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Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch — The two Southern tech entrepreneurs had the two qualities that Donald Trump's Truth Social startup needed: tech-industry expertise and a politically conservative worldview aligned with the former president …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Truth Social Is Doing Even Worse Than You Thought — The engagement numbers are truly awful. — The app that Donald Trump once hoped would avenge his exile from social media and make him a MAGA Mark Zuckerberg has instead plummeted to the 28th most popular social media platform …
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Raw Story
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Lindsey Graham: If GOP Controlled Senate, Ketanji Brown Jackson Wouldn't Get a Hearing — WE KNOW, LINDSEY — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the quiet part out loud on Monday when he declared that President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee wouldn't get a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Democrats' two-do: Confirm Jackson, land Manchin
POLITICO Playbook: Democrats' two-do: Confirm Jackson, land Manchin
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Fox News, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, USA Today, CNN and Talking Points Memo
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Republican leaders push members to oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson
Republican leaders push members to oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Washington Post, Althouse, Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
Eric McDaniel / NPR:
Democrats expected to advance SCOTUS nominee Jackson to floor vote after short delay
Democrats expected to advance SCOTUS nominee Jackson to floor vote after short delay
Libby Cathey / ABC News:
Senate Judiciary Committee to vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination
Senate Judiciary Committee to vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination
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Associated Press:
US seizes yacht owned by oligarch with close ties to Putin — PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) — The U.S. government seized a mega yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to the Russian president on Monday, the first in the government's sanctions enforcement initiative to …
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Insider, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Political Wire
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U.S. Department of Justice:
$90 Million Yacht of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg Seized by Spain at Request of United States — Note: Footage of the seizure is available here. View the statement from the Attorney General on today's seizure here. — Spanish law enforcement today executed …
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Politico, HotAir, Insider, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and YouTube
Catherine Belton / Washington Post:
Exiled oligarch calls on other Russian tycoons to break with Putin … LONDON — Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the self-exiled Russian oligarch and vocal Kremlin opponent, has called on Russian billionaires and officials who have fled Russia to publicly denounce President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine as criminal.
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The Hill and The Times of Israel
ABC News:
Secret Service paying over $30K per month for Malibu mansion to protect Hunter Biden — The luxury rental property has “gorgeous ocean views,” according to its listing. — Hunter Biden is apparently spending his father's presidency living in luxury in Malibu — and so is his taxpayer-funded security detail.
Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Takes 9.2% Stake in Twitter After Hinting at Shake-Up — Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc. to become the platform's biggest shareholder, a week after hinting he might shake up the social media industry. — Twitter shares surged about 26% in premarket trading …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol attack panel scores two major wins as it inches closer to Trump's inner circle — House select committee seizes momentum as it embarks on final push to conclude evidence-gathering phase of inquiry — The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is moving …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Anna Merlan / VICE:
The Ivermectin Guys' Whole Thing Has Really Fallen Apart — Meanwhile, they're still pretending the drug is viable as a treatment for COVID. — Anna Merlan — In the summer of 2021, a group of the most vociferous people online put all their energies behind the unproven thesis that ivermectin …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Sean Campbell / New York Magazine:
Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6 Million House — Allies and critics alike have questioned where the organization's money has gone. — On a sunny day late last spring, three leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement — Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Melina Abdullah …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Biden calls to put Putin on trial for war crimes over Russia killings in Ukraine — President Joe Biden said evidence needs to be gathered to put Russian leader Vladimir Putin on trial for war crimes related to his nation's invasion of Ukraine. — “He is a war criminal,” Biden said of Putin …
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New York Times:
In a Kyiv Suburb,'They Shot Everyone They Saw'
In a Kyiv Suburb,'They Shot Everyone They Saw'
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Julian E. Zelizer / The Atlantic:
What I Learned When Trump Tried to Correct the Record — As an academic historian, I never expected to find myself in a videoconference with Donald Trump. But one afternoon last summer—a day after C-SPAN released a poll of historians who ranked him just above Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson …
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Insider
Eliot Higgins / bellingcat:
Russia's Bucha “Facts” Versus the Evidence — Recent images from the town of Bucha just outside Kyiv, captured as Ukrainian forces regained ground following the retreat of Russian forces, show widespread destruction and corpses in civilians clothes strewn across streets.
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The Bulwark and Washington Post
Nandita Bose / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE U.S. Vice President Harris' deputy chief of staff to depart — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's deputy chief of staff Michael Fuchs is leaving the administration, the latest top aide from her office to announce a departure, according to an internal staff memo seen by Reuters.
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Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
How Amazon Workers Beat The Union Busters At Their Own Game — Amazon spent millions on anti-union consultants last year. One worker explains how he and his friends discredited and flustered them to win a historic election. — Faced with union organizing efforts in Alabama and New York City last year …
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The Lever, Washington Post and Payday Report
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
DirecTV to Drop One America News on Tuesday Despite Pressure — DirecTV plans to drop One America News Network on Tuesday, ignoring pressure to reverse course from the conservative cable outlet and its supporters. — The satellite TV giant has been notifying customers that it will no longer carry OAN …
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: In series of false claims, Republican Rep. Lisa McClain says Trump caught Osama bin Laden — Reporters keep exposing evidence of Trump's ‘big lie’ 01:46 — Washington (CNN)Michigan Rep. Lisa McClain, a freshman Republican member of Congress, made a series of false claims …
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Washington Post, Raw Story, Phil's Newsletter and Uniic Media
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
DeSantis's Threats to Disney Is What Post-Trump Authoritarianism Looks Like … Florida governor Ron DeSantis has pitched himself to the Republican elite as the candidate of “competent Trumpism” — a form of authoritarian populism for conservatives who worried that Donald Trump was squandering his power, not abusing it.
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Washington Post
Jamie Dimon / JPMorgan Chase & Co.:
Dear Fellow Shareholders, — We are facing challenges at every turn: a pandemic, unprecedented government actions, a strong recovery after a sharp and deep global recession, a highly polarized U.S. election, mounting inflation, a war in Ukraine and dramatic economic sanctions against Russia.
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Redfield and Wilton Strategies:
Latest GB Voting Intention (3 April 2022) — Our Most Recent Research — Redfield & Wilton Strategies' latest voting intention poll in Great Britain finds the Labour Party leading by 6%, an increase of 4% from last week's poll. Altogether, the full numbers (with the changes from 27 March in parentheses) are as follows:
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
A Flight Over China in Clear Skies, Followed by a Nosedive — Investigators face a formidable challenge in figuring out why China Eastern Flight 5735 crashed on March 21. — Give this article- - - Read in app — BEIJING — China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 was at 29,100 feet …
Josh Siegel / Politico:
‘Swallowing a toad’: Progressives warm to Manchin's fossil fuel demands to clinch climate package — House progressives say they may be prepared to accept policies that boost fossil fuels in the short term in order to win Sen. Joe Manchin's support for a party-line climate change …
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Washington Examiner and Jacobin
Juliana Kaplan / Insider:
Meet the doctors unionizing and walking out for better conditions: 'There's this growing sentiment that we can do better' — Throughout the pandemic, millions of workers across the US have demanded more from work. — Doctors have faced especially tough conditions on the forefront of the pandemic.