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6:15 PM ET, April 25, 2023

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Washington Post:
Biden announces 2024 reelection bid, saying he wants to ‘finish the job’  —  President formalizes his intent to seek another term, setting the stage for a tumultuous election  —  President Biden officially announced his bid for reelection Tuesday morning, saying in a solemn launch video that he wants to …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Sen. Bernie Sanders says he's endorsing Biden for reelection  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Tuesday that he would forgo another presidential bid of his own and instead endorse President Joe Biden's reelection.  The leading progressive, who was Biden's chief rival …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Announces Re-election Bid, Defying Trump and History  —  While the president once pitched himself as “a bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders, he has decided that he is not ready to turn the torch over yet.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden formally announced on Tuesday …
NBC News:
Biden announces he is running for re-election, framing 2024 as a choice between ‘more rights or fewer’  —  Biden, who at 80 is already the oldest commander-in-chief, said “MAGA extremists are lining up” to take away the social safety net and personal freedoms.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The analyst who saw through 2022's red mirage has a prediction for Biden 2024  —  Throughout the 2022 elections, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg offered up a counterintuitive diagnosis: Confident GOP predictions of a “red wave” weren't just wrong, they were designed to deenergize Democratic voters with “negative sentiment.”
Alex Thompson / Axios:
First look: RNC slams Biden in AI-generated ad … - The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party, followed by a series of imagined reports about international and domestic crises that the ad suggests would follow a Biden victory in 2024.
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden names Julie Chávez Rodríguez as his campaign manager.  —  Ms. Chávez Rodríguez, a veteran of Vice President Kamala Harris's political orbit, also worked on the president's 2020 campaign before becoming director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
RNC's AI-generated Biden attack ad puzzles pundits, Democrats
Discussion: Washington Post, Forbes and RedState
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Yes, Biden negotiated over the debt limit before. He's learned his lesson.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Tucker Carlson's Prayer Talk May Have Led to Fox News Ouster: “That Stuff Freaks Rupert Out”  —  Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch is said to have balked at Carlson's remarks in a Friday night speech, driving another theory about the prime-time star's abrupt exit.  “He doesn't like all the spiritual talk,” said a source.
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American Prospect:
The Smuggest Man On Air  —  Goodbye for now to Tucker Carlson, who punctured the lazy pieties of the media class.  —  Tucker Carlson poses in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York.  —  Tucker Carlson has left Fox News, just days after the network settled a historic defamation lawsuit …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News' sudden firing of Tucker Carlson may have come down to one simple calculation  —  Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter.  Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here.  —  New York CNN —  Why?
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nate Silver Out at ABC News as Disney Layoffs Once Again Hit News Division  —  ABC News is expected to retain the FiveThirtyEight brand, with plans to streamline the data-driven site.  —  The second round of Disney layoffs once again hit ABC News on Tuesday, with Nate Silver's data-driven politics …
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property  —  The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court.  —  For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:   Gorsuch property sale renews calls for Supreme Court ethics reform
Charlie Savage / New York Times:   Head of a Major Law Firm Bought Real Estate From Gorsuch
The Intercept:
Clarence Thomas Billionaire Benefactor Harlan Crow Bought Citizenship in Island Tax Haven … In partnership with  —  Harlan Crow, the billionaire GOP donor who paid for luxury travel on his private jet and yacht for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was a dual citizen of the U.S …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Major G.O.P. Donor's Commitment to DeSantis Is Murkier Than Thought  —  The hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin, who seemed set to be a powerful financial backer of the Florida governor, is said to still be evaluating the Republican primary race.  —  Nearly six months ago, Kenneth Griffin …
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Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
Trump hints he may skip GOP debates: ‘Nobody got my approval’
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Losing the E. Jean Carroll Rape Case Even Before It Starts
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Tucker Carlson's Long Con  —  Was his long, strange trip a put-up job?  —  Washington, DC, Bureau Chief  —  Tucker Carlson wasn't always Tucker Carlson.  Or maybe he was.  —  When I met the recently defenestrated Fox host in the late 1990s, he was stylizing himself as a facts-driven reporter …
Discussion: The Guardian and Semafor
Ben Goggin / NBC News:
A 13-year-old boy was groomed publicly on Twitter and kidnapped, despite numerous chances to stop it  —  The abduction came after a series of missed opportunities where Twitter and law enforcement failed to effectively intervene.  —  The 13-year-old Utah boy hung out in the typical online spaces …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and HotAir
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’ … It was, perhaps, an impossible job.  Make one man the face of public health amid an unprecedented pandemic, in a country as fractious as the United States, and there were bound to be disappointments and frustrations, and they were bound to get personal.
