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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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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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Associated Press, Alternet.org and Florida Politics, more at Mediagazer »
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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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
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, Vanity Fair, The Gateway Pundit, Alternet.org, VICE and Washington Post
NBC News:
Biden said he would go to Ohio train derailment site. There is no trip currently scheduled. — Biden's calling card is empathy. Yet the “comforter-in-chief” has no plan underway to visit the site of a toxic chemical spill in a small Ohio town. — WASHINGTON — With pressure mounting …
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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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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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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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Fox News:
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, Breitbart, PJ Media, BizPac Review, Commentary Magazine, The Post Millennial, RedState, Power Line and Twitchy
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Alleged Three Percenter who marched with Proud Boys on Jan. 6 pleads guilty — Robert Gieswein faces an estimated sentencing range of 41 to 51 months for two counts of assaulting police — A Colorado man prosecutors say was affiliated with the right-wing, anti-government Three Percenters …
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Denver Post
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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 …
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, Insider, Semafor, National Review, New York Post and Axios
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Donald Trump's Recipe for Electoral Failure
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, The Daily Caller, National Review, Al Jazeera and New York Post
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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Marianna Spring / BBC:
Twitter can't protect you from trolls any more, insiders say
Twitter can't protect you from trolls any more, insiders say
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New Republic, Fortune, RedState, Metro.co.uk, The Wrap and Deadline
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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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.
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 …
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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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, Karl Dickey and The Daily Caller
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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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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Chicago Tribune, The Reputation Algorithm and Althouse
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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Just The News, Unbiased NYT and RedState
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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Instapundit
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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David McCabe / New York Times:
White House Said to Consider Pushing Congress on Dealing With TikTok — In a strategy shift, the Biden administration is increasingly pointing to Congress to give it more legal power to deal with TikTok and other technology that could expose Americans' sensitive data to China.
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