May Still Destroy the GOP, After All — Republicans think the former president is their electoral savior, but his toxic influence over the party might just bring about its demise. — When Donald Trump descended the escalator on that fateful day in June 2015 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and HotAir
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Joe Schoffstall / Fox News:
CDC tightened masking guidelines after threats from teachers union, emails show — Emails show further coordination between Biden administration and teachers unions — White House used deep union ties to censor criticism on school mask guidance — The Biden administration tightened …
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Politico, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, National Review, HotAir, Page Array and CBS News
Haley Strack / The Federalist:
National Archives Slaps ‘Harmful Content’ Warning On Constitution, All Other Founding Documents — The National Archives Records Administration placed a “harmful content” warning on the Constitution, labeling the governing document of the United States as “harmful or difficult to view.”
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The New American, RedState, TheBlaze, Washington Examiner and Liberty Unyielding
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
AOC's woke Biology 101 lesson: “I do know that he's not familiar with a menstruating person's body” — Who exactly needs a quick refresher in Biology 101 here anyway? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered her version of a lesson in biology on CNN Tuesday night.
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Washington Examiner, Daily Mail, USA Today, Crooks and Liars, Deadline, Louder With Crowder, The Guardian, New York Post, IJR, CBS News and CNN
Garrett M. Graff / The Atlantic:
After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong — On the Friday after 9/11, President George W. Bush visited the New York City site that the world would come to know as Ground Zero. After rescue workers shouted that they couldn't hear him as he spoke to them through a bullhorn, he turned toward them and ad-libbed.
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Vanity Fair
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Virginia GOP lt. gov. nominee lays off campaign staff ahead of election — Winsome Sears, the GOP candidate in Virginia's lieutenant governor race, laid off her entire campaign staff 55 days out from Election Day in the commonwealth. — A former Sears campaign staffer, who was laid off …
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New Republic and Political Wire
Christopher F. Rufo / City Journal:
Don't Be Evil — A Google employee program claims that America is a “system of white supremacy” and that all Americans are “raised to be racist.” — The Social Order — Technology giant Google has launched an “antiracism” initiative that presents speakers and materials claiming that America is a …
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National Review and Twitchy
Buzz Hollander / RealClearScience:
Lessons From the Ivermectin Debacle — When podcast king and comedian Joe Rogan reported that he was ill with Covid-19, a media firestorm commenced. This was no surprise, given the interest the public has in celebrities diagnosed with Covid-19, especially celebrities with a history …
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Raw Story, Real Clear Politics, Insider and Wired
Tyler Dawson / National Post:
Book burning at Ontario francophone schools as ‘gesture of reconciliation’ denounced — More than 4,700 books were removed from library shelves at 30 schools, and they have since been destroyed or are in the process of being recycled — A book burning held by an Ontario francophone school board …
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HotAir and Agence France-Presse
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Republicans, elections experts say Wisconsin probe is flawed — Former Republican officeholders and election experts say that the GOP-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin lacks credibility, transparency and raises security risks and legal concerns
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Raw Story