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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Justices will meet for the first time since publication of draft opinion on Roe shook the foundations of the court — POLITICO editor speaks out about bombshell report — (CNN)The Supreme Court is set to meet behind closed doors on Thursday for the first time since the astonishing leak …
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The Lever, Patterico's Pontifications, Jacobin, U.S. Department of Justice and New York Times
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Garland directs U.S. marshals to ensure safety of Supreme Court justices
Garland directs U.S. marshals to ensure safety of Supreme Court justices
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The Atlantic, Fox News, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, HotAir, RedState, Townhall and New York Times
Athena Thorne / pjmedia.com:
Riots Are Now an Establishment Industry and Will Happen Every Summer
Riots Are Now an Establishment Industry and Will Happen Every Summer
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The Hill
Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
Putin's latest defeat: Failing to curb the eastward expansion of NATO — INVASIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's stated aims of his so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine was to stop the eastern expansion of the NATO alliance.
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Presidentti, Axios, NBC News, Politico, NBC Bay Area, nationalinterest.org, HotAir, Associated Press, CNSNews, The Daily Wire, WTOP News, The Economist, Raw Story, The Guardian and Insider
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Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post:
Sanctions forcing Russia to use appliance parts in military gear, U.S. says
Sanctions forcing Russia to use appliance parts in military gear, U.S. says
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Insider, Washington Post, ukrainetoday.org and The Atlantic
Ruy Teixeira / The Liberal Patriot:
The Bankruptcy of the Democratic Party Left — You'd Think They'd Get Tired of Losing — How much is the Democratic Left losing? Let us count the ways. — 1. Build Back Better. This was the vessel into which all the hopes and priorities of the Democratic Left were poured.
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Politico
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Democrats' imaginary majority — Every day, it seems, brings another reminder of the severe limitations of Democrats' illusory majority in a 50-50 Senate. — First Democratic leaders tossed Covid relief from a Ukraine aid bill at the behest of Republicans who were threatening a filibuster.
Axios:
GOP panics over ‘ultra-MAGA’ Pennsylvania Senate wild card — Influential Republicans in Washington and among the nationwide party elite are having a belated “oh s—t” moment over the previously unimaginable prospect that Kathy Barnette could win their party's nomination for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
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Washington Post:
As Roe v. Wade repeal looms, video game industry stays mostly silent — In the wake of a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion essentially confirmed that Roe v. Wade's days are numbered, most of the video game industry's biggest companies have remained conspicuously quiet — though not all.
Taylor Telford / Washington Post:
Meatpackers hyped ‘baseless’ shortage to keep plants open despite covid risks: report — A House panel alleges that Tyson and other meat processors heavily influenced Trump's executive order that compelled plants to stay open. — The biggest players in the U.S. meat industry pressed …
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Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Kinds of Seats that Flip in Midterms — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — While increasingly salient issues like abortion could change the political environment, Republicans still appear on track for a strong showing in the U.S. House. — Recent midterms have hollowed …
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Barbara McQuade / New York Times:
Five Key Midterms Races to Pay Attention To
Five Key Midterms Races to Pay Attention To
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Digby's Hullabaloo
David Ingram / NBC News:
Conservative parents take aim at library apps meant to expand access to books — E-reader apps that became a lifeline for students during the pandemic are now in the crossfire of a culture war raging over books in schools and public libraries. — In several states, apps and the companies …
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
A Son's Eulogy for Midge Decter (1927-2022) — Where did she come from? — That's what we were asking ourselves, my sister and my father and I, after she left us and this world on the morning of May 9, 2022. Of course, we know where she came from in the strictest sense.
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National Review
CBS News:
Biden administration cancels Alaska oil and gas lease sale — The Biden administration has canceled one of the most high-profile oil and gas lease opportunities pending before the Interior Department. The decision, which halts the potential to drill for oil in over 1 million acres …
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Washington Free Beacon, USA Today, CNSNews, The Daily Caller, Reuters, The Hill, Twitchy, The Western Journal, The Federalist, The Daily Wire and Townhall
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Anna Phillips / Washington Post:
Biden pulls 3 offshore oil lease sales, curbing new drilling this year
Biden pulls 3 offshore oil lease sales, curbing new drilling this year
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HotAir, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg and American Greatness
Zac Kriegman / Common Sense:
I Criticized BLM. Then I Was Fired. — The data about police shootings just didn't add up, but no one at Thomson Reuters wanted to hear it. — Writes Zac Kriegman · Subscribe … Common Sense is a reader-supported publication. If you appreciate our work, please become a subscriber today.
