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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Mark Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three states  —  “I don't want my vote or anyone else's to be disenfranchised. ...  Do you realize how inaccurate the voter rolls are, with people just moving around? ...  Anytime you move, you'll change your driver's license …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Nick Papantonis / WFTV:
End of Reedy Creek: Disney won't pay more taxes, but you will  —  ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — One of the biggest myths circulating on the internet is that the end of Reedy Creek will finally force Disney to pay its fair share of taxes, boosting the economies of Florida and the counties its resorts are located in.
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Robert Frank / CNBC:
Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked  — The Florida legislature on Thursday cleared a bill that would dissolve Disney's special improvement district, effective June 2023.  — If the special district is eliminated …
Politico:
Biden White House stands behind Title 42 decision amid party revolt  —  Facing a growing rebellion from within the Democratic Party, the White House is standing behind its decision to end on May 23 a Trump-era deportation policy for migrants encountered at the southern border.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: DHS chief concerned about lifting Title 42  —  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has privately told members of Congress he's concerned with the Biden administration's handling of its plans to lift Title 42 on May 23, sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Is Kevin McCarthy toast?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  For years now, through controversy after controversy, House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY has bent over backward to stay in former President DONALD TRUMP's good graces, all to serve one major purpose: He wants to be speaker someday.
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Rachel Maddow / MSNBC:
Audio contradicts McCarthy's denial that he said he would recommend that Trump resign  —  Rachel Maddow shares audio of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy saying that he would call Donald Trump and recommend that he resign in the wake of the January 6th attacks and with a second impeachment looming …
Foreign Affairs:
Ukraine Can Win … Over the past weeks, Moscow's war on Ukraine has taken a turn.  After failing to seize Kyiv, Russian forces pulled back to Belarus and Russia, leaving behind a trail of civilian casualties, and regrouped in Ukraine's east with the aim of making additional gains in the Donbas.
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
‘We Build the Wall’ leaders who worked with Bannon plead guilty to fraud  —  “We Build the Wall” campaign crowd-funders Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato pleaded guilty Thursday for their roles in pocketing donations solicited to help build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Discussion: Justice News and Raw Story
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New York Times:
A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected  —  The state rejected dozens of math textbooks.  The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  After the Florida Department of Education rejected dozens of math textbooks last week, the big question was, Why?
Matt Seyler / ABC News:
The battle for Donbas: Why the weapons the US is rushing to Ukraine are so critical  —  Russia hopes to surround and destroy Ukrainian forces in Donbas, officials say.  —  As Russia's military gears up for what it hopes will be a decisive victory over Ukraine in the eastern part of the country …
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Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
Five battalions worth of American howitzers heading to eastern front of Ukraine
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 committee's bombshells hiding in plain sight  —  REVERSE TO HEAD FORWARD — If you're looking ahead with tremulous anticipation for the new, shocking, final reveal of the Jan. 6 select committee investigation, you may be facing the wrong way.  —  Shoes have already been dropping …
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:   Iowa GOP open to non-Trump prospects as 2024 gets underway
William Saletan / The Bulwark:
Sham Elections and Shameless Lies  —  The crowd that casts doubt on American votes but loves Russian referenda.  —  Every day, we learn more about politicians who conspired to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election.  Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Russia is planning phony referenda to fabricate a mandate for its occupation.
Virginia Hume / The Dispatch:
Our Failed COVID Response  —  If, God forbid, we face another pandemic, we cannot use our COVID strategy as the baseline.  —  A February headline in the Washington Post read, “Mask Mandates didn't make much difference anyway.”  A month later, the New York Times gave us this: “Do Covid restrictions work?
David Ovalle / Miami Herald:
More: Broward family accused of kidnapping, beating gay man so badly he was left blinded  —  Deputies found the severely injured man because they'd been called to the apartment complex for an unrelated call.  —  The Makarenkos' defense lawyer, Michael Glasser, did not immediately return a request for comment.
Washington Post:
Obama says tech companies have made democracy more vulnerable  —  ‘People are dying’ from misinformation, the former president said in a speech at Stanford University  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — Former president Barack Obama issued a stark call on Thursday for technology companies to “redesign” …
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Casey Newton / Platformer:   Obama rallies against disinformation
Aria Bendix / NBC News:
In a first, firearms were leading cause of death for U.S. children and teens in 2020  —  Guns became the leading cause of death among children and teens in 2020, killing more people ages 1 to 19 in the U.S. than vehicle crashes, drugs overdoses or cancer.  —  More than 4,300 died …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Has a Presentation Problem  —  Voters would be grateful if he stopped talking down to them and learned to be straightforward.  —  1x  —  I want to talk about Joe Biden and his unique problems presenting his presidency.  You're aware of his political position and the polls.
CBS News:
Hostilities between two far-right leaders emerge as a line of inquiry for Jan. 6 committee  —  For months, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol has been probing coordination between far-right groups, and another trove of text messages released …
Discussion: NBC News, ABC News and Raw Story
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
FBI says Proud Boy tried to derail Jan. 6 investigating by menacing agent
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
N.Y. House Districts Illegally Favor Democrats, Appeals Court Rules  —  A divided five-judge panel found that Democrats engaged in gerrymandering in creating new district maps.  The case is expected to head to New York's highest court.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: The Hill, Articles Archive and TheBlaze
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Bill Mahoney / Politico:
New York's congressional maps were improperly gerrymandered, mid-level court concludes
Discussion: National Review
The Daily Beast:
The MAGA Goon Squad Dug Themselves a Deep Hole After Jan. 6  —  The loudmouths who were raking it in after the attempted insurrection seem desperate for some new outrage as they're now spending more money than they're taking in.  —  In another jam-packed week of GOP fuckery …
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
‘You only win if you fight’: Will Gallego unseat Sinema?  —  On this week's episode of Playbook Deep Dive, co-author Ryan Lizza chats with Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego, a Marine veteran and rumored primary challenger to Senator Kyrsten Sinema in 2024.  Gallego has an unsparing …
Discussion: Insider
 
 
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Democrats, You Can't Ignore the Culture Wars Any Longer
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Jennifer De Pinto / CBS News:
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
The only plausible path to keep the pressure on Russia
Wall Street Journal:
Shanghai's Covid Lockdown Leads to Logistics Disarray, With Quarantined Truckers, Piled-Up Containers
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Lower-income Americans have thrived under Biden. It probably won't last
Robert Moran / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Philadelphia will end indoor mask mandate again, days after it was reinstated
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New York Times:
How a Crime-Fighting Institution Took a Partisan Turn
Discussion: Raw Story and The Marshall Project
Dan Parsons / The Drive:
Mysterious ‘Phoenix Ghost’ Suicide Drones Headed To Ukraine
Discussion: Gizmodo, news reporter and Defense One
Nick Hanauer / TIME:
America Gave Up on Overtime—and It's Costing Workers $35,451 a Year
Devin Gordon / The Atlantic:
What Happened to Jon Stewart?
Discussion: Breitbart