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12:00 PM ET, May 17, 2022

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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.

Discussion: Silver Linings

Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:

Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting — Suspect was allegedly motivated by the theory, but network has barely mentioned gunman's reasoning, even after Tucker Carlson pushed the concept in more than 400 of his shows

Discussion: Media Matters for America, The Hill, American Prospect, Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, BizPac Review, Politico, al.com, Morning Shots, Washington Post and Outside the Beltway

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:

Fox News' Tucker Carlson under fresh scrutiny after Buffalo mass shooting — Fox News personality Tucker Carlson is facing intense scrutiny from extremism experts, media watchdogs and progressive activists who say there is a link between the top-rated host's “great replacement” …

Discussion: New York Times, NPR, Media Matters for America, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Washington Post, The Independent, New York Times, New York Times, HuffPost and Townhall

Annie Karni / New York Times:

Racist Attack Spotlights Stefanik's Echo of Replacement Theory — WASHINGTON — Over the past week, Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, the third-ranking House Republican, has falsely claimed that President Biden is shipping infant formula to undocumented immigrants at the expense of Americans amid a nationwide formula shortage.

Discussion: Washington Post, TheBlaze, Alpha News, Politico, Repro Rights NOW, New Republic, Thats Another Fine Mess, Digby's Hullabaloo, Beyond Polarity, Associated Press, Raw Story, Vanity Fair, Insider and Breitbart

Bonchie / RedState:
Tucker Carlson Responds to Charges He Inspired Buffalo Shooter, Makes His Critics Look Like Childish Ghouls

Discussion: Townhall, The Dispatch, The Blue State Conservative, The Professional Ignoramus and The Daily Caller

New York Times:
Buffalo Shooting: Suspect Lied to Evade a State Red Flag Law

Discussion: Aus dem Internet-Observatorium, The Scroll, Daily Briefing and First Do No Harm

Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Why Tucker Carlson Should Want the Buffalo Manifesto Made Public

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Root, Poynter, Media Matters for America, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Morning Missive and RedState

Kathleen Belew / New York Times:
The Buffalo Shooting and the Danger of White Replacement Theory

Discussion: Civil War Memory, ImmigrationProf Blog, Rolling Stone, Washington Times, POLITICUSUSA and The Wrap

New York Times:
Republicans Play on Fears of ‘Great Replacement’ in Bid for Base Voters

Discussion: pjmedia.com, RedState, Washington Examiner, Mock Paper Scissors, KNSD-TV, NPR and VICE

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 raised further doubts about the future of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on Tuesday …

Discussion: Associated Press, Washington Post, HotAir, Breitbart, Bloomberg, TESLARATI, The Daily Caller, CNN, Gizmodo, Deadline, AppleInsider and Variety, more at Techmeme »

Nicholas Grossman / The Bulwark: “Free Speech” Ought to Mean More than Mocking Trans People

Project Veritas:
Twitter Senior Engineer Talks Elon Musk Takeover in NEW Undercover Video: ‘Twitter Does Not Believe in Free Speech’ ... Admits Employees at Tech Giant are ‘Commie as F**k’

Discussion: New York Post, Breitbart, Big League Politics, BizPac Review, The Last Refuge, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and YouTube

Matthew Loh / Insider: Elon Musk says he'll vote Republican in ‘this election’ despite ‘overwhelmingly’ voting for Democrats in the past

Nika Shakhnazarova / New York Post:

Tax filings reveal how BLM co-founder spent charity funds — Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors used charity funds to pay her brother and child's father eye-watering sums of cash for various services, according to tax documents filed with the IRS.

Discussion: TheGrio

Aaron Morrison / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter has $42 million in assets

Discussion: Associated Press, Fox News, HotAir and Twitchy

Front Page Magazine:
How Black Lives Matter Criminals Were Enabled by the I.R.S. and the Democrat Party

Discussion: Fox News and Washington Examiner

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: Raw Story

Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:

FDA authorizes Pfizer Covid booster for children 5 to 11 years old — FDA to approve Pfizer booster for children aged 5-11 — The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.

Discussion: USA Today, The Hill, KNSD-TV, CBS Miami, Washington Times and STAT

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 — For Immediate Release: — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, CNN, New York Times, Alexander COVID News … and The Gateway Pundit

Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:

Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 Mules Is a Hilarious Mockumentary — A tour de force exploring the limits of how many suckers there are willing to pay for fantasy. — Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 Mules is Plandemic for election truthers. For the non-insane, it's a hilarious mockumentary.

