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12:50 PM ET, April 7, 2023

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Washington Post:
Tennessee vote marks latest GOP move to stifle dissent, experts say  —  Tennessee Republicans' dramatic expulsion of two Democrats who agitated for gun control in the state Capitol after a mass killing is the latest move by Republican state leaders around the country to stifle dissent and expand …
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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 …
Oliver Willis Explains:   The Right Believes Blacks Must Be Broken
Dean Obeidallah / The Dean's Report:
Tennessee GOP succeeded where MAGA failed on Jan 6: They overturned an election to preserve White Supremacy
Discussion: TheBlaze
Matt Berg / Politico:
Expelled Tennessee lawmaker vows to return to office
Washington Post:
Tennessee House expels two Democrats in historic act of partisan retaliation
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Justice Thomas Defends Against Allegations of Improper Gifts and Travel  —  In a statement released by the Supreme Court, the justice said he had followed guidance from others at the court and believed he was not required to report the trips.  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas defended himself …
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Washington Post:
Justice Thomas addresses report he accepted luxury travel from GOP donor for years  —  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday he had been advised “by colleagues and others in the judiciary” that luxury trips financed by a close billionaire friend and conservative activist …
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 …
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.
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: Slate and New Republic
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Justice Clarence Thomas explains failure to report trips paid for by conservative billionaire
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Lawmakers Call for Tighter Ethics Code After Revelations About Justice Thomas
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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Amanda Carpenter / Bulwark+:
It's All About Trump's Election Criminality
Discussion: Raw Story and Reuters
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
The Daily Beast:
The GOP Civil War That's Already Making 2024 Awkward
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:   Democrats are betting Republicans' defense of Donald Trump's criminal charges will age like milk on the 2024 campaign trail
New York Times:
Trump Moves to Hire Laura Loomer, Anti-Muslim Activist  —  The former president recently directed advisers to give Ms. Loomer, who has a long history of bigoted remarks, a role in support of his candidacy, people familiar with the move said.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump has told aides …
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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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Abortion Ban Backlash Is Starting to Freak Out Republicans
Discussion: Raw Story, NPR and NBC News
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Democrats push abortion rights to the ballot in 2024, using an old GOP playbook
Discussion: Raw Story
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links … 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 …
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 …
Jeremy Turley / InForum:
North Dakota senators vote to boost their own meal reimbursements after rejecting free school lunch bill  —  Thirteen Republican senators voted to increase meal reimbursements for state employees after voting against a bill to expand free school lunches for low-income students.
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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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, UPI, Sputnik News and Politico
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.
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 …
Discussion: CounterPunch
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 …
Stephen Moore / Washington Examiner:
The Left has killed our great cities  —  Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died.  —  That's when we learned that Second City voters narrowly elected Brandon Johnson as their next mayor.  This is a city that was flattened during the reign of Mayor Lori Lightfoot …
Discussion: HotAir and Fox News
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Former GOP Speaker Took $110,000 In Bribes For Weed Licenses  —  The bribes included cash payments and free travel on a businessman's private plane.  —  Cameron Joseph  —  WASHINGTON, US  —  A Republican former speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives has admitted he took $110,000 …
David Thomas / Reuters:
US legal jobs decline for first time in six months  —  The U.S. legal services sector lost 600 jobs in March, new Labor Department figures showed on Friday, marking the first monthly employment decline for the industry since September.  Legal sector jobs totaled 1,180,900 last month …
 
 
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