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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Ron DeSantis Holds Early Lead Over Donald Trump Among GOP Primary Voters, WSJ Poll Shows — The former president's standing among Republican voters has fallen after candidates he promoted lost in midterm elections — Republican primary voters have high interest in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Lowest Opinion Of Trump Among Voters In Seven Years, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Biden Approval Rating Climbs — mail_outline — As former President Donald Trump seeks to return to the Oval Office, 31 percent of registered voters have a favorable opinion of him …
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Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
CNN Poll: Americans have little appetite for Biden-Trump rematch in 2024 — There's little appetite for a 2020 rematch in the coming presidential election, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, as majorities of registered voters within each party say they'd rather see someone new nominated in 2024.
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Washington Post:
Twitter account that tracked Elon Musk's jet is suspended permanently — The move comes after Musk said he wouldn't act against the account to show his commitment to free speech. The account's creator, once a fan of Musk's, now wonders whether it was all for show.
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Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Suspends Accounts Sharing Live Locations, Including the Tracker of Elon Musk's Private Jet — Mr. Musk says real-time posting of people's locations violates doxing policies; he previously said he wouldn't suspend the @ElonJet account — Elon Musk's Unconventional Management Style: Former Employees Share Stories
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Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Tesla Investors Voice Concern Over Elon Musk's Focus on Twitter
Tesla Investors Voice Concern Over Elon Musk's Focus on Twitter
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
DOJ and SEC charge social media influencers in alleged $100 million stock pump and dump scheme — Federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged seven social media influencers with using Twitter and Discord to commit securities fraud that netted them more than $100 million in illicit gains.
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Jennifer Calfas / Wall Street Journal:
SEC Charges Eight Influencers in $100 Million Securities Fraud — Complaint accuses social-media influencers of engaging in pump-and-dump scheme since at least January 2020 — The Securities and Exchange Commission charged eight influencers in an alleged $100 million stock-manipulation scheme …
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Reuters:
The supply chain that keeps tech flowing to Russia — In March this year, a new firm appeared in Turkey's corporate registry. Azu International Ltd Sti described itself as a wholesale trader of IT products, and a week later began shipping U.S. computer parts to Russia.
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NBC News:
Florida pastor and his son are arrested in alleged $8 million Covid scam — A Florida pastor and his son were arrested Wednesday on charges of fraudulently obtaining more than $8 million in federal Covid relief funds and attempting to use some of the money to buy a luxury home near Walt Disney World.
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Talking Points Memo:
Texts Show How Members Of Congress Advanced ‘Antifa’ Conspiracy Theories In The Wake Of Jan. 6 — Within two hours of protesters breaking the first barricades at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, right-wing politicians and media figures were already texting President Trump's Chief …
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Raw Story, PoliticsPA, Washington Press and Vanity Fair
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
QAnon, adrift after Trump's defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk's Twitter — Among some QAnon devotees, Musk has become a figure of prophecy on par with Donald Trump — Twitter owner Elon Musk's boosting of far-right memes and grievances has injected new energy into the jumbled set …
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Bloomberg:
In 60 Seconds Before CPI Hit, Heavy Trading Drove Mystery Rally — Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary for President Joe Biden, quickly brushed off the question when it came in toward the end of her daily press conference Tuesday. No, she said, there was no chance that anyone …
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TMZ.com:
‘Ellen’ DJ Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Dead at 40 by Suicide — 9:49 AM PT — Ellen DeGeneres just paid tribute to her friend, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, writing, “I'm heartbroken. tWitch was pure love and light. He was my family, and I loved him with all my heart. I will miss him.
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Washington Post:
Texas attorney general's office sought state data on transgender Texans — HOUSTON — Employees at the Texas Department of Public Safety in June received a sweeping request from Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton's office: to compile a list of individuals who had changed their gender …
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren: The Federal Reserve Is Trying ‘To Get More People Fired’ — Democrats are increasingly worried about the Federal Reserve tanking the economy. — WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is coming under increasing political pressure to stop raising interest rates as aggressively as it has done so this year.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Don't Have a ‘Candidate-Quality Problem,’ They Have a Crazy-People Problem … The most consistent theme articulated by the Republican Establishment in response to the midterm elections is a determination to solve what Mitch McConnell euphemistically called its “candidate-quality problem.”
