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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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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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Yahoo Finance, HuffPost, Mashable and 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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Washington Post:
Senate panel deadlocks on Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination
Senate panel deadlocks on Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Late flight snags Jackson's committee vote
Late flight snags Jackson's committee vote
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The Guardian and New York Post
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Democrats' two-do: Confirm Jackson, land Manchin
POLITICO Playbook: Democrats' two-do: Confirm Jackson, land Manchin
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Pick Ketanji Brown Jackson Moves Toward Confirmation
Supreme Court Pick Ketanji Brown Jackson Moves Toward Confirmation
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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, The Daily Wire, ragnar_forseti's newsletter and Twitchy
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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New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, CBS Pittsburgh, Raw Story, Althouse and IJR
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
$90 Million Yacht of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg Seized by Spain at Request of United States
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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
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CNBC, Rolling Stone, UPI and Raw Story
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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Metro.co.uk, The Editorial Board, The Economist and Associated Press
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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 Would Ban Words Like “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” and “Plantation” — Amazon will block and flag employee posts on a planned 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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The Conversation, Talking Points Memo, The Lever and Washington Post
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis's repulsive war on Disney will soon face a reckoning — The stench of presidential ambition around Ron DeSantis has grown so thick that it resembles Charlie Brown pal Pigpen's visible cloud of filth, and key to the Florida governor's hopes is finding a way to capture the political energies unleashed by Donald Trump.
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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 …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Bidens to host White House wedding reception for granddaughter in November — (CNN)President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a wedding reception at the White House this November for their eldest granddaughter, Naomi Biden, the first lady's communications director Elizabeth Alexander confirmed to CNN.
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Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Biden talks ‘Big Mama’ and his trucking plan at White House
Biden talks ‘Big Mama’ and his trucking plan at White House
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Althouse
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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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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New York Post and The Daily Wire
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
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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Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
U.S. pushes to suspend Russia from U.N. human rights body
U.S. pushes to suspend Russia from U.N. human rights body
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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
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, Salon, Raw Story, Uniic Media and Phil's Newsletter
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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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