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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump is losing his stranglehold on Republicans — When the former president's monomania backfires, he looks weak. But this is not necessarily good news for Biden — ADD TO MYFT — This is not an obituary of Donald Trump. He still has a plausible shot at becoming the first ex-president …
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
David Perdue makes racist remarks about Stacey Abrams as he ends a lackluster campaign. — Mr. Perdue, who badly trails Gov. Brian Kemp in the Republican primary for governor, accused Ms. Abrams of “demeaning her own race” in describing the state's problems.
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Perdue Slumming With Bannon for Votes on Election Eve — He should be embarrassed by his last-ditch attempt to avoid embarrassment at the polls in Tuesday's primary. — Former President Donald Trump's favorite sacrificial Senate lamb, David Perdue, spoke on Monday with one of Trump's indicted-and-pardoned former campaign managers.
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Election deniers want to control the 2024 election. And they're getting closer
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump heads for big rebuke in Tuesday's elections
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Charlotte Clymer / Charlotte's Web Thoughts:
State Farm Gives Up on LGBTQ Rights … Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. — Charlotte Clymer is a writer and LGBTQ advocate. You've probably seen her on Twitter (@cmclymer). This is the podcast version of her blog “Charlotte's Web Thoughts” …
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Caroline Downey / Yahoo News:
State Farm Abandons LGBTQ Children's-Book Program after Whistleblower Email Leak — State Farm, the household-name insurance company, has abandoned its program to distribute LGBTQ-themed books to teachers, community centers, and libraries, explicitly targeting children as young as kindergartners …
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Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
State Farm Drops LGBTQ Kids Books Program After Backlash
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway: Yes. Trump lost — One of Donald Trump's most steadfast aides acknowledges in a new book that the president lost the 2020 election and says he was ill-advised by campaign staff and the election deniers who surrounded him. — “Despite the mountains of money Trump had raised …
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
There Has to Be a Backup Plan. There's a Backup Plan, Right? … On a Tuesday evening in April, nearly half a century after Joe Biden first publicly mused about running for president, an unsettled cross section of the Democratic Establishment assembled at Pinehurst, a golf resort in North Carolina.
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CNN:
Former US soldier now fighting in Ukraine tells of days trapped in ‘house of horrors’ — Special forces vet in Ukraine: ‘It really comes down to good vs. evil’ 03:13 — Irpin, Ukraine (CNN)Kevin, a stocky American in his early 30s, climbs over the charred rubble of a former sauna and shines …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Biaggi Seeks to Block Sean Patrick Maloney's Chosen Path to Re-Election — Mr. Maloney, who leads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, upset some Democrats by opting to run in a district currently represented by a Black congressman. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Eoin Higgins / Salon:
Why is Glenn Greenwald defending Tucker Carlson and the “great replacement”? — Pulitzer-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald is now helping launder Tucker Carlson's white supremacist rhetoric — There's no plausible way to dispute that Fox News host Tucker Carlson is spreading racist conspiracy theories …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Rudy Giuliani stonewalls Capitol attack investigators during lengthy deposition — Trump lawyer testified to panel Friday but declined to discuss involvement of Republicans in bid to overturn election — Donald Trump's onetime attorney Rudy Giuliani testified to the House select committee investigating …
PRRI:
American Bubbles: Politics, Race, and Religion in Americans' Core Friendship Networks — MAPPING AMERICANS' CORE FRIENDSHIP NETWORKS — Mapping Americans' Core Friendship Networks — To better understand the composition of Americans' core friendship networks, PRRI designed a study …
Reuters:
J&J bankruptcy trustee balks at Neal Katyal's $2,465 hourly rate — (Reuters) - The United States is objecting to a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary's bid to add Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal to its legal team in a high-stakes bankruptcy case, citing his hourly rate of $2,465 — a possible new legal industry high.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. negotiating deal among Saudis, Israelis and Egyptians — The Biden administration has been quietly mediating among Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt on negotiations that, if successful, could be a first step on the road to the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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John Sudworth / BBC:
The faces from China's Uyghur detention camps — Thousands of photographs from the heart of China's highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape, are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers in the region.
