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Reuters:
Breakingviews: Elon Musk probably won't buy Twitter — Four years ago, Elon Musk vowed to set up a peanut brittle company to take on Warren Buffett's iconic U.S. confectioner See's Candies. Then he changed his mind. It wouldn't be surprising if Musk's $44 billion deal to buy social network Twitter went the same way.
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James D. Walsh / New York Magazine:
'You Can't Pin Him Down' — Kara Swisher knows Elon Musk and says judging him by tweets alone is a mistake. — Elon Musk, the richest human on earth, purchased Twitter for $44 billion this week, promising to refine the product while loosening its guidelines in the name of “free speech.”
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Insider, I Might Be Wrong and nationalinterest.org
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk Isn't Buying Twitter to Defend Free Speech — Conservatives on Twitter have greeted Elon Musk as a liberator. The mega-billionaire is in the process of purchasing the social-media platform and reorienting it toward what he calls “free speech.” The conservative columnist Ben …
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Bloomberg, Big League Politics, New York Times, TheBlaze, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Wired, more at Mediagazer »
Jared Yates Sexton / Dispatches From A …:
When The Deal Goes Bad
When The Deal Goes Bad
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Jonathan's Newsletter and The Daily Caller
Scott Nover / Quartz:
Elon Musk already broke his agreement with Twitter
Elon Musk already broke his agreement with Twitter
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Very Serious, Against the Grain, Agence France-Presse, Electrek, Bloomberg, Issues & Insights, Newsbusters and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Judge rejects Elon Musk's bid to end SEC tweet settlement
Judge rejects Elon Musk's bid to end SEC tweet settlement
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Engadget, RedState, Washington Examiner, The Verge, Occupy Democrats, TechCrunch, New York Post, Associated Press and Raw Story
Elizabeth Spiers / New York Times:
Making Twitter More of a Cesspool Makes No Business Sense
Making Twitter More of a Cesspool Makes No Business Sense
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Chills, The College Fix, TheBlaze, PCMag, Poynter, Washington Examiner, Forbes, Quillette, FOX News Radio, Althouse, Humble Knowledge and Fox News
Rozina Sabur / Sydney Morning Herald:
‘Enormous impact’: US intelligence prevented the fall of Kyiv — Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size — Washington: America helped foil Moscow's efforts to take Kyiv and repelled its advances elsewhere by sharing such detailed intelligence that Ukraine knew exactly …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Judge Says Real Estate Giant Broke Rules for Trump — Judge Arthur Engoron has already determined that one of the largest real estate firms in the world broke its own rules to help the Trump Organization. — A New York judge has determined that Cushman & Wakefield, one of the world's …
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Raw Story
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Rolling Stone:
Tucker Carlson Pushed Trump to Endorse J.D. Vance With ‘Disgusting’ Sexual Innuendo — Exclusive: In a critical GOP Senate primary in Ohio, Trump's support was swayed in part by a Fox News host spreading rumors about another man's sex habits — In the days before Donald Trump endorsed J.D. Vance …
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The Bulwark, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Daily Beast and Associated Press
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Republican Group Taunts ‘Lying’ Kevin McCarthy With Billboards In His Own District — The Republican Accountability Project calls out the House minority leader amid new Jan. 6 revelations. — A conservative group erected six billboards in House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) home district after he was caught in a lie.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Scalise and Gaetz meet privately after tension over leaked audio
Scalise and Gaetz meet privately after tension over leaked audio
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The Economist:
How deep does the rot in the Russian army go? — The fiasco in Ukraine could be a reflection of either a bad strategy or a poor fighting force — THE JOB of organising NATO's biggest military exercise since the cold war kept Admiral James Foggo, then the commander of American naval forces …
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New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Aearnur's Newsletter and WTOP News
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Opinion CBS News commentator Mick Mulvaney has a new credibility problem — Now that CBS News is paying former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to provide on-air commentary, here's a question its anchors could pose to him: Do you believe the things you write?
