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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Death of Roe Is Going to Tear America Apart  —  In his draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito blamed that 1973 abortion decision for sparking “a national controversy that has embittered our political culture for a half century.”  He quoted Justice Antonin Scalia …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
PR giant advising corporate clients to stay silent on abortion rights  —  A massive public relations firm, Zeno, is privately advising its high-profile corporate clients to avoid commenting on the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, according to an internal communication obtained by Popular Information.
Discussion: The Wrap and Louder With Crowder
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Scooping the Supreme Court  —  The first Roe v. Wade leaks happened fifty years ago.  —  Supreme Court watchers have been calling the leak of a draft opinion in advance of the Court's abortion decision “unthinkable” and “unprecedented.”  Chief Justice John Roberts has ordered …
Emily Galvin Almanza / Teen Vogue:
The Criminalization of Abortion: What to Expect In a Post-Roe United States
Discussion: Mother Jones
Abigail Adcox / Washington Examiner:
California poised to have nearly 30% of abortion clinics in US if Roe overturned
Discussion: IJR, USA Today and Fox News
Politico:
Abortion bans and penalties would vary widely by state
Slate:
The Biggest Lie Conservative Defenders of Alito's Leaked Opinion Are Telling
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Law enforcement officials brace for potential violence around SCOTUS draft opinion
Kimberly Ross / Washington Examiner:
Biden was always going to be radically pro-abortion  —  President Joe Biden has worked to present himself as the moderate alternative to the progressives in his party.  If you're paying attention, his attempt to do so falls flat.  Biden's slow, grandfatherly mannerisms may work to make him appear less threatening.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico to ‘Destroy the Drug Labs,’ Esper Says  —  It is one of the moments in his upcoming memoir that the former defense secretary described as leaving him all but speechless.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Sarah Nelson / The Indianapolis Star:
Lebanon man accused of killing wife among winners in Indiana primary race  —  A Lebanon man accused of killing his wife in March and dumping her body in a creek is among the candidates to advance in a local election after Indiana's primaries Tuesday.  —  Andrew Wilhoite, who's suspected …
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Amid an uproar over Capitol staff mistreatment, meet the House's ‘worst boss’  —  Rep. Victoria Spartz topped a nonpartisan group's “Worst Bosses” list last year, winning the dubious title of most staff turnover in the House.  Her retention record is only getting worse.
Ronda Kaysen / New York Times:
A Landlord ‘Underestimated’ His Tenants.  Now They Could Own the Building.  —  When a new landlord bought their building in the Bronx and threatened to raise rents and kick them out, tenants banded together.  They never expected how far they might get: the chance to buy their apartments for $2,500 each.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Payroll growth accelerated by 428,000 in April, more than expected as jobs picture stays strong  — Nonfarm payrolls grew by 428,000 for April, a bit above the Dow Jones estimate of 400,000 and identical to March.  — The unemployment rate held at 3.6% after being expected to nudge lower to 3.5%.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Leaked robocall: ‘This is Pres. Donald J. Trump, hopefully your all time favorite president of all time’  —  Donald Trump is continuing to inject himself into races up and down the ticket ahead of Georgia GOP primaries.It's an ongoing byproduct of Trump's unparalleled involvement …
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Monika Richter / The Bulwark:
Is Biden's Disinfo Czar Qualified?  —  Nina Jankowicz unknowingly advanced Russian propaganda about the Czech Republic.  Why has she been picked to lead DHS's new anti-disinformation board?  —  The rollout of the Biden administration's Disinformation Governance Board at the Department of Homeland Security …
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
‘Caveman’ Costumed Son of Brooklyn Judge Receives Eight-Month Sentence After Felony Conviction Over Jan. 6 Siege  —  The son of a Brooklyn judge who dressed up as a self-described “caveman” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol received an eight-month sentence on Friday, following his guilty plea to a felony and two misdemeanors.
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
How millions of Russians are tearing holes in the Digital Iron Curtain  —  A tremendous surge in VPN downloads represents a challenge to Putin and his version of the Ukraine war  —  RIGA, Latvia — When Russian authorities blocked hundreds of Internet sites in March, Konstantin decided to act.
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
'He doesn't understand medicine is a science': Ron Johnson escalates ‘guerrilla war’ against medical establishment  —  Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson told a group of COVID vaccine critics that he's in a “guerrilla war” as he seeks to empower doctors and reform the medical establishment.
Reuters:
U.S. police trainers with far-right ties are teaching hundreds of cops  —  One police instructor who has taught 560 officers in recent years has joined one extremist group and supported other far-right movements.  Others have echoed QAnon and other fringe conspiracy theories on social media, a Reuters examination found.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Jon Schwarz / The Intercept:
My Story: How I Was “Groomed” by My Elementary School Teachers … Anyone following the news knows the U.S. right is now obsessively accusing public school teachers, especially ones who are LGBTQ+, of being “groomers” — i.e., pedophiles.  It's both astonishingly vile and horrifyingly cynical.
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
The War in Ukraine, as Seen on Russian TV  —  To Western audiences, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has unfolded as a series of brutal attacks punctuated by strategic blunders.  But on Russian television, those same events were spun as positive developments, an interpretation aided by a rapid jumble of opinion and falsehoods.
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Dan Zak / Washington Post:
The quid pro quos of Gordon D. Sondland  —  Long after his turn as a key witness at Donald Trump's first impeachment, the former E.U. ambassador wants another kind of public hearing  —  Gordon Sondland is a walking asterisk, a footnote that was once a headline, a man who made some history without really changing the course of it.
Discussion: Raw Story
Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Billionaire Ken Griffin adds $25 million to his investment in Richard Irvin's GOP bid for governor  —  Billionaire Ken Griffin has upped his investment in Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin's Republican bid for governor, kicking in an additional $25 million to the campaign after seeding Irvin's candidacy …
Pew Research Center:
America's Abortion Quandary  —  A majority of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, but many are open to restrictions; many opponents of legal abortion say it should be legal in some circumstances  —  A majority of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases …
 
 
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Dennis Ross / The Atlantic:
We Can't Face Down Putin Alone
Associated Press:
FDA restricts J&J's COVID-19 vaccine due to blood clot risk
Echo Wang / Reuters:
Musk's new Twitter funding could draw TikTok-like U.S. scrutiny
Rachel Maddow / MSNBC:
For religious right, abortion was a means to power as segregation lost political potency
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
As the SEC Cracks Down on Shady SPACs, CIA Officials Get In on the Action
Selwyn Duke / American Thinker:
Is the left agitating for war with Russia so it can cement domestic tyranny?
Mauricio Savarese / Associated Press:
Brazil's Bolsonaro says he will seek audit of voting system
Discussion: Al Jazeera, Big League Politics and IJR
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
Mayor Eric Adams in Los Angeles as crime worsens back home in NYC
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
We Just Lost a ‘Paul Revere’ in the Fight to Save Democracy
Discussion: Democracy Alliance
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Top Trump Lawyer Is a Longtime Tax Deadbeat
Discussion: Raw Story
Scott Wong / NBC News:
‘We should not defund’: Democrats press Pelosi for vote on police funding
Elena Schneider / Politico:
States line up for fight to go first in Democrats' next presidential primary
Discussion: Vox
NBC News:
U.S. intel helped Ukraine sink Russian flagship Moskva, officials say
 

 
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