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Fake Trump electors in Ga. told to shroud plans in ‘secrecy,’ email shows — The message informed those involved in the plan that they were not allowed to disclose their intentions, even to State Capitol security — A staffer for Donald Trump's presidential campaign instructed Republicans planning …
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Trump on Trial: A Guide to the January 6 Hearings and the Question of Criminality — For media inquiries, contact: — Governance Studies Main Line 202.797.6090 — President Joe Biden legitimately won a fair and secure 2020 presidential election—and Donald Trump lost.
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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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Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Fox News Channel Will Not Carry Thursday's Primetime Jan. 6 Committee Hearing
Fox News Channel Will Not Carry Thursday's Primetime Jan. 6 Committee Hearing
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Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader Tarrio, 4 lieutenants charged with seditious conspiracy — Indictments makes the Proud Boys the second group whose members face the rare charge in the Capitol attack — Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the former longtime chairman of the extremist group Proud Boys …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
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 …
Kim Phuc Phan Thi / New York Times:
It's Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore. — I grew up in the small village of Trang Bang in South Vietnam. My mother said I laughed a lot as a young girl. We led a simple life with an abundance of food, since my family had a farm and my mom ran the best restaurant in town.
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.
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
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 …
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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Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
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.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
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 …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
With Cornyn in the Room, Senate Gun Talks Focus on Narrow Changes — The conservative Texan's involvement in bipartisan talks means that an agreement, if there is one, is likely to include incremental steps. — Give this article- - - Read in app — WASHINGTON — Facing a national crisis …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The GOP's ‘Glenn Youngkin Model’ Stalls Out on the Pennsylvania Turnpike — David McCormick loses to Dr. Oz as the donor class's post-Trump pivot fails. — Last fall, the members of the old guard GOP consultant class and their friends in the conservative media gushed about a new playbook …
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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 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 …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
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.
ABC News:
'Act like you're asleep': Wounded Uvalde teacher recounts chilling moment he 1st saw gunman — Arnulfo Reyes spoke exclusively with ABC News while still hospitalized. — Video by GMA TeamBy, Miles Cohen, Lucien Bruggeman, and Julia Jacobo — An elementary school teacher wounded …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court May Hear ‘800-Pound Gorilla’ of Election Law Cases — Next week the justices will consider whether to resolve a long-simmering dispute about the power of state legislatures in federal elections. — Give this article- - - Read in app — WASHINGTON — In October 2020 …
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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.
BBC:
Boris Johnson wins vote but suffers large Tory rebellion — Watch: BBC News coverage of PM confidence vote — Play video Watch: BBC News coverage of PM confidence vote — Summary — Conservative MPs have voted in favour of Boris Johnson remaining as PM by 211 to 148
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Reuters:
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 …
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Ruth Comerford / The Bookseller:
Bloomsbury bags journalist Miller on transformation of Ukraine — Bloomsbury Continuum has acquired The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by writer and journalist Christopher Miller. — Publisher Tomasz Hoskins obtained world English language rights for the non-fiction work …
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
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.
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.
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Michael Grunwald / Canary Media:
What's the most climate-friendly way to eat? It's tricky — Plus, why climate hawks should heed the Chick-Fil-A cows and eat more chicken. … There are not a lot of nice things to say about the destructive, exploitative, sadistic, oligopolistic chicken industry.
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 …
Paige Skinner / BuzzFeed News:
Justine Lindsay Is The NFL's First Openly Trans Cheerleader — “I think more people need to see this. It's not because I want recognition. It's just to shed light on what's going on in the world.” — In a league not known for its progressiveness, Justine Lindsay just made NFL history.
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Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:
The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker's Revenge — A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency's hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues? … Nestled west of Washington, D.C., amid the bland northern Virginia suburbs …
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Washington Post:
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.
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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.
Jim Defede / CBS News:
Annette Taddeo drops governor bid to challenge Maria Elvira Salazar instead — MIAMI - Annette Taddeo is abandoning her campaign for governor and will instead challenge Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar. — In an interview with CBS News Miami, Taddeo said she made the decision following the recent mass shootings.
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