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10:35 PM ET, April 21, 2023

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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Both Sides in Abortion Debate Vow to Keep Fighting  —  The order halts a sweeping ruling by a federal judge in Texas as an appeal moves forward in a case that could have profound implications for abortion access and the F.D.A.'s regulatory authority.  —  Here's what you need to know about the abortion ruling.
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NBC News:
Supreme Court allows abortion pill to stay on the market for now  —  The Justice Department and Danco Laboratories, which makes the brand version of mifepristone, Mifeprex, had asked the court to step in immediately.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will allow the most commonly used abortion pill …
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court protects access to abortion pill  —  The Supreme Court on Friday protected access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower-court rulings that placed restrictions on its usage as appeals play out.  —  As a result, the US Food and Drug Administration's approval …
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court maintains FDA approval of abortion pill, preserving access for now
New York Times:
Airman Shared Sensitive Intelligence More Widely and for Longer Than Previously Known  —  A Discord user matching the profile of Jack Teixeira distributed intelligence to a larger chat group, days after the beginning of the Ukraine war.  —  The Air National Guardsman accused …
Discussion: Alternet.org and New York Post
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Washington Post:
FBI leak investigators home in on members of private Discord server  —  Investigators have spoken to online friends of alleged leaker Jack Teixeira, who hung out and viewed secret documents in a gaming chatroom  —  The FBI has been interviewing members of a private Discord server …
Discussion: Mercury News
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Tops Ron DeSantis in Test of GOP Presidential Field, WSJ Poll Finds  —  No candidate beyond the two leaders draws substantial support in the still-developing primary race  —  WASHINGTON—Donald Trump has gained command of the GOP presidential-nomination race over Ron DeSantis …
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Washington Post:
Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice’
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Playbook: How to lose friends and alienate people, by Ron DeSantis
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Dril and other Twitter power users begin campaign to ‘Block the Blue’ paid checkmarks  —  After Elon Musk removed legacy verified users' checkmarks, Twitter's biggest users are blocking everyone who pays.  —  On Thursday, April 20, Elon Musk made a rare move: He delivered on a promise.
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
Republicans end the week short on votes for their debt ceiling plan  —  Kevin McCarthy has his work cut out for him next week.  —  As of Friday afternoon, the House speaker still hadn't wrapped up enough votes to pass Republicans' party-line debt-ceiling bill, according to sources keeping tabs on the whip count.
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
The Debt Ceiling Debate Is About More Than Debt
Discussion: Daily Kos and CNN
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Republicans' Proposed Medicaid ‘Work Requirements’ Would Affect 10 Million
Discussion: Axios and Daily Kos
CNN:
Details about multimillion-dollar stock holding concealed in abortion pill judge's financial disclosures  —  The federal judge who issued a nationwide ruling blocking the approval of a common abortion medication redacted key information on his legally mandated financial disclosures …
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's financial reports include an unusual redaction
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
SpaceX didn't want to blow up its launchpad.  It may have done just that.  —  Videos show a war-like barrage of shrapnel blasting away from the launch site into nearby beaches, wetlands and at least one car  —  Big rockets emit tremendous amounts of energy — and none more than SpaceX's Starship …
Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Jim Jordan Just Got Busted With Evidence Of His Hunter Biden Lies  —  Jim Jordan and House Judiciary Republicans got caught editing witness interviews to smear the Sec. of State and push their Hunter Biden laptop scandal.  —  Here is what Rep. Jordan's House Judiciary Republicans tweeted.
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John Poulos / New York Times:
Dominion's C.E.O.: We Settled the Lawsuit Against Fox News, but We're Not Done Yet  —  Vindication.  Shame.  Triumph.  Tragedy.  Surrender.  These are a few of the characterizations I've heard following our recent settlement with Fox News in our historic defamation case against the network …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Smartmatic wants more than Dominion's $787 million payout, plus a retraction from Fox for its 2020 election lies, lawyer says
Jake Sheridan / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago police investigating officers' response to mob attack in Loop after witness says police declined to help  —  Large groups of youths gather in downtown Chicago, April 15, 2023.  Two teens were shot in the area during the evening.  (Network Video Productions)
US Department of Justice:
Two Men Sentenced for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Plot to Attack Power Grids in the United States  —  Domestic Terrorism Plot was in Furtherance of White Supremacy  —  Two men were sentenced in federal court today to crimes related to a scheme to attack power grids in the United States in furtherance white supremacy.
