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10:45 PM ET, March 18, 2022

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John Ismay / New York Times:
Ukraine Is Wrecking Russian Tanks With a Gift From Britain  —  In video after video taken in Ukraine, a puff of smoke and a brief flash of light signal that another clutch of Russian troops are about to die.  —  Sometimes it is only a split second before that light streaks to a tank …
Discussion: HotAir
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Biden warns Xi of global backlash if China helps Russia's attack on Ukraine  — President Joe Biden spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping for nearly two hours on Friday morning, largely about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  — Moscow has asked Beijing for assistance in its war …
New York Times:
America Has a Free Speech Problem  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.  —  For all the tolerance and enlightenment that modern society claims …
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The New York Times editorial board should retract and resign  —  It's hard to imagine a more fundamental misreading of the freedom of speech - or an organization whose credibility depends more on understanding it correctly - than today's lead editorial from the New York Times editorial board.
Discussion: FIRE, Raw Story and PLURIBUS
Nathaniel Herz / Anchorage Daily News:
Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young has died at age 88  —  Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young died Friday, his office said.  —  His wife, Anne, was by his side, his office said in statement.  —  “It's with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we announce Congressman Don Young, the Dean of the House …
Foreign Policy:
How Putin Bungled His Invasion of Ukraine  —  Faulty assumptions, terrible logistics, and a ferocious Ukrainian resistance have turned Russian President Vladimir Putin's Ukrainian adventure to ashes—for now.  —  Three weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, social media around the world …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
How the US should deter Vladimir Putin's nuclear brinkmanship
David French / The Atlantic:
What the Russia Invasion Teaches Us About the Right  —  Contrarians aren't critical thinkers.  They're gullible reactionaries, vulnerable to conspiracy theories. … I want to share with you two remarkably similar numbers.  At first glance, they should have nothing to do with each other.
Washington Post:
It's 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica.  Scientists are flabbergasted. … The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above normal.
Charlie Parker / The Times:
Specialist Ukrainian drone unit picks off invading Russian forces as they sleep  —  An elite Ukrainian drone unit has destroyed dozens of “priority targets” by attacking Russian forces as they sleep, The Times can reveal.  —  Aerorozvidka, a specialist air reconnaissance unit within the army …
Breaking Defense:
Ukraine is getting Switchblade.  It should be just the first wave of loitering munitions for Kyiv.  —  Loitering munitions — essentially small suicide drones capable of tracking a target and then striking it — have been around for years, but the technology emerged as a key weapons in the 2021 conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Bryan McBournie / Axios:
Why are Switchblade drones called “kamikaze drones”?
Discussion: Washington Post
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Inside the transfer of foreign military equipment to Ukrainian soldiers … ON THE POLAND-UKRAINE BORDER — There were no passport officers on the dirt road, no customs lane, no signs marking this isolated patch of farmland for what it has become: a clandestine gateway for military supplies entering Ukraine.
Zachary Pleat / Media Matters for America:
Baseless OAN attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson echoes QAnon conspiracy theory  —  RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JASMINE GEONZON & GIDEON TAAFFE  —  Following Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) Twitter rant yesterday against Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a segment on OAN took …
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CNN:
‘Madison is wrong’: GOP backlash over Cawthorn grows after Zelensky insult  —  (CNN)When House Republicans gathered on the baseball field Friday morning for their weekly practice, members were abuzz about one topic: Rep. Madison Cawthorn.  —  The North Carolina Republican infuriated members …
Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons nearly come to blows at Ohio candidate forum  —  Ohio Republican Senate candidates Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons nearly came to blows during a candidate forum Friday evening.  —  Mandel, a former state treasurer and an early front-runner in the race …
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
People's Convoy Reveals Ridiculous New Goal: ‘Take Back’ Black Lives Matter Plaza  —  ‘TAR & FEATHERED’  —  On Friday morning, the so-called “People's Convoy” seemed to reveal a new goal for the right-wing trucker movement: Reclaim the two-block-long Black Lives Matter Plaza in downtown Washington …
