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12:15 AM ET, April 7, 2022

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New York Times:
Live Updates: Civilians Flee as Battered Russian Forces Bear Down on Eastern Ukraine  —  Civilians are leaving eastern Ukraine amid warnings of escalating fighting there.  The Justice Department charges a Russian oligarch with violating U.S. sanctions, and the Pentagon trains Ukrainian soldiers …
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New York Times:
U.S. Says It Secretly Removed Malware Worldwide, Pre-empting Russian Cyberattacks  —  The operation is the latest effort by the Biden administration to thwart actions by Russia by making them public before Moscow can strike.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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ABC News:
US targets Putin's adult daughters in new round of Russian sanctions  —  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's wife and daughter were also sanctioned.  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters — Maria and Katerina — are included in the latest round of sanctions on Russia the U.S. announced on Wednesday.
Luke Mogelson / New Yorker:
Collecting Bodies in Bucha  —  A team of Ukrainian volunteers say that, since the Russian retreat, they have picked up three hundred corpses.  —  Iryna Havryliuk was one of thousands of Ukrainians who fled Bucha in early March, after Russian forces occupied a northern suburb of Kyiv.
Associated Press:
Mariupol's dead put at 5,000 as Ukraine braces in the east
New York Times:
NATO Nations See Differing Paths as Ukraine War Enters Uncertain Stage
The White House:
FACT SHEET: United States, G7 and EU Impose Severe and Immediate Costs on Russia
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
US: 2 posed as agents, gave gifts to Secret Service officers  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents, including one who worked on the first lady's security detail.
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James Fallows / Breaking the News:
Framing: In Honor of Eric Boehlert.  —  I just got the news this afternoon that Eric Boehlert, author of the popular Press Run site on Substack, had died in a bicycle accident in New Jersey, at age 56.  This is heartbreaking and terrible.  I send my condolences, sorrow, and support to his wife …
Greg Evans / Deadline:
Eric Boehlert Dies: Media Critic For Media Matters & Salon, Founder Of Press Run Newsletter Killed In Bike Accident At 57  —  Eric Boehlert, a media critic devoted to calling out right-wing misinformation through his writing at Media Matters for America, Salon, Daily Kos and most recently …
Jerod Macdonald-Evoy / Arizona Mirror:
Paul Gosar to attend white nationalist social gathering on Hitler's birthday  —  Prescott Republican Congressman Paul Gosar is set to be a “special guest” with the white nationalist American Populist Union at an event that will be on a date popular among white nationalists and Neo-Nazis: Hitler's birthday.
Politico:
Judge issues first outright acquittal of Jan. 6 riot defendant  —  A judge has issued the first outright acquittal of a defendant charged in the Capitol riot.  —  Following a two-day bench trial in U.S. District Court in Washington, New Mexico engineer Matthew Martin was acquitted Wednesday …
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Rachel Olding / The Daily Beast:
Congresswoman Who Downplayed the Capitol Riot Is Very Concerned About a Slap Joke
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Timothy Snyder / Washington Post:
By denying a Ukrainian culture, Putin flattens his own … In his 1926 poem “Debt to Ukraine,” Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote: “It's hard to crush people into one.  Don't raise yourself so high.”  After all, the poet continued: “Do we know the Ukrainian night?  No, we do not know the Ukrainian night.”
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Peter Pomerantsev / TIME:
Ukraine Is Our Past and Our Future
Washington Post:
After Gridiron Dinner, a covid outbreak among Washington A-list guests … It was supposed to be an evening of lighthearted political satire and bipartisan fellowship among an elite cadre of politicians, journalists and public officials, just as it has been for much of the past 137 years.
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Haisten Willis / Washington Examiner:
White House hits Republicans on COVID-19 funding as Biden officials test positive
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and NPR
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Preparing to Announce Pair of SEC Nominees
Discussion: The Hill and Bloomberg
New York Times:
Dissatisfied With Their Party, Wealthy Republican Donors Form Secret Coalitions  —  Eager to offset a Democratic advantage among so-called dark money groups, wealthy pro-Trump conservatives like Peter Thiel are involved in efforts to wield greater influence outside the traditional party machinery.
Washington Post:
House votes to hold ex-Trump aides Navarro, Scavino in contempt of Congress  —  The House voted Wednesday to hold two former aides to President Donald Trump in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
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ABC News:
Trump White House lawyer expected to appear before Jan. 6 committee
Politico:
Judge rejects Trump's demand he step back from suit against Hillary Clinton  —  A federal judge — nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1996 — on Wednesday emphatically rejected Donald Trump's demand that he recuse from Trump's sprawling lawsuit against Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Reed Albergotti / Washington Post:
Elon Musk delayed filing a form and made $156 million … Elon Musk was 11 days late in publicly declaring he had amassed a large stake in Twitter.  That omission may have earned him $156 million, according to a half-dozen legal and securities experts.  —  That's because of a 50-year-old law …
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Republicans thought defining a ‘woman’ is easy.  Then they tried. … Before we get to the fact that I spent my lunch hour emailing with an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary to find out whether “tallywhacker” was an officially recognized euphemism for “penis,” a brief recap of how we got here:
Discussion: Twitchy, Mediaite, IJR and HuffPost
Rachel Kurzius / DCist:
Officials Captured And Euthanized The Capitol Hill Fox, Then Found Her Kits  —  There's a tragic twist to the story of the Capitol Hill fox accused of biting and nipping multiple people earlier this week — the adult female was euthanized after her capture on Tuesday afternoon.
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Dems attack GOP candidate for record as defense lawyer, cite ‘child pornographer’ clients after defending KBJ  —  The Richard Irvin campaign is accusing Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker of trying to ‘hijack’ the GOP primary  —  Democrats attack GOP candidate's record as defense attorney after defending Ketanji Brown Jackson
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
As vile as it gets: J.D. Vance goes full ‘great replacement theory’  —  J.D. Vance wants you to know that only one invasion should overwhelmingly preoccupy your attention right now.  It's not the invasion of Ukraine, where war crimes are mounting and we're seeing horrifying imagery of murdered civilians littering the streets.
Discussion: America's Voice, Mediaite and Fox News
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Get outta town: Why majority of New Yorkers would rather be anywhere else
Discussion: HotAir and Power Line
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida's Scott exposes fissures with DeSantis
Discussion: Raw Story and Florida Politics
Nature:
Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne
Los Angeles Times:
At least five shooters involved in Sacramento massacre, gang ties likely, police say
Washington Post:
Right-wing Azov Battalion emerges as a controversial defender of Ukraine
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
 Earlier Items: 
Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg:
Bannon Loses Bid to Claim Lawyer Said He Could Ignore Jan. 6 Subpoena
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CNN
Anna Brown / Pew Research Center:
Most Americans who are ‘single and looking’ say dating has been harder during the pandemic
Discussion: The Hill and The Federalist
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Steve Bannon Said Trump Reminded Him of Hitler. He Meant It as a Compliment.
Discussion: Backbencher
New York Times:
You're Still Being Tracked on the Internet, Just in a Different Way
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: ‘This Is a Jesus Movement’
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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