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12:01 PM ET, June 7, 2022

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Washington Post:
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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Brookings:
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.
New York Times:
Jan. 6 Hearings Give Democrats a Chance to Recast Midterm Message  —  With their majority at stake, Democrats plan to use the six high-profile hearings to refocus voters' attention on Republicans' role in the attack.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Opinion Don't give up on Merrick Garland quite yet  —  Critics have pilloried Merrick Garland for what they perceive as slowness or even disinclination in prosecuting defeated former president Donald Trump and his cronies for the attempted coup culminating in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Fox News Gives Up On News; Won't Air ‘Grotesque’ Jan. 6 Hearings Live
Monique Beals / The Hill:
Former DC officer on Jan. 6 hearings: 'I don't believe that it's gonna move the needle'
Emily Ngo / Spectrum News NY1:
Exclusive Spectrum News NY1/Siena College poll finds New Yorkers are pessimistic about city's future and its mayor  —  The view of life in New York City is bleak, according to a Siena College poll of city residents conducted exclusively for Spectrum News NY1.  —  What You Need To Know
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Siena College Research Institute:
Big Apple Is Sour on the Job Mayor Adams Is Doing; Only 29% Rate His Job Performance Positively; But 53% Like His Style
Discussion: Insider
Department of Homeland Security:
National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - June 7, 2022  —  View as PDF: National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - June 07, 2022 09:00 am (pdf, 1 page, 295.54 KB)  —  Summary of Terrorism Threat to the United States  —  The United States remains in a heightened threat environment …
Discussion: Washington Times and Civil War II
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Whitney Wild / CNN:
DHS bulletin warns US could see more volatile threats fueled by election misinformation and upcoming Supreme Court abortion ruling
Discussion: Associated Press and Twitchy
Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
DHS terror threat bulletin warns online forums are encouraging copycat Uvalde attacks
Discussion: The Hill
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: CNN evaluating partisan talent  —  CNN's new boss Chris Licht is evaluating whether personalities and programming that grew polarizing during the Trump era can adapt to the network's new priority to be less partisan. … - For on-air talent, that includes engaging in respectful interviews that don't feel like PR stunts.
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The President Needs to Stop Complaining  —  On the menu today: President Biden whines to aides that “everything landed on his desk but locusts,” and “if it's not one thing, it's another.”  It's a shame no one informed Joe Biden that the job of the president is difficult, and he would be expected to address multiple problems at once.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Ben & Jerry's galvanizes customers to lobby for tighter gun laws after Texas, New York mass shootings  — Ben & Jerry's jumping into the latest national debate on guns comes after business leaders have come forward to insist on changes to firearm laws since last month's mass shootings.
Discussion: CNN and Political Wire
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New York Times:
Potent Weapons Reach Ukraine Faster Than the Know-How to Use Them  —  KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — Since Russia invaded, NATO nations have upgraded Ukraine's arsenal with increasingly sophisticated tools, with more promised, like the advanced multiple-launch rocket systems pledged by the United States and Britain.
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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
During Watergate, John Mitchell Left His Wife.  She Called Bob Woodward.  —  ‘Please nail him’: The untold story of how Martha Mitchell took revenge against her husband  —  There was no mistaking the voice on the other end of the phone line.  That twangy timbre.  Brash and sass.  Undiluted Arkansas Delta.
Tom Joyce / Washington Examiner:
Corporate welfare, not woke tweets, is the problem with taxpayer-funded stadiums  —  Let's give Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis some credit.  DeSantis vetoed a proposal that would give the Tampa Bay Rays $35 million in funding from the state government to help construct a new spring training facility in the state.
Discussion: Politico
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Bless her heart.’ Kemp ad slams Abrams for ‘worst state in the country’ remark  —  Almost as soon as Stacey Abrams called Georgia the “worst state in the country to live,” the Democrat's campaign expected the remark to be the center of new GOP attacks.  Gov. Brian Kemp's first TV ad of the general election cycle does exactly that.