Carrie Campbell Severino / National Review:
Akhil Amar Calls Out Post-Roe Fearmongering — No one would mistake Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law School for a pro-life activist or any sort of enthusiast for overturning Roe v. Wade. But the prominent constitutional law scholar is known for being a straight shooter willing to call out those on his own side …
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Pawprints, Bloomberg and Lawyers, Guns & Money
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden Marking One Million American Lives Lost to COVID-19 — Today, we mark a tragic milestone: one million American lives lost to COVID-19. One million empty chairs around the dinner table. Each an irreplaceable loss. Each leaving behind a family …
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Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Biden responds to 1 million deaths milestone as he participates in 2nd Global COVID-19 summit
Biden responds to 1 million deaths milestone as he participates in 2nd Global COVID-19 summit
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Washington Examiner, USA Today, Uniic Media, CBS News, al.com, CNN and WAMU
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Ukrainian Forces Hold the Line in Donbas as Western Heavy Weapons Join the Battle — With Russia failing to achieve a strategic breakthrough, a long and bloody battle for eastern Ukraine looms — MARYINKA, Ukraine—The front line between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed forces has skirted …
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Vox and The Conversation
National Review:
America's Crisis of Self-Doubt — W — e live in an age of increasing national self-doubt. — The American project, as such, is under assault. Our history is the subject of a revisionist critique that is all-encompassing, unsparing, and very often flatly inaccurate.
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Fox News, The Hill, The Guardian, HuffPost and Althouse
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Chuck Schumer's Political Malpractice — Pennsylvania's GOP discovers the downside of crazy — Before we get to Chuck Schumer's latest episode of legislative bumf***ery, I want to call your attention to what's happening in Pennsylvania, where the GOP is belatedly discovering the downside of sleeping with the crazy.
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The Coop Scoop, New York Magazine and Jezebel
Dan Newman / San Francisco Chronicle:
Six ways Democrats need to start talking — and thinking — about crime — In politics, what people feel is what's real. — Democrats have a dangerous predilection for getting bogged down in statistics, defensively pointing at facts — treating political disagreements like Oxford-style debates.
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Toledo Blade
Jason Wilson / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Exclusive: Oath Keepers Leader Stewart Rhodes' Children Speak — Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the antigovernment Oath Keepers organization, was, at the time of publication, in federal custody awaiting trial for his alleged role in orchestrating events at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.
Patrick Hauf / Washington Free Beacon:
Yes, Safe Smoking Kits Include Free Crack Pipes. We Know Because We Got Them. — Crack pipes are distributed in safe-smoking kits up and down the East Coast, raising questions about the Biden administration's assertion that its multimillion-dollar harm reduction grant program wouldn't funnel taxpayer dollars to drug paraphernalia.
Lacie Pierson / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Ten incumbent lawmakers facing ouster from Legislature after primary election — NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED, QUALITY LOCAL JOURNALISM.. — Click #isupportlocal for more information on supporting our local journalists. — Ten members of the West Virginia House of Delegates are poised to be gone …
Project Veritas:
BREAKING: FBI Whistleblower Leaks Document Showing Bureau Targeting ‘News Media’ — Document reveals the FBI labeled Project Veritas as “news media,” and categorized the probe as a “Sensitive Investigative Matter” due to Veritas being journalists. This is a direct contradiction …
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YouTube, Power Line and American Greatness
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Illegal migrants first to get ‘pallets’ of hard-to-find baby formula — The nationwide shortage of baby formula that has sent moms desperately rushing from store to store has evaded one lucky group: illegal immigrants detained by the border patrol. — According to videos posted by a Florida lawmaker …
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Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Ace of Spades HQ, The Federalist, Townhall, The Daily Wire and Fox News
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Psaki: Threats to family were ‘most personally difficult’ part of press secretary job — Outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday described in personal terms her 16-month tenure as President Joe Biden's top spokesperson and the strains of the job, telling a group of reporters …
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Townhall
David Horovitz / The Times of Israel:
The narratives are set in the death of Shireen Abu Akleh. We need the truth — A veteran reporter was killed in the course of her work while clearly identified as ‘Press,’ How? Who by? Many of us think we can figure out the answers, but we don't actually know — David Horovitz
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CNN, Haaretz, nationalinterest.org and New York Times
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Wholesale inflation rose 11% in April as producer prices keep accelerating — Producer prices at the wholesale level rose 11% over the past year and 0.5% in April alone, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. — Weekly jobless claims were little changed …
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Washington Examiner, HotAir, Wall Street Journal, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart and WTOP News
Sonny Bunch / The Bulwark:
Traipsing Through the Vaster Wasteland — On Netflix, HBO Max, and thirst in the desert. — More than 60 years ago, FCC chairman Newton Minow delivered a speech in which he famously described television as a “vast wasteland” of meretricious nonsense. Minow wasn't inherently anti-boob-tube …