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New York Times:
Live Updates: At Least 39 Killed in Strike on Train Station, Ukraine Says, as Thousands Flee From East — The station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk had been a main point of evacuation as the region braced for a scaling up of Russia's offensive. The European Union formally approved …
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The White House:
Statement from the President on Delivery of Air Defense Systems to Ukraine — Since the outset of my administration, the United States has placed the highest priority on delivering critical military capabilities to Ukraine so it can defend itself against Russian aggression.
Robert Muller / Reuters:
Slovakia sends its air defence system to Ukraine
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Politico, Anti-bellum, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Al Jazeera, UrduPoint News and Reuters
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Germany Became Putin's Enabler
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Outside the Beltway, Bill Emmott's Global View, Defense One and Raw Story
Dalton Bennett / Washington Post:
In eastern Ukraine, Russian military razing towns to take them over
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The Atlantic, Common Dreams and New York Post
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
The White House is freaked out that Putin's next big win could be in Paris — The White House has begun to harbor fears that Vladimir Putin could soon notch his biggest victory of Russia's invasion of Ukraine — in Paris. — There is growing concern within President Joe Biden's administration …
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Washington Examiner, Politico and FiveThirtyEight, more at Mediagazer »
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Putin's Trojan horse inside the west — If Russia cannot dominate on the battlefield, its next best hope is for dramatic new evidence of western decay — This article is an on-site version of our Swamp Notes newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Monday and Friday
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NDTV, THE JACKAL and The Guardian
Elena Schneider / Politico:
‘If we do this right ...’: The new Dem organizing strategy catching fire ahead of the midterms — A group of Democratic strategists is trying to spread a novel organizing tactic in this year's election. Technically, it's called “paid relational organizing,” but it boils down to this …
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National Review and Truth and Consequences
Trish Bendix / New York Times:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls the Police on Jimmy Kimmel — Kimmel said of Greene's angry tweets about a joke he made earlier this week: “She's a snowflake and a sociopath — a ‘snowciopath.’” … Marjorie Is the New Karen — Jimmy Kimmel struck a nerve with Marjorie Taylor Greene this week …
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POLITICUSUSA, Townhall, Raw Story, YouTube, Mediaite and The Daily Beast
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Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
The Veteran Who Launched A Multimillion-Dollar Effort To Build A Border Wall Has Agreed To Plead Guilty To Fraud Charges — Brian Kolfage, an Iraq War veteran who launched a multimillion-dollar crowdfunding effort to build a private border wall, has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol attack investigators zero in on far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys — Panel appears to believe militias coordinated to physically stop certification of Joe Biden's election victory on 6 January last year — The House select committee investigating January 6 appears to believe …
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Washington Examiner, Work from home for justice and Raw Story
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Preparing to Investigate How Classified Material Went to Trump's Home — Federal authorities want to know more about how sensitive national security information came to be in 15 boxes of documents and mementos sent to Mar-a-Lago from the White House. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Daily Kos, The Status Kuo, Raw Story, Insider, NBC News, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Vanity Fair, RedState, New York Post and Washington Post
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Peter Thiel calls Warren Buffett a ‘sociopathic grandpa from Omaha’ and bitcoin's ‘enemy No. 1’ — At a bitcoin conference in Miami, venture investor Peter Thiel presented a slideshow that included criticisms of financial opinion leaders who he says are trying to stop the cryptocurrency.
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The Hill, Breitbart, BizPac Review, Mediaite, New York Post and MarketWatch
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Compact Mag:
Compact Fake Gay History — From Mariupol to Missouri, in real wars and culture wars, soldiers like to film themselves in battle. Twitter is awash with footage of Ukrainian and Russian troops showing off their tactical prowess and grisly exploits. US culture warriors do likewise.
