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11:40 AM ET, April 7, 2023

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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Stupidity.  It Burns.  —  We'll get to the rest of the week's worst actors in a moment, but can we talk about what just happened in Tennessee?  —  In a fit of partisan pique, Republicans used their super majority to expel two young African American state legislators.
Discussion: Politico and Newsbusters
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Expulsion of Tennessee Lawmakers for Acting on Gun Safety  —  Last week, three more students and three school officials were gunned down in yet another tragic mass shooting in Nashville.  On Monday, 7,000 Tennesseans, many of them students …
Melissa Brown / The Tennessean:
GOP expels Democratic Reps. Justin Jones, Justin Pearson from House over gun-control protest  —  The House failed by one vote to achieve the two-thirds majority needed to expel Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, from the chamber.  Together, the lawmakers had become known as the ‘Tennessee three.’
Washington Post:
Tennessee House expels two Democrats in historic act of partisan retaliation  —  NASHVILLE — The Republican-led Tennessee House voted Thursday to expel two Democratic lawmakers who halted proceedings last week to join protesters demanding gun-control legislation after a mass killing.
Dean Obeidallah / The Dean's Report:
Tennessee GOP succeeded where MAGA failed on Jan 6: They overturned an election to preserve White Supremacy
Discussion: HuffPost
Oliver Willis Explains:   The Right Believes Blacks Must Be Broken
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:   Tennessee  —  In December 1966, the United States Supreme Court unanimously decided a case called Bond v. Floyd.
New York Times:
Tennessee House Expels 2 Democrats Over Gun Control Protest
Axios:
The GOP's epic losing streak  — First, the 2018 House elections were a disaster for Republicans: Democrats had a net gain of 40 seats to take over the House — their largest gain since the post-Watergate election of 1974.  — Then Trump lost the presidency.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Abortion, Trump and Swing Voters
CNN:   Early struggles of new House Republican majority raise anxiety over high-stakes fights to come
Amanda Carpenter / Bulwark+:
It's All About Trump's Election Criminality
Discussion: Raw Story
Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:   Democrats are betting Republicans' defense of Donald Trump's criminal charges will age like milk on the 2024 campaign trail
The Daily Beast:
The GOP Civil War That's Already Making 2024 Awkward
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Revenge-Obsessed Donald Trump Is Pushing the Right to New Levels of Retribution Rage
Discussion: The Independent and Vanity Fair
ProPublica:
Lawmakers Call for Investigation and Ethics Reforms in Response to ProPublica Report on Clarence Thomas  —  Influential Democratic legislators are pushing for changes at the Supreme Court and a probe into Thomas' undisclosed luxury trips provided by powerful conservative donor Harlan Crow.
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times reported about Justice Thomas' gifts 20 years ago.  After that he stopped disclosing them  —  It was 2004 when the Los Angeles Times disclosed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had accepted expensive gifts and private plane trips paid for by Harlan Crow …
Washington Post:
Clarence Thomas has reported receiving only two gifts since 2004  —  Eighteen years ago, the Los Angeles Times detailed how Thomas had reported receiving thousands of dollars' worth of gifts — far more than the other justices on the Supreme Court at the time.
Discussion: NBC News and New Republic
Politico:
Playbook: McCarthy searches for a scapegoat
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Lawmakers Call for Tighter Ethics Code After Revelations About Justice Thomas
Charles Sykes / The Atlantic:
How Wisconsin Republicans Got So Angry  —  They've lost four major statewide elections since 2018, for starters, and this year's supreme-court election exposed their growing vulnerability.  —  Wisconsin Republicans are caught in a bind: What the base wants, the majority rejects.
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Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
With liberals in charge, Wisconsin Supreme Court could rule on these issues
Discussion: Mercury News
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Democrats push abortion rights to the ballot in 2024, using an old GOP playbook
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job growth totals 236,000 in March, near expectations as hiring pace slows  — Nonfarm payrolls grew by 236,000 for March, compared to the Dow Jones estimate for 238,000 and below the upwardly revised 326,000 in February.  — The unemployment rate ticked lower to 3.5% amid an increase …
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New York Times:
Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation  —  Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.  —  WASHINGTON — Classified war documents detailing secret American and NATO plans for building up the Ukrainian military ahead …
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter cuts off Substack embeds and starts suspending bots … Writers trying to embed tweets in their Substack stories are in for a rude surprise: after pasting a link to the site, a message pops up saying that “Twitter has unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets in Substack posts” …
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Sam Stein / Politico:
The Ultimate Political Shmear Campaign  —  How D.C. — finally! — became a legitimate center of bagel excellence.  —  When Rep. Dan Goldman launched the congressional bagel caucus shortly upon entering Congress, it was with the lofty goal of using food to bring comity to an institution severely lacking it.
Nick Mordowanec / Newsweek:
Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment  —  Charlie Kirk, the conservative founder and president of Turning Point USA, said during an organizational event on Wednesday that gun deaths in exchange for the preservation of Second Amendment rights is part of America's reality.
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 6, 2023  —  Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report.  —  Click here to access ISW's archive of interactive time-lapse maps of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Discussion: Fox News and UPI
Lee Harris / American Prospect:
‘Zero Interest in Doing Business’: TSMC Snubs Phoenix Construction Workers  —  The building trades just won a surprise victory through the city council.  But despite the hot labor market, securing manufacturing jobs is an uphill battle for organized labor.  —  President Joe Biden tours …
Erika Solomon / New York Times:
Nord Stream Sabotage Theories Deepen as Shreds of Evidence Emerge  —  Intelligence leaks surrounding the sabotage of the pipelines have provided more questions than answers.  It may be in no one's interest to reveal more.  —  Russian and Danish naval vessels that disappear in the Baltic Sea, days before an underwater pipeline blast.
Discussion: Reuters and UPI
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Elon Musk says NPR's ‘state-affiliated media’ label might not have been accurate  —  Twitter CEO Elon Musk said the platform's recent labeling of NPR as “state-affiliated media” might not have been accurate during a series of email exchanges that provided a glimpse into the billionaire's thought process …
 
 
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