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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Right-wing judges may cripple the GOP  —  U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk's widely panned ruling blocking the Food and Drug Administration's approval more than 20 years ago of an effective and safe medication, mifepristone, used both for medical abortions and to treat miscarriages …
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Dueling abortion pill rulings put Biden administration in legal pickle  —  As the Justice Department sought to keep one decision on hold, it asked for clarification on the other.  —  The Biden administration is asking a judge to clarify how the federal government is supposed to comply …
Anita Chabria / Los Angeles Times:
It's not about babies. Abortion restrictions are about power.
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention  —  The Democratic convention, to run from Aug. 19-22, 2024, is expected to draw up to 50,000 visitors to Chicago.  Chicago last hosted a convention in 1996.  —  WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee selected Chicago to host …
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New York Times:
Chicago Will Host 2024 Democratic Convention as Party Returns to Midwest  —  For their flagship gathering, President Biden and Democrats chose a city in the heart of a battleground region, which had argued that it embodied the party's liberal values.  —  President Biden and his party …
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Democrats choose Chicago as the site of the 2024 convention
Reuters:
Tennessee Democrats push to bring second expelled lawmaker back to House  —  Tennessee Democrats on Tuesday will press for the reinstatement of the second of two state representatives who were expelled for leading a rule-breaking gun policy protest on the floor of the statehouse, after the first was reinstated on Monday.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Tennessee Speaker admits his family lives hours away from the district he represents
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
How redistricting brought Tennessee to this moment
Associated Press:
Judges block Tennessee move to cut Nashville council in half
Discussion: Politico
Nouran Salahieh / CNN:
Reinstated Tennessee lawmaker Justin Jones says he'll continue to call for gun reform
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CNN:
Stephen Miller returns to grand jury to testify about January 6 conversations with Trump
Discussion: Alternet.org and Bloomberg
Jonathan Shaw / Harvard Magazine:
Ken Griffin's Naming Gift for the Graduate School  —  KENNETH C. GRIFFIN '89, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel LLC, the multibillion-dollar hedge-fund and financial-services company, has donated $300 million to Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).
Discussion: Observer
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The Harvard Crimson:
Hedge Fund CEO Ken Griffin '89 Makes $300M Donation to FAS, Harvard to Rename GSAS in His Honor
Washington Post:
Popular handgun fires without anyone pulling the trigger, victims say … One warm afternoon in May, Dwight Jackson was getting dressed for a visit to his favorite cigar lounge.  He slipped his holstered SIG Sauer P320 pistol onto his belt, put on a button-down shirt and leaned across his bed for his wallet.
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Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
‘People will die’: why is Ron DeSantis loosening gun laws that most Floridians support?
Discussion: Bearing Arms and WFLA-TV
Washington Post:
Meet the young Democrats waging war on MAGA from behind enemy lines  —  Catalyzing events in U.S. history have a tendency to shape generations of public officials.  In the 1920s, Prohibition and the GOP's depression economics gave rise to the New Deal Democrats.
John Nichols / The Nation:
Wisconsin Is Finally Coming Out of Its Scott Walker Nightmare  —  The ex-governor seems terrified that the state's recent elections could threaten the conservative domination he helped create—and he should be.  —  Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the anti-union zealot whose scorched-earth …
Discussion: Alternet.org
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Washington Post:   How Wisconsin liberals set record campus turnout in court election
Melissa Brown / The Tennessean:
Gov. Bill Lee calls for ‘order of protection law’ to keep guns away from dangerous individuals  —  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday will sign an executive order aimed at strengthening background checks for firearm purchases, in addition to calling for lawmakers to pass an order of protection law …
New York Times:
Bragg Sues Jim Jordan in Move to Block Interference in Trump Case  —  Mr. Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, had subpoenaed a former prosecutor who worked on the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into former President Donald J. Trump.  —  The Manhattan district attorney …
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:
Police: Louisville shooter legally bought gun a week ago  —  The shooter who opened fire at a Louisville bank legally bought the weapon from a local dealership a week ago, police said Tuesday.  Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at a news conference …
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Washington Post:
Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says  —  President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret ‘to avoid problems with the West’
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KFF:
Americans' Experiences With Gun-Related Violence, Injuries, And Deaths  —  Key Findings  — Experiences with gun-related incidents are common among U.S. adults.  One in five (21%) say they have personally been threatened with a gun, a similar share (19%) say a family member was killed by a gun …
Kerry Byrne / Fox Business:
Bud Light suffers bloodbath as longtime and loyal consumers revolt against transgender campaign  —  'In Bud Light's effort to be inclusive, they excluded almost everybody else,' says a St. Louis bar owner  —  Bud Light suffered a bloodbath this past weekend.
Raw Story:
‘Devastating’: GOP Texas gov. moves to pardon man convicted of murdering Black Lives Matter protester  —  Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott says he is “working as swiftly” as possible to pardon a U.S. Army sergeant who was just convicted Friday of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester …
Slate:
The Effort to Suppress the Vote Is Spreading to the Republican Mainstream  —  They've been at it for a long time, and they're picking up steam.  —  It's bad enough when a trio of voter suppression groups led by charlatans gets together at an annual secret conference sponsored in part …
Sam Karlin / The Advocate:
Another Louisiana House Democrat has switched parties to Republican  —  Democrats in the Louisiana House have lost another member, the second party switch in less than a month amid a yearslong decline in Democratic electoral fortunes.  —  State Rep. Jeremy LaCombe, a Democrat who was elected …
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Florida GOP legislator apologizes after calling transgender people ‘mutants’ and ‘demons’  —  State Rep. Webster Barnaby made the remarks at a hearing to discuss legislation known as the Safety in Private Spaces Act.  —  A Republican state legislator in Florida apologized Monday …
Adam Zivo / National Post:
Pediatric trans care is often conversion therapy for gay children  —  There's clear evidence that, in many cases, pediatric gender identity services amount to conversion therapy for homosexual children.  Young, gay children, particularly effeminate boys and masculine girls …
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
U.S.-Born Children, Too, Were Separated From Parents at the Border  —  A government task force is tracking the fates of U.S. citizen children taken from migrant parents during the Trump administration.  Some have spent years in foster care.  —  LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration …
Anjan Sundaram / New York Times:
He's a Brutal Dictator, and One of the West's Best Friends  —  His grip on power is nearly unassailable.  Since becoming president over two decades ago, he has extended constitutional term limits, shut down the free press and clamped down on dissent.  Reporters have been driven into exile …
 
 
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Jason Rantz / MyNorthwest.com:
WA Democrats ban ‘hyper-masculine’ guns while freeing criminals
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