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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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Politico:
Trump upset with the state of his new social media site, eyes shakeup — Top executives from Former President Donald Trump's social media venture, Truth Social, have departed the company as the site has struggled to gain traction with users. — Three top executives quit Truth Social …
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New York Times:
Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims. — An analysis of satellite images by The New York Times rebuts claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.
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The Daily Beast, New Statesman and Political Wire
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Late flight snags Jackson's committee vote — A Democratic senator's flight snafu is delaying a committee vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination. — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) took the panel into a break as they wait for Sen. Alex Padilla …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Lindsey Graham: If GOP Controlled Senate, Ketanji Brown Jackson Wouldn't Get a Hearing
Lindsey Graham: If GOP Controlled Senate, Ketanji Brown Jackson Wouldn't Get a Hearing
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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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Luke Gentile / Washington Examiner:
Politico falsely claims Jackson would become first black Supreme Court justice
Politico falsely claims Jackson would become first black Supreme Court justice
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Washington Post, ragnar_forseti's newsletter, The Daily Wire and Twitchy
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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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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YouTube:
B-roll from Seizure of $90M Yacht of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Vekselberg by Spain at U.S. Request
B-roll from Seizure of $90M Yacht of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Vekselberg by Spain at U.S. Request
Catherine Belton / Washington Post:
Exiled oligarch calls on other Russian tycoons to break with Putin
Exiled oligarch calls on other Russian tycoons to break with Putin
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The Hill and The Times of Israel
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The Bucha Atrocities and the Kremlin Apologists — Commentators suffering from Ukraine Derangement Syndrome are distorting and distracting from the horrible facts. — BUCHA, UKRAINE - APRIL 4: CIVILIANS' BODIES, WHICH WERE FOUND DEAD IN THE UKRAINIAN TOWN OF BUCHA, WERE GATHERED TO BE BURIED ON MONDAY …
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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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Washington Post, Mediaite, Wall Street Journal and The Guardian
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.
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Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App to Ban Words Like “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” and “Plantation” … Amazon plans to block and flag employee posts on an internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept.
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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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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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Grist:
‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it's fossil fuels or our future — Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world's top scientists warned on Monday.
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Josh Siegel / Politico:
‘Swallowing a toad’: Progressives warm to Manchin's fossil fuel demands to clinch climate package
‘Swallowing a toad’: Progressives warm to Manchin's fossil fuel demands to clinch climate package
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Washington Examiner and Jacobin
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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis's repulsive war on Disney will soon face a reckoning
Ron DeSantis's repulsive war on Disney will soon face a reckoning
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Axios
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 …
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The Daily Wire
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
Mariia Kravchenko:
What should Russia do with Ukraine? [Translation of a propaganda article by a Russian publication] … This is the article that was published by the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti (Russian: РИА Новос ти).
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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
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
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 …
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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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Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Orban's victory sends a warning to the west — The Hungarian leader has long walked a tightrope between the EU and fellow strongmen — but it is getting harder to keep up his balancing act — Viktor Orban's election victory in Hungary will be greeted with delight in Moscow …
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RedState, Mother Jones, The Guardian, New Statesman, Hungarian Politics and Washington Examiner
Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Biden talks ‘Big Mama’ and his trucking plan at White House — President Joe Biden rued not being able to recreate former President Donald Trump's viral moment behind the wheel of a stationary truck parked on the White House South Lawn on Monday. — “I thought I was gonna get to drive …
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Althouse
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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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
David Perdue, Trump's Sacrificial Lamb — He's killing his career in honor of Trump's election grievances. — The thing about sacrificial lambs is that they can only be sacrificed once. What makes David Perdue's political career unique is that, in honor of Donald Trump's 2020 election grievances, Perdue is killing it twice.
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