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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Loses It Over Murdoch's Admission About Fox Hosts Endorsing Big Lie — ‘KILLING HIS CASE’ — Donald Trump is furious with his former ally Rupert Murdoch after the media mogul made astonishing admissions that some of his Fox News hosts “endorsed” lies that the 2020 election had been “stolen.”
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The other way Rupert Murdoch tried to tip the scales for Trump — Donald Trump couldn't have asked for much more from Fox News over the course of the 2020 presidential election — or, really, over the course of his presidency. From start to finish, Fox News-viewing Republicans …
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Feds Inadvertently Reveal They're Looking Into Trump's Shady ‘Recount’ Campaign
Feds Inadvertently Reveal They're Looking Into Trump's Shady ‘Recount’ Campaign
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Rupert Murdoch says Fox stars ‘endorsed’ lies about 2020. He chose not to stop them
Rupert Murdoch says Fox stars ‘endorsed’ lies about 2020. He chose not to stop them
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch's big admission about Fox News
Rupert Murdoch's big admission about Fox News
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Raw Story, emptywheel and Rolling Stone
Politico:
Biden to tap Julie Su as next Labor secretary — President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he would nominate Julie Su to be his next Labor secretary, moving swiftly to fill a coming vacancy within his cabinet. — “It is my honor to nominate Julie Su to be our country's next Secretary of Labor,” Biden said in a statement.
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Politico:
House GOP moving to let Jan. 6 defendants access Capitol security footage — House Republicans are moving to provide defendants in Jan. 6-related cases access to thousands of hours of internal Capitol security footage, a move that could influence many of the ongoing prosecutions stemming from 2021's violent attack.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Live Updates: Supreme Court Skeptical of Biden's Student Loan Cancellation Plan — The Biden administration wants to wipe out $400 billion in student debt by forgiving up to $20,000 per borrower. Six Republican-dominated states — Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court weighs Biden student loan plan worth billions
Supreme Court weighs Biden student loan plan worth billions
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Kimberly Leonard / Insider:
DeSantis' new memoir skips juicy details about his life that could emerge in a presidential bid. Here's what he left out. — DeSantis published his first memoir, “The Courage to Be Free,” on Tuesday — The book is widely viewed as laying the groundwork for a presidential run.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
DeSantis to Visit Early Primary States, Selling His Florida Record
DeSantis to Visit Early Primary States, Selling His Florida Record
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Juliana Kim / NPR:
Cartoonists say a rebuke of ‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams is long overdue — Cartoonists across the country are applauding editors and publishers for condemning Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, after his recent tirade against Black Americans.
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work — Scott Adams, creator of the once-funny comic strip “Dilbert,” had the right to advise White people to “get the hell away from Black people” — just as the media companies that published Adams's work had the right to get the hell away from him.
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.
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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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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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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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CBS News:
Government watchdog report finds FBI, Capitol Police identified but didn't share “credible threats” before Jan. 6 — Federal agencies responsible for protecting the U.S. Capitol did not “fully process” or share critical information — including about militia groups arming themselves ahead of the Jan. 6 …
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Mother Jones:
Another Santos Scandal? He Diverted Voter Registration Money to a GOP-Allied Gay Rights Site — Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. — During Rep. George Santos' second run for a congressional seat on Long Island …
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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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.
Associated Press:
Justice Jackson writes 1st Supreme Court majority opinion — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court. The opinion released Tuesday in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half dozen she is expected to write …
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
Smith and Wesson Forced to Clarify It's Not Advertising With the Proud Boys — The gun manufacturer came under fire for tweeting out a photo of a man wearing a black T-shirt with the letters “PB” in yellow. — Mack Lamoureux — Gun manufacturer Smith and Wesson is under fire for promoting …
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Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
The House was supposed to grow with population. It didn't. Let's fix that. — What if we increased the size of the House? — Given that most of us are pretty frustrated with Congress, this might sound crazy. But growing the House of Representatives is the key to unlocking …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
ACLU urges US lawmakers not to ban TikTok, citing free speech — The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday urged Congress not to ban the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, saying it would violate the free speech rights of millions of Americans, a day before a U.S. House of Representatives committee is to take up legislation.
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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 …
Susie Blann / Associated Press:
Flurry of drone strikes hits Russia as TV, radio are hacked — 1 of 2 — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered officials to tighten control of the border with Ukraine after a spate of drone attacks that Russian authorities blamed on Kyiv delivered a new challenge to Moscow …
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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 …
Anil Dash:
The tech tycoon martyrdom charade — I've been saying this for a few years now, but it's worth recording here for the record: It's impossible to overstate the degree to which many big tech CEOs and venture capitalists are being radicalized by living within their own cultural and social bubble.
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Sonam Sheth / Insider:
Matt Gaetz unknowingly cites Chinese Communist newspaper during Ukraine military funding hearing — Rep. Matt Gaetz unknowingly cited from a Chinese propaganda outlet during a congressional hearing. — Gaetz appeared to recognize his mistake when the Pentagon official he was questioning asked him to clarify the source.
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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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Underrecognized: Extremist murders are usually from right-wing actors — Even before the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even further back than the Trump administration, federal authorities have been fretting about the threat of violence committed by domestic extremists.
Ayana Archie / NPR:
People who think they're attractive are less likely to wear masks, a study shows — People are less likely to wear masks to prevent COVID-19 if they see themselves as good-looking, according to a study published earlier this year. — Researchers asked 1,030 participants to self-evaluate …
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Joe Schoffstall / Fox News:
Cori Bush's campaign paid her husband for security services - but he doesn't have a private security license … Cori Bush calls for government takeover of social media, says Twitter too motivated by profits — Former Twitter executives appeared before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pa. has its own ‘East Palestine.’ It's not a train. — After weeks of encouraging bans and restrictions that literally emptied shelves in a few school libraries, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has decided to try something very different on the book front: He wrote one.
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 …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox could be on the hook for campaign finance violations after new court docs drop: former FBI agent — The lawsuit between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News came to a head in a pair of contrasting court filings on Monday that revealed several details previously unknown about the defamation lawsuit …
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
The conservative battle against ‘woke’ banks is backfiring — States and cities fear that blacklisting financial giants for their climate policies will hurt their bottom line, because of reduced competition — Conservatives have long held that the government should avoid interfering with private business decisions.
Mike DeForest / WKMG:
DeSantis ‘review’ of public records can add months of delays, newly uncovered log reveals — State agencies sent hundreds of records to governor's legal team for review before release, documents show — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' practice of “reviewing” …
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 …
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Robby Soave / Reason:
Global Disinformation Index, Inform Thyself — The Global Disinformation Index (GDI)—a British nonprofit that smeared Reason as an unsafe news website using dubious criteria—might want to take a closer look at newly uncovered disinformation being spread by... the website of the Global Disinformation Index.
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