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BBC:
French intelligence chief Vidaud fired over Russian war failings — The head of French military intelligence, Gen Eric Vidaud, is losing his job after failing to predict Russia's war in Ukraine, reports say. — Seven months after he took on the role, one report said he was blamed for …
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Reuters:
Russia drafts 134,500 conscripts but says they won't go to Ukraine — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia's annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
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Seth G. Jones / TIME:
What It Will Take For Ukraine To Win the War — Jones is senior vice president and director of the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His most recent book is Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran, and the Rise of Irregular Warfare.
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Russian troops near Kyiv, Chernobyl are repositioning, Pentagon says
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Ukraine needs better air defense systems, not more excuses
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Matt Taibbi / TK News:
“Regime Change” Doesn't Work, You Morons
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LAUGHTER AND TEARS and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
She Took the White House Photos. Trump Moved to Take the Profit. — The former chief White House photographer made plans to publish a book of Trump photos. The former president had other plans. — Give this article- - - Read in app — WASHINGTON — As President Donald J. Trump's tenure came …
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Politico:
Is Ginni Thomas a Trumpworld power player or a gadfly? It depends on who you ask. — When news broke last week that Virginia Thomas, known as Ginni, had texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, imploring him to overturn the 2020 election results to keep Donald Trump in power, it sent shockwaves through Washington, D.C.
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Washington Free Beacon:
Call Him Big Daddy When He Walks That Gaffe Back — It would be preferable, given the raging conflict in Ukraine and the lingering threat of nuclear war, if President Joe Biden could open his mouth and say something that didn't require an immediate “walk back” or “clarification” from his panicked White House communications team.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What explains the suspicious gap in Trump's call log? … From the moment we learned the extent of the 7.5-hour gap in White House records of President Trump's phone calls on Jan. 6, 2021, the question has been: How did this happen? Could it just be sloppy record-keeping …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Please, Merrick Garland. Don't wait for the Jan. 6 committee.
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File411's Newsletter and Raw Story
CNN:
Federal prosecutors expand criminal probe into January 6, examining rally planning and fake electors
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Yes, Merrick Garland can prosecute Mark Meadows (and Peter Navarro, and Dan Scavino)
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Why Does No One Ever Say “Republicans Have to Stop Acting Crazy or Voters Will Punish Them”? — One-way voter accountability. — Come hang out with me, Tim Miller, Amanda Carpenter, and Will Saletan to talk about ALL THE THINGS. — Tonight at 8:00 p.m. right here. — Only for members of Bulwark+.
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Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Attorney who backs election decertification enters Attorney General race to investigate doctors who won't prescribe ivermectin — MADISON - A Chippewa Falls attorney who is a key player in a movement to take the impossible step of decertifying the 2020 election is running for Attorney General …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Ivermectin is the signature example of politics trumping health
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Los Angeles Times:
Concerns about Bruce Willis' declining cognitive state swirled around sets in recent years — Just days before Bruce Willis was scheduled to turn up on the set of one of his latest action films, the director of the project sent out an urgent request: Make the movie star's part smaller.
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David Siders / Politico:
'We've got to stop fooling ourselves': Enthusiasm gap keeps getting worse for Dems — At the end of October, Republicans held an 11-percentage-point advantage in voter enthusiasm. By January, that margin had ticked up to 14 points. Now, according to the most recent NBC News poll …
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HotAir, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Wire
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Scoop: FEC fines DNC and Clinton for Trump dossier hoax — The Federal Election Commission has fined the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for lying about the funding of the infamous, and discredited, Russian “dossier” used in a smear attempt against Donald Trump weeks …
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Facebook's algorithm was mistakenly elevating harmful content for the last six months … A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to “integrity risks” over the past six months, according to an internal report on the incident obtained by The Verge.
The White House:
FACT SHEET: President Biden's Plan to Respond to Putin's Price Hike at the Pump — Americans face rising prices at the pump because of Putin's Price Hike. Since Putin accelerated his military build-up around Ukraine, gas prices have increased by nearly a dollar per gallon.
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Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Insider, The Daily Caller, The Verge, NPR and РИА …
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Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Daily Wire to make conservative kids' shows to rival ‘woke’ Disney — Ben Shapiro grew up loving Disney movies, he told his podcast listeners last week. The conservative firebrand passed that love on to his kids by taking them to Disneyland as soon as they were old enough — 6 months of age in the Shapiro household.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Wisconsin lawmaker held in contempt over 2020 election records … A Wisconsin judge has ordered one of the state's top Republican lawmakers to be held in contempt after he failed to produce records from an investigation he had launched into the 2020 presidential election.
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Talking Points Memo, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and American Oversight
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
There Is No Liberal World Order — In February 1994, in the grand ballroom of the town hall in Hamburg, Germany, the president of Estonia gave a remarkable speech. Standing before an audience in evening dress, Lennart Meri praised the values of the democratic world that Estonia then aspired to join.
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Andrea Gallo / The Advocate:
Jeff Landry spent $420,000+ from campaign donors on his own staffing company — Attorney General spokesperson defends payments for ‘payroll,’ but won't say who's being paid — Over the last 15 years, Attorney General Jeff Landry has funneled more than $420,000 from his campaign war chest …
Jo-Ann Mort / New Republic:
“Putin's Regime Is Going to End Very Soon”: The Oligarch Jailed by Putin Speaks — There's no name on the front of the nondescript building in Central London's Marylebone neighborhood, known for its preponderance of medical and dental offices. There's also no visible security at the entrance.
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CBS News, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Ground News
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon hired an influential Democratic pollster to fight Staten Island union drive — Amazon hired Global Strategy Group, an influential Democratic polling firm, to fight unionizing efforts on New York's Staten Island, CNBC has learned. — The firm created anti-union materials on behalf …
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Politics of the Nation's Fastest-Growing Counties — Dear Readers: Join the UVA Center for Politics later today (Thursday, March 31) for a virtual panel, “Domestic Terrorism: How Vulnerable Are We?” — The virtual forum will be streaming at https://livestream.com/tavco/uvacfp- domesticterrorism …
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