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8:50 PM ET, March 24, 2022

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Washington Post:
Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show … Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts …
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CNN:
First on CNN: January 6 committee has text messages between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows  —  The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has in its possession more than two dozen text messages between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia “Ginni” …
Discussion: Insider, Raw Story and Rolling Stone
CBS News:
Ginni Thomas, Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, exchanged texts with Mark Meadows about efforts to overturn the 2020 election  —  Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts …
New York Times:
Ginni Thomas Pressed Trump's Chief of Staff to Overturn 2020 Vote, Texts Show  —  The messages between Ms. Thomas and Mark Meadows are the first evidence that she directly advised the White House in efforts to reverse the election results.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Supreme Court silent on Thomas health status
Discussion: HotAir and YouTube
Alia E. Dastagir / USA Today:
Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson to define ‘woman.’ Science says there's no simple answer. … In the 13th hour of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing Tuesday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked the Supreme Court nominee: “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?”
Discussion: The 19th
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Sydney Keller / WZTV:
Tennessee pastors express ‘embarrassment’ towards Sen. Blackburn's SCOTUS nominee remarks  —  Tennessee pastors expressed their “embarrassment” and “frustration” towards Tennessee's state Senior SenatorMarsha Blackburn for her role on the U. S. Senate's Judiciary Committee after the second …
Washington Post:
Confirmation hearings for Jackson conclude after testimony from outside witnesses … The fourth and final day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson concluded Thursday after the Senate Judiciary Committee heard from an array of outside witnesses …
Politico:
GOP frets over how hard to fight Jackson  —  Republicans are rejecting the harshest tactics that could trap Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination indefinitely in the Senate Judiciary Committee — though they're wrestling with how hard to fight it.
New York Times:
QAnon Cheers Republican Attacks on Jackson. Democrats See a Signal.
Andrea Widburg / American Thinker:
Tucker savages Ketanji Brown Jackson, transgenderism, and tech tyranny
Discussion: lewrockwell.com
Politico:
Donald Trump sues Hillary Clinton and allies over Russia claims  —  Former President Donald Trump is suing 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a sprawling case that accuses her of conspiring with dozens of other actors — frequent targets of Trump's conspiracy theories and rage — to topple his presidency.
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Melanie Zanona / CNN:
McCarthy calls endorsement of Cheney's primary foe a ‘special case’  —  See McCarthy's head-spinning flip on Liz Cheney  —  Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he won't be wading into any other primaries to oust incumbents in his own party …
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:   McCarthy says GOP will win control of House: 'It's not going to be a five-seat majority'
Chloe Folmar / The Hill:
More than 400,000 Ukrainians taken to Russia against their will, official says  —  A Ukrainian official alleged Thursday that 402,000 Ukrainians have been taken into Russia against their will.  —  Ukrainian ombudsperson Lyudmyla Denisova said Ukraine fears that some of the civilians …
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Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
Can Anyone Unseat Marjorie Taylor Greene?  —  Whatever hope remains for the Georgia congresswoman's many detractors seems to depend on either a new lawsuit or a candidate who's been called “Marjorie with a brain.”  —  A year ago, I met John Cowan for lunch in Rome, a small city …
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Madison Cawthorn Committed the One Unforgivable Sin of Politics
Discussion: Raw Story
NATO:
Statement by NATO Heads of State and Government  —  We, the Heads of State and Government of the 30 NATO Allies, have met today to address Russia's aggression against Ukraine, the gravest threat to Euro-Atlantic security in decades.  Russia's war against Ukraine has shattered peace in Europe …
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Johnny Diaz / New York Times:
U.S. House Candidate Ends Run After Uproar Over Behavior at Sleepover  —  Abby Broyles of Oklahoma said on Thursday that she had checked into rehab “to focus on myself and my happiness” weeks after apologizing for drinking and swearing at children.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Alain Stephens / VICE:
Tiny ‘Glock Switches’ Have Quietly Flooded the US With Deadly Machine Guns  —  An investigation by VICE News and The Trace uncovered an alarming surge in criminal cases involving “auto sears” or “switches,” which convert Glock pistols and other common weapons into fully automatic machine guns.
Julia Johnson / Washington Examiner:
Photographer ‘surprised and disappointed’ at Today's edited Lia Thomas photos  —  EXCLUSIVE — Photographer and University of Pennsylvania graduate Erica Denhoff was shocked to see her work significantly altered on the Today show last week, adding that at first, she thought “something was honestly wrong with the video.”
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
50 years after Watergate, the president of the United States still flies above the law  —  There once was an era — not so long ago, in my lifetime — when Americans had so much trust in their government that most folks couldn't fathom a president committing felonies in the Oval Office.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
CNN:
North Korea fires first suspected ICBM since 2017  —  Seoul, South Korea (CNN)North Korea has fired what is believed to be its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in more than four years as Western leaders gather in Brussels for a security summit.
David Harsanyi / National Review:
No, Asking a Nominee to Explain Her Record Isn't Worse Than Accusing a Nominee of Gang Rape  —  In an editorial today, the Washington Post argues that “Republicans boast they have not pulled a Kavanaugh.  In fact, they've treated Jackson worse.”  A “woman credibly accused Mr. Kavanaugh of sexual assault …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Putin badly misjudged the West, as explained by a Russia expert  —  With President Biden traveling to Europe to shore up the Western alliance against the invasion of Ukraine, it's become overwhelmingly clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin badly underestimated the potential …
Nazmul Ahasan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Internet entrepreneurs far from the U.S. are inflaming political division on Facebook to sell T-shirts and coffee mugs  —  On a wintry morning in the town of Moulvibazar in northeast Bangladesh, 21-year-old Saeed Ahmed was reading news on Facebook when he came across an unusual story …
Antonio García Martínez / Common Sense:
Why Does Tucker Carlson Sound Like a Berkeley Leftist?  —  The war in Ukraine has exposed an ideological vacuum at the heart of American right.  —  Writes The Pull Request  · Subscribe  —  In the Before Times, prior to Twitter and #BLM and Critical Race Theory …
Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
Microplastics found in human blood for first time  —  Exclusive: The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs  —  Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people tested.
Jean Guerrero / Los Angeles Times:
For years, I Anglicized my Mexican last name.  MAGA trolls inspired me to reclaim it  —  As a child, I learned to mangle my last name: Guerrero.  Spanish for warrior.  A mouthquake of a name, it mobilizes the tongue's full range — from its genesis near the gullet to the rolled “rr,” a windstorm by the teeth.
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Issa tells Psaki, Big Tech to preserve Hunter Biden-related records, as GOP eye investigations after midterms  —  ‘This is the most consequential political scandal since Watergate,’ Issa said  —  Turley on why NY Times admitting Hunter Biden's laptop was authentic
 
 
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