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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Wall Street Journal:
Inner Workings of Fox News on Display in Defamation Case
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
How is Fox News Different From All Other Media?
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:
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.
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 …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:   Donald Trump's Recipe for Electoral Failure
ABC News:
Trump fighting to bar use of White House lawyers' grand jury testimony in special counsel probe: Sources  —  Trump wants to bar the use of testimony from Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin.  —  White House Counsel Pat Cipollone waits for the beginning of a cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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.
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:   Mike Pence asks judge to block subpoena for Jan. 6 testimony
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” …
Discussion: Raw Story, BNformed and The Cause
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:   Trump Is As Electable Now As He Was in 2016  —  There are an awful lot of reasons …
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 …
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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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 …
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Biden Leads Williamson by 73 Points Among Democratic Primary Voters  —  Just 4% back Marianne Williamson and 9% opt for “someone else” suggesting little appetite for a Biden primary challenge  —  To get our reporting and data on the 2024 presidential election delivered straight to your inbox, sign up for our Washington newsletter.
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NBC News:
Biden said he would go to Ohio train derailment site. There is no trip currently scheduled.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CNN
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: HuffPost
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 …
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.
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
Discussion: Wired, more at Techmeme »
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 …
Discussion: Instapundit
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.
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 …
Discussion: Common Dreams and WTOP News
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
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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WSB-TV:
23 charged with domestic terrorism after violent night at Atlanta public safety training center site
Heritage Foundation:
Oversight Project Announces Litigation Blitz Against FBI: “Double Standard-Driven War on Conservatives Must Stop”
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Carrie Keller-Lynn / The Times of Israel:
Herzog says Israel ‘closer than ever’ to compromise agreement on judicial overhaul
Discussion: Reuters and Bloomberg
Steve Bannon / Media Matters for America:
Steve Bannon says the Murdoch family is “trying to destroy the United States of America”
The Economist:
Ukraine's most committed backer wins a huge election victory in Estonia
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Polygamist cult leader and self-proclaimed prophet ‘brazenly’ used jailhouse phone system to have ‘sexual discussions’ with kids: Feds
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
‘Slavery was wrong’ and 5 other things some educators won't teach anymore
Nicole Gelinas / New York Post:
AOC begged to go to exclusive Met Gala — even if it meant breaking the rules
Henry Farrell / Crooked Timber:
Conservatives on campus  —  There's been a lot of grumpy commentary about this recent NYT op-ed …
Kimberly Wehle / The Bulwark:
The Judge with the King Complex
Discussion: The Hill and Los Angeles Times
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
The New Anarchy  —  America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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