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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 …
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The Hill, Bloomberg, New York Times, CBS San Francisco and One America News Network
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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.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ginni Thomas' West Wing contacts raise new questions for another Trump ally: John Eastman — Ginni Thomas' unfettered access to Donald Trump's chief of staff — and potentially others in his West Wing — raises new questions about another figure at the center of Trump's gambit to subvert the 2020 election: attorney John Eastman.
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The Hill, New York Times, Insider, Tom Lynch's Letters … and Mediaite
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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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Outside the Beltway, Wall Street Journal and Slate
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 and HuffPost
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, Zandar Versus The Stupid and Outside the Beltway
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 Magazine
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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HotAir, The Western Journal, Simple Justice, NPR and The Daily Beast
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 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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New York Times:
Azerbaijan Moves Troops Into Disputed Region Where it Fought With Armenia.
Azerbaijan Moves Troops Into Disputed Region Where it Fought With Armenia.
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Washington Post, Washington Examiner, HotAir, TMZ.com, New York Post, Wall Street Journal and UPI
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in sweeping speech on Russian invasion of Ukraine
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in sweeping speech on Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Associated Press:
Biden on Russia's Putin: ‘This man cannot remain in power’
Biden on Russia's Putin: ‘This man cannot remain in power’
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Washington Post:
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry resigns after being found guilty of lying to FBI … Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) said Saturday he will resign from Congress after he was convicted Thursday on three felony counts for lying to federal investigators about illegal campaign contributions from a foreign billionaire.
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CBS News, Nebraska Examiner, The Hill and HuffPost
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Fortenberry resigns from Congress after felony convictions — Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) announced Saturday he is resigning from Congress after being convicted of three felonies related to a federal probe of illegal campaign contributions. — His decision, which he announced …
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Bloomberg
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Nebraska GOP congressman says he will resign following felony convictions
Nebraska GOP congressman says he will resign following felony convictions
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Omaha World-Herald, Raw Story, Zandar Versus The Stupid and The Gateway Pundit
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
The Making of Vladimir Putin — Tracing Putin's 22-year slide from statesman to tyrant. — Give this article- - - Read in app — PARIS — Speaking in what he called “the language of Goethe, Schiller and Kant,” picked up during his time as a K.G.B. officer in Dresden …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Graham: Judicial confirmation process could get even more toxic … Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) looked briefly into the future and saw a calamitous confirmation process for Supreme Court justices and other federal judge nominees: a near total blockade. — With Republicans needing …
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Corned Beef Catholicism
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
This isn't the U.S. Senate. It's more like day care.
This isn't the U.S. Senate. It's more like day care.
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The Skeptical Idealist
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
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
Washington Post:
Russia's failures in Ukraine imbue Pentagon with newfound confidence — For more than a decade, the Pentagon, pinned down in Afghanistan, followed China's rise as a global power and Russia's ambitious military modernization program with growing alarm. The consensus in Beijing …
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Telegraph