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Washington Post:
Gunman who killed 4 at Tulsa hospital was patient of doctor who is among the dead  —  The gunman who killed four people at a Tulsa hospital on Wednesday blamed a doctor at the facility for ongoing pain after back surgery and vowed to kill him and anyone who got in his way, police said Thursday.
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The Daily Beast:
Tulsa Mass Shooter Complained to His Surgeon Hours Before Killing Him  —  Michael Louis, 45, killed four people and himself after complaining repeatedly about back pain following surgery, police said.  —  A 45-year-old man killed four people and himself at a medical office in Tulsa, Oklahoma …
NBC News:
Tulsa gunman bought AR-15-style rifle hours before using it to kill his former doctor, 3 others  —  Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin said the shooter “blamed” the doctor for his pain.  The doctor, Preston Phillips, was killed in the attack.  —  Tulsa police: Gunman was disgruntled hospital patient who targeted former doctor
Discussion: CNBC, KNSD-TV, Fox News, ABC7, KJRH, KTVX-TV and Reuters
Tulsa World:
Victims of Tulsa mass shooting identified in breaking news update from Saint Francis  —  Two health care providers, a medical officer staffer and a patient receiving medical services were killed in a mass shooting Wednesday on the campus of Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa.
CNN:
Assault-style weapon in deadly Tulsa medical facility shooting was bought that day, sources say  —  An assault-style weapon found at the scene of Wednesday's deadly shooting in an Oklahoma medical building had been bought that day, according to three federal sources briefed on the investigation.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Beneath Biden's struggle to break through is a deeper dysfunction among White House aides  —  (CNN)Being familiar never makes the feeling less dreadful: White House aides emailing each other during one of President Joe Biden's stops on the road, tracking who's covering what he's saying …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
‘Pro-Choice’ Identification Rises to Near Record High in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Gallup poll conducted mostly after the draft of a Supreme Court decision addressing abortion rights was leaked finds a marked shift in public attitudes over the past year.
Discussion: CNBC, Townhall, The Hill and Opinion Today
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Catherine Lucey / Wall Street Journal:
Upholding Roe v. Wade Is Supported by Most Americans, WSJ Poll Finds
Joan Walsh / The Nation:   Talk Me Down Here: Can This Country Be Saved?
Associated Press:
Texas senator: School police chief didn't know of 911 calls  —  UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The commander at the scene of a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was not informed of panicked 911 calls coming from students trapped inside the building as the massacre unfolded, a Texas state senator said Thursday.
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Washington Post:
Uvalde mayor recounts frantic attempt to call shooter during massacre
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Retire These Gun Myths  —  The aftermath of a horrific mass shooting is not the time one would usually turn to a humor site, and yet, the Onion had an insightful take on Uvalde.  The headline: “'No Way to Prevent This' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Occurs.”
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Emmanuel Felton / Washington Post:
California calls for ‘comprehensive reparations’ for Black Americans
Discussion: Breitbart and NPR
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Republicans who texted Meadows with urgent pleas on January 6 say Trump could have stopped the violence  —  Washington (CNN)Within minutes of the US Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, messages began pouring into the cell phone of White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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CNN:
READ: The Meadows text messages from January 6  —  CNN has obtained 2,319 text messages that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed over to the January 6 committee that were sent and received between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden's inauguration, including more than 150 on January 6.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The New MAGA Establishment  —  Trumpism will outlast Trump.  Possibly for a very long time.  —  A couple of weeks ago, looking at the Republican primaries so far this year, Tim Miller discerned the rise of “the new MAGA establishment”: … Since Miller wrote those words …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
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William Saletan / The Bulwark:
What Makes a Republican a “RINO”?
Discussion: Fox News
William M. Arkin / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Putin Treated for Cancer in April, U.S. Intelligence Report Says  —  Vladimir Putin's health is a subject of intense conversation inside the Biden administration after the intelligence community produced its fourth comprehensive assessment at the end of May. The classified U.S. report …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump's Raffensperger call is ‘incredibly strong evidence’ to support criminal charges: former US attorney
Discussion: Daily Mail
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Pa. GOP gubernatorial nominee shares documents with Jan. 6 panel, agrees to interview  —  The Jan. 6 select committee received materials this week from Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano — and with them, perhaps, a new dilemma.  —  Mastriano's previously unreported cooperation …
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Michael Avenatti sentenced to 4 years for stealing nearly $300K from Stormy Daniels  —  New York (CNN)Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing nearly $300,000 from his former client, adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Trump Is Finally Boring  —  Donald Trump recently sent out a press release linking to a half-baked conspiracy theory about the outcome of the Georgia Republican primaries, and it's not as though no one noticed, but it didn't have the impact one might have expected.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Moderate Voice
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Florida Supreme Court Turns Down Challenge to Voting Map DeSantis Drew  —  The court's refusal means that the November elections will most likely be based on legislative maps a lower court said illegally diluted the power of Black voters.  —  The Florida Supreme Court refused on Thursday …
Discussion: Politico, The Root and Political Wire
NBC News:
Fetterman's health, return to campaign trail a mystery as some Democrats grow ‘very nervous’ about Pa. Senate race  —  WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman does not have a timetable for returning to the campaign trail, sparking some worries in the party nearly three weeks …
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Chase Peterson-Withorn / Forbes:
LeBron James Is Officially A Billionaire  —  He missed the playoffs for just the fourth time in 19 seasons but LeBron still scores as the first active NBA player to make our list.  —  LeBron James-18-time NBA all-star, 4-time NBA champion, 2-time Olympic gold medalist-has hit yet another milestone …
Dani Blum / New York Times:
Coffee Drinking Linked to Lower Mortality Risk, New Study Finds  —  The research found that those who drank moderate amounts of coffee, even with a little sugar, were up to 30 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who didn't drink coffee.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
Ro Khanna / New York Times:
There Is Way More Biden Can Do to Lower Prices  —  Lupe Lopez, a grocery store owner in my district in California, recently showed me how devastating inflation has been for her and her customers.  Milk cost $4.95 a gallon, an increase of 38 percent since 2019, and tortilla packets were $3.07, up by 24 percent.
Michael Hobbes / The Present Age:
The bleak spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial  —  How a washed-up celebrity, men's rights activists and true crime stans convinced millions of Americans to buy into a conspiracy theory … Content warning for vulgar language and descriptions of abuse.
New York Times:
House Panel Examining Jared Kushner Over Saudi Investment in New Firm  —  The House Oversight Committee is seeking documents related to the $2 billion investment by a Saudi fund in the private equity firm started by Mr. Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and former adviser.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
Washington ‘election integrity’ group and lawyer fined for meritless vote fraud lawsuit  —  A Washington state nonprofit group and its attorney have been fined more than $28,000 by the state Supreme Court for making legally meritless claims alleging widespread vote fraud.
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
Google's plan to talk about caste bias led to ‘division and rancor’  —  The rising Hindu nationalist movement that has spread from India through the diaspora has arrived inside Google, according to employees.  —  In April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder and executive director of Equality Labs …
 
 
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
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Annaliese Griffin / New York Times:
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Discussion: Althouse
Ohpi / blog.ohpredictive.com:
Biden Remains Underwater as Midterms Approach
Elliot Ackerman / The Atlantic:
Our Narrative of Mass Shootings Is Killing Us
 Earlier Items: 
Nate Hochman / New York Times:
Republicans Are Now the Party of the Nonreligious Right
Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC:
The Amazon, Starbucks, Apple union push is capturing what a majority of all American workers now say they want
Discussion: The Intercept
ABC News:
Gun suicide soars as cause of death among youth: Report