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8:30 AM ET, February 18, 2023

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Brian Stelter / The Atlantic:
I Never Truly Understood Fox News Until Now  —  The basic story of Fox News and the 2020 election is well understood.  Fox's relatively small news operation covered the vote count accurately; this coverage infuriated President Donald Trump, the MAGA base, and Fox's opinion stars …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News has been exposed as a dishonest organization terrified of its own audience  —  New York CNN —  Fox News has been exposed like never before.  —  A trove of newly-released text messages and emails have laid bare how the right-wing media giant operated with little regard for fact …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
What Fox News Says When You're Not Listening  —  People who remember Fox News host Tucker Carlson as a bow-tied creature of establishment Washington often wonder what happened to him.  Twenty years ago, he was a preppy Beltway habitue and impishly libertarian magazine writer …
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Knew Trump's Big Lie Was BS the Whole Time
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
4 takeaways from the bombshell Fox News legal filing
Wall Street Journal:
Fox News Hosts, Executives Raised Concerns About 2020 Election-Fraud Claims Made on the Air, Filing Shows
Theo Baker / The Stanford Daily:
Internal review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President's Alzheimer's research, colleagues allege  —  In 2009, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, then a top executive at the biotechnology company Genentech, was the primary author of a scientific paper published in the prestigious journal Nature …
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
U.S. Calls Off Search for Unidentified Objects It Shot Down  —  The end of the search for objects downed over Alaska and Lake Huron raises the possibility that the devices will never be collected and analyzed.  —  DEADHORSE, Alaska — The United States has called off the search …
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CNN:
Man in custody after 6 killed, including suspect's ex-wife, in series of shootings in Mississippi, sheriff says  —  Six people are dead and another was wounded Friday in a series of shootings in Tate County, Mississippi after a man opened fire on his ex-wife and potentially other family members, Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance told CNN.
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Associated Press:
6 fatally shot in small Mississippi town, suspect in custody  —  Six people were fatally shot Friday in a small town in rural Mississippi near the Tennessee state line, and authorities said they had taken a suspect into custody.  Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesperson Bailey Martin confirmed …
Daniel Strauss / New Republic:
Christopher Rufo Claims a Degree from “Harvard.”  Umm ... Not Quite  —  On paper, Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who recently was appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to sit on the board of a small Sarasota liberal arts college whose curriculum the governor dislikes …
Discussion: Yard Couch
Russ Choma / Mother Jones:
GOP Operative Sentenced to 18 Months for Funneling Russian Money to Trump Campaign  —  Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.  —  On Friday, a federal judge in Washington, DC sentenced a veteran GOP operative to 18 months …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Sen. Tina Smith / The Daily Beast:
I Serve With Sen. John Fetterman.  I Struggled With Depression, Too  —  In a candid, personal essay, Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota writes about John Fetterman, her own struggle with depression, seeking help, and finding a way back to health. … I've only worked with Sen. John Fetterman for a short time …
Discussion: CBS News, Vox and Blue Virginia
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Washington Post:
Depression risk rises after a stroke. What that means for John Fetterman.
Telegraph:
Roald Dahl goes PC in a world where no one is ‘fat’ and the Oompa-Loompas are gender neutral  —  Sensitivity readers were hired to scrutinise the text with parts rewritten for a modern audience  —  Augustus Gloop is no longer fat, Mrs Twit is no longer fearfully ugly, and the Oompa-Loompas …
Discussion: Instapundit
The Onion:
It Is Journalism's Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible  —  The task of reporting is not a simple one.  Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention …
Mary Kay Mallonee / CNN:
Rep. Angie Craig's office releases threatening calls it received after congresswoman assaulted  —  Rep. Angie Craig's office released audio Friday of threatening, vulgar phone calls it said it received after the Minnesota Democrat was physically assaulted in her apartment building in Washington, DC, earlier this month.
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
At Least 102 Kids Were Working In U.S. Meatpacking Plants, Labor Investigation Finds  —  The Labor Department says Packers Sanitation had children cleaning “back saws, brisket saws and head splitters.”  —  The Labor Department said Friday that investigators found Packers Sanitation Services Inc …
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Sakshi Venkatraman / NBC News:
Ann Coulter tells Nikki Haley to ‘go back to your own country’ in racist rant against new GOP presidential candidate  —  “What's with the worshipping of the cows?  They're all starving over there,” Coulter also said.  —  Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is under fire for a racist tirade …
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis injects chaos into the Chicago mayoral race  —  CHICAGO — An element drifting into Chicago is stirring up an already volatile nine-way mayor's race here — and its name is Ron DeSantis.  —  The mere mention of the Florida governor's trip to the state next week set off …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Judge Bans Starbucks From Firing Union Supporters  —  A nationwide injunction restrains the company from dismissing labor organizers and could help reinstate ousted workers more quickly.  —  A federal judge in Michigan issued an injunction on Friday banning Starbucks from firing U.S. workers …
Discussion: Bloomberg Law and The Hill
Joey Garrison / USA Today:
‘Never intended’ to sunset Social Security, Sen. Rick Scott says amid Biden criticism  —  Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., a favorite target of the White House, updated his controversial proposal to sunset all federal programs every five years with a boldened note Friday that claims it was never his intention to cut Social Security or Medicare.
Kim Tong-Hyung / Associated Press:
North Korea fires missile as US, S. Korea prepare for drills  —  1 of 8  —  North Korea on Saturday fired a long-range missile from its capital into the sea off Japan, according to its neighbors, a day after it threatened to take strong measures against South Korea and the U.S. over their joint military exercises.
New York Times:
CNN's Chairman Rebukes Don Lemon Over His Nikki Haley Comments  —  Mr. Lemon's assertion that the presidential candidate Nikki Haley was not “in her prime” roiled the network and put a harsh spotlight on its struggling morning show.  —  Don Lemon, the CNN morning-show anchor …
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Women's rights group UltraViolet calls on CNN to suspend Don Lemon from talking politics after Nikki Haley insult
 
 
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CIS.org:
The Employment Situation of Immigrants and the U.S.-Born in the Fourth Quarter of 2022
Discussion: Breitbart
Lydia Nusbaum / Florida's Voice:
Teacher on administrative leave after using students as ‘political props’ in book banning skits
Discussion: The Western Journal
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
President Biden, Have I Got a Labor Secretary for You
Discussion: Fast Company, Fox News and Backbencher
Hallie Lieberman / The Guardian:
Republicans take aim at risque jokes and romance novels with anti-sex bills
 Earlier Items: 
The Guardian:
Three men convicted of far-right plot to stab Emmanuel Macron
Discussion: BBC and Washington Examiner
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Alex Jones on alleged FBI monitoring of Nick Fuentes: 'It's a trap'
Isabella Murray / ABC News:
Political fallout over federal response to Ohio train derailment
Politico:
Marianne Williamson is entering the chat
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump seeks to bar evidence of 2 other alleged sexual assaults at rape defamation trial
CNN:
Key senators torn over retirement decisions as party leaders try to fortify 2024 standing
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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