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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Most Extremist Violence in the U.S. Comes From the Political Right  —  The Buffalo killings are part of a pattern: Most extremist violence in the U.S. comes from the political right.  —  Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists.
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Republican Senate candidates promote ‘replacement’ theory  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A half-dozen mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the “great replacement” conspiracy theory once confined to the far-right fringes of U.S. politics to court voters this campaign season …
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots  —  Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Thursday.  Unless.  You know.  —  Oh Elon  —  Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and an active Twitter user.  When he tweets, he gets a lot of spammy replies, many of which seem to be written by automated bots.
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New York Times:
Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘cannot move forward’ without more information.  —  Mr. Musk called on Twitter to provide more data about the number of spam and fake accounts on the social media site.  —  Elon Musk, chaos agent.  —  Mr. Musk, the world's richest man, continued creating confusion around …
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Politico:
Hill Dems back-burner Ginni Thomas even as Supreme Court grabs national attention
Discussion: Raw Story
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Twitter engineer recorded saying ‘Commie as f-k’ staff ‘censors the right’  —  A senior Twitter engineer has been secretly recorded admitting that the social media giant is “censoring the right” — and that he and his co-workers are “Commie as f-k.”  —  “Twitter does not believe in free speech …
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Nicholas Grossman / The Bulwark:   “Free Speech” Ought to Mean More than Mocking Trans People
U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department Sues to Compel a U.S. Businessperson to Register Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act  —  Complaint Alleges That Stephen A. Wynn Lobbied the Then-President and Former Administration Officials at the Request of the People's Republic of China
Wall Street Journal:
China Eastern Black Box Points to Intentional Nosedive  —  Flight data suggests someone in cockpit pushed Boeing 737-800 into near-vertical descent, according to a preliminary U.S. assessment  —  Search-and-rescue workers in March sorted through aircraft debris at the China Eastern crash site in southern China.
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ABC News:
Chinese plane crash that killed 132 caused by intentional act: US officials
Discussion: Bloomberg
Bernadette Hogan / New York Post:
Bill de Blasio eyeing run at newly drawn NY seat Jerrold Nadler has left behind  —  Just when you thought he was out ...  Ex-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a state lawmaker he plans to run for New York's newly drawn 10th Congressional district — the seat entrenched Rep. Jerrold Nadler …
Discussion: Mediaite, All and Political Wire
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Washington Post:   Georgia elections board dismisses allegations of ballot harvesting
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Senior Trump official at State met with election denial activists Jan. 6  —  The confirmation of the meeting provides new evidence of the success that the president's allies had in gaining access to top administration officials  —  On Jan. 6, 2021, around the time that thousands …
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Political Wire
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Powell says the Fed will not hesitate to keep raising rates until inflation comes down  — Fed Chair Jerome Powell said he will back interest rate increases until prices start falling back toward a healthy level.  — “If that involves moving past broadly understood levels of neutral …
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Retail sales rise 0.9% in April as consumers show resilience
Discussion: Al Jazeera and WTOP News
Walter Shapiro / Roll Call:
Biden's ‘MAGA Republicans’ is a meh-ga slogan  —  Democrats are ensnared in the campaign consultant trap  —  It is a Washington ritual so old that it probably dates back to the era when senators lived in boarding houses and any stray citizen could wander into the White House.
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
Kamala Harris wants to get out of D.C. more.  But she literally can't.  —  On Sunday afternoon, Vice President Kamala Harris led an American delegation to the United Arab Emirates to express condolences after the death of the federation's president.  By Monday morning, she was on her way home.
