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10:55 AM ET, April 27, 2022

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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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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
William Saletan / The Bulwark:
The Most Damning Part of the Meadows Texts  —  He knew the president was lying.  And he kept helping to spread the lies anyway.  —  We've known for a long time, based on audits, investigations, and court reviews, that Donald Trump's allegations about massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election are false.
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Meadows' texts reveal new details about the key role a little-known GOP congressman played in efforts to overturn election
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
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.
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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
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
In UK and US military support for Ukraine, a divergent tolerance for risk
Discussion: Washington Post and NPR
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 …
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.
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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 …
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump judges audition for Supreme Court  —  A number of young and prominent Trump-appointed judges are writing their opinions with provocative language, diving into the culture wars in ways offering an audition for a future Supreme Court opening. … But with the specter …
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Wall Street Journal:
Abortion and the Supreme Court
Discussion: Reason
Politico:
Dems grow alarmed by lack of fear over Roe's future
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: Insider and Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
First look: Lis Smith dishes on love of political combat in new book … - The title, “Any Given Tuesday,” puts an Election Day twist on the “Any Given Sunday” truism about the NFL.  —  The book is animated by Smith's love for the hand-to-hand combat of politics, and she …
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: Raw Story
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Before Washington's ‘Nerd Prom,’ Lots of Risk-Benefit Calculation  —  Dr. Anthony S. Fauci won't attend the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, but President Biden has concluded it is worth the risk.  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris's Covid-19 diagnosis …
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
New York Times:
China's Covid Lockdown Outrage Tests Limits of Triumphant Propaganda  —  Public anger and grief over the bungled lockdown in Shanghai is creating a credibility crisis for the country's leader, Xi Jinping, and his zero Covid policies.  —  Immediately after Beijing said it had detected …
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
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
The New York Times Company:
An Investigative Reporter for the Albany Bureau  —  The Metro team welcomes Jay Root as an investigative reporter for the Albany bureau.  Read more in this note from Jim Dao and Dean Chang.  —  When Dean Baquet suggested that Metro hire an investigative reporter for the Albany bureau …
 
 
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A Tyranny of Moral Minorities
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A major recession is coming, Deutsche Bank warns
Washington Post:
Opinion Biden shows once again why he is a huge upgrade from Trump
Discussion: HuffPost and Daily Kos
Jack Crosbie / Rolling Stone:
Republican Lawmaker Resigns After Texting Alleged Pedophile 72 Times
Discussion: Daily Kos and Fox News
Matthew S. Schwartz / NPR:
Florida man asks schools to ban Bible following the state's efforts to remove books
 

 
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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

Bloomberg:
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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
 
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