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10:15 AM ET, February 28, 2023

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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
Discussion: Insider
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Fox could be on the hook for campaign finance violations after new court docs drop: former FBI agent
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox chief Rupert Murdoch said network aired 2020 election conspiracies for the money: court documents
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Rupert Murdoch used the Fox network to lobby for the GOP tax bill: court documents
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
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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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
The latest DeSantis attack on education is part of a broader attack on professional competence
Discussion: The Bulwark and RedState
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 …
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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 …
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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Julia Shapero / The Hill:   Georgia judge: Trump grand jury panelists ‘can talk about the final report’
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 …
Discussion: emptywheel
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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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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.
Discussion: TMZ.com and Raw Story
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Matt Young / The Daily Beast:
MTG Couldn't Care Less About Those Who Died in Turkey's Earthquake
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and Mediaite
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 …
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
Discussion: Washington Post and ibtimes.sg
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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court weighs Biden student loan plan worth billions  —  1 of 3  —  The Supreme Court is taking up a partisan legal fight over President Joe Biden's plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans.  The high court, with its 6-3 conservative majority …
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Cora Lewis / Associated Press:
Student loan forgiveness gets its day in court: What to know
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.
Discussion: Axios and New Republic
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 …
Discussion: The Corsair and The Honest Broker
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.
Discussion: Fox News
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 …
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
The Journalists Who Smeared Tom Cotton and Tarnished Their Own Reputations Over the Lab Leak Theory  —  When Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) first suggested that the deadly, hyper-contagious virus that reared its head in Wuhan, China in 2019 might have something to do with the laboratories conducting …
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.
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 …
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
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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