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2:30 PM ET, May 19, 2022

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Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
US intel shows Russians fear Mariupol abuse will backfire  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has gathered intelligence that shows some Russian officials have become concerned that Russian forces in the ravaged port city of Mariupol are carrying out grievous abuses, a U.S official familiar with the findings said Wednesday.
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Timothy Snyder / New York Times:
Russia's War on Ukraine Shows That It Is Fascist  —  Dr. Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of many books on fascism, totalitarianism and European history.  —  Fascism was never defeated as an idea.  —  As a cult of irrationality and violence …
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor  —  The Fox News host often ridicules the president's son, but years ago, the two were close  —  Tucker Carlson and his wife were looking to get their son a leg up in his college application to Georgetown University when they turned …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:   NBC scoop: Hunter's laptop shows he made million$ off China, Ukraine while The Big Guy was VP
Tina Nguyen / Puck:
Trump Forgot How to Spell MAGA  —  Has the movement Trump created now moved beyond him?  —  The last time Donald Trump gave a speech that truly roused his supporters was on January 6th, 2021.  As he stood behind a wall of bulletproof glass in front of tens of thousands of roaring MAGA fans …
Discussion: Raw Story and Power Line
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Is the Democratic Party Giving Up Already? … The Democratic Party has a lot of problems right now.  Many of these problems lie outside its control: A global wave of inflation and continuing waves of coronavirus infection have prevented the recovery Joe Biden imagined when he took office last year …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Dems stand back and watch Chuck and Joe show
Discussion: Insider
The Hill:
Speculation over whether Biden will run again heats up
Discussion: HotAir
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
These 14 states had significant miscounts in the 2020 census  —  Loading...  For the 2020 census, all states were not counted equally well for population numbers used to allocate political representation and federal funding over the next decade, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released Thursday.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Elon Musk says he doesn't plan to donate to GOP super PACs in upcoming elections — despite feud with Biden  — “No super PAC anything going on,” Elon Musk said when asked if he plans to finance a super PAC in the upcoming elections.  — Musk didn't respond to follow up emails when asked …
Discussion: The Hill and Mercury News
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Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher.  Now's He's Collecting Unemployment.  —  Behind the fall of David Sabatini, ‘one of the greatest scientists’ of his generation.  —  In 2018, David Sabatini was a world-renowned molecular biologist.  He was a tenured professor at MIT.
The Economist:
The coming food catastrophe  —  War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger.  Fixing that is everyone's business  —  By invading ukraine, Vladimir Putin will destroy the lives of people far from the battlefield—and on a scale even he may regret.  The war is battering …
New York Times:
Oklahoma Legislature Passes Bill Banning Almost All Abortions  —  The legislation would be the nation's strictest, and relies on lawsuits from private citizens to enforce it.  If the governor signs the bill, it would take effect immediately.  —  The Oklahoma Legislature gave final approval …
Discussion: Associated Press
Kyle Clark / KUSA-TV:
GOP candidate for Colorado governor says eliminate one-person, one-vote system  —  Under Greg Lopez's proposal, the 2018 gubernatorial race would have been a runaway win for Republicans, who lost the actual race by double-digits.  —  DENVER — Coloradans have elected just one Republican governor in the last 50 years.
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors and Raw Story
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Two-thirds say don't overturn Roe; the court leak is firing up Democratic voters  —  About two-thirds of Americans say they do not support overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
BBC:
MI5 agent used secret status to terrorise girlfriend  —  An MI5 spy used his status to terrorise his partner before moving abroad to continue intelligence work while under investigation, the BBC has found.  —  A video shows the man threatening to kill the woman and attacking her with a machete.
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Turnout booms in Georgia primary, led by resurgent Republicans  —  GOP voters flood polling places in a midterm without Trump  —  In Georgia's first post-Trump primary election, unprecedented waves of voters have already swept into polling places — most of them Republicans.
AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:
More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments  —  Borrowers with limited or troubled credit histories are defaulting on credit cards, car loans and personal loans  —  Consumers with low credit scores are falling behind on payments for car loans, personal loans and credit cards …
Discussion: News Items
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Fetus-powered street lamps?  Republicans ramp up outrageous anti-abortion lies ahead of Roe's demise  —  During a House hearing, the GOP demonized patients and doctors with QAnon-style conspiracy theories  —  It was only one half-hour into Wednesday's congressional hearing on abortion access …
Emily Flitter / New York Times:
At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews  —  Black and female candidates are sometimes interviewed after the recipient of a job is identified, current and former employees say.  —  Joe Bruno, a former executive in the wealth management division of Wells Fargo …
Discussion: New York Post
David Roth / Defector:
The Secret History Of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko  —  When he came off the mound on Sept. 30, 1988 after finishing off his eighth complete game and 20th win of the season, David Cone high-fived his teammates and walked into the home dugout unaware of what awaited him.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Orban tells right-wing CPAC allies to recruit ‘troops’ to ‘reconquer’ American institutions  —  On Thursday, according to U.S. News & World Report, far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest that liberals are threatening Western civilization …
Discussion: Reuters, Washington Times and WITF
Associated Press:
Wall Street Appears Headed For Another Rocky Day  —  Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine and a slowdown in China's economy have caused investors to reconsider the prices they're willing to pay for a wide range of stocks.  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street headed …
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Records: Oxford school shooting suspect hoped massacre would get Biden impeached  —  The parents of the Oxford school shooting suspect are worried that politics may hurt their chance at getting a fair trial, particularly given what their son allegedly wrote in his journal about President Joe Biden.
Discussion: Raw Story
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
GOP-Led Legislation Would Force Breakup of Google's Ad Business  —  The bill, which has some Democratic support, takes aim at conflicts of interest in the advertising technology industry  —  A bipartisan group of senators led by Utah Republican Mike Lee introduced legislation Thursday …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Pete Williams to retire from NBC News after epic Washington career  —  A former Pentagon spokesman, Williams made the unusual move 29 years ago to return to hard-news reporting.  Many historic scoops followed.  —  A jolt went through Washington when the news broke just before noon on Jan. 26 …
New York Times:
Livestreams of Mass Shootings: From Buffalo to New Zealand  —  Dozens of recordings of a 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, remain online, in a sobering reminder of the internet's permanence.  —  The one-minute 30-second video offers an unnerving first-person view.  A man strides across a parking lot.
Seth Masket / Mischiefs of Faction:
A Really Rough Forecast for Democrats.  Probably.  —  A few months ago, I did a simple forecast model for the 2022 midterms, suggesting Democrats were in for a rough year.  We have some newer economic data since then, and the model looks considerably worse for the Democrats.
Discussion: The Hill
Louis Jacobson / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Battle for State Legislatures  —  Dear Readers: Crystal Ball Senior Columnist Louis Jacobson is analyzing several categories of state-level races for us this cycle.  After taking a first look at attorney general and secretary of state races, he is now assessing the battles for state legislatures this year.
 
 
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Laura Jedeed / New York Magazine:
The ReAwaken America Tour Is the Start of QAnon 2.0
Discussion: Raw Story
Ed Shanahan / New York Times:
911 Dispatcher May Be Fired Over Handling of Buffalo Shooting Call
Discussion: Rolling Stone and CBS News
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Senate passes $40 billion in Ukraine aid, sending bill to Biden
Daniel M. Rothschild / Discourse:
The YIMBYest City in America
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
Nicole Hemmer / New York Times:
What Oprah Winfrey Knows About American History That Tucker Carlson Doesn't
Discussion: Mediaite
Chantal Da Silva / NBC News:
Illinois becomes first Midwest state to ban ‘ghost guns’
Discussion: Insider, HuffPost and NBC Chicago
Benjamin Wermund / San Antonio Express-News:
Rep. Henry Cuellar's allies smear Democratic contender Jessica Cisneros with ‘homewrecker’ billboard
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
How Ted Cruz Became a ‘Blatantly Cynical’ Election Law Troll
Discussion: Raw Story and The Atlantic
Front Page Magazine:
Why Tucker Carlson and the Isolationist Right Are Wrong
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Words aren't magic  —  The most important part of “messaging” is picking defensible policies
Discussion: Gideon's Substack
Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal:
China Insists Party Elites Shed Overseas Assets, Eyeing Western Sanctions on Russia
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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