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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
‘The brand is so toxic’: Dems fear extinction in rural US — SMETHPORT, Pa. (AP) — Some Democrats here in rural Pennsylvania are afraid to tell you they're Democrats. — The party's brand is so toxic in the small towns 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh that some liberals have removed bumper stickers …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Operation ‘Stop Greitens’ goes awry — DRIVING THE DAY — SCOOP: TRUMP MEETS BRITT — Former President DONALD TRUMP met with Alabama GOP Senate candidate KATIE BRITT at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, two sources familiar told Playbook. The former president has been having buyer's remorse …
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Raw Story, The Hill, The Daily Caller and Washington Examiner
John F. Harris / Politico:
What AOC Learned From Trump — The divide in the Democratic Party is less about ideology than state of mind. — Altitude is a column by POLITICO founding editor John Harris, offering weekly perspective on politics in a moment of radical disruption. — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Ibram X. Kendi Does Not Run the Democratic Party
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Washington Times, No More Mister Nice Blog and Commentary Magazine
CBS News:
Ukraine, Russian-backed rebels accuse each other of shelling in Donbas region, where war has already simmered for years — Kyiv — Ukraine's military and the Russian-backed separatists it has battled for eight years in the country's eastern Donbas region both accused the other side of opening fire …
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Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine, Pro-Russia Separatists Trade Allegations of Cease-Fire Violations — Claims of grenade and mortar fire come amid standoff between Moscow and West over Ukraine — Pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian authorities on Thursday traded allegations of cease-fire violations along …
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Reuters:
Kyiv, West fear ‘pretexts for invasion’ after shelling in east Ukraine
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Rachel Pannett / Washington Post:
U.S. says Russian claim of pullback around Ukraine is ‘false,’ accuses Moscow of adding troops instead
Financial Times:
France urges revamp of Europe's security order in face of Russia threat
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Noahpinion and РИА …
Los Angeles Times:
San Francisco is usually seen as a lefty outlier. The school board recalls may make it a bellwether — San Francisco is so famous for its liberalism that the city has become shorthand for eccentric political sensibilities far to the left of most Americans.
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Politico, MyNorthwest.com, Fox News and Wall Street Journal
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Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
Karen Bass takes early lead in L.A. mayor's race, poll finds
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The Hill and Words & Deeds
Clara Jeffery / Mother Jones:
What Pundits Don't Understand About the San Francisco Recall
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National Review, Fox News, New York Times, Make More Pie, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and LifeSite
Lauren Dake / opb:
Oregon Supreme Court will rule on whether Nick Kristof can run for Oregon governor — The Oregon Supreme Court says Nick Kristof, the former New York Times columnist who quit his newspaper job to run for Oregon governor, cannot appear on the state's May primary ballot.The justices' decision …
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How Appealing
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Trump Makes New Claims About His Wealth After Accountants Drop Him — The former president has spent decades inventing facts and figures to suit his needs. Now, dropped by his accountants, he is making new claims. — On Tuesday evening, former President Donald J. Trump …
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CNN and New Republic
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
The MyPillow Guy Is Seriously Planning to Drop Pillows From the Sky Over Canada — PREPARE THE TEENY TINY PARACHUTES! — After his initial Tuesday shipment of MyPillow products was denied entry into Canada, Mike Lindell now has a backup plan to get free pillows to Canadian truckers: drop them from the sky via a helicopter.
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Robby Soave / Reason:
In Leaked Audio, CDC's Rochelle Walensky Privately Confirms She Won't Relax School Mask Guidance — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have no plans to change their recommendation that all U.S. schools require students to wear masks, according to an audio recording …
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Townhall, Louder With Crowder, Outside the Beltway, Althouse, The Charlotte Ledger, CNBC, TheBlaze and Political Wire
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
US Capitol attack panel discusses subpoena for Ivanka Trump — House select committee is considering best way to get evidence from ex-president's daughter about his efforts to cling to power — The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is considering issuing a subpoena …
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
US: Russia ‘moving toward an imminent invasion’ of Ukraine — Russian military forces are “moving toward an imminent invasion” of Ukraine, prompting Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make an emergency appearance before the United Nations Security Council.
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National Review and New York Post
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Mackenzie Wilkes / Politico:
Blinken to deliver remarks on ‘Russian threat to peace and security’ at U.N. Security Council
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Axios:
GOP tensions boil over Trump's fundraising tactics — Donald Trump's spamming of Republican donors could kneecap party efforts to build a steady funding stream for future elections and compete with Democratic fundraising, top GOP officials are privately warning.
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Townhall, Raw Story and Political Wire
Alexander Sammon / American Prospect:
Michelle Childs Sentenced a Man to 12 Years for Selling Eight Ounces of Weed — ‘I had more time than people in there who killed somebody,’ says Willie Roy Goodwin, who received the harsh sentence from the Supreme Court hopeful. — Since Willie Roy Goodwin's 2009 sentencing …
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Rhodes Cook / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The “Big Sort” Continues, with Trump as a Driving Force — Dear Readers: UVA Center for Politics Director Larry J. Sabato recently interviewed Jonathan Karl of ABC News and Rep. Ro Khanna (D, CA-17) about, respectively, their new books Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show and Dignity in a Digital Age …
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Washington Post:
D.C. police lieutenant suspended over alleged ties to right-wing group — A D.C. police lieutenant in the intelligence branch has been put on leave amid an investigation into alleged improper contacts with a prominent member of the extremist group Proud Boys, according to four law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case.
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The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, DCist and Raw Story
Steven Rattner / New York Times:
Biden Keeps Blaming the Supply Chain for Inflation. That's Dishonest. — Mr. Rattner served as counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration. — In an interview with Lester Holt of NBC last week, President Biden hewed closely to his talking points on inflation …
David Siders / Politico:
‘My clients are going RINO hunting’: How the 2022 primaries will rewire the GOP — Evidence of the party's unrest is everywhere. Nearly a half-dozen Republican governors alone are facing competitive primary challenges. — Republicans are embarking on a primary season that is poised …
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Raw Story
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The regrettable death of the Slatepitch — We've lost a lot as every publication has become the same — Katie Robertson of the New York Times recently wrote about my former employer Slate and its “struggles to find identity and profit” in the modern world.
Steve Rhodes / The Fine Print:
Havana Syndrome and the Search for a Smoking Ray Gun — Science reporters have been rolling their eyes over their national security colleagues' reports of an invisible weapon attacking diplomats. “Call the neurologist and not like, secret sources, you know, 'intelligence agencies assure …
New York Times:
Vulnerable to the Virus, High-Risk Americans Feel Pain as the U.S. Moves On — Transplant recipients, cancer patients and millions of other Americans with risk factors feel ignored and abandoned as their neighbors, and their government, seek a return to normal. — Denisse Takes's world is very small these days.
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National Review and The Atlantic
Tom Krisher / Washington Post:
Tesla faces another US investigation: unexpected braking — DETROIT — U.S. auto safety regulators have launched another investigation of Tesla, this time tied to complaints that its cars can stop on roads for no apparent reason. — The government says it has 354 complaints from owners during …
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Washington Examiner, The Verge, The Daily Caller, Electrek and One America News Network
Gregg Gonsalves / New York Times:
The Moral Danger of Declaring the Pandemic Over Too Soon — Dr. Gonsalves is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, a longtime AIDS activist and a 2018 MacArthur fellow. — The early 1990s were in many ways the most terrible of those first years of the AIDS epidemic in America.
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