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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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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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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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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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USA Today:
'We've made it. All of us': Ketanji Brown Jackson celebrates historic Supreme Court confirmation
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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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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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Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Member of Proud Boys leadership pleads guilty to US Capitol attack charges
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Robert Legare / CBS News:
Proud Boys conspirator reaches plea deal in Jan. 6 case
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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.
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Robert Muller / Reuters:
Slovakia sends its air defence system to Ukraine
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Eric Yoder / Washington Post:
White House tells agencies to delay vaccine mandate after court win — The White House told federal agencies Thursday to hold off on reinstating a coronavirus vaccination mandate for millions of employees, hours after an appeals court rejected an earlier injunction that had blocked the executive order.
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Hmmm: Federal appeals court upholds vaccine mandate on federal workers
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Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
Cancel Your Disney Vacation And Go To Dollywood Instead — Dollywood turned out to be the perfect family getaway, with fresh, clean fun for every age and need. — Our family ended up at Dollywood recently by happenstance. We were visiting family in Tennessee.
Detroit Free Press:
2 Whitmer kidnap plot suspects found not guilty; mistrial declared for other two — The historic Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot case has ended with no convictions. — Defendant Daniel Harris, - the only one who testified at trial - was acquitted on all four counts, with the judge telling …
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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 …
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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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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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.
CNN:
Actor Will Smith banned from attending Oscars for 10 years — (CNN)Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
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The Economist:
Finland is hurtling towards NATO membership — The NATO-Russia border would double at a stroke — EVEN AS RUSSIAN troops were massing on Ukraine's borders in January, Sanna Marin, Finland's prime minister, insisted that it was “very unlikely” her country would join NATO during her time in office.
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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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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
Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
On Steve Bannon podcast, Michael Gableman appeals to Trump supporters for help keeping the doors open on his Wisconsin election review — MADISON - The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice overseeing a taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election for Assembly Republicans is warning supporters …
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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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 …
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 …
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
Politico:
The Supreme Court question Republicans won't answer — They could have a Senate majority in 2023. But they won't say, definitively, how they would treat another Joe Biden Supreme Court nominee. — Don't ask Chuck Grassley how he'd handle another Supreme Court nomination from President Joe Biden.
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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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