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg:
Inflation Is Poised to Ease According to These Three Key Indicators  —  Three of the key supply-side factors driving today's global inflation levels have already turned around, meaning relief could be on the horizon for shoppers worldwide.  —  Price Relief  —  Three big inputs to global inflation are seen easing from recent peaks
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
California is about to experience a political earthquake.  Here's why  —  (CNN)An earthquake is building in Tuesday's California elections that could rattle the political landscape from coast to coast.  —  In Los Angeles and San Francisco, two of the nation's most liberal large cities …
Marcus Weisgerber / Defense One:
Raytheon Technologies to Move HQ from Massachusetts to Northern Virginia  —  The move means the five largest defense contractors will all call the D.C. region home.  —  Raytheon Technologies will move its headquarters from Boston's suburbs to Washington, D.C.'s this fall …
Washington Examiner:
Ilya Shapiro outclasses Georgetown Law  —  The June 6 resignation of conservative legal scholar Ilya Shapiro from the Georgetown University Law Center is a mark of shame for Georgetown and for academia in general — and a badge of honor for Shapiro.  —  Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor …
Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek … 🌸 Situational awareness: Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) will open a gun violence memorial on the National Mall tomorrow at 10am ET — her first public appearance since the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting. … 🌎 Breaking: President Biden will unveil …
Bari Weiss / Common Sense:
The Washington Post's Descent Into Middle School Antics  —  And why we're building something new.  —  Let me tell you a story about the middle-school antics currently playing out at a once-great newspaper.  It goes a long way toward explaining why we started Common Sense and why we think it's so essential.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
The Washington Post suspends reporter David Weigel over sexist retweet
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Abortion Activists Firebomb Pro-Life Pregnancy Center, Third Bombing in Weeks  —  Radical abortion activists who firebombed the office of a pro-life groups in Wisconsin and Oregon and who have vandalized over a dozen churches and pregnancy centers have struck again.
Discussion: RedState, Townhall and NOQ Report
Travis Fain / WRAL-TV:
NC's lieutenant governor: ‘We are called to be led by men,’ not women  —  Christians are “called to be led by men,” North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson told a Charlotte area church congregation last month.  —  The comments were part of an extended critique of the social justice movement …
Washington Free Beacon:
How the Left Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Domestic Terrorism  —  On the cusp of nonstop, around-the-clock (primetime!) coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, a couple of domestic terrorists are actually getting their day in court, and it is informative to see how Merrick Garland's Justice Department …
Mark Hemingway / RealClearInvestigations:
Team Zuckerberg Masks the Heavily Pro-Democrat Tilt of 2020 Election ‘Zuck Bucks,’ Study Finds  —  The $332 million that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan provided to a progressive group to help run the 2020 elections was distributed on a highly partisan basis …
Erik Dahl / Just Security:
January 6th Intelligence Failure Timeline  —  Introduction to the Timeline  —  This timeline presents a detailed listing of intelligence reports and other warnings that were available prior to the attack on the Capitol of January 6, 2021.  Because this timeline is based solely on public …
Rachel Pannett / Washington Post:
The world's largest four-day workweek pilot just launched in the U.K.  —  Thousands of workers in Britain had another reason to celebrate after returning from a long weekend to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.  They're participating in the world's biggest trial of the four-day workweek …
Discussion: CBS News
Punchbowl News:
6/7/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM. … SEVEN STATES — CALIFORNIA, IOWA, MISSISSIPPI, MONTANA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO AND SOUTH DAKOTA — HEAD TO THE POLLS TODAY.  HERE ARE THE KEY RACES WE WILL BE TRACKING TODAY. … THE GOP-LEADERSHIP ALLIED CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Ramishah Maruf / CNN:
Starbucks workers claim their store is closing due to union activism
Discussion: WETM
Pew Research Center:
Americans' Views of Government: Decades of Distrust, Enduring Support for Its Role
Discussion: Washington Times and Opinion Today
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Jill Biden Kicks Off Pride Month By Hailing Nancy Reagan, For Some Reason
Discussion: Associated Press
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Peter Navarro's arrest is a huge step toward the politics of the third world
Discussion: RADAR
BBC:
South Africa: Wealthy Gupta brothers arrested in UAE
Discussion: Bloomberg
John Halpin / The Liberal Patriot:
The Center Lane is Wide Open
David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:
The Progressive Left's Latest Shining Star
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Washington Examiner:
Florida is right to teach students about socialist evils
Discussion: HotAir and Fox News
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
'We're all afraid': Massive rent increases hit mobile homes
Lawrence Richard / Fox News:
US Supreme Court declines to hear McCloskeys' law license case
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Family of Bill Clinton advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein into White House seven times has blocked release of files detailing the death scene …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kim Phuc Phan Thi / New York Times:
It's Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore.
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The GOP's ‘Glenn Youngkin Model’ Stalls Out on the Pennsylvania Turnpike
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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:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

 
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