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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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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.”
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Paul Ryan, Fox News, and the Future of the GOP — My conversation with the former speaker. — David French (quite accurately) calls it “one of the worst media scandals of my lifetime.” And, indeed, Monday was a helluva day for Fox News, and a certain member of its corporate board.
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Mediaite, New York Times, Political Wire and Election Law Blog
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
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, Rolling Stone and emptywheel
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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Talking Points Memo and The Hill
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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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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Conservative Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of Biden's student loan forgiveness plan
Conservative Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of Biden's student loan forgiveness plan
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New York Times, Washington Examiner, USA Today, Washington Post, CNN, The Hill, Fortune, Law & Crime, Associated Press, New York Daily News, WKBN-TV, Liberty Nation, The Guardian, New York Post, HotAir and Insider
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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Florida Phoenix and Axios
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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Los Angeles Times, New York Post, PJ Media, Mercury News, Andrews McMeel Universal, The Hill and Wall Street Journal
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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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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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Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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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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, New York Daily News, Washington Times, Mediaite, The Daily Beast and Just The News
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 …
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.
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 …
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Washington Examiner, NBC News, Fox News and New York Daily 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
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 …
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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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.
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 …
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 …
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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NBC News:
Democrats push to end security exemption on Capitol Hill as Republicans demand the right to carry guns — WASHINGTON — Staff Sgt. Aquilino Gonell recently retired from the U.S. Capitol Police after he was injured in the Jan. 6 attack. But he remains worried about one, seemingly small …
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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Alternet.org, Sputnik News and NBC News
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” …
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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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.
Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
'You're not protecting our children': Rochester Hills mom testifies about 2 sons' fentanyl deaths — Washington ― A Michigan mother tearfully told House lawmakers the story Tuesday of her two sons' deaths from an accidental overdose of the opioid fentanyl, saying the government …
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Raw Story, The Oakland Press, Fox News, The Hill, The Daily Caller and Washington Examiner
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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The Hill, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Althouse
Center for Strategic and International Studies:
Ukrainian Innovation in a War of Attrition … The Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote that war is filled with unpredictability and that “in war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected.”
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New York Times
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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Fortune