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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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Raw Story
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Fox News stands in legal peril. It says defamation loss would harm all media — Outside legal observers say the Fox News Channel finds itself in real legal jeopardy in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by an election tech company over lies broadcast about the 2020 presidential race.
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Alternet.org and Florida Politics, more at Mediagazer »
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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, Raw Story and Power Line
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How a New DOJ Memo Sets Up Two Potential Trump Indictments — What seemed like a narrow decision could have far-reaching implications. — When the Department of Justice took the position this week that former President Donald Trump acted improperly by urging his followers to attack Congress in 2021 …
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Morning Shots, Raw Story, VICE, Alternet.org and Washington Post
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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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Washington Post, Harvard Journal …, Raw Story, BNformed, Election Law Blog and The Cause
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Timid media and GOP figures are again, dangerously, normalizing Trump
Timid media and GOP figures are again, dangerously, normalizing Trump
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ArkansasTimes, BizPac Review, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Insider, New York Times and Raw Story
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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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Credibility crisis: CNN boss ordered staff not to chase down COVID lab leak theory as pandemic unfolded … CNN has long referred to itself as “the most trusted name in news” and famously launched its “Facts First” campaign during the Trump era, but like many other outlets …
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New York Post, Washington Free Beacon, Commentary Magazine, The Post Millennial, Power Line, RedState and Twitchy
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D.C. Council chair says he's withdrawing crime bill before it goes to U.S. Senate — D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) said he wrote to the U.S. Senate on Monday morning to withdraw the city's criminal code revision legislation, before the Senate votes on a Republican-led disapproval resolution that could overturn the bill.
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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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Washingtonian, Raw Story, Insider, Semafor, RedState, National Review, New York Post, Politico and Axios
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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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Unbiased NYT and RedState
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The Programs You'd Have to Cut to Balance the Budget — Several conservative lawmakers say House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has promised a House vote on a balanced federal budget. That's a harder task than it sounds, given the size of the federal deficit. — More recently, Mr. McCarthy …
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New York Times and Washington Examiner
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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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National Review and New York Post
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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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The Guardian, Reuters, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Metro.co.uk, Breitbart, Al Jazeera and Newsweek
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In Calif. speech that draws protests, DeSantis stokes fight over pandemic — The Florida governor's speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library served as an audition before conservatives for a Republican many expect to run for president in 2024 — SIMI VALLEY, Calif. …
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Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Daily Mail, Fox News, Reuters, HotAir, Orange County Register, The Hill, New York Post, Political Wire and ABC7
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DeSantis declares war on the free press
DeSantis declares war on the free press
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New York Times and NewsNation
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Twitter can't protect you from trolls any more, insiders say — Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.
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The Daily Beast, New Republic, Fortune, RedState, The Wrap, New York Daily News, Metro.co.uk, Deadline and WTOP News, more at Mediagazer »
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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, Karl Dickey and The Daily Caller
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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.
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Group Seeks Disbarment of a Trump-Aligned Lawyer for a Key Jan. 6 Witness — Prominent lawyers filed a scathing ethics complaint against Stefan Passantino, who represented Cassidy Hutchinson in the early stages of the House committee's investigation. — WASHINGTON — In appearing …
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Raw Story
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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 »
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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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GovExec.com
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Supreme Court declines to hear Florida prayer vigil dispute — WASHINGTON —The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider making it harder for people to challenge what they allege is the unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. — The court turned away a dispute over a vigil held …
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CNBC, Washington Examiner, CNN, USA Today, Law & Crime and Political Wire
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U.S. pressures airlines to commit to ending family seating fees — Three U.S. airlines agreed to commit in writing to eliminating family seating fees if adjacent seats are available during booking, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) said on Monday.
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NBC News, The Hill, Washington Times, Department of Transportation, CBS News, UPI and Associated Press
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‘Slavery was wrong’ and 5 other things some educators won't teach anymore — To mollify parents and obey new state laws, teachers are cutting all sorts of lessons — Excerpts from Mary Wollstonecraft's “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Passages from Christopher Columbus's journal describing …
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Chalkbeat and The Spectator Australia
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The New Anarchy — America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop. … I. ON THE BRINK — in the weeks before Labor Day 2020, Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, began warning people that he believed someone would soon be killed by extremists in his city.
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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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Albuquerque Journal, The Reputation Algorithm, Althouse and American Greatness
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The MAGA-fication of North Idaho College — G.O.P. activists set out to root out the “deep state” at home. An Idaho community college may never be the same. — COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — The February meeting of the North Idaho College board of trustees was, by recent standards, civilized.
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Raw Story