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Politico:
‘Something Was Badly Wrong’: When Washington Realized Russia Was Actually Invading Ukraine — This oral history was compiled and woven together by Garrett M. Graff, based on dozens of hours of interviews by Erin Banco, Lara Seligman, Nahal Toosi and Alexander Ward with more than 30 key figures …
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Oral history: Leaders recall dismay, fury on first day of war in Ukraine
Oral history: Leaders recall dismay, fury on first day of war in Ukraine
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CBS News and Washington Examiner
Kathryn Varn / Tallahassee Democrat:
Strapped to a gurney, death row inmate Donald Dillbeck saves his last words for DeSantis — RAIFORD — Donald Dillbeck didn't mince words in the minutes before the state executed him Thursday night. — “I know I hurt people when I was young. I really messed up,” Dillbeck, 59, said …
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Matt Young / The Daily Beast:
Death Row Inmate Uses Last Words to Diss DeSantis: ‘Suck Our D*cks’
Death Row Inmate Uses Last Words to Diss DeSantis: ‘Suck Our D*cks’
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Louder With Crowder
Tallahassee Democrat:
Convicted murderer Donald Dillbeck has been executed. Here's the latest.
Convicted murderer Donald Dillbeck has been executed. Here's the latest.
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Law & Crime, RedState, Florida's Voice, Fox News, UPI, Religion News Service, Associated Press, Twitchy and WFLA-TV
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
Florida Executes Man Used As ‘Political Pawn’ By Ron DeSantis
Florida Executes Man Used As ‘Political Pawn’ By Ron DeSantis
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, SCOTUSblog and The Hill
CNN:
Exclusive: How a box with classified documents ended up in Trump's office months after FBI searched Mar-a-Lago — The Justice Department wants to know how a box containing a handful of classified records scattered among copies of presidential schedules turned up at Mar-a-Lago late last year …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Classified Trump schedules were moved to Mar-a-Lago after FBI search - sources — Exclusive: Junior aide took the box, including some classified documents, from a government-leased office in Palm Beach to Mar-a-Lago — Donald Trump's lawyers found a box of White House schedules …
Platformer:
New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter — Jira went down, Slack's gone, and site performance is degraded. What's next? — Today, let's check in on Elon Musk's Twitter, where sudden software outages and another dubious transparency effort have left the company's remaining workers more beleaguered than usual.
Martha Ross / Mercury News:
'Dilbert's' Scott Adams: ‘White people should get the hell away from Black people’ — During his online program, the controversial East Bay cartoonist offered up his latest provocation, arguing that Black people constitute a ‘hate group’ — Pro-Trump “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams …
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Associated Press:
China calls for Russia-Ukraine cease-fire, peace talks — 1 of 2 — China has called for a cease-fire between Ukraine and Russia and the opening of peace talks as part of a 12-point proposal to end the conflict. The plan issued Friday morning by the Foreign Ministry also urges the end …
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William Saletan / The Bulwark:
Some MAGA Republicans Break with Fox Over Ukraine — The network's primetime anchors oppose Biden's support for Ukraine. A few in the GOP have stood up to them. — The war in Ukraine has moved from city to city: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Kherson, Bakhmut.
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Los Angeles Times
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Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Half say US should support Ukraine as long as it takes
Fox News Poll: Half say US should support Ukraine as long as it takes
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Opinion Today and The Hill
J. Michael Luttig / New York Times:
Mike Pence Should Drop His Grand Jury Subpoena Gambit — Former Vice President Mike Pence recently announced he would challenge Special Counsel Jack Smith's subpoena for him to appear before a grand jury in Washington as part of the investigation into former President Donald Trump's efforts …
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Selene San Felice / Axios:
GOP goes after DEI degrees — A new bill calls for the removal of degrees in critical race theory (CRT), gender studies, and other majors and minors that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from Florida's public colleges. … - It also threatens state colleges and universities …
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Resurgence
Ivana Saric / Axios:
All U.S. extremist mass killings in 2022 linked to far right, report says — Right-wing extremists committed every ideologically driven mass killing identified in the U.S. in 2022, with an “unusually high” proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a new report published Thursday.
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Mock Paper Scissors, New York Daily News, Associated Press, ADL and UPI
Brennan Leach / Medill on the Hill:
WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS PRESIDENTIAL RUN IN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, BECOMING FIRST PROMINENT DEMOCRAT IN 2024 RACE — WASHINGTON — Marianne Williamson confirmed in an interview with Medill News Service on Thursday that she is running for president as a Democrat, becoming the first announced candidate for the party.
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Will a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit finally stop Fox News from spreading lies? — Advertising boycotts don't restrain the rightwing network, but the Dominion lawsuit may succeed in holding them to account — If you've paid even the slightest attention to how Fox News operates …
Derek Willis / ProPublica:
After a Decade of Tracking Politicians' Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More — Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all. But service changes made after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter have rendered it impossible for us to continue tracking these tweets.
