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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Report Cites New Details of Trump Pressure on Justice Dept. Over Election — A Senate panel fleshed out how Donald Trump pursued his plan to install a loyalist as acting attorney general to pursue unfounded reports of fraud. — WASHINGTON — Even by the standards of President Donald J. Trump …
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Washington Post, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Raw Story, Crooks and Liars, HuffPost, Forbes, The Hill, The Federalist, Daily Kos, Fox News, The Tracinski Letter and NPR
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Politico:
Biden DOJ shields ex-Trump officials from testifying about election fraud cases — A top career official in President Joe Biden's Justice Department blocked efforts by Senate investigators to probe the handling of voter fraud complaints in the aftermath of the 2020 election, according to transcripts released Thursday.
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Breitbart, Raw Story and Washington Post
Politico:
Senate Judiciary probe of Trump's 2020 machinations zeroes in on Pennsylvania House Republican — A Senate Democratic report released Thursday places Rep. Scott Perry at the center of efforts to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election results, urging other congressional investigators …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, ABC News, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, CNN and Talking Points Memo
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's fanciful defense of Trump's DOJ plot
The GOP's fanciful defense of Trump's DOJ plot
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The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Raw Story and Associated Press
CNN:
Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election
Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election
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NPR, Mic, VICE, Associated Press, UPI, Washington Times, Insider, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Progress Pond, CBS News, NBC News, USA Today, Roll Call and Talking Points Memo
CNN:
Trump allies did little to investigate election fraud claims, court documents show
Trump allies did little to investigate election fraud claims, court documents show
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Rolling Stone and Raw Story
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump Whined to Acting Attorney General: You'll Do Nothing to Help Me ‘Overturn’ Election
Trump Whined to Acting Attorney General: You'll Do Nothing to Help Me ‘Overturn’ Election
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Using an old bad defense of Trump to build a new bad defense of Trump
Using an old bad defense of Trump to build a new bad defense of Trump
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Raw Story
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump tells 4 former aides to defy Jan. 6 committee's subpoena — Former President Donald Trump is directing a group of his former aides to ignore a subpoena from the House committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and signaling he will go to court to block their testimony to the investigators.
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Select Committee to Investigate …:
Select Committee Issues Subpoenas Related to January 6th Stop the Steal Rally at U.S. Capitol — Bolton, MS—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson today announced that the Select Committee has issued additional subpoenas seeking testimony and records related to the “Stop the Steal” …
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Washington Post, The Hill and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump lawyer tells former aides not to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee — An attorney for former president Donald Trump, in a letter reviewed by The Washington Post, instructed former advisers, including Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Dan Scavino and Stephen K. Bannon, not to comply …
Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Troops Have Been Deployed in Taiwan for at Least a Year — Small presence of Americans secretly training local forces marks concern over China's yearslong military buildup and recent moves — WASHINGTON—A U.S. special-operations unit and a contingent of Marines have been secretly operating …
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Politico:
GOP struggles to accept debt limit patch — Senate Republicans are trying to keep their members in line and let a short-term debt ceiling increase pass without a GOP filibuster. — After a private party meeting on Thursday, Republicans hadn't agreed on how to allow the deal struck …
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Insider, The Hill, New York Magazine, Axios, Breitbart, ABC News, UPI, Roll Call, Bloomberg and One America News Network
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why McConnell backed down — DRIVING THE DAY — HUNTER BIDEN showcased his art to about 200 people at Milk Studios in Hollywood, Calif., The Daily Mail's Josh Boswell reports. Guests included “World Champion boxer SUGAR RAY LEONARD ... Los Angeles Mayor ERIC GARCETTI” …
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HotAir, Wall Street Journal, Truthout, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, IJR and Mock Paper Scissors
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Senate leaders announce short-term deal to raise debt ceiling $480 billion into December
Senate leaders announce short-term deal to raise debt ceiling $480 billion into December
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New York Times, HotAir, Talking Points Memo, Truthout, Tangle, Voice of America, Mother Jones, C-SPAN.org, Forbes, National Review, The Daily Caller, KRON4, NBC4 Washington, abc7NY, BizPac Review, Daily Kos, Insider, KTLA, Breitbart and NBC New York
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content — Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments. — Why it matters: It's …
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Twitchy, more at Mediagazer »
Sam LaGrone / USNI News:
UPDATED: Attack Submarine USS Connecticut Suffers Underwater Collision in South China Sea — This post has been updated with additional details on the injuries to the crew of USS Connecticut and the location of the collision. — Almost a dozen sailors have been injured …
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The Gateway Pundit
Marisa Guthrie / The Hollywood Reporter:
“I Sleep Well at Night”: Suzanne Scott on Running Fox News — Twenty-five years after its founding, a sit-down with the CEO of America's most watched and most polarizing network, whose employees laud her for cleaning up a toxic workplace even as critics assail the channel for spreading misinformation and undermining democracy.
