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4:05 PM ET, April 15, 2022

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CNN:
CNN Exclusive: 'We need ammo.  We need fraud examples.  We need it this weekend.' What the Meadows texts reveal about how two Trump congressional allies lobbied the White House to overturn the election.  —  The texts, which have not been previously reported, were sent by Republican Sen. Mike Lee …
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CNN:
READ: Mark Meadows' texts with Mike Lee and Chip Roy  —  (CNN)CNN has obtained text messages of separate conversations that then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had with Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas after the 2020 presidential election and through early January 2021.
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
‘Please tell me what I should be saying.’ Text messages show Sen. Mike Lee assisting Trump efforts to overturn 2020 election  —  Newly released text messages show Lee knew of scheme to send alternate electors to Congress nearly a month earlier than he claimed.
Discussion: Insider, Washington Post and Raw Story
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk's $43 billion bid to buy company  — Twitter adopted a limited duration shareholder rights plan, often called a “poison pill,” a day after billionaire Elon Musk offered to buy the company for $43 billion, the company announced Friday.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation  —  from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept  —  Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.  This was always a possibility, and one that we discussed before in looking …
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Sure Elon Musk Might Buy Twitter  —  Oh Elon  —  Well that was weird.  On Tuesday I wrote a column saying it was unlikely that Elon Musk will buy Twitter Inc. On Wednesday I left on a family vacation.  On Thursday, for my sins, Elon Musk announced an offer to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash.
PR Newswire:
Twitter Adopts Limited Duration Shareholder Rights Plan, Enabling All Shareholders to Realize Full Value of Company
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Liberation Without Victory  —  Kyiv is halfway normal now.  Burnt-out Russian tanks have been removed from the roads leading into the city, traffic lights work, the subway runs, oranges are available for purchase.  A cheerful balalaika orchestra was performing for returning refugees …
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Exclusive: Zelensky says world should be prepared for possibility Putin could use nuclear weapons  —  You can see more of the interview on ‘The Lead’ at 4pm ET and the full interview will run on Sunday at 9am ET on ‘State of the Union’  —  (CNN)Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN Friday that …
Discussion: Insider, The Hill and New York Post
New York Times:
Don't Just Freeze Russia's Money. Seize It.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the mothers … Ukrainian officials have run more than 8,600 facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russian soldiers in the 50 days since Moscow's invasion began, using the scans to identify bodies and contact hundreds …
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CNN:
Russia formally protests US weapons shipments to Ukraine
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Russia warns U.S. to stop arming Ukraine
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
An author was set to read his unicorn book to students.  The school forbade it.  —  Jason Tharp wants to write books for weird kids — because he was one.  —  Growing up in Ohio, the 45-year-old children's author, illustrator and inspirational speaker sometimes felt invisible.
Tess Owen / VICE:
A High-Ranking Proud Boy Is Now Snitching for the Feds  —  A Proud Boy chapter leader has flipped for the U.S. government, and that's trouble for dozens of members facing charges over the Jan. 6 insurrection.  —  TO  —  Federal prosecutors appear to have made their biggest breakthrough yet …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
U.S. Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer will appear on primary ballot, Iowa Supreme Court rules … U.S. Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer will appear on the June Democratic primary ballot, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday, reversing a district court decision that found Finkenauer failed to qualify.
Discussion: CBS News and NBC News
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David Pitt / Associated Press:
Iowa Supreme Court: Finkenauer qualifies for Senate ballot
Discussion: CNN and Des Moines Register
Randy Krehbiel / Tulsa World:
Scott Pruitt, former Oklahoma AG, files for U.S. Senate seat  —  Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is running for U.S. Senate.  —  Also the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency appointed by Donald Trump, Pruitt has filed to campaign for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Jim Inhofe.
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: You'll Never Believe The Journo Who Just Filed To Run for Congress  —  Intrepid journalist, vegan Zoomer to take on liberal multimillionaire David Trone  —  Former Washington Free Beacon journalist Matthew Foldi filed to run for Congress on Friday morning in western Maryland, the Free Beacon has learned.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Vladimir Kara-Murza / Washington Post:
Vladimir Kara-Murza from jail: Russia will be free.  I've never been so sure.  —  Editor's note: On Monday, Russian human rights activist and Post contributing columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza gave an interview in Moscow to CNN in which he harshly criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
New York Daily News:
Amid NYPD manhunt, subway shooting suspect Frank James ate lunch at Katz's Deli, walked NYC in plain view of surveillance cameras  —  As the NYPD and federal law enforcement scoured the city for the accused Brooklyn subway shooter on Wednesday, the burly suspect enjoyed some of Manhattan's culinary delights.
Politico:
Biden picks Barr as Fed bank czar  —  Editor's Note: Morning Money is a free version of POLITICO Pro Financial Services morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 5:15 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day's biggest stories.
Kyle Hooten / Alpha News:
EXCLUSIVE: New details emerge from DFL's Farmfest rollover  —  Two high-ranking Democrats were involved in a rollover crash last summer.  A “cold” and “pretty full” White Claw was found in the car, according to police reports, and the chair of their party was quickly called to the scene.
Discussion: American Experiment and Power Line
Derek Brouwer / News + Opinion, Seven Days:
Wilder Man Charged After Pipe Bombs, ‘White Power’ Rifle Discovered  — A gun found at Hillard's residence  —  A man charged with making pipe bombs in his mother's house in Wilder owned Nazi paraphernalia and spoke about killing Black people and Democrats, federal prosecutors allege.
ABC News:
Gov. Abbott sends 2nd bus of migrants to Washington DC to protest end of Title 42  —  The Biden administration will lift Title 42 restrictions in May.  —  A second group of asylum seekers arrived in Washington, D.C., Thursday on a charter bus after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed …
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CNN:
JD Vance said in 2016 the Republican Party's three-decade strategy was antagonizing Black voters  —  Campaigning for the Senate in Ohio in recent weeks, J.D. Vance has ridiculed claims that advocates of a border-wall were “racist.”  But in multiple appearances in 2016, he made a similar argument …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and IJR
Virginia Bridges / Raleigh News & Observer:
‘It is offensive’  —  One of Howard's attorneys, Brad Bannon, contends the facts of the case were available to the city from the beginning.  —  When the city decided to represent Dowdy, Bannon said, it agreed to defend his conduct.  —  “They go through that whole process.  They pay all of that money.
Discussion: Raw Story
Trafalgar Group:
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Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and NBC News
Zijia Song / Bloomberg:
Produce Worth Millions Gets Stuck in Blockade by Mexico Truckers  —  Grocery stores in some parts of the U.S. are expected to start running out of certain perishable goods as soon as this weekend because of a Mexican truckers' blockade that has stranded millions of dollars worth of fresh produce.
 
