memeorandum: Pass and Enforce Red Flag Laws. Now. (David French/The French Press)

9:05 AM ET, May 25, 2022

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Live Updates: ‘We Have to Act,’ Biden Says After 21 Killed at Texas Elementary School — It was the deadliest school shooting since the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Conn. — 19 children and two adults are killed in a Texas elementary school shooting, the authorities say.

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ABC13:

Death toll in Texas elementary school shooting rises; 19 children, 2 adults killed by shooter — The suspect was identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School — Death toll rises to 22, mostly children, in TX school shooting — UVALDE, Texas …

Discussion: New York Times, The Daily Beast, KSAT-TV, San Antonio Express-News, ABC7, The Sun, BBC, Shore News Network, The Wrap, Josh off The Press, Breitbart and NewsNation

Washington Post:

Biden urges end to ‘carnage’ of gun violence after 19 children killed at Texas school … President Biden on Tuesday evening urged Congress to end the “carnage” of gun violence after more than a dozen elementary schoolchildren were killed by an 18-year-old in Texas.

Discussion: The Guardian, Boston.com, CNN, The Wrap, Insider, Rolling Stone and Axios

St. John Barned-Smith / Houston Chronicle:

Uvalde school shooting: Teen gunman bought AR-15 style rifle day after he turned 18 — Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate — The gunman who authorities say killed 21 people in a South Texas community - 19 of them elementary school students - legally purchased two rifles …

Discussion: The White House, Insider, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Mediaite and Breitbart

Washington Post:

Gunman was bullied as a child, grew increasingly violent, friends say — Relatives, classmates describe fraught relationship with mother and a troubling pattern of acting out — The gunman in Tuesday's elementary school massacre was a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Click2Houston.com, New York Post and Insider

Associated Press:

Gunman kills 19 children, 2 teachers in Texas school rampage — UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a classroom, “shooting anyone that was in his way,” an official said Wednesday …

Discussion: Washington Examiner and Florida Politics

Washington Post:

At least 19 children, 2 teachers killed at Texas elementary school — UVALDE, Tex. — A gunman wearing body armor and carrying a rifle killed at least 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in this Texas city on Tuesday, authorities said. — It was the deadliest mass shooting …

Discussion: Kyodo News+ and TheBlaze

Claire Goforth / The Daily Dot:

EXCLUSIVE: 'That's the picture of him buying a gun': Uvalde mass shooting suspect bought an AR-15 online last week — The Uvalde, Texas mass shooter frequently posted about guns and purchased a rifle online days ago. — Authorities say that 18 children and one teacher were killed …

Discussion: Dallas Morning News, Yahoo News, The Daily Beast, Insider, The Texas Tribune, BizPac Review, The Wrap and MEL Magazine

Bari Weiss / Common Sense:

American Madness — On the mass murder of children in Texas. — My sister is a teacher in America, which means she has had to teach her fourth grade students about how to defend themselves against people who might walk into her public school with guns. Once, during a false alarm …

Bill Bostock / Insider:
Texas Republicans made it easier to buy and carry guns months before 19 kids were shot and killed at an elementary school

Discussion: New York Times, Insider and HuffPost

NBC News:
19 children, 2 teachers killed in Texas elementary school shooting

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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
‘Spare me the bullshit’: Sen. Chris Murphy rips GOP colleagues after Texas shooting

Discussion: New York Post, ABC News, Insider, Raw Story, The Hill, USA Today and The Daily Wire

Matthew Loh / Insider:
GOP Rep. Paul Gosar spread a baseless transphobic rumor that the Uvalde school shooting suspect was a ‘transsexual leftist illegal alien’

Discussion: Insider, Associated Press and Washington Examiner

Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Texas AG facing runoff says banning guns for public safety ‘ridiculous’ after school shooting

Discussion: Raw Story, Mother Jones, National Review, Politico and Mediaite

Jaclyn Diaz / NPR:
27 school shootings have taken place so far this year

Discussion: PinkNews, Al Jazeera, The Sun, Our Reality Show, Vox, PennLive and Los Angeles Times

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

'We're going to go f—ing scorched-earth': How Brian Kemp crushed Trump in Georgia — When Brian Kemp's top donors huddled with the Georgia governor and his lieutenants at Atlanta's Capital City Club earlier this year, they had reason to worry that his political career was about to come to an end.

