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9:45 AM ET, May 2, 2022

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters  —  Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper charges in a memoir out May 10 that former President Trump said when demonstrators were filling the streets around the White House following the death of George Floyd: “Can't you just shoot them?
New York Times:
Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin's War.  Retribution Was Swift.  —  Oleg Y. Tinkov was worth more than $9 billion in November, renowned as one of Russia's few self-made business tycoons after building his fortune outside the energy and minerals industries that were the playgrounds of Russian kleptocracy.
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Reuters:
Lavrov Compares Ukraine's Zelenskyy to Hitler, Who Also ‘Had Jewish Blood’  —  Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview on Italian television on Sunday that the fact Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish does not negate the Nazi elements in his country.
BBC:
Israel outrage at Sergei Lavrov's claim that Hitler was part Jewish  —  Israel has reacted with fury after Russia's foreign minister claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood”.  —  Sergei Lavrov made the comments to try to justify Russia's portrayal of Ukraine as “Nazi” despite the fact that its president is Jewish.
New York Times:
Russia's top officer visited the front line to change the offensive's course, U.S. and Ukraine officials say.  —  ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — The chief of the general staff of the Russian military, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the country's highest ranking uniformed officer, made a visit …
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Hacking Russia was off-limits. The Ukraine war made it a free-for-all.
Scott Dworkin / Newsweek:
There's No Choice in the Midterms.  The Democrats Are the Only Side Defending Democracy  —  , EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DEMOCRATIC COALITION  —  As we get closer and closer to November's midterm elections, doomsday predictions about a bloodbath for Democrats have come to dominate the news.
Discussion: Salon
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New York Times:
What Democrats Don't Understand About Rural America  —  Ms. Maxmin, 29, is the youngest female state senator in Maine's history.  Mr. Woodward ran her two campaigns.  They are the authors of the forthcoming book “Dirt Road Revival,” from which this essay is adapted.
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Bidenworld wants to make the midterms more about Trump and hopes Elon Musk helps  —  President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats have struggled to overcome historical headwinds and worrisome economic trends in the lead-up to the midterms.  —  So aides are scheming up something else …
David Siders / Politico:
Trumpworld braces for ‘a couple of ugly nights’ in May  —  The first big test of former President Donald Trump's clout comes Tuesday in Ohio's bitterly fought Senate primary, where J.D. Vance surged into the lead after winning Trump's endorsement.  —  A Vance victory would remind his party that Trump is still king.
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Adam Wren / Politico:   The GOP senator who faulted Trump for Jan. 6 — and lived to tell about it
Jordain Carney / The Hill:   McConnell silent about sour Trump relationship
Trafalgar Group:
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CNN:
Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine — to find they've been remotely disabled  —  (CNN)Russian troops in the occupied city of Melitopol have stolen all the equipment from a farm equipment dealership — and shipped it to Chechnya, according to a Ukrainian businessman in the area.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Washington Free Beacon:
The Nurse Ratched of Disinformation  —  LOL.  —  When we first heard Alejandro Mayorkas announce a Department of Homeland Security “Disinformation Governance Board,” we thought he was trolling.  Then he said Nina Jankowicz, best known as TikTok's “Mary Poppins of Disinformation,” would head it.
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
DeSantis eyes big Florida win in November as a White House springboard  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won't say whether he'll run for president, but he's starting to acknowledge that his road to the White House might hinge on a big re-election win this year.  —  For months, Florida Capitol insiders …
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Wall Street Journal:   Disney's Clash With Florida Has CEOs on Alert
Axios:
Dems punch back against GOP's “culture war” attacks  —  Democrats are starting to fight back against the bludgeoning they've taken since the Republicans seized on socially charged issues to help win this fall's midterms. … They want to make 2022 a referendum on MAGA nation and its agenda.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Role Model for the Midterms
Discussion: Political Currents
The Daily Beast:
Trump Organization Accused of Hiding Witness Who Knew if Trump Lied  —  There's a new witness in a civil case against the Trump Organization.  And this witness could help show that Trump was lying.  —  Of all Donald Trump's legal problems, the lawsuit over the way his company's security guards beat …
Discussion: Raw Story
Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
Parodying conspiracy theories with the Birds Aren't Real movement  —  There have always been conspiracy theories: the moon landings were fake, Elvis is alive, Paul is dead.  But as disinformation has sprouted across the internet, more malicious conspiracy theories have entered our homes, workplaces and even the halls of Congress.
Discussion: Freddie deBoer
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Virus mutations aren't slowing down.  New omicron subvariant proves it.  —  During those terrifying early days of the pandemic, scientists offered one piece of reassuring news about the novel coronavirus: It mutated slowly.  The earliest mutations did not appear to be consequential.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Washington Post:
Big majority of Americans back sanctions on Russia, aid to Ukraine, poll finds  —  A Washington Post-ABC News poll also finds strong opposition to any direct military conflict with Moscow  —  Two months after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Americans are stalwart in their support …
Discussion: The Hill and ABC News
Joseph Lee / Grist:
Indigenous Taíno of Puerto Rico take their fight for visibility and rights to the UN  —  Without US representation, the Taíno advocate for environmental justice and cultural preservation internationally.  —  This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk …
 
 
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Peter Pomerantsev / The Atlantic:
‘We Can Only Be Enemies’  —  When the Russian army first began shelling Lukashivka …
Discussion: The Dispatch
Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Pent-up partying before — and long after — the correspondents' dinner
Sandy Jorgenson / Washington Post:
How I'm uplifting and affirming my trans child amid the hate
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
Kathy Boudin, Radical Imprisoned in a Fatal Robbery, Dies at 78
Discussion: Fox News
Kevin Landrigan / UnionLeader.com:
Stepdaughter: William Loeb sexually molested me as young child
Discussion: Media Nation
David Cohen / Politico:
Biden: Mondale rescued me from darkness
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
Mayor Adams gets personal with reporter ‘jokes’ at Inner Circle charity show
Anti-Defamation League:
Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt to the ADL Virtual National Leadership Summit
New York Times:
The Extraordinary Wealth Created by the Pandemic Housing Market
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
In 2020, Biden was a political juggernaut in Massachusetts. A new poll shows voters have soured on him. A lot.
Discussion: Opinion Today
Laurence Norman / Wall Street Journal:
Europe to Make Fresh Push to Revive Iran Nuclear Deal
Stephanie Slade / New York Times:
Ron DeSantis and Other Republicans Desecrate What Their Party Long Championed
Discussion: Boston Herald