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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 and Raw Story
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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
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 …
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Washington Post and Jacobin
Stephen Fowler / Georgia Public Broadcasting:
Raffensperger, Sterling will headline Tuesday's Jan. 6 hearings
Raffensperger, Sterling will headline Tuesday's Jan. 6 hearings
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CNN and Political Wire
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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IJR, Townhall and Washington Post
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What John Eastman and ‘the pardon list’ means
What John Eastman and ‘the pardon list’ means
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Defend Democracy Project, Iowa Starting Line, Vox and littlegreenfootballs.com
John Bowden / The Independent:
Rioters got within 40 feet of Pence and informant reveals Proud Boys ‘were willing to kill vice president’
Rioters got within 40 feet of Pence and informant reveals Proud Boys ‘were willing to kill vice president’
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The Daily Beast and Informed Comment
The Independent:
Trump claims he never asked Pence to overturn the election on Truth Social after dramatic Jan 6 hearing
Trump claims he never asked Pence to overturn the election on Truth Social after dramatic Jan 6 hearing
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The Hill, Insider, Salon, Right Wing Watch, Truth and Consequences, Defend Democracy Project, New York Post, Washington Post, The Nation, CNN, PolitiFact, FiveThirtyEight, The Guardian, Vox and Breitbart
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, HotAir, Insider, Engadget, New York Post, TechCrunch and Protocol, more at Techmeme »
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Caught between an A+ NRA rating and a nation reeling from shootings, John Cornyn is key to whether gun safety deal advances — The bipartisan gun legislation could end up being a career definer for John Cornyn, Texas' senior senator. He's shown a past willingness to compromise …
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Wall Street Journal, Insider, Twitchy and Reuters
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CNN:
John Cornyn, top Republican negotiator on gun package, booed at Texas GOP convention
John Cornyn, top Republican negotiator on gun package, booed at Texas GOP convention
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The Hill, Washington Times and Just The News
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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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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Wall Street Journal, The Bitter Truth …, Home Office in the media, Associated Press, Reason, UPI, Raw Story, LA Progressive, The Daily Caller, CBS News, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, CNBC, ABC7, Metro.co.uk, Bloomberg, Insider, Deadline, Politico and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
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Charley Adams / BBC:
Julian Assange can be extradited, says UK home secretary
Julian Assange can be extradited, says UK home secretary
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HotAir, The Verge, The Register and Associated Press
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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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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Law & Crime, The Western Journal, Jezebel, LifeNews.com, Just The News and Political Wire
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David Pitt / who13.com:
Iowa Supreme Court: Abortion not fundamental right in state
Iowa Supreme Court: Abortion not fundamental right in state
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Iowa Capital Dispatch, CNN, Talking Points Memo, CBS News, RedState and Al Jazeera
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 Phoenix, Florida Politics and WFLA-TV
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New York Times:
Jan. 6 Panel Could Start Sharing Transcripts With Justice Dept. as Soon as July — Congressional Democrats, under pressure from federal prosecutors, say they will begin sharing interviews after their series of public hearings concludes. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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NBC News, Bloomberg, The Mahablog, The Daily Signal and Daily Kos
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, RedState, UPI, Stay-At-Home Macro, The Daily Wire, Breitbart, PoliticusUSA, Insider, The Daily Caller, New Republic, Louder With Crowder, CNN, Townhall, HotAir, Twitchy and Bloomberg
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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Ace of Spades HQ, Townhall, The Hill, HotAir and Political Wire
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 and Political Wire
New York Times:
Infighting Overshadows Big Plans at The Washington Post — The aim of Sally Buzbee, The Post's editor, is to broaden the newspaper's reach. A year into the job, she's dealing with internal tumult over some longstanding grievances. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Politico and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
WTO Fails to Promote COVID Vaccines — Today on TAP: And the U.S., despite Biden's commitment to a waiver of drug company patent rights, sides with Pharma. — Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization, speaks at a press conference after the closing …
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Common Dreams
Mark Maske / Washington Post:
NFL will argue for ‘significant’ suspension of Deshaun Watson — The NFL will argue that Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson should receive a “significant” suspension for violating the league's personal conduct policy, multiple people familiar with the case said Friday.
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ProFootballTalk, Sports Illustrated, The Root, Fox 8 Cleveland WJW and Plain Dealer
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, HuffPost, The Hill 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 Western Journal, The Hill, Breitbart, Mediaite and Washington Times
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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New York Times, Al Jazeera 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, National Review and Jill Filipovic
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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Todd's odd, Axios, The Torch Report, The Hill, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, 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