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New York Times:
Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods — The conservative media mogul made the remarks under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems. — Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Sean Hannity ‘had been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks’: court docs — Behind the scenes at Fox News after the 2020 election, it was becoming clear that conservative prime-time hosts were saying one thing to viewers and another thing privately. — According to court filings …
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Insider
Politico:
Murdoch and other Fox execs agreed 2020 election was fair but feared losing viewers, court filing shows
Murdoch and other Fox execs agreed 2020 election was fair but feared losing viewers, court filing shows
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Insider, emptywheel and No More Mister Nice Blog
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox could be on the hook for campaign finance violations after new court docs drop: former FBI agent
Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch admitted some Fox commentators ‘endorsed’ election lies
Rupert Murdoch admitted some Fox commentators ‘endorsed’ election lies
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Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Fortune, Financial Times and Raw Story
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox chief Rupert Murdoch said network aired 2020 election conspiracies for the money: court documents
Fox chief Rupert Murdoch said network aired 2020 election conspiracies for the money: court documents
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that Fox News hosts endorsed false stolen election claims
Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that Fox News hosts endorsed false stolen election claims
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Trump Flips Out At ‘Fake’ Fox News For ‘Promoting’ Ron DeSantis
Trump Flips Out At ‘Fake’ Fox News For ‘Promoting’ Ron DeSantis
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Forbes, Newsbusters, RADAR, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Sputnik News, NBC News and Breitbart
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Is it “OK to be white”? — In the span of a few days, Dilbert — a cartoon lampooning workplace culture by Scott Adams — was dropped by hundreds of newspapers. The backlash was in response to a racist rant that Adams posted on YouTube in which he described Black Americans as “a hate group” …
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work
Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work
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Mercury News, NPR, Bloomberg, RedState, American Greatness, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, WPRI-TV, The Guardian, National Review, The Hill, Variety, WTOP News, Axios and New York Post
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Scott Adams and the right-wing insistence on White victimhood
Scott Adams and the right-wing insistence on White victimhood
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The Root, The Intercept and Mediaite
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
DeSantis's ‘Apocalyptic’ Attack on Higher Education — In 2017, the government of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban passed a law intended to drive Central European University, a prestigious school founded by a Hungarian refugee, George Soros, out of the country.
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Chronicle of Higher Education, Tampa Bay Times, The Daily Caller and Popular Information
Seung Min Kim / Associated Press:
White House: No more TikTok on gov't devices within 30 days — The White House is giving all federal agencies 30 days to wipe TikTok off all government devices, as the Chinese-owned social media app comes under increasing scrutiny in Washington over security concerns.
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
ACLU urges US lawmakers not to ban TikTok, citing free speech
ACLU urges US lawmakers not to ban TikTok, citing free speech
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Associated Press, Reason, Balkinization, Bloomberg and ABC News
Olivia Rubin / ABC News:
Judge overseeing Trump Georgia grand jury speaks after foreperson's controversial interviews — The jurors “can talk about” their final report, the judge told ABC News. — After the foreperson of the Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury — investigating former President Donald Trump
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The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
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CNN:
Top Republicans question McCarthy over release of January 6 footage as speaker vows deliberate approach — Speaker Kevin McCarthy faced questions from his leadership team Monday night over his plans to publicly release security footage from January 6, 2021, multiple sources told CNN …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox's new Jan. 6 documentary implies 9/11 was a false flag
Fox's new Jan. 6 documentary implies 9/11 was a false flag
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The Hill, Breitbart, Chicago Sun-Times and The American Spectator
Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
Tennessee governor appears to have dressed in drag, an art form he wants to restrict — By the time Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee confirmed Monday that he would sign a recently passed bill criminalizing drag performances in public and in front of children, a photo that appears to show him dressed …
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The Daily Beast, Washington Press, RADAR, Crooked Media and Breitbart
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Josh Keefe / The Tennessean:
Gov. Bill Lee will sign drag bill, reacts to yearbook photo showing him dressed as a woman
Gov. Bill Lee will sign drag bill, reacts to yearbook photo showing him dressed as a woman
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Washington Post and ibtimes.sg
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
As CPAC's head faces sexual assault claim, other leadership concerns emerge — Matt Schlapp, who runs the Conservative Political Action Conference, has been backed by prominent Republicans but some staffers complain of a ‘toxic’ culture — For nearly a decade, Matt Schlapp has captained …
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Washington Times, The Daily Beast and Just The News
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Was ‘Attacked’ by ‘Insane’ Person in a Restaurant — ‘TURNED INTO DEMONS’ — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Monday night that she was attacked by an “insane” woman and “screamed at by her adult son” while dining at a restaurant.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Jonathan Capehart quits WaPo editorial board, leaving no people of color — Jonathan Capehart quit the Washington Post editorial board after a dispute over an editorial about 2024 politics, leaving the paper with an all-white editorial board, Axios has learned.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Jeffrey Sachs's Great-Power Politics — The economist discusses what the U.S. gets wrong about Putin and the war in Ukraine. — Last week, Jeffrey Sachs, the economist and professor at Columbia known for his work in the fields of poverty alleviation and foreign aid, delivered remarks …
