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8:25 PM ET, April 1, 2022

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Jen Psaki planning to leave White House this spring for MSNBC gig  —  White House press secretary Jen Psaki is in exclusive talks with MSNBC to join the network after she leaves the White House around May, according to a source close to the matter.
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Politico:
Why Biden's jobs boom isn't translating  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  The U.S. unemployment rate hit 3.6 percent today, as 431,000 jobs were added during the month of March.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin: Biden's repeal of Title 42 order ‘a frightening decision’  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Friday slammed President Biden's decision to rescind Title 42, a Trump-era health order used to rapidly deport people who cross the border without authorization as “a frightening decision” …
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Fox News:
Biden immigration decision could make midterm climate even tougher for Democrats
Conn Carroll / Washington Examiner:
Democrats can't run from Biden's border crisis
Discussion: spectatorworld.com and Townhall
New York Times:
Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize in Stunning Win for Labor  —  Despite heavy lobbying by the company, workers at the facility voted by a wide margin for a union.  It was seen as a rebuke of the company's treatment of its employees.  —  Workers at Amazon's massive warehouse …
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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon workers on Staten Island vote for company's first unionized warehouse in U.S.
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:   A Generational Worker Revolt Hits Its Stride
CNN:
GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker has been overstating his academic achievements for years  —  (CNN)For years, Herschel Walker has told the same inspiring story: that he graduated in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia.  He's told the story, according to a review …
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Brent Lang / Variety:
Will Smith Resigns From Academy Over Chris Rock Oscars Slap Backlash … Will Smith, facing possible expulsion or suspension after he assaulted Chris Rock during last Sunday's Oscars telecast, has instead resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
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Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Slap Happy: Who Needs Punched In The Mouth?
William Vaillancourt / Rolling Stone:
Ginni Thomas Pushed Trump to Hire Someone the White House Suspected Was a Foreign Spy  —  The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave the former president “insane and unworkable” lists of people he should fire and hire, according to a new report from The Daily Beast
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
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The Daily Beast:
Inside Ginni Thomas' ‘Insane’ Hiring Memos for Trump  —  Ginni Thomas' suggested hires included known bigots and at least one suspected foreign spy, sources say.  —  Years before she became one of then-President Donald Trump's most prominent coup supporters, Ginni Thomas was already notorious …
Associated Press:
Jan. 6 panel puts Garland in ‘precarious’ spot, ups pressure  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are increasingly going public with critical statements, court filings and more to deliver a blunt message to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice.
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Garland says the only pressure DOJ feels on January 6 probes is to ‘do the right thing’
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Ames / New Yorker:
A New Video Shows a Missing American Hostage Pleading for Help in Taliban Custody  —  Senator Tammy Duckworth called for the Biden Administration to free an Afghan drug trafficker in exchange for the release of the American engineer Mark Frerichs, who was kidnapped in Afghanistan.
Discussion: Associated Press, TheBlaze, The Hill and CNN
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BBC:
Ukraine war: Gruesome evidence points to war crimes on road outside Kyiv  —  Footage of Russian troops shooting a man with his hands up on a highway outside Kyiv at the beginning of March was shared around the world.  Now the Russians have been pushed out of the area and the BBC's Jeremy Bowen …
New York Times:
Ukrainian helicopters strike an oil depot in Russia, an official there says.  —  A bus convoy left Mariupol, but a Red Cross team could not reach city, bombarded by Russian forces, to aid a larger evacuation.  Ukrainian helicopters carried out the first airstrike on Russian territory since the war began.
David Lat / Vicky Ward Investigates:
Minute-by-Minute: Inside The Out-Of-Control Protest at Yale Law School  —  On March 10, 2022, a protest at Yale Law School—just ranked (again) this week as the #1 law school in the U.S.—got horrendously out of hand.  —  The background: Yale's Federalist Society had invited two lawyers …
Discussion: HotAir and Reason
Financial Times:
Roman Abramovich's $1bn five-yacht fleet revealed  —  Latest vessel's discovery highlights veil of secrecy over sanctions-hit oligarch's assets  —  Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich owns or is linked to a collection of five yachts estimated to be worth almost $1bn, including several vessels …
Discussion: New York Post
Mike Allen / Axios:
Peter Baker, Susan Glasser to publish sweeping history of Trump presidency  —  Peter Baker and Susan Glasser will be out Sept. 20 with a sweeping history of the Trump presidency, “The Divider,” billed as “an ambitious first cut at this historical moment.”  —  The backdrop: Baker …
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Moriah Balingit / Washington Post:
‘A cry for help’: CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health … The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning of an accelerating mental health crisis among adolescents, with more than 4 in 10 teens reporting that they feel “persistently sad or hopeless,” …
Rachel M. Cohen / The Intercept:
At a Pivotal Moment, Democrats Failed to Modernize Elections … Throughout 2020, as then-President Donald Trump issued baseless claims of voter fraud, local election officials called on the federal government to spend more to ensure a secure election season.
Discussion: Raw Story and NPR
BBC:
Gerard Depardieu: Kremlin responds to actor's Putin criticism  —  The Kremlin has hit back after French actor Gerard Depardieu accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of “crazy, unacceptable excesses” in Ukraine.  —  Depardieu said the Russian people were not responsible for their president's behaviour.
 
 
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Robert D. Kaplan / Bloomberg:
To Save Democracy, We Need a Few Good Dictators
Marty Schladen / Ohio Capital Journal:
LaRose would ‘be fine with’ chief justice's impeachment over redistricting rulings
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Associated Press
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Man who brought ‘small armory’ to Capitol on Jan. 6 sentenced to 46 months in prison
Discussion: Washington Post and CNN
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Strategy in Ukraine Shifts After Setbacks, and a Lengthy War Looms
J.D. Vance / The Columbus Dispatch:
‘I will be damned’ if Ukraine prioritized over ‘Tsunami of illegal migrants’
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
House passes bill decriminalizing marijuana; Senate fortunes unclear
Max Bearak / Washington Post:
A Belarusian battalion fights in Ukraine ‘for both countries’ freedom'
Discussion: Defense One
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
D.C. attorney general expands Jan. 6 lawsuit
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Last Defense of DeSantis's Anti-Vaccine Campaign Goes Poof
Steve Contorno / CNN:
Ron DeSantis signals support for stripping Disney of special self-governing status as feud escalates
 

 
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