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4:00 PM ET, April 20, 2023

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Washington Post:
Mike Lindell's firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge  —  MyPillow founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell made a bold offer ahead of a “cyber symposium” he held in August 2021 in South Dakota: He claimed he had data showing Chinese interference …
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Sara Murray / CNN:
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to follow through with $5 million payment to expert who debunked his false election data  —  My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has been ordered to shell out $5 million to an expert who debunked his data related to the 2020 election, according to a decision by the arbitration panel obtained by CNN.
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Fox Paid a Parking Ticket; Mike Lindell Is Going To Get Wrecked  —  In the Game of Trump, the cynical elites prosper while the rubes get taken to the cleaners.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Tonight: I'll be joined by A.B. Stoddard and Bill Kristol to talk about about [gestures broadly] all of this.
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
I'm So Mad I Didn't Enter Mike Lindell's Stupid Contest
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
REVEALED: GOP leader, who voted to expel Tennessee Three, found guilty of sexually harassing interns  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A member of GOP leadership in the Tennessee House of Representatives was recently found guilty of sexually harassing at least one legislative intern, likely two …
New York Times:
BuzzFeed Shuts Down Its Namesake News Division  —  BuzzFeed News, which won a Pulitzer Prize but never made money, is “beginning the process of closing,” the company's founder, Jonah Peretti, said in a memo to employees.  —  BuzzFeed is shutting down its namesake news division …
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Ben Smith / The Atlantic:
After All That, I Would Still Publish the Dossier  —  But I would do some things differently.  —  When i realized the power of online journalism in the early aughts, I saw transparency as key to its promise.  I'd watched Gawker X-ray New York's media scene, and seen bloggers tear apart mainstream reporting …
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
Nicole Stacy / SBA Pro-Life America:
SBA: Donald Trump's States-Only Position Is Unacceptable to Pro-Life Movement  —  Dannenfelser: “We will oppose any presidential candidate who refuses to embrace at a minimum a 15-week national standard to stop painful late-term abortions...”  —  Washington, D.C. - SBA Pro-Life America issued …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Washington Post:
Top GOP lawyer decries ease of campus voting in private pitch to RNC  —  A presentation by Cleta Mitchell at a donor retreat urged tougher rules that could make it harder for college students to cast ballots  —  NASHVILLE — A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors …
Gary Fineout / Politico:
‘Deeply frustrated’: Florida legislators worn out by DeSantis  —  The governor didn't wow D.C. It's not great in Tallahassee either.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' iron-clad grip on the Republican-controlled Legislature may be slipping amid growing frustration among GOP legislators.
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Berny Belvedere / The Bulwark:
Decoding DeSantis's Weird War on Disney
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
JUST IN: Dan Bongino Parts Ways With Fox News  —  Dan Bongino, the pro-Trump firebrand who turned frequent appearances on Fox News into a job hosting a weekend show on the network, announced his departure on Thursday.  —  Bongino, the host of Unfiltered and Fox Nation's Canceled in the USA …
Discussion: IJR and Political Wire
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Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Fox News Parts Ways With Dan Bongino: 'It's A Sad Day'  —  Fox News has ended its relationship with Dan Bongino, who hosted the Saturday night show Unfiltered with Dan Bongino.  Bongino's Canceled in the USA streamed on Fox's streaming service, Fox Nation, will end as well.
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
SpaceX's Starship Rocket Will Try to Launch on 4/20: What to Expect  —  The most powerful rocket ever built got off the launchpad in South Texas, but did not achieve its most ambitious goals on Thursday.  —  A setback for Elon Musk and SpaceX, but not a fatal one.
