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2:55 PM ET, May 20, 2023

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Politico:
How Dems ended up where they swore they wouldn't be: Negotiating on the debt limit  —  President Joe Biden's party slowly relented on its insistence that any hike be clean.  And progressives are aghast at the concessions the GOP is poised to extract.  —  Looking back on the first two years …
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Jason Linkins / New Republic:
The Beltway Media Is Spreading Debt Limit Misinformation  —  Having watched Capitol Hill fall into chaotic convulsions over the debt ceiling a million times before, I've come to the conclusion that the only way to properly negotiate your way through a debt ceiling crisis is to not negotiate at all.
Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Mitch McConnell Stays in Back Seat as Kevin McCarthy Drives Debt-Limit Deal
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Finger-Pointing Won't Save Anyone if Default Leads to Economic Collapse
Discussion: Raw Story
Rachel Roubein / Washington Post:
Republicans deploy new playbook for abortion bans, citing political backlash  —  GOP lawmakers in North Carolina and Nebraska are casting new 12-week bans as “mainstream,” while Democrats say they are “cruel and extreme”  —  Nebraska antiabortion groups and GOP lawmakers were stunned.
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Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
Nebraska passes abortion and transgender treatment bill into law  —  The Nebraska legislature passed a bill on Friday that prohibits abortions after 12 weeks as well as gender-related treatment for minors.  —  When Nebraska attempted to ban abortions after six weeks previously, the measure failed to pass by one vote.
Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
This Was A Very Bad Week For Abortion Rights And Democracy
Aaron Kliegman / Fox News:
Dems championed Chicago-area man now charged with attempted murder after Obama commuted his sentence  —  Sens. Warren, Durbin praised Alton Mills, who's accused in connection with a freeway shooting  —  A Chicago-area man whose life sentence in prison was commuted by then-President Barack Obama in 2015 …
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Barbara Mcmahon / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Ex Playboy model Karen McDougal shares intimate details of her ‘ten-month affair’ with Donald Trump, claiming he told her he loved her and SHE ended it - moving on with Bruce Willis - in explosive interview with Daily Mail  — Karen McDougal, an ex-Playboy model who claims …
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Man with AR-15-style rifle by bus stop says he wasn't out to terrify kids  —  The man stood in a red Make America Great Again baseball cap pointing his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle toward the sidewalk.  —  An elementary school student ran home crying.  Parents were terrified.  Neighbors called the police.
New York Times:
Air DeSantis: The Private Jets and Secret Donors Flying Him Around  —  As the Florida governor hopscotched the country preparing to run for president, a Michigan nonprofit paid the bills.  It won't say where it got the money.  —  For Ron DeSantis, Sunday, Feb. 19, was the start …
Discussion: Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Sun-Sentinel
Ian Ward / Politico:
The Supreme Court Is Hiding Important Decisions From You  —  A new book argues the court is undermining its credibility by rendering so many unsigned and unexplained decisions on its so-called ‘shadow docket.’  —  As the Supreme Court begins to release its written opinions from its most recent term …
Discussion: PBS NewsHour and Raw Story
Associated Press:
A look inside the playbook on transgender health bills  —  Aaron and Lacey Jennen's roots in Arkansas run deep.  They've spent their entire lives there, attended the flagship state university, and are raising a family.  So they're heartbroken at the prospect of perhaps having to move …
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Hunter Biden cried poverty but still flew to his child-support hearing on a private jet for at least $55K  —  Fly me a river.  —  Hunter Biden cried poverty at his Arkansas child-support hearing earlier this month — despite flying to and from the courthouse aboard a luxury private jet owned by his close friend Kevin Morris.
Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Trump Is Up In The Middle Of The Night Obsessing Over Jack Smith  —  Trump was posting in the middle of the night on Friday/early Saturday about Special Counsel Jack Smith.  —  Trump wrote on Truth Social: … The poll that Trump referred to didn't show him way up on Biden.
Discussion: Raw Story
Sascha Pare / LiveScience:
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same.  But why?  —  Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a “critical moment of agony” and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.
Discussion: New York Post, RedState, TheBlaze and BGR
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 19, 2023  —  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 time-lapse maps of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Discussion: Human Events and The Dispatch
Washington Post:
A standstill settles in as Democrats fret over Feinstein's health  —  The California senator is casting votes and attending committee hearings but has at times seemed confused by reporters' questions  —  When Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) returned to the Capitol this month …
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema hit with complaint of lavish campaign spending  —  A group seeking to oust U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has filed a formal complaint with election authorities about her campaign spending habits, accusing her of “living a lifestyle of luxury financed by her special interest donors …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Strange alliances emerge in Tennessee as the GOP governor pushes for gun reform  —  Gov. Bill Lee's insistence on taking action highlights how gun control has become a major tension point for the GOP in overwhelmingly conservative Tennessee.  —  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's decision last week …
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
Moscow bans ‘500 Americans’ from Russia including CNN journalists  —  Former United States President Barack Obama, late night television host Stephen Colbert, and CNN's Erin Burnett are some of the “500 Americans” Russia has banned from entering the country.
Discussion: TASS and Just The News
Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
‘Live laugh lesbian’: Target's cheeky Pride collection strikes again  —  While much of the Pride merchandise that debuts around June falls flat, Target's has managed to break through the noise — and spark an onslaught of memes.  —  As queer Americans face a historic onslaught of anti-LGBTQ legislation …
Discussion: TheBlaze, New York Post and Daily Mail
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
They're openly saying it: Brexit has failed.  But what comes next may be very dark indeed  —  The ‘remoaner elite’, the civil service, the BBC, universities, unions, refugees: anything is blamed but Brexit itself  —  t lasts no more than a second, but it is a moment for the ages.
 
 
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