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Kori Schake / Washington Post:
Russia's military is incompetent.  That makes it more dangerous. … Last month, Russia's position on Ukraine's borders looked promising: Moscow had amassed an invasion force with nearly as many troops as Ukraine has in its active-duty military, had spent two decades modernizing its weapons and organization …
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Zach Dorfman / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Secret CIA training program in Ukraine helped Kyiv prepare for Russian invasion  —  Ukrainian snipers had a problem: Russian forces in eastern Ukraine were trying to blind them.  —  As the Ukrainians were looking through their scopes in order to find their targets …
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Digging Into Russia's Latest Charge of ‘Ukrainian Nazis’  —  Context and contrition.  —  From the start of the Ukraine/Russia conflict in 2014, claims that the new post-Euromaidan Ukraine—or at least its leadership—was a neo-Nazi wolf in liberal clothing figured prominently in pro-Kremlin discourse.
Discussion: Raw Story, Joe.My.God., RedState, KEYE and MSNBC
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Stop buying from these companies.  They're funding Putin's war.  —  In his gut-wrenching address to Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the United States for more — and more he will get.  —  U.S. leaders across the spectrum saluted Zelensky after he spoke to them Wednesday …
Anshel Pfeffer / Haaretz:
Even if Zelenskyy Accepts a Humiliating Peace Deal, Putin Won't Abide by It
New York Times:
Jeff Zients to Leave as Biden's Covid Czar and Be Replaced by Ashish Jha  —  The choice of Dr. Jha, an outspoken public health expert, is a sign that the White House believes the country is entering a new phase of the pandemic.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Living in red America can be life-threatening  —  It should come as no surprise that the highest rates for covid-19 deaths and murders are found mainly in red states.  A political mind-set that prioritizes racial resentment, anti-science zealotry and manufactured cultural wedge issues …
Axios:
Scoop: Biden officials fear “mass migration event” if COVID policies end  —  U.S. intelligence officials are privately bracing for a massive influx of more than 170,000 migrants at the Mexico border if COVID-era policies that allow instant expulsions during the public health emergency are ended …
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:   New federal ventilation guidelines mark next step in fight against COVID
Leana S. Wen / Washington Post:
Two years into covid-19, has Congress learned nothing?
Discussion: Becker's Hospital Review and VICE
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Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Russia warns United States: we have the might to put you in your place  —  Russia warned the United States on Thursday that Moscow had the might to put the world's pre-eminent superpower in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart.
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Putin Assails Russians Who Back the West, Signaling More Repression
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal’
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump White House aide was secret author of report used to push ‘big lie’  —  Report on Dominion voting machines produced after 2020 election was not the work of volunteer in Trump's post-election legal team  —  Weeks after the 2020 election, at least one Trump White House aide was named …
Discussion: Raw Story
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
Brittney Griner's detention extended until May, Russian news agency says  —  American basketball star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia has been extended until May, Russian state news agency TASS reported, citing the Khimki Court of the Moscow Region.  —  “The court granted the petition …
Discussion: The Guardian
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Associated Press:
WNBA star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia extended to May 19  —  A Moscow court has extended the arrest of WNBA star Brittney Griner until May 19, according to the Russian state news agency Tass.  —  Griner was detained at a Moscow airport on February 17 after Russian authorities …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hannity's clownish contortions on Ukraine reveal the rot at Trumpism's core  —  Donald Trump's most slavish propagandists have a problem.  Trump withheld military aid from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an extortion scheme of unfathomable corruption and depravity.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:   Trump Reveals What Kept Putin From Invading Ukraine During His Presidency
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: RNC down to two 2024 convention finalists  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  ZELENSKYY'S APPEAL FALLS SHORT (FOR NOW) — No one was surprised by the request: a no-fly zone — and if not that, then access to those Soviet-style fighter jets in Poland that could help them “close the sky.”
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Michael Warren / CNN:
RNC narrows 2024 convention finalists down to Nashville and Milwaukee
Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and Just The News
New York Times:
Hunter Biden Paid Tax Bill, but Broad Federal Investigation Continues  —  The Justice Department inquiry into the business dealings of the president's son has remained active, with a grand jury seeking information about payments from around the world.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
Hunter Biden's infamous laptop confirmed in New York Times report
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Chinese Officer Charged With Harassing N.Y. Congressional Candidate  —  Yan Xiong, a Chinese dissident who immigrated to America and is now a political candidate in New York, was targeted by an agent of the Chinese government, federal prosecutors said.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Jay Caruso / Washington Examiner:
Tucker Carlson's speech is not a crime  —  “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” is a quote often mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson.  The origin is unknown, though former New York Mayor John Lindsay said something akin to that in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War.
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:   ‘Putin’ us on: Why Dems' ‘Russian disinformation’ claims can't be taken seriously
David Lat / Original Jurisdiction:
Is Free Speech In American Law Schools A Lost Cause?  —  Recent controversies at UC Hastings and Yale Law—Yale, shocking, I know—don't provide much reason for hope. … On March 1, at the UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, the law school's chapter of the Federalist Society attempted …
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Chris Cuomo blasts CNN for ‘selectively enforcing’ its rules, points to Lemon, Tapper, Toobin controversies  —  The ex-anchor slammed CNN's ‘long-established pattern’ of policy ‘exceptions’ in his $125M arbitration demand  —  Chris Cuomo goes after Don Lemon for CNN cash
David Gutman / The Seattle Times:
Former WA Rep. Matt Shea, accused of domestic terrorism, working to secure adoptions for Ukrainian children in Poland  —  Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, the far-right Republican who was found by a House-commissioned investigation to have planned and participated in domestic terrorism …
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Kirby / BBC:
Russia's state TV hit by stream of resignations  —  When Marina Ovsyannikova burst into Russian living rooms on Monday's nightly news, denouncing the war in Ukraine and propaganda around it, her protest highlighted a quiet but steady stream of resignations from Russia's tightly controlled state-run TV.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, France 24 and Raw Story
David Goldman / CNN:
Russia says it made a payment to avoid default  —  New York (CNN Business)Russia says it has ordered the $117 million in interest payments it owes Wednesday to be sent to investors, attempting to avoid its first international default in more than a century.  But it's not out of the woods yet.
Discussion: New York Post and Politico
The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio Supreme Court rejects statehouse maps, ending hopes of full May primary  —  The Ohio Supreme Court struck down the third set of state House and Senate maps late Wednesday, effectively ending any hope of a May 3rd primary with both legislative and statewide races.
 
 
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