Discussion: WCMH-TV and Raw Story
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Department of Defense riddled with ‘Three Percenters and Boogaloo guys’: report  —  The arrest of a young Air Force National Guardsman accused of sharing government secrets on a social media platform is setting off alarms that the military and Department of Defense is rife with young men …
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Ben Makuch / VICE:   Rightwing Edgelords Are the Real Threat to National Security
Steven Monacelli / The Texas Observer:
Abbott Aims to Pardon Racist Murderer Who Sent Explicit Texts to Apparent Minor  —  After an Austin jury unanimously convicted Sergeant Daniel Perry of murder, it took Governor Greg Abbott less than one full day to call for his pardon.  —  Legal experts and lawmakers have described …
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Rightwing extremists defeated by Democrats in US school board elections  —  Republican-backed culture warrior candidates fare poorly in Illinois and Wisconsin, offering hope to the left  —  Scores of rightwing extremists were defeated in school board elections in April …
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:
Montana transgender lawmaker silenced: What to know  —  The latest high-profile example of state legislative leadership deciding who can be heard during statehouse debates is playing out in Montana where a transgender lawmaker was silenced by Republican leaders for a second day Friday.
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Retired Navy Officer Takes on Florida's Book-Ban ‘Fascism’  —  “I didn't sacrifice 21 years of my life to stand idly by while religious fanatics and other fanatics try to impose fascism on my country.”  —  A retired Navy officer who was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt …
Mary Anne Franks / Slate:
Chief Justice John Roberts' Mockery of Stalking Victims Points to a Deeper Problem  —  The justices take their own safety very, very seriously.  Everybody else's?  Not so much.  —  Stalking is so closely correlated with lethal violence that experts refer to it as “slow motion homicide” …
Gerrard Kaonga / Newsweek:
Nikki Haley's White Dress at Daughter's Wedding Sparks Fierce Debate  —  Presidential candidate Nikki Haley has inadvertently sparked a fierce debate on social media about wedding no-noes on her daughter's big day.  —  Most guests at weddings get excited about the traditional moments …
US Department of Justice:
Texas Man Indicted on Federal Charges for Alleged Death Threats to U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California  —  LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today indicted a Houston man on federal charges for allegedly making …
Reuters:
California jury finds Tesla Autopilot did not fail in crash case  —  A California state court jury on Friday handed Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) a sweeping win, finding that the car maker's Autopilot feature did not fail to perform safely in what appears to be the first trial related to a crash involving the partially automated driving software.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans follow their new leader, Marjorie Taylor Greene  —  This is the price America pays for Kevin McCarthy's ambition.  —  To understand the consequences of the many concessions the House speaker made to get his job, look at what has happened to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Discussion: Raw Story, BizPac Review and Daily Kos
Anthony L. Fisher / The Daily Beast:
America's Tragedy Is Its Culture of Fear—Armed With Millions of Guns  —  “Patriotic” culture warriors are terrified of drag queens, “illegals,” and extremely rare vaccine injuries.  But tens of thousands of annual gun deaths—meh. … I've long avoided writing about anything related to guns …
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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Springfield man charged with demanding meat at gunpoint
Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Birth Control Is Next
NBC News:
Biden admin leaning toward evacuating U.S. personnel from Sudan, sources say
Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
Security Failures At TikTok's Virginia Data Centers: Unescorted Visitors, Mystery Flash Drives And Illicit Crypto Mining
CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden lawyers to meet with Justice Department officials next week as scrutiny of investigation intensifies
Nancy Scola / Politico:
Washington's Angriest Progressive Is Winning Over Conservatives - and Baffling Old Allies
 Earlier Items: 
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Kari Lake says she told ‘Morning Joe’ hosts to stop ‘badmouthing’ her
Wall Street Journal:
JPMorgan's Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Were Deeper Than the Bank Has Acknowledged
Discussion: The Information
Claire Goforth / The Daily Dot:
Brewery tapped to make Ultra Right beer backed out when they found out what it was
Discussion: Brewbound, Wired and Joe.My.God.
Kyle Hopkins / ProPublica:
In Secret Recording, a Top City Library Official Calls Alaska Natives “Woke” and “Racists”
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
We will hold the country hostage until our demands are met — once we know them
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
They're the Happiest People in America. We Called Them to Ask Why.
Discussion: Breitbart