memeorandum: Germany will fire up coal plants again in an effort to save natural gas. (Melissa Eddy/New York Times)

8:20 AM ET, June 20, 2022

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Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:

Gustavo Petro wins the Colombian election, becoming the country's first leftist president. — For the first time, Colombia will have a leftist president. — Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and a longtime senator who has pledged to transform the country's economic system, has won Sunday's election …

Discussion: The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Multipolarista, New York Times, Bloomberg, UPI and Associated Press

Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:

Gustavo Petro, former guerrilla, will be Colombia's first leftist president — BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Gustavo Petro, a former rebel who rallied young and poor voters with promises to transform an unequal society, was elected Colombia's first leftist president on Sunday …

Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:

Adam Kinzinger Warns Next Presidential Election ‘Is Going To Be A Mess’ — “Wake up, Republicans, because this is not going to be good for you if you think it is,” Kinzinger said. — Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Sunday he is “very worried” about the next presidential election …

Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
GOP member of Jan. 6 committee warns that more violence is coming

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Associated Press, The Hill, Axios, CNN, Mediaite, Politico, al.com, Raw Story, New York Post and Political Wire

Katie Balevic / Insider:
Kinzinger says ‘there is violence in the future’ after receiving mailed threat to ‘execute’ him, his wife, and 5-month-old baby

Discussion: Insider, The Daily Wire, USA Today, ABC News and Mediaite

Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian:
Kinzinger: Trump's actions surrounding January 6 amount to ‘seditious conspiracy’

Discussion: The Hill, National Review, Robert Reich and Insider

Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:

Goodbye, farewell and adieu to Spoiler Alerts — Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything. — In 2014, I began writing on a regular basis at The Washington Post.

New York Times:

Texas Republicans Approve Far-Right Platform Declaring Biden's Election Illegitimate — The platform, which was voted on at the Republican state party convention in Houston, was the latest sign of Texas conservatives moving further to the right. — Give this article- - - Read in app

Discussion: CNN, Axios, Off the Kuff, UPI, HuffPost, Mother Jones, Insider, The Texas Tribune, No More Mister Nice Blog and Dispatches From A …

Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:

At Texas GOP convention, loyalists embrace far right, anti-gay rhetoric — Thousands of Republican activists meeting in Houston this weekend for the state's party convention agreed to a resolution that rejects the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and refers to Joe Biden as an illegitimate president.

Discussion: Reuters, High Plains Blogger and Citizen News

Brandon Smith / WFYI Public Media:

Diego Morales upsets Secretary of State Holli Sullivan at Indiana GOP convention — Unable to load the audio player. — You could try direct download? — Former Mike Pence aide Diego Morales upset incumbent Holli Sullivan Saturday to earn the GOP nomination for secretary of state.

Discussion: NBC Chicago

Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:

Trump campaign documents give inside look at fake-elector plan — A review of emails and memos shows that lawyers advising the former president knew the plan was baseless but pursued it anyway — The convening of the electoral college on Dec. 14, 2020, was supposed to mark the end of the wild …

Discussion: Occupy Democrats

Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:

‘Can You Believe I Lost to This Guy?’ Trump Admitted He Lost Election, Former Aide Says — Alyssa Farah Griffin revealed that the former president acknowledged privately that Biden won, despite his public claims to the contrary — In private, former President Donald Trump admitted that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

Discussion: HuffPost, Axios, The Daily Beast, CNN, PoliticusUSA, NBC News and Insider

Shashi Tharoor / The Week:

The lessons we can learn from history — It is not history that has led to atrocities — The question raised by an American journalist on Twitter—"Why is the Indian Prime Minister spending so much time attacking a Mughal monarch who died more than 300 years ago?"—is a reminder …

Maria Cramer / New York Times:

Juneteenth Is a Federal Holiday, but in Most States It's Still Not a Day Off — One year after President Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday, 26 states have not authorized the funding that would allow for state employees to take the day off. — Give this article- - - Read in app

Discussion: Politico, NPR, Religion News Service, Axios and The Root

Michelle Garcia / NBC News:
Juneteenth was finally recognized as a federal holiday. Then came commercialization.

Discussion: CBS Baltimore and Mother Jones

Melissa Eddy / New York Times:

Germany will fire up coal plants again in an effort to save natural gas. — BERLIN — Germany will restart coal-fired power plants in order to conserve natural gas, the country's economy minister announced on Sunday, amid concerns about a looming supply shortage after Russia cut gas deliveries to Europe this week.

Discussion: Political Wire

Noah Carl / The Daily Sceptic:

Energy Sanctions Are Hurting Europe More than Russia — For Europe, the merits of sanctioning Russian energy were always questionable. After all, cheap energy is essential to the running of the economy, and Russia was Europe's single biggest source. Not only that, but alternative sources …

BBC:

France's Macron set to lose majority - projection — Less than two months after he was re-elected president, Emmanuel Macron is on course to lose control of the French National Assembly after a strong performance by rival parties. — His centrist Ensemble coalition is on course …

Discussion: El País, Metro.co.uk, France 24, Al Jazeera and New York Times

New York Times:
French Election: Macron's Coalition Expected to Prevail, but Will Be Weakened in Parliament

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, ABC17NEWS, Washington Post, Politico, The Hill and Political Wire

Livia Albeck-Ripka / New York Times:

FINA Restricts Transgender Women From Competing at Elite Level — The international swimming federation said transgender women who had experienced male puberty could not compete in women's events. — Give this article- - - Read in app — FINA, the international swimming federation …

Discussion: BizPac Review, Sky News, National Review, Telegraph, The Daily Caller, The Western Journal, Associated Press, Townhall, Fox News, Doomsday Party and Twitchy

Bill Graff / OutKick:
Lia Thomas Will Not Race Against Women After FINA Rule On Transgender Athletes

Discussion: Fox News, New York Post, FINA, RedState, UPI, TheBlaze and Insider

Emma Colton / Fox News:

Pro-choice protesters descend on Coney Barrett's home with blood and doll props — Pro-choice protests have become more common following a leaked draft opinion signaling SCOTUS might overturn Roe v. Wade — Barricades go up around the Supreme Court ahead of possible Roe v. Wade ruling

Discussion: The Daily Wire, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, Townhall, TMZ.com and BizPac Review

The Guardian:

Carrie Johnson and the curious case of the vanishing Times story — Report had claimed Boris Johnson tried to hire his now wife as chief of staff when foreign secretary, but then it was deleted — At first glance, the story appeared to be the political scoop of the weekend.

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New York Times:

What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia's Brutal War Strategy — Reflecting a shockingly barbaric and old-fashioned wartime strategy, Russian forces have pummeled Ukrainian cities and towns with a barrage of rockets and other munitions, most of which can be considered relatively crude relics …

Discussion: The Guardian, Task & Purpose, New York Post and Al Jazeera