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J. Michael Luttig / CNN:
The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election  —  Ex-Judge who played key role in Trump-Pence feud speaks out for first time  —  J. Michael Luttig, appointed by President George H. W. Bush, formerly served on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years.
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John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
J6 and the three rings of sedition
Discussion: UPI
New York Times:
McCarthy Feared G.O.P. Lawmakers Put ‘People in Jeopardy’ After Jan. 6  —  New audio recordings reveal Kevin McCarthy worried that comments by his far-right colleagues could incite violence.  He said he would try to rein in the lawmakers, but has instead defended them.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Fauci pulls out of WHCD.  Is Biden next?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Late Tuesday night, CNN's Oliver Darcy and Kaitlan Collins scooped that ANTHONY FAUCI is dropping out of this weekend's White House Correspondents' Association dinner over concerns about Covid-19.
Discussion: Twitchy and The Hill
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Before Washington's ‘Nerd Prom,’ Lots of Risk-Benefit Calculation
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Meadows' texts reveal new details about the key role a little-known GOP congressman played in efforts to overturn election
CNN:
LA Sheriff targets LA Times
Discussion: Mediaite and Los Angeles Times
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk news were ‘organic’  —  How Elon Musk's Twitter takeover could change the platform  —  Twitter was flooded with user reports of high-profile accounts losing thousands of followers in the hours after news broke that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would purchase …
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Elon Musk boosts criticism of Twitter executives, prompting online attacks  —  The targeting of employees by Musk's massive Twitter megaphone is a major concern for workers  —  Elon Musk on Tuesday used his powerful Twitter account to bolster right-wing users who sharply criticized two company executives …
Politico:
Twitter's top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover
Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
Disney tells investors state can't dissolve special district without paying debt  —  As Florida legislators were rushing through passage of a bill to repeal the special district that governs Walt Disney World last week, they failed to notice an obscure provision in state law that says the state …
Associated Press:
Russia releases US Marine vet as part of prisoner exchange  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America …
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Return of Trevor Reed  —  Today, we welcome home Trevor Reed and celebrate his return to the family that missed him dearly.  Trevor, a former U.S. Marine, is free from Russian detention.  I heard in the voices of Trevor's parents how much they've worried …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Opinion Does the exit ramp look more attractive to Putin now?  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin protested to Kremlin visitors Monday that his adversaries were trying to “win on the battlefield” and “destroy Russia from within.”  For once, he wasn't just being paranoid.
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Washington Post:
Russia cuts off gas to Poland, Bulgaria, stoking tensions with E.U. over Ukraine  —  Russia's state-controlled gas company, Gazprom, said Wednesday it had shut off the supply of natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria, a move that marks a significant escalation in the economic tension between Moscow and the West over the war in Ukraine.
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
In UK and US military support for Ukraine, a divergent tolerance for risk
Discussion: Washington Post
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
House GOP standing by their man  —  With help from from Mariane LeVine and Andrew Desiderio  —  TAPES ROLL, HEADS...WON'T — Alarm bells are not ringing among House Republicans as a drip, drip, drip of recorded phone calls get released featuring Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's consternation following Jan. 6.
Discussion: Big League Politics and Raw Story
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WSOC-TV:
Sources: Rep. Madison Cawthorn cited for having a gun at Charlotte Douglas
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Madison Cawthorn Is Trying to Commit Every Possible Scandal
Discussion: The Morning Missive
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Michigan Republican resigns from GOP committee citing ‘delusional lies’  —  Lansing — Tony Daunt, a longtime Michigan Republican insider, resigned Tuesday night from the GOP's state committee, saying party leaders had made the coming election a test of “who is most cravenly loyal” to former President Donald Trump.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Political Wire
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Los Angeles Times:
Villanueva backs off investigation of Times reporter who revealed cover-up  —  Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday that his department was targeting a Times journalist in a criminal leak investigation for her reporting on a departmental cover-up, but after a barrage …
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Los Angeles Times:
L.A. Times protests sheriff's criminal leak investigation against reporter
Discussion: Deadline
Greg Myre / NPR:
How does Ukraine keep intercepting Russian military communications?  —  Russia is regarded as one of the world's most advanced countries when it comes to anything and everything related to spying, and that includes secretive, high-tech military communications.
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NBC News:
U.S. intel helped Ukraine protect air defenses, shoot down Russian plane carrying hundreds of troops
Kara Scannell / CNN:
NY attorney general's office says it's nearly done unraveling Trump's ‘Russian nesting doll’  —  New York (CNN)Lawyers for the New York State Attorney General's Office said they are nearly finished with their civil investigation into the Trump Organization, after taking steps to unravel …
Discussion: Raw Story and Reuters
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Admits He Oversaw Pay for Executive Who Got Fishy Perks
Discussion: Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Ohio Senate Race Pits Trump and Son Against Big G.O.P. Group  —  The Club for Growth has lined up behind Josh Mandel.  Donald J. Trump and his eldest son, Donald Jr., are backing J.D. Vance.  Tuesday's outcome will be a crucial test of the former president's sway.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Mediaite and Opinion Today
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Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
United States is ‘out of the pandemic phase,’ Fauci says  —  The United States is finally “out of the pandemic phase,” the country's top infectious-disease expert said Tuesday, as cases and hospitalizations are notably down and mask mandates are all but gone.
Discussion: Boston.com and Balloon Juice
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Twitter Admits It Hid Tweets About HBO's QAnon Docuseries  —  Twitter told the director of “Q: Into the Storm” it had “made the decision not to allow promotion of this documentary” when he tried to advertise the film.  —  Alerts  —  For the past year, Twitter has censored tweets …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Warren tries to ‘light the fire of urgency’ for Democrats  —  As Elizabeth Warren surveys the landscape for her party, she does not like what she sees.  —  “We've got nearly 200 days.  If we don't deliver, if we don't get up off our rear ends and make it happen, we're in real trouble,” …
Discussion: The Hill
Matt Egan / CNN:
A major recession is coming, Deutsche Bank warns  —  New York (CNN Business)Deutsche Bank raised eyebrows earlier this month by becoming the first major bank to forecast a US recession, albeit a “mild” one.  —  Now, it's warning of a deeper downturn caused by the Federal Reserve's quest to knock down stubbornly high inflation.
Discussion: The Hill and Prediction Markets
 
 
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Mike Allen / Axios:
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Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
A Tyranny of Moral Minorities
Politico:
New Hampshire starts with lead for first place on Dems' 2024 voting calendar
Michelle Ruiz / Vogue:
How Female Correspondents Are Defining War Coverage in Ukraine
Eli Clifton / Responsible Statecraft:
Surprise: Ex-general pushing for NATO troops in Ukraine has weapons industry ties
Washington Post:
Opinion Biden shows once again why he is a huge upgrade from Trump
Discussion: HuffPost and Daily Kos
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Jack Crosbie / Rolling Stone:
Republican Lawmaker Resigns After Texting Alleged Pedophile 72 Times
Discussion: Fox News, Daily Kos and The Daily Beast
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump judges audition for Supreme Court
Matthew S. Schwartz / NPR:
Florida man asks schools to ban Bible following the state's efforts to remove books
Politico:
Dems grow alarmed by lack of fear over Roe's future
William Turton / Bloomberg:
Tech Giants Duped Into Giving Up Data Used to Sexually Extort Minors
CBS News:
Biden tells Congressional Hispanic Caucus he's looking at forgiving some federal student loan debt
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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