Discussion: GreatAmericanMail's Newsletter

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Russian Atrocities Prompt Bipartisan Push to Expand U.S. War Crimes Law — WASHINGTON — Leading senators of both parties have struck a deal over a draft bill that would expand a 1996 war crimes law to give American courts jurisdiction over cases involving atrocities committed abroad …

Discussion: Muzzle Velocity

Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Estonia's Tough Voice on Ukraine Urges No Compromise With Putin

Discussion: CEPA

Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Putin involved in war ‘at level of colonel or brigadier’, say western sources

Discussion: The Daily Beast, The Times, New York Times, Washington Post and Raw Story

Washington Post:

Inside the Jan. 6 committee, key questions remain as hearings loom — The committee is reckoning with how closely to focus on former president Donald Trump — When the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol gathered for a private retreat last month …

Discussion: Politico, Mother Jones, Mediaite, Raw Story and Political Wire

Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:

FBI Records Reveal Matt Gaetz Was in Chaos Mode as Scandal Broke — Just minutes before Matt Gaetz went on Tucker Carlson the night it was revealed he was under investigation for sex crimes, he was yelling at the FBI. — Fifteen minutes before Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was due …

Discussion: Raw Story

NBC News:

Trump waded into GOP primaries. Democrats hope he sticks around. — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has inserted himself into the Republican primaries this week in Pennsylvania, much to the chagrin of some GOP members there, who think he may have picked the wrong candidates and needlessly shuffled the race.

Discussion: Politico, The Message Box, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN and Political Dictionary

Steven Shepard / Politico:
Big money, Trump and ideological war: 7 big things we're watching in Tuesday's primaries

Discussion: CNN, CNBC, NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, Digby's Hullabaloo, Vox and Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Associated Press:

Sweden signs NATO request, Finland formally endorses move — STOCKHOLM (AP) — Finland's Parliament has overwhelmingly endorsed a bid from the Nordic country's government to join NATO. — Lawmakers at the 200-seat Eduskunta legislature voted 188-8 Tuesday to approve Finland seeking membership …

Discussion: HotAir, Insider, Bloomberg, ITV News, Al Jazeera, Reuters, WTOP News, Alakasa and Foreign Policy

Jon Henley / The Guardian:
Turkey says it will not approve Sweden and Finland joining Nato

Washington Post:

Only 22 saw the Buffalo shooting live. Millions have seen it since. — Tech companies have vowed to remove killers' first-person footage of massacres. But extremists and the morbidly curious have used the Internet to ensure a video of haunting brutality stays online.

Discussion: NBC News, WIVB-TV, Bloomberg, New York Times, Bloomberg, New York Post and Grid News, more at Techmeme »

Washington Post:
Store guard confronted Buffalo suspect during March visit, online account says

Discussion: NBC News, Gizmodo, STEPHANIE MILLER SHOW, New York Times, RAPPLER, Raw Story, New York Post, The Verge, The Hill and Mother Jones

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Tim Wallace / Telegraph:

Bank of England warns of ‘apocalyptic’ global food shortage — Governor Andrew Bailey says he is ‘helpless’ in face of surging inflation — The Governor of the Bank of England has warned of “apocalyptic” global food price rises and said he is “helpless” in the face of surging inflation …

Discussion: Bloomberg and Insider

Associated Press:

FBI investigating Dallas' Koreatown shooting as hate crime — DALLAS (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown and federal officials have launched a hate crime investigation, authorities said Tuesday.

Discussion: NBC News and Associated Press

Jazz Shaw / HotAir:

You may want to watch the House UFO hearing today — We previewed this last week, but now the day has arrived. Shortly after this article goes live, the House “3C” subcommittee on intelligence will open up the first congressional hearing on the subject of UFOs in more than half a century.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Politico, NPR, WGN-TV, WAVY-TV, UPI and Fox News

Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:

White House makes 3rd round of free COVID-19 tests available to order — White House rolls out third release of free, at-home COVID tests — Fox News Flash top headlines for May 17 — The White House has announced a third release of free at-home COVID-19 testing for U.S. residents.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Associated Press and UPI

New York Times:

10 Republicans on President Trump's Sway in Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania — The nostalgia was powerful, and came with a twist. — In the latest Times Opinion focus group, 10 Republican voters in swing states wished for an America before 8 percent inflation, before high gas prices, before the Ukraine war.