Discussion: The Hill and TMZ.com
Politico:
How Democrats alienated the woman who helped them win the House  —  Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) pioneered the playbook that helped Democrats flip the House in 2018.  Less than four years later, she announced her retirement.  Her experience has raised alarms about the Democratic Party going forward.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A retiring moderate Democrat unloads on the party
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Researchers warn that Christian nationalists are becoming more radical and are targeting voting  —  New research linking Christian nationalism with a desire to limit voting.  People citing their faith as the reason they support trucker convoys that shut down the border over covid protections.
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions, a method codified into state law l ast year after a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences because of the state's inability to procure lethal injection drugs.
Discussion: CNN, The Hill, NPR, Raw Story and WBTW-TV
Maria Cramer / New York Times:
Trump Campaign Owes $300,000 in Legal Fees After Another Failed NDA Case  —  The award stems from an arbitration claim that was dismissed in part because of the “vague and unenforceable” provisions of a nondisclosure agreement.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and Alternet.org
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why is J.D. Vance getting canceled by his fellow Republicans?  —  A fascinating mystery has arisen around Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance.  And it raises pressing questions about a larger phenomenon: The drift toward Putinism among some in the GOP, and the effort by other Republicans to paper it over or purge it outright.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Dr. Oz's Heritage Is Targeted as Rivals Vie for Trump Backing  —  The Senate candidate's Turkish background has emerged as a focus of David McCormick's attacks in Pennsylvania's G.O.P. primary.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Late last year, before he had formally entered …
Discussion: NBC News and The Daily Wire
Rasmussen Reports:
Generic Congressional Ballot  —  Republicans Lead by 11 Points on Congressional Ballot: Sponsored by Miranda Devine's LAPTOP FROM HELL: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide  —  The 2022 midterm elections are now 235 days away, and Republicans …
Discussion: Breitbart and Power Line
John Reinan / Star Tribune:
Minnesota native killed in Ukraine was getting food for hospital patients  —  Jimmy Hill, a psychologist and lecturer originally from Mahtomedi, was killed in an attack.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  MORE  —  Jimmy Hill's last act was gathering food for hospital patients in Ukraine.
Discussion: The Hill, InForum, Deseret News and CBS News
Lizette Alvarez / Washington Post:
Florida Republicans are living in a Trumped-up dystopia — and everyone's invited  —  When Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Florida's conservative lawmakers finally shut down the 2022 state legislative session on Monday, I had a dispiriting epiphany.  These state's Republicans are living in a Trumped-up dystopia.
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Will ‘Trump Enablers’ Eat Lunch in This Town Again?  —  As the clock ran out on the profoundly unfamiliar year of 2020, Washington settled — briefly, awkwardly — into a profoundly familiar Beltway ritual: a presidential transition.  Appointees of the outgoing administration looked for onward employment.
 
 
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Washington Post:
Mixed signals from Ukraine's president and his aides leave West confused about his end game
Discussion: FDD
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Ex-West Virginia legislator pleads guilty in Jan. 6 case
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Cheney Says Greene One of Kremlin's ‘Useful Idiots’ After Ukraine Remarks
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and Raw Story
Financial Times:
Propaganda war rages as Russians face huge pressure to back invasion
Discussion: The Noösphere
Joshua Goodman / Associated Press:
American gunmakers help Ukrainians fight back against Putin
 Earlier Items: 
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Fiore switches races, files for state treasurer instead
Janelle Griffith / NBC News:
House passes CROWN Act banning discrimination against Black hairstyles
Politico:
Jan. 6 trial centers on lingering mystery: Where was Mike Pence as riot raged?
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid and the ‘Very Liberal’  —  There's a schism among Democrats.  And the latest on Ukraine.
Discussion: HotAir and Checks and Balances
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's new competition TV show, debuting October 30, will have entrepreneurs pitch judges, including Amazon execs; finalists' product will be sold on Amazon

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
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