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10:50 AM ET, March 30, 2022

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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Collins to Back Jackson for Supreme Court, Giving Her a G.O.P. Vote  —  Senator Susan Collins, a centrist from Maine, said a second meeting with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson alleviated her concerns.  It is unclear if other Republicans will join her.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Washington Post:
Frustrations with Garland grow among Jan. 6 committee members  —  Good morning, Early Birds!  This is a good week to be a Beyoncé fan.  Tell us about your favorite album, send really cool tips or do both: earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
The Hypocritical Attack on Justice Clarence Thomas  —  The left smears him for the opinions of his wife, Ginni, a standard never applied to other judges.  —  “We are long past the day when a wife's opinions are assumed to be the same as her husband's.”  —  So argued Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, in 2013.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Collins, Romney, Murkowski emerge as Supreme Court swing votes
Discussion: HotAir, CNN and Insider
Dylan Wells / USA Today:
GOP Sen. Susan Collins will vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson, bipartisan support for historic Supreme Court nominee
Discussion: Raw Story and Townhall
John Fritze / USA Today:
Two-thirds of Americans back Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court, poll shows
Washington Post:
Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok … Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok.  —  The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Could Trump blow the midterms for the GOP?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  He's back.  —  All signs point to a typical midterm election this year in which the president's party suffers double-digit losses in the House.  The GOP has the big structural advantages on its side …
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Dennis Aftergut / Slate:
The Clearest Evidence Yet of Donald Trump's Criminal Intent on Jan. 6
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Why Russian troops are using tree branches for camouflage in Ukraine  —  Russian troops in Ukraine have scrambled to avoid detection and attack by using tree branches and straw, even swaths of carpeting, to conceal tanks and other armored vehicles, in what analysts call a surprising lack …
Discussion: New York Times
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
The Attacks On Clarence And Ginni Thomas Are Merely Latest In A Decades-Long Smear Campaign  —  Not only are the attacks on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni purely political, they're deeply hypocritical.  —  While claiming its aggressive collection of confidential information …
Discussion: Washington Post, The Atlantic and CNN
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Legal ethics experts agree: Justice Thomas must recuse in insurrection cases
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR
Kimberly Wehle / Politico:
How to Impeach a Supreme Court Justice
NBC News:
The most popular — and unpopular — 2022 candidate qualities  —  WASHINGTON — If it's Wednesday .... Russia redeploys troops from Kyiv. ...  President Biden delivers remarks on Covid as the CDC signs off on second booster for those 50 and older. ...  NRCC says it's targeting 72 House districts for midterms. ...
Discussion: The Hill and Election Law Blog
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Cawthorn's orgies-and-drugs comment stirs trouble within Freedom Caucus
Antoinette Siu / Yahoo Entertainment:
Trump's Truth Social App Plummets in Traffic, Sees 93% Drop in Signups Since Launch Week (Exclusive)  —  Former president Donald Trump's Truth Social app is seeing a 93% drop in signups and similarly steep decline in traffic after a rocky rollout last month fraught with technical issues …
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
What if Putin Didn't Miscalculate?  —  The conventional wisdom is that Vladimir Putin catastrophically miscalculated.  —  He thought Russian-speaking Ukrainians would welcome his troops.  They didn't.  He thought he'd swiftly depose Volodymyr Zelensky's government.  He hasn't.  He thought he'd divide NATO.
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NBC News:
Pompeo leverages foreign policy bonafides in 2024 shadow primary  —  NAPLES, Fla. — Mike Pompeo is running — if not for president, then for a chance to be Donald Trump's running mate should the former president mount another campaign.  —  Pompeo is methodically laying the groundwork …
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Trump asks Putin to release any info about Hunter Biden
Bloomberg:
Half of Russia's 20 Richest Billionaires Are Not Sanctioned  —  Data and graphics by Raeedah Wahid, Mira Rojanasakul, Marion Halftermeyer and Alex McIntyre  —  Half of Russia's 20 richest people have not been sanctioned over its war in Ukraine, leaving a group of super-rich …
Bloomberg:
U.S. Households Face $5,200 Inflation Tax This Year  —  Paying More  —  Inflation means the average U.S. household has to spend an extra $5,200 this year  —  Notes: This chart shows our estimate of the inflation cost for each income quintile assuming differential inflation rates facing each income group …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Koch Industries' valentine to Vladimir Putin  —  Give Koch Industries credit for consistency: It's aiding the foes of democracy at home and abroad.  —  In the two weeks since I wrote about U.S. companies that remained in Russia despite Vladimir Putin's savage invasion of Ukraine …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Lawyer Has Been Fawning Over Him Since High School  —  Trump has plenty of history with his newest lawyer.  —  Here are just a few highlights from the résumé of Donald Trump's latest lawyer: amateur poet... twice suspended from the Florida bar... and …
Discussion: Raw Story
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
The Government Made This Fake News Broadcast About a Nuclear Attack on Indianapolis  —  Watch a never-before-seen video from Mighty Derringer, a Department of Energy training exercise simulating a nuclear terrorist attack on a major U.S. city.  —  Alerts  —  In December of 1986, the Pentagon …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
A Democratic Super PAC's Ad Buy Shows a Widening Battle for House Control  —  The Democrats' House Majority PAC is spending nearly $102 million to reserve advertising time in 51 media markets, staking out a broad battlefield for the coming midterm elections.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: NRCC
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
NFL creates a new anybody-but-white-males hiring policy  —  Once again, the NFL has caved to the leftist narrative of the perpetual victimization of minorities.  After former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores claimed he was fired because of racism, the NFL announced it would address …
Discussion: BizPac Review
 
 
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Associated Press:
Russia shells areas in Ukraine where it vowed to scale back
Discussion: Associated Press and WSVN-TV
Washington Post:
Mariana Alfaro named co-anchor of Post Politics Now
Associated Press:
GOP's Senate campaign chief won't back down from party fight
Discussion: Florida Politics
Hanna Trudo / The Hill:
Progressive candidates seek distance from label
MSNBC:
Biden approval rating falls despite booming economy
Discussion: Twitchy
Burgess Everett / Politico:
After crossing Trump, Cassidy weighs governor bid
Discussion: The Advocate
Valerie Hopkins / New York Times:
Sanctioned Oligarch's Presence Adds Intrigue to Ukraine-Russia Talks
Discussion: Insider, BBC and The Guardian
 Earlier Items: 
Kurt Bardella / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: CBS News giving Mick Mulvaney a paid contributor gig is an act of journalistic malpractice
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Republican Jewish Coalition PAC endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene opponent Jennifer Strahan
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
An ex-college football player admitted to rape. He was given probation.
Discussion: Raw Story
Roxane Gay / New York Times:
Will Smith Was Wrong, but Being Thin-Skinned Is Not
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
David Perdue says he misunderstood ‘lock him up’ chants about Brian Kemp
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis beer heiress joins race for U.S. Senate
Discussion: FOX 2 and National Review
 

 
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Om Malik / On my Om:
AI platforms are unlikely to become a major source of traffic or ad revenue for media outlets, with content deals offering only a short-term revenue boost

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B
 
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