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Steve Miller / RealClearInvestigations:
With Passenger Mask Mandate Gone, Flight Turbulence Stats Improve Markedly — Flight cabin disruptions over masks, like the one shown, are much less likely now. With a Biden administration mandate overturned, incidents are down 74%. — The friendly skies too often resembled “season's beatings” …
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Washington Post:
House votes to remove bust of Dred Scott decision author from Capitol — The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would remove a bust at the U.S. Capitol of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who authored the majority Supreme Court opinion protecting slavery in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
Michelle Obama's Fashion Declaration of Independence — The former first lady dressed with a new sense of freedom on her book tour. — When is a book tour not just a book tour? When it is a platform for the refashioning, literally, of a major public figure — when it is a way for someone whose image …
getrevue.co:
a native internet protocol for social media — By subscribing, you agree with Revue's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that jack's will receive your email address. — jack's — There's a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here's my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.
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Lee Brown / New York Post:
Sam Bankman-Fried's Bahamas jail infested by rats and maggots: ‘Not fit for humanity’ — Fallen crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried is being held in a Bahamian jail known to be overrun with rats and maggots — one so bad a warden has called it “not fit for humanity.”
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
China's War Against Taiwan Has Already Started — In 2018, a typhoon stranded thousands of people at Kansai International Airport, near Osaka, Japan. Among them were some tourists from Taiwan. Normally, this story might not have had much political meaning.
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Washington Post:
The surprising reasons parts of Earth are warming more slowly — It has become common to focus on the fastest-warming places, regions where human-charged climate change is raising temperatures at an alarming speed. In the Arctic, where sea ice is rapidly disappearing …
ProPublica:
Conservative Activist Poured Millions Into Groups Seeking to Influence Supreme Court on Elections and Discrimination — Newly obtained records show how Leonard Leo, an architect of the right-wing takeover of the courts, has been funding groups pushing to change elections and anti-discrimination laws.
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Trump Org. was secretly held in contempt for hindering probe — Donald Trump's company impeded a grand jury investigation last year by repeatedly failing to turn over evidence in a timely fashion, leading to a secret contempt finding and a $4,000 fine, according to court records made public Tuesday.
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Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
Oregon governor commutes sentences for state's 17 death row inmates — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) on Tuesday commuted the sentences of all 17 people on the state's death row, changing their punishment from execution to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Warren Rojas / Insider:
Former adversary John Boehner praises ‘incredibly effective’ outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi in tearful Capitol Hill tribute — Former Speaker John Boehner had nothing but kind words for Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday. — The Ohio Republican praised his one-time foil at her official portrait unveiling on Capitol Hill.
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Texas Veterans Affairs sued by nurse over compelled abortion services — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs rule that requires its facilities to offer abortion counseling and procedures is being challenged in court by health professionals who said it violates their religious liberties.
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Nick Reynolds / Newsweek:
Trump on ‘Fast Track’ to Prosecution as DOJ Gets Documents Needed to Indict — Attorneys representing the Department of Justice (DOJ) will likely soon get their hands on a number of classified documents necessary to bring charges against former President Donald Trump, legal observers contend …
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Florida Politics, UPI and Washington Times
Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
Antiabortion movement seeks to jail people for ‘trafficking’ illegal pills — Six months after their Supreme Court victory, conservatives complain that strict new laws are not being sufficiently enforced — The largest anti abortion organization in Texas has created a team of advocates assigned …
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Laurie McGinley / Washington Post:
For new NCI director, work turns personal: She is diagnosed with cancer — Monica Bertagnolli says she has early-stage breast cancer and expects to recover fully — Last summer, when Boston cancer surgeon Monica M. Bertagnolli heard she might be selected to lead the National Cancer Institute …
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