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Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
Personally, I Prefer Having Fewer Nazis on Twitter — Like pretty much any journalist who compulsively wastes too much of their life on Twitter, I've had my fair share of unpleasant experiences with the site. In part, that's because I'm Jewish, and I occasionally find my mentions flooded …
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Bloomberg:
Musk's Twitter Pitch Featured Job Cuts, Other Ways to Make Money
Musk's Twitter Pitch Featured Job Cuts, Other Ways to Make Money
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Plans to Buy Twitter. Senate Democrats Have Some Questions
Elon Musk Plans to Buy Twitter. Senate Democrats Have Some Questions
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Balaji Srinivasan:
The Elondrop — The deal may have been signed, but the campaign is just beginning.
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Inside Twitter, Fears Musk Will Return Platform to Its Early Troubles
Inside Twitter, Fears Musk Will Return Platform to Its Early Troubles
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David Catanese / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
McConnell miscalculated Republican impeachment count against Trump, book says — Mitch McConnell thought the Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol would finally vanquish Donald Trump, initially predicting that at least 17 Republican senators would vote to convict him in his impeachment trial …
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
‘Ask me nicely’: Trump demanded loyalty from governors for help, says book
‘Ask me nicely’: Trump demanded loyalty from governors for help, says book
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Tim Miller / The Triad:
This Will Not Pass. And Yet D.C. Republicans Keep Pretending It Will.
This Will Not Pass. And Yet D.C. Republicans Keep Pretending It Will.
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Republican who refuses to bend the knee to Trump surges in Ohio Senate race — The field of candidates chasing Ohio's GOP Senate nomination has pledged allegiance to former President Donald Trump and beaten a path to Mar-a-Lago. — But not Matt Dolan. The state senator has declined to kiss the ring …
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Jazmine Ulloa / New York Times:
G.O.P. Concocts Fake Threat: Voter Fraud by Undocumented Immigrants
G.O.P. Concocts Fake Threat: Voter Fraud by Undocumented Immigrants
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds seek $3M from Paul Manafort over failing to disclose offshore accounts — The Justice Department is suing Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chair, for almost $3 million in penalties related to his alleged failure to file reports disclosing more than 20 bank accounts he controlled …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Paul Manafort sued by Justice Department over foreign bank accounts
Paul Manafort sued by Justice Department over foreign bank accounts
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Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
Rating agency warns Disney debt conflict could ‘weaken’ other Florida government bonds — One of the nation's leading bond rating agencies warned Thursday that if the state of Florida doesn't resolve a conflict over its decision to repeal Walt Disney World's Reedy Creek Improvement District …
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Inside the House Freedom Caucus' identity crisis — Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert look from the outside like MAGA twins, both loathed by Democrats for their incendiary right-wing rhetoric. But inside the House GOP, they're not quite buddy-buddy.
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Laura Collins / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘I would like to see a naked body beneath my hands.’ GOP Rep Madison Cawthorn is caught on video with male scheduler's hand on his crotch as new ethics complaint claims the congressman gave him thousands of dollars in loans and gifts, — Footage obtained exclusively …
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Jonathan Raymond / WXIA-TV:
Georgia governor poll | Brian Kemp vs. David Perdue & Brian Kemp vs. Stacey Abrams results — The poll was commissioned through SurveyUSA and conducted with likely Georgia voters from April 22-27. — ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp is on track for reelection as Georgia's governor …
Washington Post:
U.S. says Russian intelligence orchestrated attack on Nobel laureate — Novaya Gazeta editor Dmitry Muratov was assailed with red paint laced with acetone during a Russian train trip on April 7. — The U.S. government has assessed that Russian intelligence was behind an attack earlier …
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The Boston Globe:
Blueprint for a coup comes into focus — The Jan. 6 House committee needs to connect the dots and show how democracy was imperiled. — The steady drip, drip, drip of e-mails and tapes before, during, and after the Jan. 6 insurrection may look like the usual Washington, D.C. …
Rachel M. Cohen / Vox:
Can the expanded child tax credit come back from the dead? — Blaming Manchin might be the path of least resistance. — Advocates for an expanded child tax credit (CTC) did not expect to be in this situation. — A year ago, when Congress passed an expanded version of the policy that's …
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
UK healthcare is already being privatised, but not in the way you think — The creeping Americanisation of British medical bills reflects the strains on the NHS — In recent years, there has been a growing fear among certain sections of the British public that our much loved …
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump officials muzzled CDC on church covid guidance, emails show — The documents offer new details about how the White House delivered on the priorities of religious communities that were key to the president's base — Trump White House officials in May 2020 overrode public health advice urging churches …
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Washington Post:
Trump to rally with GOP gubernatorial hopeful in Nebraska accused of sexual assault … Today, former president Donald Trump is headed to Nebraska, where he is slated to appear at a rally with Republican gubernatorial hopeful Charles Herbster, a longtime political ally who has been accused of sexually assaulting several women.
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The Redpill Grifter Who Became an Anti-Ukraine Propagandist — And the wacko tale of his supposed murder. — Last week, on April 21, Scott Ritter—whom older readers might remember as a former U.N. weapons inspector turned ferocious foe of American and Western foreign policy …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Seven Lessons Democrats Need to Learn — Fast — We all make mistakes; the question is, do we learn from them? Over the past couple of years people on the left side of the political and cultural spectrum have made their share. These have contributed to the Democrats' extremely bleak political prospects going into the midterms.
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Wall Street Journal:
Oil Middlemen Fueled Putin's War Machine. Now They're Getting Out. — Russia relies on exporters like discreet Swiss firm Trafigura to sell its crude supply, but Ukraine invasion tested even their legendary tolerance for risk — Russia built a self-proclaimed fortress around its economy in the run-up to war—but there was a crack.
Erika Solomon / New York Times:
They Survived the Holocaust. Now, They Are Fleeing to Germany. — A complex operation is underway to evacuate Holocaust survivors from Ukraine. For rescuers and evacuees alike, it means confronting the past. — Give this article- - - Read in app — HANOVER, Germany …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Dems reserve $33M in bid to hold Senate — Senate Democrats' campaign arm is reserving $33 million in advertisements this fall, with the bulk of its resources devoted to protecting the party's quartet of embattled incumbents in the hopes of keeping their tenuous hold on the majority.
Alene Tchekmedyian / Los Angeles Times:
First eyewitness account of Sheriff Villanueva lying in a cover-up revealed in filing — A former top-ranking Los Angeles County sheriff's official filed a legal claim Thursday that offered the first eyewitness account of Sheriff Alex Villanueva allegedly lying about his involvement in a cover …
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CNN:
Russia making ‘slow and uneven’ progress as military tries to fix problems that plagued early invasion, US officials say — (CNN)Russian forces have made some progress in Moscow's renewed assault on eastern Ukraine, according to US and NATO officials, as their military tries to fix …
Los Angeles Times:
State accuses Exxon Mobil of deceiving public, perpetuating ‘myth’ of plastics recycling — California's attorney general has announced a first-of-its kind investigation into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their alleged role in causing and exacerbating a global crisis in plastic waste pollution.
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Anya Kamenetz / NPR:
The education culture war is raging. But for most parents, it's background noise — Math textbooks axed for their treatment of race; a viral Twitter account directing ire at LGBTQ teachers; a state law forbidding classroom discussion of sexual identity in younger grades; a board book for babies targeted as “pornographic.”
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden team split on China tariffs — Biden administration officials are debating how — and even whether — to lower some of former President Trump's tariffs against China to help ease inflation, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. … - Providing so-called “exclusions” …
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