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Common Dreams
Colin J. Carlson / Nature:
Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk — orcid.org/0000-0001-6960-8434 1,2 na1, - Gregory F. Albery 1,3 na1, - Cory Merow 4, - Christopher H. Trisos — orcid.org/0000-0002-5854-1489 5, - Casey M. Zipfel — orcid.org/0000-0002-7903-6318 1, - Evan A. Eskew
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Simon Shuster / TIME:
Inside Zelensky's World — The nights are the hardest, when he lies there on his cot, the whine of the air-raid sirens in his ears and his phone still buzzing beside him. Its screen makes his face look like a ghost in the dark, his eyes scanning messages he didn't have a chance to read during the day.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
ESPN Anchor Sage Steele Sues Network, Alleging Violation of Free-Speech Rights — Lawsuit centers on Ms. Steele's comments about Covid-19, ex-President Obama in a podcast interview last year — ESPN anchor Sage Steele sued the network and its parent, Walt Disney Co. …
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Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone:
Exclusive: MAGA Candidate Evicted from Home After Wife Asks Court for Emergency Order of Protection — His current wife is now the third domestic partner to accuse him of abusive or threatening behavior — Teddy Daniels, a far-right Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania …
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Pitt's Newsletter and Raw Story
Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Blocked From Winding Down Title 42 Border Policy Early — Federal judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking the administration from moving ahead with its plan to end pandemic-era border policy. — WASHINGTON—A federal judge in Louisiana has issued a temporary restraining order …
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BuzzFeed News, Washington Examiner and The American Spectator
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Frances Haugen / New York Times:
I Blew the Whistle on Facebook. Europe Just Showed Us the Next Step. — Elon Musk's deal to take Twitter private, which has spurred questions about power, censorship and safety for the future of the platform, happened just days after the European Union reached a landmark agreement to make social media less toxic for users.
Jack Detsch / Foreign Policy:
Drones Have Come of Age in Russia-Ukraine War — “A child can operate these drones,” one expert said. — Ukraine's eastern Donbas region is flat, open, and streaked with cloudy skies, terrain that Western officials believe has already limited Russia from carrying out the withering air …
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Al Jazeera, PBS NewsHour and NPR
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: Former U.S. ambassador accused of illegal foreign lobbying — Richard Olson, a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, has been criminally charged for his alleged role in an undisclosed lobbying campaign for the Qatari government, records show.
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New York Times, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller and NOQ Report
Politico:
Why did Kamala take the Pfizer pill? — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With help from Allie Bice. — For the last several weeks, Americans across the country have struggled to access the new Covid-19 antiviral pill, Pfizer's Paxlovid.
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New York Post and The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
Senators to Convene Bipartisan Immigration Meeting After Impasse — A bipartisan group of senators will meet Thursday to discuss options for passing immigration legislation this year. — “The idea is to get as many bipartisan bills we can find that have goals that will add up to 60,” …
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The Hill
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Trump's Spokeswoman Calls For Arrests Over 2020 Election at QAnon Rally — “They're gonna start arresting political opponents. They're gonna start throwing political dissidents in jail,” Liz Harrington warned the crowd. — CJ — Former President Trump's chief spokeswoman spoke …
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Rips Catholic Church For Helping Migrants: 'Satan's Controlling the Church' — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tore into the Catholic Church in a recent interview with right-wing activist Michael Voris of Church Militant. In the wild interview …
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Right Wing Watch, Catholic League, Church Militant, Raw Story, Insider, Informed Comment, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, Raw Story, Uniic Media and The Wrap
Ellie Kaufman / CNN:
First on CNN: US left behind $7 billion of military equipment in Afghanistan after 2021 withdrawal, Pentagon report says — Washington (CNN)Approximately $7 billion of military equipment the US transferred to the Afghan government over the course of 16 years was left behind in Afghanistan …
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The Daily Caller, HotAir and Forbes
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Republican senator calls for ethics probe into Madison Cawthorn — A red-state Republican senator calling for an investigation into a GOP colleague from his home state just doesn't happen often. — By any fair measure, Rep. Madison Cawthorn appears to be in a difficult political position.
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Putin Must Be Stopped Once and for All — The U.S. and allies are now seeking a sweeping strategic defeat for Russia. … Defending Ukraine is not enough. Defeating Russia on the battlefield is not enough. We must ensure—using every means available at our disposal …
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The Dispatch, nationalinterest.org, Defense News, The American Spectator, HotAir, John's Newsletter and The Guardian
H I Sutton / USNI News:
Trained Russian Navy Dolphins are Protecting Black Sea Naval Base, Satellite Photos Show — Russia has deployed trained dolphins during its invasion of Ukraine to protect a Black Sea naval base, USNI News has learned. — The Russian Navy has placed two dolphin pens at the entrance to Sevastopol harbor …
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The Daily Wire:
The Disgraced Teacher Who Took The Name Of An Egyptian God And Radicalized A School District — The school called his conduct with one student “reprehensible.” The teacher says the student is a “Karen.” — A teacher and avowed communist who named himself after an Egyptian god successfully pushed …
Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
Citing cost pressures on homeowners, DeSantis vetoes bill to end solar incentives — Citing “steep increases in the prices of gas and groceries,” Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have allowed Florida electric utilities to impose steep fees on businesses and homeowners who install solar panels.
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Florida Politics