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11:10 PM ET, April 6, 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
Max Schaub / EUROPP:
Do Russians tell the truth when they say they support the war in Ukraine?  Evidence from a list experiment  —  Survey evidence indicates a majority of Russian citizens support their country's military action in Ukraine.  But does this give an accurate picture of public opinion?
Discussion: Washington Post and The Sun
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.
Timothy Snyder / Washington Post:
By denying a Ukrainian culture, Putin flattens his own
Discussion: New York Times
ABC News:
US targets Putin's adult daughters in new round of Russian sanctions
The White House:
FACT SHEET: United States, G7 and EU Impose Severe and Immediate Costs on Russia
Peter Pomerantsev / TIME:
Ukraine Is Our Past and Our Future
New York Times:
NATO Nations See Differing Paths as Ukraine War Enters Uncertain Stage
Associated Press:
Mariupol's dead put at 5,000 as Ukraine braces in the east
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.
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Liberal media critic Eric Boehlert dies in bicycle collision  —  Eric Boehlert, a liberal critic who offered blistering takedowns and analysis of mainstream and conservative media, died Monday in a bicycle collision in his New Jersey hometown.  He was 57.  —  “Through his journalism …
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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 …
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.
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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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.
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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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Bipartisan Senate group bids to block lifting Title 42  —  Five Democratic and six Republican senators will introduce a new bill on Thursday that would prevent the Biden administration from lifting Title 42 without a detailed plan in place to stop an expected surge of migrants at the border.
Discussion: NH Journal and New York Post
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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 …
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
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: HuffPost, Twitchy, Mediaite and IJR
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.
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
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida's Scott exposes fissures with DeSantis  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott on Wednesday showed an unwillingness to embrace the harsh rhetoric of Gov. Ron DeSantis over Disney's rejection of Florida's “Parental Rights in Education” bill, dubbed the “Don't Say Gay” bill by opponents.
Discussion: Raw Story and Florida Politics
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower who handed Hunter's abandoned laptop to congressmen and DailyMail.com reveals he has 450 gigabytes of DELETED material including 80,000 images and videos - and has fled to Switzerland fearing retaliation from White House  — Whistleblower Jack Maxey gave DailyMail.com …
Los Angeles Times:
At least five shooters involved in Sacramento massacre, gang ties likely, police say  —  Sacramento police said Wednesday that it appears at least five shooters fired guns during Sunday's massacre in downtown, which killed six people and injured 12.  —  Officials are still trying to determine …
Andrew Kerr / Washington Examiner:
Patrisse Cullors blasts ‘despicable’ coverage of BLM's $6 million mansion  —  Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors railed against a “despicable” report from a liberal magazine that exposed her charity had purchased a $6 million Los Angeles mansion with donor cash.
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Dystopia: Drone warns desperate locked-down Shanghai residents to “control your soul's desire for freedom”  —  Imagine how jealous Fauci was when he was told about this.  —  The stress of being under what's now an indefinite lockdown has led people in Shanghai to seek whatever meager relief is available, sometimes in familiar ways.
Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg:
Bannon Loses Bid to Claim Lawyer Said He Could Ignore Jan. 6 Subpoena  —  A federal judge rejected political strategist Steve Bannon's plan to argue he was justified in refusing to comply with a subpoena from lawmakers investigating U.S. Capitol riot because he was acting on the advice of his lawyer.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CNN
 
 
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WFLA-TV:
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Washington Post:
Right-wing Azov Battalion emerges as a controversial defender of Ukraine
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Leyla Santiago / CNN:
Fact check: Emails show one of DeSantis' stories backing the rationale for so-called 'Don't Say Gay' law didn't happen as the governor says
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
Anna Brown / Pew Research Center:
Most Americans who are ‘single and looking’ say dating has been harder during the pandemic
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Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Steve Bannon Said Trump Reminded Him of Hitler. He Meant It as a Compliment.
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden Preparing to Announce Pair of SEC Nominees
Discussion: The Hill and Bloomberg
Michael Graham / NH Journal:
NH GOP Insiders Expect More Candidates to Jump Into Senate Race — Soon
New York Times:
You're Still Being Tracked on the Internet, Just in a Different Way
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The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: ‘This Is a Jesus Movement’
 

 
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Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street

Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls

 
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