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Madison Cawthorn's GOP Colleagues Have a New Reason to Hate Him — Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) isn't exactly making friends in Congress these days. His new stance on raising money for the party isn't going to help. — Last year, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) pulled hundreds of thousands …
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Raw Story
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Google's Gmail favors left-wing candidates, sends far more emails from conservatives to spam: study — ‘Percentage of emails marked by Gmail as spam from right-wing candidates grew steadily as election approached,’ researchers wrote — Fox News Flash top headlines for April 8
Sam Adler-Bell / New York Magazine:
Do Democrats Really Want Amazon's Workers to Win? — Seventy-nine years old and slouching toward a devastating midterm rebuke, President Joe Biden rarely appears to be enjoying his job these days. But some of the old spark was there Wednesday, when he addressed a gathering of building-trades unionists …
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The Lever
Morgan Phillips / Daily Mail:
TikTok star briefed by the White House admits he was used as a PAWN when parroting their claims that Putin was to blame for soaring gas prices and the rest of the influencers just stayed on message — The White House held a Zoom briefing for about 30 popular internet figures …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
ACLU helped defeat plan to seize Russian oligarchs' funds for Ukraine … The American Civil Liberties Union helped scuttle a bill this week that would have enabled the Biden administration to liquidate Russian oligarchs' assets and turn the proceeds over to Ukraine.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
GOP ‘built on fraud, fear and fascism’? If the jackboot fits... There were even more vermin than usual in Washington this week. A rabid fox at the Capitol bit at least nine people, including Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.). And Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison attacked Sen. Tom Cotton …
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
TX-34 Special Election Gives GOP an Early South Texas Gift — Blue Dog Democrat Filemon Vela (TX-34) did his party no favors when he announced he would leave Congress early on March 31 to join the lobbying firm Akin Gump. Now, GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has used his authority to call an “emergency” …
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The Daily Caller
Steve Contorno / CNN:
DeSantis tops $100 million for Florida reelection race — and sends signal to 2024 Republican field — Ron DeSantis is thinking about running against other GOP candidates 01:53 — (CNN)Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has raised more than $100 million for his reelection effort …
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The Hill
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Ex-RNC staffer gets more than 12 years in prison in child porn case — A former GOP staffer and Republican National Committee aide who admitted to being part of a ring that traded child pornography involving babies was sentenced Thursday to more than 12-and-a-half years in prison Thursday.
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U.S. Department of Justice, The Hill, Daily Kos, Law & Crime, Right Wing Watch and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Russia's war dead belie its slogan that no one is left behind … Soon after the invasion began, a hashtag war slogan popped up everywhere in Russia: “We don't leave ours behind.” But many were. — In Irpin, on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, two Russian soldiers killed …
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HotAir and The Guardian
Punchbowl News:
4/8/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM. … IN FACT, TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO ORDER IT FROM THEIR LOCAL BOOKSTORES. … “THE EXPERIENCE OF BEGGING FOR SUPPORT WAS WEARING ON HER. .. PELOSI WAS THE ONLY DEMOCRAT IN THE CHAMBER — THE ONLY DEMOCRAT ALIVE — WHO HAD ALREADY SERVED AS SPEAKER …
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Insider, The Intersection and Political Wire
Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
Luxury Yachtmaker to the Oligarchs Checks Up On Who Its Customers Are — Germany's luxury yachtmaker to the oligarchs is making sure it knows who its customers are. — Luerssen, which built two of the three largest superyachts detained by authorities over their links to sanctioned Russian billionaires …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall reveals injuries suffered in Ukraine … Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was badly injured during a March 14 shelling outside Kyiv that killed two of his colleagues, shared his first update about the extent of his injuries in a pair of social media posts on Thursday night.
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Mediaite, Townhall, New York Post, Bloomberg, CBS News, Daily Mail, BizPac Review, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Newsbusters, The Sun, NDTV, Washington Examiner, The Hill, TheBlaze and Deadline
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Hmmm: Federal appeals court upholds vaccine mandate on federal workers — Better late, politically speaking, than never? Joe Biden won a round for his workplace mandates, albeit the narrowest of the bunch. Late yesterday, the normally conservative Fifth Circuit vacated an injunction imposed …
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Washington Examiner, Human Events and The Hill
Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
January 6th, Roe v. Wade as the Known Unknowns for 2022 — When asked in early 2002 to provide evidence that Saddam Hussein tried to supply weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld replied, “There are known knowns — there are things we know we know.
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