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9:40 AM ET, April 6, 2023

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ProPublica:
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire  —  IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia.  He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago …
Discussion: Insider, The Guardian and Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump's Charges Bring Doubts, Hopes and Uncertainty in Both Parties  —  To some Republicans and Democrats, the charges appeared flimsy and less consequential than many had hoped.  To others, the case had the potential to reverberate politically.  —  In an ordinary presidential-primary season …
Discussion: Raw Story, Fox News and Vanity Fair
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Jed Handelsman Shugerman / New York Times:
The Trump Indictment Is a Legal Embarrassment  —  Tuesday was historic for the rule of law in America, but not in the way Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, would have imagined.  The 34-count indictment — which more accurately could be described as 34 half-indictments — was a disaster.
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Depraved, Deranged, and Doing Real Damage  —  The former president is a grotesque man presiding over a grotesque party.  In his speech last night to his supporters at Mar-a-Lago, made several hours after he was arraigned in Manhattan on 34 felony counts, Donald Trump took aim at Juan Merchan, the judge in the case.
Discussion: Axios, New York Post, Raw Story and Mediaite
Ann Coulter / Unsafe:
You're Being Played, Republicans!  —  A few years ago, I posted this riddle on Twitter:  —  What's easier to roll than an Easter egg?  —  Answer: Donald Trump.  —  Now, I can add:  —  What's easier to roll than Donald Trump?  —  Answer: Republican voters.  —  Democrats are playing Republicans like a fiddle.
Discussion: Alternet.org and FiveThirtyEight
Washington Post:
Wisconsin Supreme Court election sends message on abortion rights  —  MILWAUKEE — In overturning a national right to abortion last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court gave conservatives a policy they'd been seeking for nearly half a century.  In the process, the justices also angered millions …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Wisconsin's stunning outcome puts MAGA Republicans in a serious bind  —  To understand the significance of the victory that liberals just pulled off in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race, a win largely driven by abortion rights, consider what is set to happen some 1,100 miles from Madison …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Protasiewicz's Wisconsin Victory Shows Power of Abortion Rights for Democrats  —  A resounding victory by a liberal judge who ran on abortion rights showed that a largely unified political left is keeping up its momentum, and served as a new warning sign to Republicans.
Wall Street Journal:
The Left Wins Big in Midwest Elections  —  The GOP's decline in Wisconsin's suburbs is a warning for 2024.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Progressives had a banner day in the Midwest Tuesday, with victories for Chicago mayor and a swing seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court.
Politico:
Playbook: A ‘five-alarm warning’ for the GOP
Discussion: The 19th
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Rupert Murdoch Can Be Forced to Testify in Defamation Trial, Judge Says  —  Star hosts for Fox News like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity may also appear in person at the high-profile trial, which is set to start April 17.  —  The witness list for the Fox News $1.6 billion defamation trial …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
How Fox Chased Its Audience Down the Rabbit Hole  —  Rupert Murdoch built an empire by giving viewers exactly what they wanted.  But what they wanted — election lies and insurrection — put that empire (and the country) in peril.  —  On the evening of Nov. 19, 2020, Rupert Murdoch …
Sarah Fitzpatrick / NBC News:
Ex-Fox News producer Abby Grossberg has been subpoenaed by Smartmatic in its lawsuit against Fox
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Roarty / Miami Herald:
‘Total and complete disaster’: DeSantis takes rhetorical aim at Fed Chairman Powell  —  Ron DeSantis has found a new rhetorical target as he prepares for a potential presidential bid: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.  —  In press conferences and speeches across the country …
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Brad Brooks / Reuters:
Tennessee Republicans likely to expel three Democratic lawmakers from statehouse  —  Republicans who control the Tennessee House of Representatives will vote on Thursday on whether to expel three Democratic members for their role in a gun control demonstration at the statehouse last week.
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. challenging Biden in 2024  —  Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the country's most famous political families, is running for president.  Kennedy filed a statement of candidacy Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.
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Axios:
The House GOP's shadow speaker … Trump's indictment has kicked that dynamic into overdrive — unnerving some vulnerable Republicans in the process. … - With House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) already walking a tightrope, Trump's call to action has injected a fresh demand …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
‘A child of dreams.’ Friends mourn Cash App founder Bob Lee, stabbed to death in S.F.  —  San Francisco's tech community mourned the violent death of one of their own Wednesday, calling Cash App founder Bob Lee a standout among Silicon Valley geniuses, someone idolized as a brilliant thinker …
Politico:
Defense Department detains hotel guest in training mix-up  —  Participants in a training exercise entered the wrong room and mistakenly detained a hotel guest instead of the individual assigned the role of the person to be detained.  —  BOSTON — Participants in a Department …
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CNN:
FBI and Army members raided the wrong hotel room during a training exercise and detained a guest inside
Discussion: CBS News
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Maryland AG accuses Baltimore's Catholic Church of widespread sexual abuse  —  Maryland's Attorney General on Wednesday released a report accusing Catholic priests and others at the Archdiocese of Baltimore of decades of sexual abuse against more than 600 children, following a multi-year grand jury investigation.
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Reuters:
Macron calls on Xi to reason with Russia for Ukraine peace  —  French President Emmanuel Macron urged China's Xi Jinping on Thursday to reason with close ally Russia and help end the Ukraine war, while Xi responded by saying he hoped the two sides could hold peace negotiations as soon as possible.
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Benjy Sarlin / Semafor:
You won't be talking about Donald Trump's arrest for long  —  The Donald Trump indictment was historic with a capital “H.”  News outlets, including Semafor, flooded the zone with coverage of the scene, the politics, and the law surrounding his arrest on Tuesday.
Discussion: Breitbart, Mashable, YouGov and The Guardian
 
 
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David Rozado / Rozado's Visual Analytics:
The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon
NBC News:
‘Just the way the Nazis did’: Evidence suggests Russians are stealing art from Ukraine on a World War II scale
Annette Choi / CNN:
Record number of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced this year
Discussion: NBC News and Fox 59
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Hola, Homosaurus: Biden Admin Shells Out Six Figures To Translate Gay Dictionary Into Spanish
Politico:
Whitmania: Dems eye Michigan gov's sister for battleground House race
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Haaretz:
Israel Intercepts Rocket Fired From Lebanon
The Guardian:
King Charles signals first explicit support for research into monarchy's slavery ties
Discussion: Bloomberg.com, Metro.co.uk and Semafor
 Earlier Items: 
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Freedom Caucus and progressives lock arms — and that could be bad news for McCarthy
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Fear of economic ‘lost decade’ hangs over world leaders in Washington
Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Idaho Passes Law To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion Care For Minors
The Lawrence Times:
Transgender student athlete ban on the books in Kansas, following three years of GOP campaigning
New York Daily News:
NYC and PBA police union reach new contract after seven years of disagreement; deal extends to 2025
Jennifer Shutt / The States:
As future of abortion pill is weighed, Democrats in Congress see little they can do
Discussion: Reuters and Fox News
Semafor:
Twitter is no longer policing Russian and Chinese state-backed media
 

 
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
The US arrests a US Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, who sold sensitive customer call records stolen from AT&T and Verizon in the Snowflake hack

Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
The US DOJ files a complaint and announces a civil enforcement action against fintech startup Dave and CEO Jason Wilk, replacing an FTC complaint from November

Reuters:
Montenegro extradites Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to the US; South Korea also sought Do Kwon's extradition
 
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