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1:20 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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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.
Washington Post:
Trump call Jan. 6 to ‘walk down to the Capitol’ prompted Secret Service scramble  —  Agency's actions are part of Jan. 6 committee probe into Trump's role in inciting the violent attack  —  Shortly before pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Secret Service agents scrambled …
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
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Fox News Gives Up On News; Won't Air ‘Grotesque’ Jan. 6 Hearings Live
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 …
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Luke Barr / ABC News:
DHS warns of domestic violent extremists who praise Uvalde shooting
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Fox / Associated Press:
US sees heightened extremist threat heading into midterms
Discussion: Reuters and Mediaite
Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
DHS terror threat bulletin warns online forums are encouraging copycat Uvalde attacks
Discussion: The Hill
Whitney Wild / CNN:
DHS bulletin warns US could see more volatile threats fueled by election misinformation and upcoming Supreme Court abortion ruling
Discussion: Twitchy
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.
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 and New York Post
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Kara Swisher Leaves the New York Times to Return to Vox Media  —  Kara Swisher, the prominent tech reporter, commentator and Recode co-founder, is leaving her role as columnist and podcaster at the New York Times to return to Vox Media.  —  Swisher will host a new interview show …
New York Times:
AOC Backs Challenge to Sean Maloney, Who Also Leads Democrats' Campaign Strategy  —  Primary contests are taking place in New Jersey, California, New Mexico, Mississippi, Iowa, South Dakota, Montana.  —  Primary voters in seven states, including California and New Jersey …
Discussion: Substance
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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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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 …
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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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
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 …
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
The evolution of Blake Masters … Blake Masters, an author and venture capitalist now seeking the Republican nomination in Arizona's high-profile Senate race, has cast himself as an outspoken immigration hawk who frequently inveighs against the dangers of “open borders” amid an influx of …
Discussion: CrowdWisdom360 and Mediaite
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.
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 …
Discussion: HuffPost
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
Discussion: Fortune
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dominic Rushe / The Guardian:
Wage gap between CEOs and US workers jumped to 670-to-1 last year, study finds  —  Report on 300 top US companies found CEOs making an average of $10.6m, with the median worker getting $23,968  —  The wage gap between chief executives and workers at some of the US companies …
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
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 …
Discussion: PR Newswire and ARLnow.com
 
 
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pat Toomey, again negotiating a gun deal, says senators are ‘closer’ than after Sandy Hook
Jason Furman / Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. and Europe Have Different Inflation Problems
Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Fetterman's wife says Democratic Senate candidate may be away from campaign trail until July as he recovers from a stroke
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo
Tom Joyce / Washington Examiner:
Corporate welfare, not woke tweets, is the problem with taxpayer-funded stadiums
Discussion: Politico
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Jill Biden Kicks Off Pride Month By Hailing Nancy Reagan, For Some Reason
Discussion: Associated Press
Mark Hemingway / RealClearInvestigations:
Team Zuckerberg Masks the Heavily Pro-Democrat Tilt of 2020 Election ‘Zuck Bucks,’ Study Finds
Punchbowl News:
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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
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
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Lawrence Richard / Fox News:
US Supreme Court declines to hear McCloskeys' law license case
 

 
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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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