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5:25 PM ET, April 18, 2022

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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge  —  (CNN)A federal judge in Florida struck down on Monday the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transport methods.  —  US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the mandate was unlawful …
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Michael Laris / Washington Post:   Federal judge voids mask mandate for airplanes, in other transportation settings
Reuters:
Alex Jones' InfoWars files for bankruptcy in U.S. court  —  Far-right wing website InfoWars on Sunday filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in the face of multiple defamation lawsuits.
Cory Vaillancourt / Smoky Mountain News:
Complaint filed against Cawthorn by fired staffer  —  Saying in a leaked recording that “we all want the ultimate goal of him never serving again,” Lisa Wiggins, a former caseworker and campaign aide to Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-Henderson) has filed an employment-related campaign against the embattled congressman.
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Florida's vile ‘groomer’ law may soon blow up in DeSantis's face  —  One of the more repulsive features of Florida's new law restricting classroom discussion of sex and gender is its vagueness.  This may be a feature, not a bug: It could encourage conservative parents to sniff …
Discussion: Raw Story
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Mike Lee's Role in Trump's Attempted Coup  —  What would have happened if his plan worked?  —  Senator Mike Lee's defenders insist his repeated texts to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows offering his guidance on the proper constitutional process to overturn the 2020 election results prove his honor.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mike Lee has some explaining to do
New York Times:
Trump Allies Are Still Feeding the False 2020 Election Narrative  —  Fifteen months after they tried and failed to overturn the 2020 election, the same group of lawyers and associates is continuing efforts to decertify the vote, feeding a false narrative.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Raw Story
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
Trump attempt at a coup to be a focus of U.S. House hearings, lawmaker Raskin says  —  Then-President Donald Trump attempted a coup on Jan. 6, 2021, and that will be a centerpiece of committee hearings in Congress next month, said Democrat Jamie Raskin, a committee member who led the prosecution of Trump's second impeachment.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:   Former Army colonel sues to block Jan. 6 committee subpoena for phone records
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
In Defense of Tucker Carlson Touting ‘Testicle Tanning’  —  Here's a sentence I did not expect I would ever type: I'm excited about “testicle tanning.”  Or, more specifically, I'm excited about Tucker Carlson getting excited about “testicle tanning.”  —  For the past few days …
Discussion: Althouse
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Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
We Regret to Inform You That Tucker Carlson's New Special Does In Fact Promote ‘Testicle Tanning’
Patricia Murphy / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Marjorie Taylor Greene outraised by Democratic challenger in 2022  —  News and analysis from the politics team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  —  Friday's deadline to report fundraising for the first three months of 2022 has given us more information to sift through in some of Georgia's most contested federal races.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Peltz draws GOP megadonors to $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin  — Billionaire and Wall Street veteran Nelson Peltz hosted a fundraiser for conservative Democrat Joe Manchin at his massive Florida estate last month.  — Peltz hosted Manchin along …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Lethal darts were fired into a Ukrainian neighborhood by the thousands  —  BUCHA, Ukraine — At Svitlana Chmut's house outside Kyiv, there are carrots in her garden and deadly Russian mini-arrows in her yard.  —  A pile of the sharp, finned projectiles rounded up by Chmut are now gathering rust in the spring's fine mist.
Karen Ruiz / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Jr's fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle arrives in DC to be grilled by January 6 committee after abruptly ending her initial interview as panel continues gathering evidence of former president's role in the Capitol uprising  — Kimberly Guilfoyle arrived for her deposition …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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CNN:
Kimberly Guilfoyle meets with January 6 committee
Discussion: Washington Times
Gizmodo:
We're Publishing the Facebook Papers.  Here's What They Say About Donald Trump, the 2020 Election, and Jan. 6.  —  Gizmodo has reviewed, redacted, and published more than two dozen leaked Facebook documents, the first of hundreds to come.  —  Alerts  —  In the hours following the Jan. 6 attack …
Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
After a valiant 53-day defense compared to the Alamo and Stalingrad, Mariupol appears about to fall  —  MARIUPOL'S LAST STAND: Low on food and ammo, Mariupol's last defenders are surrounded and confined to a small area of the city in and around the Azovstal iron and steelworks …
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Democrats are now fighting over how Biden's agenda imploded  —  We recently looked at a few articles from the Associated Press that took an uncharacteristically critical view of some of the Biden administration's recent misadventures.  I wondered at the time if the mainstream media was beginning …
Discussion: NBC News
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Politico:   Biden's been consumed by Ukraine. His team wants to bring the focus back home.
Sarah Longwell / The Atlantic:
Trump Supporters Explain Why They Believe the Big Lie  —  Some 35 percent of Americans—including 68 percent of Republicans—believe the Big Lie, pushed relentlessly by former President Donald Trump and amplified by conservative media, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Jon Stewart's new show on AppleTV+ is reportedly a flop  —  Jon Stewart is struggling to gain traction on his new talk show, according to a report.  —  “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” which launched on AppleTV+ in September, appears to be a flop, as it trails far behind its competitors …
Elizabeth Warren / New York Times:
Democrats Can Avoid Disaster in November  —  Ms. Warren is a U.S. senator from Massachusetts  —  Democrats are the party of working people.  Ahead of the 2020 election, we advanced ideas and plans that we believed would, in ways big and small, make our democracy and our economy work better for all Americans.
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pa. Senate candidate David McCormick made a whopping $22.5 million last year  —  In his TV ads, Republican Senate candidate David McCormick portrays himself as a red-blooded Pennsylvanian who hunts, bales hay, and drinks pints with his old buddies at wood-paneled bars.But a new financial …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens  —  The inside story of the world's most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.  —  NSO Group's software has been linked to repressive regimes, but now “all types of governments” use it, an observer said.
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Trump Jr. to campaign with J.D. Vance in Ohio following father's endorsement  —  CLEVELAND — Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance — fresh off an endorsement from Donald Trump — is scheduled to campaign this week with the former president's namesake son.  —  Donald Trump Jr. will headline …
Discussion: The Hill, YouTube, Breitbart, Fox News and CNN
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
Redistricting Scorecard: A Partisan Wash, With Far Fewer Competitive Districts  —  In February, Democrats were on pace to come out modestly ahead in redistricting, defying initial expectations.  But in the final stretch, the plot has twisted once again: Ohio's GOP ran out the clock …
Kathryn Joyce / Salon:
Think Capitol rioters were “ordinary people”?  New research connects many to far-right groups  —  On the one-year anniversary of Jan. 6, conservatives held more than two dozen “Justice for J6” vigils across the country, arguing that most of those arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol …
 
 
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Ayana Archie / NPR:
Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race theory appeared in some
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Beto flips and flops on elimination of Title 42 in election year politics
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Twitter Has a Poison Pill Now
Jules Gill-Peterson / them.:
Anti-Trans Laws Aren't Symbolic. They Seek to Erase Us From Public Life
Punchbowl News:
4/18/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM.
Discussion: Breitbart
 Earlier Items: 
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
City Won't Pay $6 Million Awarded to Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for Decades
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Twelve lessons from the book banners
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
War on the Rocks:
Eight New Points on the Porcupine: More Ukrainian Lessons for Taiwan
Discussion: The spying game and Lawfare
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
John Fetterman has a huge cash advantage for the homestretch of the Pa. Senate primary
Humberto Sanchez / The Nevada Independent:
Poll: Cortez Masto leads Laxalt for Nevada Senate; ominous signs over Biden approval
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Hill
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The End of Presidential Debates
Andrew M. Cuomo / New York Daily News:
There's a better way forward for New York State
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

 
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