Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Bulwark+, Mediaite, HuffPost, HotAir, ABC7, The Hill, Raw Story and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Anthony L. Fisher / The Daily Beast:
Nobody Sold Out Harder Than Tucker Carlson
Nobody Sold Out Harder Than Tucker Carlson
Discussion:
National Review
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.
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Washington Post, NBC News, The Daily Beast, USA Today, The Hill, Breitbart, Semafor, Politico, New York Post, Washington Times, ABC7, Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
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.
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 …
CNN:
House votes to pass debt ceiling bill in win for McCarthy
House votes to pass debt ceiling bill in win for McCarthy
Discussion:
The Hill, New Republic, Bloomberg, Semafor, BizPac Review, Raw Story, Politico, One America News Network, PoliticusUSA, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Washington Post, Roll Call, Insider, Fox News, UPI, Joe.My.God., NBC News, Washington Times, ABC News, Washington Examiner, Punchbowl News, Balkinization and Just The News
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
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Raw Story, New York Times, New York Post, Breitbart, Wide World of News, Bloomberg, Washington Times, The Hill, Politico and Washington Examiner
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
April 2023 National Poll: Biden and Trump on Track for 2024 Rematch
April 2023 National Poll: Biden and Trump on Track for 2024 Rematch
Discussion:
Washington Examiner
NBC News:
Ron DeSantis is set to jump into the 2024 presidential fray in mid-May
Ron DeSantis is set to jump into the 2024 presidential fray in mid-May
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Politico, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, ABC News, Fox News and NBC Bay Area
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.
Discussion:
Bloomberg, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Joe.My.God., Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wall Street Journal, CBS News and Political Wire
RELATED:
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump loses appeal to block Pence from testifying about direct communications — Former President Donald Trump has lost an emergency attempt to block former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying about their direct conversations, in the latest boost to a federal criminal investigation examining Trump's …
Discussion:
Raw Story, Politico, NBC News, UPI, New York Times, PoliticusUSA and Forbes
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.
Discussion:
The Hill, Reuters, NBC News, Associated Press, Politico, Breitbart, Axios, NPR, Tallahassee Democrat, WFLA-TV, Florida Politics, The Daily Caller, CNN, Fox News, Washington Post, National Review, Truthout, Washington Examiner, Twitchy, Insider, RedState, TMZ.com, WINK News, Semafor, Kotaku and IndieWire
RELATED:
Charles Homans / New York Times:
Man vs. Mouse: Ron DeSantis Finds Taking On Disney Is a Dicey Business
Man vs. Mouse: Ron DeSantis Finds Taking On Disney Is a Dicey Business
Discussion:
HotAir
Shaylee Ragar / NPR:
Montana House votes to formally punish transgender lawmaker, Rep. Zooey Zephyr — HELENA, Mont. - Republicans, who dominate the Montana House of Representatives, have voted Wednesday to formally punish Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr. — Zephyr, who is transgender, has been blocked …
Discussion:
The Western Journal, ABC News, Joe.My.God., HuffPost, acecomments.mu.nu, ACLU, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and Reuters
RELATED:
Associated Press:
Montana transgender lawmaker barred by GOP from House floor
Montana transgender lawmaker barred by GOP from House floor
Discussion:
Daily Montanan, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, Montana Free Press, The Hill, NBC News, CNN, Fox News, Trending Politics Conservative, The Federalist, HuffPost, Associated Press, Reuters, The Gateway Pundit, Alternet.org, Washington Post, Daily Montanan, Raw Story, Mother Jones, Twitchy, Jezebel, CBS News, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, USA Today, ABC11, New Republic, Billings Gazette, Truthout, ABC News, PBS NewsHour and New York Daily News
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Raw Story, ABC7, Associated Press, Mother Jones, Wall Street Journal, NBC Bay Area, The Hill, USA Today and CNN
RELATED:
Chris McGreal / The Guardian:
Judge rebukes Trump for ‘entirely inappropriate’ post before E Jean Carroll testimony
Judge rebukes Trump for ‘entirely inappropriate’ post before E Jean Carroll testimony
Discussion:
The Bulwark, NBC News, Politico, The Gateway Pundit, New York Daily News, Alternet.org and Al Jazeera
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.
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
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Associated Press, The Lever, Politico, king.senate.gov, Washington Examiner, Vox, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, NBC News, Vanity Fair and Law & Crime
RELATED:
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.
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
RELATED:
Rachel DuRose / Vox:
One big idea that could prevent thousands of gun deaths
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.] — Well, the Republicans did it. After middle-of-the-night negotiations to include more of the far right's wish list, House Republicans passed a bill agreeing to a short-term raising …
Discussion:
The Hill
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.
Discussion:
Florida Politics and The Daily Caller
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 …
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 …
Discussion:
UPI, Joe.My.God. and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »
Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Biden cheat sheet shows he had advance knowledge of journalist's question — A cheat sheet held by President Biden during a Wednesday press conference revealed that the 80-year-old commander in chief had advance knowledge of a question from a journalist. — “How are YOU squaring …
Associated Press:
Climate change worsened Eastern Africa drought, scientists find — The international team found that the long rains season was turning drier and the short rains season was becoming wetter due to climate change. — The ongoing drought in Eastern Africa has been made worse by human-induced climate change …
Discussion:
Raw Story, New York Times, Financial Times and Inside Climate News
New York Times:
The Tiny, Tight-Lipped Circle of Aides Guiding Biden 2024 — They rarely give on-the-record interviews. Only two are on Twitter. But they will be the main force behind the president's political strategy. — When President Biden announced his re-election campaign and its top two staff members …
Discussion:
New York Magazine
Associated Press:
Founder of the We Build The Wall group linked to Steve Bannon is sentenced to 4 years — NEW YORK — The co-founder of a fundraising group linked to Steve Bannon that promised to help Donald Trump construct a wall along the southern U.S. border was sentenced to four years and three months …
Discussion:
Raw Story, NBC News, Axios, US Department of Justice, UPI, CNN, The Hill, Florida Politics, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times, Reuters, New York Daily News, CBS News and New York Times