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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Stunning Trump revelations raise fears of a dark, violent future — As extraordinary revelations pour forth about Donald Trump's plot to destroy our political order after the 2020 election, an unsettling question arises: What does it mean that for most elected Republicans …
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The Nation, Raw Story and The Guardian
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Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Jan. 6 Committee Ignores Clear Evidence Of Mass Illegal Voting, Systematically Broken Election Laws — The Jan. 6 Committee completely sidestepped the verifiable evidence of systemic violations of election law, illegal voting, and more. — In its attempt to blame former President Donald Trump …
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Washington Post, CNN and Daily Kos
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
A Fox host who apparently helped mastermind John Eastman's coup plot was the only one talking about it in prime time — Fox News is burying Thursday's revelations about the plot by then-President Donald Trump and Trump lawyer John Eastman to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence …
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Townhall and Washington Post
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What John Eastman and ‘the pardon list’ means — It's been reported on, whispered about and hinted at since the dust was still settling on the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection: there was an effort afoot to pardon key players in the GOP effort to overturn the 2020 election.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, The Nation, Iowa Starting Line, The UnPopulist, Vox and littlegreenfootballs.com
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump and His Allies Will Repeat Jan. 6 If Necessary
Trump and His Allies Will Repeat Jan. 6 If Necessary
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New York Times, PolitiFact, Washington Post, HotAir, T-shirts? Ice cream? …, David Weir's Newsletter and The Guardian
George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
Jan. 6 hearings point up critical role of the 25th Amendment
Jan. 6 hearings point up critical role of the 25th Amendment
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Associated Press, Unprecedented and No More Mister Nice Blog
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
They Will Do It Again — Republicans have not been chastened by the revelations of the January 6 committee.
They Will Do It Again — Republicans have not been chastened by the revelations of the January 6 committee.
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The Guardian
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Ignoring the Jan. 6 hearings? Michael Luttig explains why you shouldn't.
Ignoring the Jan. 6 hearings? Michael Luttig explains why you shouldn't.
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Politico, ABC News and The Federalist
Wall Street Journal:
Mike Pence Plots 2024 Bid as Jan. 6 Hearings Remind Voters of His Break From Trump
Mike Pence Plots 2024 Bid as Jan. 6 Hearings Remind Voters of His Break From Trump
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
What We Learned About Trump, Pence, and the January 6th Mob
What We Learned About Trump, Pence, and the January 6th Mob
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Regular Order, The Dispatch, Insider, HuffPost, Jonathan's Newsletter, NPR, New York Times, Raw Story, New York Post, CNN, The Hill, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times and Associated Press
Ryan Mac / New York Times:
SpaceX Said to Fire Employees Involved in Letter Rebuking Elon Musk — In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.” — Give this article- - - Read in app — SpaceX, the private rocket company …
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Nico Grant / New York Times:
YouTube deleted a Jan. 6 committee video that included Trump's election lies. — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot has been trying to draw more eyes to its televised hearings by uploading clips of the proceedings online. But YouTube has removed one of those videos from its platform …
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Robby Soave / Reason:
YouTube Deleted a January 6th Committee Video for Spreading Election Misinformation — YouTube removed a video uploaded by the January 6th Committee that showed footage of former President Donald Trump contesting the results of the 2020 election. — Trump's false claim that voting machines erroneously …
Emily Baker-White / BuzzFeed News:
Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China — For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States is stored in the United States, rather than China …
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TikTok, Insider, TechCrunch and Protocol, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
Soaring gas prices lead White House aides back to brainstorming — Administration officials look at fuel rebates, emergency powers if diesel shortages materialize — Senior White House aides have in recent days explored new ideas for responding to high gas prices and looked again …
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National Review, Insider, Louder With Crowder, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Townhall, New Republic, Twitchy, HotAir, CNN and Bloomberg
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Garrett Ross / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: White House searches for gas price fixes — HOW BIDEN SEES IT — Ahead of his upcoming Middle East trip next month and amid criticism for his reported plans to meet with Saudi Crown Prince MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN, President JOE BIDEN defended the plan as he left the White House for Delaware this morning.
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New York Times and PoliticusUSA, more at Mediagazer »
Jason Koebler / VICE:
Uvalde Hires Private Law Firm to Argue It Doesn't Have to Release School Shooting Public Records — Some of the records relating to the Robb Elementary School shooting could be “highly embarrassing,” involve “emotional/mental distress,” and are “not of legitimate concern to the public,” the lawyers argued.
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Jason Del Rey / Vox:
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire — Unions might not be the tech giant's biggest labor threat. — Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people to hire in its US warehouses by 2024, according to leaked Amazon internal research from mid-2021 that Recode reviewed.
