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5:45 PM ET, April 22, 2023

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
DeSantis Faces Republican Scrutiny on Issues While Trump Skates By
Discussion: Forbes and Just The News
MSN:
Trump Wants to End DeSantis's 2024 Campaign Before It Even Begins
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court delivers a sigh of relief — and an outrageous dissent  —  Justice Clarence Thomas has gotten the attention of late due to questionable ethics.  But it's high time Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. received the scrutiny he deserves.  Alito's dissent in the mifepristone case …
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Not Quite Midnight at the Supreme Court  —  I was happily knitting away on my flight home from New York this evening, certain that the Supreme Court would go down to the wire on the Mifepristone case.  The deadline Justice Alito had imposed for the Court to reach a decision was 11:59 p.m. Friday night.
Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:
A California journalist documents the far-right takeover of her town: 'We're a test case'  —  Doni Chamberlain's been a journalist in Shasta county for nearly 30 years.  Now she's targeted by the extremists who are looking to reshape the region  —  The fight for democracy is supported by
Washington Post:
In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself  —  Ottawa County offers a glimpse of what happens when one of the building blocks of American democracy is consumed by ideological battles  —  WEST OLIVE, Mich. — The eight new members of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners …
Washington Post:
Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, leak reveals  —  Less than two years after President Biden withdrew U.S. personnel from Afghanistan, the country has become a significant coordination site for the Islamic State as the terrorist group plans attacks across Europe and Asia …
Discussion: Fox News
Katlyn Brieskorn / WFLA-TV:
Florida couple delivering Instacart groceries shot at after driving to wrong address  —  (WFLA) — A couple in Broward County said someone shot at them after they ended up at the wrong address while delivering groceries for Instacart.  —  Waldes Thomas told NBC affiliate WTVJ that he was delivering …
Discussion: Insider and NBC 6 South Florida
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Bombshell revelation of Trump election texts is ‘more damning’ than his Georgia phone call: legal analyst  —  Reacting to a CNN report that Trump operatives were making plans to use breached voting data to not only undercut the 2020 presidential election results but also to give the GOP control of the Senate …
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Biden is running out of time to avoid calamitous debt ceiling outcomes  —  The GOP's willingness to court economic disaster without major spending cuts leaves White House aides in a bind  —  President Biden is running out of time and options to avert an unprecedented default on the federal debt …
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Politico:
The GOP's new electability problem: North Carolina  —  Mark Robinson, North Carolina's highly controversial Republican lieutenant governor, is the latest test of firebrand politics in the GOP.  —  Republicans are on the verge of wiping out what remains of Democrats' political power in North Carolina.
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Twitter removes labels from state-controlled media, helping propaganda  —  The move comes the same week that Russia and China were revealed to be operating armies of fake profiles  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has removed labels designating global media accounts as government-controlled or funded …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Chief Justice John Roberts punts on request to investigate Clarence Thomas  —  Chief Justice John Roberts has declined to directly respond to a congressional request to investigate Justice Clarence Thomas' alleged ethical lapses.  —  Roberts instead referred the request …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story
Azeen Ghorayshi / New York Times:
Many States Are Trying to Restrict Gender Treatments for Adults, Too  —  Missouri has imposed sweeping rules to limit health care for trans adults.  Other states have banned Medicaid coverage or introduced bills outlawing care for young adults.  —  Missouri this month became the first state …
Discussion: NPR
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Morgan Sung / TechCrunch:
Missouri trans ‘snitch form’ down after people spammed it with the ‘Bee Movie’ script
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
E.P.A. to Propose First Controls on Greenhouse Gases From Power Plants  —  If the regulation is implemented, it will be the first time the federal government has limited carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases.
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
‘Wrong Address’ Shootings Reflect America's Rising Paranoia  —  It takes a village to raise a frightened man with hair-trigger impulses and put a loaded gun in his hand.  Our village has raised many, and we have armed them spectacularly.  —  Upstate New York resident Kevin Monahan …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
It Is a Delusion to Think Having a Gun in the Home Makes Us Safer
Discussion: New York Daily News
Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
Jewish student with autism had swastika carved onto his back, mother says  —  The woman said she noticed the hate symbol after her nonverbal son came home from Clark High School in Las Vegas.  —  The FBI said it is in contact with authorities in Las Vegas after a woman said her Jewish son …
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Republican governor to call special session in Tennessee to discuss gun reform  —  Gov. Bill Lee proposed keeping guns away from those deemed a risk to others.  —  LIVE  —  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will call a special legislative session to address gun reform nearly a month after a mass shooting …
Associated Press:
Alabama governor ousts a top education official over a book's ‘woke concepts’ on race  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. —Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced she replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book, written by a nationally recognized education group …
 
 
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Tomorrow is Earth Day, celebrated for the first time in 1970.  Coming the same week …
Discussion: PHL17.com
Associated Press:
House Republicans, Manhattan DA end fight over Trump inquiry
Politico:
Jim Justice plans Senate launch for next week
MSNBC:
A new clue in the Fani Willis investigation
Discussion: Raw Story
Jon Springer / Ad Age:
Bud Light's marketing leadership undergoes shakeup after Dylan Mulvaney controversy
John Poulos / New York Times:
Dominion's C.E.O.: We Settled the Lawsuit Against Fox News, but We're Not Done Yet
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