 
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Jen Psaki Says Peter Doocy Might ‘Sound Like A Stupid Son of a Bitch’ Because of the Questions Fox News ‘Provides’
David Harrison / Wall Street Journal:
Odds of Getting Laid Off Are at Historic Lows in Tightest Labor Market in 50 Years
Margot Roosevelt / Los Angeles Times:
‘Unified and militant’: Grocery workers get double-digit pay raises in new contract
Abdi Latif Dahir / New York Times:
Tanzania's First Female President Wants to Bring Her Nation in From the Cold
Nick Grube / Honolulu Civil Beat:
Documents Show US Rep. Kai Kahele Has A Special Deal With Hawaiian Airlines
Cecilia Nowell / Mother Jones:
The Long, Scary History of Doctors Reporting Pregnant People to the Cops
Discussion: The Editorial Board
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San Francisco Chronicle:
If Feinstein is mentally unfit, Democrats need to tell her openly. And she should resign
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's pollster: 2022 is ‘worst political environment’ of my lifetime
Discussion: Insider and Breitbart
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The debate dividing the January 6 committee
Discussion: VICE, Raw Story and USA Today
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
A Shooter Puts Critical Race Theory into Practice
Politico:
McCarthy losing House GOP dealmakers as he eyes speakership
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Inside the Campaign Against “Putin's Pope”
Discussion: A Public Witness and The Bulwark
Adam Murphy / WGCL-TV:
GOP Primary poll reveals front runners in Georgia
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

 
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