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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.
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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Washington Examiner, CNBC and Gizmodo
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
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 …
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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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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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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida poised to make DeSantis' travel records secret
Florida poised to make DeSantis' travel records secret
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VICE, Wide World of News and Sun-Sentinel
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 …
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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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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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 …
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Political Wire
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.
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 …
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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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Washington Post:
Abortion divides 2024 candidates and confounds many within the GOP
Abortion divides 2024 candidates and confounds many within the GOP
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Florida Rep. Michael Waltz Endorses Trump for President in 2024
Exclusive — Florida Rep. Michael Waltz Endorses Trump for President in 2024
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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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Three takeaways from McCarthy's debt limit bill
Three takeaways from McCarthy's debt limit bill
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Democrats' Numbers Problem
Democrats' Numbers Problem
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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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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
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Invited To Testify About Ethics Before Senate
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Durbin asks Roberts to testify in Congress amid Thomas controversy
Durbin asks Roberts to testify in Congress amid Thomas controversy
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Kansas City Star:
‘Fear and paranoia.’ Grandson says Andrew Lester bought into conspiracies, disinformation — A grandson of the man charged with shooting a Black teen in Kansas City's Northland last week said he was “appalled” and “disgusted” at his grandfather's actions and is thankful Ralph Yarl is recovering.
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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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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:
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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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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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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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.
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Miami Herald
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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Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Pentagon Requests $36 Million for Havana Syndrome … House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's debt limit bill unveiled Wednesday would slash $130 billion from a broad range of domestic programs, including clean-energy subsidies and student loan forgiveness. But one thing the bill would not cut is the military …
Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg:
Biden to Unveil China Investment Curbs Before G7 Summit in May — President Joe Biden aims to sign an executive order in the coming weeks that will limit investment in key parts of China's economy by US businesses, people familiar with the internal deliberations said.
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