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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.
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Both Sides in Abortion Debate Vow to Keep Fighting
Both Sides in Abortion Debate Vow to Keep Fighting
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NBC News:
Supreme Court allows abortion pill to stay on the market for now
Supreme Court allows abortion pill to stay on the market for now
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Supreme Court keeps medication abortion drug available, with eased access, during appeals
Supreme Court keeps medication abortion drug available, with eased access, during appeals
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court maintains FDA approval of abortion pill, preserving access for now
Supreme Court maintains FDA approval of abortion pill, preserving access for now
Politico:
Supreme Court maintains abortion pill access for now as legal fight continues
Supreme Court maintains abortion pill access for now as legal fight continues
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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 …
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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 …
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Livia Albeck-Ripka / New York Times:
SpaceX's Starship Kicked Up a Dust Cloud, Leaving Texans With a Mess
SpaceX's Starship Kicked Up a Dust Cloud, Leaving Texans With a Mess
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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Jon Springer / Ad Age:
Bud Light's marketing leadership undergoes shakeup after Dylan Mulvaney controversy — Alissa Heinerscheid, who has led the brand since June, takes leave of absence and is replaced by Budweiser global marketing VP Todd Allen — Anheuser-Busch InBev has changed marketing leadership …
Morgan Sung / TechCrunch:
Missouri trans ‘snitch form’ down after people spammed it with the ‘Bee Movie’ script — A Missouri government tip site for submitting complaints and concerns about gender-affirming care is down after people flooded it with fanfiction, rambling anecdotes and the “Bee Movie” script.
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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 …
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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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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 …
Associated Press:
House Republicans, Manhattan DA end fight over Trump inquiry — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed Friday to let Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee question an ex-prosecutor about the criminal case against former President Donald Trump.
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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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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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Alternet.org, Raw Story, Techdirt and Joe.My.God.
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Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
Chris Christie Doesn't Want to Hear the Name ‘Trump’ — A strange breakfast with the former New Jersey governor — “How many different ways are you gonna ask the same fucking question, Mark?” Chris Christie asked me. We were seated in the dining room of the Hay-Adams hotel.
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John Paul Schmidt / KOLR:
Springfield man charged with demanding meat at gunpoint — REPUBLIC, Mo. — On April 18, Republic Police Department officers were called to a Price Cutter to respond to a call about a robbery in which a man held an employee at gunpoint so that he would be served meat.
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
A Gun in the Home Makes Murder More Likely, Not Less — In most of the world, going to the wrong house is not a deadly risk. — But in the United States it is, because we're awash in an estimated 450 million guns and suffer from a mass delusion that a gun in the home makes us safer.
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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 …
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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.
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Rich Calder / New York Post:
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul ‘test-marketing’ a ban on all tobacco sales — The pro-legal weed Hochul administration is quietly trying to fire up support for a complete ban on the sale of tobacco products in New York, The Post has learned. — The state Health Department commissioned a new survey aimed …
MSN:
Trump Wants to End DeSantis's 2024 Campaign Before It Even Begins — (Bloomberg) — Former President Donald Trump is girding to take a swing at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on one of the things his chief rival is proudest of: his handling of his state's economy.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Sickening Déjà Vu of Watching Trump Manhandle DeSantis
The Sickening Déjà Vu of Watching Trump Manhandle DeSantis
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MSNBC:
A new clue in the Fani Willis investigation — Willis' latest motion appears ominous for a pair of defense lawyers — and signals accelerating accountability for fake elector ringleaders. — By Norman Eisen, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institute, Josh Stanton …
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