Discussion: The Hill, New York Times, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, Breitbart, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Recorder, Fox News, Bloomberg, New York Post, Washington Examiner and Shore News Network

New York Times:
Trump Vowed Vengeance, but Georgia Voters Rejected His Meddling

Discussion: The Dispatch, Reuters, Raw Story and Voice of America

Washington Post:
Donald Trump recalibrates his standing in GOP after primary setbacks

Discussion: NBC News, The Dispatch, New York Times and Shore News Network

CNN:
Fact check: Herschel Walker falsely claims he never falsely claimed he graduated from University of Georgia

Discussion: NBC News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and HotAir

Politico:
Kemp notches huge primary win in Georgia as Cuellar tries to hang on in Texas

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, PinkNews, Articles Archive, The Dispatch, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, East Bay Times, CNN, Bloomberg, Political Wire and CNBC

NBC News:
Georgia Governor Primary Election Results

Discussion: New York Times, Politico, The Colorado Sun, Townhall, Boston.com, Talking Points Memo, National Review, Raw Story and East Bay Times

David French / The French Press:

Pass and Enforce Red Flag Laws. Now. — We know they can save lives. — I was intending to write about the Georgia Republican primary, but then—just as I was walking back to my hotel—I saw the horrific news out of Uvalde, Texas. Another school shooting. Another elementary school.

Discussion: Roy Edroso Breaks It Down and Outside the Beltway

David Frum / The Atlantic:

America's Hands Are Full of Blood — Thoughts and prayers. It began as a cliché. It became a joke. It has putrefied into a national shame. — If tonight, Americans do turn heavenward in pain and grief for the lost children of Uvalde, Texas, they may hear the answer delivered in the Bible through the words of Isaiah:

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post and ABC13

Ryan Busse / The Bulwark: Even the Gun Industry Knew We Would End Up Here

Stephen Fowler / Georgia Public Broadcasting:

Raffensperger declares victory over election denialism in Georgia GOP Secretary of State's race — Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger narrowly won his primary Tuesday against Trump-backed Jody Hice and other challengers. — Incumbent Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger …

Discussion: Washington Post, Mediaite, Election Law Blog, New York Magazine, HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, The Hill, Shore News Network, Politico, CNN, Associated Press, NPR, Peach State Politics …, Insider and WTOP News

Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Brad Raffensperger, targeted by Trump, wins Ga. GOP primary for secretary of state

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Brookings, National Review and Los Angeles Times

Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:

Why conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Marjorie Taylor Greene just easily won her primary — ‘Shocked!’: Black Georgians on being represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene — According to NBC News projections, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has won the Republican primary in Georgia's 14th …

Discussion: New York Post, Raw Story, RedState, National Review, East Bay Times, Washington Examiner and WTOP News

Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Marjorie Taylor Greene wins her primary, dashing establishment G.O.P. hopes.

Discussion: HuffPost, The Daily Caller, Associated Press and Insider

CNN:

‘They were shooting directly at the journalists’: New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces — This story contains a disturbing image. — (CNN)Several shots ring out in quick succession, cutting through a clear, blue spring morning in Jenin, in the West Bank.

Discussion: New York Times, Common Dreams, The Great Awakening, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mediaite and The Times of Israel, more at Mediagazer »

Andrew Kerr / Washington Examiner:

Hunter Biden swiped personal info from his family's phones, laptop data suggests — EXCLUSIVE — Records located on a copy of Hunter Biden's laptop suggest he took personal data from his sister-in-law's cellphones over a dozen times between 2017 and 2018 without her consent …

Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:

The Unanswered Question — If an entire generation thinks the system is broken, might that be a “you” problem? — Believers in American institutions, and the people who control those institutions, should know that they are forging a generation of Americans with no faith in them.

Stef W. Kight / Axios:

Scoop: Tens of thousands of migrants waiting on U.S. doorstep — As many as 50,000 migrants are waiting in Mexican shelters for a chance to cross the border, hoping to run out the clock on Title 42, the COVID-era rule limiting entry to the U.S., according to internal documents reviewed by Axios.

Discussion: NBC News

Jared Yates Sexton / Dispatches From A …:

This is Going to Get Really Ugly, Really Soon — Tucker Carlson and the Right have created imaginary rivals in order to legitimize their antidemocratic actions — To watch Tucker Carlson Tonight is to punish yourself. Tucker Carlson's act is obnoxiously acidic. The sneering cruelty.

Discussion: Mediaite

The Guardian:

'I'm never going back': the high-profile Russian defectors rejecting war — Gazprombank's Igor Volobuyev and diplomat Boris Bondarev are among the Russian elite to oppose Putin's invasion of Ukraine — gor Volobuyev spent two decades working in the heart of the Russian business establishment …

BBC:

North Korea fires missiles hours after Biden leaves Asia — North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles early Wednesday morning, South Korea's military has said. — Authorities in Seoul said the missiles were fired in the space of less than an hour from the Sunan area in Pyongyang.

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Jay Michaelson / Rolling Stone:

The Right-Wing Lie That's Killing Our Children — Republicans have twisted the 2nd Amendment to suit their extremist purposes, blocking sensible checks on gun ownership and enabling the unceasing procession of mass shootings — In 2014, after a mass shooting in California …

Discussion: Letters from an American