HuffPost:
Fake Wisconsin Trump Electors, Already Under DOJ Investigation, Now Face Civil Suit, Too  —  The lawsuit accuses 10 Trump supporters of engaging in fraud and conspiracy for filling out paperwork claiming to be “duly elected.”  —  By S.V. Date  —  The fake Donald Trump electors …
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Pentagon now reports about 400 UFO encounters: 'We want to know what's out there'  —  Officials are “reasonably” sure pyramid-shaped objects in one video were drones.  —  Top Pentagon officials told a House panel on Tuesday that there are now close to 400 reports from military personnel …
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
UFO hearing features historic testimony from Pentagon officials
Discussion: The Hill, The Register, WISH-TV and Politico
Adam Staten / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Jr. Throws Cold Water on Finland Joining NATO  —  Donald Trump Jr., a prominent and vocal member of the MAGA crowd, has some concerns when it comes to Finland possibly joining NATO.  —  On Monday morning, Trump Jr. shared his thoughts on the possibility that the European country …
Discussion: CNN and RedState
Shawn Hubler / New York Times:
With Plunging Enrollment, a ‘Seismic Hit’ to Public Schools  —  The pandemic has supercharged the decline in the nation's public school system in ways that experts say will not easily be reversed.  —  ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — In New York City, the nation's largest school district has lost some 50,000 students over the past two years.
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Living With The Far-Right Insurgency In Idaho  —  A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty.  Some wonder: Is it time to leave?  —  IDAHO — White nationalist Vincent James Foxx had a new video for his nearly 70,000 subscribers …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Ukraine aid splinters the GOP  —  The Republican establishment is striking back against a right flank attempt to turn its opposition to Ukraine aid into an “America First” talking point.  —  Congress' nearly $40 billion package of help for the war-torn nation is taking heat from a growing number …
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Buffalo shooting spotlights America's tragic race and gun failures.  But we can't give up.  —  In Buffalo we see the tragic intersection of vile ‘Great Replacement’ rhetoric, a disturbed mind and a zealous gun lobby.  But no right is absolute.  —  Way back when Groupon and Living Social coupons …
Daniel Bergner / New York Times:
Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics.  She Decided to Live With Her Voices.  —  A new movement wants to shift mainstream thinking away from medication and toward greater acceptance.  —  Caroline Mazel-Carlton began hearing voices when she was in day care.  Mornings, by the time she was in middle school …
Discussion: Freddie deBoer, Power Line and Althouse
David Badash / Raw Story:
Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high  —  Take a walk through U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers' tweets and you'll find complaint after complaint about the price of gas.  Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, Republican of Washington …
Discussion: HotAir and Washington Times
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Double Jeopardy: Princeton Prepares To Axe Star Professor Who Raised Hell Over Woke Lunacy  —  Ivy League school leans on second investigation into Joshua Katz's decade-old consensual relationship with a student  —  Princeton University is planning to fire one of the most distinguished classics professors …
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep. Pushes Bizarre Bill to ‘Expunge’ Trump's Jan. 6 Impeachment  —  Rep. Markwayne Mullin, who is a Senate hopeful in Oklahoma, wants to overturn the House's vote to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 riot. … Congressional Republicans have found yet another way to demonstrate …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Washington Post:
Suspect in Buffalo rampage cited ‘ecofascism’ to justify actions
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Bloomberg:
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Where in the world is David Perdue?
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
Canceled: Senate Dems Nix ‘Disinformation’ Hearing After Embarrassing Jankowicz Videos Surface
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
David Covucci / The Daily Dot:
EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Service was worried Trump would get hit with a milkshake
Discussion: Raw Story
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Supreme Court makes it easier for rich donors to bankroll candidates
Discussion: Forbes
Brian Broome / Washington Post:
Opinion Black people want the hate to stop. But it is only getting worse.
Discussion: Twitchy and Buffalo News
Jessica Brown / WXIA-TV:
Early voting for Georgia's 2022 primary election continues with record turnout
Discussion: National Review
 Earlier Items: 
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
‘A trial about privilege’: Durham and Sussmann lawyers clash in opening to trial
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Buffalo Blame Game
Discussion: HotAir and Based Politics
Reuters:
Russian parliament to consider ban on exchanging Ukrainian Azov prisoners
Discussion: The Hill and nationalinterest.org
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry files for extension on statement of economic interests until after Aug. 9 primary
Jeffrey Schweers / Orlando Sentinel:
DeSantis doles out millions but fails to mention it mostly comes from Uncle Sam
National Review:
The Buffalo Massacre  —  After an atrocity such as Saturday's mass murder at a Buffalo supermarket …
US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Expands Eligibility for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Dose to Children 5 through 11 Years