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Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Texas Police Lieutenant Says Cops Were Reluctant to Engage Gunman Because 'They Could've Been Shot'  —  A Texas Department of Public Safety official said responding officers were cautious as they entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas because “they could've been shot.”
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Wall Street Journal:
Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 Minutes Before Entering  —  Local residents express anger and frustration as police detail new timeline of mass shooting  —  UVALDE, Texas—Local residents voiced anger Thursday about the time it took to end the mass shooting at an elementary school here …
New York Times:
Uvalde Live Updates: Parents Express Anger at Police Response to School Massacre  —  Authorities defended their response to the shooting in a news conference, as some parents who lost children asked what happened during the hour of terror in which a gunman took 21 lives.
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
How the official accounts about the Uvalde shooting have changed  —  Since a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex., on Tuesday, killing 19 children and two teachers, authorities have provided an incomplete — and evolving — explanation of what happened.
Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
‘She was my baby’: A family mourns, and pleads for action, in Uvalde.
Discussion: Mediaite
Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Gov. Abbott going to Uvalde — not NRA — on Friday  —  Abbott to hold news conference in grief-stricken community, send prerecorded remarks to gun group.  —  AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott is returning to Uvalde on Friday, and will skip the National Rifle Association convention in Houston.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
On Guns, Biden's Call for Action Is a Painful Reminder That He Cannot Make It Happen  —  America can't even grieve collectively anymore.  —  There is little doubt that Joe Biden is a world-class griever.  For the part of the Presidency that requires national mourning …
CNN:
Exclusive: McConnell says he has directed Cornyn to engage with Democrats on a ‘bipartisan solution’ on gun violence
CNN:
US preparing to approve advanced long-range rocket system for Ukraine  —  Washington (CNN)The Biden administration is preparing to step up the kind of weaponry it is offering Ukraine by sending advanced, long-range rocket systems that are now the top request from Ukrainian officials, multiple officials say.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Opinion The secret planning that kept the White House a step ahead of Russia
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Guardian
Buffalo News:
Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance  —  Law enforcement officers are investigating whether a retired federal agent had about 30 minutes advance notice of a white supremacist's plans to murder Black people at a Buffalo supermarket …
Discussion: WIVB-TV
Politico:
Meadows burned papers after meeting with Scott Perry, Jan. 6 panel told  —  Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows burned papers in his office after meeting with a House Republican who was working to challenge the 2020 election, according to testimony the Jan. 6 select committee has heard from one of his former aides.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Behind the Jan. 6 panel's last-minute efforts to win 3 key Trump-world lawsuits
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee eyes witnesses, but Ginni Thomas unlikely to be focus
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Exclusive: DOJ interviews Georgia Republicans about interactions with Trump campaign in fake elector probe  —  (CNN)Federal investigators have interviewed Republicans in Georgia about interactions with people in former President Donald Trump's orbit and his 2020 reelection campaign …
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Yahoo News:   Georgia investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election ramps up
Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Rep. Liz Cheney officially files for U.S. House  —  Rep. Liz Cheney officially filed to run for U.S. House on Thursday, announcing her reelection bid in a video that focused on her allegiance to the U.S. Constitution.  —  The announcement, one day before the filing deadline …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump E.P.A. Chief ‘Endangered Public Safety’ by Ordering His Drivers to Speed  —  An internal report validated whistle-blower allegations that Scott Pruitt repeatedly forced his security detail to drive at dangerous speeds on routine trips because he was running late.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: HuffPost
James Finn / Los Angeles Blade:
Texas Trans girl assaulted over GOP lies about Uvalde shooting  —  Why was this teen girl assaulted by a grown man she'd never met, harassed by four strangers who could tell she was trans  —  In a phone interview today, Tracey told me the man grabbed her arm and forced her body around …
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Parker Molloy / The Present Age:   Just like they did in 2015, Republicans are falsely blaming trans people for a mass shooting
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate  —  PimEyes is a paid service that finds photos of a person from across the internet, including some the person may not want exposed.  “We're just a tool provider,” its owner said.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: The Hill
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
John Fetterman got a defibrillator after his stroke.  But doctors say the campaign's story 'doesn't make sense.'  —  It's been more than a week since Lt. Gov. John Fetterman celebrated his win in Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate primary from a Lancaster hospital, where he was recovering …
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Florida IG report: ‘Insufficient evidence’ for DeSantis critic's claims of Covid cover-up  —  A prominent critic of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' Covid response made “unsubstantiated” and “unfounded” claims that state health officials had fired her because she refused to present manipulated data online …
Terry Glavin / National Post:
The year of the graves: How the world's media got it wrong on residential school graves  —  The coverage triggered protests, church arsons and condemnation from Canada's bad-faith rivals, but last summer's reporting on the country's long-acknowledged historic shame had little to do with what happened.
Discussion: Samizdata
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
11-Year-Old Survivor of Uvalde Massacre Put Blood on Herself and Played Dead, Aunt Says  —  The family of an 11-year-old girl who survived the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday says the 4th grader played dead after the gunman entered her classroom.
Ben Dreyfuss / Good Faith:
Progressives Need To Stop Obsessing About What To Name Things  —  The myth of the “death tax” rebranding  —  “The end of natural gas has to start with its name,” is the provocative and inaccurate headline of a Vox story calling on the media to stop referring to natural gas as, uh, natural gas.1
 
 
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Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
John Durham's case against Michael Sussmann just got tougher
Discussion: RedState
Taylor Giorno / OpenSecrets.org:
Incorporation records reveal new details about a ‘dark money’ group pouring millions into 2022 midterms
David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP candidate for governor proposes new abortion ‘punishment’ after claiming life begins ‘before conception’
Discussion: Reuters
Edward B. Foley / Democracy Journal:
Reforming the Electoral Count Act
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Jonny Coleman / The Appeal:
How Los Angeles Created the Playbook for a Nationwide War on the Unhoused
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Julia Rock / The Lever:
Biden Is Preparing To Crush A Historic Climate Change Lawsuit
Discussion: Jacobin
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Sen. Ron Johnson uses tax dollars to travel between Florida family home and the U.S. Capitol
Discussion: WisPolitics.com
Reihan Salam / The Atlantic:
America Needs Anti-Racialism
Southern Poverty Law Center:
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Discussion: The Daily Beast and Daily Kos
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