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10:50 AM ET, April 27, 2023

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New York Times:
On Eve of Trial, Discovery of Carlson Texts Set Off Crisis Atop Fox  —  Private messages sent by Tucker Carlson that had been redacted in legal filings showed him making highly offensive remarks that went beyond the comments of his prime-time show.  —  The day before Dominion Voting Systems …
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Anthony L. Fisher / The Daily Beast:
Nobody Sold Out Harder Than Tucker Carlson
Discussion: National Review
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Drops First Video After Fox News Ouster
Politico:
Dems ready to pounce on GOP debt bill  —  Presented by The Alzheimer's Association  —  After House Republicans barely passed their debt bill, House Democrats are getting ready to pull out the playbook that worked for them in 2018 to win back the majority in 2024.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
The GOP wonks trying to get their party not to detonate the debt limit bomb  —  An increasingly personal spat among conservative policy nerds could have big implications as U.S. nears economic disaster  —  A small group of conservative budget experts is cautioning House Republicans …
Punchbowl News:
4/27/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  THE TOP … This was an important step by McCarthy and his leadership team.  Does it end the debt-limit debate?  No, of course not.  But it's the end of the beginning, to borrow a famous phrase.  We have some thoughts on how this could all unfold during the next few weeks.
Politico:
Playbook: How Kevin McCarthy proved his naysayers wrong
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Is Trump Inevitable?  Some in the GOP Are Starting To Wonder  —  It's still quite early, but the parade of sycophants to Mar-a-Lago worries Chris Christie and others who've rejected the ex-president.  —  HENNIKER, N.H. — Standing before a room filled with lightly interested college students …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump previously backed policies on Social Security for which he's now attacking DeSantis, calling the program a ‘Ponzi scheme’
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Trump can't stop Pence from testifying to Jan. 6 grand jury, court rules  —  Donald Trump cannot block his former vice president from testifying before a grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump lawyers offer detailed defense to Mar-a-Lago case  —  In a letter to lawmakers, Trump's legal team urges Congress to make the Justice Department ‘stand down’  —  Donald Trump's legal team on Wednesday offered its most detailed public defense yet of the former president's conduct …
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
April 2023 National Poll: Biden and Trump on Track for 2024 Rematch  —  Home Polls April 2023 National Poll: Biden and Trump on Track for 2024 Rematch  —  A Decade Later, Many Attitudes Surrounding Gun Policy Remain the Same  —  BOSTON - The latest Emerson College Polling national survey …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump still top 2024 Republican preference, DeSantis slipping  —  Poll also shows President Biden with a strong lead over his Democratic challengers  —  Former President Donald Trump maintains his advantage in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Why Biden may have to forfeit the first contest in his re-election bid to Marianne Williamson or RFK Jr.
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
Montana G.O.P. Bars Transgender Lawmaker From House Floor  —  The move was the culmination of a weeklong battle between House leadership and Representative Zooey Zephyr after her impassioned comments over a bill that would prohibit care for transgender minors.
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Associated Press:
Montana transgender lawmaker barred by GOP from House floor
MSNBC:   ‘A new generation is rising up’: Young Dems stand up to GOP extremism
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Airman Accused of Leak Has History of Racist and Violent Remarks, Filing Says  —  Prosecutors accused Jack Teixeira of trying to fecklessly cover up his actions and described a possible propensity toward violence.  —  WASHINGTON — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused …
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Associated Press:
Releasing leak suspect a national security risk, feds say
TMZ.com:
Jerry Springer Dead at 79  —  REMEMBERING JERRY SPRINGER  —  Jerry Springer, one of the most influential and controversial figures in TV history, has died ... TMZ has confirmed.  —  Jerry hosted the smash hit syndicated talk show “The Jerry Springer Show” for 27 years …
Mitchell Epner / The Daily Beast:
Jury Has Likely Decided Trump's Fate in Rape Case Already  —  E. Jean Carroll took the stand on Wednesday—and jurors have likely already made up their minds about whether she is telling the truth. … On the first day of trial testimony Wednesday, E. Jean Carroll took the witness stand …
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Dana Bash will succeed John King as anchor of CNN political news show  —  Bash, who was married to King, will host her own daily show for the first time in her 30-year career at the network.  —  CNN veteran Dana Bash will replace John King, the network's chief national correspondent …
LZ Granderson / Los Angeles Times:
Disney's lawsuit will show what DeSantis' war on LGBTQ+ allies is really about  —  While the lawsuit brought by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Inc. against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his handpicked oversight board came as a surprise to many, the defendants apparently saw it coming.
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:   DeSantis assembles senior staff for expected 2024 presidential campaign
Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
US adult cigarette smoking rate hits new all-time low  —  U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday.  Meanwhile, electronic cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults.