Wall Street Journal:
West Starts Issuing Fresh Sanctions Against Russia — U.S., alongside G-7 partners, to sanction more than 200 additional individuals and entities — How Ukraine's Growing Military Has Changed Over One Year of War — Created with sketchtool. … 1x — The West started rolling …
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Associated Press, Washington Times, Bloomberg, Russian Free Press, TASS, The Hill and Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
The right's new culture-war target: ‘Woke AI’ — ChatGPT and Bing are trying to stay out of politics — and failing — Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led campaigns against critical race theory and gender identity in schools, this week pointed his half-million Twitter followers toward …
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Wired and New York Times, more at Techmeme »
David Smith / The Guardian:
'Biden's the most impressive president of my lifetime': Mehdi Hasan on Fox News, tough questions and post-Trump politics — The progressive journalist praises the bluntness of British colleagues and says the real ‘cancel culture brigade’ is on the right — ne evening this month on cable television …
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HuffPost and Commonwealth Club
Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News:
Backlash in Texas as diversity initiatives put on hold in vast university system — Latino and Black leaders in Texas pushed back on claims that diversity and inclusion hiring programs are illegal as the vast University of Texas System put a hold on such programs at its institutions and campuses.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Don't Let Politics Cloud Your View of What's Going on With Teens and Depression — Last year, a study came out showing that left-leaning adolescents were experiencing a greater increase in depression than their more conservative peers. Indeed, while girls are more likely to be depressed than boys …
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Andrew Ferguson / Washington Free Beacon:
‘A Great, Great, Great Man’: The Cringey Gushing Over Jimmy Carter … Is it the very unseemliness of the death watch over poor Jimmy Carter that has forced everyone to talk balls? — We human beings often react this way when we catch ourselves doing something that's in poor taste or otherwise undignified.
Natalie Allison / Politico:
The GOP field descends on Iowa, readying to eat some humble pie — DES MOINES, Iowa — Sen. Tim Scott arrived in Iowa this week amid buzz about a presidential bid to come. But shortly after stepping foot in the state, that enthusiasm was complemented by the humbling elements that come with politicking in such an intimate place.
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Washington Post, Raw Story, Florida Phoenix and CBS News
Haley Britzky / CNN:
US defense secretary tells CNN he hasn't spoken to Chinese counterpart for a ‘couple of months’ — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told CNN that he and his Chinese counterpart have not spoken for a “couple of months,” with Chinese Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe refusing to take a call …
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Political Wire
David Brooks / New York Times:
Let's All Do the DeSantis Shimmy! — I suppose all contemporary young politicians dream of meeting their moment. At the enthusiastic dawn of their politico careers, they entertain a fantasy that some day, as a great historical challenge looms into view, their future selves will rise to the occasion — and masterfully dodge it!
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
U.S. Sends Home Brothers Held for Nearly 20 Years at Guantánamo Bay — The latest release, of two Pakistanis never charged with a crime, reduced the detainee population of the once-sprawling prison complex to 32. — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The U.S. military released two brothers …
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Rebecca Mead / New Yorker:
The End of “Succession” Is Near — The show's creator, Jesse Armstrong, explains why he has chosen to conclude the drama of the Roy family in its fourth season. — A few minutes before Jesse Armstrong was scheduled to call for a chat earlier this month, he sent a polite text saying that he was …
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Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, The Wrap, CBS News, Associated Press, The A.V. Club and New York Post
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
U.S. Justice Dept accuses Google of evidence destruction in antitrust case — U.S. Justice Department lawyers say that Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) destroyed internal corporate communications and have asked a federal judge to sanction the company as part of the government's antitrust case over its search business.
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New York Times:
Bike Path Attacker's Father Testifies to Save Son: ‘He Ruined Their Lives’ — A federal jury considering the death penalty heard testimony from the father of Sayfullo Saipov, who said he expected that he would never see his son again. — Habibulloh Saipov saw his son for the first time in 13 years this week.
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Fox News, PIX11 and New York Daily News
Politico:
Trump-allied group wants J6 committee staffers blacklisted — A conservative non-profit group allied with former President Donald Trump urged “Hill staffers and their colleagues” to cut off meetings with any former Jan. 6 committee staffers who have since joined firms that lobby.
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Washington Examiner, American Accountability …, Raw Story, The Hill and Political Wire
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
DeSantis leads Trump by wide margin in California as primary race starts, poll finds — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has surged to a lead among California Republicans over former President Trump for the party's 2024 presidential nomination, a poll released Friday found.
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Florida Politics, Breitbart, Politico, Political Wire and New York Post