Wesley Lowery / Columbia Journalism Review:
A Test of the News  —  Objectivity, democracy, and the American mosaic  —  We find ourselves in a perilous moment.  Democracy is under withering assault.  Technological advances have empowered propagandists to profit through discontent and disinformation.
Washington Post:
Retired NSA director won lucrative consulting deals with Saudis, Japan  —  Retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who led the National Security Agency under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, secured $2 million in consulting deals with foreign governments after leaving office …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist  —  In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic.  But his primary focus was civil rights.  —  By Peter Keepnews  —  Harry Belafonte …
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Nikki Haley promised to address abortion ‘directly and openly.’ Then she didn't.  —  The conversation is not getting any easier for the GOP presidential contenders.  —  Nikki Haley's campaign had billed her Tuesday address on abortion as a “major policy speech” that would make clear …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Tucker Realignment  —  Across Donald Trump's presidency and immediately afterward there was a lot of talk about realignment.  Everyone could see that the Republican coalition was becoming more working-class and the Democratic coalition more dominated by upper-class professionals.
David Samuels / Tablet Magazine:
The RFK Jr. Tapes  —  The Democratic presidential candidate and America's most prominent ‘conspiracy theorist’ talks about his family, the military-pharmaceutical complex, and our new system of social control  —  I first met Bobby Kennedy Jr. when he showed up one summer afternoon in 1976 …
Washington Post:
Mallory McMorrow has a ‘bench’ warning for Democrats  —  Welcome to The Daily 202!  Tell your friends to sign up here.  On this day in 1983, the U.S.S.R. made public a reply from Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov to 10-year-old Samantha Smith of Maine, inviting her to visit his country.
Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
WA bans sale of AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles, effective immediately  —  Washington has become the 10th state to prohibit sales of AR-15s and dozens of other semiautomatic rifles, as Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed the ban into law, effective immediately.
Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
The Republican Agenda Is One Bad Idea After Another  —  Republicans succeeded in getting Roe v. Wade overturned, and it cost them electorally.  So, naturally, they turned to the also very unpopular ideas of loosening child labor laws, allowing for more guns, and banning books.
 
 
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Jonathan Franklin / NPR:
Texas agriculture department's new dress code is based on ‘biological gender’
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
White House warns 21 million Americans at risk of losing Medicaid under GOP proposal
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California faces rapid snowmelt from heat wave; flood fears in Yosemite, elsewhere
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
A dying Daniel Ellsberg talks about Discord and the power of leaks
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
On white nationalist program, Mark Lamb defends man who shot Ralph Yarl: “He was trying to protect his property ... now he's being persecuted”
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Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
US default on debt would trigger an ‘economic catastrophe’ - Yellen
Discussion: Bloomberg
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
EXCLUSIVE: Democrat becomes first senator calling for Justice Thomas' resignation
Discussion: Forbes
Gallup:
Russia Suffers Global Rebuke After Invasion
Discussion: Insider, The Hill and Semafor
Silja J.A. Talvi / The Appeal:
Women Report ‘Rampant’ Sexual Abuse at Federal Prison Where Ghislaine Maxwell Is Held