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Aidin Vaziri / Datebook:
Spotify loses $4 billion in market value after Neil Young controversy — Spotify lost $4 billion in market value this week after rock icon Neil Young called out the company for allowing comedian Joe Rogan to use its service to spread misinformation about the COVID vaccine on his popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
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Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Joni Mitchell Says She's Removing Music From Spotify: ‘Irresponsible People Are Spreading Lies’ … Joni Mitchell has pledged to remove her music from Spotify, just a few days after fellow singer-songwriter icon Neil Young did the same. — In a note on her official website titled …
Joni Mitchell:
News Item — I Stand With Neil Young! — I've decided to remove all my music from Spotify. Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue. —Joni Mitchell
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Adela Suliman / Washington Post:
Joni Mitchell pulls music from Spotify in stand with Neil Young against covid misinformation
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CBS News, Bangor Daily News, Althouse and The Guardian
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Wicker: Black Woman Supreme Court Pick An Affirmative Action ‘Beneficiary’ — The first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court in history will be a “beneficiary” of affirmative action, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker told a radio show this afternoon. The senior Republican senator from Mississippi …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Cloud of Supreme Court Confirmation Bitterness Hangs Over Coming Fight
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Associated Press, The Western Journal, Against the Grain, TheGrio, Mercury News and The Blue State Conservative
John Fritze / USA Today:
Biden considering Judge J. Michelle Childs and may be casting wider net for Supreme Court vacancy
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CNN, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Washington Examiner, CBS News, UPI, The Daily Caller, CNBC and Washington Post
Stephanie Cutter / New York Times:
How Democrats Should Nominate a New Supreme Court Justice
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Raw Story, The New Neo, CNN, Fox News and Newsbusters
Timothy Snyder / Washington Post:
Putin's case for invading Ukraine rests on phony grievances and ancient myths … Last July, Vladimir Putin supplied the mythical basis for Russian war propaganda in an essay titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians.” The essential idea is that Russia has the right to Ukraine …
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Fox News, TL;DR'd, The Fog, Al Jazeera and Bangor Daily News
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Washington Post:
U.S. and allies debate the intelligence on how quickly Putin will order an invasion of Ukraine — or whether he will at all
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NPR, BizPac Review, Fox News and The Kyiv Independent
Washington Post:
U.S. says Russia ‘clearly’ now has capability to attack as Ukraine complains of Western panic
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Voice of America, Breitbart, The Halfway Cafe and Prada's Newsletter
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
‘Putin only understands strength’: Estonian PM on Ukraine tensions
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National Review
Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
TikTokers spam Virginia GOP governor's tip line for snitching on teachers — Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a vocal opponent of critical race theory, encouraged parents to report “inherently divisive practices” at schools. TikTokers devised a brilliant way to troll him.
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Hackwhackers
NBC News:
DNC chair Jaime Harrison has considered early exit amid White House tensions — WASHINGTON — Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison is frustrated, isolated and trapped in a job he long thought he wanted, according to party insiders, a dynamic driven by escalating tensions with the White House over his role.
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Fox News and National Review
CNN:
US official: Indications Russia has moved blood supplies to Ukraine border — Gen. Milley has message for Russia about Ukraine — (CNN)The US has seen indications that Russia has positioned supplies of blood near Ukraine's borders, according to a senior US defense official …
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Associated Press
Nate Gartrell / Mercury News:
Federal judge bucks prosecutors, jails CA man who mailed 75 racist death threats to anti-Trump politicians — Cards included racist language, ‘KKK’ signature — SAN FRANCISCO — In a rare rebuke of prosecutors, a federal judge handed down a jail sentence to a California man who spent …
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Techno Fog / The Reactionary:
Has Peter Strzok testified before a Durham grand jury? — And - what Durham has collected thus far — The Evidence Thus Far. — In this post I'll be detailing the evidence, testimony, and documents we know - or can assume - Special Counsel John Durham has obtained during his investigation.
Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal:
Texas GOP Governor Faces Backlash Over Problems With National Guard Deployment at Border — Gov. Greg Abbott faces challenges from fellow Republicans and Democrats over pay problems and poor morale among National Guardsmen — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is being blamed by GOP opponents …
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Raw Story and Christopher Six's Pick Six
Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
LGBTQ+ dating apps used by police in dozens of drug arrests — The six-month sting operation produced more than 60 arrests, the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida said. — Story at a glance — Authorities in Florida this week said they used dating apps like Grindr and Scruff to make more than 60 drug-related arrests.
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The Daily Caller, SitefinityWebApp and Los Angeles Blade
New York Times:
Democrats Decried Dark Money. Then They Won With It in 2020. — A New York Times analysis reveals how the left outdid the right at raising and spending millions from undisclosed donors to defeat Donald Trump and win power in Washington. — Ken Vogel's reporting from Washington focuses …
Scott Wartman / Cincinnati.com:
After outcry, Vance moves Sunday's Marjorie Taylor Greene event from Loveland to Mason — The management at the Landing Event Center in Loveland didn't know much about the event that was scheduled for Sunday, the general manager told The Enquirer. — Just that a client asked to rent …
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Raw Story
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SistersInLaw are Now in Session — Politicon brings a brilliant team of political and legal masterminds together for an exciting new podcast, #SistersInLaw. — Joyce Vance, Jill Wine-Banks, Barb McQuade and Kimberly Atkins Stohr pull back the curtain on how our government actually works …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Mostly dead or slightly alive? Democrats don't yet know if Build Back Better can be revived — The fate of Democrats' top agenda item will not only have major policy repercussions for the country but also the party's political prospects in the midterm elections.
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Washington Examiner, New York Post and Nancy Brisson's Newsletter
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Michael Cavna / Washington Post:
Art Spiegelman sees the new ban of his book ‘Maus’ as a ‘red alert’ — Art Spiegelman didn't set out to write an educational aid for young-adult readers. A half-century ago, he simply wanted to better know his own origin story, discover more about his parents' histories — and hear from his father …
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