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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 …
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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 …
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DOJ charges Proud Boys leaders with seditious conspiracy over Jan. 6 attack
DOJ charges Proud Boys leaders with seditious conspiracy over Jan. 6 attack
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Proud Boys leader Tarrio, four others, charged with seditious conspiracy
Proud Boys leader Tarrio, four others, charged with seditious conspiracy
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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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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.
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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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Associated Press:
Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal
Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal
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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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Vanity Fair:
“People Must Pay Attention. People Must Watch”: The Jan. 6 Committee Is Trying to Make the Most of Its Prime-Time TV Slot
“People Must Pay Attention. People Must Watch”: The Jan. 6 Committee Is Trying to Make the Most of Its Prime-Time TV Slot
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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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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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Ilya Shapiro Resignation Letter to Georgetown University Law Center, June 6, 2022
Ilya Shapiro Resignation Letter to Georgetown University Law Center, June 6, 2022
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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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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
Milo Yiannopoulos Is Now Interning for Marjorie Taylor Greene
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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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Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
A liberal D.A. finds voters' moods have changed even in San Francisco
A liberal D.A. finds voters' moods have changed even in San Francisco
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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.
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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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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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? — From left, 1971: The first female president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. 2022: The oldest sitting U.S. senator.
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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 …
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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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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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.
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.
CNN:
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 …
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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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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)
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.
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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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.
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.
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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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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