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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
‘What the hell was he thinking?’  Pennsylvania conservatives react to Trump's support of OZ  —  RICHLAND, Pa. — Chairwoman Jackie Kulback has a very detailed list of criteria that her county party she chairs — the Cambria County Republican Committee — requires to endorse candidates in next month's U.S. Senate primary contest.
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Backlash Over Trump's Dr. Oz Endorsement Shows His Hold on the GOP Is Slipping  —  MAGA-world's disappointment in their Dear Leader could mean they're getting ready to move on. … Donald Trump's recent endorsement of Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Republican primary race for U.S. Senate …
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Tide turns for Trump favorite in key Senate race
Discussion: Raw Story
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Why American Teens Are So Sad  —  Sign up for Derek's newsletter here.  —  The United States is experiencing an extreme teenage mental-health crisis.  From 2009 to 2021, the share of American high-school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” …
Nick Grube / Honolulu Civil Beat:
Has US Rep. Kai Kahele Given Up On Washington?  —  WASHINGTON — When Kai Kahele announced he was running for Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District in 2019, he vowed one thing to his future constituents — that he'd show up and do the job.  —  It was a stark contrast to the person who was sitting in the seat at the time.
Corinna Cohn / Washington Post:
What I wish I'd known when I was 19 and had sex reassignment surgery  —  Corinna Cohn, a software developer in Indianapolis, is an officer in the Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network.  —  When I was 19, I had surgery for sex reassignment, or what is now called gender affirmation surgery.
Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
Karen Bass and Rick Caruso in dead heat, L.A. mayoral poll finds  —  Voters upset over crime and a seemingly limitless geyser of cash have propelled Rick Caruso to the front of the race for mayor, reshaping the contest and offering Los Angeles a stark contrast between the billionaire developer and his chief rival, Rep. Karen Bass.
Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
Abby Finkenauer can't appear on Democratic primary ballot, Iowa judge rules … U.S. Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer cannot appear on Iowa's June 7 Democratic primary ballot, a judge ruled Sunday.  —  The late night ruling, which reverses a state panel's decision, is a major setback for Finkenauer …
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New York Times:
Twitter Grapples With an Elon Musk Problem  —  Mr. Musk, Twitter's biggest shareholder, is free to buy more stock in the company and could use the platform against itself.  Some employees are dismayed.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Bright and early on Monday …
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Thomas Franck / CNBC:
White House says it expects inflation to be ‘extraordinarily elevated’ in new report  — The Biden administration is bracing for the Labor Department's consumer price index report to show that inflation is “extraordinarily elevated.”  — The consumer price index, or CPI, is one of Wall Street's favorite ways to measure inflation.
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Neil Irwin / Axios:
Get ready for a nasty inflation report
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Trump and Ukraine: Former Advisers Revisit What Happened  —  Amid the current crisis, Fiona Hill and other former advisers are connecting President Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine to Jan. 6.  And they're ready to talk.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
David French / The Atlantic:
Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee  —  Sign up for David's newsletter, The Third Rail, here.  —  The American right has lost the plot on free speech.  The passage of Florida's House Bill 1557, which bans “classroom instruction” on “sexual orientation and gender identity” …
Ana Ceballos / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida Legislature won't draft new redistricting map, deferring to DeSantis  —  The Florida House and Senate released a joint memorandum saying they are waiting for the governor's office to provide a congressional map that DeSantis will support.  —  Updated Just now
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
DC'S super-elite superspreader event  —  DC'S SUPER-ELITE SUPERSPREADER EVENT.  You may remember that during the first months of the COVID pandemic, which coincided with the 2020 presidential campaign, many news accounts sought to characterize then-President Donald Trump's rallies as superspreader events.
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ABC News:
Former Trump lawyer, amid clash with Jan. 6 committee, pushing to decertify 2020 election  —  Trump has been watching the decertification push closely  —  Just as he was emerging as a top target of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack, former Trump lawyer John Eastman took a trip to Wisconsin.
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Stung by redistricting rulings, Republicans target state court elections  —  Republicans are vowing to spend record amounts in key state supreme court races this fall, seeking to take advantage of a favorable national political environment to elect conservative judges at the state level amid deep political divisions.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Where will abortion still be legal after Roe v. Wade is overruled?
