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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.
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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
I'm So Mad I Didn't Enter Mike Lindell's Stupid Contest
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Crooks and Liars
Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to pay $5M over debunked 2020 election data
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to pay $5M over debunked 2020 election data
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Insider, Washington Examiner, Washington Times and Gizmodo
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
REVEALED: GOP leader, who voted to expel TN Three, resigns; found guilty of sexually harassing interns — 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, by an ethics subcommittee acting in secret,
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Erik Uebelacker / The Daily Beast:
GOPer Who Voted to Boot Tennessee Dems Resigns After Sexually Harassing Intern
GOPer Who Voted to Boot Tennessee Dems Resigns After Sexually Harassing Intern
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Tennessee Lookout
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 …
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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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Disney tells its lobbyists to step up fight against DeSantis and his allies in Florida
Disney tells its lobbyists to step up fight against DeSantis and his allies in Florida
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Washington Examiner, New York Post, Reuters, Deadline, National Review, Political Wire and The Western Journal
David Jackson / USA Today:
Donald Trump hits Ron DeSantis over Florida endorsements; rivals say Trump is worried
Donald Trump hits Ron DeSantis over Florida endorsements; rivals say Trump is worried
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New York Times, Boston Herald, Raw Story and Political Wire
Berny Belvedere / The Bulwark:
Decoding DeSantis's Weird War on Disney
Decoding DeSantis's Weird War on Disney
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BlogMickey.com and New York Times
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
DeSantis's Electability Pitch Wobbles, Despite G.O.P. Losses Under Trump
DeSantis's Electability Pitch Wobbles, Despite G.O.P. Losses Under Trump
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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National Review and Talking Points Memo
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
'I'm not a paid assassin': Inside Chris Christie's 2024 decision
'I'm not a paid assassin': Inside Chris Christie's 2024 decision
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ABC News:
Charges dropped against Alec Baldwin in fatal on-set ‘Rust’ shooting: Sources — Baldwin was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. — Charges against Alec Baldwin have been dropped in the — fatal on-set “Rust” shooting — , according to sources familiar with the matter.
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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.
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
The (Republican) Party's Over — With each passing month, week, and day, the Republican Party contrives to go a little crazier, one step more radical—to smash one more norm or tradition. If you still think that surely they'll come to their senses one of these days, you're just not paying attention.
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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 …
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
House Dems worry Biden 'can't keep waiting' on McCarthy debt meet
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Kansas City Star:
‘Fear and paranoia.’ Grandson says Andrew Lester bought into conspiracies, disinformation — Ralph Yarl shooting — After a Kansas City teenager was shot and injured for going to the door of the wrong house, outrage followed in Kansas City and across the country. — EXPAND ALL
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Invited To Testify About Ethics Before Senate — Republicans are urging Roberts not to accept the Democrats' invitation, arguing that the Supreme Court is able to police itself. — WASHINGTON ― Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) invited Supreme Court …
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Judicial record undermines Clarence Thomas defence in luxury gifts scandal
Judicial record undermines Clarence Thomas defence in luxury gifts scandal
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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 — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's nominee financial disclosure from March 2022 reveals she “inadvertently omitted” consulting income her spouse “periodically receives …
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Wall Street Journal
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 …
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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
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CNN:
Judge who suspended abortion pill failed to disclose interviews that discussed social issues — The federal district judge who first suspended the US Food and Drug Administration's approval of the so-called abortion pill mifepristone failed to disclose during his Senate confirmation process …
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 …
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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.
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.
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Bloomberg, SCOTUSblog and Washington Post
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 …
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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 …
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Sydney Kashiwagi / CNN:
DeSantis signs bill eliminating unanimous jury decisions for death sentences — Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday that will no longer require juries agree unanimously to recommend death sentences, reducing the number of jurors need to recommend a death sentence to the lowest threshold …
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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 …
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