The Washington Post suspends reporter David Weigel over sexist retweet  —  New York (CNN Business)The Washington Post has suspended reporter David Weigel without pay for retweeting a sexist joke, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday.  —  Weigel did not respond to a request for comment …

Proud Boys leader Tarrio, 4 top lieutenants charged with seditious conspiracy  —  An indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in D.C. makes the Proud Boys the second far-right group whose members face the rare charge in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, following the Oath Keepers and its founder Stewart Rhodes.

AG Paxton Launches Investigation Against Twitter for Potentially Deceiving Texas Consumers, Texas Businesses Over Fake Bot Accounts  —  Today Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation against Twitter for potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

Scoop: Jan. 6 committee's secret adviser  —  The House's Jan. 6 committee has turned to a renowned former network news executive to hone a mountain of explosive material into a captivating multimedia presentation for a prime-time hearing Thursday.  — James Goldston — former president of ABC News …

Georgetown Abandons Its Free-Speech Policy Over Ilya Shapiro … Everybody supports freedom of speech for ideas they agree with.  The concept only has meaning if it's applied to ideas you don't agree with.  —  I don't agree with the idea conservative lawyer Ilya Shapiro expressed in January …

Milo Yiannopoulos is an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene  —  Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is working as an unpaid intern in the congressional office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).  —  Yiannopoulos, 37, announced the job on his Telegram account Monday with a photo of his official intern congressional badge.

The Limits of San Francisco Liberalism  —  If Chesa Boudin is recalled, it will be because his city has never been its left-wing caricature.  —  In San Francisco, the signs are everywhere.  Near the famed Lombard Street, one is affixed to a lamppost.  Several of them, picturing menacing men …

AOC Blasts Fellow Democrats for Resisting Term Latinx: ‘Not About Your Reelection Prospects’  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted critics of the term Latinx, including fellow Democrats who resist using it and think it's “bad for the party.”  —  After a brief discussion of the term …

Garcetti allies tried to put the screws to Mark Kelly.  It may have backfired.  —  Democratic powerbrokers close to Eric Garcetti privately pressured Sen. Mark Kelly to support the Los Angeles mayor's ambassadorial nomination, according to five people familiar with the outreach.

Legal claims shed light on founder of faith group tied to Amy Coney Barrett  —  Examination of People of Praise comes as supreme court seems poised to reverse Roe v Wade  —  The founder of the People of Praise, a secretive charismatic Christian group that counts supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett …

The Institutionalist  —  Dianne Feinstein fought for gun control, civil rights, and abortion access for half a century.  Where did it all go wrong?  —  From left, 1971: The first female president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.  2022: The oldest sitting U.S. senator.

Packin' heat: Nude Hunter Biden cavorts with hooker, illegal gun in latest mess for president  —  Hunter Biden shows himself to be a real first son-of-a-gun in the latest embarrassing personal video leak for President Biden's scandal-scarred offspring.  —  A naked Hunter casually waves around …

Manchin wants to raise age to 21 for gun purchases, doesn't see need for AR-15s  —  (CNN)Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia voiced his support Monday for raising the age to 21 for purchasing semi-automatic weapons and questioned why individuals need to own high-powered AR-15-style weapons …

Opinion Princeton's warning to its campus community: Speak at your own risk  —  If Princeton classics professor Joshua Katz had kept his mouth shut in 2020, would he still have a job?  —  To weigh that question, first we have to back up.  In the mid-2000s, Katz did a very bad thing: He had a sexual relationship with an undergraduate.

The Most Shocking New Statistic on Mass Shootings  —  Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter.  Support our nonprofit reporting.  Subscribe to our print magazine.  —  With the recent spate of mass shootings, a wave of public opinion polling has reaffirmed Americans' well-known views on gun violence.

Why Do Democrats Suck at Messaging?  —  It's a question Dan Pfeiffer, the former Obama communications director and Pod Save America cohost, recalls getting many times.  In his new book, Battling the Big Lie, Pfeiffer diagnoses the party's messaging troubles—and calls for building a bigger megaphone.

American Rasputin  —  I sometimes look at the long ribbons of texts I've gotten from Steve Bannon and wonder whether they couldn't tell the whole story all on their own.  —  There are certainly enough of them.  He says he has five phones, two encrypted, and he's forever pecking away …

Cisneros asks for recount in Democratic primary runoff against incumbent Cuellar  —  Attorney Jessica Cisneros will request a recount of the runoff election between her and Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar.  —  “Our community isn't done fighting, we are filing for a recount,” Cisneros said in a statement.

GOP ads are pulled from the airwaves for being dishonest (again)  —  The National Republican Senatorial Committee has had two television ads pulled over the course of three weeks.  That's both unusual and embarrassing.  —  Every election cycle, American voters see plenty of attack ads.

China secretly building PLA naval facility in Cambodia, Western officials say  —  China is secretly building a naval facility in Cambodia for the exclusive use of its military, with both countries denying that is the case and taking extraordinary measures to conceal the operation, Western officials said.

EXCLUSIVE Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies  —  State police in Michigan have obtained warrants to seize voting equipment and election-related records in at least three towns and one county in the past six weeks, police records show, widening the largest known investigation …

California Prosecutions for Pregnancy Loss Spark Outrage, and a Bill to Stop Future Investigations  —  The charges over two stillbirths are a window into a country where pregnancy outcomes are already policed.  —  The Superior Court of Kings County in Hanford, California.  (courts.ca.gov)

Fourth Trump Golf Course Appears To Be Violating Law By Using Presidential Seal  —  The presidential seal has turned up as a marker at a fourth Trump golf course, a possible violation of federal law.  —  On April 21, an Instagram user posted a photo of the seal at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Axon halts plans for Taser drone as 9 on ethics board resign  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Axon, the company best known for developing the Taser, said Monday it was halting plans to develop a Taser-equipped drone after a majority of its ethics board resigned over the controversial project.