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David French / The Atlantic:
The Worst Ginni Thomas Text Wasn't From Ginni Thomas — Mark Meadows and the dangerous religious zeal of “Stop the Steal” … Yesterday evening, The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa broke a rather extraordinary and disturbing story. Ginni Thomas, the wife …
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Politico, New York Times and Insider
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Jacob Silverman / New York Magazine:
QAnon's Takeover of the Republican Party Is Virtually Complete — QAnon's infiltration of the Republican Party has proceeded with frightening steadiness over the last couple years, its growing foothold marked by the arrival of conspiratorial politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Raw Story, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, The Daily Caller and USA Today
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Graham: Judicial confirmation process could get even more toxic
Graham: Judicial confirmation process could get even more toxic
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Corned Beef Catholicism
New York Times:
Texts Show Ginni Thomas's Embrace of Conspiracy Theories
Texts Show Ginni Thomas's Embrace of Conspiracy Theories
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The Daily Wire and Tom Lynch's Letters …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas texts reveal fears, motivation to overturn 2020 election
Ginni Thomas texts reveal fears, motivation to overturn 2020 election
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The Hill, The Western Journal, Outside the Beltway, Simple Justice, The Daily Beast and NPR
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Legal scholars and lawyers who know Justice Thomas say he can no longer ignore his wife's activism
Legal scholars and lawyers who know Justice Thomas say he can no longer ignore his wife's activism
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The Hill and New York Times
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court rules that Joe Biden is commander-in-chief. Three justices dissent.
The Supreme Court rules that Joe Biden is commander-in-chief. Three justices dissent.
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HotAir, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Times, Province and Duty and Washington Post
Ben Tobias / BBC:
Russian general Yakov Rezantsev killed in Ukraine — Ukraine's defence ministry says another Russian general, Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev, was killed in a strike near the southern city of Kherson. — Rezantsev was the commander of Russia's 49th combined army.
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The Daily Caller, Metro.co.uk and The Daily Wire
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden Condemns Putin, Saying He ‘Cannot Remain In Power’ — WARSAW — President Biden delivered a forceful denunciation of Vladimir V. Putin's invasion of Ukraine, declaring “for God's sake, this man cannot remain in power” and casting the war as the “test of all time” in a decades-long battle to defend democracy.
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The Hill, Bloomberg, National Review, Metro.co.uk, Global Community Weekly, Mediaite, Twitchy, One America News Network and The Guardian
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New York Times:
With Russia distracted, Azerbaijan moves troops into disputed region where it fought with Armenia. — Here are the latest developments. — WARSAW — President Biden delivered a forceful denunciation on Saturday of Vladimir V. Putin's invasion of Ukraine, declaring “for God's sake …
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HotAir, The Hill, New York Post, Mediaite and One America News Network
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in sweeping speech on Russian invasion of Ukraine — President Joe Biden said Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” over his invasion of Ukraine. — In a sweeping speech in Poland that marked the finale of a three-day trip to Europe …
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Politico, The Hill, TheBlaze, Al Jazeera, Washington Times, The Daily Wire and CBS News
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ as he assures Ukraine: ‘We stand with you’
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ as he assures Ukraine: ‘We stand with you’
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Biden budget to trim $1T from deficits over next decade — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to propose a fiscal 2023 budget Monday that would cut projected deficits by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
President Biden to unveil new minimum tax on billionaires in budget … The White House will unveil a new minimum tax targeting billionaires as part of its 2023 budget Monday, proposing a direct tax on the richest 700 Americans for the first time, according to five people with knowledge …
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Biden to Sidestep ‘Build Back Better’ Proposals in His Budget — President Joe Biden will broadly endorse the climate, social safety net and tax-code changes the White House has pursued as part of his “Build Back Better” agenda in his budget proposal Monday, but he won't specify the costs …
John L. Dorman / Insider:
Trump's mood ‘soured’ after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp revealed he had already decided to appoint Kelly Loeffler to the Senate before consulting with the president: book — Trump's mood “soured” when Kemp said he had already picked Loeffler for the Senate, per a new book.
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Raw Story
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Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone:
Exclusive: Jan. 6 Committee ‘Locked In’ on Proud Boys — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building has been examining the role far-right militant groups played in efforts to overturn President Trump's election loss and the violence that erupted that day.
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Raw Story
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
What a Single Metric Tells Us About the Pandemic — Live long enough in a pandemic and you will see the entire narrative landscape shift, even flip, sometimes more than once. — As recently as a month ago, Americans of a certain cast of mind could have still looked to China …
Gareth Roberts / spiked:
The rise of the heterosexual ‘queer’ — Why are so many straight people desperate to be recognised as something they're not? — I remember the surrealist comedian Spike Milligan, many years ago, asking ‘Did you hear the one about the Irish queer?’ The punchline? ‘He slept with women.’
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The Lost Lessons
Wall Street Journal:
Natural-Gas Industry Gets Boost as Biden Shifts Stance — Shares of large U.S. natural-gas companies rose as Biden softened position against fossil fuels — President Biden's pledge to boost U.S. liquefied natural-gas exports to Europe marks a further retreat from his hard-line stance …
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Fortune, Mother Jones, The White House and Bloomberg
New York Post:
Hunter Biden helped secure funds for US biolab contractor in Ukraine: e-mails — Russia's assertion that President Biden's son Hunter was “financing . . . biological laboratories in Ukraine” was based in truth, according to e-mails reviewed by The Post. — A trove of e-mails …
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RedState
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden DID help secure millions in funding for US contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research, laptop emails reveal …
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden DID help secure millions in funding for US contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research, laptop emails reveal …
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Rightward, Damn Straight …, CD Media, AND Magazine and New York Post
Bill Chappell / NPR:
How the false Russian biolab story came to circulate among the U.S. far right
How the false Russian biolab story came to circulate among the U.S. far right
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Los Angeles Times
Jeff Poor / 1819news:
U.S. Senate hopeful Durant says 'I don't think Joe Biden won the election' — Friday, on the heels of former President Donald Trump rescinding his endorsement of U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) in the U.S. Senate Republican primary, frontrunner Mike Durant appeared on Alabama Public Television's …
Margaret Stafford / Associated Press:
Missouri station offering Russian state radio to listeners — LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A man who runs a little-known, low-budget radio station in suburban Kansas City says he is standing up for free speech and alternative viewpoints when he airs Russian state-sponsored programming in the midst of the Ukrainian war.
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The Hill