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The Atlantic
Don Van Natta Jr / ESPN:
How a disputed $55M loan plays into feds' probe of Commanders — DANIEL SNYDER'S FINAL breakup from his longtime minority partners in Washington's NFL franchise began with a footnote in an April 2020 financial report. — The note revealed a $55 million credit line the team had taken …
Washington Post:
Daniel Snyder's demands anger NFL owners, renew talk of voting him out — Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder and his attorneys have demanded that fellow NFL franchise owners and the league indemnify him against future legal liability and costs if he sells the team …
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Front Office Sports, Fox News, Page Six, New Jersey Online and New York Post
Washington Post:
Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins — Small shift in favor of ‘lab leak’ theory was prompted by new data and group of weapons-lab scientists — The theory that covid-19 started with a lab accident in central China received a modest boost …
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Calling the Police: Lightfoot Needs A Lifeline — CHICAGO — In grave danger of becoming the first Chicago mayor defeated in 40 years, Lori Lightfoot stood before an audience of mostly her fellow Black women at a union hall here Saturday and issued a warning about the left-wing challenger who's threatening …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Feds Inadvertently Reveal They're Looking Into Trump's Shady ‘Recount’ Campaign — It started with a FOIA looking for answers about Trump's recount efforts. It revealed that the FEC is looking into these questions itself. … When the Federal Elections Commission rejected a recent Freedom …
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Raw Story
Jon Victor / The Information:
Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival — Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, the high-profile chatbot made by the startup OpenAI, according to two people …
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New York Post, New York Times, The Verge, One America News Network and Financial Times, more at Techmeme »
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
A bipartisan group of Senators is talking about raising the retirement age on Social Security — A bipartisan group led by Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, and Bill Cassidy, R-La. is considering gradually raising the retirement age to about 70 as part of their legislation to overhaul Social Security …
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Allie Morris / Dallas Morning News:
Texan young adults can now get licensed to carry handguns at college campuses, businesses — The change in handgun policy comes after a federal judge toppled the state's age restrictions. — AUSTIN — A new kind of student is showing up in handgun instructor Michael Cargill's classroom: teenagers.
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Fox News
Nathan Heller / New Yorker:
The End of the English Major — Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened? — The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors …
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The Corsair and The Honest Broker
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden's new deficit hawk persona has some progressives feeling some bad deja vu — Joe Biden spent the last two years pursuing and enacting massive domestic programs meant to remake the U.S. economy. But as he prepares a run for reelection, Biden is trying out a new economic persona: deficit hawk.
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Axios, The Guardian and New Republic
Politico:
Just how big is the Always Trump component of the Republican Party? — Chris Sununu, the New Hampshire governor and potential presidential candidate who once joked that former President Donald Trump is “fucking crazy,” backpedaled and pledged recently to support Trump if he's the nominee in 2024.
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Raw Story, The Daily Caller, RedState and Outside the Beltway
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Josh Hawley's False Choice — For a guy who says we should do less for Ukraine and more for America's working people, he sure doesn't support policies that help the working people. — Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has been trending, sadly, for presenting a false and dangerous choice …
NBC News:
U.S. Marshals Service suffers ‘major’ security breach that compromises sensitive information, senior law enforcement officials say — The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a security breach over a week ago that resulted in the compromise of sensitive information, multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday.
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Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
Old Racist Gun Laws Enter Modern-Day Legal Battles — Government lawyers reluctantly cite historical laws that kept guns from Blacks, Native Americans and Catholics — Historical, racist gun laws are taking on new relevance in legal battles over modern-day gun regulations …
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
National Poll: 71% of Democratic Voters Think Biden Should Be 2024 Nominee — Home Polls National Poll: 71% of Democratic Voters Think Biden Should Be 2024 Nominee — Trump Maintains Lead While DeSantis Makes Inroads In the Midwest & with Hispanics in GOP Primary
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The Hill
Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Slotkin raises $1.2M on first day of Senate campaign — Washington ― U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin raised over $1.2 million on the first day of her campaign for U.S. Senate on Monday, her campaign said. — It's a significant show of support that the Lansing Democrat hopes will help propel …
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Washington Times and Michigan Advance
Chelsey Cox / CNBC:
Top Senate Democrats press Chamber of Commerce on threat to sue FTC over noncompete clause ban — Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., will press the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on its threat to sue the FTC over a proposal to ban noncompete clauses.
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Monopoly in Minnesota
Media Matters for America:
Daily Wire host: “You have to ban transgenderism entirely” — Michael Knowles: “I love this bill [in Kansas] because it is so much more aggressive than the other bills we've seen.”
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PinkNews, Alternet.org and Mediaite