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4:10 PM ET, June 6, 2022

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Mike Allen / Axios:
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 …
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Raskin says Jan. 6 panel has found more on Trump than ‘incitement’  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Monday said the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has found evidence on former President Trump that supports “a lot more than incitement.”
Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
Elon Musk threatens to pull out of Twitter deal without more information about fake accounts.  —  In a filing, Mr. Musk's lawyers said that Twitter was “actively resisting” his requests for more information.  —  Elon Musk is threatening to pull out of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Musk threatens to dump deal in letter to Twitter, SEC  —  Time to play “Let's Make a Deal,” or time to escape a deal?  With Elon Musk, no one's ever quite sure, but the Twitter buyout has had a lot of whiplash even for the world's wealthiest mogul.
Associated Press:
Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
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.
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Milo Yiannopoulos Is Now Interning for Marjorie Taylor Greene
Discussion: Political Wire
Ilya Shapiro / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Quit Georgetown  —  The university didn't fire me, but it abandoned free speech and created a hostile environment.  —  1x  —  After a four-month investigation into a tweet, the Georgetown University Law Center reinstated me last Thursday.  But after full consideration of the report …
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Ross Barkan / New York Magazine:
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 …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader Tarrio, 4 top lieutenants charged with seditious conspiracy in widening Jan. 6 case  —  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 January 2021 Capitol attack …
Discussion: New York Times
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
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.
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Texas Attorney General:
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.
Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
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 …
John Fritze / USA Today:
Supreme Court declines appeal over law licenses from St. Louis couple who waved guns at protest  —  Mark and Patricia McCloskey drew national attention for walking onto their front yard with guns during a 2020 protest of the police killing of George Floyd.  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court …
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Justices won't hear appeal from couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters
Discussion: Political Wire
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
The Institutionalist  —  Dianne Feinstein fought for gun control, civil rights, and abortion access for half a century.  Where did it all go wrong?  —  On election night in San Francisco in 1969, a 36-year-old woman who had run a campaign for the Board of Supervisors that featured …
Dan Pfeiffer / Vanity Fair:
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.
FIRE:
FIRE announces $75 million expansion into off-campus free speech advocacy, defense  —  Launches $10 million nationwide free speech advertising campaign  —  Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education becomes the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
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Washington Post:
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.
Andrew Stanton / Newsweek:
Trump Endorses ‘Strong’ McCarthy Despite Boos at Rally, Sparks MAGA Outrage  —  Former President Donald Trump endorsed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's reelection bid on Saturday despite pushback from his base.  —  McCarthy faced the ire of many Republicans after audio tapes leaked in April showed him criticizing Trump.
Discussion: Raw Story and Breitbart
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Republicans brace for next round of Trump primary chaos
Discussion: CNN, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and HuffPost
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
Anger and heartbreak on Bus No. 15  —  As American cities struggle to recover from the pandemic, Denver's problems spill over onto its buses  —  DENVER — Suna Karabay touched up her eye makeup in the rearview mirror and leaned against the steering wheel of the bus to say her morning prayers.
Jennifer Senior / The Atlantic:
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Decision on Student-Loan Forgiveness Unlikely Until Later in Summer, Officials Say  —  President had said he was near a decision, but the administration continues to weigh political and economic fallout  —  WASHINGTON—President Biden is likely to decide later this summer whether …
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Why Trump is hands off in re-election race for CA House Republican who voted for impeachment  —  Valadao is only House Republican who voted to impeach not targeted by Trump  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for June 6  —  Republican Rep. David Valadao infuriated conservatives …
Discussion: Politico
Zach Everson / Forbes:
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.
Will Hurd / New York Times:
I Represented Uvalde in Congress.  We Must Act on Gun Violence.  —  Last month, a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, a small, quiet community that I represented in Congress, became a war zone.  Nineteen beautiful, innocent children and two dedicated, brave teachers are gone forever because of a vicious massacre.
Jessica Pishko / Bolts:
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)
Salena Zito / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Mastriano is a disaster for Pa. Republicans — but the party deserves it  —  MCMURRAY, Pa. — The first time Cheryl Rubio ever heard of Doug Mastriano was when she caught his interview on Steve Bannon's “War Room” television show.  This was shortly after the retired Army colonel won …
 
 
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Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies
Discussion: Raw Story
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New Yorker:
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Discussion: Raw Story
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Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
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Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
British Prime Minister Johnson to face no-confidence vote
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The Long History of Glenn Greenwald's Kissing Up to the Kremlin
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
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