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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.”
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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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Sabrina Conza / FIRE:
Ilya Shapiro resigns from Georgetown following reinstatement after 122-day investigation of tweets
Ilya Shapiro resigns from Georgetown following reinstatement after 122-day investigation of tweets
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Commentary Magazine, Townhall, RedState and Althouse
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
BREAKING: Ilya Shapiro Resigns from Georgetown Law School
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
BREAKING: Musk threatens to dump deal in letter to Twitter, SEC
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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 …
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Raw Story
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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MyNorthwest.com, Talking Points Memo and Axios
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Justices won't hear appeal from couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters
Justices won't hear appeal from couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters
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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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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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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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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.
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 …
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Insider, Politico and Scottie's Playtime
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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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden wants to get out more, seething that his standing is now worse than Trump's — President Joe Biden and his aides have grown increasingly frustrated by their inability to turn the tide against a cascade of challenges threatening to overwhelm the administration. — Soaring global inflation.
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Stamp honoring Nancy Reagan unveiled at White House
Stamp honoring Nancy Reagan unveiled at White House
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Los Angeles Times:
Is it ‘election fatigue’? Early voter turnout in California's primary is dismal so far — Judy Nguyen is frustrated that anyone with enough money or the right connections can run as a candidate in an election. She's disappointed she hasn't seen immediate, tangible change under President Biden.
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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.
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Raw Story
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 …
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Raw Story
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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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)
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.
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Nearly half of Republicans think US has to live with mass shootings, poll finds — CBS and YouGov poll returned familiar results, including 62% support for a nationwide ban on semi-automatic rifles — Nearly half of Republican voters think the US just has to live with mass shootings …
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Common Dreams, Ian Haworth and The Wildfire Newsletter
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The Long History of Glenn Greenwald's Kissing Up to the Kremlin — In his world, it seems America can do nothing right and Vladimir Putin can do nothing wrong. — In the months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, maverick journalist Glenn Greenwald has emerged as one of the loudest anti-Ukraine voices …
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 …
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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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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Joshua Eaton / NBC News:
The U.S. has wasted over 82 million Covid vaccine doses — Pharmacies, states, U.S. territories and federal agencies discarded 82.1 million Covid vaccine doses from December 2020 through mid-May — just over 11 percent of the doses the federal government distributed, according to data …