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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
What is Fox News hiding in the Dominion lawsuit? — A Feb. 16 filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit in Delaware against Fox News has kicked up a media firestorm: Outlet after outlet described how internal email and text messages quoted in the document …
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Drezner's World and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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Wall Street Journal:
Inner Workings of Fox News on Display in Defamation Case
Inner Workings of Fox News on Display in Defamation Case
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Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Fox News stands in legal peril. It says defamation loss would harm all media
Fox News stands in legal peril. It says defamation loss would harm all media
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Mike Pence asks judge to block subpoena for Jan. 6 testimony — Former Vice President Mike Pence has filed a motion asking a judge to block a federal grand jury subpoena for his testimony related to January 6 on the grounds that he is protected by the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause …
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Politico:
Once an albatross around Trump's neck, Jan. 6 is now taboo in the GOP primary — OXON HILL, Md. — Like most politicians considering a White House run, Ron DeSantis published a new book this past week, designed to frame him as an unapologetic truth teller, eager to tackle the hard issues of the day.
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New York Post, Power Line and Raw Story
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
How a New DOJ Memo Sets Up Two Potential Trump Indictments
How a New DOJ Memo Sets Up Two Potential Trump Indictments
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CNBC, Raw Story, Morning Shots, Vanity Fair, Alternet.org, The Gateway Pundit, VICE and Washington Post
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Trump Has Become the Thing He Never Wanted to Be — One thing can be said for the proprietors of the MAGA Mall: They know their brand. — The right-wing-merch retailer's setup was among the most impressive at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference—a gargantuan display …
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Politico, Vanity Fair, Washingtonian, Raw Story, Semafor, Insider, National Review, New York Post and Axios
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Donald Trump's Recipe for Electoral Failure — The former president portrays any attempt to appeal to voters beyond his core base as a sign of weakness. — Despite his preferred approach to politics having been responsible for grievous Republican losses in the last three national elections …
Ryan Teague Beckwith / Bloomberg:
Trump's Threat of a Third-Party Run Is Undercut by ‘Sore Loser’ Laws — Donald Trump hates losing so much that he has suggested he will mount a third-party campaign if he doesn't win the Republican presidential nomination. — But he can't win that way either, thanks to “sore loser” …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
New emails show Dr. Anthony Fauci commissioned scientific paper in Feb. 2020 to disprove Wuhan lab leak theory — New emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci. — They show he “prompted” or commissioned …
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Platformer:
How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday — The high cost of cutting expenses — Twitter's website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed to recover from its latest outage within a couple hours, the story behind how it broke suggests there are likely to be similar problems in the near future.
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David Klepper / Associated Press:
Digital foot soldiers: Pro-Trump bots swarm DeSantis, Haley — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump. Besides posting adoring words about the former president …
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Forbes, Al Jazeera, National Review, New York Post and The Daily Caller
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump ethics lawyer facing disbarment after allegedly trying to tamper with Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony — Donald Trump's White House ethics lawyer is looking at seeing his livelihood taken away over accusations that he tried to influence staffer Cassidy Hutchinson from giving truthful testimony to House Jan. 6 investigators.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Group Seeks Disbarment of a Trump-Aligned Lawyer for a Key Jan. 6 Witness
Group Seeks Disbarment of a Trump-Aligned Lawyer for a Key Jan. 6 Witness
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Talking Points Memo and Law & Crime
New York Times:
Hope Hicks Meets With Manhattan Prosecutors as Trump Inquiry Intensifies — At least seven witnesses have met with prosecutors in what now appears to be a fast-moving investigation into a 2016 hush-money payment to a porn star. — Hope Hicks, a trusted aide to Donald J. Trump during …
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
Tom Lutey / Billings Gazette:
Rosendale calls neo-Nazi photo op a mistake — U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale said he unwittingly posed for a photo with high profile members of the neo-Nazi movement last week walking between congressional hearings. — The photo taken March 1 in front of the Capitol, shows Rosendale posing with Ryan Sanchez …
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Philippe Naughton / The Daily Beast:
Bodyguards Follow Elon Musk Everywhere at Twitter HQ, Even to Restroom, Says Engineer — CHIEF TWIT — Billionaire Elon Musk is routinely followed around Twitter headquarters by two “bulky” bodyguards—even when he goes to the restroom, according to a Twitter engineer.
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Washington Post:
The bewildering descent of Scott Adams and ‘Dilbert’ — ‘I shook the box intentionally,’ Scott Adams told The Post about the comments that prompted newspapers to drop his comic strip — Scott Adams sat for his regular YouTube show last month with a plan to stir a hornet's nest.