Alex Henderson / Alternet.org:
Four veteran conservatives declare today's ‘Trumpist’ GOP beyond salvation  —  Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, Washington Post columnist Max Boot and consultant/lobbyist Juleanna Glover (who served as former Vice President Dick …
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:   The (Republican) Party's Over  —  With each passing month, week, and day, the Republican Party contrives …
Sam Hananel / Center for American Progress:
Trump and His Allies Must Be Held Accountable for the January 6 Insurrection
Discussion: The Dean's Report and Fox News
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin slams Biden for ‘deficiency of leadership,’ applauds McCarthy debt limit plan  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who faces reelection in a Republican-leaning state, on Thursday slammed President Biden for showing “a deficiency of leadership” on a potential national default …
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Politico:
House Dems worry Biden 'can't keep waiting' on McCarthy debt meet
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Judicial record undermines Clarence Thomas defence in luxury gifts scandal  —  Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow was linked to a conservative group that had court business while Thomas was on the bench  —  Earlier this month, the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas put out a statement …
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Invited To Testify About Ethics Before Senate
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
White House insists no ‘political interference’ in Hunter Biden probe after IRS whistleblower comes forward  —  An IRS whistleblower alleges the Biden administration is mishandling the federal investigation into Hunter Biden  —  EXCLUSIVE: The White House on Thursday dismissed allegations …
ABC News:
House Republicans pass ban on transgender athletes competing with women, girls  —  The GOP had made passing the ban for school sports teams a key campaign promise.  —  House Republicans passed first-of-its-kind federal legislation on Thursday to ban  —  transgender athletes
Kevin Hurler / Gizmodo:
Insider Cuts 10% of Staff, Says ChatGPT Experiments Aren't to Blame  —  The editor-in-chief announced last week that writers would experiment with ChatGPT, but the company said the layoffs were unrelated.  —  Alerts  —  The news outlet Insider announced to staff via email Thursday morning …
Hannah Story Brown / American Prospect:
Exxon's Unethical Supreme Court Play  —  Oil company lawyers are pushing Justice Alito to indirectly decide cases he should recuse himself from. … As the revelations of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's flagrant corruption continue to unspool, scrutiny of the weak ethics rules binding the Court has intensified.
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
New secret recording reveals Oklahoma county leaders discussing sexual favors for pay raises  —  Last week the McCurtain Gazette News, suspecting that county meetings continued after the public left in a violation of Oklahoma's open-meetings laws, secretly placed a voice-activated recorder in the room.
Washington Post:
A new Smithsonian boss settled multiple employee retaliation lawsuits  —  The selection of Nancy Yao to run the American Women's History Museum is being re-evaluated because of questions about firing three sex-harassment accusers at a New York museum  —  When the Smithsonian Institution announced …
Discussion: Frontpage Mag
Washington Post:
Fox was resigned to a tough trial.  Then, a secret mediator stepped in.  —  Dominion held firm to its big-money claim, and the jury was seated, just before a dramatic ending to the defamation case  —  For months, as the pretrial proceedings wore on and the embarrassing internal messages kept spilling …
Jay Kirk / New York Times:
At Sandy Hook, Crime-Scene Investigators Saw the Unimaginable  —  The crime-scene investigators are the ones who document, and remember, the unimaginable.  This is what they saw at Sandy Hook.  —  The crime-scene van was parked next to the black Honda Civic already identified as belonging to the shooter …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Will Saletan / Bulwark+:
Donald Trump Is Running a Democratic Campaign in a Republican Primary  —  DONALD TRUMP IS PUMMELING RON DESANTIS in the battle for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.  He accuses DeSantis of exaggerating Florida's economic success, failing to control crime, and locking down businesses during COVID.
Discussion: Miami Herald
Bryan Metzger / Insider:
George Santos insists he's donating his congressional salary, but he won't say where it's going: ‘I owe you no explanation’  — Rep. George Santos has pledged several times to donate his entire congressional salary.  — But he refuses to reveal details of the supposed donations, raising questions about their veracity.
Discussion: Political Wire
Annika Kim Constantino / CNBC:
DOJ charges 18 people — including doctors — in massive Covid health-care fraud takedowns  — Eighteen people, some of them doctors, were criminally charged with a variety of Covid-19 health-care fraud schemes, the Department of Justice announced.  — Those schemes allegedly resulted …
 
 
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Judge who suspended abortion pill failed to disclose interviews that discussed social issues
Claire Sprang / Washington Free Beacon:
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Katelynn Richardson / The Daily Caller:
‘Double Standard’: Legal Experts Slam Dems For Ignoring Liberal Justice's Failure To Disclose Spouse's Consulting Work
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Democratic group files ethics complaint against GOP committee chairs
Discussion: Washington Examiner
David Pierson / New York Times:
As Xi Befriends World Leaders, He Hardens His Stance on the U.S.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The how and why of Tucker Carlson's misleading Ukraine war math
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Ken Lemon / WSOC-TV:
6-year-old, parents shot in Gaston County; police search for gunman
Madeline Holcombe / CNN:
Most adults value reproductive rights when deciding where to go to college, poll shows
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