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Washington Post:
Wagner chief offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine, leak says — Yevgeniy Prigozhin said he would tell Ukraine's military where to attack Russian troops if they pulled their own forces back from the beleaguered city of Bakhmut, where Wagner mercenaries were taking heavy losses
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Reuters, Alternet.org and Political Wire
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Hill Staffer Is A Prominent Follower Of Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes — Evidence shows Congressman Paul Gosar's digital director is behind an online persona that Fuentes called one of his “strongest soldiers.” — Nick Fuentes was under attack.
Ana Goñi-Lessan / Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida teacher investigated by state agency for showing Disney movie in class — A Florida teacher is under investigation by the state Department of Education after what she believes is a targeted attack by a school board member who took issue with a Disney movie shown in her classroom.
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The Guardian and Washington Press
David Edwards / Raw Story:
'We can't track down the informant': James Comer says he lost top witness in Biden investigation — Rep. James Comer (R-KY) revealed on Sunday that Republicans had lost track of a top witness in the investigation of President Joe Biden and his family. — During an interview on Fox News …
Reuters:
Turkey faces runoff election for president as Erdogan survives first test — Turkey appeared headed for a runoff presidential election after neither Tayyip Erdogan nor rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu cleared the threshold to win outright on Sunday, in a poll seen as a verdict on Erdogan's 20-year rule and increasingly authoritarian path.
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Abigail Weinberg / Mother Jones:
A Problem for DeSantis: Reports Say He Has No Rizz — One article repeatedly mentions DeSantis' difficulty making eye contact. — Former President Trump is a twice-impeached sexual abuser, who possesses a unique ability to make people laugh—unfortunately or fortunately, to use his verbiage.
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New York Times:
DeSantis Impresses in Iowa, Showing Up an Absent Trump
DeSantis Impresses in Iowa, Showing Up an Absent Trump
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David Roth / Defector:
Burning Down The House — Because Twitter is so big and open-ended, and because it is a product of the grandiose and impatient and deliriously shallow world of Silicon Valley, the ways in which it has been talked about by the people who talk about it most have mostly been ridiculous.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Kentucky 2023: Daniel Cameron Extends Lead in GOP Gubernatorial Primary over Kelly Craft — Home Polls Kentucky 2023: Daniel Cameron Extends Lead in GOP Gubernatorial Primary over Kelly Craft — The final Emerson College Polling/Fox 56 Lexington survey of Kentucky Republican primary voters …
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The Hill, Political Wire and Raw Story
President Joe Biden / USA Today:
President Biden: I'm doing everything I can to reduce gun violence, but Congress must do more — One year ago today, an individual who had posted a white supremacist manifesto, armed with an AR-15 style firearm, killed 10 Black Americans and injured three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
How Kyrsten Sinema Uses Campaign Cash for Her Marathon Habit — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema loves to run marathons—and to use campaign cash to pay for her stays at swanky hotels during those marathons. … When Kyrsten Sinema ran the Boston Marathon last year, it was a proud moment the Arizona senator …
Michael W. McConnell / New York Times:
The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense — Mr. McConnell is a professor and the director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit from 2002 to 2009.
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Balkinization
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
He Told Followers to Starve to Meet Jesus. Why Did So Many Do It? — Hundreds were drawn to a remote wilderness in southeastern Kenya by the End Times preaching of pastor Paul Mackenzie. Relatives and ex-members tried to intervene, but some did not want to be rescued.
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al.com
Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian:
US senator denounced as ‘profoundly ignorant man’ over remarks on Mexico — John Kennedy's comments about Mexicans ‘eating cat food’ came as he urged the US military to enter country to ‘stop the cartels’ — Mexicans “would be eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent behind an Outback” …
New York Times:
How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear — A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages. But instead of using the money to promote issues and candidates …
Discussion:
The Mahablog
New York Times:
The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, With Familiar (Rich) Winners — In an era of surging home and stock values, U.S. family wealth has soared. The trillions of dollars going to heirs will largely reinforce inequality. — An intergenerational transfer of wealth is in motion in America …
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Trump says he'll bring back Michael Flynn if he wins in 2024: 'He's some man' — Former President Trump has said he'll bring back his former national security adviser Michael Flynn if he wins another four years in the White House in 2024. — “I will say, General Flynn, he's some general.
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Rolling Stone, Occupy Democrats, Washington Press and Alternet.org
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 14, 2023 — May 14, 2023, 3pm ET — Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report. — Click here to access ISW's archive of interactive …
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
How the Supreme Court might view the debt limit fight — A debt-ceiling deadlock could push Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment — setting up a showdown at the high court. — If Joe Biden and House Republicans fail to reach a debt deal, the crisis could get tossed to the Supreme Court …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, The Hill and NBC News
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
7 doomsday scenarios if the U.S. crashes through the debt ceiling — Economists warn of worst-case outcomes should Congress fail to raise the federal borrowing limit by the “X-date” deadline — Federal workers furloughed. Social Security checks for seniors on hold. Soaring mortgage rates.
Discussion:
The Hill and NBC New York
Pat Leahy / The Irish Times:
Ireland likely to join Nato project to protect undersea cables — Ireland has little if any means of protecting undersea cables which carry internet traffic between US and Europe and pass through Irish waters off south and west coasts — Ireland is likely to join a new Nato initiative …
Ryan Burge / Politico:
The Religious Landscape is Undergoing Massive Change. It Could Decide the 2024 Election. — The new decennial Religion Census offers cause for hope — and alarm — for both parties. — One of the most significant shifts in American politics and religion just took place over the past decade …
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Raw Story
Francisco Guzman / USA Today:
Video shows brawl between supporters of two Minneapolis City Council candidates — An apparent brawl broke out between supporters of two Minneapolis City Council candidates Saturday over nominations. — The brawl, which left two people injured, happened at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor …
Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
Abbott knocks Dominion over Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox News — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) bashed Dominion Voting Systems over the departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, following a report that the popular conservative primetime host was fired from the network as part of its settlement with the voting software company.
Discussion:
NewsNation and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Thai opposition leads vote count, spelling possible end to military rule — BANGKOK, Thailand — Opposition parties in Thailand took a commanding lead in the country's parliamentary election on Sunday, according to an official vote tally, potentially signaling the end of the military's nearly decade-long rule here.
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