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Breitbart and New York Post
CNN:
Julian Assange's extradition to US approved by UK government — UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has signed an order to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, where he faces espionage charges, in a decision Wikileaks said marked a “dark day for press freedom.”
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Des Moines Register:
Iowa Supreme Court says abortion protections not guaranteed under state constitution — Katie Akin William MorrisDes Moines Register — The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday overruled a 2018 decision that protected abortion under the state constitution. — In a fractured decision that reverses …
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Jezebel and Political Wire
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Maritsa Georgiou / Newsy:
Montana Gov. Returning From Tuscany Vacation As Flood Disaster Grows — The governor's office confirmed he was out of the country when it was noticed his lieutenant governor signed a statewide emergency declaration. — As his home state suffers catastrophic flood damage …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Walmart ‘Cancels’ Mike Lindell's MyPillow, Leaving Him Raging — OH, THE HUMANITY — Walmart has given MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's products the boot from its shelves nationwide. In a phone interview with The Daily Beast on Wednesday night, the pillow tycoon alleged that a Walmart executive …
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New York Post, The Hill, HuffPost and Raw Story
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Kelly Tyko / Axios:
Walmart “canceling” MyPillow products from stores
Walmart “canceling” MyPillow products from stores
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The Hill, The Western Journal, Breitbart, Mediaite and Washington Times
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Peter Navarro, former Trump adviser, pleads not guilty to contempt of Congress charges — (CNN)Former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro pleaded not guilty to contempt of Congress charges on Friday after not cooperating with the House's ongoing January 6 investigation.
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Ex-Trump aide Navarro pleads not guilty to contempt charges
Ex-Trump aide Navarro pleads not guilty to contempt charges
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NBC News, The Daily Beast, PoliticusUSA, The Guardian, Mediaite and CBS News
Susan Page / USA Today:
Biden approval rating at 39% amid economic fears; 47% ‘strongly disapprove’: USA TODAY/Suffolk poll — President Joe Biden said Thursday Americans were “very, very down.” He's right about that. — A new USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll shows the country in a funk, and one that sets …
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HotAir, The Hill and Political Wire
Michael Wilner / Miami Herald:
DeSantis reverses, allowing Florida healthcare providers to order vaccines for kids — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is now allowing healthcare providers, including pediatricians and children's hospitals, to order COVID-19 vaccines from a federal program for children between six months and 5 years old …
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Associated Press, The Hill, Florida Politics, WFLA-TV and UPI
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Belief in God in U.S. Dips to 81%, a New Low — 81% believe in God, down from 87% in 2017 — Four in 10 believe God can intervene on people's behalf — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The vast majority of U.S. adults believe in God, but the 81% who do so is down six percentage points from 2017 and is the lowest in Gallup's trend.
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Washington Examiner, Mediaite, The Hill, TheBlaze, The Fishermen's Club, JTrades Newsletter and Political Wire
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Democrats' New Spokesman in the Culture Wars — On May 4, two days after Politico rocked Washington by revealing the draft of a Supreme Court decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, California Governor Gavin Newsom delivered remarks at a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood office …
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Townhall
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Back burner no more: Dems set Manchin talks on party-line bill to simmer — Senate Democrats are preparing for possible summer action on their still-elusive climate, tax reform and prescription drugs bill, grinding behind the scenes on a new version during high-profile gun safety talks.
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HotAir
Wilfred Chan / The Guardian:
Jay-Z's bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project: 'I don't have money to be losing' — The hip-hop mogul loves to rap about his roots in Brooklyn's Marcy housing projects. But classes in cryptocurrency show the billionaire is out of touch, residents say
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The Root
Anna Massoglia / OpenSecrets.org:
Trump's political operation and Republican Party committees have paid over $12.6 million to Jan. 6 rally organizers since the 2020 election cycle — Former President Donald Trump's political operation and Republican Party committees have paid over $12.6 million to individuals and firms …
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USA Today
New York Times:
How the Proud Boys Breached the Capitol on Jan. 6: Rile Up the Normies — A Times investigation of court documents, text messages and hundreds of videos shows how the Proud Boys coordinated to instigate multiple breaches of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Al Jazeera, New York Times and Raw Story
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
While Roe Is Being Overturned, Feminists Fight Among Themselves — Give this article- - - Read in app — The Drift, a buzzy literary journal founded by Kiara Barrow and Rebecca Panovka, left-leaning women in their late 20s, published a series of short essays earlier this year under the rubric, “What to Do About Feminism.”
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HotAir and Jill Filipovic