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Denver Post, The Reputation Algorithm and Althouse
Tim Miller / The Triad:
CPAC: Taste the Sadness — Go ahead and laugh. They deserve it. — As I pulled into Matt Schlapp's preferred Gaylord Hotel in suburban Washington for the latest rendition of CPAC, ghosts of past selves flashed through my head. I remembered 2015, my last time at the gathering.
Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points — Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat - but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating — More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed …
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Common Dreams and WTOP News
Reuters:
California to not do business with Walgreens over abortion pills issue, Governor says — California would not do business with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA.O), state Governor Gavin Newsom said in a tweet on Monday, days after the pharmacy chain said it will not dispense abortion pills in some Republican states.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Asian Americans, Shifting Right — The new politics of class in America. — The Chinatown area of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was long a Democratic stronghold. The party's candidates would often receive more than 70 percent of the vote there. Last year, however, the neighborhood underwent a political transformation.
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Fox News, Power Line, Just The News, Unbiased NYT and RedState
New York Times:
Protests Over Netanyahu's Judiciary Overhaul Spread to Israel's Military — The military leadership is concerned that anger over the government's plan, with some pilots saying they will skip some training sessions and operations, could diminish military capabilities.
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CBS News, The Times of Israel, The New Arab, middleeastmonitor.com, Al Jazeera, Informed Comment, Forbes and Jerusalem Post
Wired:
Inside the Suspicion Machine — Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works. — DHRUV MEHROTRA, JUSTIN-CASIMIR BRAUN, EVA CONSTANTARAS, AND GABRIEL GEIGER
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Wired, more at Techmeme »
CNN:
4 US citizens were kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico in case of mistaken identity, US official says — Four US citizens were assaulted and kidnapped by gunmen in northeastern Mexico on Friday in a case of mistaken identity, a US official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Feds say Proud Boys associates fanned out to facilitate Jan. 6 breach — Leaders of the far-right group used some rioters as “tools,” prosecutors argued to a judge on Monday. — Leaders of the Proud Boys activated a network of foot soldiers to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 …
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Washington Post and New York Times
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
DHS has a program gathering domestic intelligence — and virtually no one knows about it — For years, the Department of Homeland Security has run a virtually unknown program gathering domestic intelligence, one of many revelations in a wide-ranging tranche of internal documents reviewed by POLITICO.
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Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Karl Dickey
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Republican Votes Helped Washington Pile Up Debt — As they escalate a debt-limit standoff, House Republicans blame President Biden's spending bills for an increase in deficits. Voting records show otherwise. — WASHINGTON — President Biden will submit his latest budget request to Congress on Thursday …
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PoliticusUSA, Roll Call, Political Wire, Wall Street Journal and Common Dreams
Shira Engel / Chalkbeat New York:
As we embrace the ‘science of reading,’ we can't leave out older students — As a new middle school teacher, I was shocked by the number of students who entered my classroom unable to decode text. — The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated …
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Billy House / Bloomberg:
Jim Jordan Issues Subpoenas to Investigate ‘Weaponization’ of Federal Agencies — House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed the former head of a defunct Biden administration advisory board on disinformation, which was disbanded just months after being formed amid public backlash.
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CNN and The Daily Caller
Kirsty Hatcher / People.com:
Michelle Obama Describes Trump's Inauguration from Her Point of View — and Shares Why She Sobbed After — In an exclusive clip from her upcoming Audible podcast, the former first lady reflects on the range of emotions she felt on Jan. 20, 2017 — and addresses the true size of Donald Trump's inauguration crowd
Politico:
No avoiding it now: Immigration issues threaten Biden's climate program — President Joe Biden's plan for greening the economy relies on a simple pitch: It will create good-paying jobs for Americans. — The problem is there might not be enough Americans to fill them.
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Carrie Keller-Lynn / The Times of Israel:
Herzog says Israel ‘closer than ever’ to compromise agreement on judicial overhaul — President says current reform ‘endangers’ democracy, but closed-door meetings have made progress; doesn't urge halt to legislation, but opposition responds that this is a must
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Polygamist cult leader and self-proclaimed prophet ‘brazenly’ used jailhouse phone system to have ‘sexual discussions’ with kids: Feds — Polygamous cult leader Sam Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet awaiting trial on kidnapping and other charges, “brazenly” used the jailhouse phone system to …
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Raw Story
Aoife Walsh / BBC:
Ukraine war: Russia's Wagner boss suggests ‘betrayal’ in Bakhmut battle — The head of Russia's Wagner private army has said it is not getting the ammunition it needs from Moscow, as it seeks to gain control of Bakhmut. — Russian troops - from Wagner and regular Russian forces - are trying to seize the eastern city from Ukraine.
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