Discussion: The Hill and The Sun
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Grew at 1.1% Rate in First Quarter  —  The gross domestic product increased for the third straight quarter as consumer spending remained robust despite higher interest rates.  —  Higher interest rates took a toll on the U.S. economy in early 2023, but free-spending consumers …
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Slate:
John Roberts Is Acting Like Justices Are Kings  —  Last Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin invited Chief Justice John Roberts to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about, well, to put it directly—the Supreme Court's diaphanous ethics regime.  On Tuesday evening, in his letter to Durbin …
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Tisya Mavuram / American Prospect:
The Real Tucker Carlson  —  A neofascist who opposes corporate globalism is still a neofascist—and a threat to democracy. … On Tuesday afternoon, the Prospect posted an article about Tucker Carlson on its home page.  Focusing almost solely on Carlson's opposition to corporate globalism …
Discussion: Mediaite
John Wagner / Washington Post:
W.Va. Gov. Justice files to run for Senate, setting up possible clash with Manchin  —  West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) filed the paperwork Thursday for a U.S. Senate campaign, setting up the possibility of a marquee 2024 race against Sen. Joe Manchin III (D) in a state that Republicans view as one of their best pickup opportunities.
Washington Post:
Inside a private portal from GOP campaigns to local news sites  —  Leaked screenshots show how politicians shape coverage in a local news network that's seeking to expand with help from Trump advisers  —  The top Republican campaigns in Illinois used a private online portal last year …
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
‘DEI is dead’: At VMI, Youngkin's diversity chief slams diversity, equity, inclusion  —  At Virginia Military Institute, a college trying to attract more women and minorities, Martin D. Brown declares diversity is the ‘wrong mission’  —  Virginia's chief diversity officer was blunt.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Is It Sexist to Want Dianne Feinstein to Retire?  —  Debbie Stabenow, a Democratic colleague in the Senate, sees a double standard at work.  —  Last month, Senator Dianne Feinstein was hospitalized with shingles.  Feinstein, who is eighty-nine, and who has held her seat in Congress …
Discussion: New Republic and The Nation
Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg:
Fed's Jerome Powell Tricked by Russian Pranksters Posing as Zelenskiy  —  Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell held a call with a pair of Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, according to video shown on Russian state television.
Curt Anderson / Associated Press:
DeSantis-backed New College board scraps 5 professors tenure  —  The New College of Florida trustees now dominated by conservatives appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis voted Wednesday to deny tenure to five professors, overriding concerns by faculty and students that the decision poses a threat to academic freedom.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Exclusive: Time to remove digital paywall  —  Time is fully removing its digital paywall beginning June 1, its CEO Jessica Sibley told Axios. … - “The opportunity to reach more audiences globally, that are younger, and that are diverse, is really important to Sam and myself,” she noted …
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Elizabeth Stauffer / Washington Examiner:
Tucker Carlson's enemies won't be laughing when they see what he does next  —  The news that Tucker Carlson, Fox News's highest-rated prime-time host, abruptly left the network sent shockwaves throughout the media world on Monday.  The ladies of ABC's The View, were, of course, delirious over the development.
NBC News:
Map of gun deaths across the U.S. shows cities have lower rates than rural counties  —  The most rural counties had a 37% higher rate of firearm deaths than the most urban counties from 2011 to 2020, an analysis found.  —  Gun death rates are consistently higher in rural areas than in big cities, two decades of data show.
Discussion: UPI
 
 
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Ana Ceballos / Miami Herald:
Who is paying for DeSantis' four-nation trip? It's his second trade mission as governor
Discussion: Sacramento Bee and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Florida's conservative chief justice once affirmed abortion protections
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Punchbowl News:
Inside a new FAA reauthorization flight: Washington Reagan flights
Nick Schwellenbach / Project On Government Oversight:
Insurrection's Eve  —  In the weeks before January 6, 2021, then-newly installed officials …
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
A Santa Monica police employee molested more than 200 kids. Warnings of abuse were ignored
Discussion: KTLA
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 26, 2023
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
April 26, 2023  —  [Warning: the third and fourth paragraphs of this piece refer to the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit.]
Discussion: The Hill
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Andy Pierrotti / Atlanta News First:
Georgia man behind bars 10 years, still waiting for his day in court
New York Times:
The Tiny, Tight-Lipped Circle of Aides Guiding Biden 2024
Discussion: New York Magazine
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
DeJoy says USPS will keep raising prices, follow abortion pill rulings
Discussion: Breitbart
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Indiana lawyers say they're too busy to address all of the lawsuit challenging new anti-trans law
Discussion: Reuters
Associated Press:
US to send nuclear ballistic submarines to Korean Peninsula
Associated Press:
Founder of the We Build The Wall group linked to Steve Bannon is sentenced to 4 years
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