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2:00 PM ET, May 22, 2023

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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump was warned about retaining classified documents, notes reveal  —  Exclusive: Unreported warning contained in notes taken by lawyer Evan Corcoran that prosecutors have viewed in recent months  —  Federal prosecutors have evidence Donald Trump was put on notice that he could not retain …
Washington Post:
Concerns about Biden's reelection swamped by fear of Trump in swing voter focus groups  —  “Whatever the step above panicked is, that is what I feel about Trump,” said one of the voters, who picked Trump in 2016 then Biden in 2020  —  Nearly all of the 15 gathered swing state voters described …
Discussion: Breitbart, Raw Story and Plain Dealer
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
Why Trump Wants U.S. to Default on Debt  —  And why Biden now says he's “looking at” invoking the Fourteenth Amendment.  —  Late last week, amid the on-again/off-again White House negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on raising the debt ceiling, Donald Trump lobbed a grenade.
Politico:
Key Republican recruits hesitate to jump in if Trump is the nominee  —  Potential Republican candidates in swing states and districts are reluctant to throw hats into ring.  —  Less than a month after the midterms, Republican recruiters were already plotting how to persuade …
A.B. Stoddard / Bulwark+:   Why Are “Former Administration Officials” Still Not Speaking Up About Trump?
Reuters:
Exclusive: Texts tie DeSantis closely to Trump insider Lev Parnas in 2018 race  —  Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas and his business partner were arrested in 2019, accused by the U.S. government of funneling a Russian oligarch's money into American political campaigns.
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Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware won't seek reelection, opening up seat in liberal state  —  Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware announced Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate.  Carper's announcement paves the way for a wide-open contest …
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Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Signal:
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Policy Exposes Fox News Stances on Woke Ideology  —  FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Fox News employees are allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex, and permitted to dress in alignment with their preferred gender.
Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
NAACP president on Florida warning: We shouldn't use race to ‘weaponize against people’  —  NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson on Monday defended the organization's decision to issue a travel advisory to Florida for Black Americans and communities of color.
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Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
N.A.A.C.P. Issues Florida Travel Advisory, Joining Latino and L.G.B.T.Q. Groups
U.S. Department of the Interior:
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic Consensus System Conservation Proposal to Protect the Colorado River Basin  —  Seven Basin states agree on analyzing consensus-based approach proposed by the Lower Basin  —  Funding from President Biden's Investing in America agenda combined …
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Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
A Breakthrough Deal to Keep the Colorado River From Going Dry, for Now
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Bob Woodward roasts Trump's ‘everything is mine’ take in ‘unprecedented’ copyright suit: Interview tapes ‘belong to the People’  —  From George Washington to Joe Biden, U.S. presidents have harnessed the power of the press to reach the populace.  Investigative journalist Bob Woodward argues …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Cohen / Insider:
An apparently AI-generated hoax of an explosion at the Pentagon went viral online — and markets briefly dipped  — An apparently AI-generated photo faking an explosion near the Pentagon in D.C. went viral.  — The Arlington Police Department confirmed that the image and accompanying reports were fake.
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Bowman says he will ‘stay as far away’ from Greene as possible  —  Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) says he will “stay as far away...as possible” from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after a contentious exchange between the two stemming from an encounter outside the Capitol last week.
Discussion: Salon and New York Magazine
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Reporter Asks Tim Scott If He's a Virgin  —  It's interesting which details and interviews re-emerge about a presidential candidate as they announce their run for office.  —  Washington Post reporter Ben Terris remains in the process of writing his soon-to-be released book The Big Break …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Sidney Powell's Tossed Ethics Case Appealed by Texas Bar Panel  —  Attorney ethics enforcers in Texas are appealing the dismissal of their complaint against Donald Trump ally Sidney Powell over her failed legal efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Harlan Crow on buying house of Justice Clarence Thomas' mother: 'I don't see the foot fault'  —  Harlan Crow, the GOP megadonor and real estate magnate who paid for luxury travel for Clarence Thomas, defended his relationship with the Supreme Court justice in an extensive interview with The Atlantic …
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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Inside the Garden of Evil
Discussion: Insider and Vanity Fair
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
The central question for Monday's debt ceiling talks  —  President Biden says he's ready to cut spending in a debt ceiling deal.  But how far is he willing to go?  —  That's one of the questions as he prepares to sit down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for another critical meeting …
The Nib:
The Future of The Nib  —  I'm afraid I have some bad news.  After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer.  The new issue of our magazine, the Future issue, will be our last.  We will continue to publish online every weekday through August and then shut down.