WRAL-TV:
GOP lawmakers threaten forcible entry into Durham elections office — RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of Republican House members announced Thursday that they are launching a fraud investigation into North Carolina elections and said they would start by inspecting voting machines in Durham County …
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The Hill, Raleigh News & Observer, Raw Story and The Pulse
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The foul-mouthed farmer sticking his neck out for Democrats' agenda — When Jon Tester returned from a White House meeting last month, Amy Klobuchar congratulated him for his “nice quote” about the debt ceiling. — As Klobuchar read back Tester's expletive-infused words, he recalled protesting: “'Come on.
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Washington Post and Insider
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Woody Harrelson involved in altercation at Watergate Hotel, police say — Actor Woody Harrelson was involved in a physical altercation Wednesday night and struck a man who lunged at him at the rooftop bar of the Watergate Hotel, a D.C. police spokesman said.
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WTTG-TV, NBC4 Washington, Vanity Fair, Mediaite, Washingtonian and WTOP
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
America Is Running Out of Everything — Is it just me, or does it feel like America is running out of everything? — I visited CVS last week to pick up some at-home COVID-19 tests. They'd been sold out for a week, an employee told me. So I asked about paper towels. “We're out of those too,” he said.
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CBS News
Jeff Brady / NPR:
We need to talk about your gas stove, your health and climate change — Americans love their gas stoves. It's a romance fueled by a decades-old “cooking with gas” campaign from utilities that includes vintage advertisements, a cringeworthy 1980s rap video and, more recently, social media personalities.
John Shiffman / Reuters:
The tech entrepreneur who founded Trump's go-to TV news network — He's a high school dropout who made his mark with savvy business moves in the circuit board industry and combative litigation against adversaries. Now Robert Herring Sr stands atop OAN, a far-right political network former …
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Truthout, Zandar Versus The Stupid and Crooks and Liars
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
How AT&T fuels right-wing extremists
How AT&T fuels right-wing extremists
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CNN, Poynter and Rolling Stone, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Fines Prevent Too Many From Voting in Florida — Mr. Winter is a staff photographer on assignment in Opinion. Mr. Wegman is a member of the editorial board. — Twenty years ago, Judy Bolden served 18 months in a Florida prison. She has been free ever since, but she is still barred …
Washington Post:
Video footage amid unrest after George Floyd's death captures Minneapolis police discussing ‘hunting people’ — A few days after George Floyd was killed last year, sparking wide-scale protests, a police officer responding to the unrest in Minneapolis remarked to another officer: “You guys are out hunting people.”
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ABC News, KSTP-TV and Star Tribune
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Dispute Over Claim That Proud Boys Leader Urged Attack at Capitol — An accused rioter has told the F.B.I. that Joseph Biggs, a leader of the far-right Proud Boys, directed him to challenge the police at a key moment on Jan. 6. Mr. Biggs's lawyer denied the allegation.
Nick R. Martin / The Informant:
Congressman promotes Holocaust denial website — Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona tweeted a link to The Unz Review, a website that traffics in Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism. — Congressman Paul Gosar tweeted a link on Wednesday to a website that routinely publishes the work of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and Holocaust deniers.
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The American Independent
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Sanders' Sinema spat — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) withheld support for a joint statement condemning last weekend's protests against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) because it also wouldn't include a rebuke of her political views, Axios has learned. — Why it matters …
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Jenny G. Zhang / Gawker:
Identity Fraud — Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, maybe in the middle of some stupid argument with a stranger on the internet, the thought briefly crosses my mind: I should just say that whoever is currently driving me up the wall is racist. Or sexist. Or, myself being a non-white woman, a combination of the two.
CNBC:
Ozy Media got $5.7 million in relief loans to help pay employees, but ex-staffers say they didn't see any of it — Ozy Media, which is under fire after several reports detailed questionable business practices at the company, took two separate PPP loans for a total of $5.7 million.
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New York Times and The Root, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Durham Probes Pentagon Computer Contractors in Anti-Trump Conspiracy — Above, ‘Tech Executive-1’ alludes to leaving his job last month amid John Durham's Russia probe. — Cybersecurity experts who held lucrative Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances …
Los Angeles Times:
Former officials Nuñez, Boxer and Villaraigosa lead exodus from powerful lobbying firm — Former prominent Democratic elected officials Fabian Nuñez, Barbara Boxer and Antonio Villaraigosa led the mass resignations from one of the state's most powerful lobbying firms, Mercury Public Affairs.
Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Welcome to Slack Tide — Konnichiwa. Or as my English-speaking readers prefer, “hello.” I'm Matt Labash, and welcome to Slack Tide, my brand spanking-new Substack. Just saying those words makes me feel like a honking cliché. Not the Matt Labash part. There aren't many of us.