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Washington Post:
‘Dilbert’ dropped by The Post, other papers, after cartoonist's racist rant — Newspapers across the United States have pulled Scott Adams's long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after the cartoonist called Black Americans a “hate group” and said White people should “get the hell away from” them.
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Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times ceases publication of ‘Dilbert’ — The Times has decided to cease publication of “Dilbert.” Cartoonist Scott Adams made racist comments in a YouTube livestream Feb. 22, offensive remarks that The Times rejects. Further, in the last nine months The Times has on four occasions printed …
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Albuquerque Journal, The Wrap and Associated Press
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Longtime Trump backers flock to DeSantis event — The group of Ron DeSantis' top donors and supporters gathering in Palm Beach, Fla., this weekend includes some longtime backers of former President Donald Trump. — The Florida governor's three-day retreat at the Four Seasons hotel …
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Washington Examiner, Florida Politics and Raw Story
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From Palm Beach to Staten Island, DeSantis makes 2024 moves on Trump's turf — The Florida governor's show of force this weekend was part of his increasingly open encroachments into the former president's longtime support base and ideological terrain — PALM BEACH, Fla. …
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PoliticusUSA, Outside the Beltway, Bloomberg and Fox News
Steve Contorno / CNN:
DeSantis has a new book coming out next week. Here's what his first one said
DeSantis has a new book coming out next week. Here's what his first one said
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Florida Politics
ProPublica:
A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline — Despite a history of fraud, one family has thrived in the regulatory no man's land of health care sharing ministries, where insurance commissioners can't investigate …
Hannah Dreier / New York Times:
Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. — Arriving in record numbers, they're ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make some of the country's best-known products. — Hannah traveled to Alabama, Florida …
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Mother Jones and The Gateway Pundit
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Watching Tucker Carlson for Work — According to Kat Abughazaleh, a researcher at Media Matters for America, “You don't know Fox News until you are watching it for a job.” — On a recent episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” a prime-time show on Fox News, Tucker Carlson introduced his first guest …
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Digby's Hullabaloo, more at Mediagazer »
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Putin pitches the American right with an ungodly invocation of God — Here's a scoop for you: Vladimir Putin is sounding like someone who wants to enter the 2024 Republican presidential primaries. — How else do you explain that in the middle of his bellicose speech Tuesday promising success …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
America's Interests Are Not Necessarily the Same as Ukraine's
America's Interests Are Not Necessarily the Same as Ukraine's
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Bloomberg, Vladimir's News and ABC News
Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine Is the West's War Now
Ukraine Is the West's War Now
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Bloomberg, The Hill and Financial Times
Washington Post:
Arizona governor seeks ethics review of former attorney general — The complaint to the State Bar of Arizona follows new details about how Mark Brnovich withheld records debunking claims of election fraud — By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Washington Press
Bruce Y. Lee / Forbes:
Lee County, Florida, Republican Party Passes Resolution To Ban Covid-19 Vaccines — If the Lee County Republican Party has their way, the state of Florida will be banning the use of Covid-19 vaccines. Yes, you heard that correctly. Based on a majority vote, the Party has passed a so-called …
New York Times:
What Fox News Hosts Said Privately vs. Publicly About Voter Fraud — No serious lawyer could believe what they were saying. — Two days after the 2020 election, Tucker Carlson was furious. — Fox News viewers were abandoning the network for Newsmax and One America News, two conservative rivals …
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Jacobin and Washington Post
A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:
Lincoln Project claims Ron DeSantis' presidential hopes are ‘just hype’ … A.G. Gancarski — A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski
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Washington Examiner and ABC News
Carey Gillam / The Guardian:
Revealed: the US is averaging one chemical accident every two days — Guardian analysis of data in light of Ohio train derailment shows accidental releases are happening consistently — Mike DeWine, the Ohio governor, recently lamented the toll taken on the residents of East Palestine …
Associated Press:
Feds seek to limit telehealth prescriptions for some drugs — 1 of 3 — The Biden administration moved Friday to require patients see a doctor in person before getting attention deficit disorder medication or addictive painkillers, toughening access to the drugs against the backdrop of a deepening opioid crisis.
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders supporters took over the Nevada Democratic Party. It's not going well. — When Bernie Sanders' supporters took over the Nevada Democratic Party two years ago, progressives across the country were thrilled. — Socialists had managed to bring down one of the most powerful establishment forces …
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HotAir, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, RedState, Fox News, Raw Story and Las Vegas Review-Journal
Jared Yates Sexton / Dispatches From A …:
The Attack on Public Education and What We Must Do — We are deep, deep into the war on public education and it's past time we look at history and begin to fight … On Thursday scores of college students in Florida walked out in protest of Governor Ron DeSantis's increasingly aggressive attacks on public education.
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Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
Feminism taught me all I need to know about men like Trump and Putin — Like all abusive men, dictators seek to control who can speak and which narratives are believed. The only difference is scale — s the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolded, I was reminded over and over again …
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Fight over Rep. Perry's phone has prevented review of 2,200 documents in Jan. 6 probe — Six months after the FBI seized Perry's phone, a U.S. appeals court is reviewing a judge's order that 90 percent of Perry's messages fall outside the congressman's immunity from criminal investigation
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Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
The Texas judge who could take down the abortion pill … By Caroline Kitchener and Ann E. Marimow — ABILENE, Tex. — Matthew Kacsmaryk was a 22-year-old law student when he drove to a small city in west Texas to spend a day with a baby he would probably never see again.
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