Li Cohen / CBS News:
Trevi Fountain water turned black by climate activists protesting fossil fuels  —  Rome's historic and iconic Trevi Fountain became the site of a protest Sunday when climate activists turned its water black in protest of the fossil fuel industry.  —  Activist group Ultima Generazione …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
I Know One Way the Supreme Court Got to How It Is.  I Watched It Happen for Years.  —  This is a part of Disorder in the Court, a weeklong series on the legal press and the most explosive Supreme Court in generations: how we cover it, how we've failed, and how we can do better.
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Eschaton
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Uber suspends diversity chief over 'Don't Call Me Karen' events  —  Bo Young Lee faced criticism for Zoom sessions that focused on white women's experience of ‘Karen’ stereotype of entitlement  —  Uber has suspended its head of diversity, equity and inclusion after Black and Hispanic employees complained …
Public Notice:
The Democratic upset in Jacksonville is a product of the GOP's war on cities  —  Republican big city mayors are a highly endangered species.  That's not a fluke.  —  ∙ Paid … Last week, Democrat Donna Deegan won an upset mayoral election victory in Jacksonville, Florida …
Discussion: American Prospect
Aliza Chasan / CBS News:
How the Pentagon falls victim to price gouging by military contractors  —  Military contractors overcharge the Pentagon on almost everything the Department of Defense buys each year, experts told 60 Minutes over the course of a six-month investigation into price gouging.
Discussion: Raw Story
Employ America:
14th Amendment, Debt Ceiling & Perpetual Bonds: The Treasury Department is Hiding Political Failure In Technocratic Excuses  —  Many thanks to Carlos Mucha for his generous assistance.  —  The 14th Amendment is strongly relevant to the debt ceiling, but unlike what some elected officials …
Discussion: Vox
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Why Bakhmut?  It's a Question as Old as War.  —  The twists and turns of a war are rarely easy to predict.  In Ukraine, they landed on a city in the east that few had ever heard of.  And then the whole world watched for months.  —  Just weeks before President Volodymyr Zelensky …
New York Times:
Spying in Mexico Strikes a New Victim: the President's Ally  —  While looking into abuses by the armed forces, the country's top human rights official was targeted with Pegasus, the world's most notorious spyware, The Times found.  —  Natalie Kitroeff reported from Mexico City and Ronen Bergman from Tel Aviv.
Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:
Seniors are flooding homeless shelters that can't care for them  —  Cities are building special shelters for the old, and shelters are hiring trained staff to handle a wave of aging baby boomers  —  PHOENIX — Beatrice Herron, 73, clutched a flier offering low-cost cable TV …
Discussion: Associated Press
US Department of Justice:
Man Convicted of Torture and Exporting Weapons Parts and Related Services to Iraq  —  A federal jury convicted a Pennsylvania man on May 19 for numerous crimes, including the torture of an Estonian citizen in 2015 in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, in connection with the operation of an illegal weapons manufacturing plant in Kurdistan.
Discussion: NBC News and Rolling Stone
 
 
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Brittany Gibson / Politico:
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Kylie Cheung / Jezebel:
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Discussion: Yahoo News and New York Times
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Explosion of AP climate change stories following $8M enviro grant
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Why Can't Progressive Writers Defend the Law?
Discussion: Alternet.org and Political Wire
Politico:
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The Daily Dot:
EXCLUSIVE: Murder, kidnapping, brutality charges: These are the cops Ron DeSantis paid to come to Florida
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Rachel M. Cohen / Vox:
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Scott Horsley / NPR:
These are some of the people who'll be impacted if the U.S. defaults on its debts
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Why was this massive Trump scandal hiding in plain sight for 28 months?
Discussion: Axios