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1:45 PM ET, April 20, 2023

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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.
Discussion: Raw Story, The Guardian and FOX8 WGHP
Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to pay $5M over debunked 2020 election data
Discussion: CNBC
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: The Daily Beast 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.
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  —  It may seem crazy for a governor to wildly attack one of his state's major employers—but you gotta understand MAGA logic.  —  This week, when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suggested that he might build a prison next to Disney World …
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida poised to make DeSantis' travel records secret
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 news division as part of an effort …
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 …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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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Associated Press:
Biden Blasts GOP ‘Wacko Notions’ Amid Debt Limit Standoff
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
GOP conservatives are thrilled with the House's new debt ceiling bill
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Press Herald
Politico:
Republicans are alarmed about a Mastriano for Senate bid.  Even Trump.  —  The former president has privately conveyed concerns about having the Pennsylvania Republican on the top of the ticket alongside him this cycle.  —  MAGA firebrand Doug Mastriano is inducing panic among GOP officials …
Discussion: Raw Story, Slate and Alternet.org
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
'I'm not a paid assassin': Inside Chris Christie's 2024 decision  —  The former New Jersey governor is eager to take on Donald Trump.  But he's only running, he says, if he thinks he can win.  —  A few weeks ago, Chris Christie called up a former Republican presidential candidate and asked for some advice …
Washington Post:
Abortion divides 2024 candidates and confounds many within the GOP
Discussion: New Republic and New York Times
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.
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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Julia Rock / The Lever:
Fox Can Claim Tax Writeoff For Defamation Settlement
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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Amy Beth Hanson / Associated Press:
Montana Republicans want censure while misgendering lawmaker
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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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Durbin asks Roberts to testify in Congress amid Thomas controversy
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
U.S. Positioning Troops for Evacuation of American Embassy in Sudan  —  Fierce fighting has trapped people in the capital, Khartoum, and the United States says it is “conducting prudent planning” to get diplomatic staff members out.  —  Reporting from Ramstein Air Base in Germany
Discussion: Bloomberg and CNN
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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
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.
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
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.
Discussion: The Dean's Report
Associated Press:
More peril for Trump in pending probes than NY: AP-NORC poll  —  Former President Donald Trump has emerged largely unscathed politically from his New York indictment.  But a new poll suggests that investigations in Georgia and Washington could prove more problematic.
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
Jean Merl / Los Angeles Times:
Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan dies at 92  —  Richard J. Riordan, the take-charge venture capitalist who as mayor shepherded Los Angeles' rebound from the 1992 riots, expanded its Police Department and masterminded its recovery from the Northridge earthquake, has died at his Brentwood home.
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
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.
 
 
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Breanne Deppisch / Washington Examiner:
Democrats re-introduce Green New Deal with new goals
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner and Axios
Ilya Marritz / ProPublica:
When GOP Attorneys General Embraced Jan. 6, Corporate Funders Fled. Now They're Back.
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New secret recording reveals Oklahoma county leaders discussing sexual favors for pay raises
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
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