Top Items:
![](/220515/i63.jpg)
A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P. — Replacement theory, espoused by the suspect in the Buffalo massacre, has been embraced by some right-wing politicians and commentators. — Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history …
Discussion:
Media Matters for America, The Daily Beast, Jezebel, NewsNation, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Esquire, Raw Story, Townhall, Breitbart, The Signorile Report, Raw Story, The Western Journal, NPR, Patterico's Pontifications, The Daily Caller, NorthJersey.com, Substack, The Guardian, Deseret News, City & State New York, WCDC-TV, Takes & Re-Takes, Mediaite, Reason, Talking Points Memo, Twitchy, The Nation, RedState, Popular Information, The Present Age, The Daily Wire, TheGrio, Daily Kos, Nothing's New Under …, GoozNews, Mediaite, The Kitchen Pundit, Burkefile, Strangely Blogged, Raw Story, BizPac Review, Heartsong, WFLA-TV, HuffPost, CNN, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Footnotes and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
![](/220516/i57.jpg)
Opinion How Elise Stefanik and the GOP sanitize ‘great replacement’ ugliness — Nothing gets Republicans like Rep. Elise Stefanik angrier than reciting their own words back to them at a politically inconvenient moment. So it is that the New York lawmaker is lashing out at critics who have noted …
Discussion:
Newsweek, CBS News, Raw Story, Truth and Consequences, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
![](/220516/i34.jpg)
State Senator Who Backs White Nationalism Suggests Buffalo Shooting Was False Flag — Arizona GOP Sen. Wendy Rogers promoted a deranged conspiracy theory after 10 people were killed in what authorities say was a racist hate crime. — A Republican state lawmaker with ties to white nationalists suggested …
Discussion:
NPR, Raw Story, The Hill, City & State New York and Insider
![](/220516/i74.jpg)
Yes, Tucker Carlson Shares Blame for the Buffalo Supermarket Attack
Discussion:
The Western Journal and The Racket News
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Toxic Ideas Can Have Fatal Consequences
Toxic Ideas Can Have Fatal Consequences
Discussion:
Associated Press, The Nation, The Guardian and ABC News
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Buffalo Shooter's Racist ‘Great Replacement’ Theory Has Been Mainstreamed By GOP
Buffalo Shooter's Racist ‘Great Replacement’ Theory Has Been Mainstreamed By GOP
Discussion:
The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, Rolling Stone and Deseret News
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Cheney says GOP has ‘enabled’ racism. Here's what she's talking about.
Cheney says GOP has ‘enabled’ racism. Here's what she's talking about.
Discussion:
NPR, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, NBC News, Talking Points Memo, USA Today and Insider
![](/220516/i58.jpg)
The Supreme Court just made it much easier to bribe a member of Congress — A case brought by Ted Cruz is a huge boon to rich candidates and moneyed lobbyists. — The Supreme Court's conservative majority has been at war with campaign finance laws for more than a dozen years …
Discussion:
National Review and Conservative Brief
RELATED:
![](/220516/i39.jpg)
Yuuuuge SCOTUS news: Ted Cruz can keep fundraising
Discussion:
Fox News, National Review, ABC News and Washington Examiner
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court agrees with Cruz, strikes campaign contribution limit
Supreme Court agrees with Cruz, strikes campaign contribution limit
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, WTOP News, Bloomberg, SCOTUSblog, UPI, Washington Times, CBS News, Raw Story and Insider
![](/220516/i79.jpg)
Musk Says Twitter Deal at Lower Price Is ‘Not Out of the Question’ — Elon Musk stoked speculation that he could seek to renegotiate his takeover of Twitter Inc., saying a viable deal at a lower price wouldn't be “out of the question.” — Twitter shares briefly pared losses in afternoon trading.
Discussion:
HotAir, Axios, Yahoo News, Twitchy and CBS News, more at Techmeme »
RELATED:
![](/220516/i73.jpg)
Sen. Cynthia Lummis apologizes after ‘two sexes’ comment evokes jeers, boos at UW commencement — A University of Wyoming commencement speaker has apologized after a controversial statement she made in reference to sex and gender Saturday evoked jeers by some in attendance.
RELATED:
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Cynthia Lummis Booed For ‘Two Sexes’ Claim During Commencement Speech
![](/220516/i50.jpg)
How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus? — The spread of the Omicron variant has given scientists an unsettling answer: repeatedly, sometimes within months. — A virus that shows no signs of disappearing, variants that are adept at dodging the body's defenses …
Discussion:
HotAir
![](/220516/i70.jpg)
Draft house maps released by special master — The map seems to spell bad news for New York Democrats, who could have more competitive general elections than ever. — The court appointed, neutral special master tasked with redrawing New York's Congressional and state Senate district maps released …
Discussion:
Axios, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Hill and Fox News
RELATED:
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Court's Redistricting Plan Erases Democratic House Gains in New York
Court's Redistricting Plan Erases Democratic House Gains in New York
Discussion:
TheBlaze and New York Post
![](/220516/i44.jpg)
Ketanji Brown Jackson on being a ‘first’ and why she loves ‘Survivor’ — The justice-designate spoke with The Post about her career, values and historic confirmation to the high court — On a recent morning, Ketanji Brown Jackson spent an hour doing one of her favorite things: talking about the law with young people.