Discussion: BreakPoint
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia Airs Its Ultimate ‘Revenge Plan’ for America  —  Battered and infuriated by sanctions over the war in Ukraine, Putin's henchmen are plotting their master plan for revenge on live television.  —  As Russia's war of aggression continues to ravage its neighbor, the Kremlin's propaganda apparatus …
Discussion: CNN, UPROXX, Raw Story and Mediaite
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
I Commanded U.S. Army Europe.  Here's What I Saw in the Russian and Ukrainian Armies.  —  The two armies at war today couldn't be more different.  —  In March 2011, I began a new posting as the Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, in command of all U.S. Army forces stationed in various countries throughout Europe.
New York Times:
As Remote Work Becomes Permanent, Can Manhattan Adapt?  —  With more companies adopting hybrid work, New York City's economy, which relies on commuters and full office buildings, faces an uncertain future.  —  PwC, a global consulting firm with its American headquarters in New York City …
Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
The Lerner family will explore selling the Washington Nationals  —  The family of real estate magnate Ted Lerner, which 16 years ago purchased the Washington Nationals from Major League Baseball and oversaw a rebuilding process that eventually resulted in a World Series championship …
New York Times:
Bucha's Month of Terror  —  ‘They shot my son.  I was next to him.  It would be better if it had been me.’  —  As the Russian advance on Kyiv stalled, a campaign of terror and revenge against civilians nearby in Bucha began, survivors and investigators say.  —  Russian soldiers set up in this school.
Simon Bazelon / Slow Boring:
Democrats are sleepwalking into a Senate disaster  —  Business as usual will produce a huge GOP majority … Traditionally, the President's party averages roughly 47.5% of the two-party vote 1 in midterms.  Right now, in FiveThirtyEight's average of public polls, Democrats are polling at 48.7%.
NBC News:
Former cop who stormed Capitol guilty on all six counts in second Jan. 6 jury trial  —  WASHINGTON — A former police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was found guilty on all six charges at trial in a verdict reached Monday.  —  Thomas Robertson, who was an officer in Rocky Mount …
Politico:
The new White House rule: Do not talk about Joe Manchin  —  The fate of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda may hinge on his administration's ability to do one simple thing: Shut up.  —  Four months after Biden's Build Back Better plan collapsed amid a bitter back-and-forth with Sen. Joe Manchin …
Matt Katz / Gothamist:
Anti-Semitic incidents are surging in post-pandemic NYC  —  After a pandemic lull, anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City are at historic highs.  —  The NYPD says there were 86 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city in the first three months of this year.  At this rate, annual totals …
Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
Black Lives' Matters needs to get its (real expensive) house in order  —  Ever since Black Lives Matter became a rallying cry in 2014, Black people knew that the movement could not afford to slip up.  Eight years and more than $90 million in donations later, BLM's national leadership has made a $6 million stumble.
The Guardian:
‘They took our clothes’: Ukrainians returning to looted homes  —  Reports of rampant theft by Russian soldiers supported by release of video and audio recordings  —  Shaun Walker in Novyi Bykiv and Andrew Roth  —  hen Russian soldiers left the village of Novyi Bykiv after a month of occupation …
Stephen Caruso / Pennsylvania Capital-Star:
Pennsylvania labor federation requests investigation into workplace harassment allegations  —  The state AFL-CIO's newly elected president was accused on social media of verbally abusing female staff  —  An internal investigation into the Pennsylvania American Federation of Labor is set …
Discussion: Payday Report
 
 
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Andrei Soldatov / The Moscow Times:
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Paul Blest / VICE:
Starbucks Just Fired a Union Organizer for Allegedly Breaking a Sink
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Jonathan Haidt / The Atlantic:
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Wall Street Journal:
Moscow's Central Banker Dismantles What She Built
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Biden finalizes restrictions on ‘ghost guns,’ names new ATF nominee
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
The January 6 Committee Prepares to Go Public
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New York Times:
China's Echoes of Russia's Alternate Reality Intensify Around the World
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Bruce Japsen / Forbes:
New York Latest To Lift Hurdle To Nurse Practitioners During Pandemic
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Malinowski has colossal $1 million first-quarter fundraising haul
Jessica Kisluk / WMUR:
Sen. Hassan calls on Biden administration to provide more resources at southern border
Discussion: Politico
Stephen Fowler / Georgia Public Broadcasting:
Ethics experts say Herschel Walker's U.S. Senate financial disclosure bears further scrutiny
Discussion: Mediaite
Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Distraught over orders to investigate trans kids' families, Texas child welfare workers are resigning
Discussion: Substack