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
How a Tax Case Could Force Roger Stone to Cough Up Jan. 6 Records — Roger Stone has been reluctant to turn over his financial records. Now the feds are turning to the courts, and they may find more than they bargained for. — Roger Stone is not cooperating. But soon, he might not have a choice.
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Raw Story
Maria Cheng / Associated Press:
Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe — LONDON (AP) — A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event” that appears to have been caused by sexual activity at two recent raves in Europe.
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
As Monkeypox Cases Rise, Nations Are Urged to Examine Vaccine Stores
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Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Washington Post Deletes Tweet Wrongly Declaring George Floyd Was ‘Shot’ by Police — The Washington Post falsely reported on Monday George Floyd died two years ago this week after he was “shot and killed” while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department.
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Slate:
Clarence and Ginni Thomas Are Telling Us Exactly How the 2024 Coup Will Go Down — On Friday, the Washington Post broke the news that Ginni Thomas sent emails to Arizona elections officials asking them to set aside the will of the voters and submit a slate of fake electors who would support Donald Trump …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
New Justice Dept. policy says agents must intervene if they see abuse — Memo from Attorney General Merrick Garland is the first such policy update in 18 years. — The Justice Department has updated its use-of-force policy for the first time in 18 years, telling federal agents they have a duty …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Veers Off Script on Taiwan. It's Not the First Time. — Offhand remarks that vary from the official talking points have become a feature of the Biden presidency, even as they leave his staff scrambling to spin them away afterward. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
New York City to bid on 2024 Democratic National Convention — Mayor Eric Adams' team is finalizing its application ahead of a May 27 submission deadline and the winner is expected to be announced later this year. — NEW YORK — Eight years after New York City's failed attempt to host …
Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic:
The People Who Hate People — Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded. — Some propositions are so obvious that no one takes the time to defend them. A few such propositions are that human life …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Greta Van Susteren Will Join Newsmax Early-Evening Lineup in June … Greta Van Susteren says she just couldn't stay away from the immediacy of cable news. — For the past few years, Van Susteren, one of the few anchors who can say they have been employed by CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel …
Joseph Klein / Front Page Magazine:
Biden's Surreal Speech on the Buffalo Shooting Spree — Ignoring leftwing extremist threats to domestic security. — President Joe Biden went to Buffalo, New York on May 17th to deliver remarks honoring the lives lost from a mass shooter's rampage the weekend before.
Washington Free Beacon:
Who's Afraid of Elise Stefanik? — Media attempt to hang ‘great replacement’ theory around the neck of GOP conference chairwoman — We thought the Washington Post hit some kind of bottom last week when it tried to blame the third-ranking House Republican, Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) …
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Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Economy grows as priority on Russia response — WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are becoming less supportive of punishing Russia for launching its invasion of Ukraine if it comes at the expense of the U.S. economy, a sign of rising anxiety over inflation and other challenges, according to a new poll.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
In Colorado, Bennet braces for another red wave — How precarious is Senate Democrats' majority? Just ask Colorado's Michael Bennet. — The low-key Democratic senator hails from a state that President Joe Biden won by 13 points. His in-state colleague, Sen. John Hickenlooper …
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Princeton Fires Tenured Professor in Campus Controversy — Joshua Katz's dismissal is related to his inappropriate conduct with a female student, the university said. He says criticism of a campus protest group is the issue. — Give this article- - - Read in app
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
James Craig, Perry Johnson, 3 others shouldn't make ballot, Bureau of Elections says — Lansing — Former Detroit police Chief James Craig and businessman Perry Johnson, two of the top candidates for the Republican nomination for governor, didn't submit enough valid petition signatures to make the ballot …
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