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9:30 PM ET, April 25, 2023

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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.”
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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 …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
‘Damning’ new J6 recording: Ted Cruz discusses how to force a reassessment of Biden's win  —  MSNBC's Ari Melber on Tuesday said that he had acquired a “damning” new recording of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) discussing how to potentially overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
NBC News:
Biden announces he is running for re-election, framing 2024 as a choice between ‘more rights or fewer’
Alex Thompson / Axios:
First look: RNC slams Biden in AI-generated ad
Washington Post:
Recording of Cruz's talk with Fox host sheds more light on plan to challenge 2020 results
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Announces Re-election Bid, Defying Trump and History
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
RNC's AI-generated Biden attack ad puzzles pundits, Democrats
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and Forbes
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:   Bernie Sanders Endorses Biden for President
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden names Julie Chávez Rodríguez as his campaign manager.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
'It's Time to Finish the Job,' Biden Tells Union Workers as He Starts '24 Race
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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Rolling Stone:
Fox Has a Secret ‘Oppo File’ to Keep Tucker Carlson in Check, Sources Say  —  Eight sources tell Rolling Stone that the network's top brass has been stockpiling information on the departing primetime host … When Fox announced Carlson's departure on Monday, the network presented the separation as amiable.
Discussion: Breitbart
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 …
New York Times:
Taliban Kill Head of ISIS Cell That Bombed Kabul Airport  —  Thirteen U.S. service members and scores of Afghan civilians died in the bombing as the United States was evacuating in August 2021.  —  WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the leader of the Islamic State cell responsible …
Discussion: CBS17.com and CBS News
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Associated Press:
Taliban kill mastermind of suicide bombing at Kabul airport  —  The Taliban have killed the senior Islamic State group leader behind the August 2021 suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport that left 13 U.S. service members and about 170 Afghans dead, according to the father of a Marine killed …
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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Ian Millhiser / Vox:   The real reason for the Supreme Court's corruption crisis
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:   Gorsuch property sale renews calls for Supreme Court ethics reform
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
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 …
Kylie Cheung / Jezebel:
Woman with Cancerous Pregnancy Was Told to Wait in Parking Lot Until She Was ‘Crashing’  —  “We can't touch you unless you're crashing in front of us or your blood pressure goes so high that you're fixing to have a heart attack,” she says she was told.  —  Jaci Statton, a 25-year-old mother …
Discussion: NPR and KFOR-TV
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.
A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:
Ron DeSantis calls for cease fire in Ukraine … A.G. Gancarski  —  A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014.  He is based in Northeast Florida.  He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Ex-Tucker Producer Suing Fox News Has NINETY Recordings From the Network  —  Nicolle Wallace interviewed Abby Grossberg, the former booker for Tucker Carlson Tonight who is Fox News for discrimination, on her MSNBC show on Tuesday.  —  The lengthy interview covered everything …
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
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.
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump: Trials are unpredictable, but here's the roadmap for this one  —  As a trial begins in writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against former president Donald Trump, the United States contemplates the startling possibility that a federal jury may declare …
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 …
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 …
Jesse Bedayn / Associated Press:
Colorado To Become 1st State To Pass ‘Right To Repair’ For Farmers  —  The law follows a nationwide outcry from farmers that manufacturers prevent them from fixing their own machines when they break down.  —  Colorado is set to become the first state to ensure farmers can fix their own machines …
Discussion: TechCrunch and Mercury News
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Trump Tries to End the Game Before the Voters Get Involved  —  It is hard not to see a fear of Ron DeSantis animating everything Donald Trump does these days.  Combine that with Trump's general modus operandi of crying foul in advance at anything he expects to go against him while declaring victory …
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
McCarthy runs into a wall of corn … - It only takes five GOP “no” votes to tank the bill.  — The group includes all four Iowa House Republicans, plus at least four more members from the corn belt, Axios has learned.  — McCarthy is meeting with this group on Tuesday evening …
Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Chair Khan and Officials from DOJ, CFPB and EEOC Release Joint Statement on AI  —  FTC Chair Lina M. Khan and officials from three other federal agencies jointly pledged today to uphold America's commitment to the core principles of fairness, equality, and justice as emerging automated systems …
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.
 
 
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Lara Seligman / Politico:
‘Good riddance’: Pentagon officials cheer Tucker Carlson's ouster
NPR:
Chief Justice Roberts declines to testify before Senate panel
Kelli María Korducki / The Atlantic:
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Bolts:
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Hogan Gore / Austin American-Statesman:
Texas Senate advances bill to create ‘election marshals.’ Here's what's proposed.
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
Trump hints he may skip GOP debates: ‘Nobody got my approval’
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
DeSantis' Surgeon General Doctored Covid Vaccine Study
Discussion: CNN, PolitiFact and Digby's Hullabaloo
Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
The Republican Agenda Is One Bad Idea After Another
Washington Post:
Retired NSA director won lucrative consulting deals with Saudis, Japan
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
They're Hunting Nazis. New England Is a Target-Rich Environment
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Mallory McMorrow has a ‘bench’ warning for Democrats