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2:40 PM ET, May 9, 2022

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New York Times:
Putin calibrates his message to Russians, not asking for much more from them.  —  Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.  —  Against a backdrop of armored vehicles and soldiers in regalia, President Vladimir V. Putin hailed Russia's army for “fighting for the Motherland,” …
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
9 Theses on Putin's Fascism for 9 May  —  How Putin's myth of 2022 differs from the history of 1945  —  How can Putin carry out obviously fascist policies, such as a genocidal war of destruction in Ukraine, while claiming the mantle of anti-fascism?  As we saw again today in his Victory Day speech …
BBC:
Putin blames West for war in Ukraine  —  Updates from BBC correspondents: Jenny Hill and Steve Rosenberg in Moscow, Sarah Rainsford and James Waterhouse in Kyiv, Andrew Harding in Donbas, Laura Bicker in Zaporizhzhia, Lyse Doucet and Hugo Bachega in Dnipro, Joe Inwood and Sophie Williams in Lviv, and Caroline Davies in Odesa
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Winning after Roe  —  People want the vast majority of abortions to be legal  —  I think abortion should be very broadly legal.  Without the constitutional protections offered by the Roe v. Wade decision, abortion is going to become much less broadly available, which is bad.
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Michigan's abortion ban is draconian and should be vacated, attorney general says  —  Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she won't enforce her state's 1931 abortion law — and she's hoping the Michigan Supreme Court finds it unconstitutional, even if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down its Roe v. Wade decision.
Discussion: Axios, Washington Times and Townhall
Wall Street Journal:
Europe's Abortion Lesson
Tim Reid / Reuters:
Suburban Phoenix is cautionary tale for Democrats hoping to galvanize voters on abortion  —  Laura Wilson is a mother of three who lives in the sprawling suburbs of north Phoenix, a hotly contested electoral area of Arizona that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate after November's congressional elections.
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Jeff Timmer / The Bulwark:   What Democrats Could Learn from One Michigan Race
Politico:
Democrats' chance to save the House majority runs through these districts
Discussion: HotAir and Battleground
Steve Schmidt / The Warning:
No Books.  No Money.  Just the Truth.  —  This is a story about lying.  Public lying.  It is a story about Senator John McCain's lying, and the damage it has done to many people, including me.  It is also a story about my lying because, ultimately, John McCain's lie became mine.
Discussion: New York Magazine and POLITICUSUSA
Everdeen Mason / New York Times:
A Note About Today's Wordle Game  —  At New York Times Games, we take our role seriously as a place to entertain and escape, and we want Wordle to remain distinct from the news.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  It's been just over three months since The New York Times acquired Wordle …
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Wordle swaps out word due to Supreme Court leak  —  The New York Times on Monday announced that the Wordle solution for that day was an “outdated answer” that unintentionally makes reference to the recent leaked draft Supreme Court opinion regarding abortion rights.
Politico:
How the Jan. 6 panel broke through Trump allies' stonewalling  —  Donald Trump's top election-subversion wingmen have stonewalled the Jan. 6 select committee for months, but investigators have found a reliable workaround: their deputies and assistants.  —  Time and again, the panel has managed …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol attack panel moves closer to issuing subpoenas to Republicans
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Esper / Politico:
‘I Want to Meet With the Taliban’: Tales of Trump's Head-Scratching Diplomacy  —  On Friday, Aug. 16, 2019 — just three weeks after the Senate confirmed me as secretary of Defense — the national security team met with President Donald Trump at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club.
U.S. Department of Commerce:
Raimondo Announces Temporary Suspension of 232 Tariffs on Ukraine Steel  —  Suspended tariffs will bolster one of Ukraine's most important industries  —  Today, United States Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the United States of America will be temporarily suspending 232 tariffs on Ukrainian steel for one year.
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Is Gavin Newsom running for president?  No, it just sounds like it  —  Gavin Newsom sounds like a man ready to jump on the next flight to Iowa or New Hampshire or wherever Democrats start their 2024 presidential campaign.  —  After the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision portending …
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Zach Everson / Forbes:
Madison Cawthorn's Campaign Gets Donation From Associate Of Sanctioned Russian Billionaire  —  Chalk up one more controversy for Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the North Carolina Republican who seems enveloped in it.  Cawthorn's cash-strapped campaign for re-election received a donation Friday …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
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Rolling Stone:
Even Trump Is ‘Completely Weirded Out By’ Madison Cawthorn's Antics
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside Mark Meadows's final push to keep Trump in power  —  The former congressman played a key role in Trump's effort to overturn the election, according to his texts, congressional investigations and interviews  —  Behind closed doors in a civic center outside Atlanta …
Discussion: Raw Story and Election Law Blog
Jake Blumgart / Governing:
Pennsylvania's Crowded Field of Republican Gubernatorial Candidates  —  While most of the men have taken stands on cultural issues that reflect national GOP platforms, such as guns and abortion, there are issues they back that are distinct to the Keystone State.
Susan Rinkunas / Jezebel:
Rep. Henry Cuellar Tried to Discredit a Staffer He Fired at 28 Weeks Pregnant  —  Court documents show that the congressman himself requested staffers write letters about the woman's job performance after he fired her.  —  Alerts  —  In August 2018, Kristie Small was newly serving …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The New York Times's Editorial Board Is Apparently Extremely Stupid  —  Over the weekend, the New York Times's editorial board submitted this paragraph for public consumption: … The people who wrote these words are stupid — yes, stupid — and they should all be unsurpassingly ashamed of themselves.
Discussion: Breitbart and Fox News
Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:
‘Paranoid dictator’: Russian journalists fill pro-Kremlin site with anti-war articles  —  Articles published on Lenta.ru on Victory Day accuse Putin of waging ‘bloodiest war of 21st century’  —  Two Russian journalists working for a popular pro-Kremlin website filled it with anti-war articles …
Discussion: HotAir
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
QAnon Joins Vigilantes at the Southern Border  —  Far-right activists are intercepting migrant children and collecting information about their families, based on an unfounded conspiracy theory that they are falling prey to sex-trafficking rings.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Raw Story
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Eric Greitens leads in Senate GOP primary in Missouri per internal campaign poll  —  Former Gov. Eric Greitens leads the pack in the race for the Republican nomination for Senate in Missouri, according to a poll conducted for his campaign.  —  In the survey, Greitens led Rep. Vicky Hartzler 26% to 19%.
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Conor Lamb is the best choice Dems have to flip a Senate seat.  |  Endorsement  —  At the White House Correspondents' Dinner last month, President Joe Biden joked: “I came to office with an ambitious agenda, and I expected it to face stiff opposition in the Senate.  I just hoped it would be from Republicans.”
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
The Surprising Backstory of How the Steele Dossier Was Created  —  Report that rattled the political world often echoed chatter among three friends, one a former schoolmate of the main investigator  —  Former press aide Olga Galkina, PR executive Charles Dolan Jr. (center bottom) and researcher Igor Danchenko.
Reuters:
Son of Philippines dictator Marcos headed for presidency with huge election lead  —  Ferdinand Marcos Jr looked on course for a huge victory in the Philippines presidential election on Monday, after an unofficial tally of two thirds of the votes showed the son of the notorious late dictator surging ahead of his nearest rival.
 
 
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Washington Examiner:
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Discussion: Politico, Townhall and Reuters
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Congressional candidate Derrick Van Orden fined for having a loaded gun in an airport. He calls the incident a mistake.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Hawley calls on Biden to keep tariffs on Chinese goods in place
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Ariel Zilber / New York Post:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
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