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2:50 PM ET, March 17, 2022

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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 …
Politico:   POLITICO Playbook PM: Pelosi's Covid funding quagmire
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi says White House should request $45B in new COVID aid
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
New federal ventilation guidelines mark next step in fight against COVID
Discussion: The White House
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 …
Anshel Pfeffer / Haaretz:
Even if Zelenskyy Accepts a Humiliating Peace Deal, Putin Won't Abide by It
Inside Edition:
Fearing Poisoning, Vladimir Putin Replaces 1,000 of His Personal Staff  —  Kremlin Questioned Protesting Russian TV Producer for 14 Hours After Arrest  —  Russian Speakers Make Cold Calls to Thwart Putin's Ukraine Propaganda  —  Parents of Ex-Marine Jailed in Russia Say Putin Is Using Him as a Political Pawn
Discussion: Althouse
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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Glenn Greenwald:
The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop — Falsely Called “Russian Disinformation” — is Authentic
Miranda Devine / New York Post:   ‘Putin’ us on: Why Dems' ‘Russian disinformation’ claims can't be taken seriously
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.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Defense Secretary Austin stops short of accusing Russia of war crimes
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Insider
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal’
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: Insider and POLITICUSUSA
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David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:   Trump Reveals What Kept Putin From Invading Ukraine During His Presidency
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 …
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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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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Associated Press:
WNBA star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia extended to May 19
Molly McKew / Great Power:
Escalating fears that Putin might do something crazy  —  A brief note on a very strange day … I think there are two points worth dwelling on.  —  First, there will always be fresh terror from Putin.  A show trial.  Chernobyl.  Chem/bio insinuations.
New York Times:
Republicans Push Crackdown on Crime Wave That Doesn't Exist: Voter Fraud  —  Election fraud is exceedingly rare and often accidental.  Still, G.O.P. lawmakers and prosecutors are promoting tough new enforcement efforts.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Salon and Raw Story
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Durbin, White House slam emerging GOP attack on KBJ sex offender rulings  —  Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin and the Biden White House on Thursday derided a new GOP attack on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, centered on her handling of sex offenders.
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders camp quietly pushes Khanna presidential bid  —  Top figures from Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign are privately encouraging Ro Khanna to run for president in 2024 if Joe Biden doesn't seek a second term, giving the California congressman an important stamp of approval from progressives …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Sarah L. Kaufman / Washington Post:
Bolshoi star ballerina quits famed Moscow company: ‘I never thought I would be ashamed of Russia’ … Bolshoi ballerina Olga Smirnova, an international ballet star who recently publicly denounced the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has quit the famed Moscow ballet company and joined the Dutch National Ballet …
Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
In ‘Lessons From the Edge,’ How an Ambassador to Ukraine Became a Casualty of the Trump Administration  —  Marie Yovanovitch recounts her career in public service and the experience of testifying during President Trump's first impeachment.  —  Buy Book ▾
Ed White / HuffPost:
Man Accused In Kidnap Plot Wanted ‘Tyrant’ Michigan Governor Tied Up On Table  —  Adam Dean Scott told an undercover FBI agent he wanted to restrain Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on a table for a photo made to look “like we just made the biggest drug bust.”  —  A key figure in an alleged plot …
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 …
 
 
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How Putin's Oligarchs Bought London
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PRRI:
Americans' Support for Key LGBTQ Rights Continues to Tick Upward
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Tucker Carlson's speech is not a crime
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Stephanie Baker / Bloomberg:
Broke Oligarch Says Sanctioned Billionaires Have No Sway Over Putin
Discussion: BBC, Insider and New York Times
David Goldman / CNN:
Russia says it made a payment to avoid default
Discussion: Culturcidal, New York Post and Politico
Paul Kirby / BBC:
Russia's state TV hit by stream of resignations
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and France 24
 

 
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