Discussion:
Insider, Townhall, RedState, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Examiner, The Hill and BizPac Review
![](/220516/i29.jpg)
Miami's mayor backed MiamiCoin crypto—then its price dropped 95% — On Feb. 2, the city of Miami cashed out its cryptocurrency MiamiCoin for the first time, depositing $5.25 million into city coffers. Miami mayor Francis Suarez hailed it as a “historic moment” and predicted the cryptocurrency …
Discussion:
Garbage Day, more at Techmeme »
![](/220516/i31.jpg)
Biden Approves Plan to Redeploy Several Hundred Ground Forces Into Somalia — The president also signed off on targeting about a dozen Shabab leaders in the war-torn country, from which Donald J. Trump largely withdrew in his final weeks in office. — WASHINGTON — President Biden has signed …
Discussion:
Al Jazeera, Defense One, ABC News, Washington Examiner, Fox News, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review, Human Events, CNBC, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, UPI, Eunomia, The Dossier and The Hill
![](/220516/i42.jpg)
Sweden ends neutrality, joins Finland in seeking NATO berth — STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's prime minister announced Monday that Sweden will join Finland in seeking NATO membership in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a historic shift that comes after more than 200 years of military nonalignment in the Nordic country.
Discussion:
The Moscow Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, CNBC, Politico, CBS News, The Hill, Breitbart, Al Jazeera, Denver Post, New York Times and Political Wire
![](/220516/i56.jpg)
WHCA Threatens Reporter Who Interrupted Psaki Briefing With Possible Expulsion in Scathing Email — A reporter who interrupted Friday's White House press briefing has been threatened with suspension or expulsion from the White House Correspondents Association were he to do the same again.
Discussion:
New York Post and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
![](/220516/i51.jpg)
Exclusive: Kathy Barnette Refuses to Support GOP Nominee for Senate if It Is Not Her — GOP U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette in an interview on Monday morning refused to support the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania if she does not win the nomination on Tuesday.
Discussion:
HotAir and Wall Street Journal
![](/220516/i62.jpg)
Ben Bernanke Sees ‘Stagflation’ Ahead — The former chairman of the Federal Reserve has a new book out on Tuesday explaining the powers of the Fed and Congress to juice or slow our economy amid a supply-chain crunch and sky-high demand. — Standing in his kitchen one morning in Washington …
Discussion:
Insider, CNBC, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Examiner and Fortune
![](/220516/i64.jpg)
Opinion The Washington Post guide to writing an opinion article … Each month, The Washington Post publishes dozens of op-eds from guest authors. These articles — written by subject-matter experts, politicians, journalists and other people with something interesting to say …
Discussion:
Althouse
![](/220516/i38.jpg)
A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime — How the Russian occupation transformed life in Melitopol. … It was still dark on the morning of February 24th when Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of Melitopol, a midsize city in southern Ukraine, awoke to the sound of explosions.
![](/220516/i69.jpg)
The GW Commencement Controversy: A Response To Rep. Susan Wild — This weekend, I was unable to attend our law school graduation after traveling to Utah to speak to the Federal Bar Association. I have only missed a couple of graduations in almost 30 years of teaching.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner and Twitchy
![](/220516/i33.jpg)
We're Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here's How Facebook Killed News Feed Fixes Over Fear of Conservative Backlash. — Facebook said it did not “build and withhold any News Feed changes based on potential impact on any one political party.” Internal documents say otherwise. — Alerts
![](/220516/i52.jpg)
Trump partially restricts himself from using Twitter — Former President Trump plans to partially restrict himself from using Twitter, according to a new federal securities filing from the blank check company taking his social network, Truth Social, public.
![](/220516/i82.jpg)
Trump's campaign committee dodges penalty as federal watchdog deadlocks on complaint it laundered hundreds of millions of dollars — The Federal Election Commission has “evenly divided” on a case involving Donald Trump's 2020 re-election committee. — A complaint alleged …
![](/220516/i84.jpg)
Madison Cawthorn Doesn't Belong in Congress — By one, and only one, metric has Madison Cawthorn succeeded in his first term in Congress — gaining notoriety. — That's enough for backbench Republicans to become huge stars these days, but it may well lead to Cawthorn's defeat …
Discussion:
Insider and Wall Street Journal
![](/220516/i53.jpg)
Exclusive: Former top Republican lawmaker in Colorado received leak of voting data — A former Republican minority leader of the Colorado legislature is among the recipients of a trove of sensitive voting data leaked by a county official working with an activist seeking to prove President …
Discussion:
Political Wire
![](/220516/i8.jpg)
What everyone gets wrong about evangelicals and abortion — Evangelicals started speaking out against legal abortion long before the late 1970s — In the wake of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s leaked draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, a familiar narrative has emerged.